Career Awards at the Scientific Interface

Application Deadline:

Jan 12, 2026

by

3:00pm

ET

Status:

Invited Applicants Only

Eligibility & Application Process:

Advisory Committee

Danielle (Dani) S. Bassett, PhD
Peter Skirkanich Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
External Professor of the Santa Fe Institute
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania

Carlos Brody, PhD
Wilbur H. Gantz III ’59 Professor of Neuroscience
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Princeton University

Hana El-Samad, PhD
Senior Vice President and Director, Institute of Computation, Altos Labs
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco

Polly Fordyce, PhD
Associate Professor
Bioengineering and Genetics
Stanford University

Daniel A. Hammer, PhD
Alfred G. and Meta A. Ennis Professor of Bioengineering
Director, Penn Center for Precision Engineering for Health
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania

Princess Imoukhuede, PhD
Hunter and Dorothy Simpson Professor and Chair
School of Medicine & College of Engineering
University of Washington

Melissa Kemp, PhD
Carol Ann & David D. Flanagan Endowed Chair and Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University

Anshul Kundaje, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Genetics and Computer Science
Stanford University

Christina Leslie, PhD
Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine
Member, Computational and Systems Biology Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Stephanie Palmer, DPhil
Associate Professor
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Department of Physics
The University of Chicago

Liam Paninski, PhD
Professor, Departments of Statistics and Neuroscience
Columbia University

David Schneider, PhD
Associate Professor
Center for Neural Science
New York University

Georg Seelig, PhD
Chris and Heidi Stolte Professor
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering
University of Washington

Melissa Skala, PhD
Carol Skornicka Chair, Morgridge Institute for Research
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Kandice Tanner, PhD
Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Cell Biology
National Cancer Institute

Matt Thomson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computational Biology
California Institute of Technology

Shyni Varghese, PhD (Co-Chair)
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, and Orthopedic Surgery
Pratt School of Engineering
Duke University

Corey Wilson, PhD
Love Family Endowed Professor
Professor of Engineering
School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Jesse Zalatan, PhD (Co-Chair)
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of Washington

Additional members may be added to the committee.

Award Timeline

Sep 02, 2025

Letter of Intent Deadline

Nov 24, 2025

Invites for full proposal

Jan 12, 2026

Application Deadline

Apr 21 - 22, 2026

Interviews

Jun 01, 2026

Notice of Award

Jul 01, 2026

Award Start Date

Jun 30, 2031

Award End Date

Program Contacts

Dr. Tammy R.L. Collins

Tammy Collins, PhD

Program Officer

919-991-5120

Eliza Gary

Program Associate

919-991-5107

Lama Haidar

Program Coordinator

919-991-5115