These programs are intended for late postdoctoral investigators and new faculty, usually those at or below the rank of Assistant Professor. The opportunities are organized by college. Consult each program’s web page for more detailed information and current deadlines. Please note: Any programs marked with an (*) are relevant for many colleges and are cross-listed several times.
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*Title: Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Grants, American Chemical Society Deadline: March Funding amount: Up to $110,000 over two years Description: The Doctoral New Investigator grants program aims to promote the careers of young faculty by supporting research of high scientific caliber, and to enhance the career opportunities of their undergraduate/ graduate students, and postdoctoral associates through the research experience. |
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Title: Fellowships, American Council of Learned Societies Deadline: September Funding amount: Up to $40,000 Description: Fellowships support research in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. Awards provide up to $40,000 for Assistant Professor and career equivalent. |
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Title: Centennial Fellowships, American Mathematical Association Deadline: December Funding amount: Varies Description: The program makes awards to outstanding mathematicians to help further their careers in research. Recipients shall have held the doctoral degree for at least three years and not more than twelve years at the inception of the award. Recipients may not hold the Fellowship concurrently with another major research award. |
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Title: Research Awards, American Society for Mass Spectrometry Deadline: November 30 Funding amount: $35,000 Description: Thermo Fisher Scientific and Waters Corporation have each supported a research award since 1986 (year one of the research awards.) Bruker joins this year to fund a third research award. Research awards promote the research of academic scientists within the first four years of joining the tenure track or research faculty of a North American University at the time the award is conferred. |
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*Title: New Investigators Research Grant, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Deadline: April 17 Funding amount: $10,000 Description: Research should have clinical relevance to audiology and/or speech-language pathology. The investigator must have completed a PhD or equivalent within the past five years. The investigator must not yet have received external research funding since completion of the PhD. |
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Title: Beckman Young Investigators Program, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Deadline: Letter of Intent due May 15 Funding amount: Up to $600,000 over four years Description: The program provides research support to young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science. The program is open to those within the first three years of a tenure-track position, or an equivalent independent research appointment. |
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*Title: Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Deadline: November Funding amount: $500,000 over five years Description: The Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease program provides opportunities for assistant professors to bring multidisciplinary approaches to the study of human infectious diseases. The goal of the program is to provide opportunities for accomplished investigators still early in their careers to study what happens at the points where the systems of humans and potentially infectious agents connect. The program supports research that sheds light on the fundamentals that affect the outcomes of these encounters: how colonization, infection, commensalism, and other relationships play out at levels ranging from molecular interactions to systemic ones. |
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*Title: Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Deadline: February Funding amount: $100,000 Description: The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained in the early years of their appointment (see below), and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise of continuing outstanding contributions to both research and teaching. The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program provides an unrestricted research grant of $100,000. |
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Title: Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research, Global Probiotics Council Deadline: February Funding amount: $50,000 Description: Young investigators who are senior fellows with a committed faculty appointment or early faculty members within a maximum of 5 consecutive years of his/her first faculty appointment (appointments must be in the U.S.) are eligible. |
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Title: Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics, Greenwall Foundation Deadline: N/A Funding amount: Varies Description: The program is a career development award to enable junior faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. Priority will be given to applicants who have not yet been considered for tenure, who have not received a comparable award, and whose work will have an impact on public policy, biomedical research, or clinical practice. |
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Title: Young Investigators’ Research Grants, Human Frontier Science Program Deadline: Letter of Intent due in March Funding amount: Varies Description: Grants are awarded to teams of researchers from different countries, all of whom are within the first five years after obtaining an independent laboratory. Emphasis is placed on novel collaborations that bring together scientists preferably from different disciplines to focus on problems in the life sciences. |
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*Title: IDSA Foundation Young Investigator Awards, Infectious Diseases Society of America Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Varies Description: Candidates for Young Investigator Awards must have a medical or equivalent doctoral level degree and should have completed an accredited infectious diseases fellowship within the last four years. |
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*Title: IDSA Foundation Young Investigator Awards, Infectious Diseases Society of America Deadline: Varies Funding amount: $30,000 over two years Description: The ILSI North America Future Leader Award, given annually to promising nutrition and food scientists, allows new investigators the opportunity to add to an existing project or to conduct exploratory research that might not receive funding from other sources or add to an existing project. Consideration will be given to individuals proposing research in the areas of experimental nutrition, nutrition and toxicology, and nutrition and food science. |
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*Title: Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences Deadline: February Funding amount: Varies Description: The Award supports young investigators in the early stages of their careers engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The candidate must be within four years of completing postdoctoral training and the start of his/her first tenure-track appointment. |
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*Title: Hollis Brownstein Research Grants Program, Leukemia Research Foundation Deadline: Letter of Intent due in February Funding amount: $100,000 Description: The Foundation provides one year grants of $100,000 to selected New Investigator researchers to allow innovative scientists to act on their ideas and try new procedures and experiments that will hopefully lead to significant breakthroughs. New Investigators are considered to be within seven years of their first independent position. |
