Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship 2025/2026 (up to $5,000) – YOA

Deadline: August 1, 2025

Applications are open for the Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship 2025/2026. The Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship, endowed by the Francis Goelet Charitable Trust in 2006, is one in all three alternatives supplied by the CSHL Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology.

It provides stipends of up to $5,000 to fund journey and different bills related to work on a major analysis venture within the historical past of the life sciences. Ideal tasks will likely be superior and broad in scope, with a minimum of some relevance to collections within the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives. The CSHL collections themselves are very broad in scope, encompassing exercise around the globe in addition to at CSHL and several other precursor establishments.

Benefits

• The Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship awards up to $5,000 USD to every recipient to assist direct prices of finishing the proposed venture, which ought to embody a interval in residence at CSHL.
• While at CSHL, Brenner Fellows can have a workspace within the Carnegie Library, full entry to their collections, and assist from their group of archivists, librarians, and historians. If house permits, Brenner Fellows can have the OPPORTUNITY to hire lodging on campus throughout their keep.

Eligibility

• Open to students (at any profession stage), journalists, writers, filmmakers, and inventive artists endeavor substantial analysis into the historical past of the life sciences.

Selection Criteria

• The Brenner Fellowship committee seeks proposals which might be refined, detailed, and unique. Relevance of CSHL collections to the venture (and vice versa) is a vital issue, however the committee’s major consideration would be the total high quality and significance of the venture. If you might be nonetheless on the preliminary phases of formulating a venture, take into account making use of as a substitute for one in all their journey grants to go to CSHL.

Application

The application package deal should embody the next:

• A accomplished application form, together with names and call data for 2 people who’re accustomed to your work and could be keen to present letters of advice upon request from CSHL.
• A analysis proposal.
• A specific bibliography of titles or collections within the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives which might be related to your analysis proposal.
• A short price range assertion exhibiting the bills for which assist is requested.
• A curriculum vitae. Include training and employment historical past, dates of study, areas of study, earlier publications, and former or present fellowships, grants, and awards.

Submit functions electronically through electronic mail to [email protected]. Attach all paperwork in .pdf, .doc, or .docx codecs, with a quick overlaying letter within the physique of the e-mail. Format the topic line of your electronic mail as “Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship application [Year] – [Your Name]”

For extra data, go to Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship.