Eligibility

• PIs within the first three years of a tenure-track position, or an equivalent independent research appointment, at a United States academic or non-profit institution that conducts research in chemical and life sciences.
• Tenure Track Start Date must be after: 8/2/2018 AND before 8/2/2021
• Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States at the time of application. 
• No individual may apply for a Beckman Young Investigator award more than two times.
• Investigators can have no more than $225,000 in direct, annualized external funding grants during any BYI Program Year (Aug-July) at time of application.
  • Start-up funds, department-wide instrumentation grants, and "Transition" grants (such as NIH K99/R00) are not counted toward this total.

Funding Priorities

The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.

Additional Information

• The Foundation does not provide for overhead or for indirect costs.
• Projects proposed for the BYI program should be truly innovative, high-risk, and show promise for contributing to significant advances in chemistry and the life sciences.