Limited Submission: Hartwell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
The mission of Hartwell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship is to stimulate discovery in early-stage biomedical research that has not qualified for funding from traditional sources and that has the potential to benefit children of the United States. Each year the Hartwell Foundation grants Individual Biomedical Research Awards to faculty researchers involved in early-stage, innovative, and cutting-edge biomedical research. For every award, the faculty’s institution also receives a fellowship to support one postdoctoral fellow.
Congratulations to Dr. Shuai Xu, Dermatology, who received a 2020 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award! This award qualifies Northwestern to offer a postdoctoral fellowship in another lab at the University. Therefore, we are pleased to announce this call for applications for The Hartwell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.
The fellowship will support a scientist or biomedical engineer who is still in the early stages of career development. It must be used to pursue further specialized research training, not to extend or complete clinical training. The Fellowship should support “applied” biomedical research or the development of new technologies that promises to improve health outcomes for children in the United States. The Foundation does not fund basic research with a long time- horizon to translation, public health epidemiology, social science, psychology, ecology, environmental impacts, botany, or anthropology.
The fellowship will provide support for two years at $50,000 direct cost/year and will be funded yearly in July. Funds may be used for salary, health insurance, or travel related to a scientific meeting, but not for the purchase of supplies or equipment or other fringe benefits. No part of the Fellowship may cover institutional overhead or other indirect costs.
ELIGIBILITY
- Must be citizens of the U.S. or hold permanent residence
- Must hold a PhD or equivalent doctorate and still be in the early stages of research career development
- Must commence postdoctoral training no later than November 1 in the same year of the award
- May not be a Hartwell Investigator currently funded by the Foundation
- LIMIT ON NUMBER OF PROPOSALS PER ORGANIZATION
- One postdoctoral fellow from Northwestern University may be funded through this program.
KEY DATES
- Internal Proposal due: May 10, 2021 (by 11:59 pm)
- Notification by: June 4, 2021
- Documentation due to Sponsor: June 30, 2021
SUBMITTING AN INTERNAL PROPOSAL
To be considered for this fellowship, you must submit an internal proposal containing the following required components:
- Cover Page (1 page limit): Include (only) the following components:
- Descriptive title
- Your name, email address, phone number, department
- Your PI mentor's name
- Statement confirming that you are a U.S. citizen and that your postdoctoral training will commence no later than November 1, 2021.
- Proposal (1 page limit): Clearly articulate the proposal to colleagues outside your field. Specifically address why the research is early-stage, innovative, and cutting-edge; and how the research will potentially benefit children of the United States; also explain how the Hartwell Fellowship will advance your professional goals.
- NIH biosketch (5 page limit).
- Recommendation letter from your PI mentor.
UPLOADING THE INTERNAL PROPOSAL
- Compile your internal proposal into a SINGLE PDF FILE named "LastName-FirstInitial-Hartwell-Postdoc-2021", replacing "LastName" with your last name and "FirstInitial" with your first initial.
- Submit your internal proposal by completing this web form. Note: Supplemental documents are not accepted.
- To receive a confirmation email and copy of your submission, check the box (“send me a copy of my responses”) and enter your email address.
- Click “Submit”.
CONTACT AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Fruma Yehiely, AVP for Research, 847-491-1074, yehiely@northwestern.edu
Limited Submissions website.
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