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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Nicholas Marmor
<<a href="mailto:nmarmor@mit.edu">nmarmor@mit.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, June 23,
2014 at 9:13 AM<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Call for
Applications: Human Frontier Science Program's Postdoctoral
Fellowship Awards<br>
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will find information on a call for Human
Frontier Science Program.</p>
<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">Please
forward to anyone who might be interested. </p>
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style="font-style:italic">NOTE:</b><span
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style="font-style:italic">The Office of
Foundation Relations is pleased to provide
assistance to anyone applying for a grant from
this program.</b><span
style="font-style:italic; font-weight:bold"> </span><b><i>Please
also let us know if you apply, whether or
not we assist you. For more information,
including a list of recently issued RFPs,
please visit our website (</i></b><b><a
href="http://foundations.mit.edu/for-faculty/rfp-information/">http://foundations.mit.edu/for-faculty/rfp-information/</a>).</b></p>
<div><b><i>NOTE: All proposals must be routed
through the Office of Sponsored Programs
prior to submission.</i></b></div>
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<div><b>Deadline for Intent to Apply: August 13,
2014</b></div>
<div><b>Deadline for Application: August 28, 2014</b></div>
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<div><b>NOTE: This is a fellowship and it will not incur
underrecovery</b></div>
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<div>The Human Frontier Science Program Organization
(HFSPO) supports innovative basic research
into fundamental biological problems, with emphasis
placed on novel approaches that cross
disciplinary boundaries. </div>
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<div>Biological research has become increasingly
quantitative through the participation of scientists
from biophysics, physics, chemistry, computer
science, engineering, mathematics and nanoscience.
Such collaborations have led to new approaches for
understanding the complex structures and
regulatory networks that characterize the evolution
and interactions of organisms and biological
systems. Within this framework, HFSPO invites
applications for its two international postdoctoral
programs: </div>
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<li>Long-Term Fellowships (LTF) are for applicants
with a Ph.D. in a biological discipline,
who will broaden their expertise by proposing a
project in the life sciences which is
significantly different from their previous
Ph.D. or postdoctoral work. </li>
<li>Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF) are for
applicants with a Ph.D. from outside the
life sciences (e.g. in physics, chemistry,
mathematics, engineering or computer sciences),
who have had limited exposure to biology during
their previous training. </li>
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<div>The HFSPO fellowship program funds innovative,
ground-breaking projects that have the potential to
advance knowledge in the applicants’ field of study
or open a new approach to a research problem. High
risk research is supported. </div>
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<div>All applicants are expected to be exposed to new
theory and methods during the tenure of the
award, building on their previous expertise. The
research project must be stated in terms of original
research questions to be addressed and techniques to
be learned. </div>
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<div>Candidates for a CDF should describe the
biological techniques they will learn and how their
specific skills will bear on the biological project
they propose. Applicants should propose a
significant departure from their past research, for
example, changing from material science or physics
to cell biology, from chemistry to molecular
biology, or from computer science to neuroscience,
among many other possibilities. </div>
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<div>Proposals representing standard or incremental
approaches, obvious next steps in the field or
for the host laboratory (routine projects) are less
likely to receive funding. </div>
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<div>Research projects can range from biological
functions at the molecular and cellular level up to
the biological systems level, including cognitive
functions. All levels of analysis are supported:
studies on genes and individual molecules,
intracellular networks, intercellular associations
in tissues and organs, and networks underlying
complex functions of entire organisms, populations,
or ecosystems. </div>
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<div>HFSPO does not support: </div>
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<li>Routine projects where the applicant’s
contribution is not intellectually challenging
(e.g., high throughput technology or screens
without investigating a fundamental biological
problem), </li>
<li>Applied research in a clinical or
pharmaceutical (translational) context, in
engineering, biotechnology, or nanotechnology, </li>
<li>Clinical and pharmaceutical research related
to a disease or to alleviate a medical
condition, e.g., developing methods of treatment
and diagnosis, searching and testing potential
drug candidates or drug targets, advanced trials
of drugs under development, </li>
<li>Environmental research directly concerned with
agricultural issues (e.g., crop yield,
breeding, food quality), environmental problems
(e.g., pollution, bioremediation, monitoring), </li>
<li>Ecological projects to discover new species or
to monitor and survey protected habitats, </li>
<li>Observational studies that do not address a
specific biological question. </li>
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<div>Visit the Human Frontier Science Program website
for complete program information and application
procedures: <a
href="http://www.hfsp.org/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships">http://www.hfsp.org/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships</a>.
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<div><font face="Calibri">Nicholas Marmor</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Development Associate</font></div>
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