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Health Resources in Action has released the 2024 call for proposals for the Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award, supported by the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation to fuel creativity and innovation in junior investigators in the basic biomedical sciences. More information about the award can be found in the synopsis and links below.

 

Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award

OSP Deadline: December 12, 2023. Departments or areas may require additional time for proposal review and submission. Please discuss a timeline with your grants administrator.

Sponsor Initial Proposal Deadline: December 19, 2023, by 12:00 PM EST

Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: Anticipated deadline in mid-May; exact date TBA

Award Amount: $400,000 over two years

Eligibility: The eligibility window is 4-9 years in a tenure-track assistant professor position.

 

The Smith Family Foundation is committed to effecting permanent positive change in the lives of the residents of Greater Boston through the advancement of biomedical research. The Odyssey Award supports promising junior faculty who conduct basic research with the potential to transform their fields through high-risk, high-reward pilot projects. Projects should be conceptualized as a novel research line and a distinct and novel off-shoot from the applicant’s current research. The Odyssey Award supports biomedical research; investigators in the physical sciences (physics, chemistry, and engineering) whose projects focus on biomedical science are encouraged to apply. 

 

Applications will be accepted from full-time, independent faculty at academic research institutions who have not yet achieved tenure or its equivalent by the funding start date of November 1, 2024. Applicants must have received their first independent faculty appointment on or between November 1, 2015 and November 1, 2020. Applicants are ineligible if, at the time of application, they have combined federal and non-federal funding totaling $750,000 or more in direct costs in either of the first two years (11/1/24 - 10/31/25 or 11/1/25 - 10/31/26) of the two-year Smith Odyssey Award. This figure refers to external funding only and not an applicant’s start-up package, other intramural support, or the Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research. Applications from women and people from groups underrepresented in biomedical research are particularly encouraged.

 

Recent recipients include Mansi Srivastava (OEB, 2020), Jessica Whited (SCRB, 2019), Benjamin de Bivort (OEB, 2018), and Ya-Chieh Hsu (SCRB, 2018).

 

Questions from FAS or SEAS faculty about this opportunity may be directed to research_development@fas.harvard.edu. 
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