| Young Investigator Grants, Academic Pediatric Association | varies | Provides awards of up to $15,000 for research related to child
health promotion, health services research, teaching, or patient
care. |
| Young Investigator Grants, Alex’s Lemonade Stand
Foundation | December | 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 of a successful
application. |
| Agilent Early Career Professor Award | January for limited submission application | Promotes and encourages excellent research enabling
measurements of importance to Agilent Technologies and the
world. |
| Rita Allen Scholars Program, Rita Allen Foundation | August for limited submission application (approximate) | The program invites nominations from selected institutions. The
award recognizes early-career scholars conducting basic
biomedical research in the fields of cancer, immunology, and
neuroscience. |
| Research Grants, Alzheimer’s Association | March for letter of intent | 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. |
| AACR Funding Opportunities, American Association for Cancer Research | varies | Grants support researchers, both domestically and abroad, at
every stage of their career, representing a global commitment to
understanding, preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer. |
| Research Scholar Grants, American Cancer Society | April and October |
Grants support investigators within the first 10 years of an
initial independent research career or full-time faculty
appointment. |
| Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Grants, American Chemical Society | varies | Awards provide start-up funding for scientists and engineers in
the U.S. within the first three years of their first academic
appointment at the level of Assistant Professor or the
equivalent. |
| Fellowship Program, American Council of Learned Societies | September | Fellowships support untenured scholars in humanities and
interpretive social sciences who have earned the PhD within
eight years of the application deadline.
|
| Junior Faculty Development, American Diabetes Association | varies | Awards support faculty up to and including assistant professor
or equivalent, with 10 or less years research experience beyond
terminal degree, as they establish independence as diabetes
researchers. |
| Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grants for
Junior Faculty, American Federation for Aging Research | December | One- to two-year awards provide up to $100,000 to junior
faculty to conduct research that will serve as the basis for
longer term research efforts on the biology of aging. |
| Young Investigator Innovation Grants, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | November 15 | Grants of up to $90,000 over two years are awarded to
investigators at or below the level of assistant professor.
Grants must allocate $10,000 for an established suicide
researcher to mentor the Young Investigator. |
| Liver Scholar Award, American Liver Foundation | December | 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.
|
| Centennial Fellowships, American Mathematical Association | December 1 | 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. |
| Research Awards, American Society for Mass Spectrometry | November 30 | The program is open to academic scientists within four years of
joining the tenure track faculty or equivalent. Awards are
$35,000. |
| New Investigators Research Grant, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation | April | 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. |
| Genentech Age-related Macular Degeneration Research
Fellowships, ARVO Foundation for Eye Research | September | 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. |
| Emerging Leader Award, Bay Area Lyme Foundation | March | 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. |
| Beckman Young Investigators Program, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation | August for letter of intent | 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. |
| BBRF Young Investigator Grants, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation | March | 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. |
| Young Investigator Grants, Breast Cancer Alliance | June for limited submission application (approximate) | This grant is intended to help advance the careers of young
researchers who do not yet have their own major grant support.
Applicants must have held a faculty position for no more than
four years following the completion of their training. |
| Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease, Burroughs Wellcome Fund | July | The PATH award provides $500,000 over five years to support
investigators at the assistant professor level to study
pathogenesis, with a focus on the interplay between human and
microbial biology.
|
| Young Investigator Award, Children’s Tumor Foundation | January | The foundation supports neurofibromatoses research. The YIA
provides two-year funding, commensurate with NIH, to young
scientists early in their careers. |
| CITRIS Core Seed Funding, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute | varies | CITRIS and the Banatao Institute create information technology
solutions for society’s most pressing challenges. UC
Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz PIs are
eligible. The program highly encourages inclusion of pre-tenured
faculty. |
| Grant Opportunities, CURE: Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy | varies | The Taking Flight Award seeks to promote the careers of young
epilepsy investigators. CURE Epilepsy Awards also fund early
career investigators. |
| Research Grants - New Investigators, Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation | April | 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. |
| Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards, Camille and Henry
Dreyfus Foundation
| January for limited submission application (approximate) | This programs offers $100,000 grants to young faculty in the
chemical sciences. Criteria for selection include an independent
body of scholarship attained in the early years of the
appointment and a demonstrated commitment to education. |
| Career Development Award, Foundation Fighting Blindness | March |
The award is for junior investigators to pursue research to find
the therapies and cures for inherited retinal degenerative
diseases. Clinician-scientists possessing an M.D., D.O., or
recognized equivalent foreign degree and who are in their first,
second, or third year of a junior faculty appointment are
eligible. |
| Young Scholars Program, Foundation for Child Development | June for letter of intent | 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. |
| New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award,
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
| February for limited submission application (approximate) | FFAR supports faculty in within the first three years of their
careers whose research has the potential to address major
challenges facing food and agriculture. |
| Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research, Global Probiotics Council | March | Young investigators who are senior fellows with a committed
faculty appointment or early faculty members within a maximum of
five consecutive years of his/her first faculty appointment
(appointments must be in the U.S.) are eligible. |
| Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics, Greenwall
Foundation
| August for limited submission application (approximate) | 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. |
| Rosenblith New Investigator Award, Health Effects Institute | April | 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. |
| Young Investigators’ Research Grants, Human Frontier Science Program | March for letter of intent | 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. |
| Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants, Human Vaccine Projects | June | Awards of $150,000 support investigators under the age of 35
who are using disruptive concepts and inventive processes to
significantly advance human immunology and vaccine and
immunotherapy discovery research for major global diseases. |
| Career Development Awards, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation | June/July | Researchers who have received their first faculty-level
appointment less than three years before the submission date are
eligible to apply for this award.
