Keck Foundation Medical Research and Science and Engineering Grants: Pre-Proposal Deadline

Keck Foundation Medical Research Program and Science and Engineering Program
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: July 8, 2014
Award Amount: $500,000 - $5,000,000

The Keck Foundation supports pioneering discoveries in science, engineering and medicine by funding high-risk, high-impact work of leading researchers. Funding is awarded for projects in biomedical research or science and engineering research that:

• Focus on important and emerging areas of research
• Have the potential to develop breakthrough technologies, instrumentation or methodologies
• Are innovative, distinctive and interdisciplinary
• Demonstrate a high level of risk due to unconventional approaches, or by challenging the prevailing paradigm
• Have the potential for transformative impact, such as the founding of a new field of research, the enabling of observations not previously possible, or the altered perception of a previously intractable problem
• Fall outside the mission of public funding agencies
• Demonstrate that private philanthropy generally, and the W. M. Keck Foundation in particular, is essential to the project's success