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September 20, 2024

(Reopens October 1, 2024)

$17,000 Canadian Dollars

Open Deadline

$50,000

Opportunity Grants are for emergent initiatives, projects, and research; time-sensitive gatherings, retreats, or convenings; and/or critical experiments at the intersection of pop culture and social justice.

Rapid Response Grants are intended for cultural organizing efforts, pop culture campaigns or other activations, gatherings/convenings, cultural research, narrative strategy design, and/or implementation that directly anticipates and/or responds to an acute and time-sensitive political and/or cultural moment.

Multiple Deadlines, Amounts & Durations

Closing dates for application are late February and late April each year for visits in the following academic year.

The Institute is pleased to offer a range of postdoctoral and early-career Fellowships for recent graduates.

Offer funding in the following categories:

• Early Career Fellowships in Hellenic Studies in Greece and Cyprus
• Early Career Fellowship in Philhellenism

Offer funding in the following categories:

• Grant: Pollock-Krasner grants have enabled artists to create new work, purchase needed materials and pay for studio rent, as well as their personal expenses.
• Organization Grant
• Lee Krasner Award
• Prize for Creativity

National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF)

Multiple Deadlines, Amounts & Durations

The National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF) works directly with select artists and The National Park Service (and their affiliates) to create unique Artist in Residency programs within the wonders of the National Parks.

American Antiquarian Society

Due: January 15 (Annual)

The National Endowment for the Humanities, funds long-term (four to twelve months) postdoctoral fellowships at AAS.

NEH fellowships are for persons who have already completed their formal professional training. Foreign nationals who have been residents in the United States for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline for the fellowship are eligible.

Due: February 10 (Annual)
&
September 10 (Annual)

A Fellowship consists of exclusive use of a private studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for two to six weeks. Funding allows for stipends and travel grants.

Artists with professional standing in their fields, as well as emerging artists, are eligible to apply.

Find out about their . Journalists who are interested in applying for this initiative should submit an application to our literature nonfiction category.

Native Arts & Cultures Foundation

Due:听The LIFT grant is closed for applications in 2024. Please check back in early 2025 for information about the next open call

One-year awards of $10,000. Professional development, Convening, Culturally Appropriate Evaluation, Communications and marketing support.

The program will provide critical support to early-career Native artists with one-year awards to develop and realize new projects. The primary objectives of this opportunity are to support artists who are developing their voices and for whom the award may serve as a launching point in their career. Includes artists with less than ten years of experience.

Kala Art Institute

Fellowship application will re-open in December 2024.

$3,000 stipend, unlimited access to Kala鈥檚 facilities for up to nine months, one Kala class, and a culminating show in the Kala Gallery.

Artists producing innovative work in mediums including printmaking, digital media, installation art, social practice, photography, and book arts are encouraged to apply. Fellowship Awards will be given based on conceptual creativity, originality and artistic excellence as well as project specific technical knowledge.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Anticipated Due: March 12, 2025

Application information will be available in January of 2025.

Stipend: $66,000 in year one and $70,000 in year two, plus health insurance and professional development funding.

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Anticipated Due: April 28, 2024

$5,000-$10,000 stipend

$25,000 USD in Amazon Cloud credits

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Halcyon Fellowships equip early-stage impact-driven founders with tools and relationships they need to achieve scalable, lasting impact.

Residencies, workshops, training.

Access to pro bono legal support, skills development, and mentorship.

Join a community of over 300 impact driven entrepreneurs!

Due: June听1, 2024

Award Amount: $5,000

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Anticipated Due: September 10, 2024

A听$92,000 a year stipend is provided.

Princeton Arts Fellows听spend two consecutive academic years (September 1-July 1) at Princeton University and formal teaching is expected.

Applicants should be early career composers, conductors, musicians, choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists鈥搕his list is not meant to be exhaustive鈥搘ho would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Due: September 25, 2024

Maximum award: $60,000
Tenure: six to twelve consecutive months devoted to full-time research and/or writing, to be initiated between July 1, 2024听and July 1, 2025, and to be completed by December 31, 2025

ACLS invites research proposals听from scholars in all disciplines of the听humanities and interpretive social sciences. ACLS will continue听in the 2023-24听competition year to offer these fellowships solely to听untenured scholars who have earned the PhD within听eight years of the application deadline.

