All Opportunities
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Small Grants
Award Info:
Applicants must be advanced doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows, or non-tenured junior faculty members who are no more than two years beyond the receipt of their Ph.D. (or equivalent graduate degree). There are no limitations on the disciplinary background of the researcher. The Foundation…
Description:
RSF offers small grants to doctoral students at the dissertation stage and recent Ph.D. recipients to support innovative, high-quality research and to encourage young investigators to enter these developing interdisciplinary fields. Small grants are currently offered under the Foundation’s program…
Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) - Army
Award Info:
With few exceptions, a DURIP award provides between $50,000 and $1,500,000 in
DoD funding for the purchase of major equipment or instrumentation.
Description:
DURIP is designed to improve the capabilities of accredited United States (U.S.) institutions of
higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to
national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment or instrumentation.
Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (R35)
Award Info:
Applications may request up to $250,000 direct costs per year. Investigators are encouraged to request what is actually well justified for their research program. Budget categories should not include inflationary escalation for recurring costs in out-years. Cost efficiency is one of the goals of the…
Description:
The Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) under this FOA is a grant to provide support for the program of research in an early stage investigator's laboratory that falls within the mission of NIGMS. For the purpose of this FOA, a program of research is the collection of projects…
Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP)
Award Info:
Congressionally Directed Topic Areas: The PRCRP appropriation of $110,000,000 will provide funds for research into cancers not addressed in the breast, pancreatic, prostate, ovarian, kidney, lung, melanoma, and rare cancer research programs. To be considered for funding, applications for the FY20…
Description:
The PRCRP is providing the information in this pre-announcement to allow investigators time to plan and develop ideas for submission to the anticipated FY20 funding opportunity. This pre-announcement should not be construed as an obligation by the Government. The FY20 PRCRP Program Announcements and…
Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale Systems: 21st Century Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards
Award Info:
-$200,000 USD to be expended in no less than 2 and no more than 3 years. Recently, JSMF has experienced Fellows using less than 50% of the fellowship funds. If you do not believe that you are committed to pursuing 2-to-3-year postdoctoral research please reconsider applying.
-The cost of the full…
Description:
The fellowship is geared to students near the completion of their doctoral training and committed to acquiring new skills and experience in a multi-disciplinary field such as complex systems science. This fellowship is targeted towards students who wish to broaden their research experience and require…
Explorer Awards
Award Info:
Award Amount:
The maximum budget is $80,000, including indirect costs for one (1) year, non-renewable.
Eligibility:
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,…
Description:
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.…
ISSCR Dr. Susan Lim Award for Outstanding Young Investigator
Award Info:
- $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…
Description:
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.
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…