Beckman Young Investigator Program
FAS Deadline to Request Institutional Endorsements: July 26, 2018
Sponsor LOI Deadline: August 6, 2018
Award Amount: Grants are in the range of $600,000 over four years.
Eligible Faculty: Assistant professors appointed after August 14, 2015. Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States at the time of application.

The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science. Projects proposed for the BYI program should be truly innovative, high-risk, and show promise for contributing to significant advances in chemistry and the life sciences. They should represent a departure from current research directions rather than an extension or expansion of existing programs. Proposed research that cuts across traditional boundaries of scientific disciplines is encouraged. Proposals that open up new avenues of research in chemistry and the life sciences by fostering the invention of methods, instruments and materials will be given additional consideration.