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• Junior Faculty ($100,000 per award): Three awards will be made to junior faculty members to support research over one or two years. Each of the four eligible schools (Harvard Medical School, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences) is invited to submit up to three nominations in the junior faculty category. This program aims to support career growth and capacity building specifically; therefore, special consideration will be given to applicants proposing to hire and mentor postdoctoral fellows or graduate students, to those who show particular promise (as evidenced by a decanal nomination) but have little to no research funding beyond school-based support, and to those wishing to expand their research portfolio to a new area. For the purposes of this competition, “Junior Faculty” is defined as those with the title of Assistant or Associate Professor, whose primary employer is, and whose sponsored administration is run through, Harvard University.
• Postdoctoral Fellow ($50,000 per award): Two awards will be made to postdoctoral fellows to support research over one year. Each of the four eligible schools (Harvard Medical School, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences) is invited to submit two nominations in the postdoctoral fellows category. For the purposes of this competition, the affiliation (and therefore eligibility) of postdoctoral fellows is determined by the school in which they hold their appointment. Nominated postdoctoral fellows must have an identified faculty mentor who will provide a letter of recommendation in support of their independent research. 

Application Information:

1. Contact Information
2. Proposal of up to 1,000 words that describes the proposed research project. An additional two pages are permitted (but not required) for citations and/or images related to the proposal
3. CV (limit two pages) - Please do not use the NIH Biosketch, or any other template format from an external funding source. In determining which information to present in your CV, please consider this specific funding opportunity, and which of your experiences and honors are most applicable and will present the most qualified and compelling profile in the context of this funding source.
4. Project budget and budget justification using the forms provided and combined as a single PDF.
5. Other support documentation - Provide a summary of active and pending support using the form provided. Other support includes all financial resources, whether federal, non-federal, commercial or institutional available in direct support of an individual's research endeavors, including but not limited to research grants, cooperative agreements, contracts and/or institutional awards. Please do not include any "start up" packages and/or tenure-transfer funding. Postdocs should include only support for their own research endeavors, NOT that of their faculty advisor.
6. Letter of support from a faculty mentor who will supervise work on the project (Postdoctoral Applicants Only)
   

• Renovation and capital project costs

• If the total cost of the proposed project is larger than the award requested from the Fund, please provide brief details of other support in the budget.
• Applicants should note that any benefits-eligible personnel expenses in the budget must include the appropriate fringe rates for each year of funding. If the application proposes to fund a certain amount of an existing employee’s time, then the budget must also include that percentage of applied fringe. Applicants should consult with their grants managers for applicable rates.
• Include direct costs only.

Additional Information, Related Websites, and Proxy Instructions:

• 2021: Matteo Mitrano, FAS, "Creating Synthetic Dimensions in Strongly Correlated Materials"
• 2021: Maxim Prigozhin, FAS/SEAS, “Small-Molecule Cathodophores for Multicolor Electron Microscopy”
• 2020: Sophie Helaine, HMS, "Impact of antibiotic persisters on their host during infection"
• 2020: Suyang Xu, CCB, FAS, "Discovering Topological Axion Insulators- a material platform to stimulate Dark Matter and to realize quantum technologies"
• 2019: Jia Liu, Bioengineering, SEAS, “Soft nanoelectronics implantation through animal embryo development for whole-brain electro physiology mapping.”
• 2018: Julia Mundy, Physics, FAS, "Discovery of a topological superconductor for faultless quantum computing"

• 2021: Jessica Garbern, FAS/HMS, "Injectable Self-Assembling Vascularized Human Myocardium"
• 2020: Oluwaseun Araromi, SEAS, "Physiological biomarkers for Parkinson's Disease using high-resolution deformation-based myography:
• 2019: Elizabeth May, Molecular and Cellular Biology, FAS, “Molecular mechanisms for establishing neuronal connectivity"
• 2019: Hao Sheng, Bioengineering, SEAS, “In vivo assembly of conductive polymer with stretchable cuff electrode array as cellspecific intrafascicular bioelectrical interface for peripheral nerves."
• 2019: Jiunn Song, Genetics and Complex Diseases, HSPH, “Protein transport to lipid droplets and implications in lipid storage and metabolic diseases."
• 2019: Lynn Yap, Neuroscience, HMS, “Activity-regulated neuropeptides in the control of inhibitory synaptic plasticity in the brain.”
• 2018: Lital Bentovim, Systems Biology, HMS, "Metabolic control of global gene expression during the maternal-to-zygotic transition"
• 2018: Carlos Giovanni Silva-García, Genetics and Complex Diseases, HSPH, “Role of CREB-regulated transcriptional coactivator CRTC-1 in epigenetic regulation of aging"
• 2018: Po-Yi Ho, Applied Physics, SEAS, “Constructing a quantitative molecular model of the bacterial cell cycle"
• 2018: Rebecca Taylor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, FAS, “The structure of the membrane-to-membrane protein bridge that transports lipopolysaccharide to the cell surface in Gram-negative bacteria”

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