Funding Opportunity: Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program
Organization: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
RFP: Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program
Award Amount: varies
Application Deadline: February 15, 2017 by 3:00pm EST.
Anticipated Award Notification: September 2017 with a grant start date between November 15, 2017-January 15, 2018.
RFP Synopsis
HHMI is accepting applications from individuals from basic science researchers and physician-scientists in all biomedical and life science disciplines including plant biology, evolutionary biology, biophysics, chemical biology, biomedical engineering, and computational biology. The program is open to individuals who are from gender, racial, ethnic and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences at the career stages targeted (postdoctoral and independent faculty). Applicants must have a PhD and/or MD (or equivalent) by the start of the grant term and cannot have more than 12 months of postdoctoral research experience at the time of the application due date. The program is open to applicants of any citizenship or nationality who have been accepted to join a laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow at a research institution.
For the postdoctoral training phase, awardees will receive annual support for salary ($60,000, initial year) and $20,000 in flexible funds; this phase of the award has a maximum length of four years and a minimum of two years. In the independent faculty phase, awardees will receive $250,000 per year in research funding and $20,000 in flexible funds. Both phases will be paid through a non-renewable grant to the institution, not the awardee. Fellows in both postdoctoral training and faculty phases are required to devote at least 75% FTE to research. The Institute will select and support up to 15 Fellows in this first competition round.
To read the full application guidelines, including detailed eligibility requirements, please visit: hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray-fellows-program.
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