The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars Fellowship Award submission period is now CLOSED. The new enrollment period will run from July 2025 to November 1, 2025 .
The Award will support individual postdoctoral scientists of exceptional creativity in the field of neurosciences.
These transitional awards are to enable a postdoctoral researcher to advance to become a full-time faculty member at the Assistant Professor level or higher and to promote the development of a laboratory program that will lead to independent funding. The medical school, research institute, or academic hospital appointing the scholar will be awarded $200,000 annually for two years to cover salary, lab costs, and related expenses. Under certain circumstances, the awardee may transfer funding to support their beginning faculty position. Indirect costs of up to 15% of direct costs, may be included in the $200,000.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
- Must have an MD, PhD, or both
- Must hold a post-doctoral research position at a United States medical school, research institute, or academic institution.
- Minimum of 3 years and no more than 6 years of a post-doctoral fellowship by July 1, 2026
- Research focused in the field of Neuroscience
- Must be nominated by the dean of the medical school or equivalent institutional senior leader.
- Must include a nomination letter
- Commitment of a minimum of 75% effort
- 3 letters of recommendation
- Budgets submitted in NIH G300 format
Scholars will be chosen on the basis of the success in their prior post-doctoral work and other research as well as in the importance and creativity of their proposed future research.
The Foundation will select recipients for awards using an objective and nondiscriminatory selection process based upon criteria that include each applicant’s research achievements, academic records, scientific proposal and submitted letters of recommendation.
The Foundation expects to make five or more awards in 2026.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please click here to fill out the Warren Alpert Foundation Distinguished Scholar Fellowship application according to the listed requirements. You must submit all requirements electronically no later than November 1, 2025.
Note: All inquiries regarding this award must be submitted by either the Dean, Chief Academic Research Officer, or the Grant’s Administration office. Awards are to be announced in March 2026.
