#  NIH Director's Early Independence Award: Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **June 30, 2020** 

 05:00PM - 05:00PM EDT 

 



 

 **National Institutes of Health Director's Early Independence Award**  
**Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: June 30, 2020 by 5:00PM**  
**Sponsor Letters of Intent Deadline (not required): August 4, 2020**  
**FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline (if nominated): August 28, 2020**  
**Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline (if nominated): September 4, 2020**  
**Award Amount: Up to $250,000/year in direct costs for up to 5 years plus applicable indirect costs**

 **Eligible Applicants: Date of terminal doctoral degree or completion of post-graduate clinical training of the PI must be between June 1, 2019 and September 30, 2021. At the sponsor application deadline, the PI must not have served as a post-doctoral fellow following a previous doctoral degree for more than twelve months and must not yet have research independence.**

 The NIH Director's Early Independence Award Program supports exceptional investigators who wish to pursue independent research directly after completion of their terminal doctoral degree or post-graduate clinical training, thereby forgoing the traditional post-doctoral training period and accelerating their entry into an independent research career. Though most newly graduated doctoral-level researchers would benefit from post-doctoral training, a small number of outstanding junior investigators would benefit instead by launching directly into an independent research career. Applications in all topics relevant to the broad mission of NIH are welcome, including, but not limited to, topics in the behavioral, social, biomedical, applied, and formal sciences and topics that may involve basic, translational, or clinical research. The primary requirements are that the research be highly innovative and have the potential for unusually broad impact.

 To be eligible, at the time of application, candidates must have received their most recent doctoral degree or completed clinical training within the previous fifteen months or expect to do so within the following twelve months. By the end of the award period, Early Independence Award investigators are expected to be competitive for continued funding of their research program through other NIH funding activities and for permanent research-oriented positions.

 This is a limited submission opportunity and only two applications may be submitted by Harvard University from the University Area (Cambridge Campus) to each solicitation (COVID and non-COVID). **Potential applicants to be hosted by Harvard schools in the University Area must submit a pre-proposal to Erin Hale via email at [erin\_hale@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:erin_hale@fas.harvard.edu) no later than 5PM on June 30, 2020** in order to be considered for the Harvard nominations. The pre-proposal should include:

- A two-page research proposal. Subsequent pages for references and/or graphics may be included and do not count toward the page limit.
- A current CV
- A letter of support from the department chair or program director of the candidate’s proposed host department/program at Harvard. The letter should describe the position details, the institutional resources to be committed, and the commitment of the host to the career development of the applicant.

 Applicants should also specify if they intend to apply to funding opportunity announcement [RFA-RM-20-014](http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-20-014.html) (non-COVID-19-related research) or funding opportunity announcement [RFA-RM-20-021](http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-20-021.html) (COVID-19-related research.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Grant Notifications and Deadlines ](/taxonomy/term/16141)
- [ Limited Competitions ](/funding-competition-type/limited-competitions)
 
 

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