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Fellowship Grant

Hillblom (Larry L.) Foundation

The Fellowship Grant is intended to enable Qualified Institutions to provide post-doctoral research fellowship training to qualified applicants in one of the two areas of stated interest to the Hillblom Foundation.

Grant Making Procedures

The fellowship applicant requires the full support of both the host institution and the proposed mentor. The Fellowship Grant shall be made directly to and administered by the office of contracts and grants at the Qualified Institution, which shall be responsible for the expenditure of the grant funds. Preference shall be given to applicants who have not undertaken a fellowship in the past. Annual renewal of a Fellowship Grant shall be subject to the Foundation’s approval.

Funding Areas: Diabetes or Aging
Maximum Funding: $75,000 per year
Duration of the Award: Up to three (3) years, subject to annual Foundation approval, non-renewable
Maximum Allowable Indirect Costs: 10% included in the total grant

AI Based Application Success Predictor

Primary success predictors

Clear commitment to STEM diversity & inclusion (URM status or strong contribution to diversity mission).

Academic readiness for graduate study (solid GPA, coursework, recommendations).

Well-articulated career goals tied to long-term STEM participation.

Faculty mentor support and a credible graduate training environment.

What reviewers favor

Personal statement showing resilience, motivation, and impact potential.

Alignment between the applicant’s background, goals, and GFSD’s workforce-diversity mission.

Clear plan to complete a STEM graduate degree.

Common pitfalls

Generic personal statements.

Weak mentor/institutional support evidence.

Heart Research UK

Primary success predictors

Strong translational relevance to cardiovascular disease.

Clear patient benefit within a realistic timeframe.

Methodological rigor appropriate to modest/medium grant sizes.

Early-career investigator development (for fellowships/small grants).

What reviewers favor

Focused hypotheses (not overly ambitious).

Clear route from discovery → clinical relevance.

Cost-effective, well-justified budgets.

UK-based infrastructure and feasibility.

Common pitfalls

Purely descriptive/basic science without translational relevance.

Over-scaled projects for the funding level.

Hemostasis & Thrombosis Research Society (HTRS)

Primary success predictors

Direct relevance to bleeding or thrombotic disorders.

Clinically meaningful questions (diagnostics, outcomes, treatment).

Early-career or trainee leadership, often with senior mentorship.

Feasible pilot or hypothesis-generating studies.

What reviewers favor

Clear patient-focused endpoints.

Well-defined statistical and data plans.

Collaboration with HT centers or networks.

Projects likely to lead to larger NIH or foundation funding.

Common pitfalls

Overly mechanistic/basic projects without clinical linkage.

Insufficient mentoring structure for junior applicants.

Hillblom (Larry L.) Foundation

(Focused on neurodegenerative disease, especially Alzheimer’s & related dementias)

Primary success predictors

Innovative, high-risk / high-reward ideas in neurodegeneration.

Early-career investigator independence (postdocs/new faculty).

Clear disease relevance, even for basic science.

Strong institutional commitment (often in California).

What reviewers favor

Novel mechanisms, tools, or conceptual advances.

Clear PI ownership (not an extension of mentor’s work).

Projects that could redefine understanding or therapy.

Strong mentorship but visible independence.

Common pitfalls

Incremental neuroscience without dementia relevance.

Proposals that look like side projects of senior labs.

Quick Cross-Foundation Comparison

Foundation	Biggest Predictor	Career Stage Focus
GFSD	Diversity impact + readiness	Graduate students
Heart Research UK	Translational CV relevance	Early–mid career
HTRS	Clinical relevance in bleeding/thrombosis	Trainees & early career
Hillblom Foundation	Bold neurodegeneration ideas	Early career

Specialties

Diabetes

Geriatrics & Gerontology

Endocrinology and Diabetes

Eligibility Requirements

The host institution and mentor will provide appropriate infrastructure (computer access, personal work space, laboratory space, access to core facilities, library use, research training classes etc). The mentor will personally undertake and oversee the research training of the fellow to include weekly meetings, supervision of the research process and encouragement of the development of independence of the fellow. In its selection process, the Foundation will take into account the research careers of prior research fellows in the mentor’s laboratory.

Expectations of the Fellow

The fellow must be highly promising based on performance during prior training with a demonstrated productivity in research. The fellow will be asked to demonstrate a distinct research plan that is important and achievable. The fellow will be asked to identify planned research milestones. The fellow will be required to submit an annual report to the host institution and the Foundation (submitted electronically via the LLHF Grant Management System). It is expected that the fellow will give presentations by the end of year one and will publish by the end of year two and this should be reflected in the annual report. Additionally, the fellow will be required to attend the Annual Hillblom Scientific Meeting to give a presentation on the findings of their research to date. The annual renewal of any Fellowship Grant for the three year time period will be contingent upon a satisfactory annual report and presentation at this forum. Renewal / non-renewal decisions by the Board of Directors of the Hillblom Foundation are final and not subject to appeal or review.

Eligible Countries:

United States

Sponsor Details

Sponsor Institute/Organizations: Hillblom (Larry L.) Foundation

Sponsor Type: Corporate/Non-Profit

Address: 566 Broadway Sonoma, CA 95476

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