Category: Fellowships

Initiated in 2012, the Lilly Innovation Fellowship Award (LIFA) program was created to identify and foster exceptional post-doctoral scientists pursuing ground breaking research projects. The prestigious LIFA program pairs a post-doctoral scientist with their academic mentor and a Lilly scientist, who serves as an industry mentor, to advance an innovative research proposal developed by the fellow. The goal of the LIFA program is to focus on research topics or “Grand Challenges” that will drive innovation in scientific areas of greatest strategic interest to Eli Lilly and Company, while remaining general enough to foster disruptive innovation.

Post-doctoral scientists have an option to elect any of the following research arrangements upon mutual agreement with their academic mentor.

1. All research performed at academic institution in collaboration with Lilly mentor.
2. Research performed at academic institution, with a limited number of short-term (less than 6 weeks) “visiting scientist” trips to Lilly.
3. Research begins at academic institution and after a pre-determined time point, the post-doctoral scientist will transition full-time to a Lilly research site to complete the project under the LIFA Agreement.

Note: For research arrangements 1 and 2, the post-doctoral scientist will be an employee of the academic institution. However, in the research arrangement 3, the post-doctoral scientist will be an employee of the academic institution while at that location and then a Lilly fixed duration employee while at a Lilly site.

Research projects foster career development and are pre-competitive in nature; thus, publication both encouraged and expected. Career development resources and other benefits are provided, including up to four years of salary, benefits and limited travel support to attend scientific meetings while participating in the program.

Consideration for participation in the program is currently limited to invited academic research centers around the world.

For more information email LIFA@Lilly.com or visit http://www.lilly.com/research-development/innovation-starts/Pages/Lilly-Innovation-Fellowship-Award.aspx

Applications are now being accepted for the Sarah H. Moss Fellowships for 2015-16, beginning with summer semester.  The fellowships, administered by UGA’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), provide funds in amounts of up to $10,000 for travel and related expenses for faculty pursuing advanced study in institutions of higher learning in the U.S. and abroad.

Applicants should be tenure-track faculty at the UGA Athens campus and show promise of unusual accomplishment in study at universities other than in southern states including and contiguous to Georgia. Approval is required of the nominee’s department head and dean if a leave of absence during the academic year is requested. Recipients must agree to return to the University of Georgia for one year after receiving a scholarship or re-pay the amount of the award.

Application materials are due in the CTL by March 27, 2015 at 5:00 p.m.  Full information about the fellowship and the application process can be found on the main CTL web page at

http://www.ctl.uga.edu/faculty/sarahmossfellowship

The University of Virginia’s, Mountain Lake Biological Station (MLBS) in the southern Appalachians is excited to offer a limited number of fellowships to support station and residency costs for researchers to explore new projects or collect preliminary data. This is a rare opportunity to make an extended stay of up to 2 months at one of North America’s premier field stations at no cost to the researcher.  Preference will be given to individuals and projects with the potential to develop into long-term research activities at the Station. We especially encourage applications from individuals in the postdoctoral or early faculty phases of their careers, but will not exclude other individuals from consideration.

Interested individuals should submit a single pdf file including CV and a 2-3 pp proposal outlining the proposed research to MLBS@virginia.edu. Review of proposals will begin March 14, 2014.  For more information about the fellowship program, research opportunities or Mountain Lake Biological Station (mlbs.org), please contact the Director – Butch Brodie (bbrodie@virginia.edu).

The goal of the Informatics program is to promote development and use of informatics in an integrative approach toward understanding normal processes of human biology and disease processes. Informatics awards support career development of scientists engaged in research that significantly integrates state-of-the-art information technology developed with advanced biological, chemical, and pharmacological sciences in the following areas:

• Genetics Proteomics
• Molecular Systems Biology
• Medical (human) Pathways and Networks
• Pharmaco- Integrative Biology
• Population Modeling and Simulation
• Genomics Molecular Epidemiology

This award provides $20,000 in stipend support per year for one or two years. Applications must be submitted by an accredited U.S. college or university. As the deadline is 3 weeks away, we are reaching out to see if your fellows or junior faculty are interested. The details can be perused on this posting: PhRMA Grant for BioInformatics   at www.Trialect.com .

The Chateaubriand Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM),offered by the Embassy of France in the United States, Office for Science and Technology (OST), aims to initiate or reinforce collaborations, partnerships or joint projects (PUF, MIT-France, France-Chicago, France-Berkeley, France-Stanford projects, joint or international labs, etc.) by encouraging exchange at the doctoral level.

To that end, the Chateaubriand Fellowship supports PhD students registered in an American university who wish to conduct part of their doctoral research in a French laboratory. STEM Chateaubriand Fellows are selected through a merit-based competition and priority is given to candidates working toward a dual PhD degree (cotutelle) with their French host institution.

Chateaubriand Fellows receive a stipend of up to 1,400 •/month (depending on other sources of funding) for a 4-9 month period and support for travel expenses and student health insurance. The required level of French remains at the discretion of the host laboratory. All STEM and Health disciplines are eligible.

More information and the application are available on the Chateaubriand website:

http://www.chateaubriand-fellowship.org

The application deadline is January 31, 2014 for fellowships starting between September 1, 2014 and April 1, 2015.

Please visit for the OST‚s website for information on other open calls for proposals:

http://www.france-science.org/-Career-opportunities-.html

We just launched our 15th Annual Graduate Fellowship Program, which advances the frontiers of science by awarding grants and providing technical support to graduate students who are doing outstanding GPU-based research.

We will select Ph.D. students from around the world to receive grants of $25,000 each for research that advances parallel computing. In addition to receiving funding for their research, award recipients will also have access to NVIDIA technology and programming talent. These grants and technical support will be awarded in the 2016 academic year.

Since its inception in 2002, the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program has awarded over 100 Ph.D. graduate students with grants that have helped accelerate their research efforts. More importantly, this funding has helped some students achieve major breakthroughs in their research – breakthroughs that may not have been possible without additional funding.

The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program is open to applicants worldwide. The deadline for submitting applications is Jan. 15, 2016. Eligible graduate students will have already completed their first year of Ph.D. level studies in the areas of computer science, computer engineering, system architecture, electrical engineering or a related area. In addition, applicants must also be engaged in active research as part of their thesis work.

Please share with your departments, students and friends.

For more information on eligibility and how to apply, visithttp://research.nvidia.com/relevant/graduate-fellowship-program or email fellowship@nvidia.com