Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award

The Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation is continuing its longstanding partnership with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute by establishing the Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award — providing enhanced mentoring and financial assistance for four Lubin Scholars annually over a four-year period, with the goal of retaining the brightest physician-scientists in academic medicine as they launch their research careers.

William G. Kaelin Jr., MD, Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award Scientific Director

Dana-Farber is an ideal setting for the Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award. The Institute's extraordinary community of faculty and staff, research infrastructure and resources, and institutional expertise, plus our affiliation with Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, and academic medical centers and universities close to home and around the world, will uniquely leverage the award.

About the Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award

The program's leaders include Dana-Farber Nobel Prize laureate William G. Kaelin Jr., MD, who will serve as the Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award Scientific Director, and Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, Dana-Farber President and CEO.

The innovative Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award will not only help scientists in the field today, but will also create a pipeline and support system for future talent who will someday drive the next major breakthroughs and change the landscape of cancer care as we know it.

Financial Support and Mentoring

Distinctive aspects of the award include its level of financial support and the strength of its mentorship opportunity — providing support for physician-scientists as they move forward in their careers in academic cancer research. The award's unique programs for Lubin Scholars and Mentors will help to increase the probability that the most promising Boston-based physician-scientists will remain in academic research.

The Lubin Family Foundation is confident that the Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award will accomplish its goal of supporting the most promising Boston-based physician-scientists as they transition to independent research careers and produce great science. The Foundation also anticipates that the award will contribute to Dana-Farber's strength in attracting and retaining the sharpest, most innovative thinkers — trainees and faculty who are at the heart of everything that Dana-Farber does to make the best possible care available to all who need it.

Awards

Meet the 2024 Lubin Scholars and Lubin Mentors

New dates for applications and award launch will be posted here at a later date.

Eligibility

Potential applicants will be talented physician-scientists (board-eligible or certified MD or MD/PhD), with a focus on basic or translational science, who aspire to serve as pioneers and champions of academic oncology.
Applicants with other doctoral degrees (e.g., PhD only, ScD) are not eligible.
Applicants must be MD or MD/PhD fellows or Category 4 Instructors (or equivalent appointment at the applicant's institution) who have completed no less than 18 months, and no more than 36 months, of laboratory research.
Applicants must meet at least one of two criteria: Are conducting their research in a Dana-Farber laboratory OR are completing or have completed their clinical training in a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute-affiliated clinical program (e.g., medical oncology, pediatric oncology, radiation oncology, neuro-oncology) and are working in an academic research laboratory in Greater Boston.
Applicants must have a mentor with the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, or Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The applicant must already be working in the proposed mentor’s laboratory or research group and have a direct report relationship with that mentor.
Applicants must have 80% protected time for laboratory research.
Applicants who are already appointed to a NIH T32 or similar (e.g., K12, KL2) Training Program are eligible to apply if permitted by those awards.
Applicants who currently hold individual fellowships or career development grants from foundations or the federal government that provide full salary support and continue for more than 12 months beyond the award date are not eligible. Partial salary support is acceptable.
There are no citizenship restrictions.
Applicants may resubmit in the following year if they were not initially awarded and still meet the eligibility criteria.