Funding Opportunities

The Petroleum Research Fund is an endowed fund, managed by the American Chemical Society that supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels at nonprofit institutions (generally colleges and universities) in the United States and other countries.

APDA Research Grants are intended to support basic or applied research aimed at reducing the burden of Parkinson’s disease.  The APDA seeks to promote the entry of new investigators in to the field of Parkinson research, as well as to support important new ideas in the field worthy of investigation.

The awards support small scientific meetings to promote collaboration and enable a number of individuals to gather and have focused discussions and presentations.

The AMS-Simons Travel Grants are administered by the AMS with support from the Simons Foundation. Each grant provides an early-career mathematician with $2,500 per year for two years to be used for research-related travel. Applicants must be located in the United States (or be U.S. citizens employed outside the U.S.) and must have completed the PhD within the last four years. The department of the awardee will also receive a small amount of funding to help enhance its research environment.

The goal of the portfolio is to support studies that develop and disseminate sound data that inform best practices and produce better outcomes and improve quality of life for people living with spinal cord injuries. PSR explores the interrelation of behavioral, social and psychological factors that influence participation, health practice, lifestyle, and support systems in community and clinical settings.

The goal of the portfolio is to address gaps in the field and advance novel approaches to improving function and developing curative therapies after SCI. This research is designed to improve understanding and advance the treatment of acute and chronic SCI and includes mechanistic, preclinical, translational and/or clinical studies.

This award supports creative junior investigators, at the Assistant Professor or equivalent level, with outstanding promise who are interested in the health effects of air pollution.

Human Frontier Science Program supports international, preferably intercontinental, collaborations in basic life science research. Applications are invited for grants to support innovative approaches to understanding complex mechanisms of living organisms.

The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era.

The Digital Resources program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning.

The History of Arts program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture.

Grants awarded through this RFA are intended to provide funding for investigators conducting bold, creative and rigorous research into the underlying biology, causes and treatment of autism spectrum disorders.

The Glaucoma Foundation offers grants to researchers striving to improve the lives of glaucoma patients through novel innovations and scientific advances. The areas of current focus for TGF’s Grant Research program are exfoliation syndrome, exfoliation glaucoma and intraocular pressure-independent mechanisms of optic nerve degeneration in glaucoma. Examples of research that may be considered range from basic science to clinical interventions, such as genetics and genomic medicine, disease modeling, assessment of ocular perfusion, artificial intelligence, and clinical research. 

Three 2021 Allen Distinguished Investigator (ADI) initiatives have been announced. Up to 11 awards will be made for up to $16.5M total funding to support pioneering research in 1) Micropeptides, 2) Neural Circuit Design, and 3) Mammalian Synthetic Development. 

The Distinguished Scientist Award (DSA) seeks to provide career and research support to early career scientists who demonstrate outstanding promise for making scientific and medical breakthroughs in the field of brain cancer research. Recipients of the award are inspired individuals with projects that show potential to generate new knowledge relating to causes, cure or treatment of primary brain tumors/brain cancer. 

The Google.org AI for the Global Goals Call for Applications is a call to find organizations and researchers around the world that are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help accelerate progress against the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the past we've supported projects that use AI-powered tools to track air quality and pollution, use bioacoustic monitoring to detect immediate deforestation threats, and connect people in transition to education and job opportunities - and others.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the application window will remain open until 11:59pm PST on 17 March 2023. Google.org will work with partners and AI experts to evaluate projects and select organizations to receive support. Based on the type of project, Google.org will provide support through a combination of funding, product donations and technical expertise.

More information at funder's website.

The Citi Foundation announced  its first-ever Global Innovation Challenge request for proposals to support community organizations around the world that are developing innovative solutions to improve food security. This inaugural challenge will provide a collective $25 million to 50 organizations working to pilot or expand ideas and projects that  are designed to improve food security and strengthen the financial health of low-income families and communities.

