Call for Grant Proposals

Estée Lauder Companies

Research grants up to RMB 630 000 per applicant will be awarded to sponsor research that furthers our understanding of the effects of pollution on human skin health and skin aging. A total of RMB 1 260 000 will be disbursed.

 About Estée Lauder Companies

 Headquartered in New York, with Asian Research facilities in Tokyo, Kobe and Shanghai, the Estée Lauder group of companies is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. As a truly global company, we aim to understand the needs of consumers worldwide as we continue to create the best quality, high-performance products while maintaining a strong commitment to social and environmental responsibility.

 The Key Aims of This Program

 For decades, extrinsic skin aging has been known to result from chronic exposure to solar radiation. Cigarette smoke has also been shown to damage skin, and most recently, industrial and traffic related ambient particulate matter has been correlated with facial wrinkles and pigmentary changes.

 Extrinsic aging is amenable to prevention and amelioration. The Estée Lauder family of companies desire to more thoroughly understand, for global application, the impact of environmental pollution on skin in individuals of Chinese ancestry. Acceptable project proposals may address the effects of pollution on visible signs of skin aging through epidemiological studies, prospective clinical studies or in vitro mechanistic research. The spectrum of biology, physiology, environmental science that can be addressed through this grant is necessarily broad and could, for example, include sources of pollution such as ozone, metals, traffic-related particulates and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, other products of fossil fuel combustion, cigarette smoking and indoor air pollution. Grants are intended to fund one-year projects.

 Eligibility Requirements

Research must be under the sponsorship of a PRC university or research institute and the principal investigator must be appointed to an academic department of the university or a research division of the research institute.

 Deadlines:

·         ·         Application packets must be submitted by email no later than March 15, 2012.

·         ·         Awards will be determined no later than May 1, 2012.

·         ·         Funding will be available June 30, 2012 subject to acceptance of additional terms and conditions

 INTERESTED PARTIES PLEASE EMAIL FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Qiong Wang

Estee Lauder China Grant Project Group

Building 8, NO 88, Da Er Wen Rd, Shanghai 201203

E-mail: qiwang@cn.estee.com

Tel: 021-51328960*116