Stanford Humanities Center (SHC)

Applications for the 2025鈥�2026 year will be available in August 2024.

Stipends of up to $70,000 and a housing and moving allowance of up to $40,000.

The Getty Foundation

Due: October 1, 2024

Multiple Amounts & Durations

Open to early career faculty who have recieved their degree in the last 5 years.

Princeton Institute for Advanced Study

Due: October 15 (Annual)

Up to a maximum of $78,000 for two terms (six months, September to April), or a maximum of $39,000 for one term (three months, September to December).

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

Due: October 18, 2024

Fellows receive stipends up to $35,000, funding for travel and research, and attend a retreat to connect with other scholars and mentors.

The Career Enhancement Fellowship Program seeks to increase the presence of minority junior faculty members and other faculty members committed to eradicating racial disparities in core fields in the arts and humanities.

Formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

American Academy in Rome

Due: November 1 (Annual)

Each Rome Prize winner is provided with a stipend, meals, a bedroom with private bath, and a private workspace. Those with children under eighteen live in partially subsidized apartments nearby. Winners of half- and full-term fellowships receive stipends of $16,000 and $30,000, respectively.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Due: Information for the 2024-25 competition coming in July 2024.听

Stipend for flexible fellowships: $15,000 calculated as $5,000 per month for three months鈥� work accomplished over a twelve-month period.

Stipend for long-term fellowships: Minimum $20,000, maximum $40,000 calculated as $5,000 per month for four to eight months鈥� work accomplished full time, i.e., with leave from all university responsibilities.听 An additional $5,000 allowance will be provided for attendance at the 2022 summer retreat.

An applicant must hold a PhD degree conferred no earlier than January 1, 201. Applicants who have obtained tenure, or who have submitted tenure materials for review by the application deadline are not eligible.

The fellowship period must begin between July 1 of the following year and September 30 the second year after applying.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Due: Information for the 2024-25 competition coming in July 2024.听鈥�

Stipend: up to $70,000, to provide release from other duties for devoting full time to the proposed project. The exact stipend will be calculated based on the Fellows鈥� current academic salary and other fellowships, grants, sabbatical salary to be received during fellowship tenure. A nine-month stipend may not exceed 125% of the annual academic salary.

For pre-tenure scholars who hold the PhD degree, with priority given to those teaching full time.
An applicant must hold a PhD degree conferred no earlier than January 1, 2018.
The PhD degree must be conferred by May 31, 2024.

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

Due: December 1 (Annual)

A $20,000 grant to free the time of junior faculty who have passed their mid-point review so that they may pursue tenure effectively while continuing to engage in campus leadership and service.

Applicants eligible for the Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award will be assistant professors in tenure-track appointments who are pursuing tenure.

Building inclusive campus communities through their teaching, scholarship, and service. Awardees are early-career faculty who may be working in any field of the humanities or social sciences. In addition to bringing a diversity of perspectives to their fields, MEFL awardees are building support systems, networks, and affinity groups for their students and peers.

Formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation)

Mandatory Intent to Submit Form: March 1 (Annual)

$25,000

Investigators must have received a Ph.D. or equivalent research doctorate within the discipline of communication sciences and disorders.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation)

Mandatory Intent to Submit Form: March 1 (Annual)

$10,000

Investigators must have completed a PhD or equivalent research doctorate in communication sciences and disorders within the past five years

Alzheimer鈥檚 Association

Mandatory Letter of Intent Due: February 28听(Annual)

Due: May 1 (Annual)

Each AARG award total is limited to $200,000 (direct and indirect costs) for up to three years (minimum two years = $140,000). Requests may not exceed $70,000 in any given year (direct and indirect costs). Indirect costs are capped at 10% of total direct costs and is inclusive of indirect costs for the implementing institution as well as to any subcontracts.

