Preproposal Deadline: Keck Foundation Programs in Medical Research and Science and Engineering

Keck Medical Research and Science and Engineering Programs
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 22, 2013
Award Amount: Up to $1M

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