Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Career Awards at the Scientific Interface
Grant Amount: $560,000 over five years
Deadline: Letter of Intent due September 4, 2024
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The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) invites applications for its Career Awards at the Scientific Interface program.
According to BWF, scientific advances such as genomics, quantitative structural biology, imaging techniques, and modeling of complex systems have created opportunities for research careers at the interface between the physical/computational sciences and the biological sciences. Tackling key problems in biology will require scientists trained in chemistry, physics, applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering.
Recognizing cross-trained scientists’ vital role in furthering biomedical science, the fund will award $560,000 over five years to foster the early-career development of researchers dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. The target group for this funding opportunity is researchers who have transitioned from graduate work in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences or engineering into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences. Funding will be used to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty service.
Proposals, including deep or machine learning artificial intelligence applications, are encouraged. Special consideration will be given to proposals investigating the connection between climate change and human health. Candidates should draw from their training in a scientific field other than biology to propose innovative approaches to answer important questions in the biological sciences. Examples of approaches include, but are not limited to, physical measurement of biological phenomena, computer simulations of complex processes in physiological systems, mathematical modeling of self-organizing behavior, building probabilistic tools for medical diagnosis, developing novel imaging tools or biosensors, developing or applying nanotechnology to manipulate cellular systems, predicting cellular responses to topological clues and mechanical forces, and developing a new conceptual understanding of the complexity of living organisms.
BWF strongly encourages applications from persons historically underrepresented in science, including women of any ethnic or racial group.Candidates must hold a PhD degree in one of the following fields: mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, statistics, or engineering (this includes related areas of physical, mathematical, computational, theoretical, and engineering science). Exceptions will be made only if the applicant can demonstrate significant expertise in one of these areas, evidenced by publications, undergraduate major, or master’s degree. Candidates holding an MD are eligible to apply if they have both an MD and a PhD, and the PhD is in mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, statistics, or engineering.
Letters of intent are due September 4, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. ET and upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal, due January 10, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. ET.
Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.
Johnson & Johnson: Amplifying Access to Mental Health Innovation QuickFire Challenge
Grant Amount: Up to $300,000
Deadline: October 11, 2024
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Johnson & Johnson Innovation and Impact Ventures by J&J Foundation invites innovators to submit novel precision neuroscience and digital health approaches that both aim to advance health equity and transform mental healthcare in the United States and beyond (with particular interest in Brazil, India, and Kenya) through the Amplifying Access to Mental Health Innovation QuickFire Challenge.
The innovator(s) with the best potential solutions will receive grant funding from a total of up to $300K, virtual access to the global Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JLABS network, and mentorship from experts across Johnson & Johnson for one year. Potential solutions will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers and judges on their ability to meet the following criteria:
- Idea, technology, or platform’s potential to advance health equity
- Potential impact for and relevance to people of color within the United States.
- Proposed approach takes into account individual, genetic, environmental factors that may play a role in mental health including an individual’s ethnicity, age, gender and socioeconomic status
- Special consideration given to technologies and platforms that can have impact outside of the United States. Specific countries of interest outside of the United States include Brazil, India and Kenya
- Company is incorporated (or have plans to incorporate) and demonstrates uniqueness and feasibility of the idea
- Potential solution is validated through data and/or proof of concept
- Thoroughness of approach; technology/solution design considers user and deployer experience
- Identification of key resources and a plan to further the idea
- Team credibility and capabilities
Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.
Thrasher Research Fund: Pediatric Research Grants
Grant Amount: Up to $25,000
Deadline: Concept papers due September 5, 2024
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The Thrasher Research Fund provides grants for clinical, hypothesis-driven research that offers substantial promise for meaningful advances in preventing, diagnosing, and treating children’s diseases, particularly research with the potential for broad-based applications
The fund invites concept papers for its early-career awards program. Grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded in support of medical research in children’s health conducted by new researchers under the guidance of a mentor. In this funding cycle, the fund anticipates awarding grants to 16 researchers with the potential to become independent principal investigators. The fund is open to various research topics, as it does not focus on a particular disease but on children’s health broadly defined. However, the fund is particularly interested in applicants with great potential to impact children’s’s health through medical research.
Applicants must be a physician in a residency/fellowship training program, or have completed that program no more than one year before the concept paper deadline; or a postdoctoral researcher who has received a doctoral-level degree no more than three years before the date of submission of the concept paper. The program is open to applications from institutions inside and outside the United States.
Concept papers are due September 5, 2024, at 12 noon MT, and selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal, due October 29, 2024, at 12 noon MT.
Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.