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*Title: Scholar Awards, McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience Deadline: January Funding amount: $75,000 per year, three years Description: Awards encourage neuroscientists in the early stages of their careers to focus on disorders of learning and memory. Candidates must hold a full-time appointment at the rank of assistant professor, and must have served at that rank for less than four years at the application deadline. |
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*Title: MQ Fellows Award, MQ: Transforming Mental Health Through Research Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Varies Description: The Award supports early career scientists who are asking challenging questions that will contribute to transformative advances in mental health research. |
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*Title: Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum, Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Deadline: Letter of Intent due in May Funding amount: Varies Description: Two-year Pilot Research Grants help to establish new investigators in the field of spinal cord injury research and support studies by established investigators who are undertaking new directions in their work. |
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*Title: Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering, David and Lucile Packard Foundation Deadline: Nominations due in January Funding amount: $875,000 over five years Description: The program invites nominations from selected institutions. Candidates must be eligible to serve as principal investigators engaged in research in the natural and physical sciences or engineering and must be within the first three years of their faculty careers. |
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*Title: Pew Biomedical Scholars Deadline: October Funding amount: Varies Description: The program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent biomedical research of outstanding individuals who are in their first few years of their appointment at the assistant professor level. |
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*Title: I.M. Rosenzweig Junior Investigator Awards, Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Deadline: November Funding amount: $50,000 over two years Description: Awards support projects that offer a high likelihood of improving the understanding of pulmonary fibrosis in the following areas: basic science, translational research, clinical medicine/research, and social science/quality of life. |
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Title: Cottrell Scholars, Research Corporation for Science Advancement Deadline: Preproposal due in April Funding amount: $100,000 over three years Description: Eligible applicants are tenure-track faculty members whose primary appointment is in a department of astronomy, chemistry or physics. Eligibility is limited to faculty in the third year after their first tenure-track appointment. |
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Title: Small Awards in Behavioral Economics, Russell Sage Foundation Deadline: Open Funding amount: $10,000 Description: Applicants must be advanced doctoral students or post-docs/junior (non-tenured) faculty members who have been out of graduate school for two or fewer years. Projects must contribute to RSF's mission to improve social and living conditions in the United States. Appropriate projects must demonstrate use of relevant theory, data, methods and measures in the research design. In all cases, proposed projects must address research issues that are relevant to the Foundation’s core programs in Social, Political, and Economic Inequality; Behavioral Economics; Future of Work; or Race, Ethnicity and Immigration. |
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*Title: Searle Scholars Program Deadline: February Funding amount: $300,000 over three years Description: The program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support independent research of outstanding early-career scientists who have recently been appointed as assistant professors on a tenure-track appointment and will be pursuing independent research careers in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences. |
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*Title: Sloan Research Fellowships, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Deadline: September Funding amount: $70,000 Description: Fellowships support fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, computational or evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics, or a related field. |
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*Title: Strategy and Policy Fellows Program, Smith Richardson Foundation Deadline: June Funding amount: $60,000 Description: Grants enable the recipients to research and write a book. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing. |
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*Title: Pilot Research Grant, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Deadline: Fall Funding amount: $25,000 Description: The pilot research grant is designed to help a basic or clinical scientist in the early stages of their career conduct research that may lead to further funding. |
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Title: External Faculty Fellowships, Stanford Humanities Center Deadline: October Funding amount: Varies Description: Junior fellowships are for scholars who will be at least three and no more than ten years beyond receipt of the PhD by the start of the fellowship year. Fellowships are for one full academic year, and require the fellow to be in residence. |
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Title: Start-Up Research Grant, U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation Deadline: November Funding amount: Up to $60,000 over two years Description: Projects must have a strong element of cooperation between an Israeli and an American scientist(s), and fall within the areas of research supported in that year by the BSF. At least one of the PIs should have attained his/her Ph.D., M.D. degree or equivalent, no more than ten years prior to submitting the proposal. |
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Title: Grants-in-Aid, Whitehall Foundation Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Up to $75,000 Description: Funds researchers at the assistant professor level in the life sciences. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology. |
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Title:MAPfund Grants Program Deadline: October Funding amount: $1 million, for up to 40 projects, awarded annually Description: The MAP Fund is founded on the principle that experimentation drives human progress, no less in art than in science or medicine. MAP supports artists, ensembles, producers and presenters whose work in the disciplines of contemporary performance embodies this spirit of exploration and deep inquiry. MAP is particularly interested in supporting work that examines notions of cultural difference or "the other," be that in class, gender, generation, race, religion, sexual orientation or other aspects of diversity. |
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*Title: Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Deadline: November Funding amount: $250,000 in unrestricted funds Description: The Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists recognize the country’s most promising faculty-rank researchers in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry. Nominees and their work as independent investigators will be evaluated according to the quality, impact, novelty, and promise of their research. |
