Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award: FAS Pre-Proposal Deadline

Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award
FAS Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 22, 2020 by 5:00PM
Award Amount: $300,000 over two years
Eligible Applicants: Untenured faculty appointed to their first independent faculty appointment between July 1, 2011 and July 1, 2016. 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 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 (7/1/20 - 6/30/21 or 7/1/21- 6/30/22) of the two-year Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award.