Award Summaries
Links have been provided for those awards offered during the spring 2012 awards cycle.
| Award | Degree Requirements | Citizenship Requirements | Eligible faculty | Application cycle | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AXA Research Fund Postoctoral Fellowship | PhD | EU or one of the countries associated to the EU; or Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, India, Brazil or Mexico (see award description) |
Postdocs/Fellows | Fall | Life risks (aging and long term care, addictions and risky behaviors, emerging biomedical risks), socio economic risks (geopolitical risks, macro-economic risks, large corporate risks), environmental risks (natural catastrophes, risks linked to climate change) |
| Bullock Wellman Postdoctoral Fellowship | MD or MD/PhD | None | Postdocs/Fellows: must be mentored by at least one faculty member at the MGH Wellman Center | Apply directly in the fall | Biomedical research, basic or clinical |
| Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists | MD, DDS, DVM, PharmD, or equivalent clinical degree | Citizen or Permanent Resident of the U.S. or Canada |
Postdocs/Fellows and Instructors | Spring | Basic biomedical, disease oriented, translational, or molecular, genetic, or pharmacological epidemiology research |
| Burroughs Wellcome Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease | MD, MD/PhD, or PhD | Citizen or Permanent Resident of the U.S. or Canada | Instructors, Assistant Professors | Spring | Infectious Disease |
| Carreras International Leukemia Foundation E.D. Thomas Fellowship Program | MD, MD/PhD, or PhD | None | Postdocs/Fellows, Instructors, Assistant Professors | Spring | Leukemia and related hematological malignancies |
| Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award | MD or MD/PhD | U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident | Instructors, Assistant Professors | Fall | Cancer |
| Dana Foundation Program in Brain and Immuno-imaging | None | None |
Assistant Professors, early Associate Professors, independent Instructors | Fall | Conventional imaging (anatomical imaging of white or gray matter and measures of physiological functioning) or cellular and molecular imaging (biochemical actions of specific brain cells, or their interactions with immune cells in the nervous system). |
| Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award | MD or MD/PhD | None | Instructors or Assistant Professors | Spring | Clinical research |
| Ellison New Scholars Program in Aging | None | None | Instructors, Assistant Professors | Fall |
Aging |
| Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program | None | None | Instructors, Assistnat Professors | Spring | Bioethics |
| Grunebaum Faculty Research Fellowship | MD or MD/PhD | None | Instructors and Assistant Professors in first 5 yrs of faculty appointment; cannot have R01 funding | Apply directly in the spring | Cancer research |
| Hearst Fund for Pre- and Perinatal Medicine | None | None | Postdocs/Fellows and instructors | Apply directly in the spring | Pre- and perinatal medicine |
| Macy Faculty Scholars Program | RN, MD, or DO | U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident | Assistant Professors and Associate Professors who have served five years on the faculty | Fall | Health professional education |
| Mary Kay Innovative/Translational Cancer Research Award | None | None | Instructors, Assistant Professors, or Professors | Fall | Translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast, cervical cancer |
| Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship | PhD, MD/PhD | None | Assistant Professors | Spring | Computing; Possible research areas include, but are not limited to: security, interdisciplinary research, scientific computing, bioinformatics, computational biology, software engineering. |
| Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering | None | None | Instructors, Assistant Professors | Fall | Natural sciences or engineering: disciplines that will be considered include physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering |
| Pew Scholars Program | None | None | Assistant Professor or Independent Instructor | Spring | Basic and clinical sciences relevant to the advancement of human health |
| Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award | None | None | Instructors and Assistant Professors, tenure track for no more than 3 yrs | Fall | Neuroscience, immunology, and in the cure and treatment of cancer, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis |
| Searle Scholars Program | None | None | Assistant Professors | Spring | Biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences |
| Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research | None | None | Assistant Professors or independent Instructors | Spring | Basic biomedical research |
| W.T. Grant Faculty Scholars Program | None | None | Instructors, Assistant Professors no more than 7 yrs from completion of residency | Spring | Theory, policy, and practice in the area of improving youth settings |