Applicants must be an Assistant Professors or above at their respective academic institution and less than 15 years past their doctoral degree or post-residency (M.D. or D.O.).

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Due: March 13, 2024

Information will be available in January 2025听for the next award cycle.

Stipend: $66,000 in year one, and $70,000 in year two, plus health insurance and professional development funding.

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF)

Anticipated Due: March 11, 2025

Funding amount and duration varies.

Aims to fund early-career investigators who are less than 15 years past their doctoral degree or post-residency (MD or DO). The intent is to support early-career development that will lay the groundwork for future research grant applications to federal or other funding entities.

Foundation for Child Development

LOI Due: June 17, 2024

Application Deadline: October 15, 2024

Up to $225,000 to be used over a two- to three-year period.

2024听Eligibility Info: Eligible researchers must have received their doctoral degrees (e.g., Ph.D., Ed.D., Psy.D., J.D., etc.) between January 1, 2014 and June 30, 2022. Physician applicants must have received their M.D. degrees between January 1, 2011 and June 30, 2022.

Smith Richardson Foundation

Due: June 17, 2024

$60,000 to enable the recipients to research and write a book.

To support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

If interested please contact Andrew Chiacchierini

Due: September 15 (Annual)

Two-year, $75,000 fellowships

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Due: September 25, 2024

Maximum award: $60,000
Tenure: six to twelve consecutive months devoted to full-time research and/or writing, to be initiated between July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2025, and to be completed no later than December 31, 2025.

ACLS invites research proposals听from scholars in all disciplines of the听humanities and interpretive social sciences. ACLS will continue听in the 2023-24听competition year to offer these fellowships solely to听untenured scholars who have earned the PhD within听eight years of the application deadline.

Stanford Humanities Center (SHC)

Due: October 1 (Annual)

Applications for the 2025鈥�2026 year will be available in August 2024.

Stipends of up to $70,000 and a housing and moving allowance of up to $40,000.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Anticipated Due: November 16, 2024.听

Information for the 2024-25 competition coming in July 2024.

Stipend for flexible fellowships: $15,000 calculated as $5,000 per month for three months鈥� work accomplished over a twelve-month period.

Stipend for long-term fellowships: Minimum $20,000, maximum $45,000 calculated as $5,000 per month for four to eight months鈥� work accomplished full time, i.e., with leave from all university responsibilities.

Flexible research fellowships will enable recent PhDs (without tenure and within eight years of the PhD) with heavy teaching and service responsibilities to carry out research and writing towards a significant scholarly product.

Long-term research fellowships will enable recent PhDs (without tenure and within eight years of the PhD) to take leave from university responsibilities for four to nine months to carry out research and writing towards a significant scholarly product.

Russell Sage Foundation

Due: October 22, 2023

Assistant professors (tenure and non-tenure track) are eligible to apply for grants of up to $30,000.

For early-career researchers in collaboration with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The competition seeks to promote diversity in the social sciences broadly, including racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity. Early-career faculty who have not previously received support from RSF in the form of a Trustee or Presidential research grant or a visiting fellowship from RSF are听eligible to apply.

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Due: November 15 (Annual)

Up to $140,000 over 2 years
These grants must allocate $14,000 ($7,000 per year) of their award for an established researcher to mentor the Young Investigator. AFSP is available to assist you in identifying a suitable mentor.

Grants awarded to investigators at or below the level of assistant professor.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Anticipated Due: November 30, 2024

Information for the 2024-25 competition coming in July 2024.听

Stipend: up to $70,000, to provide release from other duties for devoting full time to the proposed project. The exact stipend will be calculated based on the Fellows鈥� current academic salary and other fellowships, grants, sabbatical salary to be received during fellowship tenure. A nine-month stipend may not exceed 125% of the annual academic salary.

For pre-tenure scholars who hold the PhD degree, with priority given to those teaching full time.
An applicant must hold a PhD degree conferred no earlier than January 1, 2018.
The PhD degree must be conferred by May 31, 2024.

