Moore Inventor Fellows: Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline

Moore Inventor FellowsHarvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 16, 2018 by 12:00PMAward Amount: $200,000/year for 3 years plus $25,000/year to the applicant institution to cover costs associated with administering the grant award. Each host institution will be required to contribute $50,000 in annual direct support of the inventor's work.Eligible Applicants: Faculty, research scientists, postdocs or other full-time staff at eligible institutions who are no more than 10 years past receiving the terminal advanced degree in their field.

The Moore Inventor Fellows program focuses on supporting scientist-inventors at a critical stage of research to capture opportunities that otherwise might be missed. The program aims to support inventions at an early stage that could lead to proof-of-concept work on an invention or advance an existing prototype that tackles an important problem. The program seeks innovations with the promise of making a long-lasting impact by addressing underlying problems in their field, but a clear path toward commercialization is not a requirement. The scope of this call is intentionally wide and proposed projects do not need to fall within the foundation's current funding priorities, but should be broadly within the program areas of foundation interest (science, environmental conservation and patient care).