Call for Applications: Human Frontier Science Program's Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards - forwarded info

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

forwarded information:

From: Nicholas Marmor <nmarmor at mit.edu <mailto:nmarmor at mit.edu>>
Date: Monday, June 23, 2014 at 9:13 AM

Subject: Call for Applications: Human Frontier Science Program's 
Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards

 From the [MIT] Office of Foundation Relations

Below you will find information on a call for Human Frontier Science 
Program.

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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*Deadline for Intent to Apply: August 13, 2014*
*Deadline for Application: August 28, 2014*
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*NOTE: This is a fellowship and it will not incur underrecovery*

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.
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:

  * 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.
  * 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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HFSPO does not support:

  * Routine projects where the applicant’s contribution is not
    intellectually challenging (e.g., high throughput technology or
    screens without investigating a fundamental biological problem),
  * Applied research in a clinical or pharmaceutical (translational)
    context, in engineering, biotechnology, or nanotechnology,
  * 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,
  * Environmental research directly concerned with agricultural issues
    (e.g., crop yield, breeding, food quality), environmental problems
    (e.g., pollution, bioremediation, monitoring),
  * Ecological projects to discover new species or to monitor and survey
    protected habitats,
  * Observational studies that do not address a specific biological
    question.

Visit the Human Frontier Science Program website for complete program 
information and application procedures: 
http://www.hfsp.org/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships.
______________________________
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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