SLU slots: up to 1 from each program (Medical Research or Science & Engineering)

Internal Deadline: October 11, 2024

Institutional Deadline: May 1, 2025, by 4:30 pm (PT)

The W. M. Keck Foundation supports pioneering biological and physical science research and engineering, including the development of promising new technologies, instrumentation, or methodologies. The median range for a request is $1.2M over 3 years. The investigator must have a very strong rationale for any request over $1.2M.

Successful project proposals must meet the following criteria:

• Focus on important and emerging areas of research
• Have potential to develop breakthrough technologies, instrumentation, or methodologies
• Are innovative, distinctive, and interdisciplinary
• Demonstrate a high level of risk due to unconventional approaches or challenge the prevailing paradigm
• Have potential for transformative impact such as the founding of a new field of research, enabling of new observations, or altering perception of a previously intractable problem
• Fall outside the mission of public funding agencies
• Demonstrate that W. M. Keck Foundation support is essential to the project’s success

Guidance for the Nomination Process 

To be considered for SLU’s submissions, interested faculty should submit a brief abstract, a 3-4 page project summary, and a C.V. or biosketch via SLU’s OpenWater tool by 5 pm on October 11, 2024, here: https://slu.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/182/home 

For further details on the program, including application process and eligibility, click here.

To see successful past abstracts, visit Keck Abstracts.

Please contact the Research Development Group at rdg@slu.edu with any questions.