PhRMA Foundation

Multiple Deadlines

$100,000 for one year

Research Starter Grants offer financial support to individuals beginning independent research careers at the faculty level.

Cure Epilepsy

Mandatory LOI Due: January 9, 2024

Due: March 26, 2024

Up to $100,000 for one year.

• A senior postdoctoral fellow who has a minimum of 3 years postdoctoral experience.
• A clinical fellow who is a Neurology Resident in his/her Neurology training and considering Epilepsy Fellowships.
• Newly appointed faculty within one year of having completed postdoctoral training.

McKnight Foundation

Due:听January 13, 2025

Currently, awards are $75,000 per year for 3 years.

The Scholar Awards support young scientists who: hold an M.D. and/or Ph.D. degree; have completed formal postdoctoral training; and demonstrate a commitment to neuroscience.

Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

January (Annual)

Applications will open in October 2024

$25,000

The pilot research grant is designed to help a basic or clinical scientist in the early stages of their career conduct research that may lead to further funding. Applicant must be no more than five years post training (most recent training; training includes residency, MD/PhD training, professional school, graduate school, post doc, or fellowship). Applicant must not have served as the principal investigator of a peer-reviewed grant for more than $50,000 in a single calendar year.

Whitehall Foundation

Mandatory LOI: January 15, April 15, and October 1 (Annual)

Due: June 1, September 1, and February 15 (Annual)

Awarded for a one-year period and do not exceed $30,000.

The Grants-in-Aid program is designed for researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology.

Health Effects Institute (HEI)

Preliminary Application Anticipated Due: February

The RFA for this award is posted in December of each year.

Provides funding for one or two studies with a funding cap of $500,000 each.

Scientists of any nationality holding a PhD, ScD, MD, DVM, or DrPH degree or equivalent are eligible to apply. At the time of application the candidate should have two to seven years of research experience after obtaining the highest degree and must be at the Assistant Professor level or equivalent at an academic or research institution.

National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF)

LOI Due: May 6

Due: June 3

Awards up to $70,000 annually for a maximum of three years.

Candidates must hold a MD, PhD, or equivalent degree, with no more than six years of postdoctoral years of experience in hematology, nor more than six years since completion of medical training.

National Institutes of Health ()

February 12 (Annual)
June 12 (Annual)
October 12 (Annual)

$90,000 for PhDs or $100,000 for MDs听per year toward the salary of the career award recipient.

The Mentored Career Transition Award for NIMH Intramural Fellows (K22) is a two-phase, mentored career development award program that is intended to facilitate a timely transition of qualified postdoctoral fellows in the NIMH Division of Intramural Programs (DIRP) from intramural postdoctoral research positions to extramural, academic tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions at eligible U.S. institutions. 听Both the intramural and extramural phases will be mentored, and the award will provide research support during the extramural phase to help awardees launch competitive, independent research programs.

Klingenstein Philanthropies

February 1听(Annual)

$300,000 payable over a three-year period ($100,000 per year)

To qualify for an award, investigators must hold a Ph.D. and/or an M.D, and have completed all research training, including post-doctoral training. The candidate must have a tenure track appointment or equivalent. The candidate must be an independent investigator at a university, medical center, or research institute with a maximum of four years between the completion of last postdoc and the application deadline.

LUNGevity

Mandatory LOI Due: February 26, 2024

Due: May15, 2024

Maximum of $300,000: $100,000 per year for 3 years

LUNGevity鈥檚 Career Development Award in Lung Cancer Translational Research program supports future research leaders who will keep the field of lung cancer research vibrant with new ideas. Applicants must be within the first five years of their faculty appointment.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation)

Intent to Submit Form Due: March 1 (Annual)

Next program opens in 2025

$10,000

Alzheimer鈥檚 Association

Mandatory Letter of Intent Due:
February 28 (Annual)
May 1 (Annual)

Each AARG award total is limited to $200,000 (direct and indirect costs) for up to three years (minimum two years = $140,000). Requests may not exceed $70,000 in any given year (direct and indirect costs). Indirect costs are capped at 10% of total direct costs and is inclusive of indirect costs for the implementing institution as well as to any subcontracts.

