Funding and Awards

Community Connect Grants

For graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty, MBB offers Community Connect Grants. If you want to organize an event that includes or benefits part of the MBB community, you may submit a proposal. This could be for a one-time event like a hosted speaker, gathering, or interdisciplinary workshop, or for recurring events such as a journal club or faculty interest group. Community Connect Grant applications are accepted on a rolling basis, with relatively quick decision making. This way, when the idea and organizing energy strikes, you can get a decision, and the necessary resources, in a timely way. 
Applications are accepted and will be considered on a rolling basis.

Interdisciplinary Mind Grants

MBB funds are available to graduate students and postdoctoral trainees doing interdisciplinary work between traditional fields. These grants may support research, conference travel, summer lab exchanges, and other interdisciplinary experiences. We plan two application cycles - one in the fall and one in the spring. Awards will generally range from $2.5K to $10K and are traditionally budgeted to be used within one calendar year. The critical case to be made here is that the proposed activities will foster your training in a way that broadens the interdisciplinarity of your training.
Applications due December 1, 2024.

Faculty Fusion Research Grants

These awards are intended to support inter-faculty collaboration. They are aimed at supporting bridging scientific and/or collaborative work, like the translational work of porting methods from one discipline into the content area of another. Applications involve at least two principals with award amounts up to $50K. All Harvard faculty members who currently work or wish to work in MBB-related fields are encouraged to apply. New collaborations are encouraged!
Application details coming soon.

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Two-year awards fund a postdoctoral fellow (in accordance with NIH stipend guidelines) who wants to examine MBB-related issues through interdisciplinary research and experiences.
Application details coming soon.