Current Foundation Award Opportunities

Application deadline: Monday, April 7th (11:30pm).

Applications must be submitted through the Harvard University Funding Portal.   Required application materials can be found via funding portal link. 

Nominations Available to HMS:  1  Faculty at the affiliated hospitals may apply only through HMS Foundation Funds program. Harvard University is the nominating institution for these awards. Therefore, the HMS Foundation Funds Committee will select the HMS nominees and forward their applications to the Provost’s Office.  A Committee appointed by the Provost’s Office will review all applications and select the University’s nominees.

Funding and Award period:  50% of a Scholar’s salary plus benefits for three years, up to the NIH salary cap.

The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable junior 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 care, biomedical research, and public policy, and creates a community that enhances future bioethics research by Scholars and Alumni/ae.

Each year, the Foundation selects approximately three Greenwall Faculty Scholars to receive 50 percent salary support for three years to enable them to develop their research program. Applicants must be junior faculty members at a university or non-profit research institute that has tax-exempt status in the United States.  Scholars and Alumni/ae attend twice-yearly meetings, where they present their works in progress, receive feedback and mentoring from the Faculty Scholars Program Committee and other Scholars and Alumni/ae, and have the opportunity to develop collaborations with other researchers. The ongoing involvement of Alumni/ae with the Program provides them ongoing opportunities for professional development and feedback, and engages them in mentoring of younger Scholars.

The award supports 50% of a Scholar’s salary plus benefits for three years, up to the NIH salary cap, with 10% institutional costs for the salary and benefits. In addition, the foundation provides $5000 each year for limited project support and travel (no indirect costs are provided for these items).

Eligibility Criteria:  Priority will be given to applicants who have not yet been considered for tenure or an equivalent promotion; whose research will have an impact on public policy, biomedical research, or clinical practice; and who will make important contributions to the field of bioethics over their careers.

Applicants 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).

Faculty Scholars will be selected on the basis of their achievements, the strength of their research project, their commitment to the field of bioethics, and support from their home institution, including after the end of this award. While the amount and quality of an applicant's research in bioethics will count favorably towards his/her application, outstanding candidates with less direct experience in bioethics will also be considered when their proposed work aims to advance the bioethics field. 

Within this group, priority will be given to applicants whose research addresses front-line bioethics, innovative ideas and/or emerging topics to move forward the field. Lower priority will be given to applicants who are primarily carrying out policy or advocacy work, educational reform or theoretical work with limited applicability to practice, research, or health care delivery.

The Greenwall Foundation particularly welcomes applicants from backgrounds that are under-represented in bioethics and academia.

Faculty at the affiliated hospitals may apply only through HMS Foundation Funds. Harvard University is the nominating institution for these awards. The HMS Foundation Funds Committee will select the HMS nominees and forward their applications to the Provost’s Office.  A Committee appointed by the Provost’s Office will review all applications and select the University’s nominees.

*Allowable Costs Under this Award:  10% of these funds may be utilized for indirect costs.

Apply here for the Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program

Additional information about this opportunity is available on the Greenwall Foundation Website

Application deadline: Monday, April 7th (11:30pm)

Applications must be submitted through the Harvard University Funding Portal.   

Focus: The effects of the usage of digital technology on brain development, social behaviors and mental health in children and young People

Eligible Faculty:  Faculty at the affiliated hospitals must apply through the HMS Foundation Funds Program.

Nominations Available to HMS:  1   

Funding: Up to $390,000 per year for 4 years beginning January 2026 ($1.56 million total).

URL: https://huofamilyfoundation.org/our-grants/special-projects/

Description: The Huo Family Foundation (HFF) invites applications for special projects. These larger and longer-term research awards would allow researchers of all career stages, collaborating as a multi-disciplinary team with different expertise and skills, to take an integrated approach to tackle the more difficult questions in this domain. HFF aims to support multidisciplinary work between teams consisting of several group leaders from one institution, or different institutions in the UK and the US.

HFF is establishing a research portfolio on the Effects of the Usage of Digital Technology on Brain Development, Social Behaviors and Mental Health in Children and Young People. As such, proposals should tackle key questions within the broad topic of the effects of usage of and exposure to digital technologies on brain development and function (including physiological responses), social behavior and interactions, and mental health of children and young people.

