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for young investigators

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Amount: $100,000 per year

Award durations: Standard Awards can be up to 3 years. Fellowship Awards can be up to 2 years.

Eligibility: Fellowships are limited to researchers within 5 years of doctoral degree conferral (or end of residency). All other applicants are encouraged… 

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BrightFocus provides research funds for U.S. domestic as well as international researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The goal of the program is to accelerate our understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying… 

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Young scientist (defined as no older than 45).

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The NAS Award in Molecular Biology is supported by Pfizer Inc. and recognizes a recent notable discovery by a young scientist (preferably no older than 45) who is a citizen of the United States. On a case-by-case basis, scientists up to 50 years of age are eligible for consideration. The award is… 

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Eligibility: 
Must be a full member of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses.

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Corporate funders and charitable contributions to Every Woman, Every Baby from AWHONN members have totaled more than $700,000, distributed to our… 

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AWHONN's commitment to nursing research and scholarship is reflected in our 28-year history of funding nursing research and promoting evidence-based nursing care. Our program is designed primarily for reearchers whose efforts are on the beginning stages of a program of research. Awards are granted… 

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The BYI program is open to those within the first four years of a tenure-track position, or an equivalent independent research appointment, at a United States academic or non-profit institution that conducts research in chemical and life sciences.

Tenure-Track dates for the 2024 program must… 

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Projects proposed for the BYI program should be truly innovative, high-risk, and show promise for contributing to significant advances in chemistry and the life sciences. They should represent a departure from current research directions rather than an extension or expansion of existing programs.… 

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The nominee can be an academic, industrial, or regulatory scientist who has made a substantial contribution to clinical pharmacology within 10 years of the completion of an advanced degree and/or a post-doctoral fellowship or residency program. An important aspect is that the recipient will be able… 

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The Leon I. Goldberg Early Investigator Award was established in 1986 to honor a young
scientist for accomplishments in the field of clinical pharmacology achieved early in his/her
career.
The goal of the Leon I. Goldberg Early Investigator Award is to encourage and recognize these
scientists… 

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Applicants must have no more than 4 years of postdoctoral research experience at the time of the initial (new) or the subsequent resubmission application. The K99/R00 award is intended for individuals who require at least 12 months of mentored career development (K99 phase) activities before transitioning… 

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Section I. Funding Opportunity Description
The overall goal of the NIH Research Career Development program is to help ensure that a diverse pool of highly trained scientists is available in appropriate scientific disciplines to address the Nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research… 

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Individual must be a citizen or a non-citizen national of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence. Candidates for the K24 award must have a health-professional doctoral degree as well as a doctoral degree in nursing research or practice. Individuals with the PhD or… 

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The purpose of the NIH Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K24) is to provide support to mid-career health-professional doctorates for protected time to devote to patient-oriented research (POR) and to act as research mentors for junior clinical investigators pursuing POR research,… 

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Multiple PDs/PIs are not allowed. Candidates for the K01 award must have a research or health-professional doctoral degree. Current and former PDs/PIs on NIH research project (R01), program project (P01), center grants (P50), sub-projects of program project (P01), sub-projects of center grants (P50),… 

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The purpose of the NIH Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) is to provide support and “protected time” (three to five years) for an intensive, supervised career development experience in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical sciences leading to research independence. This… 

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Candidates for the K25 award must have an advanced degree in a quantitative area of science or engineering and have demonstrated research interests in their primary quantitative discipline. The candidate should have demonstrated professional accomplishments consonant with his or her career stage.… 

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The NIH Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25) is designed to attract to NIH-relevant research those investigators whose quantitative science and engineering research has thus far not been focused primarily on questions of health and disease. Examples of quantitative scientific… 

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This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) employs an R21 Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant mechanism enhanced to provide $400,000 in direct costs over three years, allowing expanded time and resources to pursue a new or emerging research program.

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Standard NIH R21 due dates
This Trailblazer Award is an opportunity for New and Early Stage Investigators to pursue research programs of interest to the NIBIB at the interface of engineering and/or the physical sciences with the biomedical sciences. Applicants are encouraged to contact the appropriate…