View additional information at the NDR Limited submission page (search by sponsor "Citi")

The PTC Therapeutics grant awards program Strategies to Realize Innovation, Vision, and Empowerment (STRIVE) recognizes and supports nonprofit organizations committed to serving rare disease communities. By recognizing the vital role patient advocacy groups play, we can give voice to those affected by these rare diseases.

It was designed to support programs that address unmet needs for the Duchenne community, to:

• Improve diagnosis and treatment of patients
• Improve quality of life for those living with Duchenne and their families
• Educate the public and healthcare professionals and raise Duchenne awareness
• Identify and foster the next generation of Duchenne patient advocates

There are three award categories for which groups can submit proposals:

• Innovative: programs that help address the unmet needs of the rare disease community
• Transition to Adulthood: programs that support young people with Duchenne in their ‘transition to adulthood’

The purpose of the Foundation is to support patient safety education for healthcare professionals in training and in practice, and patient safety research with clinically useful applications. With this in mind, we focus on innovative projects/activities that develop knowledge, techniques, and tools whose application reduces or eliminates risk of adverse events that cause harm to patients while under care.

The Foundation views innovation as the creation, development, and implementation of a new or significantly improved process, activity, or model, with the aim of measurably improving patient outcomes. Projects aiming to reduce healthcare costs while improving patient safety are encouraged.

This program calls for research that evaluates the impact of the many changes now occurring in the healthcare system with a particular focus on cancer prevention, control, and treatment. Efforts focusing on improving access to care may also impact inequities that contribute to health disparities. New health public policy initiatives such as the new federal and state marketplaces that have expanded insurance coverage, as well as Medicaid expansion in some states, create natural experiments ripe for evaluation. Research to be funded by this RFA should focus on the changes in national, state, and/or local policy and the response to these changes by healthcare systems, insurers, payers, communities, practices, and patients.

The ACS is keenly interested in supporting rapid learning research to study the effects of health policy changes on patients, providers, and health systems. This includes but is not limited to: facilitators and barriers to care; unintended consequences; differential experiences and outcomes of patients seeking or receiving care; best practice models for quality care; and, economic impact.

The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas: Applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations (e.g., serious mental illness, returning military, those who are incarcerated or economically disadvantaged); Preventing violence; Understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity); Understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability and socioeconomic status).

The foundation seeks to support projects to develop and test the feasibility of new programs for promoting positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children (birth through 18 years) from underserved groups and/or low-resourced communities (minority ethnic groups, low-income families), as well as projects that evaluate the effectiveness of such programs.

This award recognizes creative, unique and innovative research. Clinical doctors and research scientists whose primary focus is breast cancer are invited to apply.

The Dreyfus program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering provides funding for innovative projects in any area of Machine Learning (ML) consistent with the Foundation’s broad objective to advance the chemical sciences and engineering. The Foundation anticipates that these projects will contribute new fundamental chemical understanding, insight, and innovation in the field.

In an effort to support open source software for science, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) seeks letters of intent to apply for funding for software projects that are essential to biomedical research, have already demonstrated impact, can show potential for continued improvement, and expect to deliver added value to the biomedical research community through the proposed activities.

The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer.

FWW Research Awards target small, short-term studies with promise for improving medical care in leading women’s health concerns including cardiovascular disease, female cancers, the role of hormones in disease and stage-of-life health issues like pregnancy and menopause and diseases disproportionately affecting women.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announces the second annual call for ideas for flexible funding grants, as part of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative (EPiQS). Through EPiQS, the foundation strives to accelerate progress in the field of quantum materials — solids and engineered structures characterized by novel quantum phases of matter and exotic cooperative behaviors of electrons. Flexible funding grants are a key funding approach within EPiQS, which enables the foundation to respond in a timely manner to emerging opportunities in this field of research. These grants have two varieties: equipment grants and rapid response grants. 

The THRIVE grant program is designed to provide seed funding to investigators for the testing of initial hypotheses and collecting of preliminary data to help secure long-term funding by the National Institutes of Health and/or other major granting institutions.

