Call For Applications: The Life Sciences Research Foundation's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

 From the Office of Foundation Relations (http://web.mit.edu/ofr/)

Below you will find information on a call for applications for the Life 
Sciences Research Foundation's postdoctoral fellowship program.

Please forward to anyone who might be interested.

*/NOTE:The Office of Foundation Relations would be pleased to provide 
assistance to anyone applying for a grant from this program.It would 
also be helpful for us to know if someone has applied, whether or not we 
assist him/her.Thank you!/*

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*DEADLINE:  October 1, 2012*
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*NOTE: All applicants must have a total of 4 letters of support (1 
supervisor and 3 references).  The deadline for supervisor and reference 
letters is November 1, 2012.*
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****NOTE: THESE GRANTS WILL NOT COVER INDIRECT COSTS -- THEY WILL INCUR 
UNDERRECOVERY.****
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The mission of the Life Sciences Research Foundation (LSRF) is to 
establish partnerships between those who support research in the life 
sciences and academic institutions for their mutual benefit.  The simple 
vehicle for achieving this partnership is a highly competitive 
postdoctoral fellowship program.  LSRF awards fellowships across the 
spectrum of the life sciences: biochemistry; cell, developmental, 
molecular, plant, structural, organismic population, and evolutionary 
biology; endocrinology; immunology; microbiology; neurobiology; 
physiology; and virology.

Three-year fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis to 
graduates of medical and graduate schools in the biological sciences 
holding M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M., or D.D.S. degrees.  Awards will be based 
solely on the quality of the individual applicant's previous 
accomplishments and on the merit of the proposal for postdoctoral 
research.  Persons doing a second postdoc are eligible only if they are 
transferring to a different supervisor's laboratory and embarking on a 
new project not connected with their previous research.  A person 
holding a faculty appointment is not eligible to apply for an LSRF 
fellowship.

Note: There may be no more than one LSRF fellow in any laboratory at a 
time.  If a laboratory contains an LSRF fellow, an applicant intending 
to work in that particular lab would be eligible to apply only during 
the current fellow's final year.  However, multiple applicants may apply 
from a lab which does not contain an LSRF fellow (but only one 
fellowship would be awarded).

The fellowship award is $57,000 per year and is meant to be a minigrant. 
  LSRF keeps $1000 for administrative expenses and passes the rest to 
the fellow.  The salary scale begins at $43,000 for a first-year 
postdoc, $45,000 for a second year, and $47,000 thereafter.  The fellow 
will control expenditure of the remainder.  It may be used for fringe 
benefits (up to $2000/year), travel to the host institution, travel to 
visit the sponsor and to the LSRF annual meeting, research supplies, or 
equipment in support of the fellow's research.  The LSRF does not award 
any institutional allowance for overhead.

Visit the Life Sciences Research Foundation's website for complete 
program information and application procedures: 
http://www.lsrf.org/pages/welcome.htm.


Angela Frey
Development Associate
Office of Foundation Relations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

600 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone:  617.253.3829
Fax:  617.258.8800
E-mail: a <mailto:afrey at mit.edu>frey at mit.edu <mailto:afrey at mit.edu>
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