Office of Research

HHMI 2019 Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study

Limited Submissions

HHMI’s Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study are open to eligible pairs comprising thesis advisers and PhD students (“adviser-student pairs”).

 

Prospective fellows must be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or undocumented individuals who were granted temporary permission to stay in the U.S., and be from racial, ethnic, or other underrepresented groups in the sciences, or Alumni of the HHMI EXROP and be at the appropriate program stage of their PhD training. 

 

The adviser-student pairs must be studying scientific problems in biomedical and life science disciplines including plant biology, evolutionary biology, biophysics, chemical biology, biomedical engineering, and computational biology.

 

Students must advance to candidacy by September 1, 2019. Students who are enrolled in an MD/PhD or other dual-degree program are not eligible.

 

Fellows are supported for up to three years of dissertation research, typically in years three, four, and five of PhD study. Compensation for the 2018-19 fellowship year is $50,000. This includes an annual fellow stipend of $33,000, an institution allowance (in lieu of tuition and fees) of $10,000, a fellow educational allowance of $3,000, and a diversity and inclusion allowance of $4,000 for the adviser.

Application Instructions

Please submit:

1)      Statement of underrepresented group to which advisee belongs.

2)      CVs of advisor and advisee

3)      Letter from chair or head of graduate program that :

a)       Provides evidence that the graduate program is committed to advancing diversity and inclusion in science.

b)      Describes now HHMI's Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study help to improve the quality of the graduate program and create an inclusive environment.

 

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday September 27, 2018. Nominations are due to the sponsor 10/25/18. Full proposals are due to the sponsor 1/18/19.

 

OR internal deadline: 9/27/18

Nominations due to sponsor: 10/25/18

Full applications due to sponsor: 1/18/19

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

2019

Deadlines
09/27/2018 UW Internal Deadline Closed
01/10/2019 OSP Deadline
01/18/2019 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

Funding amount

$0 (Fellows are supported for up to three years of dissertation research)

Maximum Number of Applications

5 (5 advisor-student pair applications.)

Eligible groups
  • All campus

Inquiries and Contact Information

Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.