For more information, and to apply, please see the InfoReady application link.
Internal Deadline: April 30, 2025
Foundation Deadline: June 16, 2025
About
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.
Award Amount
$225,000 over 3 Years + Research Allowance
Eligibility
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.