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*Title: The Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholars Award Deadline: December Funding amount: $17,500 stipend—$10,000 to be used for summer research support and $7,500 for research assistance during the academic year Description: The award is structured to free the time of junior faculty who have passed their midpoint tenure review—including those from underrepresented groups and others committed to eradicating disparities in their fields—so that they can both engage in and build support systems, networks, and affinity groups that make their fields and campuses more inclusive. Malkiel Scholars may be working in any field of the humanities or social sciences. Preference will be given to those whose work echoes and elaborates themes addressed in Dr. Malkiel’s scholarship and career—that is, topics related to 20th- and 21st-century American history, politics, culture, and society, with emphases including but not limited to African American issues, women’s issues, and/or higher education. |
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*Title: DARPA Young Faculty Award Deadline: December Funding amount: Awards encompass funding for a 24-month base period consisting of two 12-month phases (a maximum of $250,000 per 12-month phase) and a 12-month option period (a maximum of $500,000) Description: The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions, emphasizing those without prior DARPA funding, and expose them to DoD needs and DARPA’s program development process. The YFA program provides funding, mentoring and industry and DoD contacts to awardees early in their careers so they may develop their research ideas in the context of national security needs. The long term goal of the YFA program is to develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers, and mathematicians who will focus a significant portion of their career on DoD and National Security issues. |
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*Title: ARO Young Investigator Program Deadline: Proposals may be submitted at any time Funding amount: $120,000 per year for 3 years Description: The objective of the YIP is to attract to Army research outstanding young university faculty members, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers. The program is open to U.S. citizens, Nationals, and resident aliens holding tenure-track positions at U.S. universities and colleges, who have held their graduate degrees (Ph.D. or equivalent) for fewer than five years at the time of application. |
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Deadline: March Funding amount: Up to $20,000 Description: The John and Polly Sparks Early Career Grant supports early career psychologists conducting research in the area of early intervention and treatment for serious emotional disturbance in children. The John and Polly Sparks Foundation partnered with APF to empower early career psychologists to produce scientifically-based research and programs that could provide models for broad-based applications across the country. |
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Title: Princess Grace Awards Deadline: March Funding amount: Grant amounts vary widely, falling between $7,500 and $30,000 Description: The Princess Grace Foundation provides support to emerging theater, dance, and film artists in the early stage of their careers. All nominees must be nominated. Grants are given to nominating organization and money may not be used for administrative fees. |
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*Title: Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology Deadline: June Funding amount: $25,000 Description: The international Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology is awarded annually to one young scientist for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology conducted by him/her during the past three years. |
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*Title: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Deadline: July Funding amount: $100,000 per year for five years Description: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply. |
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*Title: Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Deadline: August Funding amount: $175,000 for two years Description: The NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) seeks to award grants intended to support research independence among early-career academicians who specifically lack access to adequate organizational or other resources. It is expected that funds obtained through this program will be used to support untenured faculty or research scientists (or equivalent) in their first three years in a primary academic position after the PhD, but not more than five years after completion of their PhD. Applicants for this program may not yet have received any other grants or contracts in the PI role from any department, agency, or institution of the federal government, including from the CAREER program or any other program, post-PhD, regardless of the size of the grant or contract, with certain exceptions as noted below. Serving as co-PI, Senior Personnel, Postdoctoral Fellow, or other Fellow does not count against this eligibility rule. |
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*Title: ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Deadline: August Funding amount: $510,000 Description: The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track or tenure-track-equivalent academic appointment, who have received their doctorate or equivalent degree on or after 01 January 2012, and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research. The objectives of this program are to attract outstanding faculty members of Institutions of Higher Education (hereafter also called "universities") to the Department of the Navy's Science and Technology (S&T) research program, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers. Individuals who are holding non-profit equivalent positions are encouraged to apply. |
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*Title: Air Force Young Investigator Program (YIP) Deadline: June Funding amount: $450,000 Description: The Air Force YIP supports scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees within the last seven years and show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The objectives of this program are to foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators, and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering. |
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*Title: Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Grants, American Chemical Society Deadline: March Funding amount: Up to $110,000 over two years Description: The Doctoral New Investigator grants program aims to promote the careers of young faculty by supporting research of high scientific caliber, and to enhance the career opportunities of their undergraduate/ graduate students, and postdoctoral associates through the research experience. |
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*Title: Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Deadline: February Funding amount: $100,000 Description: The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained in the early years of their appointment (see below), and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise of continuing outstanding contributions to both research and teaching. The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program provides an unrestricted research grant of $100,000. |
