Upcoming Postdoctoral/Fellowship Opportunities
Dana Bresee Keeth
bresee at mit.edu
Fri Jan 20 17:25:10 EST 2017
*Information about these opportunities has been forwarded from Juliet
Tripaldi, MIT's Office of Foundation Relations (<tripaldi at mit.edu>)*
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Subject: Upcoming Postdoctoral/Fellowship Opportunities
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 14:24:51 -0500
From: Juliet Tripaldi <tripaldi at mit.edu>
I wanted to share with you some upcoming postdoctoral/fellowship
opportunities in case they could be helpful for the postdoc listserv.
I’ve circulated these through the nolimitfoundation RFP digest as well.
*Postdoctoral/Student Opportunities (fellowships will not incur
underrecovery)*
/Please be aware that the administration of these opportunities as
“fellowship” funding is subject to confirmation by the Office of
Sponsored Programs (OSP) in accordance with Institute policies. Please
contact OSP if you have any questions./
*_Engineering, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Science,
Environmental Science:_*
**New** *International Astronomical Union & The Gruber Foundation: TGF
Fellowship
<https://www.iau.org/science/grants_prizes/gruber_foundation/fellowships/>*
_Deadline
<https://www.iau.org/science/grants_prizes/gruber_foundation/fellowships/procedure/>_:
3/31/17; Award Amount: $50,000 over one year. /Proposals must be routed
through the Office of Sponsored Programs./
_Eligibility Criteria_: applicants in the last months of their PhD,
having already made successful contacts for a post-doctoral position, or
post-docs in their first year of appointment, are encouraged to apply.
In the case of applicants at the PhD level, the PhD must have been
awarded by the start of the Fellowship, i.e., no later than Oct. 1st of
the award year.
_Please note_: the host institute for the postdoctoral appointment, must
be a center of excellence in the applicant's field of research and
located in a country different either from that where the PhD was
awarded, or from where the first post-doc contract is being completed
(in the case of a second post-doc).
**New** *The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.: Postdoctoral
Program in Environmental Chemistry*
<http://dreyfus.org/awards/postdoctoral_program.shtml>
*Applications most likely to be of interest should describe innovative
fundamental research in the chemical sciences or engineering related to
the environment. Examples include but are not limited to the chemistry
associated with: the climate, the atmosphere, aquatic or marine
settings, toxicology, soil or groundwater. Also of interest are
chemistry-related energy research (renewable sources, sequestration,
etc.), and new or green approaches to chemical synthesis and processing,
both with a clearly stated relation to the environment.*
_Deadline:_8/1/17; _Award Amount_: provides a principal investigator
with an award of $120,000 over two years to appoint a Postdoctoral
Fellow in environmental chemistry.
_Eligibility Criteria_: applications are accepted from principal
investigators who have well-established research efforts in
environmental science or engineering.
*_Biomedical Research (Cancer):_*
**New** *Melanoma Research Foundation: Career Development Awards
<http://foundations.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2017/01/Melanoma-Research-Foundation-Established-Investigator.pdf>*
_Deadline_: 3/1/17; _Award Amount_: up to $50,000/year for up to two
years; /award does not support indirect costs – it will incur
underrecovery. Proposals must be routed through the Office of Sponsored
Programs./
_Eligibility Criteria_: applicants who are postdoctoral fellows must
have less than 5 years of postdoctoral experience at the time the grant
will be awarded and must not have previously received any major grant
support (e.g. from ACS, NIH, NCI or DoD).
**New*****Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation: Damon Runyon-Sohn
Pediatric Fellowship Award*
<https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/sohn>
Deadline
<https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/sohn/forms#Deadlines>:
3/15/17; _Award Amount_: an annual stipend (Year 1: $52,000, Year 2:
$54,000, Year 3: $57,000 and Year 4: $60,000) plus $2,000 for expenses
over four years.
_Eligibility Criteria_: candidates who have already accepted a
postdoctoral research fellowship award are not eligible. Basic and
physician-scientists must have received their degrees no more than 18
months prior to the FAC meeting at which their applications are to be
considered. Applicants must not have been in their Sponsors’ labs for
more than 18 months prior to the date of the FAC meeting at which their
applications are to be considered and are expected to devote 100% of
their time and effort to Damon Runyon-supported research
activities. Please review additional eligibility criteria here
<https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/sohn>.
**New*****Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation: Damon Runyon
Fellowship Award*
<https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/fellowship>
Deadlines
<https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/fellowship/forms>:
3/15/17 & 8/15/17; _Award Amount_: an annual stipend (Year 1: $52,000,
Year 2: $54,000, Year 3: $57,000 and Year 4: $60,000) plus $2,000 for
expenses over four years. /Proposals must be routed through the Office
of Sponsored Programs./
_Eligibility Criteria:_basic and physician-scientists must have received
their degrees no more than one year prior to the FAC meeting at which
their applications are to be considered. Applicants must not have been
in their Sponsors' labs for more than one year prior to the date of the
FAC meeting at which their applications are to be considered and are
expected to devote 100% of their time and effort to Damon
Runyon-supported research activities. Please review additional
eligibility criteria here
<https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/fellowship>.
