Limited Submission - Pew Biomedical Scholars Competition
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Pew Biomedical Scholars competition.
- Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, April 14, 2020
- Funding Organization's Deadline: Monday, May 18, 2020
- Award Cycle: 2021
- Funding Available: 300,000
- Limited Submission Opportunities - Announcement
The VP DoR has initiated a new online system for announcing, proposing, routing, reviewing and communicating with applicants on Limited Submission Opportunities. You can find this and other limited submission funding opportunities by going to doresearch.stanford.edu and clicking on the main navigation "Funding".
The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. The program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding individuals who are in their first few years of their appointment at the assistant professor level.
Based on their performance during their education and training, candidates should demonstrate outstanding promise as contributors in science relevant to human health. Strong proposals will incorporate particularly creative and innovative approaches. Candidates whose work is based on biomedical principles, but brings in concepts and theories from more diverse fields, are encouraged to apply. Risk-taking is encouraged.
Ideas with the potential to produce an unusually high impact are encouraged. 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 evidence that the candidate is a successful independent investigator and has published significant work.
Read the Stanford detailed instructions and apply here.
View the Pew Foundation Announcement
Investigator Effort
It is expected that Pew scholars will spend at least 80 percent of their time in work or activities related to the accomplishment of their overall research goals (which are not restricted to the specific aims proposed for this award). However, Pew provides flexible support to the general research aims of the scholar and does not require effort reporting.
Eligibility for the 2021 Award
Candidates must meet all of the following eligibility requirements:
- Hold a doctorate in biomedical sciences, medicine, or a related field.
- As of Sept. 10, 2020, hold a full-time appointment at the rank of assistant professor. (Appointments such as research assistant professor, adjunct assistant professor, assistant professor research track, visiting professor, clinician-educator (CE) assistant professors, clinical instructors, instructors, academic staff-research or instructor are not eligible).
- Eligible: Stanford assistant professors** with UTL, MCL, NTLR and NTL-Research faculty appointments are eligible.
- Not eligible: Clinician Educator (CE) assistant professors, Clinical Instructors, Instructors, Academic Staff-Research (i.e, research associates) are not eligible.
- Must not have been appointed as an assistant professor at any institution prior to June 15, 2017, 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 three-year limit. Candidates who took parental leave should contact Pew’s program office to ensure that application reviewers are aware of their circumstances.
- May apply to the program a maximum of two times. All applicants must be nominated by their institution and must complete the 2021 online application.
- 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.
- May not be nominated for the Pew Scholars Program and the Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research in the same year.
Timeline
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- School Deadline 04/14/2020
- Limited Submission Committee Meeting 05/06/2020
- Sponsor Nomination Deadline 05/18/2020
VP DoR will submit the nomination to the sponsor. The sponsor will send the online application portal login information to the applicant.
Internal Proposal - All proposals must be submitted through the system.
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- Title Page (created by the system)
- 4-page abstract/research proposal
- NIH-format biosketch
- List of ALL other support, current AND pending
- Nomination/Recommendation Letter -- The letter should be addressed (see contacts below) and printed on your department letterhead and signed by either your division chief (if applicable) or your department chair, and upload into InfoReady by the applicant. Please include the date the Provost Office formally approved your appointment as an assistant professor in the MCL, UTL, or Research line. As the sponsor gives considerable weight to evidence that the candidate is an independent investigator and to significant published work, the nomination letter should provide evidence of the creativity and publication list of the nominee. This letter should also confirm that the candidate will devote at least 80% of his or her time conducting research.
- Each nomination letter should be addressed as follows (according to your respective school):
- Engineering (including Bioengineering): Kenneth Goodson, Senior Associate Dean c/o Blythe Nobleman
- Humanities and Sciences: Prof. Peter Michelson-Senior Associate Dean for Natural Sciences, c/o Sonia Barragan
- Medicine: Dr. Peter Sarnow and the School of Medicine Awards Committee members, c/o Chelsey Perry
Selection process
Each school will select the top 3 proposals to be forwarded to the VP DoR Limited Submission Review Committee. The Committee will select the applicant to represent Stanford.