Bi-Weekly Update on LSO and Internal Funding Competitions
Week ofApril 16, 2018
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Opportunity / Internal
Deadline
NEW:Innovators in Science Award 2019/ Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Focus in 2019 concerns Regenerative Medicine.
For more information and to apply, please click here / May 14, 2018
Open and previously announced LSO and Internal Funding opportunities:
Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship (LSO)
For more information and to apply, please click here / April 23, 2018
Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grant(LSO)
For more information and to apply, please click here / April 23, 2018
Brain Research Foundation 2019 Scientific Innovation Award (LSO)
For more information and to apply, please click here / May 17, 2018
National Endowment for the Humanities 2019 Summer Stipend(LSO)
For more information and to apply, please click here / July 9, 2018
National Institutes of Health Director’s Early Independence Award (LSO/DUNS#)
For information and to apply, please click here
Applicants who hold a primary appointment and HMS, HSDM, and Chan should follow up with the Research Administration office at their respective schools / July 16, 2018
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(The opportunities listed below are not facilitated by the OVPR office, but are shared in the event that they might be of interest to your research community. The links provided go directly to the sponsor’s website)
The 2018 International Prize for Biology
The focus this year is Paleontology
For more information and to nominate, please click here / Sponsor deadline April 20, 2018
Robert Wood Johnson/Evidence for Action: Matching Service
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline April 26, 2018
2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics
For more information and to nominate, please click here / Sponsor deadline April 30, 2018
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges
- Innovations in Immunization Data Management, Use, and Improved Process Efficiency;
- Affordable, Accessible and Appealing: The Next Generation of Nutrition;
- Tools and Technologies for Broad-Scale Disease Surveillance of Crop Plants in Low-Income Countries;
- Campylobacter spp. Transmission Dynamics in Low and Middle-Income Countries;
- Data Science Approaches to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Brazil;
- Activating Global Citizenship: Building the Next Generation of Global Citizens for the Global Goals
- Reinventing Teaching and School Leadership: Preparing the Youth with the 21st Century Skills Needed for a Knowledge Economy;
2018 David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health/ American Public Health Association
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline May 18, 2018
Russell Sage Foundation/ Carnegie Corporation Call for Proposals: Immigration and Immigrant Integration
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor required LOI due May 24, 2018, 2:00 pm EST
Russell Sage Foundation Special Initiative in Collaboration with the Ford Foundation: Integrating Biology and Social Science Knowledge (BioSS)
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor required LOI due May 24, 2018, 2:00 pm EST
NEW:Congressional Fellowships on Women and Public Policy/ Women’s Congressional Policy Institute
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline May 31, 2018, 5:00 pm EST
The Franklin Institute Awards/ 2019 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science. Theme: Green and Sustainable Chemistry
For more information and to nominate, please click here / Sponsor deadline May 31, 2018
Air Force Fiscal Year 2019 Young Investigator Research Program (YIP)/FA9550-18-2-002
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline June 1, 2018
NEW: Inspiring Science Award/ Nature Research and Estee Lauder
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline June 11, 2018
NEW: Innovating Science Award/ Nature Research and Estee Lauder
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline June 11, 2018
The Vilcek Foundation 2019 Creative Promise Prize
The fields for 2019 are Biomedical Science and Culinary Arts
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline June 11, 2018 at 5:00pm EDT
NEW:Understanding Dynamic and Multi-Scale Systems 2018/ 21st Century Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards from the James S. McDonnell Foundation
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline June 15, 2018
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline June 15, 2018
Public Policy Effects on Alcohol, Marijuana, and other Substance Related Behaviors and Outcomes (R03)/ PA-17-134
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline for new proposals June 16, 2018
2019 Hans Kilian Award of Merit for the Research and Advancement of “Meta-cultural Humanisation”
For more information and to nominate, please click here / Sponsor deadline June 30, 2018
NEW:Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Fellowship Programme
For early career researchers, scientists, engineers, and other professionals
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline July 11, 2018
NEW: Migraine Research Foundation, Request for Proposals 2018
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline August 3, 2018
Toyota Mobility Unlimited Challenge
Improvements for people with lower limb paralysis through smarter assistive technology
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline August 15, 2018
NEW:phRMA Foundation- Informatics, Pharmacology/Toxicology and Pharmaceutics.
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline September 1, 2018
NEW:Research Grant Program of the StifungPreussicherKulturbesitz, Berlin Germany. Of interest to scholars in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Law and the History of Science
For more information and to print out the application form (no electronic applications) please click here / Sponsor deadline
September 30, 2018
Research Administration Contacts by School
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Erin Hale –Senior Research Development Officer
617-496-5252
Susan O’Connor Gomes – Director of Research Development and Strategy
617-496-9448
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Cynthia Verba – GSAS Director of Fellowships
Graduate School of Design
Anne Mathew – Director, Research Administration
617-496-1774
Harvard Divinity School
Krista Carmichael – Grants Manager
617-496-6610
Graduate School of Education
Helen Page – Assistant Dean for Research Administration
617-496-8930
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Erin Hale – Research Development Officer
617-496-5252
Susan O’Connor Gomes – Director of Research Development and Strategy
617-496-9448
Harvard Kennedy School
Jessica McCann- Communications Coordinator
617-496-1991
Harvard Law School
Leah Keating, JD, – Director of Research Administration
617-384-7759
Harvard Medical School
Ivona Jukic, – Team Manager, Sponsored Programs Administration
HMS Foundation Funds
Clare Lamont – Program Coordinator
617-432-7463
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Amanda Spickard – Senior Associate Director of Research Strategy and Development
617-432-1711
Heather Conrad- Research and Development Coordinator
617-495-8349
Leigh Melanson, Strategic Initiatives Manager
617-432-1774
Office of the Vice Provost for Research
Brooke Pulitzer-Assistant Provost for Research
617-496-4450
Jennifer Chow-Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations
617-496-2170
Liza Harsch-Research Development Coordinator
617-495-9019
Autumn Bennett, Program Coordinator
617-496-9744
Last updated April 2018