Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award: FAS and SEAS Pre-Proposal Deadline

Smith Family Foundation Odyssey AwardFAS and SEAS Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 22, 2019 by 5:00PMAward Amount: $300,000 over two yearsEligible applicants: Untenured faculty appointed to their first independent faculty appointment on or between July 1, 2010 and July 1, 2015. Time taken for leaves of absence does not count toward the eligibility window.

The Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award was created to fuel creativity and innovation in junior investigators in the basic sciences. The two-year award supports established junior faculty in 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. 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.

Applicants are ineligible if, at the time of application, they have combined federal and non-federal funding totaling $750,000 or more in direct costs per year in either of the first two years (7/1/19 - 6/30/20 or 7/1/20 - 6/30/21) of the two-year Smith Odyssey Award.