Limited Submission Opportunity: Smith Family Foundation: Odyssey Award
Smith Family Foundation: Odyssey Award 2020
URL: https://hria.org/tmf/smithodyssey/
OBJECTIVES:
The Smith Family Foundation is committed to effecting permanent positive change in the lives of the residents of Greater Boston, particularly individuals and families in economically disadvantaged communities. In the area of health, the Foundation supports the advancement of biomedical research and the expansion of access to high-quality health care at safety net institutions serving low-income individuals and communities of Greater Boston.
The new Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award was created in 2017 to fuel creativity and innovation in junior investigators in the basic sciences. The Award supports the pursuit of high impact ideas to generate breakthroughs and drive new directions in biomedical research. The awards will fund high-risk, high-reward pilot projects solicited from our brightest junior faculty in the region.
FUNDING INFORMATION: $300,000 over 2 years
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:
Awardees of the Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research are eligible to apply for the Smith Family Foundation: Odyssey Award.
Junior investigators that are beyond 4 years from their first independent faculty appointment and have not yet received tenure are eligible to apply for this award. There is also an upper eligibility limit at 9 years past their first independent faculty appointment. Those investigators with tenure, or who are beyond the 9 year limit, are ineligible to apply for this award.
Two applicants from within each School/College are allowed
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:
Due to the number of allowed applicants (2 per School/College within BU) the Office of Research will not be coordinating the selection process. Individual Schools/Colleges may select their own applicants. The Office of Research (research@bu.edu) and the Office of Foundation Relations (ofr@bu.edu) can provide assistance if necessary.
DEADLINES:
Sponsor Deadline: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 12:00pm EST