Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
2018 Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program
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**SUMMARY: $600,000 funding opportunity for the most promising assistant professors within the first three years of a tenure-track [UTL] position whose research is in the chemical and life sciences and who have little or no external funding.Tenure Track Start Date must be after: 8/14/2014. Proposals that open up new avenues of research in chemistry and the life sciences by fostering the invention of methods, instruments and materials will be given additional consideration. Projects proposed for the BYI program should be truly innovative, high-risk, and show promise for contributing to significant advances in chemistry and the life sciences.
Please see the eligibility section >> and special instructions below >>
# of applicants permitted: Unlimited numbers of letters of intent are permitted.
An internal selection process is not required.
Timeline:
Submit your "Request for Institutional endorsement" in your online LOI to the RMG & OSR designated individuals below** by: Aug. 7, 2017
(Other than this endorsement, PDRF forms will not be needed for the LOI phase.)
Online letter of intent submission deadline: Aug. 14, 2017
Amount of funding:
Projects are normally funded for a period of four years. Grants are in the range of $600,000 over the term of the project, contingent upon demonstrated progress after the second year of the award. The Foundation does not provide for overhead or for indirect costs.
Sponsor website:
Please download and read the above letter of intent instruction documents >>**before you log on (they contain sample pages, special tips to help you navigate through the online LOI, and required institutional endorsement RMG & OSR substitutes to use)
http://www.beckman-foundation.org/programs/beckman-young-investigators-program-information
**IMPORTANT- PLEASE DOWNLOAD AND READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS
NOTE: This year the foundation requires an online letter of intent submission.
The following instructions were created for your reference. The tips and instructions that are provided in #1, #2 ,and #2.1 were based on feedback received while navigating the site with the help of the BYI program official. (#3 and #4 are forms that were downloaded for you from the LOI website). Please download and read these before logging on to the sponsor's online website.
- 1) Beckman LOI instructions Download PDF file >>
- 2) Request for Institutional Endorsement (x2 see below**) Download PDF file >>
(this is also included in the the above LOI instructions) - 2.1) Sample email notification your institutional endorsers in RMG & OSR you specify (see below**) will receive Download PDF file >>
- 3) Sponsor's 2018 BYI Biosketch form Download Word document >>
- 4) Sponsor's BYI LOI research support form Download Excel spreadsheet >>
IMPORTANT: "REQUESTS FOR INSTITUTIONAL ENDORSEMENTS"-approved substitutes
The BYI Program officer has given us the OK to use substitutes with institutional signature authority in RMG >> & OSR >> to provide institutional endorsements for your online letters of intent (LOIs). You are REQUIRED to use these substitutes in RMG & OSR.
Do NOT use the name and email of the Provost or President or your Dean.
- Step #1) When you are working on your online LOI, you must click on the "Request" icon in the dashboard (see the LOI instruction PDF file).
- Step #2) It will take you to a webpage where enter NAME and EMAIL for TWO institutional endorsers(see substitutes to use below) then "submit" (by Aug. 7th)
- Step #3) Send separate emails to the people in RMG >> & OSR >> below that you are preparing a Beckman Young Investigator online Letter of intent and you've just submitted a request that they provide "institutional endorsement" for your LOI
- Step #4) The individuals in RMG and OSR you've designated will receive an email alert from send "admin@communityforce.com" with "2018 BYI letter of intent institutional endorsement request..."in the subject line (see #2.1 sample email above >>) "which provides them with a link to a LOI webpage to "endorse you" (they do so by clicking on a submit button).
- Step #5) you can refer to the "Request" icon on your LOI "dashboard" to check the status of the endorsements.
PIs in the School of Medicine-required "Institutional Endorsement" substitutes:
Instead of Chief Academic Officer (President/Provost):
1) use Sonia Barragan barragan@stanford.edu (Sonia is the Associate Director, Research Management Group (RMG))
Instead of the Dean:
enter the name and email address of your department's Research Process Manager (RPM) in RMG*
[*RPM dept. assignment webpage >>]
PIs in Other Schools-required Institutional Endorsement substitutes:
Instead of Chief Academic Officer (President/Provost):
use Michiko Taniguchi Pane at michiko@stanford.edu (Mich is the Director of Pre-Award Operations in OSR)
Instead of the Dean of your school:
enter the name and email address of your department's OSR Contract and Grant Officer (CGO)*
(*Download this PDF file >> of pre-award OSR Contract and Grant officer department assignment list)
Purpose:
The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.
The BYI program funds promising young scientists early in their careers who have not yet received a major award from another organization. Proposals that already have substantial funding will not be considered for the BYI award (see eligibility for more information).
Projects proposed for the BYI program should be truly innovative, high-risk, and show promise for contributing to significant advances in chemistry and the life sciences. They should represent a departure from current research directions rather than an extension or expansion of existing programs. Proposed research that cuts across traditional boundaries of scientific disciplines is encouraged. Proposals that open new avenues of research in chemistry and life sciences by fostering the invention of methods, instruments and materials will be given additional consideration.
- The BYI program is open to those within the first three years* of a tenure-track position (our assistant professors with UTL faculty appointments), or an equivalent independent research appointment, at a United States academic or non-profit institution that conducts research in chemical and life sciences.
- *Tenure Track Start Date must be after: 8/14/2014
- Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States at the time of application. Persons who have applied for permanent residency but have not received their government documentation by the time of application are not eligible.
- No individual may apply for a Beckman Young Investigator award more than two times.
- Other support: Investigators can have no more than $225,000 in direct, annualized external funding grants during any BYI Program Year (Aug-July) at time of application. Start-up funds, department-wide instrumentation grants, and "Transition" grants (such as NIH K99/R00) are not counted toward this total.
- Institutions are not limited in the number of applicants who apply at the Letter of Intent stage.
- Institutions with a currently funded BYI are eligible for award consideration.
- Note: when PIs create an account and initially log into the online Letter of Intent (LOI), they will have to answer a pre-qualifying questionnaire to determine their eligibility. They will not be able to proceed further in the LOI if they are not eligible.
