Limited Submission Opportunity: Moore Inventor Fellows 2025
URL: https://www.moore.org/initiative-strategy-detail?initiativeId=moore-inventor-fellows
OBJECTIVES:
The Moore Inventor Fellowship supports scientist-inventors who create new tools and technologies with a high potential to accelerate progress in scientific discovery, environmental conservation, and patient care.
The scope of this call is intentionally wide: proposed projects do not need to fall within our current funding priorities but should be broadly within the program areas of foundation interest (science, environmental conservation, and patient care). Patient care inventions should resonate with our focus on improving the experience and outcomes of patients with solutions that improve clinical diagnosis.
We aim to support inventions at an early stage that could lead to proof-of-concept of an invention or advance an existing prototype that tackles an important problem. We seek innovations that promise to make a long-lasting and meaningful impact by addressing underlying problems in their field, but a clear path toward commercialization is not a requirement. For this opportunity we are not interested in supporting fundamental research projects or projects already at a stage where significant venture capital is available. As with all our grants, we seek to measure progress toward a defined goal during the three years of support.
FUNDING INFORMATION:
$200,000 per year for 3 years and $25,000 each year to the host institution to cover costs associated with administering the grant ($675,000 total).
Host institutions are required to contribute an additional $50,000 each year for the 3-year Fellowship duration ($150,000 total; can be “in kind”).
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:
Up to 2 nominees may be selected.
Candidates must be faculty, research scientists, postdocs or other full-time staff who can receive funding through their institutions. Candidates must be no more than 10 years past receiving the terminal advanced degree in their field (M.S., Ph.D. or M.D. received on or after 2015).
1INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:
Interested investigators should submit the following materials via InfoReady Review by: 10/11/2024
- Questions outlined in InfoReady Review application
- A statement of no more than 2 pages describing the invention, the problem it seeks to address, and its potential impact.
- A brief budget outline for the proposed project. Please include a short statement outlining the proposed cost share plan and the source of the cost sharing for the $50,000 institutional contribution
- Up-to-date CV or biosketch
A faculty committee drawn from both campuses will review internal proposals and select nominees. Foundation Relations will work with the nominees to develop and submit the institutional nomination letter and applicant materials by 12/13/2024.
DEADLINES:
Internal Materials Due: Friday, October 11, 2024 by 11:59 pm ET
Nomination Deadline: Friday, November 15, 2024 by 5:00 pm PT
Application Due: Friday, December 13, 2024 by 5:00 pm PT