All Opportunities
for young investigators

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Candidates for the K08 award must have a clinical doctoral degree. Such degrees include, but are not limited to, the MD, DO, DDS, DMD, OD, DC, PharmD, ND (Doctor of Naturopathy), and DVM. Individuals with the PhD or other doctoral degree in clinical disciplines such as clinical psychology, nursing, clinical… 

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"The primary purpose of the NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Awards (K08) program is to prepare qualified individuals for careers that have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the Nation. This program represents the continuation of a long-standing NIH… 

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To be eligible for a C/START award, the proposed principal investigator must be independent of a mentor at the time of award, but be at the beginning stages of her/his research career. No C/START award will be made to individuals in their training status (e.g., post-doctoral position); applicants may… 

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he National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) seeks to facilitate the entry of new/early stage investigators (ESIs) into substance use disorder (SUD) research. ESIs are invited to submit applications for small scale, innovative chemical/pharmacological pilot research projects. Importantly, the C/START award… 

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Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support.

Budgets for direct costs of up to… 

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This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications to facilitate the entry of investigators to the area of neuroimaging, including both new investigators and established investigators seeking to adopt neuroimaging methodologies in their research programs, to… 

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New Investigators, who have not received independent NIH funding, and investigators who are new to PID research are especially encouraged to apply to this FOA.

A budget for direct costs of up to $50,000 per year may be requested (i.e. a maximum of $100,000 over two years)

Description:

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support the discovery and characterization of primary immunodeficiency diseases, also referred to as inborn errors of immunity, to understand the causes and mechanisms of disease, to enable early detection and molecular diagnosis, and to… 

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Candidates for the K02 award must have a research or clinical doctoral degree, be newly independent, and have peer-reviewed, independent support at the time the award is made. Some of the participating NIH ICs require the candidate to have an NIH research grant at the time of application and that the… 

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The purpose of the NIH Independent Scientist Award (K02) is to foster the development of outstanding scientists and enable them to expand their potential to make significant contributions to their field of research. The K02 award provides three to five years of salary support and "protected time" for… 

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Candidates for this award must have a clinical or research doctorate (including PhD, MD, DO, DC, ND, DDS, DVM, ScD, DNS, PharmD, or equivalent doctoral degree), or a combined clinical and research doctoral degree. Candidates must be within 3 years of their appointment to their first independent faculty… 

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The Transitions to Independent Environmental Health (TIEHR) Career Award is a 3-year bridge scholar development program for newly independent faculty who intend to pursue research careers in environmental health sciences. At the conclusion of the career development period the candidates are expected… 

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Candidates for this award must have a research or health-professional doctoral degree or equivalent. Junior investigators (i.e. early stage of faculty positions within 3 years of initial appointments at time of application submission or resubmission) are eligible for this award and will have completed… 

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The purpose of the NLM Career Development Award (K01) in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science is to provide support and "protected time" (up to three years) for an intensive career development experience in biomedical informatics and data science leading to research independence. NLM invites K01 applications… 

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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. Multiple… 

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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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Award Amount: 

• Funding is for one or two years and is up to $35,000 per year. The Foundation does not pay institutional
  overhead on the BBRF Young Investigator Grant Program.

Description:

BBRF Young Investigator Grants provide each scientist with up to $35,000 per year for two years totaling $70,000 to enable promising investigators to either extend research fellowship training or begin careers as independent research faculty. The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation awarded the first… 

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To be eligible, all applicants must have a clinical or research doctorate (including Ph.D., M.D., D.O., D.C., N.D., D.D.S., D.M.D., D.V.M., Sc.D., D.N.S., Pharm.D., or an equivalent doctoral degree).

Description:

The Mission of the Alpha-1 Foundation, Inc. (the “Foundation”) is to support research that
furthers scientific/medical understanding, future treatment and a potential cure for Alpha-1
Antitrypsin (AAT) Deficiency. In accordance with that mission, the Foundation awards grants to