The Hanna H. Gray Fellows program is designed to encourage, support, and develop promising scientists from a broad range of backgrounds, including backgrounds that historically have been underrepresented in the sciences. The program therefore encourages candidates with all backgrounds and personal characteristics to apply, including candidates with backgrounds or personal characteristics that are historically underrepresented in the sciences. This includes, but is not limited to, those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, from rural or less-resourced geographic areas, the first in their families to go to college or obtain a graduate degree, members of underrepresented racial or ethnic groups, LGBTQ+ and non-binary persons, women, and persons with disabilities. Reviewers do not evaluate a candidate’s application on the basis of any protected characteristics.

You are eligible to apply if you:

• are a basic science researcher or physician-scientist in the biological and biomedical sciences in the many scientific disciplines that HHMI supports
• have been accepted to join a laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher, led by a tenured or tenure-track faculty member at an eligible institution in the US, including Puerto Rico, at the time of the application due date. 
• will commit 75% of your total effort to research in a postdoctoral training position by the grant start date. 
• will commit to a minimum of two years of postdoctoral training in this position after the grant start date. 
• hold a PhD and/or MD (or equivalent), which is conferred by the start of the grant term. 
  • If your training institution for your graduate degree is in the U.S., including Puerto Rico, you may be of any nationality.  
  • If your training institution for your graduate degree is not in the U.S., you must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. national. 
• have no more than 24 months of postdoctoral research experience by the application due date. 
  • If you are a PhD applicant, the date or anticipated date of conferral of your doctoral degree must be on or after February 28, 2022, and before January 15, 2025. 
  • If you are an MD or MD/PhD applicant in residency, clinical fellowship, or postdoctoral training you can have no more than 24 months of postdoctoral training by the application deadline on February 28, 2024.