The CardioVascular Innovation in Surgery and Engineering (CVISE) Center is home to the first innovation fellowship funded by a T32 training grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the NIH.
This $3 million training grant supports engineering and surgical trainees interested in collaborating on innovations in cardiovascular surgery.
Applications for the CVISE fellowship are open now.
Deadline for application: April 30, 2024
Fellowship start date: July 1, 2024
Complete an online form to apply now.
The challenge
The future of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease depends on innovating and engineering across basic and medical sciences. CVISE builds partnerships to enable this by creating and funding teams that include post-graduate surgical trainees and doctoral engineering students.
The CVISE solution
Engineering and surgical trainees will communicate and innovate with one another over a 2-year fellowship, while continuing their regular doctoral research projects. Working with a team of mentors, they will envision, articulate, and implement ideas to improve the practice of cardiovascular surgery.
This fellowship will help you to:
- Practice skills in concept generation and assess technology needs criteria
- Develop a hypothesis-driven approach to prototype, test and translate your ideas
- Innovate new inventions and understand how to patent your novel technology
- Receive mentored career development, early commercialization and entrepreneurship
- Develop a pathway for academic advancement, leadership and future independent research funding
This fellowship will provide you with:
- A team with surgery and engineering mentors, with each team containing a doctoral engineering student and a surgery resident
- The chance to work with your team to design, draft and prototype an original concept
- Experience working with experts from diverse technical engineering and medical backgrounds
- Full financial fellowship including a stipend, tuition, benefits and travel expenses
Eligibility
This fellowship is open to:
- Post-doctoral surgical trainees holding a medical degree (MD or MD/PhD) are eligible for the surgical trainee position
- Engineering trainees pursuing a doctoral degree (PhD or DSc) are eligible for the engineering trainee position
Application
Applications are due April 30, 2024.
Your application will include:
- Completion of the online application form.
- One document containing the following components:
- A 500-word abstract of an investigative proposal broadly related to cardiovascular disease and the innovation you wish to investigate
- A description of your background, prior training, and future career goals
- A description of your educational goals and proposed curriculum track that you may wish to pursue
- A proposed primary clinical and primary engineering mentoring team within the faculty mentor roster
- A brief research outline generated with the guidance of the proposed mentoring team that outlines how project concepts are significant and innovative and can lead to feasible hypothesis-driven experimentation and are congruent with your ultimate career goals
- 2-3 letters of support from your division chief or department chair, and prospective primary mentors (clinical and engineering)
- A curriculum vitae summarizing your prior academic accomplishments, awards/honors, prior employment, prior research experience, and prior presentations/publications/abstracts
For additional information, please contact:
Theresa Belgeri, BS
belgerit@wustl.edu
314-362-5707