Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science Diversity Leadership Award 2025 ($1.15 million grant) Deadline: 3 December, 2024

Applications are open for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science Diversity Leadership Award 2025. The award supports principal investigators who are outstanding early- to mid-career biomedical researchers at U.S. universities, medical schools, or nonprofit research institutes who—through their outreach, mentoring, teaching, and leadership—have a record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in their scientific communities.

Recipients will have made significant research contributions to the biomedical sciences, show promise for continuing scientific achievement, and demonstrate leadership in efforts to diversify the sciences. CZI is committed to supporting representative science, which ensures universal benefits from scientific advances, such as studies of diseases that adversely affect underserved populations from specific ancestries, and promotes diversity among researchers toward more inclusive and comprehensive outcomes.

Benefits

• Each award consists of a $1.15 million grant distributed over five years ($230,000 total costs per year, including 15 percent for indirect costs) to the institution of selected awardees. The grant is to support the awardee’s research program with reasonable flexibility on how these funds are utilized, provided that funds are used to support the awardee’s overall academic program. CZI will convene a mixture of in-person and virtual meetings for which SDLA grantees are expected to participate.

Eligibility

• Applicants must hold an MD, PhD, ScD, MD/PhD, DDM, DVM, or equivalent degree and have a faculty position or equivalent independent investigator status at a college, university, medical school, or other research facility.
• Applications must be submitted by domestic (based in the United States) nonprofit organizations, including public and private institutions, such as colleges, universities, hospitals, laboratories, and governmental agencies.

Application

Letters of intent are due December 3, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. PT. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit full applications, due April 8, 2025.

For more information, visit Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.