Opportunities with deadlines
for young investigators

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… 

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There are no citizenship or geographic requirements. However, by submitting a Letter of Intent for this grant, an applicant applying from an institution located in a country in which they are not a citizen or a permanent resident assures that the visa status will provide sufficient time to complete the… 

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The AACR Anna D. Barker Basic Cancer Research Fellowship encourages and supports postdoctoral or clinical research fellows to establish a successful career path in cancer research.

This fellowship provides $110,000 over a two-year period to support the salary and benefits of the fellow while… 

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Applications for funding below £5,000 can be submitted at any time and a decision will be made by Chair’s Action, usually within one working week.

Description:

The aim of Rosemere Cancer Foundation is to support the provision of cancer treatment for the benefit of patients in Lancashire and South Cumbria by raising additional funding for the following activities:

• Oncology related research undertaken by NHS staff
• Projects that improve… 

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… 

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Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over an R21 two-year period, with no more than $200,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year.

Description:

New advances are needed in every area of pain research, from the micro perspective of molecular sciences to the macro perspective of behavioral and social sciences. Although great strides have been made in some areas, such as the identification of neural pathways of pain, the experience of pain and the… 

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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 purpose of the NIAID Physician-Scientist Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented independent physician-scientists. This program is designed to facilitate a timely transition of outstanding postdoctoral researchers with a clinical… 

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… 

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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… 

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… 

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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… 

Description:

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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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… 

Description:

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…