Applications open for New Science 2022 Summer Fellowship
Hi everyone,
Applications are now open for our inaugural 2022 Summer Fellowship (application deadline is January 19).
You can read everything about the fellowship and apply here: newscience.org/summer-fellowship and you can read the twitter thread announcement here: twitter.com/alexeyguzey/status/1472676140611698688
About New Science: New Science (newscience.org) is a 501c3 nonprofit with the goal of facilitating scientific breakthroughs by building the 21st century institutions of basic science and empowering the next generation of scientists. We are philanthropically funded and, to date, we have raised more than $1.5m from the Survival and Flourishing Fund (funded by Jaan Tallinn, who co-founded Skype), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and other donors. We are advised by Tessa Alexanian, George Church, Tyler Cowen, Andrew Gelman, Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, Konrad Kording, Tony Kulesa, Raymond Tonsing, and Elizabeth Yin.
Overview of the fellowship
In the summer of 2022, in Boston, New Science will launch a one-of-a-kind basic science accelerator. We will select a group of up to ten extraordinary young scientists who have the drive and the vision to pursue a high-risk independent research idea in the area of the life sciences.
In contrast to traditional programs where you are either given freedom to work on your project and are left to your own devices or are attached to a more experienced scientist and their project to work on, New Science 2022 Summer fellowship will give its fellows both:
- Complete intellectual freedom to pursue and to direct a project of their own creation.
- As much on-the-ground support and mentorship from New Science as possible.
Specifically, New Science will provide you with:
- Help to refine and concretize your ideas, in order to attack them as directly and as productively as possible over the summer.
- Lab space in Boston and all of the equipment you need.
- In-lab support from our staff with wet lab experiments, computational, and theoretical work.
- Access to our network of more experienced scientists who will mentor you and advise you but not tell you what to do or what to think.
- Several other brilliant young scientists, likely to become your close friends and potential future collaborators over the summer.
- $5,000/month in project costs.
- $25,000 in computational credits over the summer (no cryptocurrency mining 🙂).
- $6,000/month stipend (plus additional $2,000/month in child support per child).
- Research workshops and opt-in social and educational events (hikes, invited talks, happy hours, technique demos, etc.).
The fellowship is focused on independent researchers doing independent work. You will be driving your project and growth day to day. We expect that, by default, the fellow will determine every degree of freedom in the project idea and execution, but we encourage reaching out to fellows and mentors as much as necessary.
Although anyone can apply, we expect that the program is best suited for those with 3-6 years of research experience, i.e. experienced undergraduates, graduate students, lab techs, or people outside of the traditional academic path with similar level of scientific maturity.
Fellows should expect to generate and publish Go/No-go proof of concept results within the 3 months.
New Science is a nonprofit focusing on basic science, not a VC firm. We are not interested in the generation of IP per se and we are most interested in basic science ideas either too early to be funded commercially or without any concrete commercial application in sight.
For New Science, the summer fellowship is the first step towards our long-term vision of facilitating breakthroughs in basic science by empowering scientists and to the bigger vision of spurring a new era of institutional renewal in the area of basic science, creating the institutions of science suited to serve scientists and humanity in the 21st century.
See newscience.org/summer-fellowship for more about:
- The kinds of ideas we are looking for
- Resources and mentorship
- Program structure
- What’s after the fellowship?
- Application process
If you want to get involved in a capacity other than being a fellow (e.g. being a mentor; funding New Science; collaborating in some other way), reply to this email and I would love to talk.
Cheers,
Alexey