- Grant Amount – $75,000
- Deadline – September 15, 2025
- CLICK HERE TO APPLY
The $75,000 SPIE-Franz Hillenkamp Postdoctoral Fellowship in Problem-Driven Biomedical Optics and Analytics provides an annual award to translate new biomedical optics and biophotonics technologies to clinical practice for improving human health.
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There are no restrictions on geographical location; however, applicants and hosting labs must propose original research in biomedical optics that is expected to lead to new diagnostics and/or therapeutics in medicine and biology. The applications for the SPIE-Franz Hillenkamp Postdoctoral Fellowship are composed of three distinct elements:
- Hosting Lab
- Project
- Candidate
Funding Information
- The annual award of US$75,000 will support the interdisciplinary problem-driven research and training opportunities.
Eligibility Requirements
- To be eligible as a Hosting Lab, the following requirements must be met:
- An established contributor in the field of biomedical optics (capability and infrastructure).
- An institution of higher learning (university and medical school affiliations are needed). Government labs or nonprofit-incorporated labs are eligible if other criteria are met.
- Capable of high-level mentorship in both fundamental research and translation of technologies into medicine (number of publications, patents, collaborations with industry and spin-off creation over the last 10 years, faculty teaching in translational research education and training programs).
- Committed to giving access to the lab, research and translational sciences mentorship, commercialization expertise and immersion courses in translational research.
- Able to demonstrate capability to perform original and translational research in the field, leading to new diagnostics and/or therapeutics in medicine and biology, (ex: contributed to at least one discovery translated into clinical practice).
- The hosting lab must cover indirect costs according to the lab’s institution policy such as space, electricity, heating, telephone expenses, administrative salaries, etc.
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