External Deadline: May 2025 Internal Deadline: March 3, 2025
Instructions for electronic submission: To apply for this opportunity, please submit the materials requested below to this link no later than March 3, 2025, at 11:59 PM.
Budget: $25,000 for one year
Number of Applications: 1 application from WCM (not including Ithaca)
Program details:
This award is intended to provide interim support to junior faculty whose research funding has been interrupted and is pending resubmission of an NIH application.
Must provide compelling evidence that the requested grant will be gap filling in one of the following ways:
- provide interim support to junior faculty whose research funding has been interrupted and is pending resubmission of an NIH or a foundation application
- help generate additional preliminary data for a first R01 or similar.
Eligibility
Junior faculty (<10 years after faculty appointment)
Application Requirements
Weill Cornell Medicine is limited to submitting one nominee. Due to this limitation an internal selection process will be coordinated. Chairpersons/Division Heads may submit no more than two nominations from their department/division.
Note: Chairs/Division Heads submitting more than one nomination must comment on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two nominees. Send the candidates' comparison summary by email to researchdean@med.cornell.edu by the internal deadline indicated above. 
Internal submissions should contain the following information:
Margins should be at least one inch and font size no less than 11 point.
- 1-page nomination letter from the Department Chair/Div Chief briefly describing the candidate and how her/his research fulfills the specific award requirements
- 1-page description of the research project and how it addresses the specific requirements of the award
- Recent grant submission status/history of the applicant. Please include scores and comments from pending NIH resubmission/s. Clarify role in the pending application (PI, co-PI), and where the work will be performed (WCM or elsewhere). Include history of previous, current, and pending funding. (1 page)
- Applicant’s Biosketch
Instructions for Electronic Submission:
Submit the above items in the order listed as a single PDF document using the naming convention PI last name.First initial_2025Harriman.pdf (see example below). Submit this file here no later than 11:59pm on March 3, 2025.
Example: Smith.J_2025Harriman
Past Recipients
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Anesthesiology
- Basic Science
- Biochemistry/Biophysics
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular
- Clinical Science
- Community Health
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Drug Development
- Endocrinology
- Genetics
- GI
- Healthcare Policy
- Hematology
- Hepatology
- HIV
- Immunology
- Medical Education Research
- Medicine
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology/Cell Biology
- Nephrology
- Neuroscience
- Nursing/PA/Allied Professions
- Obstetrics/Gynecology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedic
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Precision Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychology/Behavioral Science
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Regeneration
- Surgery
- Translational Science
- Urology
- Junior Faculty
