Office of the Vice Provost for Research
Bi-Weekly Update on LSO and Internal Funding Competitions
Week of January 22, 2018
Opportunity / Internal
Deadline
NEW: Milton Fund, 2018 (Internal Funding)
For more information and to apply, please click here / April 3, 2018
NEW: Campus Sustainability Innovation Fund (Internal Funding)
For more information and to apply, please click here / February 20, 2018
Open and previously announced LSO and Internal Funding opportunities:
Ono Pharma Breakthrough Science Initiative Awards Program 2018 (LSO)
Chemical Biology focus.
For more information and to apply, please click here / January 24, 2018
Lemann Brazil Research Fund (Internal Funding)
Support for projects that focus on Brazil
For more information and to apply, please click here / January 29 2018
OTHER
(The opportunities listed below are not facilitated by the OVPR office, but are shared in the event that they might be of interest to your research community. The links provided go directly to the sponsor’s website)
Summer Institute for Israel Studies/ Brandeis University
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline January 22, 2018

AIAS-COFUND (Marie Curie) Fellowships /Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies

For more information and to apply, please click here

/ Sponsor deadline January 24, 2018
Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics Networks/ Solicitation:NNH17ZDA001N-TCAN
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline January 25, 2018
The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research/ 2018 Early Career Research Awards (ECRA)
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline January 26, 2018
Caspar Wistar Fellows Program
Cancer biology, immunology, virology and genetics
For more information and to apply, please click here / Applicants encouraged to confirm submission deadline with Sponsor
Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*)/ NSF 18-508
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline January 30, 2018
Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry
For more information and to nominate a colleague, please click here / Sponsor deadline January 31, 2018
Mortimer B. Zuckerman Stem Leadership Program
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadlineExtended February 1 2018
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, Institute of Museum and Library Services
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline February 1, 2018
Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE)/ NSF 18-506
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline February 1, 2018
2018 Lasker Awards
In three categories: Basic Medical Research, Clinical Medical Research, Special Achievement
For more information on how to nominate, please click here / Sponsor deadline February 5, 2018
Life Time Scholarly Achievement Award/ American Folklore Society
For more information and to nominate, please click here / Sponsor deadline February 15, 2018
NEW: CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program
Eligible applicants will hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent terminal degree) and be within the first five years of a full-time academic appointment
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline February 22, 2018
Harvey Prize/ Israel Institute of Technology, 2018 theme is “Science and Technology”
For more information and to nominate, please click here / Sponsor deadline February 27, 2018
NEWBrain Research Foundation Opioid Relapse Reduction Therapeutics Grant
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline February 28, 2018
Agilent Early Career Professor Award
2018 Focus: Contributions to the development and advancement of techniques and approaches for the study of the human microbiome, microbiome-host interactions and interaction between individual microbiome components.
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline February 28, 2018
2018 Dissertation Grant, Cold War Military History, offered by the Virginia Military Institute
For More information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline March 2, 2018
NEW:2018 Chang-Lin Tien Leadership in Education Award/ Asian Pacific Fund
For more information and to nominate, please click here / Sponsor deadline March 9, 2018
Harry Middleton Fellowship in Presidential Studies/ Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation
Support for scholarly work in presidential studies.
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline March 15 and September 15, 2018
Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, Psychosocial Research/ individuals with spinal cord injuries. LOI opens 2/8/18.
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline March 23, 2018
King Faisal International Prize for Medicine for the Year 2019
2019 Focus: Bone Biology and Osteoporosis
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline April 1, 2018
Research Administration Contacts by School
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Erin Hale –Senior Research Development Officer

617-496-5252
Susan O’Connor Gomes – Director of Research Development and Strategy

617-496-9448
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Cynthia Verba – GSAS Director of Fellowships

Graduate School of Design
Anne Mathew – Director, Research Administration

617-496-1774
Harvard Divinity School
Krista Carmichael – Grants Manager

617-496-6610
Graduate School of Education
Helen Page – Assistant Dean for Research Administration

617-496-8930
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Erin Hale – Research Development Officer

617-496-5252
Susan O’Connor Gomes – Director of Research Development and Strategy

617-496-9448
Harvard Kennedy School
Jessica McCann- Communications Coordinator

617-496-1991
Harvard Law School
Leah Keating, JD, – Director of Research Administration

617-384-7759
Harvard Medical School
Ivona Jukic, – Team Manager, Sponsored Programs Administration

HMS Foundation Funds
Clare Lamont – Program Coordinator

617-432-7463
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Amanda Spickard – Senior Associate Director of Research Strategy and Development

617-432-1711
Heather Conrad- Research and Development Coordinator

617-495-8349
Leigh Melanson, Strategic Initiatives Manager

617-432-1774
Office of the Vice Provost for Research
Brooke Pulitzer-Assistant Provost for Research

617-496-4450
Jennifer Chow-Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations

617-496-2170
Liza Harsch-Research Development Coordinator

617-495-9019
Autumn Bennett, Program Coordinator

617-496-9744
Last updated January 2018