External Deadline: June 2024 Internal Deadline: May 6, 2024
Instructions for electronic submission: To apply for the Hartwell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, please submit the materials requested below to this link no later than May 6, 2024 at 11:59 PM.
Budget: 50,000 per year for 2 years. Fellows may generally use funds for salary, health insurance, or travel related to a scientific meeting, but not for the purchase of supplies or equipment or other fringe benefits without permission of the Foundation; no part of the Fellowship may cover institutional overhead or other indirect costs
Number of Applications: 1 application from WCM (not including Ithaca)
Program Description:
The Hartwell Foundation has invited WCM to submit one application for a Hartwell Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Fellowship will support individuals who have completed a Ph.D. or equivalent and are still in the early stages of career development, and who exemplify the values of the Foundation by benefiting children’s health in the U.S. Fellowship funds may not be used to extend or complete clinical training.
Note that the Foundation does not fund research in public health epidemiology, social science, ecology, environmental impacts, botany, or anthropology. The Foundation will not fund “studies”, surveys, health services research or stand-alone clinical trials; and will not consider biomedical research in areas generally associated with adult health unless there is a readily apparent and particularly convincing benefit to children in the United States.
See the Foundation website for details.
Eligibility
- Research must focus in benefiting children's health in the US.
- Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate and be citizens of the United States.
- The Fellowship mentor may not be a Hartwell Investigator currently funded by the Foundation.
- Fellowship research training must be in an area of science or engineering related to biomedical science.
- Fellows must commence their postdoctoral training no later than November 1, 2024.
- The fellowship is not intended to extend or complete clinical training.
Application Requirements
WCM is limited to submitting one application; therefore, an internal selection process will be conducted. Chairpersons/Division Heads/Institute Directors may submit no more than two nominations from their department/division.
Chairs/Division Heads/Inst Directors submitting more than one nomination must submit an assessment to researchdean@cornell.edu commenting on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two nominees.
Internal submissions should contain the following information:
- One-two page letter of nomination co-signed by the candidate's mentor and by the Department Chair/Division Chief/Inst Director detailing why the nominee should be considered;
- One page from the nominee outlining their intended research/training during the Fellowship period; and
- Nominee’s biosketch. Include all current research support (internal and external) and pending support, including dollar amounts and start/end dates.
Please submit the materials requested above here no later than May 6, 2024 at 11:59 pm in the order listed in one PDF file using this naming convention: PI last name-first initial_2024HartwellPD.pdf (see example below). Margins should be at least one inch and font size not less than 11 point.
Example: Smith-J_2024HartwellPD.pdf
Past Recipients
- Basic Science
- Biochemistry/Biophysics
- Clinical Science
- Medicine
- Molecular Biology/Cell Biology
- Translational Science
- Postdoc/Residents/Fellows