*American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowships*
<http://www.cancer.org/research/applyforaresearchgrant/granttypes/postdoctoral-fellowships>
_Deadlines: _4/1/17 & 10/15/17;_Award Amount:_ awards may be for three
years with progressive stipends of $48,000, $50,000, and $52,000 per
year, plus a $4,000 per year fellowship allowance (an additional $1,500
is added to the fellowship allowance in the last year to attend the ACS
Postdoctoral Fellows Symposium or a domestic scientific meeting).
/Proposals must be routed through the Office of Sponsored Programs./
/_Please note_//that the Foundation's Intellectual Property terms may be
non-negotiable and approved awards will be evaluated on a project by
project basis to determine acceptability. /
*_Biomedical Research (General):_*
*American Heart Association: Postdoctoral Fellowship*
<http://professional.heart.org/professional/ResearchPrograms/ApplicationInformation/UCM_443314_Postdoctoral-Fellowship.jsp>**
*Research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease and
stroke, or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or
biotechnology, and public health problems.*
_Deadline_: 2/10/17; _Award Amount_: $103,320 - $125,120 over a maximum
of four years; Proposals must be routed through the Office of Sponsored
Programs.
_Eligibility Criteria_: at the time of award activation, the candidate
may have no more than five years of postdoctoral research training or
experience (excluding clinical training). Please review additional
eligibility criteria here
<http://professional.heart.org/professional/ResearchPrograms/ApplicationInformation/UCM_443314_Postdoctoral-Fellowship.jsp>.
*Charles A. King Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program in Basic
Science * <https://hria.org/tmf/King/>
*To support research that focuses on the causes of human disease and/or
is aimed specifically at improving treatment for disease in humans.
Proposals focused on cancer, blindness (not visual impairment), or child
health are highly encouraged.*
_Deadline_: 2/10/17; _Award Amount_: two-year grants currently range
from $87,400 to $106,350 total, inclusive of a $2,000 annual expense
allowance./Proposals must be routed through the Office of Sponsored
Programs./
_Eligibility Criteria_: by the funding start date (September 1, 2017),
applicants must hold a Ph.D., M.D., D.M.D., M.D./Ph.D., or comparable
degree; by the funding start date, must have completed at least three
(3) years and no more than five (5) years of full-time postdoctoral
research experience; eligible applicants will have begun their full-time
postdoctoral work between September 1, 2012 and August 31, 2014; by the
application deadline (February 10, 2017), the applicant must have at
least one primary, peer reviewed, research article from their
postdoctoral work either published or in press. Please review additional
eligibility criteria here
<https://hria.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-FAQ-2017.pdf>.
*Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program *
<http://www.hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray-fellows-program>
*The goal of the Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program is to recruit and retain
individuals who are from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups
underrepresented in the life sciences at the career stages targeted by
this program, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds. The
competition is open to those dedicated to basic research from both
doctoral and/or medical training paths in all biomedical and life
science disciplines including plant biology, evolutionary
biology, biophysics, chemical biology, biomedical engineering, and
computational biology.*
_Deadline_: 2/15/17; _Award Amount_: $80,000/year for over four years of
postdoctoral training and $270,000/year for up to four years of the
faculty phase, if program criteria are met; /in the faculty phase 20% of
the research grant may be used for indirect costs. Proposals must be
routed through the Office of Sponsored Programs./
_Eligibility Criteria_: the program is open to individuals who are
from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the
life sciences at the career stages targeted by this program, including
those from disadvantaged backgrounds; applicants must have a PhD and/or
MD (or equivalent) by the start of the grant term; applicants can have
no more than 12 months of postdoctoral research experience at the time
of the application due date.
*Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA): Berman/Topper HD Career
Development Fellowship* <http://hdsa.org/bermantopperfellowship/>
_Deadline_: 3/17/17; _Award Amount_: up to $80,000/year ($75,000 salary
and research support, plus $5,000 travel/education budget) for three
years. /Proposals must be routed through the Office of Sponsored Programs./
_Eligibility Criteria_: applicants should be no more than 5 years
removed from obtaining their PhD or completing their residency/fellowship.
*Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE): 2017 CURE Taking
Flight Award* <http://www.cureepilepsy.org/research/grant_flight.asp>
*To promote the careers of young investigators to allow them to develop
a research focus independent of their mentor(s). Researchers may propose
basic or clinical studies, but this award mechanism is not intended to
support clinical trials. Research that involves collaboration and a
multidisciplinary approach is desirable. *
_Letter of Intent (LOI) Deadlines:_4/12/17; _Award Amount_: up to
$100,000 over one year. /LOI does not need to be routed through the
Office of Sponsored Programs; however, a full proposal must be reviewed
by OSP prior to submission. /
_Eligibility Criteria_: these awards will be provided for senior
postdoctoral fellows who have a minimum of 3 years of postdoctoral
experience, clinical fellows who are Neurology Residents in their
Neurology training who are considering Epilepsy Fellowships, or newly
appointed faculty within one year of having completed postdoctoral
training. Individuals from any country are eligible to apply.
______________________________________________
*Juliet Tripaldi*
Development Associate
Office of Foundation Relations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
600 Memorial Drive, W98-107c
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617-324-7722
E-mail: tripaldi at mit.edu
http://foundations.mit.edu <http://foundations.mit.edu/>
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