For this grant, HFF encourages proposals that:

• Attempt to understand causal pathways and directions
• Focus on children and/or young people within the age range of 7-24 years old
• Use of existing population (epidemiological) cohorts and data sets. We also encourage precision and deep-dive studies within these existing cohorts and data sets
• Adopt randomized approaches to studying the effects of the use of digital technologies on the brain, mind, physiological responses, and behavior of children and young people. This may include the use of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) methodology.
• Addresses the scarcity of longitudinal evidence by incorporating follow-up and repeated observations
• Are mechanistic studies of smaller, well-defined participant groups
• Involve and engage young people (children, adolescents and/or young adults) in the study design and during the delivery of the proposal, such as in Public and Community Involvement, Engagement and Participation (PCIEP) studies

Digital technology typically means digital devices, systems, tools and resources that generate, process and store data. For this call, digital technology refers to: devices, systems, tools and services used by children and young people. For example, this would include smart phones, tablets, computers/laptops, gaming consoles, online games, the internet, social media, other digital environments, instant messaging, video-sharing, etc.

Grant funds are not to be used to support the lead applicant’s salary or that of the co-applicants. Apart from the exclusion of the salary of the applicant(s), the grant funds may be used by the applicant(s) for any expense judged supportive of the research project including staffing, lab expenses, equipment and access charges, and professional travel.

For US-based work, up to 12.5% of the total grant is permitted for overhead/indirect costs.

ELIGIBILITY

HMS may forward only one application as the lead institution. Only one person can be designated as the lead PI, but there can be multiple collaborators and consultants that do not need to be based in the US or UK.

Applicants should have the following:

• hold a PhD or equivalent degree in a relevant field, which may include but is not limited to neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, public health, computer science, social science, economics.
• a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract, or the guarantee of one that is not predicated on receiving this grant.

External Applications Due to the Hou Foundation: Friday, May 23, 2025 11:59 pm (UK)/6:59 pm (EDT)

Applications must be submitted through the Harvard University Funding Portal 

Applications must be submitted through the Harvard University Funding Portal (Harvard Key required)

Eligible Faculty: Faculty at HMS and HMS affiliated hospitals with approximately three to eight years of full-time faculty experience at the time of application. 

Focus:  Medical Education

Nominations Available to HMS: 1    

Funding and Award Period:  Up to $100,000 per year for two years to support 50% protected time to pursue an educational scholarship project, with an additional $25,000 per year for project support and professional development activities.  If $100K per year of salary support from the award does not fully cover 50% of a Scholar's time, the Scholar's institution must make up the difference to ensure at least 50% protection of the Scholar's time. 

Program Description:  

The Macy Faculty Scholars Program aims to identify and nurture promising early career educators in medicine and nursing. The program will help develop the next generation of national leaders in medical and nursing education by identifying outstanding educators, physicians, nurses, and role models—individuals who represent the breadth of diversity seen in learners, patient populations, and health care settings around the country. By providing the Scholars with resources—especially protected time, mentorship, and a professional network of colleagues—the program aims to accelerate Scholars’ careers, to turn their teaching  practice into scholarship, and to help them become impactful leaders locally, nationally, and beyond.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA The eligible candidate must: 

1.  Be a full-time HMS faculty member with a doctoral degree (e.g., MD, PhD, DNP, EdD). 

2. Have served for approximately three to eight years as a full-time faculty member.

3. Have an identified senior faculty member who will provide advice on the candidate’s project and career development. 

4. Have an educational scholarship project with the appropriate institutional support. 

5. Have an institutional commitment for the protection of 50% of the candidate’s time. 

6. Be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or its territories. 

Required Materials:

1. Statement of the applicants’ career objectives and personal goals for this program, plus a description of the educational project to be undertaken (Limit 3 pages). 

2. Nominating letter from your department or division head.  Please include:

1.  A description of the applicants’ potential as an educator and future leader.

2.  The name of the applicants mentor and their commitment to advise the applicant on project work and career development.

3.  Please explain how the applicants time will be protected and describe the role of the candidate within the department. 

7. NIH Biosketch (Limit 10 pages).

Additional information about this opportunity is available on the Macy Faculty Scholars webpage 

Apply HERE for the Macy Foundation Faculty Scholars Program.