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The Wyss Institute invites nominations for Wyss Technology Development Fellowships in Biologically Inspired Engineering. The Wyss Institute seeks to discover, recruit, encourage and retain individuals of outstanding talent and technical skills who can help advance the Institute's Enabling Technology Platforms, and to provide them with the opportunity to be mentored in bioinspired technology development and translation. Fellows will be co-mentored by members of the Institute Faculty and the Advanced Technology Team. Fellows are selected on the basis of their academic achievement and demonstrated interest and postdoctoral experience in technology development. The Fellowships are intended for brilliant young women and men of great promise with outstanding technical expertise who have completed their doctoral degree within the last five years.
The Institute will provide the Fellow with an annual stipend of $60,000 and a research fund of $10,000 per annum. The Fellow also will be able to access all of the Platforms, facilities, equipment and staff of the Institute at no cost for their Institute-related research and development activities. Fellowships are awarded for up to three years.
The Wyss Institute currently welcomes nominations for fellows for all of its Platforms. Download an application and send it to wyssfellows@wyss.harvard.edu.
Although Wyss Fellows will be granted more independence and a greater emphasis on technology creation and translation than other postdocs on campus, they can benefit from the role of Institute Core Faculty and members of the Advanced Technology Team as mentors. The Wyss Institute expects the Core Faculty and Staff Research Scientist sponsors to help in the following ways:
- Integrate the Fellow within their research teams that work on development of the Wyss Enabling Technology Platforms, or related application-specific projects.
- Mentor the Fellow in all key areas that are critical for success, including research in science and engineering, technology development, intellectual property protection, written and oral presentations, as well as preparation of competitive grant proposals for both government and industrial sources.
- Introduce the Fellow within the Institute and their academic departments, and to faculty and administrative staff. They also shall provide necessary instructions for interactions with administrative staff members who will handle business needs for the Fellow.
- Faculty should ensure that the Fellow is included on academic departmental rosters, picture boards for postdocs, and receives appropriate safety training at the Institute and in their academic departments.
NOMINATIONS should include the following information:
A fully completed Wyss Technology Development Fellow Nomination Form with all required contacts, training and demographic formation, one supporting letter from the nominator and two additional supporting letters as listed below:
- One nomination letter from a faculty member who has mentored the candidate in the past, such as the applicant's doctoral advisor, assessing the nominee's promise in the area of technology development. The letter should include a comparison of the candidate with others at a similar stage in their career, and a brief description of why the candidate can contribute significantly to the advancement of a Wyss Enabling Technology Platform or a related application-specific research program in Bioinspired Engineering. If the nominating faculty is also a Wyss Core or Associate Faculty, the letter should also describe the relevance of the candidate's proposed research to the Institute's mission and to the Enabling Technology Platform(s) that is intended to advance.
- A letter of support from a current Wyss Core or Associate Faculty, if the nominating faculty above is not a Wyss Core or Associate Faculty, which would describe the relevance of the candidate's proposed research to the Institute's mission and to the Enabling Technology Platform(s) that is intended to advance.
- Letters of recommendation from the doctoral advisor of the nominated candidate, if different from above, or from other scientists or engineers who mentored, supervised or collaborated with the candidate in a research setting.
