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        <span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Nicholas Marmor
        &lt;<a href="mailto:nmarmor@mit.edu">nmarmor@mit.edu</a>&gt;<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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                      <p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">From the
                        [MIT] Office of Foundation Relations </p>
                      <p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">Below you
                        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>
                    </ul>
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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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