Much of the current understanding of behavior is derived from experimental laboratory work that makes substantive conceptual and methodological assumptions during task selection and data acquisition. Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience experiments are typically pursued in artificial environments with subjects drawn from narrowly defined populations performing tasks assumed to be valid proxies for real cognition and behavior.  As a result, these experiments may not reflect the naturally occurring, free-flowing behaviors humans engage in their everyday lives. It is reasonable to ask how much has been missed or ignored because researchers’ experimental designs are based on pre-selected and specific aspects of cognition and behavior deemed to be of interest prior to the study. What more might be learned by challenging preconceived notions and common assumptions about cognition and behavior by advancing new theories and by using methods where it is possible to observe what behavior looks like in every day, real-world, dynamic contexts? With the Opportunity Awards, JSMF is seeking to fund projects leading to new conceptual and empirical studies of cognition and behavior that: 

• recognize the dynamic nature of cognition and behavior,
• are situated in real world contexts,
• cross levels of analysis,
• unite traditionally separate domains of inquiry (e.g. vision and speech),
• embrace complexity, and
• consider how behavior is influenced by interactions among individuals.

The LCRF pilot grant program funds innovative projects across the full spectrum of basic, translational, clinical, epidemiological, health services, and other research focused on one or more of the following topics:

• Lung cancer biology
• Prevention and screening for early detection
• Identification of new biomarkers
• Development of more effective and less toxic therapies including but not limited to targeted and immune-therapies
• Mechanisms of sensitivity and resistance to lung cancer therapies
• Supportive measures for people with lung cancer and their families
• Quality of care and outcomes research

The National Geographic Society welcomes proposals for projects in the areas of conservation, education, research, storytelling, and technology. 

Healthy Eating Research (HER) is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) committed to building a Culture of Health through identifying effective strategies to improve children’s nutrition and weight. HER issues calls for proposals (CFPs) to solicit scientifically rigorous, solution-oriented proposals from investigators representing diverse disciplines and backgrounds.

Through this CFP, we seek to learn what does and does not work and why; under what circumstances, who most benefits from these policies and programs; and if disparity gaps are reduced. We are interested in solution-oriented research that focuses on policy, systems and environmental (PSE) change at the national, state, local, and tribal levels. The PSE research strategies can focus on: how to strengthen existing policies or programs; evaluation of current policies or programs; or designing and pilot-testing new innovative programs that are policy-relevant.

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain is dedicated to supporting advances in systems and computational neuroscience with the goal of expanding our understanding of the brain’s internal states. SCGB’s Bridge to Independence (BTI) Award aims to facilitate the transition of the next generation of systems and computational neuroscientists to research independence. Through this effort, they seek to fund scientists doing work consistent with SCGB's scientific mission, ideally investigating large-scale circuits at single-cell resolution to understand neural dynamics and coding. They especially encourage applications from populations underrepresented in the scientific workforce, including but not limited to: racially underrepresented individuals, women, individuals with disabilities and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Issues of equity are at the core of the Joyce Foundation's mission to improve quality of life, promote safe and healthy communities, and build a just society in the Great Lakes region. They focus specifically on advancing racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation. The foundation welcomes proposals that address the following program areas: Culture, Democracy, Education & Economic Mobility, Environment, and Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform. 

The Whitehall Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. It is the Foundation's policy to assist those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not heavily supported by Federal Agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as follows: Invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior.

Amazon Research Awards (ARA) is announcing the spring 2023 call for proposals (CFP) for the Amazon Web Services AI: Generative AI research area, a new focus area for this cycle. The deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on April 26, 2023.

Proposals will be reviewed for the quality of their scientific content, creativity, and their potential for impact at scale. Proposals related to theory, practice, and novel new techniques are all welcome.

This edition of the call for proposals reflects Amazon's ongoing efforts to collaborate with researchers in an important area of research, generative artificial intelligence.

ARA provides grant recipients unrestricted funds and AWS promotional credits. Funded projects are assigned an Amazon research contact, and recipients also receive training resources, including AWS tutorials and hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers.