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*Title: Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering, David and Lucile Packard Foundation Deadline: Nominations due in January Funding amount: $875,000 over five years Description: The program invites nominations from selected institutions. Candidates must be eligible to serve as principal investigators engaged in research in the natural and physical sciences or engineering and must be within the first three years of their faculty careers. |
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*Title: Pew Biomedical Scholars Deadline: October Funding amount: Varies Description: The program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent biomedical research of outstanding individuals who are in their first few years of their appointment at the assistant professor level. |
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*Title: Sloan Research Fellowships, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Deadline: September Funding amount: $70,000 Description: Fellowships support fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, computational or evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics, or a related field. |
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*Title: Strategy and Policy Fellows Program, Smith Richardson Foundation Deadline: June Funding amount: $60,000 Description: Grants enable the recipients to research and write a book. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing. |
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*Title: Pilot Research Grant, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Deadline: Fall Funding amount: $25,000 Description: The pilot research grant is designed to help a basic or clinical scientist in the early stages of their career conduct research that may lead to further funding. |
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*Title: Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Deadline: November Funding amount: $250,000 in unrestricted funds Description: The Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists recognize the country’s most promising faculty-rank researchers in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry. Nominees and their work as independent investigators will be evaluated according to the quality, impact, novelty, and promise of their research. |
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*Title: DARPA Young Faculty Award Deadline: December Funding amount: Awards encompass funding for a 24-month base period consisting of two 12-month phases (a maximum of $250,000 per 12-month phase) and a 12-month option period (a maximum of $500,000) Description: The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions, emphasizing those without prior DARPA funding, and expose them to DoD needs and DARPA’s program development process. The YFA program provides funding, mentoring and industry and DoD contacts to awardees early in their careers so they may develop their research ideas in the context of national security needs. The long term goal of the YFA program is to develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers, and mathematicians who will focus a significant portion of their career on DoD and National Security issues. |
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*Title: ARO Young Investigator Program Deadline: Proposals may be submitted at any time Funding amount: $120,000 per year for 3 years Description: The objective of the YIP is to attract to Army research outstanding young university faculty members, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers. The program is open to U.S. citizens, Nationals, and resident aliens holding tenure-track positions at U.S. universities and colleges, who have held their graduate degrees (Ph.D. or equivalent) for fewer than five years at the time of application. |
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*Title: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Deadline: July Funding amount: $100,000 per year for five years Description: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply. |
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*Title: Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Deadline: August Funding amount: $175,000 for two years Description: The NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) seeks to award grants intended to support research independence among early-career academicians who specifically lack access to adequate organizational or other resources. It is expected that funds obtained through this program will be used to support untenured faculty or research scientists (or equivalent) in their first three years in a primary academic position after the PhD, but not more than five years after completion of their PhD. Applicants for this program may not yet have received any other grants or contracts in the PI role from any department, agency, or institution of the federal government, including from the CAREER program or any other program, post-PhD, regardless of the size of the grant or contract, with certain exceptions as noted below. Serving as co-PI, Senior Personnel, Postdoctoral Fellow, or other Fellow does not count against this eligibility rule. |
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*Title: ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Deadline: August Funding amount: $510,000 Description: The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track or tenure-track-equivalent academic appointment, who have received their doctorate or equivalent degree on or after 01 January 2012, and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research. The objectives of this program are to attract outstanding faculty members of Institutions of Higher Education (hereafter also called "universities") to the Department of the Navy's Science and Technology (S&T) research program, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers. Individuals who are holding non-profit equivalent positions are encouraged to apply. |
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*Title: Air Force Young Investigator Program (YIP) Deadline: June Funding amount: $450,000 Description: The Air Force YIP supports scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees within the last seven years and show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The objectives of this program are to foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators, and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering. |
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*Title: Rosenblith New Investigator Award, Health Effects Institute Deadline: Letter of Intent due in February Funding amount: Up to $450,000 over three years Description: The award provides up to three years of funding to a new investigator at the assistant professor or equivalent level for a small research project on the health effects of air pollution. |
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*Title: IDSA Foundation Young Investigator Awards, Infectious Diseases Society of America Deadline: Varies Funding amount: $30,000 over two years Description: The ILSI North America Future Leader Award, given annually to promising nutrition and food scientists, allows new investigators the opportunity to add to an existing project or to conduct exploratory research that might not receive funding from other sources or add to an existing project. Consideration will be given to individuals proposing research in the areas of experimental nutrition, nutrition and toxicology, and nutrition and food science. |