Applications will be accepted from postdoctoral fellows (or an equivalent level position) with full-time positions at their respective academic institutions and less than 10 years of research experience after receipt of their terminal degree.

Alzheimer鈥檚 Association

Mandatory Letter of Intent Due:
February 28 (Annual)
May 1 (Annual)

Each AARG award total is limited to $200,000 (direct and indirect costs) for up to three years (minimum two years = $140,000). Requests may not exceed $70,000 in any given year (direct and indirect costs). Indirect costs are capped at 10% of total direct costs and is inclusive of indirect costs for the implementing institution as well as to any subcontracts.

Applicants must be an Assistant Professors or above at their respective academic institution and less than 15 years past their doctoral degree or post-residency (M.D. or D.O.).

Sontag Foundation

Due: March 13, 2024听(Annual)

This prestigious $750,000 award is paid over a five-year period at $150,000 per year.

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)

Letter of Intent: March 28, 2024

Submission of Full Applications: mid-September, by invitation only.

$300,000 for a team of 2; $400,000 for a team of 3; $500,000 for a team
of 4 or more members. These figures represent the amount awarded to the whole team per year for
a period of 3 years.

All members of an RG-Early Career team must be within 5 years of obtaining an independent position and must have obtained their first doctoral degree (PhD, MD or equivalent) no longer than 10 years before the deadline for submission of the letter of intent.

FSP Research Grants support innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries.

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF)

Due: March 31, 2024

Funding amount and duration varies.

Aims to fund early-career investigators who are less than 15 years past their doctoral degree or post-residency (MD or DO). The intent is to support early-career development that will lay the groundwork for future research grant applications to federal or other funding entities.

American Cancer Society

April 1 (Annual)
October 15 (Annual)

Awards are for up to 4 years with up to $200,000 a year for direct costs, plus 20% allowable indirect costs.

Independent investigators and clinician scientists in the first ten years of an
independent research career or faculty appointment are eligible to apply. Applicants cannot have more than one R01/R01-like grant (>$100,000 per year direct costs for more than three years) as a principal investigator at the time of application.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Due: June 27, 2024

200,000 USD maximum/year for up to 5 years, including up to 10% for indirect costs and generally not renewable after 5 years

Researchers who have received their first faculty-level appointment less than 3 years before the submission date are eligible to apply for this award. The applicant must hold an academic faculty-level position (including assistant professor or equivalent) at the time of submission of the proposal, at a university, health science center, or comparable institution with strong, well-established research and training programs for the chosen area of interest.

Foundation for Child Development

LOI Due: June 7, 2024

Due: October 15, 2024

Up to $225,000 to be used over a two- to three-year period.

2024听Eligibility Info: Eligible researchers must have received their doctoral degrees (e.g., Ph.D., Ed.D., Psy.D., J.D., etc.) between January 1, 2014 and June 30, 2022. Physician applicants must have received their M.D. degrees between January 1, 2011 and June 30, 2022.

Human Vaccines Project

Anticipated Last Due: June 11, 2024

$150,000 given annually

To support promising early-career researchers听who possess novel ideas and who have significant potential to execute these ideas to affect transformative change in their respective fields.听Open to early-career researchers under 35 at the time of application, and will focus on human immunology, vaccine discovery and immunotherapy research.听

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Due: July 8 (Annual)

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).

Tenure-track Assistant Professors within the first five (5) years of obtaining their initial Assistant Professor position. Basic and translational/clinical projects will be considered.听 Applications will be accepted from all scientific disciplines provided that the proposed research meets the selection criteria.

National Institutes of Health ()

LOI Due: 30 days prior to the application due date

Due: August 21, 2024

NCI, $3M, five to seven awards;

NIBIB, $1M, one to two awards;

NIDA, up to $1M, up to three awards.

Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) intend to support early-career academic scientists interested in transitioning to entrepreneurship while also supporting the transfer of technology from academic laboratories into small businesses.

Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation

LOI Due: August 1, 2024 (Annual)

Full proposal: Following January (Annual)

Projects are normally funded for a period of four years. Grants are in the range of $600,000 ($150,000 annually) over the term of the project, contingent upon demonstrated progress after the second year of the award.

The BYI program is open to those within the first four years of a tenure-track position, or an equivalent independent research appointment, at a United States academic or non-profit institution that conducts research in chemical and life sciences.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Anticipated Due: August 2024

The Principal Investigator may request up to 75% salary, but not more than $75,000/year for salary plus applicable fringe benefits in the first year. A 3% annual increase in salary is allowed.
The research budget may not exceed $30,000 in year 1 and may increase by $2,500 in subsequent years to a maximum of $40,000 in year 5.

The awards support candidates who have concluded their research training and begun academic careers as independent investigators in an area related to multiple sclerosis.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

If interested please contact Andrew Chiacchierini

Due: September 15 (Annual)

Nominations for the 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships will open July 15, 2024.

Two-year, $75,000 fellowships

Scleroderma Foundation

Due: September 16听(Annual)

Three-year award in the amount of $200,000 total

The Foundation seeks applications from promising new investigators who hold faculty or equivalent positions and who wish to pursue a career in research related to scleroderma. Applicants must have a doctoral degree in Medicine, Osteopathy, Veterinary Medicine or one of the sciences; and must have completed a postdoctoral fellowship by the grant award date. Applicants who have been a principal investigator on grants from the Scleroderma Foundation or other national, private or government agencies other than fellowship grants are not eligible for this award.

National Ataxia Foundation

Mandatory LOI: September 6听(Annual)

Full Proposal: Decembe2, 2024 (Annual)

Up to $50,000 for 1 year.

Must have attained an MD or PhD degree.
Must have an appointment as a junior faculty member, senior post-doc, or clinical fellow.

Michelson Philanthropies and AAAS/Science

Due: October 1 (Annual)

One $30,000 grand prize with an essay printed in Science and two $10,000 finalist awards with essays published in Science Online

Intended to encourage and support early-career investigators who perform immunology research with trans-disease applications to accelerate vaccine and immunotherapeutic discovery.

Researchers 35 years of age and under are eligible. Awards are for research conducted in the past 3 years.

California Breast Cancer Research Program

Mandatory LOI: October 19, 2023 (Annual)

Due: March 5, 2024

Budget cap for total project direct costs is either $100,000 or $150,000 (higher cap is for projects using animal or human participants). Non-UC institutions are entitled to full F&A of the Modified Total Direct Cost base (MTDC).

Researchers at a career level beyond postdoctoral training and less than three years as an independent investigator, or entering research from another field, are encouraged to apply for IDEA grants.

Melanoma Research Alliance

Anticipated LOI Due: September 20, 2024

Anticipated Eligibility Checklist Due:听 October 20, 2024

Anticipated Full Proposal Due: November 3, 2024

Up to $85,000 per year for three years (up to $255,000 total)

Young Investigator Awards aim to attract early career faculty with original ideas into the field of melanoma, thereby recruiting and supporting the next generation of melanoma research leaders. Awardees will be provided funding to accomplish innovative and original, preclinical, translational, and/or early clinical research projects. Young Investigators are scientists within the first five years of their first academic faculty appointment. A mentorship commitment from a senior investigator is required.

American Auditory Society

Abstract Due: November 1听(Annual)

Intended to provide travel support to new investigators.

Completed a doctoral degree (or post-doc training or residency) within the past five years. Applicants with appointments in academic programs should be at junior faculty levels (e.g., instructor, assistant professor).听 All applicants must have completed a degree in an area of research falling within .

American Heart Association

Due: December 5, 2024

$77,000 per year, including 10% institutional indirect costs.
Award Duration: Three years. non-renewable
Total Award Amount: $231,000

Research Corporation for Science Advancement

Varies

Contact Lisa Nanstad for more information and to apply

Fellows are early career faculty at universities and colleges in the United States and Canada, with 鈥渆arly career鈥� defined as anytime from just joining an institution as a beginning assistant professor through one- or two-years post-tenure.

