Deadline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2015 Investigator Competition
Date and Time
Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2015 Investigator Competition
Application Deadline: June 3, 2014
Award Amount: Full salary and benefits, plus research funding and personnel support
Award Duration: Appointees become full-time employees of HHMI for a five-year period
Eligible Disciplines: Biology and adjacent fields
HHMI's Investigator Competition seeks researchers who bring innovative approaches to the study of many different biological problems through the biomedical disciplines of genetics, cell biology, developmental biology, biochemistry, and neuroscience as well as adjacent fields of biophysics, chemical biology, biomedical engineering, and computational biology. Plant scientists, evolutionary biologists, and patient-oriented researchers are also in the ranks of current investigators. By employing scientists as investigators rather than awarding them grants for specific research projects, HHMI provides its researchers long-term, flexible funding that gives them the freedom to explore and, if necessary, change direction.