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Title: New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award Deadline: February Funding amount: $200,000 per year for three years Description: The New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award is designed to provide the early investment needed to launch new faculty members into successful scientific careers in food and agriculture. Investing a substantial amount in faculty members within the first three years of their careers will allow them to pursue innovative and transformational ideas uninhibited by the pressure of identifying their next grant. The New Innovator Award seeks to promote career advancement of highly creative and promising new scientists who intend to make a long-term career commitment to research in food and agriculture and bring innovative, ground-breaking research initiatives and thinking to bear on problems facing food and agriculture. |
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Title: ILSI North America Future Leader Award Deadline: June Funding amount: $15,000 per year for two years Description: The ILSI North America Future Leader Award, given annually to promising nutrition and food scientists, allows new investigators the opportunity to add to an existing project or to conduct exploratory research that might not receive funding from other sources or add to an existing project. Consideration will be given to individuals proposing research in the areas of experimental nutrition, nutrition and toxicology, and nutrition and food science. |
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*Title: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Deadline: July Funding amount: $100,000 per year for five years Description: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply. |
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*Title: Young Investigator Awards, Academic Pediatric Association Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Up to $15,000 Description: Provides awards of up to $15,000 for research related to child health promotion, health services research, teaching, or patient care. |
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Title: Young Investigator Grants, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Deadline: December Funding amount: Up to $150,000 over three years Description: Grants are designed to support scientists during their fellowship training or early in their research careers. Demonstration of outstanding mentorship and demonstration of a career plan that shows commitment to pediatric cancer investigation are critical components o f a successful application. |
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Title: Research Grants, Alzheimer’s Association Deadline: Letter of Intent due March 8 Funding amount: Up to $150,000 over three years Description: The association offers several grant programs that provide support for new investigators, including Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant and Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant to Promote Diversity. |
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Title: AACR Funding Opportunities, American Association for Cancer Research Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Varies Description: Grants support researchers, both domestically and abroad, at every stage of their career, representing a global commitment to understanding, preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer. |
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Title: Research Scholar Grants, American Cancer Society Deadline: April 1 and October 15, annually Funding amount: Up to $165,000 over four years Description: Grants support investigator-initiated projects across the cancer research continuum. Independent investigators in the first six years of an independent research career or faculty appointment are eligible. |
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Title: Core Program: Junior Faculty Development, American Diabetes Association Deadline: July Funding amount: Up to $138,000 per year for 2-4 years Description: Awards support early investigators as they establish independence as diabetes researchers. Eligible applicants must be full-time independent faculty with less than 10 years of research experience since their terminal degree, with restrictions on previous or current support. |
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Title: Grants for Junior Faculty, New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer’s Disease, American Federation for Aging Research Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Varies Description: Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty provide up to $100,000 for a one- to two-year award to junior faculty. New Investigator Awards support research in areas in which more scientific investigation is needed to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. |
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*Title: Young Investigator Innovation Grants, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Deadline: November 15 Funding amount: Up to $85,000 over two years Description: Grants awarded to investigators at or below the level of assistant professor. These grants must allocate $10,000 ($5,000 per year) of their award for an established suicide researcher to mentor the Young Investigator. AFSP is available to assist you in identifying a suitable mentor |
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Title: Career Development Award, American Heart Association Deadline: December Funding amount: Up to $231,000 over three years Description: Supports healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of their first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training necessary to assure future success as a research scientist in the field of cardiovascular and stroke research. |
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Title: Liver Scholar Award, American Liver Foundation Deadline: December Funding amount: Varies Description: Provides early career scientists with support for their research to bridge the gap between completion of research training and attainment of status as an independent research scientist. |
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Title: Emerging Leader Award, Bay Area Lyme Foundation Deadline: March 1 Funding amount: $100,000 Description: These grants support new and innovative projects and aim to attract aspiring new scientific talent to the field of Lyme. Candidate applications must include a viable proposal for a proof-of-concept project to be funded, in part or in sum, by the grant award. The $100,000 ELA grant is offered to researchers in academia or the private sector who are currently at the post-doctoral level through the assistant professor level, or equivalent. |
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Title: Early Career Investigator Award, Bayer Hemophilia Awards Program Deadline: Letter of Intent due November Funding amount: $80,000 Description: This award will fund salary support and research funds for a junior faculty member who wishes to undertake a mentored basic and/or clinical research project in the bleeding disorders field. |
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Title: NARSAD Young Investigator Grants, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Deadline: March 19 Funding amount: Up to $70,000 over two years Description: The program offers up to $35,000 per year for two years to enable promising investigators to either extend their research fellowship training or to begin careers as independent research faculty. All research must be relevant to our understanding, treatment and prevention of serious psychiatric disorders. |
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*Title: Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Deadline: November Funding amount: $500,000 over five years Description: The Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease program provides opportunities for assistant professors to bring multidisciplinary approaches to the study of human infectious diseases. The goal of the program is to provide opportunities for accomplished investigators still early in their careers to study what happens at the points where the systems of humans and potentially infectious agents connect. The program supports research that sheds light on the fundamentals that affect the outcomes of these encounters: how colonization, infection, commensalism, and other relationships play out at levels ranging from molecular interactions to systemic ones. |
