Limited Submission Opportunities Offered Through the HMS Foundation Funds Program
Foundation Award
| Amount
| Focus Area
| Eligible Faculty |
| Brain Research Foundation Seed Grant Program (Fall cycle) | $80,000 | Neuroscience | Assistant and associate professors at HMS, HSDM and HMS affiliated hospitals |
| Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award (Spring cycle) | $150,000 | Neuroscience | Associate and full professors at HMS, HSDM and HMS affiliated hospitals. HMS nominees will move on to the Harvard-wide competition offered through the Office of the Vice Provost for Research |
| Breast Cancer Alliance Young Investigator Grant (Spring cycle) | $125,000 | Breast cancer | Early career HMS quad and HSDM faculty |
| Breast Cancer Alliance Exceptional Project Grant (Spring cycle) | $100,000 | Breast cancer | HMS quad and HSDM faculty at any career stage |
| Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation Grant (Spring cycle alternating even years) | $180,000 | Basic biomedical research | Assistant professors at HMS, HSDM and HMS affiliated hospitals. Must be within 1-4 Years of the appointment to assistant professor. HMS nominees will move on to the Harvard-wide competition offered through the Office of the Vice Provost for Research |
| Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation Scholars Award (Fall cycle alternating odd years) | $400,000 | Basic biomedical research | Assistant professors at HMS, HSDM and HMS affiliated hospitals. Must be within 5 - 8 Years of the appointment to assistant professor |
| Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program (Spring cycle) | $250,000 | Bioethics | Junior faculty at HMS, HSDM and HMS affiliated hospitals. HMS nominees will move on to the Harvard-wide competition offered through the Office of the Vice Provost for Research |
| Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship (Spring cycle) | $40,000 | Translational cancer research | Instructors and assistant professors at HMS, HSDM and HMS affiliated hospitals |
| Macy Faculty Scholars Program (Spring cycle) | $250,000 | Medical education | Faculty at HMS, HSDM and HMS affiliated hospitals with approximately three to eight years of full-time faculty experience at the time of application |
| Mary Kay Innovative/Translational Cancer Research Award (Fall cycle) | $100,000 | Cancer research | Associate and full professors at HMS, HSDM and HMS affiliated hospitals |
| Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (Fall cycle) | $875,000 | Biomedical science and engineering | Assistant professors at HMS, HSDM and HMS affiliated hospitals. HMS nominees will move on to the Harvard-wide competition offered through the Office of the Vice Provost for Research |
| Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Program (Spring cycle) | $550,000 | Basic biomedical research | Assistant professors at HMS, HSDM and HMS affiliated hospitals within three years of their appointment |
| Searle Scholars Program (Spring cycle) | $300,000 | Basic biomedical research | Assistant professors at HMS, HSDM and HMS affiliated hospitals |
| W. T. Grant Scholars Program (Spring cycle) | $400,000 | Reducing inequality in youth healthcare | Faculty at HMS, HSDM and HMS affiliated hospitals within seven years of a terminal degree |