Applicants can apply to be part of the program through the application process if they meet the criteria below:

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1. Junior Faculty doing clinical, fundamental, or population health research at MGB

​a.) ​faculty who are on the Area of Excellence: Investigation promotion track/clinical expertise and innovation track, or

b.) faculty who are planning or intend to get promoted on the Area of Excellence:  Investigation promotion track/clinical expertise and innovation track, or ​

c.) faculty who spend >25% of their effort engaged in research.​

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Examples are faculty who: 

a.) already have a K01/K08/K23/K99 funded, or comparable career development award funded (e.g. K12, KL2, Doris Duke, etc.), or independent funding (basically an R01), and are in years 1-2 of the grant; 

b.) have already submitted a career development award with a reasonable path to funding (e.g. K submission is scored).​

c.) From a disadvantaged background doing clinical, fundamental, or population health research. This broad definition may include, but is not limited to: ​

​- First-generation college students

- Low-income populations

- People with disabilities

- Those who experience or have experienced homelessness, the foster care system, and/or grew up in a rural area 

- Being a past recipient of a Pell Grant, Fee Assistance Program, Loan for Disadvantaged Students 

- Those who have participated in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) as either a parent or child 

Mass General Brigham believes that engaging with different ideas, perspectives, cultures, and people leads to growth and innovation. By enhancing the human variation of the research workforce, we are able to break new ground in fundamental and clinical investigation of disease and deliver innovative, culturally competent care to our patients.