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2027 Northpond Ventures Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

Harvard Medical School is pleased to announce a new postdoctoral fellowship program. Made possible by a generous gift from Northpond Ventures, the Northpond Ventures Fellowship Award will support one postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School (HMS) for a period of two years, with preference given to candidates focused on translational research.

 

For more information, including eligibility, areas of research, award amount, and allowable and unallowable costs, please visit: https://therapeutics.hms.harvard.edu/northpond-ventures-postdoctoral-fellowship-awards

 

Deadline:

The deadline for submitting a proposal is October 5, 2026 – 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time

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Proposals must be uploaded as a single PDF file and include the following information:

Part I: Summary Information [approximately 1/4 page]
  • Name of the supervising PI (a Quad A faculty member) and email contact
  • Name of the supervising PI’s grant manager and email contact
  • Name of the postdoctoral fellow to be supported
  • Department name for the PI and postdoc
  • Current funding support for the postdoctoral fellow (if applicable)
  • End date of current postdoctoral fellowship award, if relevant.
  • Percentage of the postdoc’s position covered by this funding, per year, over two years.
Part II: Description of Prospective Fellow Qualifications
  • Personal Statement describing applicant’s PhD work and how this fellowship will contribute to the fellow’s academic and personal growth (1-2 pages)
  • NIH-formatted Biosketch for the Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Mentor Letter of Support confirming that the mentor read the research statement, is willing to serve as the fellow’s mentor, will be responsible for providing adequate lab space and funds for the research program, and will be responsible for integrating the fellow into the research group
Part III: Two-year Research Plan [2 pages]

Section 1: Background and Significance
  1. Need and Significance: Describe the impact and/or need for the therapeutics technology, its novelty, and the envisioned potential applications. Compare the potential applications to the current state of the art and competing technologies. Include a brief justification of the novelty of your strategy based on the current market.
  2. Briefly describe recent research directly relevant to the proposal, including that of others in the field and, in particular, your own work.
Section 2: Research Plan
  1. Specific Aims
  2. Describe the criteria that will be used to determine whether the specific aims have been achieved, and describe any alternative approaches.
Please list any references cited on a separate page, and keep the length of the reference list to a maximum of one page.

Part IV: Line-item Budget for Fellowship Costs (PHS 398 Pages 4 and 5) and Budget Justification

Combine all proposal sections (Parts I–IV) into a single PDF and upload it here. The maximum upload size is 30MB. If your file exceeds this limit, email your proposal to andrea_chen@hms.harvard.edu with "2027 Northpond Ventures Fellowship: [Applicant Last Name]" in the subject line.
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