|
| Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences | February | 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. |
| New Investigator Research Grant Program, Leukemia Research Foundation | February for letter of intent | Two-year grants of $150,000 support new investigators
researching leukemia or myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Applicants must be within seven years of their first
independent faculty-level position. |
| Career Development Award Program, LUNGevity | February for letter of intent | The goal is to train and retain the next generation of lung
cancer researchers. Applicants must be within the first five
years of their faculty appointment. |
| Young Investigator Grants, Lymphoma Research Foundation | September | 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. |
| Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Awards, March of Dimes | July for nomination | This award supports young investigators who are just embarking
on an independent research career. The program supports research
that will advance our translational understanding of, or lead to
improved clinical treatment of any serious medical conditions
that afflict mothers during pregnancies or newborns within the
first year of life. |
| Career Development Award, Marfan Foundation | October | The program supports early investigators studying any
discipline 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. |
| Scholar Awards, McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience | January | 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. |
| Request For Proposals: Young Investigator Awards, Melanoma Research Alliance | varies | Applicants must be within four years of their first
independent, full time academic faculty appointment at the time
of application at the level of Assistant Professor (or
equivalent position).
|
| MQ Fellows Award, MQ Mental Health Research | varies | The award supports early career scientists who are asking
challenging questions that will contribute to transformative
advances in mental health research. |
| Young Investigator Awards, National Ataxia Foundation | October for letter of intent | 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. |
| Career Development Award, National Hemophilia Foundation | February for letter of intent | 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. |
| Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar Awards, National Multiple Sclerosis Society | August | The awards support candidates who have concluded their research
training and begun academic careers as independent investigators
in an area related to multiple sclerosis. |
| Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum, Craig H. Neilsen Foundation | varies | 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.
|
| Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering, David and
Lucile Packard Foundation
| February for limited submission application (approximate) | 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. |
| Pew Biomedical Scholars | May for limited submission application (approximate) | 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. |
| Research Starter Grants, Pharmaceutical Research and
Manufacturers of America Foundation | varies | Research Starter Grants areas include: Health Outcomes
Research, Drug Delivery, Drug Discovery, and Translational
Medicine.
|
| Young Investigator Awards, Prostate Cancer Foundation | March | 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.
|
| Cottrell Scholars, Research Corporation for Science Advancement | May for preproposal | Eligible applicants are tenure-track faculty members who hold
an appointment in a chemistry, physics or astronomy department.
Eligibility is limited to faculty at the end of third year of
first faculty appointment. |
| Scialog, Research Corporation for Science Advancement | varies | Scialog supports early career faculty to expand research in a
focused area of high scientific importance. Within each
multi-year initiative, Fellows collaborate in high-risk
discovery research on untested ideas and communicate their
progress in annual closed conferences. |
| Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation | July | 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.
|
| Small Grants in Behavioral Economics, Russell Sage Foundation | open | 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.
|
| Small Grants in Computational Social Science, Russell Sage Foundation | March | 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.
|
| New Investigator Research Grant, Scoliosis Research Society | April 1 and October 1 | 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. |
| Searle Scholars Program | June for campus limited submission application (approximate) | 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. |
| Sloan Research Fellowships, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | September | 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. |
| Strategy and Policy Fellows Program, Smith Richardson Foundation | June | Grants enable the recipients to research and write a book. The
program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates,
and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and
writing.
|
| Pilot Research Grant, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | January | 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.
|
| Distinguished Scientist Award, Sontag Foundation | March | The award supports early career scientists who demonstrate
outstanding promise for making scientific and medical
breakthroughs in the field of brain cancer research. |
| External Faculty Fellowships, Stanford Humanities Center | October | 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. |
| Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Awards, UC California Breast Cancer Research Program | October for letter of intent | Researchers at a career level beyond postdoctoral training and
less than three years as an independent investigator, or
entering research from another field, are encouraged to apply
for IDEA grants.
|
| New Assistant Professor Awards, UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee | January for letter of intent | CRCC is a systemwide, faculty-directed cancer research program
that provides competitive intramural research awards for topics
in any discipline that address any aspect of cancer, including
its origins, detection, prevention and cure.
|
| UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship in the
Humanities, UC Humanities Research Institute | January/February | The program provides UC faculty with fellowship support to
carry out an extended research project in the humanities and
humanistic social sciences. Assistant Professors are especially
encouraged to apply.
|
| New Investigator Award, UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program | varies | This award supports new investigators in an independent
research program in their research career in the focus areas
covered under TRDRP research priorities. Investigators from
California not-for-profit organizations are eligible.
|
| Start-Up Research Grants, U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation | varies | 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.
|
| Grants-in-Aid, Whitehall Foundation | January 15, April 15, and October 1 for letter of intent | Funds researchers at the assistant professor level in the life
sciences. The Foundation is currently interested in basic
research in neurobiology. |