Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award: FAS Pre-Proposal Deadline

Smith Family Foundation Odyssey AwardFAS/SEAS Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 29, 2018 by 5:00PMAward Amount: $300,000 over two yearsEligible applicants: Untenured faculty appointed to their first independent faculty appointment on or between July 1, 2009 and July 1, 2014. Time taken for leaves of absence does not count toward the eligibility window. Applicants must be untenured as of July 1, 2018.

The Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award was created to fuel creativity and innovation in junior investigators in the basic sciences. The award supports the pursuit of high impact ideas to generate breakthroughs and drive new directions in biomedical research. The awards will fund high-risk, high-reward pilot projects solicited from the brightest junior faculty in the region. The two-year Award supports established junior faculty engaged in basic biomedical research. Investigators in the physical sciences (physics, chemistry and engineering) whose projects focus on biomedical science are also encouraged to apply. Clinical research is beyond the scope of this program.