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Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
Award Info:
Unrestricted cash prize of $50,000 is awarded to each prizewinner
Description:
You were born outside the United States
You are not more than 38 years old
You have conducted creative, independent research in basic, applied, and/or translational biomedical science
NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2 Clinical Trial Optional)
Award Info:
Awards will be in two multi-year segments of three years and two years. The three-year segment will have an award budget up to $900,000 in direct costs. The two-year segment will have an award budget up to $600,000.
Awardees are required to commit at least three person-months (25%) of their…
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NIH Director’s Transformative Research Awards (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Award Info:
The maximum project period is five years.
Description:
The NIH Director's Transformative Research Award Program supports collaborative investigative teams or individual scientists who propose unusually innovative research projects, which, if successful, would have a major impact in a broad area of relevance to the NIH. To be considered transformative,…
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1 Clinical Trial Optional)
Award Info:
Pioneer awardees are required to commit the major portion (more than 6 person-months or at least 51%) to activities supported by the Pioneer Award research project in the first three years of the project period.
Awards will be for $700,000 in direct costs per year, 5 years max
Description:
RFA-RM-24-002
In the Pioneer Award program, emphases are on the qualities of the investigator, the innovativeness, and potential impact of the proposed research. Preliminary data and detailed experimental plans are not requested. To be considered pioneering, the proposed research must reflect…
Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships (EAR-PF)
Award Info:
Up to 24 full-time-equivalent months of support may be requested.
Description:
The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) awards Postdoctoral Fellowships to recent recipients of doctoral degrees to conduct an integrated program of independent research and professional development. Fellowship proposals must address scientific questions within the scope of EAR disciplinary programs…
SFARI Research Awards
Award Info:
The maximum budget is $1,300,000, including indirect costs, over a period of up to four years.
All applicants and key collaborators must hold a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent degree and have a faculty position or the equivalent at a college, university, medical school or other research facility.…
Description:
The goal of the Research Award is to provide support for investigation of key unresolved research questions in autism, particularly those that connect genetic etiologies to brain function and behavior. SFARI welcomes risk and novelty in Research Award proposals, but potential impact on the autism…
Geography and Spatial Sciences Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (GSS-DDRI)
Award Info:
DDRI awards supported by GSS may not exceed $18,000, a total that must include both allowable direct costs and appropriate indirect costs for the entire duration of the award.
The direct costs requested in a DDRI proposal must be allowable costs that will improve the conduct of dissertation…
Description:
Proposals are accepted anytime.
As noted in the title of the awards, DDRI awards are meant to improve the conduct of the dissertation research.
DDRI proposals must be submitted with a principal investigator (PI) and a co-principal investigator (co-PI).
The PI must be…
The Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (ROAR) Program
Award Info:
Up to $150,000 per one-year grant is available from FFAR, with the requirement that recipients provide equal or greater matching funds from non-U.S. federal sources.
Description:
Proposals accepted anytime.
(ROAR) provides nimble deployment of funds to support research and outreach in response to emerging or unanticipated threats to the nation’s food supply or agricultural systems. ROAR participants, including but not limited to university researchers, farmers…
Meadows Foundation Grants
Award Info:
Requests of any amount are considered. There are no application deadlines, and grant applications are accepted at any time. Each organization is limited to one application within a 12-month period.
Description:
The Foundation looks for one or more of the following conditions in an application:
-Foundation support would be vital or catalytic to a proposed project's success
-The project is well planned and the agency has the capacity to execute the plan
-Financial support from other sources…
Computational Science and Technology Advanced Research Studies (C-STARS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Award Info:
Appointment periods are based on academic schedules, with a minimum of three months. Appointment will include a stipend (paid biweekly), commensurate with academic status, $175/week for housing allowance (paid biweekly), and limited travel reimbursement, if full-time and permanent address is at least…
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Proposals accepted anytime.
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Computational Science & Technology Advanced Research Studies Program (C-STARS) is highly selective and offers challenging graduate research opportunities in the computational sciences. C-STARS participants conduct research…