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The award is an industry sponsored award funded by Gilead Sciences, Inc. which is a for profit entity, not the Gilead Foundation. While the award is funded by Gilead Sciences, Inc., the review of the applications and selection of awardees is carried out by an independent scientific review committee. Gilead is not part of the scientific review committee and has no involvement in selecting the applications that receive the awards.
Indirect costs are defined as overhead costs paid directly to the institution, for example maintenance of space and departmental/admin costs. Note: Indirect costs must be included in the total award value, and are subject to country specific compliance regulations.
The official start date is the date that the contract is signed by both your community organization and Gilead Sciences. Award deference may be subject to country specific compliance regulations. If in doubt, please check with your community organization.
In some cases, we can defer the start date of the award up to 4 months.
The approximate protected time refers to time spent on research in general. This time does not need to be spent only on research related to your RSP proposal.
If your technical difficulties prevent you from submitting before the application deadline, please contact the RSP Coordinator at gileadsciencesrsp@bcdme.com as soon as possible.
As a contract needs to be put into place before we can consider you an official RSP awardee, we ask that you please wait until your agreement has been executed. Once the agreement has been fully executed, you may publish the fact that you have been selected for the RSP award on social media.
There is no template for the final report and findings may be shared in any manner you see fit. Please feel free to include links or PDFs of any published manuscripts when sending your report.
Preferred to have around at least 5 years' experience, however, exceptions can be made to allow promising applicants.