Deadline: 1-Jul-25
The Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is designed to attract qualified and promising health scientists, to provide an opportunity to receive full-time research training, and to assist these promising individuals in transitioning from a fellowship to an independent (faculty-level) position.
Terms of Award & Stipend
- Awards will be made for a duration of up to 3 years, assuming satisfactory progress. The fellowship term is 12 months for each fellowship year. Fellows must devote at least 75% of their effort to the project outlined in the fellowship proposal. Budgets up to USD 95,000 per year for up to 3 years may be requested.
- The stipend request is based on years of relevant postdoctoral experience. Salary support for additional staff is not allowable.
- There are no indirect costs allowed for fellowships and Breakthrough T1D will make no deductions for income tax, Social Security, etc. Funds in excess of the stipend, up to a total budget of USD 95,000 per year, can be used for travel to scientific meetings (up to USD 2,000/year), journal subscriptions, books, training courses, laboratory supplies, or equipment (in Year 1 only).
- The purchase of a personal computer is allowed (up to USD 2,000) only during Year 1 of the award. Health insurance costs are permissible
Location
- Fellowship research may be conducted at foreign and domestic, for-profit and nonprofit, and public and private organizations, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local governments, and eligible agencies of the federal government.
Eligibility Criteria
- Institutional Eligibility
- Domestic & foreign non-profit organizations; public & private universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories; units of state & local governments; eligible agencies of the federal government
- Applicant
- This fellowship is intended for applicants who have completed some postdoctoral training, show extraordinary promise and are preparing for a transition to an independent research position. Generally, the most recent doctoral degree (PhD, MD, DMD, DVM, or equivalent) will have been received no more than 6 years before the application is submitted. Breakthrough T1D is sensitive to personal and COVID-related matters that impact career trajectories.
- Applicants who have taken leave from their career (e.g. parenting of a child, childbirth, long-term care of a parent/spouse/child/dependent, personal health issues), or experienced a delay in their training due to COVID shutdowns and the cancellation of the Breakthrough T1D FY21 training call that put them outside of the eligibility time frame for the award mechanism should feel free to reach out to Breakthrough T1D staff ahead of their application submission.
- Breakthrough T1D aims to be flexible and adjust these time frames if necessary and appropriate.
- There are no citizenship requirements for this program. To assure continued excellence and diversity among applicants and awardees, Breakthrough T1D welcomes proposals from all qualified individuals and encourages proposals from persons with disabilities women and members of minority groups underrepresented in the sciences.
For more information, visit Breakthrough T1D.