The Research Scholar Grant (RSG) supports investigator-initiated projects across the cancer research continuum. Independent investigators in the first 10 years of an independent research career or full-time faculty appointment are eligible to apply.

AWE invites concept submissions for its XR prize challenge - fight climate change. This is a global competition harnessing AR and VR solutions to help fight climate change by visualising information and generating empathy through spatial experiences. There are four categories:

• replace wasteful material practices;
• visualise the causes and impacts of climate change;
• educate about solutions to climate change; and
• optimise design and execution of climate solutions.

Teams and individuals, especially collaborations between XR technologists and climate change experts, may apply.

Prizes are worth up to USD 100,000.

Google Summer of Code is a global, online mentoring program focused on introducing new contributors to open source software development. GSoC contributors work on a 12+ week programming project with the guidance of mentors from their open source organization.

During Google Summer of Code, participating contributors are paired with mentors from open source organizations, gaining exposure to real-world software development techniques. Contributors will learn from experienced open source developers while writing code for real-world projects.

The objective of the Janice Wiesman Young Investigator Grant Program is to provide funding to researchers at eligible academic or nonprofit institutions who submit innovative research proposals in the areas of translational, clinical, or applied research. The research should advance the understanding of ATTR amyloidosis, facilitate early diagnosis of patients with ATTR amyloidosis, and/or enhance management of patients with a diagnosis of ATTR amyloidosis. Specifically, this program will support two young investigators, such as current fellows, residents, or junior faculty, annually to promote quality research related to ATTR amyloidosis and to support the development of future researchers and clinicians.

The ADDF offers funding to researchers for Alzheimer's drug discovery and preclinical development, clinical trials, and biomarker development research. Core request for proposals include: Drug Development, Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials (PACT), Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Development, and Prevention Beyond the Pipeline.

Each year, 15 to 20 yearlong awards are granted to ASH members who applied for an NIH R01 grant or equivalent and were scored but not funded. ASH Bridge Grants are intended to help sustain recipients' research and contribute to their retention in hematology investigation while they reapply.

The sustainability movement has reached the business models of nearly every industry in the United States, and many companies, municipalities and states have set aggressive sustainability goals that include how waste streams are being managed.  The EREF Board of Directors has set an initiative to ensure research funded reflects EREF’s long-term strategic plan to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increased sustainable solid waste management practices. Topics Include:

• Waste minimization
• Recycling
• Waste conversion to energy, biofuels, chemicals, or other useful products
• Strategies to promote diversion to higher and better uses (e.g. organics diversion, market analysis, optimized material management, logistics, etc.)
• Landfilling

Federal funding for research is tighter than ever, and often researchers do not get funded on their first try with a new proposal. The purpose of Bridge Funding is to allow researchers to produce data needed to substantiate their proposal resubmission to federal funding agencies for a promising new research project. In order to be competitive, resubmitted proposals must include solid data and address the concerns of expert reviewers. The Rivkin Center provides interim funding of up to $30,000 for six months to researchers who have submitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or an original proposal to the Department of Defense (DoD) pertaining to ovarian cancer and who were not funded but received a score close to the funding threshold. With more data, ovarian cancer researchers stand a better chance of being successfully funded with a stronger, resubmitted proposal.

Grants will be made under the following programs: Behavioral Economics; Decision Making & Human Behavior in Context; Future of Work; Social, Political and Economic Inequality. In addition, RSF will also accept LOIs relevant to any of its core programs that address at least one of the following issues: Research on the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession in the U.S., and Research focused on systemic racial inequality and/or the recent mass protests in the U.S.

The Large Research Grants on Education program aims to fund academic work that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. Proposals are encouraged from scholars across a variety of disciplines in an effort to fund field-initiated education research.

The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. The program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding individuals who are in their first few years of their appointment at the assistant professor level.