PhRMA Foundation

Multiple Deadlines

$100,000 for one year

Research Starter Grants offer financial support to individuals beginning independent research careers at the faculty level.

Cure Epilepsy

Mandatory LOI听 Due: January 9, 2024

Due: March 26, 2024

Up to $100,000 for one year.

• A senior postdoctoral fellow who has a minimum of 3 years postdoctoral experience.
• A clinical fellow who is a Neurology Resident in his/her Neurology training and considering Epilepsy Fellowships.
• Newly appointed faculty within one year of having completed postdoctoral training.

McKnight Foundation

January 15 (Annual)

Application reopens Monday, August 12, 2024

Currently, awards are $75,000 per year for 3 years.

The Scholar Awards support young scientists who: hold an M.D. and/or Ph.D. degree; have completed formal postdoctoral training; and demonstrate a commitment to neuroscience.

Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

January (Annual)

$25,000

The pilot research grant is designed to help a basic or clinical scientist in the early stages of their career conduct research that may lead to further funding. Applicant must be no more than five years post training (most recent training; training includes residency, MD/PhD training, professional school, graduate school, post doc, or fellowship). Applicant must not have served as the principal investigator of a peer-reviewed grant for more than $50,000 in a single calendar year.

American Statistical Association

Due: January 15 (Annual)

The honoree is presented with an engraved award and $2,500 the year they are selected and delivers a lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings the year of their award.

The Noether Early Career Scholar Award is given each year to an accomplished young researcher. This award is made to foster, encourage, and support both research and teaching in nonparametric statistics.

Eligibility for this award is for those who obtained their PhD degree or an equivalent degree in the past eight years.

Whitehall Foundation

Mandatory LOI: January 15, April 15, and October 1 (Annual)

Awarded for a one-year period and do not exceed $30,000.

The Grants-in-Aid program is designed for researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology.

National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF)

LOI Due: May 6 (Annual)

Due: June 3, 2024

Awards up to $70,000 annually for a maximum of three years.

Candidates must hold a MD, PhD, or equivalent degree, with no more than six years of postdoctoral years of experience in hematology, nor more than six years since completion of medical training.

: Neuroscience

Klingenstein Philanthropies

February 1听(Annual)

Application portal opens annually on September 15 and closes on February 1.

$300,000 payable over a three-year period ($100,000 per year)

To qualify for an award, investigators must hold a Ph.D. and/or an M.D, and have completed all research training, including post-doctoral training. The candidate must have a tenure track appointment or equivalent. The candidate must be an independent investigator at a university, medical center, or research institute with a maximum of four years between the completion of last postdoc and the application deadline.

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)

LOI Anticipated Due: Late March

Submission of Full Applications: mid-September (by invitation)

$300,000 for a team of 2; $400,000 for a team of 3; $500,000 for a team of 4 or more members. These figures represent the amount awarded to the whole team per year for a period of 3 years.

All members of an RG-Early Career team must be within 5 years of obtaining an independent position and must have obtained their first doctoral degree (PhD, MD or equivalent) no longer than 10 years before the deadline for submission of the letter of intent.

FSP Research Grants support innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries.

Health Effects Institute (HEI)

Preliminary Application Anticipated Due: February

The RFA for this award is posted in December of each year.

Provides funding for one or two studies with a funding cap of $500,000 each.

Scientists of any nationality holding a PhD, ScD, MD, DVM, or DrPH degree or equivalent are eligible to apply. At the time of application the candidate should have two to seven years of research experience after obtaining the highest degree and must be at the Assistant Professor level or equivalent at an academic or research institution.

Human Vaccines Project

Due: July听1, 2024

$150,000 given annually

To support promising early-career researchers听who possess novel ideas and who have significant potential to execute these ideas to affect transformative change in their respective fields.听Open to early-career researchers under 35 at the time of application, and will focus on human immunology, vaccine discovery and immunotherapy research.

