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Research Fellowship in Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation supports early postdoctoral research training in all basic biomedical sciences.

To attain its ultimate goal of increasing the number of imaginative, well-trained and dedicated medical scientists, the Foundation grants financial support of sufficient duration to help further the careers of young men and women engaged in biological or medical research.

Review Process

The research plan and the evidence, from publications and recommendations, of outstanding scientific promise are the principal criteria for awarding a fellowship, with consideration in some cases of having overcome major barriers to scientific success.

The number of Fellowships awarded varies slightly from year to year, depending on endowment income and other factors. Since 2020, we have been able to award between 23 and 25 fellowships each year, from an appliant pool of about 300. The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) reviews applilcations in several stages, including interviews for finalists (in person or by Zoom) with a member of the SAC. Candidates are notified of their status (interview or decline) by early October. The SAC meets in early November and selects awardees from the group interviewed. The awardees, and any alternates (should one or more of the awardees decline — e.g., because they accept another fellowship), are notified within a few days of the SAC meeting. The Board of Trustees of the Foundation votes to approve the recommended awards, usually at a meeting in January.

Specialties

Biomedical Engineering

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants are eligible for Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellowships if:

(1) they have received a Ph.D. (or D.Phil. or equivalent) degree no more than two years before the application deadline, or an M.D. (or M.D.-Ph.D.) degree no more than four years before the deadline

AND

(2) they have been employed in their postdoctoral laboratory for no more than one year before the application deadline.

An applicant’s “postdoctoral laboratory” is the laboratory in which they propose to be appointed as a HHW fellow. If an applicant has remained in their Ph.D. laboratory for some months to finish up work there, this time does not count against the one year of “postdoctoral time”. Thus, for example, if an applicant received their Ph.D. in January, then stayed in the Ph.D. laboratory until the end of September, and finally moved to their postdoctoral laboratory on October 1, the one year of “postdoctoral laboratory” time would begin on October 1. Applicants with a Ph.D. degree or equivalent who applied before arriving in their postdoctoral laboratory but did not receive an award are eligible to apply again in the following year. For applicants with M.D. (or M.D.-Ph.D.) degrees, the four-year post-degree interval should include only clinical training and no more than one year in the postdoctoral laboratory.

The Foundation does not ordinarily consider applicants who plan tenure of the fellowship in the laboratory in which they have already received extensive predoctoral or postdoctoral training. The aim of the fellowship is to broaden postdoctoral training and experience, and a change of laboratory is usually advisable.

The Foundation will not make more than one award per year for training with a given supervisor. Should we receive more than one application from a single laboratory, we will review only one, as chosen by the Chair of the SAC, and decline the other(s) administratively. We urge the heads of laboratories to make this choice for us. We also do not support more than two fellows per laboratory at the same time, so that if we make awards to applicants from a particular laboratory in two successive years, applicants from that laboratory are ineligible in the third year.

Eligible Countries:

United States

Sponsor Details

Sponsor Institute/Organizations: Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

Sponsor Type: Corporate/Non-Profit

Address: 20 Squadron Boulevard, Suite 630 New City, New York 10956

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