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Title: Young Investigator Awards, Children’s Tumor Foundation Deadline: Letter of Intent due in January Funding amount: Varies Description: Provides two-year funding, commensurate with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to young scientists early in their careers, bringing them into the NF field and helping to establish them as independent investigators. Initiated in 1985 by the Foundation, the YIA program was, until 2006, CTF’s sole ongoing grant mechanism. The YIA program has been a 'seeding mechanism' for researchers and their mentors, who could showcase their Foundation-funded research to secure larger grants from the NIH and the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program - Neurofibromatosis Research Program (CDMRP-NFRP). CTF’s seeding of the NF field with new talent has been hailed as a key reason for the rapid growth of NF research in recent years. |
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Title: Taking Flight Award, CURE: Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy Deadline: Letter of Intent due in January Funding amount: $100,000 Description: The Taking Flight Award seeks to promote the careers of young epilepsy investigators. CURE Epilepsy and Innovators Awards also fund early career investigators. |
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Title: Research Grants - New Investigators, Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation Deadline: April 1 Funding amount: $30,000 per year Description: This RFP seeks applications from young investigators (at the rank of Associate Professor or below) who are new to desmoid tumor research and need seed funding to gather preliminary data. |
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*Title: Rosenblith New Investigator Award, Health Effects Institute Deadline: Letter of Intent due in February Funding amount: Up to $450,000 over three years Description: The award provides up to three years of funding to a new investigator at the assistant professor or equivalent level for a small research project on the health effects of air pollution. |
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*Title: IDSA Foundation Young Investigator Awards, Infectious Diseases Society of America Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Varies Description: Candidates for Young Investigator Awards must have a medical or equivalent doctoral level degree and should have completed an accredited infectious diseases fellowship within the last four years. |
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Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Varies Description: TEP funds two types of projects in human milk and lactation research: Trainee Travel Fund for activities achievable within three months, and Trainee Bridge Fund for activities achievable within one year. |
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Title: Career Development Awards, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Deadline: June Funding amount: $150,000 per year, up to five years Description: Researchers who have received their first faculty-level appointment less than three years before the submission date are eligible to apply for this award. |
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*Title: Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences Deadline: February Funding amount: Varies Description: The Award supports young investigators in the early stages of their careers engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The candidate must be within four years of completing postdoctoral training and the start of his/her first tenure-track appointment. |
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*Title: Hollis Brownstein Research Grants Program, Leukemia Research Foundation Deadline: Letter of Intent due in February Funding amount: $100,000 Description: The Foundation provides one year grants of $100,000 to selected New Investigator researchers to allow innovative scientists to act on their ideas and try new procedures and experiments that will hopefully lead to significant breakthroughs. New Investigators are considered to be within seven years of their first independent position. |
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Title: LUNGevity Career Development Awards, LUNGevity Deadline: Letter of Intent due in February Funding amount: Up to $300,000 over three years Description: The goal of our Career Development Program is to train and retain the next generation of lung cancer researchers. Applicants must be within the first five years of their faculty appointment. |
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Title: Young Investigator Grants, Lymphoma Research Foundation Deadline: September Funding amount: Varies Description: Young Investigator Grants attract and train early career scientists for lymphoma research through three programs: Postdoctoral Fellowships, Clinical Investigator Career Development Awards, and the Lymphoma Clinical Research Mentoring Program. |
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*Title: Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Awards, March of Dimes Deadline: Nominations due in March Funding amount: $150,000 for two years Description: This award is designed to support young scientists just embarking on their independent research careers on topics related to the March of Dimes mission to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. |
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*Title: Scholar Awards, McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience Deadline: January Funding amount: $75,000 per year, three years Description: Awards encourage neuroscientists in the early stages of their careers to focus on disorders of learning and memory. Candidates must hold a full-time appointment at the rank of assistant professor, and must have served at that rank for less than four years at the application deadline. |
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Title: Request For Proposals: Young Investigator Awards, Melanoma Research Alliance Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Varies Description: Aims to attract early career scientists with novel ideas into melanoma research, thereby recruiting and supporting the next generation of melanoma researchers. Young Investigators are scientists within four years of their first academic faculty appointment. A mentorship commitment from a senior investigator is required. |
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*Title: MQ Fellows Award, MQ: Transforming Mental Health Through Research Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Varies Description: The Award supports early career scientists who are asking challenging questions that will contribute to transformative advances in mental health research. |
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Title: Young Investigator Awards, National Ataxia Foundation Deadline: Letter of Intent due in August Funding amount: $35,000 Description: One-year grants of $35,000 encourage young investigators to pursue a career in the field of any form of Ataxia research. Candidates must have attained an MD or PhD degree, and have an appointment as a junior faculty member, senior post-doc or clinical fellow. |