Research Corporation for Science Advancement

July 1 (Annual)

$120,000 over 3 years

Contact Lisa Nanstad for more information and to apply

Eligible applicants are tenure-track faculty who hold primary or courtesy appointments in chemistry, physics, or astronomy departments that offer bachelor's and/or graduate degrees in the applicant's discipline. For the 2023听proposal cycle, eligibility is limited to faculty members who started their first tenure-track appointment anytime in calendar year 2020.

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

July (Annual)

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).

Tenure-track Assistant Professors within the first five (5) years of obtaining their initial Assistant Professor position. Basic and translational/clinical projects will be considered.听 Applications will be accepted from all scientific disciplines provided that the proposed research meets the selection criteria.

Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation

LOI: August 1, 2024 (Annual)

Full proposal: January 16, 2024 (Annual)

Projects are normally funded for a period of four years. Grants are in the range of $600,000 ($150,000 annually) over the term of the project, contingent upon demonstrated progress after the second year of the award.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

If interested please contact Andrew Chiacchierini

September (Annual)

Two-year, $75,000 fellowships

Scleroderma Foundation

September 16听(Annual)

Three-year award in the amount of $200,000 total

The Foundation seeks applications from promising new investigators who hold faculty or equivalent positions and who wish to pursue a career in research related to scleroderma. Applicants must have a doctoral degree in Medicine, Osteopathy, Veterinary Medicine or one of the sciences; and must have completed a postdoctoral fellowship by the grant award date. Applicants who have been a principal investigator on grants from the Scleroderma Foundation or other national, private or government agencies other than fellowship grants are not eligible for this award.

National Ataxia Foundation

Mandatory LOI: September 6听(Annual)

Full Proposal: December 2 (Annual)

Up to $50,000 for 1 year.

Must have attained an MD or PhD degree.
Must have an appointment as a junior faculty member, senior post-doc, or clinical fellow.

California Breast Cancer Research Program

Mandatory LOI: October 19, 2023

Due: March 5, 2024

Budget cap for total project direct costs is either $100,000 or $150,000 (higher cap is for projects using animal or human participants). Non-UC institutions are entitled to full F&A of the Modified Total Direct Cost base (MTDC).

Researchers at a career level beyond postdoctoral training and less than three years as an independent investigator, or entering research from another field, are encouraged to apply for IDEA grants.

Simons Foundation

Mandatory LOI: November 1, 2023

Due: February 29, 2024

Grants will be for $270,000 USD per year, including indirect costs (limited to 20 percent of modified total direct costs), for a period of three years, subject to annual reviews and continuation of research in areas relevant to the purpose of this program.

Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. They must currently hold a tenure-track, tenured or, for institutions with no tenure track, an equivalent independent position in an institution in the U.S. or Canada (in a campus within these countries) and have carried out research in such a position for at least one year and no more than five years. They must be the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI currently or within the past year on a research grant from a national governmental agency or major national or international foundation that awards direct funding to their institution for their research in the field of microbial ecology and/or evolution in marine or natural freshwater systems.

U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)

Due: [November 20, 2024 (Annual)

Do not exceed $250,000 and this support is divided among the PIs and spread over the lifetime of the program (up to four years).

Projects must have a strong element of cooperation between an Israeli and an American scientist(s), and fall within the areas of research supported in that year by the BSF. At least one of the PIs should have attained his/her Ph.D., M.D. degree or equivalent, no more than ten years prior to submitting the proposal.

American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS)

November 30 (Annual)

$35,000

Open to academic scientists within four years (at time award is presented) of joining their first tenure track faculty position or equivalent in a North American university at the time award is conferred.听 Applicants may not have previously received an award under this program. Applicants must be members of ASMS.

American Heart Association

Due: December 5, 2024

$77,000 per year, including 10% institutional indirect costs.
Award Duration: Three years. non-renewable
Total Award Amount: $231,000

American Mathematical Society (AMS)

September 30, 2024

Expected to be in the amount of $50,000.

A recipient of the fellowship shall have held their doctoral degree for at least three years and not more than twelve years at the inception of the award.
Applications will be accepted from those currently holding a tenured, tenure track, post-doctoral, or comparable (at the discretion of the selection committee) position at an institution in North America.