Opportunities accepting limited submissions
for young investigators
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…
2024 Searle Scholars Program
Award Info:
Grants are set at $300,000 for a three-year period with $100,000 payable in the first year and equal sums payable in the second and third years and are subject to the receipt of acceptable progress reports.
Description:
The Searle Scholars Program Scientific Advisory Board is primarily interested in the potential of applicants to make innovative and high-impact contributions to research over an extended period of time.
Applicants for the competition are expected to be pursuing independent research careers…
NIH Director's Early Independence Award (DP5 - Clinical Trial Optional)
Award Info:
Awards will be for up to $250,000 in direct costs per year, plus applicable Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs. Maximum 5 years.
Description:
The NIH Director's Early Independence Award supports exceptional investigators who wish to pursue independent research essentially directly after completion of their terminal doctoral/research degree or end of post-graduate clinical training, thereby forgoing the traditional post-doctoral training…
2024 WiSTEM2D Scholars Award
Award Info:
$50,000 per year of the three-year scholarship period
Description:
The Johnson & Johnson Scholars Award Program aims to fuel development of female STEM2D leaders and feed the STEM2D talent pipeline by awarding and sponsoring women at critical points in their careers, in each of the STEM2D disciplines: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing and…
2024 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards
Award Info:
The award amount provided by ORAU is $5,000. The applicant’s institution is required to match the award with at least an additional $5,000. This is a one-year grant (June 1 to May 31).
Description:
Eligibility for the Powe Awards is open to full-time assistant professors at ORAU member institutions within two years of their initial tenure track appointment at the time of application.
Young Investigator Grants
Award Info:
This grant is open to applicants at institutions throughout the contiguous United States. This is a two-year grant for a total of $125,000, with half the grant award being paid out each year.
Description:
To encourage a commitment to breast cancer research, Breast Cancer Alliance invites clinical doctors and research scientists who are in the early stages of their careers, including post docs, whose current proposal is focused on breast cancer, to apply for funding for the Young Investigator Grant.