Selected List of Fellowships for PSD Early Career Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers (Beyond Standard NSF Programs)
A. Individual fellowships and grants for Early Career Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers in PSD. No Presidential or Provost Nomination required.
Primarily for junior faculty
1. NSF: Faculty Early Career Development Program (most all PSD disciplines) – Deadlines July 17-19, 2007
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05579/nsf05579.htm
2. DoD Young Investigator Programs. Many/multiple deadlines: for list see: http://www.acq.osd.mil/ddre/research/opportunities.html#anchor1560437#anchor1560437. Includes:
2a. The Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program
2b. Department of the Army Resident Research Associateships
2c. The Office of Naval Research Ocean Science Educators Award
2d. The Office of Naval Research Post-Doctoral Cooperative Research Associates
2e. The Office of Naval Research Women Science Scholars Program
2f. The Office of Naval Technology Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program
2g. The Air Force Systems Command/National Research Council Resident Research Associateship Program
3. DoE: Early Career Principal Investigator Program in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and High-Performance Networks (Check for deadline in September 2007)
http://www.science.doe.gov/grants/FAPN05-25.html
4. Burroughs Wellcome Fund Careers at the Scientific Interface Awards (Bridging Support for Physical/Computational Scientists Entering Biology). Deadline: May 1, 2007
http://www.bwfund.org/programs/interfaces/career_awards_main.html
5. American Chemical Society Research Petroleum Fund Grants Type “AC” (proposals from Ph.D. departments) and “Type G” (faculty start up) grants: Deadlines: three annually, next one August 3, 2007. Supports “fundamental research related to the petroleum field”; this fund supports geophysics, chemistry, engineering and a variety of computational modeling projects.
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=prf%5Cindex.html
6. 2007 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2) – To stimulate highly innovative “high risk/high return” research that does not yet have the preliminary data to fare well in traditional peer review system (Deadline: May 22, 2007): http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-07-009.html
7. Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2008 Investigator Competition (welcomes innovative approaches to the study of biological problems from “adjacent disciplines” chemistry, physics and biophysics and computational biology): Deadline: June 13, 2007. http://www.hhmi.org/research/competitions/investigator2008/
8. Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award (provides funding for basic research that holds promise for significant advances to impact the prevention, diagnosis, treatment or basic understanding of cancer). Deadline: June 1, 2007 for preproposal. http://www.drcrf.org/apInnovation.html
9. Sloan Foundation Fellowships: http://www.sloan.org/programs/scitech_fellowships.shtml (Very competitive - chemistry, physics, mathematics)
10. American Centennial Fellowships (Math: awards annually to outstanding mathematicians to help further their careers in research. Deadline, December 1, 2007): http://www.ams.org/employment/centflyer.html
11. Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Awards (Deadline September 3, 2007. Physics, Chemistry, Astrophysics. Eligibility is limited to those in the third year of their first tenure-track position during the calendar year of application.)
http://www.rescorp.org/grants.php#CSA
12. Research Corporation Research Innovation Awards (Physics, Chemistry, Astrophysics –suspended through 2007)
http://www.rescorp.org/grants.php#RIA
13. Beckman Young Investigator (Chemistry: provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences. Deadline: September 2007)
http://www.beckman-foundation.com/byi.html
14. NIH R01 (not limited to junior faculty, but will support interdisciplinary research especially via new co-PI initiative): http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/funding/r01.htm
15. NSF: Small Grants for Exploratory Research Program-SGER program (all fields, cutting edge, high risk research), up to $200,000. Instructions embedded in the NSF manual available at: http://www.nsf.gov (Grant Proposal Guide: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=gpg)
16. DuPont Young Professors (any field that intersects with DuPont’s research interests – contact UC Corporate Relations): http://www2.dupont.com/Media_Center/en_US/news_releases/2005/nr06_22_05a.html
17. Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowships Program (new announcement estimated September 2007 – contact UC Corporate Relations): http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/nff/
18. Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship (enables highly qualified, early-stage researchers from abroad, who hold doctorates, to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany. Under 40, rolling deadline): http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/programme/stip_aus/stp.htm
Primarily for Postdoctoral Researchers
19. NIH Pathway to Independence Awards (K99/R00) (Chemistry, Biophysics, Statistics, other Ph.D.s at the physical-biological science interface): Deadline: Multiple/Open until January 3, 2010. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-297.html
20. NASA ROSES 2007: Fellowships for Early Career Researchers (Postdoctorates in Cosmochemistry, Planetary Geology and Geophysics; Planetary Research and Astrobiology. Deadline, May 31, 2007):
http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/viewrepositorydocument?cmdocumentid=77809&solicitationId={E529A9
21. L’Oreal Postdoctoral Women in Science (fields vary by year) http://www.lorealusa.com/?uid=forwomeninscience
22. American Association of Univ. Women: Postdoctoral Fellowships Program (women only – approx. deadline November 15, 2007) http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/american.cfm
23. NSF: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Bioinformatics
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12720
24. NSF: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Astronomy and Astrophysics (October 10, 2007)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5291&org=NSF
25. NIH: Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award (K25) (for Math, Stats, CS)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-087.htmlB. Junior Faculty fellowships which require Provost’s or Presidential endorsement
The UC Provost’s Program for Junior faculty competitive fellowships is available at this address: http://foundationrelations.uchicago.edu/intranet/cfp/limitedlist.php. Below are the specific competitions for which PSD junior faculty are eligible. Description of each program is available at the Foundation Relations website listed above.
1. Packard Foundation Fellowships (most all PSD disciplines/research).
2. Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (Chemistry) (*note: these are usually applied for prior to start at the UC*)
3. Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program (Chemistry)
4. Greenwall Faculty Scholars in Bioethics (Statistics researchers may be eligible)
5. G&P Foundation for Cancer Research (Chemistry)
6. Keck Foundation Scholars (BSD-PSD-interfacial research in biomedicine eligible)
7. Searle Scholars Program (chemistry)
C. Internal UC Seed Programs to foster research collaboration open to junior faculty
1. The Joint Theory Institute (UC-ANL) – Provides seed funding for collaborative theory research. http://JTI.anl.gov/
2. The BSD Research Initiatives Subcommittee Seed funds program (open to PSD collaborating with BSD and/or ANL): contact Michele Seidl (BSD) – mseidl@bsd.uchicago.edu.
3. The Chicago Biomedical Consortium Catalyst awards: Awards of up to $250,000 over 2 years to conduct collaborative research with faculty at UIC and/or Northwestern in an area in systems biology (Systems Biology with a focus on the technologies of proteomics, informatics, or imaging). http://www.chicagobiomedicalconsortium.org/rfa_catalyst
D. Additional Resource for PSD-BSD Interfacial Research Opportunities
BSD’s Office of Research Services has several newsletters that feature research opportunities that may be open to biostatisticians, and chemists engaged in basic research that impacts human diseases/public health. Check out: http://ors.bsd.uchicago.edu/selectedPubs/index3.html?content=Signals/index.html
