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for young investigators

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The maximum budget is $80,000, including indirect costs for one (1) year, non-renewable.

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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,… 

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Explorer Awards are intended to provide resources to support exploratory experiments that will strengthen hypotheses and lead to the formulation of competitive applications for subsequent larger-scale funding by SFARI or other organizations. Innovative, high-risk/high-impact proposals are prioritized.… 

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• $15,000 USD personal award plus a complimentary registration to the ISSCR Annual Meeting where they will be honored.
• Nominees must be independent investigators conducting original research in basic science or clinical development and translation in the field of stem cell research.
• Nominees… 

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The ISSCR Dr. Susan Lim Award for Outstanding Young Investigator, supported by the Dr. Susan Lim Endowment for Education and Research Ltd., recognizes the exceptional achievements of an investigator in the early part of their independent career in stem cell research.

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There are no citizenship requirements for this program. To assure continued excellence and diversity among applicants and awardees, JDRF welcomes proposals from all qualified individuals and encourages proposals from persons with disabilities women and members of minority groups underrepresented in the… 

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The Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship program is designed to attract qualified and promising health scientists, to provide an opportunity to receive full time research training, and to assist these promising individuals in transitioning from a fellowship to an independent (faculty-level) position. JDRF… 

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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… 

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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… 

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Cottrell Scholar Awards are for three-year projects in the amount of $100,000 for the entire project. Budgets are not required.

Pre-Proposal deadline in mid-April.

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The Cottrell Scholar Award (CSA) is available to early career faculty at US research universities and primarily undergraduate institutions. Eligible applicants are tenure-track faculty members who hold an appointment in a chemistry, physics or astronomy department that offers bachelor's and/or graduate… 

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This award provides $100,000 per year for three years (totaling $300,000) to early-career faculty (i.e., investigator, instructor, research associate or equivalent) working toward an independent career in digestive disease research.

Applicants for this award must hold an MD, PhD and/or equivalent… 

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The objective of the AGA Research Foundation Research Scholar Award (RSA) is to support early-career investigators working toward independent and productive research careers in digestive diseases by ensuring that a major proportion of their time is protected for research (i.e., a minimum of 75 percent… 

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This award provides $100,000 per year for three years (totaling $300,000) to early-career faculty (i.e., investigator, instructor, research associate or equivalent) working toward an independent career in digestive disease research.

Applicants for this award must hold an MD, PhD and/or equivalent… 

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The objective of this AGA Research Foundation Research Scholar Award (RSA) is to support early-career investigators working toward independent and productive careers in pancreatic cancer research by ensuring that a major proportion of their time is protected for research (i.e., a minimum of 75 percent… 

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The Stage 1 award will be for two years, $200,000 per year ($400,000 total) with the opportunity for up to two additional years of funding (up to four years total for $800,000). Stage 2 support for years three and four will be granted to those awardees who demonstrate progress on their proposed research… 

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The Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation 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… 

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Grants will be awarded for two years at $50,000 per year, for a total of $100,000.

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For over 30 years, the Prevent Cancer Foundation has been funding grants and fellowships that demonstrate potential for impact on cancer prevention/early detection. The goal of the Research Program is to provide funding for innovative projects expected to lead to future funding from other peer-reviewed… 

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This award includes:

• $2,500
• Recognition during the Dudrick Symposium at the ASPEN Nutrition Science and Practice Conference
• The honor of planning and chairing ASPEN’s Dudrick Symposium at the following year’s Nutrition Science and Practice Conference
• Opportunity… 

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The Stanley J. Dudrick Research Scholar Award honors mid-career investigators who have made significant achievements in nutrition support research.