Call for Applications: The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

From: Nicholas Marmor <nmarmor at mit.edu <mailto:nmarmor at mit.edu>>
Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 11:24 AM
Subject: Call for Applications: The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation 
Postdoctoral Fellowship

 From the [MIT] Office of Foundation Relations

Below you will find information on a call for applications from the 
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation.

Please forward to anyone who might be interested.

*NOTE:**The Office of Foundation Relations is pleased to provide 
assistance to anyone applying for a grant from this program.**/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 (/**http://foundations.mit.edu/for-faculty/rfp-information/).*

*/NOTE: All proposals must be routed through the Office of Sponsored 
Programs prior to submission./*

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*The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship*
*Deadline: July 1, 2014*
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*/NOTE: Award is a fellowship--it will not incur underrecovery/*

*Program Details*: The Foundation supports early postdoctoral research 
training in all basic biomedical sciences. To attain its ultimate goal 
of increasing the number of imaginative, well-trained and dedicated 
medical scientists, the Foundation grants financial support of 
sufficient duration to help further the careers of young men and women 
engaged in biological or medical research.

*Award Amount*: three-year fellowship (year one: $49,000, year two: 
$50,000, year three: $51,00; the Foundation also provides an annual 
research allowance of $1,500)

*Eligibility*: Candidates who hold, or are in the final stages of 
obtaining a Ph.D., M.D., or equivalent degree and are seeking beginning 
postdoctoral training in basic biomedical research are eligible to apply 
for a fellowship. The Foundation accepts applications from candidates 
who have no more than/one year/of postdoctoral research experience at 
the time of the deadline for submitting the application (July 1, 2014), 
and who have received a PhD (or D.Phil. or equivalent) degree no more 
than/two years/before the deadline, or an M.D. degree no more than/three 
years/before the deadline.

Fellowships may be awarded to US citizens planning to work in 
laboratories either in the US, Canada, or abroad and also to foreign 
citizens for research in laboratories in the US only. We expect that 
most applicants will reside in North America at the time of application. 
Foreign Students will need to obtain appropriate visa documentation, as 
required by US Immigration*.*

Applications from established scientists or advanced fellows will not be 
considered. The fellowships are for early postdoctoral training only. 
Clinical house-staff training does not count as "postdoctoral laboratory 
training.”

The Foundation will not ordinarily consider applicants who plan tenure 
of the fellowship in the laboratory in which they have already received 
extensive predoctoral or postdoctoral training. The aim of the 
fellowship is to broaden postdoctoral training and experience, and a 
significant change of venue is advisable. Since the number of available 
fellowships is limited, the Foundation does not make more than one award 
in any one year for training with a given supervisor, and in addition, 
will not support more than two fellows per laboratory at one time.

The Foundation expects that fellowship training will be obtained in an 
academic setting. The selection of a commercial or industrial laboratory 
for the training experience is not acceptable.

Visit the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation website for complete program 
information and application procedures: 
http://www.hhwf.org/HTMLSrc/ResearchFellowships.html
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Nicholas Marmor
Development Associate
Office of Foundation Relations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
600 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
nmarmor at mit.edu <mailto:nmarmor at mit.edu>
617.324.7163
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