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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Keck Foundation Medical Research and Science and Engineering Grants: Pre-Proposal Deadline
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SUMMARY:Keck Foundation Medical Research and Science and Engineering Grants: Pre-Proposal Deadline
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong><a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~research/research_development/funding_announcements/Keck%20Spring%202014.pdf">Keck Foundation Medical Research Program and Science and Engineering Program</a><br> Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: July 8, 2014 <br> Award Amount: $500,000 - $5,000,000</strong></p><p>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:</p><ul><li>Focus on important and emerging areas of research</li><li>Have the potential to develop breakthrough technologies, instrumentation or methodologies</li><li>Are innovative, distinctive and interdisciplinary</li><li>Demonstrate a high level of risk due to unconventional approaches, or by challenging the prevailing paradigm</li><li>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</li><li>Fall outside the mission of public funding agencies</li><li>Demonstrate that private philanthropy generally, and the W. M. Keck Foundation in particular, is essential to the project's success</li></ul>
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