URL: https://greenwall.org/faculty-scholars-program/scholars-rfp-2026-2027

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% 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

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)

The Greenwall Foundation will give priority 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

The internal selection process depends on whether your grants are managed by BU or Boston Medical Center (BMC). Use the steps below to determine this information:

  • Step 1: Open the BUMC Home Institution Finder
  • Step 2: Log in to search the database – search using your last name
  • Step 3: Follow one process:
    • If you see BU or BU-CAMED, follow BU Process below
    • If you see BMC, follow the BMC Process below

BU Process

BU may forward one applicant.

Interested applicants should submit the following materials via InfoReady Review by: 7/27/2026

  • Project Summary (1 page max) describing the important bioethics issue being addressed, how the proposed project would meaningfully contribute to understanding this issue in an innovative way, and how it fits with the mission of the Faculty Scholars program. References may be included on one additional page
  • Bioethics Innovation Statement (1 paragraph) describing how your prior work demonstrates your ability to carry out innovative bioethics research
  • Up-to-date CV

As necessary, a faculty review committee will review internal applications and select the institutional nominee.

BMC Process

BMC may forward up to one applicant.

If you are a BUMC faculty member who works in BMC space or you are a fellow whose faculty advisor is a BMC investigator, please contact the Program Manager of Strategic Research Growth, Carolina Giudice (carolina.giudice@bmc.org) by Monday, July 20 to express interest in this opportunity.

Deadlines

BMC Expression of Interest Due: Monday, July 20, 2026

BU Internal Materials Due: Monday, July 27, 2026 by 11:59 pm ET

Anticipated Notification Date: Friday, August 14, 2026

Foundation LOI Due: Wednesday, September 9, 2026

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