Over the past decade, a growing body of research has illuminated the conditions that facilitate the use of research evidence in policy and practice. For example, studies find that when research is relevant to decision makers, deliberated over thoughtfully, and embedded in policymaking processes, routines, and tools, the findings are more likely to be used. Still, there remain many unanswered questions that are critical to understanding how to improve the production and use of research evidence. What’s more, there is a scarcity of evidence supporting the notion that research use in policy and practice will necessarily improve youth outcomes. Serious scientific inquiry is needed. We need to know the conditions under which using research evidence improves decision making, policy implementation, service delivery, and, ultimately, youth outcomes. In short, we need research on the use of research.

Toward this end, we seek studies that identify, build, and test strategies to enhance the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth. We are particularly interested in research on improving the use of research evidence by state and local decision makers, mid-level managers, and intermediaries. Some investigators will focus on the strategies, relationships, and other supports needed for policy and practice organizations to use research more routinely and constructively. Others may investigate structures and incentives within the research community to encourage deep engagement with decision makers. Still other researchers may examine activities that help findings inform policy ideas, shape practice responses, and improve systems.

The W. T. Grant Foundation funds research that increases our understanding of the programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes, and strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.

Supporting pioneering discoveries in science, engineering and medical research has been our mandate from the beginning. By funding the high-risk/high-impact work of leading researchers, we are laying the groundwork for new paradigms, technologies and discoveries that will save lives, provide innovative solutions, and add to our understanding of the world. Both Senior and Early Career investigators are encouraged to apply.

This RFP is part of the IBM Sustainability Accelerator program.

In alignment with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, IBM will look to support projects that help improve equitable access to safe drinking water for all, improve water quality by reducing pollution, increase water-use efficiency across all sectors, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, increase sanitation management, and reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity – among other purposes.

Water Management -- improving availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation; in particular, with an eye to communities vulnerable to environmental threats 

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The Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants are research grants given annually to support promising researchers who are applying disruptive concepts and inventive processes to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery and immunotherapy research for major global diseases. The 2022 Michelson Prizes will be looking for research proposals in the following area: Human Immunology and Vaccine Research.

The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors an annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.

The Small Research Grants program aims to fund academic work that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. Proposals are encouraged from scholars across a variety of disciplines in an effort to fund field-initiated education research.

The Vilcek Foundation will award three prizes of $50,000 each to young foreign-born biomedical scientists who demonstrate outstanding early achievement. Eligible work may be in basic, applied, and/or translational biomedical science. 

The ADDF-Harrington Scholar Program is dedicated to advancing academic discoveries into medicines for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. This unique award provides funding and committed project support by a team of pharmaceutical industry experts through a collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) and Harrington Discovery Institute.

The awards support small scientific meetings to promote collaboration and enable a number of individuals to gather and have focused discussions and presentations.

This grant is meant for those at an early stage in their research career to help provide seed funding for the research required to apply for larger, longer term grants, often with the NIH. (To secure federal funding, a researcher must prove a theory works; the BCA creates the critical bridge between novel research and the opportunity to generate preliminary results.)

The Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) award supports investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the interplay between human and microbial biology, shedding light on how human and microbial systems are affected by their encounters.

The 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 of cancer.

The Cottrell Scholars (CS) program champions the best early career teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy by providing discretionary awards for research.

Career Catalyst Research Grants provide opportunities for scientists who have held faculty positions for no more than five years. This program supports hypothesis-driven research projects that have significant potential to advance our understanding of breast cancer, lead to reductions in incidence and mortality, and move us toward the goal of a world without breast cancer.

Arnold Ventures supports research to better understand effective strategies to reduce community violence by focusing on the most high-risk people and places and promoting effective policing, and ensuring that what is learned leads to scalable results. In this Request for Proposals (RFP), the foundation will prioritize funding research that addresses immediate crises of violence. Proposals for impact studies that incorporate formative and process evaluations of how violence reduction interventions are developed, resourced, and implemented will receive priority in funding decisions.

Focus Grants are designed to advance innovative, high-risk, potentially high-yield projects that focus on a specific area of suicide prevention. They are awarded in the amount of up to $500,000 per year for a maximum of three years.

