All Opportunities
for young investigators
Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoc Fellowship in Aging Research
Award Info:
The grant is $75,000, of which a minimum of $54,840 (*see note below) is to be used for salary and the remainder to be used for allowable expenses (research supplies, equipment, health insurance, travel to scientific meetings where the Fellow is presenting his/her biology of aging research, and relevant…
Description:
This program was developed to address the current concerns about an adequate funding base for postdoctoral fellows (MD, MD/PhD and PhD) who specifically direct their research towards basic aging mechanisms and/or translational findings that have direct benefits to human aging. Postdoctoral fellows…
Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research
Award Info:
This program was developed to address the current concerns about an adequate funding base for postdoctoral fellows (MD, MD/PhD and PhD) who specifically direct their research towards basic aging mechanisms and/or translational findings that have direct benefits to human aging. Postdoctoral fellows…
Description:
The Glenn Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship program supports research projects concerned with understanding the basic mechanisms of aging as well as projects that have direct relevance to human aging if they show the potential to lead to clinically-relevant strategies that address human aging and…
Neuroendocrine Tumore Research Foundation -AACR Grant
Award Info:
Applicants are independent investigators at all levels; must have a doctoral degree in a related field, and not currently be a candidate for a further doctoral degree.
Description:
Formerly the Caring for Carcinoid Foundation, the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation updated its name in 2015 to better reflect the current medical terminology for the disease and to include all those who are affected by neuroendocrine cancer in their community of support. The Neuroendocrine…
Travel Grants and Mentoring Travel Grants
Award Info:
Anyone who has been awarded an AWM-NSF travel grant in the past two years is ineligible. Anyone receiving more than $2000 yearly in external governmental funding for travel is ineligible.
Description:
The Association for Women in Mathematics has administered the NSF-AWM Travel Grant Program for Women since 1988, supporting both travel to domestic or foreign research conferences and, more recently, longer-term visits with a mentor.
Enabling women mathematicians to attend conferences in their…
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)
Award Info:
Amount:
Range of Awards:$0 - $1,000,000
Description:
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is the nation’s leading competitive grants program for agricultural sciences. The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awards AFRI research, education, and extension grants to improve rural economies, increase food production,…
Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award
Award Info:
We are actively seeking applications for research grant funding that involve translational and actionable science that will lead directly to interventions or preventions. Our goal is to turn observations in the laboratory, clinic, and community into interventions, therapeutics, and diagnostics that…
Description:
The award is $150,000 for two years, including 10 percent indirect costs to sponsoring institutions. MD/PhD applicants should be four to nine years past the last year of clinical training required for medical specialty board certification and must hold a full-time tenure-track faculty position (or…
Clinician Scientist Development Grant (CSDG)
Award Info:
Grant Term and Budget: Awards range from 3 to 5 years, for a maximum $135,000 Direct costs, plus 8% allowable indirect costs per year.
The mentor(s) receive a maximum of $10,000 per year (regardless of the number of mentors). That amount is included in the $135,000.
Description:
The Clinician Scientist Development Grant (CSDG) fosters the development of clinicians to clinician scientists. Clinician scientists are investigators licensed to provide patient care and trained to conduct research. They pursue research questions across the cancer research continuum of relevance…
Research Scholar Grants (RSG)
Award Info:
Independent investigators in the first 8 years (previously 6 years) of an independent research career or faculty appointment are eligible to apply. Eligibility is extended for 10 years (previously 8 years) for clinician scientists who remain active in clinical care. Applicants typically must be within…
Description:
The American Cancer Society’s Extramural Research Program primarily supports beginning investigators, across a wide range of disciplines, in innovative cancer-control research and training to meet critically important needs in the control of cancer. Research Scholar Grants support investigator-initiated…
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
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…