External Deadline: May 15, 2024 Internal Deadline: April 1, 2024
2023 Pew Charitables Trusts Biomedical Scholars Webinar hosted by Cornell University link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9-rKwbSfic
Instructions for electronic submission
Upload the below items here no later than April 1, 2024, at 11:59 pm in the order listed in one single PDF file using the following naming convention: PI last name-first initial_PewScholars-2025.pdf (see example below).
Example: Smith-J_PewScholars-2025.pdf
Budget: $75,000 per year for a 4-year period. The amount of the award that may be used for the principal investigator’s salary is limited to $12,500 per year (including benefits) or $50,000 over the duration of the grant. There are no limits on student or postdoctoral salaries. No more than 8% of the total award may be allocated for facilities and administrative charges or indirect costs.
Submission: By invitation from the Foundation only
Number of Applications: 1 application from Cornell (shared with Ithaca)
Program Description:
The program provides funding to early-career investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health.
Based on their performance during their education and training, candidates should demonstrate outstanding promise as contributors in science relevant to human health. This program does not fund public health projects or clinical trials research. Strong proposals will incorporate particularly creative and pioneering approaches to basic, translational, and applied biomedical research. Candidates whose work is based on biomedical principles but who bring in concepts and theories from more diverse fields are encouraged to apply.
Ideas with the potential to produce an unusually high impact are encouraged. Successful applications should not look like typical R01 grant applications with incremental research steps and safe hypotheses supported by existing data. Pew supports truly out-of-the-box, brilliant, early-career science which may accelerate and advance progress to understanding aspects of biomedical research and may not be fundable through other more typical funding mechanisms.
Selection of the successful candidates will be based on a detailed description of the work that the applicant proposes to undertake, evaluations of the candidate’s performance, and notable past accomplishments, including honors, awards, and publications. In evaluating the candidates, the National Advisory Committee gives considerable weight to both the project proposal and the researcher, including evidence that the candidate is a successful independent investigator and has the skill set needed to carry out their high-impact proposal. Pew supports the scientist, in addition to the research plan. Letters of reference and included essays are critical pieces of the application.
Funding from the NIH, other government sources, and project grants from nonprofit associations do not pose a conflict with the Pew scholars program.
For the 2025 cycle, one nomination will be invited from each 205 institutions.
*Pew National Advisory Committee:
Chair:
Mello, Craig C., Ph.D.
Members:
Andreotti, Amy, Ph.D.
Bautista, Diana, Ph.D.
Chiang, Cheng-Ming, Ph.D.
Clemons, Bil, Ph.D.
Cox, Jeffery, Ph.D.
Fenton, Andre, Ph.D.
Goldstein, Bob, Ph.D.
Iwasaki, Akiko, Ph.D.
Joshua-Tor, Leemor, Ph.D.
Lippincott-Schwartz, Jennifer, Ph.D.
Locksley, Richard M., M.D.
Niswander, Lee, Ph.D.
Pachter, Lior, Ph.D.
Patel, Nipam, Ph.D.
Pe'er, Dana, Ph.D.
Sanchez Alvarado, Alejandro, Ph.D.
Schmid, Sandra, Ph.D.
Svoboda, Karel, Ph.D.
For more information, and to review the profile of previous Pew awardees, please visit: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/pew-biomedical-scholars/program-de...
Eligibility
- Must hold a doctorate in biomedical sciences, medicine, or a related field, including engineering or the physical sciences.
- Must run an independent lab and hold a full-time appointment at the rank of an assistant professor or equivalent by September 5, 2024.
- Research Assistant Professor, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor Research Track, Visiting Professor or Instructor are not eligible.
- Must not have been appointed as an assistant professor at any institution prior to June 10, 2020, whether or not such an appointment was on a tenure track.
- Time spent in clinical internships, residencies, in work toward board certification, or on parental leave does not count as part of this four-year limit.
- Time limit stands regardless of changing institutions.
- May apply to the program a maximum of two times.
- The same candidate cannot be nominated to both the Pew scholars and Pew-Stewart program in the same year. A candidate can be nominated to Pew scholars one year and Pew-Stewart the next.
- Candidates with dual appointments at affiliated institutions can only be nominated from one institution.
- If applicants have appointments at more than one eligible nominating institution or affiliate, they may not reapply in a subsequent year from a different nominating entity.
- Funding from the NIH, other government sources, and project grants from nonprofit associations do not pose a conflict with the Pew Scholars program.
Application Requirements
Cornell, including Weill Cornell Medicine, may submit one nomination. Department Chairs/Division Chiefs/Institute Directors may submit no more than two internal nominations from their department/division/institute.
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.
For the internal selection, please submit the following items in the order listed in one single PDF file using the appropriate naming convention:
- A 1-2-page nomination letter by the Department Chair/Division Chief/Institute Director detailing why the candidate should be considered;
- Applicant's bIosketch with complete contact info, education and work experience, publications and awards. The Biosketch must include the nominee's appointment date (month/day/year). List all current research support (internal/start-up and external) and pending support (in an additional page, if needed), including dollar amounts and start/end dates. Include any research overlap with the proposed project of funded awards.
- A 2-page description of the candidate's proposed research, highlighting particularly creative and risk-taking aspects of the proposed research. Include a brief statement of how receipt of the award would benefit the candidate and why the research is personally significant to them. Any references can be in addition to the two-page limit; and
- Describe briefly up to 3 of the most influential publications including information on their significance (1-page max.).
Margins should be at least one inch and font size not less than 11 point.
Upload the above items here not later than April 1, 2024, at 11:59 pm in the order listed in one single PDF file using the following naming convention: PI last name-first initial_PewScholars-2025.pdf (see example below).
Example: Smith-J_PewScholars-2025.pdf
Past Recipients
- Basic Science
- Clinical Science
- Molecular Biology/Cell Biology
- Faculty
- Junior Faculty