The Hopper-Belmont Foundation Awards

Overview: 

The Hopper-Belmont Foundation (“HBF”) Inspiration Award aims to motivate young investigators to make a difference early in their career by providing a personal award recognizing concepts and/or projects in one of the following areas: 

• Innovation: Recognition of an innovative idea in need of proof of concept/data prior to applying for larger grants from NIH or other funding resources
• Aspiration: Providing resources to begin, or further, research in a designated HBF focus area 

The use of the award is at the discretion of the winner, e.g.  personal or research.   

Who Qualifies: Post-doctoral (PhD, MD/PhD), Physicians-in-training (MD, MD/PhD), or junior faculty members who are in the first two years of a faculty appointment at time of application submission. Individual and team submissions are allowed. 

Guidelines: Submit a concept summary (3 pages maximum) using the following format. To appease all reviewers, this should be in layman’s language to the extent possible:

- Situation/Background Inspiration Idea (include relevance to immunotherapy if applicable) 

- Proof of concept approach (if applicable) 

- Overall benefits to the patient community 

- Other potential concept applications (e.g impact on other cancers; relevance to immunotherapy, etc) 

- Career aspirations the award may support 

- Concept Timeline (if applicable) 

- Closing remarks 

Appendix to include:

- NIH style bio sketch 

- Recommendations. While not mandatory, letters of support from current advisors, department heads, or other relevant individuals are very helpful.  

2023 Application Deadline: TBD                                                      

Apply by emailing: hopperbelmontfoundation@hopperbelmont.org