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Title: Career Development Award, National Hemophilia Foundation Deadline: Letter of Intent due in February Funding amount: $70,000 per year, up to three years Description: NHF funds innovative research studies in the area of bleeding disorders to be carried out at the sub cellular, cellular, animal or human/patient levels. CDA candidates must hold a MD, PhD, or equivalent degree, with no more than six years of postdoctoral years of experience in hematology, nor more than six years since completion of medical training. |
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Title: Early Investigator Grant Program, National Marfan Foundation Deadline: February Funding amount: $75,000 over two years Description: The program supports early investigators studying any or all disciplines involved in Marfan syndrome or a related disorder. Applicants must have less than seven years experience in a faculty position and have never received an NIH R01 grant award. |
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Title: Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar Awards, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Deadline: August Funding amount: Varies Description: The awards support candidates who have concluded their research training and begun academic careers as independent investigators in an area related to multiple sclerosis. |
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*Title: Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum, Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Deadline: Letter of Intent due in May Funding amount: Varies Description: Two-year Pilot Research Grants help to establish new investigators in the field of spinal cord injury research and support studies by established investigators who are undertaking new directions in their work. |
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*Title: Pew Biomedical Scholars Deadline: October Funding amount: Varies Description: The program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent biomedical research of outstanding individuals who are in their first few years of their appointment at the assistant professor level. |
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Title: Young Investigator Awards, Prostate Cancer Foundation Deadline: March Funding amount: Varies Description: Awards offer support for young (generally 35 and younger) proven investigators in postdoctoral fellowships or who have recently achieved junior faculty positions and are committing their lives to the field of prostate cancer. |
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*Title: I.M. Rosenzweig Junior Investigator Awards, Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Deadline: November Funding amount: $50,000 over two years Description: Awards support projects that offer a high likelihood of improving the understanding of pulmonary fibrosis in the following areas: basic science, translational research, clinical medicine/research, and social science/quality of life. |
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Title: Innovation Award, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Deadline: July Funding amount: Two stages, can receive up to $800,000 over four years Description: The Award is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with “high risk/high reward” ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cancer. |
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Title: New Investigator Grant, Scleroderma Foundation Deadline: September Funding amount: $50,000 per year, up to three years Description: The Foundation seeks applications from promising new investigators who hold faculty or equivalent positions and who wish to pursue a career in research related to scleroderma. |
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Title: New Investigator Grant, Scoliosis Research Society Deadline: April or October Funding amount: $10,000 Description: New investigator research grants are meant to stimulate young members into a career of investigation in spinal deformity and are open to SRS Candidate Fellows or investigators within the first five years of completing their training. |
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*Title: Pilot Research Grant, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Deadline: Fall Funding amount: $25,000 Description: The pilot research grant is designed to help a basic or clinical scientist in the early stages of their career conduct research that may lead to further funding. |
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Title: Distinguished Scientist Award, Sontag Foundation Deadline: March Funding amount: $600,000 over four years Description: The award provides career and research support to early career scientists who demonstrate outstanding promise for making scientific and medical breakthroughs in the field of brain cancer research. |
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Title: Research Starter Grants, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation Deadline: Varies Funding amount: $100,000 Description: PhRMA Foundation Research Starter Grants offer financial support to individuals beginning independent research careers at the faculty level. |
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*Title: Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Deadline: November Funding amount: $250,000 in unrestricted funds Description: The Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists recognize the country’s most promising faculty-rank researchers in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry. Nominees and their work as independent investigators will be evaluated according to the quality, impact, novelty, and promise of their research. |
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Deadline: March Funding amount: Up to $20,000 Description: The John and Polly Sparks Early Career Grant supports early career psychologists conducting research in the area of early intervention and treatment for serious emotional disturbance in children. The John and Polly Sparks Foundation partnered with APF to empower early career psychologists to produce scientifically-based research and programs that could provide models for broad-based applications across the country. |
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*Title: Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology Deadline: June Funding amount: $25,000 Description: The international Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology is awarded annually to one young scientist for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology conducted by him/her during the past three years. |
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Title: National Kidney Foundation Young Investigator Research Grant Deadline: February Funding amount: $35,000 Description: The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is dedicated to preventing kidney and urinary tract diseases, improving the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by kidney disease and increasing the availability of all organs for transplantation. Young investigators are junior faculty who have been in their position for under four years at the time the grant begins. Applicants must have nephrology training. |
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Title: PhRMA Foundation Research Starter Grants Deadline: Varies by research area Funding amount: $100,000 Description: Research Starter Grants offer financial support to individuals beginning independent research careers in health outcomes, informatics, pharmaceuticals, pharmacology/toxicology, or translational medicine at the faculty level. The “starter” aspect of the program strives to assist individuals who are establishing careers as independent investigators. The program is not offered as a means to augment an ongoing research effort. Funds must be used to conduct the proposed research. |
