Start-up Research Grant Program

Start-up Research Grant Program     

Agency: United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation

Discipline: Biomedical Engineering, Health Sciences (Medicine), Life Science, Psychobiology                                                           

Funding                                                         Sponsor Deadline

$75,000.00                                                    Proposal: 11/7/2019 due by 5pm Israel Time

Response for Proposal

The Start-Up Grant Program is meant to help newly appointed researchers who are beginning their independent research careers and may not yet have initial results to substantiate their application. Grants are for two years, in order to enable the grantees to submit a standard application to the next competition in their area of research. It is implemented within the framework of the regular BSF Research Grants program, i.e., it must exhibit scientific excellence, have a strong element of cooperation between Israeli and American scientists, and fall within the areas of research supported in that year by the BSF. In addition, at least one of the principal investigators should have attained his/her Ph.D., M.D. degree or equivalent, no more than ten years prior to submitting his/her proposal. To allay any doubts, we use the terms ‘Senior PI’ and ‘Junior PI’, referring to the established scientist and the one in the first stages of his/her independent career.