Limited Submission Opportunity: The Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics 2026
URL: https://greenwall.org/faculty-scholars-program/scholars-rfp-2025-2026
OBJECTIVES
The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable early-career faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. It supports research that goes beyond current work in bioethics to help resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice, and creates a community that enhances future bioethics research by Scholars and Alums.
Each year, the Foundation selects approximately three Greenwall Faculty Scholars. Faculty Scholars are selected on the basis of the strength of their research project, their commitment to the field of bioethics, their achievements, their potential for growth as a bioethics scholar, and support from their home institution, including after the end of this award. While the amount and quality of an applicant’s research in bioethics will count favorably towards their application, outstanding candidates with less direct experience in bioethics will also be considered when their proposed work aims to advance the bioethics field.
FUNDING INFORMATION
Selected scholars are provided with:
- 50% of their salary plus benefits for three years, up to the NIH salary cap, with 10% institutional costs for the salary and benefits
- $5,000 annually for limited project support and travel (no indirect costs are provided for these items)
This funding is intended to ensure that at least 50 percent of the Scholar’s time is devoted to bioethics research.
Scholars and Alums attend twice-yearly meetings, where they present their works in progress, receive feedback and mentoring from the Faculty Scholars Program Committee and other Scholars and Alums, and have the opportunity to develop collaborations with other researchers.
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS
Applicants must:
- Be junior faculty members at a university or non-profit research institute that has tax-exempt status in the United States
- Hold a faculty appointment (or other long-term research position outside a university) that allows at least 50 percent of their effort to perform research (often this is a faculty position with at least a 60 percent appointment in a tenure-track position or its equivalent)
Priority will be given to applicants who have not yet been considered for tenure or an equivalent promotion; whose research will have an impact on clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice; and who will make important contributions to the field of bioethics over their careers.
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS
BU may forward one applicant. Interested investigators should submit the following materials via InfoReady Review by: 8/4/2025
- Short Questions outlined in InfoReady Review
- 1-page Project Summary describing the important bioethics issue being addressed, and how the proposed project would meaningfully contribute to understanding this issue in an innovative way. References may be included on a second page.
- Up-to-date CV
A faculty committee 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 9/15/2025.
DEADLINES
Internal Materials Due: Monday, August 4, 2025 by 11:59 ET
Anticipated Notification Date: Monday, August 18, 2025
LOI Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2025
Invitations to Submit Application: January 5, 2026