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Title: Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Awards Deadline: February (Spring) and September (Fall) Funding amount: $25,000 Description: The Fund recognizes that young investigators may find it difficult to remain in pediatric research because of a lack of funding. Therefore, the purpose of this program is to encourage the development of medical research in child health by awarding small grants to new researchers, helping them gain a foothold in this important area. The goal is to fund applicants who will go on to be independent investigators. The Fund will make up to 30 awards total with two funding cycles (15 awards each). |
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Title: HHMI Faculty Scholars Program Deadline: July Funding amount: The range of five-year grant award totals is $600,000-$1.8 million Description: HHMI launched the Faculty Scholars grant program in 2016 to identify, nurture, and support top researchers during an early phase of their careers, when competition for grant support is particularly intense. HHMI seeks to purposefully contribute by giving our best researchers the resources and environment with which to pursue difficult and important basic science questions. |
| Opportunities for Public Policy |
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*Title: Strategy and Policy Fellows Program, Smith Richardson Foundation Deadline: June Funding amount: $60,000 Description: Grants enable the recipients to research and write a book. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing. |
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*Title: The Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholars Award Deadline: December Funding amount: $17,500 stipend—$10,000 to be used for summer research support and $7,500 for research assistance during the academic year Description: The award is structured to free the time of junior faculty who have passed their midpoint tenure review—including those from underrepresented groups and others committed to eradicating disparities in their fields—so that they can both engage in and build support systems, networks, and affinity groups that make their fields and campuses more inclusive. Malkiel Scholars may be working in any field of the humanities or social sciences. Preference will be given to those whose work echoes and elaborates themes addressed in Dr. Malkiel’s scholarship and career—that is, topics related to 20th- and 21st-century American history, politics, culture, and society, with emphases including but not limited to African American issues, women’s issues, and/or higher education. |
| Opportunities for Public Health |
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*Title: Young Investigator Awards, Academic Pediatric Association Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Up to $15,000 Description: Provides awards of up to $15,000 for research related to child health promotion, health services research, teaching, or patient care. |
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*Title: Young Investigator Innovation Grants, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Deadline: November 15 Funding amount: Up to $85,000 over two years Description: Grants awarded to investigators at or below the level of assistant professor. These grants must allocate $10,000 ($5,000 per year) of their award for an established suicide researcher to mentor the Young Investigator. AFSP is available to assist you in identifying a suitable mentor |
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*Title: Rosenblith New Investigator Award, Health Effects Institute Deadline: Letter of Intent due in February Funding amount: Up to $450,000 over three years Description: The award provides up to three years of funding to a new investigator at the assistant professor or equivalent level for a small research project on the health effects of air pollution. |
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*Title: Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Awards, March of Dimes Deadline: Nominations due in March Funding amount: $150,000 for two years Description: This award is designed to support young scientists just embarking on their independent research careers on topics related to the March of Dimes mission to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. |
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*Title: MQ Fellows Award, MQ: Transforming Mental Health Through Research Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Varies Description: The Award supports early career scientists who are asking challenging questions that will contribute to transformative advances in mental health research. |
| Opportunities for Education and Human Ecology |
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*Title: Young Investigator Awards, Academic Pediatric Association Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Up to $15,000 Description: Provides awards of up to $15,000 for research related to child health promotion, health services research, teaching, or patient care. |
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Title: Young Scholars Program, Foundation for Child Development Deadline: Letter of intent due early summer Funding amount: Varies Description: The program supports policy and practice-relevant research that is focused on the early learning and development needs of the nation’s children who are growing up under conditions of economic insecurity and social exclusion. Eligible researchers must have received their doctoral degrees within one to eight years of application submission. |
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*Title: IDSA Foundation Young Investigator Awards, Infectious Diseases Society of America Deadline: Varies Funding amount: $30,000 over two years Description: The ILSI North America Future Leader Award, given annually to promising nutrition and food scientists, allows new investigators the opportunity to add to an existing project or to conduct exploratory research that might not receive funding from other sources or add to an existing project. Consideration will be given to individuals proposing research in the areas of experimental nutrition, nutrition and toxicology, and nutrition and food science. |
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Deadline: Varies Funding amount: Varies Description: TEP funds two types of projects in human milk and lactation research: Trainee Travel Fund for activities achievable within three months, and Trainee Bridge Fund for activities achievable within one year. |
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*Title: Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Awards, March of Dimes Deadline: Nominations due in March Funding amount: $150,000 for two years Description: This award is designed to support young scientists just embarking on their independent research careers on topics related to the March of Dimes mission to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. |
| Opportunities for Optometry |
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Title: Genentech Age-related Macular Degeneration Research Fellowships, ARVO Foundation for Eye Research Deadline: September 1 Funding amount: $40,000 Description: Available to newly established investigators who are age 45 or younger at the application deadline and have received their MD, PhD or equivalent degree ten years before the application deadline. |
| Opportunities for Business |
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Title: Kaufmann Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Deadline: January Funding amount: N/A Description: This program recognizes junior faculty who are beginning to establish a record of scholarship and exhibit the potential to make significant contributions to the body of research in the field of entrepreneurship. |
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Jeff Agnoli
Education, Funding, and Research Development
agnoli.1@osu.edu | 614-292-6269
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