For interested junior faculty- this looks like a great opportunity.
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Title:
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist Competition
Deadline(s):
Mandatory Intent to Apply Deadline: April 30, 2008, 2 p.m. ET
Applications Accepted: May 1, 2008 through June 10, 2008, 2 p.m. ET
Description:
* The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has announced a
national competition to select as many as 70 outstanding early career
scientists. This competition will enable HHMI to identify the nation's
best biomedical scientists at a critical early stage of their faculty
careers, and to provide them with flexible funding to develop scientific
programs of exceptional merit.
* HHMI seeks scientists in all areas of basic biological and
biomedical research, and in areas of chemistry, physics, computer
science, and engineering that are directly related to biology or
medicine. HHMI seeks to enable scientists to pursue research for which
they have a passion-and which may hold the potential for achieving the
greatest impact-rather than tailoring their research plans in order to
win approval from funding agencies.
* Given their early career stage, applicants will be evaluated
on their potential for significant research productivity and
originality, as judged by their doctoral and postdoctoral work, their
research plans, and results from their independent research.
Review/Award Information:
* Early career scientists will become full-time HHMI employees
(with full salary and benefits paid by HHMI), but they will retain their
faculty or other status at their host institution, with all of the
attendant rights and responsibilities. Seventy five percent of time must
be devoted to the direct conduct of biomedical research.
* HHMI will provide a research budget for salary support of
personnel and supplies (ranging from $150,000 to $300,000).
Periodically, HHMI will provide opportunities to purchase critical
research equipment that may be needed for new projects.
* Semifinalists will be selected by late 2008. Finalists will
be offered appointments as HHMI early career scientists as early as May
2009.
Eligibility:
Applicants must:
* Have a doctoral degree.
* Hold a tenure-track position as assistant professor or higher
academic rank.
* Have between two and six years of experience since first
appointment as an assistant professor (first faculty position as
assistant professor must have begun no earlier than June 1, 2002 and no
later than September 1, 2006). Non-tenure-track appointments such as
instructor and research assistant professor do not contribute at either
end of the two- to six-year career-stage range.
* Hold no more than one other early career award from a federal
agency or a foundation. If a successful candidate has multiple early
career awards, one or more would have to be terminated or relinquished
prior to appointment as an HHMI early career scientist. Applicants may
hold one or more grants from the NIH, NSF, or other entity. Researchers
without such grants are also eligible for this competition.
Applications and Instructions:
HHMI website:
http://www.hhmi.org/research/competitions/earlycareer2009/
Register your intent to apply here:
http://www.hhmi.org/research/application/ec2009
Semifinalists will be asked to solicit two letters of reference. No
letters of reference are required at the time of initial application,
and updates will be accepted only from semifinalists.
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