Greetings,

We are excited to share this limited submission opportunity from the Greenwall Foundation. The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable junior faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. Harvard may put forward one nomination for this funding opportunity. In anticipation of the Foundation's release of the 2027 Request for Proposals (RFP), the Office of the Vice Provost for Research is facilitating an internal process for eligible applicants. Updates to the internal timeline and/or internal application are pending per the sponsor's RFP release. More information about the award and the internal selection process can be found in the synopsis and links below. For a full list of currently open opportunities that have been announced through our office, please visit our new Current Opportunities web page. As a reminder, our Research Development team is available to provide proposal development support to FAS ladder faculty.

Greenwall Foundation: Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics

Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: July 12, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET
OSP Deadline for Letter of Intent (LOI), if selected: three business days in advance of the sponsor deadline, at 9:00 AM ET
Departments or areas may require additional time for proposal review and submission. Please discuss a timeline with your departmental or FORA grants administrator.
Sponsor LOI Deadline, if selected: To be announced
Award Amount: 50% of a Scholar's salary plus benefits for three years, up to the NIH Salary Cap, with 10% institutional costs for salary and benefits.
- Funding is intended to ensure that at least 50% of the scholar's time is devoted to bioethics research.
- The Greenwall Foundation provides an additional $5,000 each year for limited project support and travel. Indirect costs are not provided for these items. While this falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy, these are early career awards so FAS/SEAS recognizes this indirect cost limit and does not require further action, such as a waiver or direct charge of other costs.

Program Overview

The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable early-career faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. It supports research that goes beyond current work in bioethics to help resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice, and creates a community that enhances future bioethics research by Scholars and Alums. Each year, the Foundation selects approximately three Greenwall Faculty Scholars to receive 50 percent salary support for three years to carry out a specific research proposal and develop their research program. To see a list of bioethics activities that the Foundation does not fund, please consult the previous RFP.

Eligibility Criteria

Must be early-career faculty members at a university or non-profit research institute that has tax-exempt status in the United States.
Must hold a faculty appointment that allows at least 50 percent of their effort to perform research (often this is a faculty position with at least a 60 percent appointment in a tenure-track position or its equivalent).
Priority will be given to:
- Applicants who have not yet been considered for tenure or an equivalent promotion.
- Applicants whose research will have an impact on clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice.
- Applicants who will make important contributions to the field of bioethics over their careers.

Pre-Proposal Materials

Proposal title
Description of the research proposal, particularly its significance:
- How the research will be carried out and how it is likely to have an impact on clinical, biomedical and public health decision making policy, and practice.
- Two pages, 12 point font, single spaced. Associated graphics and/or references should be placed on blank pages and do not count towards the page limit.
Statement addressing whether the candidate presently has an application under consideration to Greenwall's Making a Difference program.
Acknowledgement by the applicant's Department Chair of the following Greenwall award stipulations: A Greenwall Faculty Scholars Award does not cover indirect costs, over the three year award period at least 50% of the awardee's time must be devoted to their proposed bioethics research.
A current CV, no more than five (5) single-spaced pages (format not specified)

Limited Submission Details

This is a limited submission opportunity and Harvard may only submit one application as the lead institution. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research will conduct an internal competition to select Harvard’s nominee. Applicants who hold a primary appointment at HMS, HSDM, or a Harvard affiliated institution, must apply to the internal competition facilitated by the HMS Foundation Funds office. Eligible Applicants from T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the schools on Harvard’s Cambridge Campus, and the Wyss Institute, should apply through this process facilitated by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. To be considered for the Harvard nomination, potential applicants must submit an internal pre-proposal by 11:59 PM on July 12, 2026, via the link above.

Additional Information and Resources

View the previous RFP for more information (please note that details are subject to change upon the release of the new RFP). If selected as the Harvard nominee, it is anticipated that LOIs will be due to the Foundation in the fall, and selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal in the winter. Six finalists will be invited to in-person interviews in the spring of 2027.

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

Requests for support related to the application portal may be directed to vpr@harvard.edu.

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RESOURCES

Research Development maintains a Sample Proposal Library of successful proposals from recent award recipients that are available to FAS and SEAS faculty by request; please email Research Development to request to view a proposal. For more information on Research Development's resources—including lists of internal funding programs, early career funding programs, and sabbatical fellowships—please visit the Funding Opportunities web page.

SEARCH FOR OPPORTUNITIES WITH PIVOT

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PIVOT CURATED SEARCHES

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Data Science, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence

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