Partner Opportunities
Weston Career Development Award:
This award provides $40,000 per year for up to two years to support an early career investigator conducting a research project under the mentorship of a senior investigator. Submit your application by September 29, 2022.
PeDRA Research Grants:
Apply for one of three NEW award formats: $40,000 to be used over two years to support larger scale projects or $20,000 to be used up to two years to support modestly sized projects or up to $20,000 to be used over one year to support pilot projects. Preliminary proposals may be submitted by August 15, 2022 for a chance to receive feedback and meet with a reviewer before submitting final applications on September 29, 2022.
Career Bridge Research Grant:
Recognizing the need to sustain pediatric dermatology investigators beyond the early career stage, this grant will provide $80,000 to one mid-career investigator to support salary and research for up to two years. Deadline to apply is September 29, 2022.
Study Support Grants:
This non-competitive grant accepts applications on a rolling basis through the end of the calendar year! Apply for up to $4,000 for 6 months to support an active PeDRA study.
Human Skin Disease Resource Center Scholar Grants Request for Applications
The Human Skin Disease Resource Center (HSDRC) at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School provides access to human specimens and cutting edge human analytic techniques to investigators at any institution who wish to carry out translational research on human skin disease.
The Center is committed to supporting diversity in skin disease research. We have funds available to support individuals from groups underrepresented in medicine (URiM) who wish to carry out projects through the Center. Center Scholar grants will provide up to $20,000 to support research stipends, laboratory supplies, reagents, and Center Services. Grants will be awarded on a rolling basis.
Who is eligible?
• High School students
• Undergraduate Students
• Medical or Graduate School Students
• Medical Residents
• Post-Doctoral Fellows
How do you apply?
• Get in touch with us at humanskin@bwh.harvard.edu
• We will work with you to develop a project (if needed) or help you define how best to allocate resources to a project of your own design.
Technologies and Services provided by the HSDRC include:
• Access to human healthy skin, pathologic specimens of skin diseases, human skin grafted mice
• Single cell RNA sequencing, CITE-seq, ATAC-seq, mass cytometry (CyTOF), multiplex immunostaining, single cell imaging, NanoString RNA & DNA profiling, digital spatial profiling
Already have a project you’d like help with? Send it in!
The scientific proposal should be no more than 5 pages. Please follow the format outlined below:
• Introduction and Specific Aims
• Preliminary data
• Experimental design
• References (not counted in 5-page limit)
• Biosketch or CV (not counted in 5-page limit), including current funding
• Submit to: humanskin@bwh.harvard.edu