FOA-Limited Submission – Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation – 2021 Moore Inventor Fellows Program; November 16, 2020

 

Purpose: The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is soliciting nominations for the 2021 Moore Inventor Fellows program. Inspired by Gordon Moore’s passion for discovery, this competition seeks to identify outstanding early-stage inventors who harness science and technology solutions to enhance scientific research, strengthen environmental conservation, or improve the experience and outcomes of patient care. The program supports scientist-inventors at a critical stage of research to capture opportunities that otherwise might be missed. The foundation seeks to provide freedom and support early-career scientist-inventors who create new tools and technologies with a high potential to accelerate progress in the foundation’s areas of interest: scientific research, environmental conservation and patient care. For patient care, inventions should resonate with the focus on improving the experience and outcomes of patients with solutions that improve clinical diagnosis. 

 

The foundation aims to support inventions at an early stage that could lead to proof-of-concept of an invention or advance an existing prototype that tackles an important problem. The foundation recognizes that inventors and innovators come from a diversity of backgrounds, disciplines and experiences and so seeks creative individuals across a broad array of academic programs and research institutions. Examples of such programs include but are not limited to environmental science and conservation, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, big data, climatology, emerging infectious diseases, oceanography, biology, engineering, physics, chemistry, materials science, neuroscience, and public health

 

Eligibility: Candidates must be faculty, research scientists, postdocs or other full-time staff who can receive funding through their institutions and will have at least 25 percent of their time to devote to their invention. Candidates must be no more than 10 years past receiving the terminal advanced degree in their field (M.S., Ph.D. or M.D.). A degree received on any date in 2011 is acceptable.

 

Matching Requirement: $50,000/year in annual direct support of the inventor’s work. See the FAQs for specific guidance on the institution’s annual contribution.

 

Funding Amount/ Project Period: $675,000 over three years ($600,000 for the fellow and $75,000 for the home institution)

 

Link to Funding Opportunity Announcement

 

Institutional Limit:  2

 

Internal Competition: To participate in the university’s selection process,please upload the following,assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via this portal with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by October 13, 2020:

·        Names and departments or affiliations of the Project Director

·        Title of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number

·        Brief project description, including date of award of terminal advanced degree (2 pages maximum)

·        Brief biographical sketch

·        Budget, including the potential source of matching funds (include as relevant to the program)

 

A committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.

 

For questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or call 257-2861.

 

Agency Deadline:  November 16, 2020 (Nomination); December 14, 2020 (Full Application)