Announcements

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR), working with the Research Development Coordinating Committee (RDCC), announces and posts university-wide competitions for restricted grant and fellowship nominations. The announcements are sent to interested school and department research administrators, and researchers. They briefly describe the program and selection criteria, and provide important application deadlines and instructions. To receive email announcements of limited submissions opportunities, please contact us. 

Applications

For some programs, applicants may be asked to provide a preliminary letter of intent before the internal competition application is completed, to facilitate the timely recruitment of reviewers having appropriate expertise. 

Internal competition applications include a cover sheet and supporting documents, submitted as a single pdf file, by the internal competition deadline set out in the announcement and the table on this site. 

Owing to the large number of eligible researchers at affiliated hospitals, Harvard Medical School carries out an initial screening and selects candidates for the university wide competitions. That process is described at the HMS Foundation Funds website.  

Nominations

The OVPR organizes the ranking of internal applications by panels of faculty reviewers, who are generally drawn from the schools of applying researchers, and notifies applicants about the internal competition results.  The applicants who have been selected to be the University’s nominees are provided with the details for completing the sponsor’s application process.  Although there is no formal mechanism for providing feedback to applicants who were not selected, OVPR will respond to researchers who seek information by conveying general or specific comments from reviewers, as appropriate.