Early Career Funding Opportunities

Funding OpportunityFunding AmountOpen/LimitedKeywords
Additional VenturesSingle Ventricle Research Fund<$600,000OpenBiomedical, Cardiovascular disease, Heart defects, Single ventricle heart defect, Treatment and prevention, Clinical care, Genetics, Tissue engineering, Computational modeling, Maternal and infant health
Additional VenturesCatalyst to Independence AwardUp to $1MOpenSingle ventricle heart disease
Alex’s Lemonade Stand FoundationYoung Investigator Grant$180,000OpenBiomedical, pediatric cancer
Alex’s Lemonade Stand FoundationRUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grant$180,000OpenBiomedical, pediatric cancer
Alfred P. Sloan FoundationSloan Research Fellows$75,000LimitedChemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics
American Council of Learned SocietiesFlexible Early Career Fellowships$15,000OpenHumanities, interpretive social sciences.
American Council of Learned SocietiesLong-Term Early Career Fellowships$45,000OpenHumanities, interpretive social sciences.
American Heart AssociationCareer Development AwardVariesOpenBiomedical, Innovation, Pilot studies, Cardiovascular disease, Cerebrovascular disease
American Lung AssociationThe Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Agingup to $225,000OpenBiomedical, Basic science, Behavioral science, Clinical research, Translational research, Disease
Arnold and Mabel Beckman FoundationBeckman Young Investigator$600,000LimitedChemistry, life sciences
BlavatnikNational Awards for Young Scientists$250,000LimitedAgricultural & Animal Sciences, Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology, Clinical Medicine & Epidemiology, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, Developmental Biology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Neuroscience
Burroughs Wellcome FundCareer Awards at the Scientific Interface$560,000OpenPhysical, mathematical, computational sciences and/or engineering
CIFARCIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program$100,000LimitedInterdisciplinary research, STEM, Humanities, Social sciences
CZIScience Diversity Leadership Award$1.15MOpenBiomedical, diversity
Foundation for Child Development Young Scholars ProgramUp to $225,000OpenChild development, Child welfare, Community and economic development, Early childhood education, Job creation and workforce development, Leadership development, Public affairs, Public policy, Social sciences
Foundation for Food & Agriculture ResearchNew Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research AwardUp to $450,000LimitedAgriculture, Education, Environment, Food security, Health, Natural resources, Nutrition, Organic farming, Sustainable agriculture
Gordon and Betty Moore FoundationMoore Inventor Fellows$675,000LimitedEnvironmental science, conservation, remote sensing, biology, oceanography, engineering, physics, chemistry, materials science, neuroscience, and public health
Kenneth Rainin FoundationEarly Career Catalyst Award$500,000OpenInflammatory Bowel Disease
Kinship FoundationSearle Scholars$300,000LimitedBiochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences
McKnight FoundationMcKnight Scholar Award$225,000OpenNeuroscience, Brain disease, Memory, Cognitive function, Translational research, Innovation
Pew Charitable TrustPew Biomedical Scholars$300,000LimitedBiomedical, engineering, physical sciences
Pew Charitable TrustPew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research$300,000LimitedBiomedical, cancer research, medicine, engineering, physical sciences
PhRMA FoundationFaculty Starter Grant in Value Assessment-Health Outcomes Research$100,000OpenBiomedicine, diseases and conditions, health, health care access, HIV/AIDS, public health
Research Corporation For Science AdvancementCottrell Scholars$120,000OpenChemistry, physics, astronomy
Rita Allen Foundation2024 Scholars Award in Pain$150,000LimitedBiomedical, Chronic pain, Pain research, Innovation, Pain management, Molecular biology, Molecular mechanisms
Rita Allen FoundationRita Allen ScholarsUp to $550,000LimitedBiomedical, cancer, immunology, neuroscience
Russell SagePipeline GrantsUp to $50,000OpenBehavioral Science, Future of Work, Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, Social, Political, and Economic Inequality,
Simons FoundationEarly Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution$810,000OpenMicrobial ecology, microbial biogeochemistry, microbial evolution in marine or natural freshwater systems
Whitehall FoundationResearch Grants and Grants-in-Aid at Asst. Prof. Level$30,000 – $100,000LimitedLife sciences, High risk, High impact
Last modified: Nov 26, 2024