The Beckman Young Investigator Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.

The foundation seeks to support projects to develop and test the feasibility of new programs for promoting positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children (birth through 18 years) from underserved groups and/or low-resourced communities (minority ethnic groups, low-income families), as well as projects that evaluate the effectiveness of such programs.

The mission of the Foundation is to support early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis or treatment of disease.

The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer.

The Foundation welcomes proposals that address Core Funding Areas: Exceptional Cognitive Talent and Genius; Genetics; Individual Freedom and Free Markets; Programs in Islam; and Programs in Latin America. 

The Foundation welcomes proposals that address Core Funding Areas: Exceptional Cognitive Talent and Genius; Genetics; Individual Freedom and Free Markets; Math and Physical Sciences; Programs in Islam; and Programs in Latin America. 

The Foundation invites concept proposals for projects that link an explicit research design to a concrete social action strategy. Projects should also have specifically stated social change goals. In the past SIF has funded projects in the areas of civic participation, community organizing, crime and law, education, health, housing, immigration, labor organizing, and language/literacy. For this funding cycle, priority will be given to projects that explicitly promote racial justice and fairer and more equitable laws, policies and practices.

Issues of equity are at the core of the Joyce Foundation's mission to improve quality of life, promote safe and healthy communities, and build a just society in the Great Lakes region. They focus specifically on advancing racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation. The foundation welcomes proposals that address the following program areas: Culture, Democracy, Education & Economic Mobility, Environment, and Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform. 

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Fellowships are awarded to scholars whose research is in chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, or a related field. Note: In order to be considered for a Sloan Research Fellowship, a candidate must be officially nominated by a department head or other senior researcher.

The ACLS Fellowship program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing.

This grant mechanism is designed to encourage implementation of a common grant protocol at two or more sites. Applicants must provide a compelling rationale for the linked grant (more than availability of a larger sample size), designate who will be responsible for the overall conduct and quality control of the study, designate who will be responsible for the data analyses, and discuss how the work at the various sites will be coordinated.

The objective of the Lung Cancer Discovery Award is to support independent investigators conducting clinical, laboratory, epidemiological or any groundbreaking project aimed at revolutionizing our current understanding of lung cancer and improving diagnostic, clinical and treatment methods.

The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry.

The Michael J. Fox Foundation funds research to better define, measure, and treat Parkinson’s disease as well as critical tools and other resources to advance that research. This program seeks to further our understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms that contribute to Parkinson’s disease with pre-clinical models. It also aims to identify the specific links between brain regions, cell types and signaling pathways to behavioral endpoints related to motor and non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD).

The Michael J. Fox Foundation funds research to better define, measure, and treat Parkinson’s disease as well as critical tools and other resources to advance that research. This program supports efforts to identify and validate Parkinson’s disease (PD) subtypes using existing data. Outcomes should be leveraged toward improving biomarkers, therapeutic/clinical trial strategies and precision medicine.

The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era.

The Digital Resources program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning.

The History of Arts program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture.

The Simons Fellows program is intended to make research leaves more productive by enabling their extension from one academic term to a full academic year. Awards will be based on the applicant’s scientific accomplishments in the five-year period preceding the application and on the potential scientific impact of the work to be done during the leave period.

The Targeted Grants to Institutes program is intended to support established institutes or centers in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science through funding to help strengthen contacts within the international science community. The aim is to enable institutes to extend and enhance their missions; this program will not provide primary support for operating or establishing an institute.

Through the Policies for Action program, the Foundation is seeking proposals to research policies with the potential to significantly improve the financial wellbeing and economic security of families and communities that have been systematically shoved to the margins, unable to enjoy a fair and just opportunity to be healthy.

Up to $2.5 million is available for research that could enable communities and families of color to dream, invest in, and design an inclusive economy and build generational wealth. Individual awards range from $30,000 to $450,000.

