Opportunities with deadlines
for young investigators
Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowships
Award Info:
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…
Description:
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…
Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award
Award Info:
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…
Description:
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…
AGA-Bern Schwartz Family Fund Research Scholar Award in Pancreatic Cancer
Award Info:
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…
Description:
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…
AGA Research Scholar Award (RSA)
Award Info:
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…
Description:
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…
Cottrell Scholars Award
Award Info:
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.
Description:
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…
Innovation Award
Award Info:
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…
Description:
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…
Research Grants
Award Info:
Grants will be awarded for two years at $50,000 per year, for a total of $100,000.
Description:
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…
The Stanley J. Dudrick Research Scholar Award
Award Info:
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…
Description:
The Stanley J. Dudrick Research Scholar Award honors mid-career investigators who have made significant achievements in nutrition support research.
Research Support Grants
Award Info:
- Applicant must have obtained a doctoral degree.
- Applicant oral and maxillofacial surgeon (OMS) must have completed an oral and maxillofacial surgery training program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association (CODA). If the Prinicipal Investigator…
Description:
Research Support Grants further the development of scientific investigators committed to problems related to oral and maxillofacial surgery. Each grant is $75,000 and is awarded to the institution.
Career Development Award
Award Info:
- Have a minimum of three years of postdoctoral research experience in basic biological sciences (including at least two years abroad) and be no more than 11 years from having received a PhD. The calculation of the three and 11 years is made by comparing the date the degree was conferred with…
Description:
The purpose of the Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation is to support the research of promising young scientists, to contribute to the creation of new areas of research in the biological sciences in Italy, and to strengthen and develop collaborative relationships between Italian scientists and those…