Individual Biomedical Research Awards

The Hartwell Foundation provides funding to individual researchers at eligible research institutions in the United States. The Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards offer support for three years at $100,000 direct cost per year.

Each year The Hartwell Foundation announces its Top Ten Centers of Biomedical Research, inviting each center to participate in nominating four individuals for a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award. The Foundation seeks to financially support early-stage, innovative, and cutting-edge biomedical research that should benefit children but that has not yet qualified for significant funding from outside sources.

Institutions selected by The Hartwell Foundation submit the best research proposals from their faculty and research staff in an internal and open competition of their own design, which meets Foundation guidelines. All nominees submit a formal proposal to the Foundation and participate in a subsequent personal interview, which includes a presentation of their proposed research. From the nominees submitted by selected institutions, the Foundation chooses the ten most outstanding candidates to receive a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, which is funded in April. A unique feature of the award is that each Hartwell Investigator receives a video conferencing system to enhance communication with the Foundation and encourage collaboration between other researchers. Only investigators nominated by the chief executive of an invited research institution are eligible for consideration for the Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award. Institutions that desire selection consideration should contact The Hartwell Foundation for further information.