Opportunities with deadlines
for young investigators
Sloan Research Fellowships
Award Info:
two-year, $75,000 fellowships
Description:
The Sloan Research Fellowship Program recognizes and rewards outstanding early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study.
Candidates must be tenure-track, though untenured, as of September 15 of the nomination year.
Research Scholar Grant
Award Info:
Grant recipients receive $75,000 a year for two years to be used as salary support. Funds may not be used for non-personnel research expenses. An additional $1,000 will be paid to the institution each year to help cover costs associated with the Scholar Advisor Program.
Any junior radiology…
Description:
This R&E Foundation grant supports junior faculty members who have completed resident and fellowship programs, but haven’t been recognized as independent investigators. Our funding not only helps establish recipients as investigators, but also supports them as they collect preliminary data…
Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists
Award Info:
Every year, one Blavatnik National Awards Laureate in each disciplinary category will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds, and additional nominees will be recognized as Finalists.
Nominations are accepted from an invited group of research universities, independent research institutions,…
Description:
The Blavatnik National Awards honor America’s most innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers.
These awards celebrate the past accomplishments and future potential of young faculty members working in the three disciplinary categories of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering,…
William T. Grant Scholars Program
Award Info:
Each year, four to six Scholars are selected and each receives up to $350,000, distributed over five years. Awards begin July 1 and are made to the applicant’s institution.
Description:
The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.
Researchers interested in applying…
Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program
Award Info:
The Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award provides a $75,000 unrestricted research grant. Of the total amount, $5,000 is to be allocated for departmental expenses associated with research and education. Charges associated with indirect costs or institutional overhead are not allowed. Defrayal of academic-year…
Description:
The Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences at undergraduate institutions. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers. ardees…
Brander Beacons Cancer Research Grants
Award Info:
Award Amount:
- BBCR injects critical funds in increments of $5,000 to $25,000 into programs most closely
connected to increased cancer prevention, better treatment outcomes, better access and,
ultimately, a cure.
Description:
Brander Beacons Cancer Research (BBCR) is a private foundation seeking to accelerate research and innovation in breast and prostate cancer. The Foundation’s gifts are in memory of Christopher E. Brander, the inventor of the LOCalizer™ from Health Beacons, a medical device that revolutionizes…
Young Faculty Award
Award Info:
Each award will include a 24-month base period (a maximum of $500,000) and a 12-month option period (a maximum of $500,000).
Description:
YFA will provide high-impact funding to elite researchers early in their careers to develop innovative new research
directions in the context of enabling transformative DoD capabilities.
Limited to any current tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professors and to tenured Assistant or…
NIAID Physician-Scientist Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00 Clinical Trial Required) PAR-20-209
Award Info:
Candidates must have a clinical doctorate degree (for example, MD, DO, DDS/DMD, DVM/VMD, MD/PhD, DNP or nurses with research doctoral degrees) who devote the majority of their time to biomedical research. Applicants must have no more than 4 years of postdoctoral research experience at the time of the…
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 needs. NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) support…
Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (Parent K08 Independent Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required) PA-20-201
Award Info:
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…
Description:
"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…
Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (Parent K08 Independent Clinical Trial Required) PA-20-202
Award Info:
Candidates for the K08 award must have a clinical doctoral degree. At the time of award, the candidate must have a “full-time” appointment at the academic institution. Candidates are required to commit a minimum of 75% of full-time professional effort.
Description:
The objective of the NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08) program is to provide salary and research support for a sustained period of “protected time” (3-5 years) to support didactic study and/or mentored research for individuals with clinical doctoral degrees…