LRF Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants

Three years

$195,000

The LRF Postdoctoral Fellowship now provides a total of $195,000 to grantees over three years. $60,000 each year may be allocated to the PI’s salary and fringe. Incidental funds of $5,000 per year may be budgeted for research supplies or professional development expenses such as tuition, registration fees, and travel for courses and meetings. This Grant does not provide for institutional overhead.

• Applicants must hold an MD, PhD, or equivalent degree. MD applicants must have completed at least two years (24 months) of their fellowship work at the start of the award period. All applicants should not have completed more than six years (72 months) of their fellowship or postdoctoral work at the start of their award period (March 1, 2024 or the start date indicated in their application budget).
• Individuals who currently or have previously held faculty positions prior to the start date stated in their application budget are not eligible to apply; awarded applicants may move into faculty positions during the award period.
• Applicants must be affiliated with a sponsoring academic or nonprofit research institution in the U.S. or Canada, be legal to work in either country for the duration of the LRF Grant and intend to pursue a career in lymphoma research. Applicants based at the NIH or another U.S. government entity are not eligible to apply for LRF Fellowship Grants. Citizenship or permanent residency is not required for general Fellowship Grant eligibility but may affect eligibility for Health Equity Initiative funds.
• Applicant must secure a primary sponsor at their home institution who will supervise the proposed research project. The sponsor’s role is to assure (on behalf of the Institution) that the specific aims of the project are met and to present the Institution’s role in the development of the applicant’s career. The primary sponsor may support only one applicant to the LRF Fellowship program per grant cycle. Associate sponsors (including at other institutions) are permitted but not required.
• Applications are encouraged from qualified individuals without regard to age, race, religion, sex, creed, national origin or any other characteristics protected by law.
• During the award period, the Grantee must spend a minimum of 80 percent of his/her time in research without major patient care, teaching, or administrative responsibilities except as such responsibilities relate directly to a pre-clinical or clinical lymphoma research project.
• The LRF Grantee may not hold another competitively applied for fellowship and/or a grant that primarily supports Principal Investigator (PI) salary during the period of the LRF Grant, except if awarded as part of an NIH Institutional Training Grant (T32/K12 or equivalent). Supply and material costs for the clinical research project should be supported by another grant or from institutional funds. The percent of research time for the PI on all active grants should not add up to more than 100%. LRF must be informed as to the sources and the amounts of all extramural/non-institutional funding received by the Fellowship recipient during the term of the LRF Grant, and reserves the right to determine that the LRF Grant may not be held concurrent with other funding.
• A previous LRF Fellowship Grant recipient cannot apply for another LRF Fellowship Grant other than in exceptional circumstances, which is decided on a case-by-case basis. However, applicants from previous years who did not receive an award are welcome to apply if they still meet eligibility requirements – please see the section on resubmissions in the Research Proposal section on page 4.
• All LRF applications are self-initiated. LRF does not invite applications from selected individuals or laboratories.