Moore Inventor Fellowship
The Moore Inventor Fellows was a ten-year philanthropic fellowship program of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation that provided multi-year support to early-career scientist-inventors developing new tools and technologies. The program operated from 2016 through 2025, selecting five fellows per year for a total of 50 fellows.
History
The program was launched in 2016 and was framed by the foundation as an effort to provide flexible, sustained support to inventors at an early stage of their academic careers, when pursuing tool- and technology-building work can be difficult to fund through conventional research grants. University announcements about the program’s launch described eligibility as spanning early-career researchers at AAU member institutions and a set of additional U.S. institutions selected from NIH funding rankings.Program structure
Award size and cost share
The fellowship provided a total of US$825,000 over three years per fellow. Business Wire coverage of the program states that the award structure included an institutional commitment of US$50,000 per year from the fellow’s host institution as part of the three-year total.Nomination model
The program used an institutional nomination model.Fellows
The foundation selected five Moore Inventor Fellows each year from 2016 through 2025. The table below lists fellows by cohort year and their host institutions at the time of selection.| Year | Fellows | Host institution at time of award |
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