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The Institute of Medicine noted in its 1990 report, Funding Health Sciences Research, that the goals of health research can only be achieved by creating a positive research environment for health sciences. This environment should Aidentify and encourage young talented individuals to pursue health research careers, provide stable research support for talented scientists throughout their careers and offer flexibility in allocating resources to foster creativity and meet changing demands.

The report went on to note that the most critical and longest-term investment in the research system is the development of career scientists who contribute to the long-term success of the enterprise through both their own research efforts and their training of future generations of scientists. This report is as relevant today and it was nearly twenty years ago as talented scientists remain the intellectual engines for advances in improved health.

Recognizing the need to provide support for the human capital of the research enterprise, the Voelcker Fund proposes the Voelcker Fund Young Investigator Award program open to scientists from San Antonio institutions conducting research the goal of which is to either prevent or treat cancer, heart disease, arthritis, muscular dystrophy, retinitis and/or macular degeneration.

The Voelcker Fund Young Investigator Award program seeks proposals from young investigators at the assistant professorial level or equivalent position to enable them to develop new data and innovate to secure follow-on funding from other sources.