Career Opportunities at CPP

Applications Due: January 20th, 2025, 5:00pm EST

Description of Award:
The Center for Precision Psychiatry (CPP) is committed to fostering the careers of early career investigators in the emerging area of precision psychiatry. Precision psychiatry aims to identify and leverage individual differences in biology, lifestyle, environment, and the social determinants of health, to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental health conditions. Integrating research, clinical implementation, education and training, the Center is committed to driving innovation to implementation and making discoveries that can be translated to clinical care. The Tommy Fuss Scholars Program in Precision Psychiatry was established to support innovative research efforts by early career investigators.

Scholars will work with CPP faculty on projects aligned with the CPP mission and goals including therapeutics, big data analytics, precision treatment matching, mobile health technologies, genomics, neuroscience, and clinical trials. Recipients will be selected by a CPP faculty review panel and will receive $50,000 for one year, inclusive of indirect costs, to advance their research project. Funds can be used flexibly to support salary or research costs. Please note the budget for the scholars does not include collaborator salary or effort.

The Tommy Fuss Scholars Program is endowed by The Tommy Fuss Fund, a private foundation established by the Fuss family in memory of their son to promote medical research to further our understanding of mental illness and develop more effective means of diagnoses and treatment.

Application Timeline:

• Call for applications: November 4th, 2024
• Applications due: January 20th, 2025
• Funding notification: February 21st, 2025
• Funding period: July 1st, 2025 – June 30th, 2026

Eligibility:

• Postdoctoral fellows (incoming or current) or faculty at the level of Instructor or Assistant Professors are eligible to apply.
• Applicants should identify a mentor (for postdoc fellows) or collaborator (for junior faculty) within CPP for the proposed research.
  Please refer to the CPP Team Page to find the list of faculty members who may serve as mentors or collaborators. 
• Applicants are required to have Massachusetts General Brigham affiliation.
• Applicants who have received NIH R01 funding as PI are not eligible to apply.
• U.S. and non-U.S. citizens are eligible.
• Women and URiM candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Review Criteria:

Applications will be considered based on:

• Feasibility, innovation, and rigor of the proposed research;
• Alignment with the goals of precision psychiatry;
• Applicant track record and potential for future research in precision psychiatry.

Due Date:
Applications will be accepted until 5:00 pm EST January 20th, 2025, for the funding period starting July 1st, 2025 – June 30th, 2026.

Recipients will be responsible for providing milestone reports at 6 months and a final report at 12 months.

Application Requirements:

1. A cover letter including a description of how the Tommy Fuss Scholar Award will fit into their future career plans.
2. A current curriculum vitae or resume.
3. Other support: NIH Other Support pages or comparable description of current and pending funding sources.
4. Research Plan/Project. (6-page limit, excluding references), including: 
   1. project title
   2. abstract/summary (up to 300 words),
   3. specific aims (1 page max),
   4. background/significance, preliminary data, research design and methods (3 pages max),
   5. timeline for completing the project during the fellowship year (1 page max),
   6. references.
5. Budget and budget justification
6. Two letters of support commenting on the applicant’s qualifications and proposal. One of these must be from the proposed CPP mentor (for fellows) or collaborator (for faculty).
   1.  Recommenders may direct letters to mghctrprecisionpsych@mgh.harvard.edu.

Applicants should apply by utilizing the Tommy Fuss Scholar RedCap Application Survey, linked below.

https://redcap.link/TommyFussScholar2025

Questions can be directed to mghctrprecisionpsych@mgh.harvard.edu.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions or any other characteristic protected by law.