The Foundation welcomes applications from community-led or community-partnered research teams from diverse backgrounds and a wide range of disciplines.

The ADDF offers funding to researchers for Alzheimer's drug discovery and preclinical development, clinical trials, and biomarker development research. Core request for proposals include: Drug Development, Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials (PACT), Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Development, and Prevention Beyond the Pipeline.

The AASLD Foundation Bridge Award supports investigators who have recently submitted an NIH R or other federally-funded equivalent award and have received competitive scores on their proposal, but were not funded, as they strengthen their proposal for resubmission to the NIH or other federal agency.

The Research Scholar Grant (RSG) supports investigator-initiated projects across the cancer research continuum. Independent investigators in the first 10 years of an independent research career or full-time faculty appointment are eligible to apply.

The Petroleum Research Fund is an endowed fund, managed by the American Chemical Society that supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels at nonprofit institutions (generally colleges and universities) in the United States and other countries.

The goals of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund are:

• To support fundamental research in the petroleum field, and
• To develop the next generation of engineers and scientists through support of advanced scientific education.

Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grants provide start-up funding for scientists and engineers in the United States who are within the first three years of their first academic appointment at the level of Assistant Professor or the equivalent. Applicants may have limited or no preliminary results for a research project they wish to pursue, with the intention of using the preliminary results obtained to seek continuation funding from other agencies. The DNI grants are to be used to illustrate proof of principle or concept, to test a hypothesis, or to demonstrate feasibility of an approach.

The goals of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund are:

• To support fundamental research in the petroleum field, and
• To develop the next generation of engineers and scientists through support of advanced scientific education.

The New Directions (ND) grants program provides funds to scientists and engineers with limited—or even no—preliminary results for a research project they wish to pursue, and who intend to use the PRF-driven preliminary results to seek continuation funding from other agencies. ND grants are to be used to illustrate proof of concept/feasibility. Accordingly, they are to be viewed as seed money for new research ventures.

Established in 1967, the International Affairs Fellowship (IAF) aims to bridge the gap between the study and making of U.S. foreign policy by creating the next generation of scholar-practitioners. The program offers its fellows the unique chance to experience a new environment and gain a different perspective at a pivotal moment in their careers. Academics are thus placed in public service and policy-oriented settings and government officials in scholarly settings. 

The Life Sciences Research Foundation aims to identify and fund exceptional young scientists at a critical juncture of their training in all areas of basic life sciences. Note: Individuals who have held a PhD or MD degree for more than 5 years at time of application are not eligible.

The Scholar (Career Development) Award is meant to help develop the independent research of highly qualified individuals still early in their careers.

The Rally Foundation funds pediatric cancer research in the following areas: 

• Innovative approaches to research which could lead to advanced studies or clinical trials.
• Studies that are likely to lead to a clinical trial.
• Personalized, alternative, or integrative research proposals.
• Under-studied cancer types.
• Quality of life, survivorship and palliative care studies.
• Data utilization through data standardization, collection, storage, analysis and sharing.

The Rally Foundation funds pediatric cancer research in the following areas: 

• Innovative approaches to research which could lead to advanced studies or clinical trials.
• Studies that are likely to lead to a clinical trial.
• Personalized, alternative, or integrative research proposals.
• Under-studied cancer types.
• Quality of life, survivorship and palliative care studies.
• Data utilization through data standardization, collection, storage, analysis and sharing.

The Rally Foundation funds pediatric cancer research in the following areas: 

• Innovative approaches to research which could lead to advanced studies or clinical trials.
• Studies that are likely to lead to a clinical trial.
• Personalized, alternative, or integrative research proposals.
• Under-studied cancer types.
• Quality of life, survivorship and palliative care studies.
• Data utilization through data standardization, collection, storage, analysis and sharing.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize elevates the compelling stories of places where residents are working together to transform education, jobs, transportation, housing, and more so better health flourishes for all. A Culture of Health recognizes that where we live—such as our access to affordable homes, quality schools, good jobs, and reliable transportation—affects how long and how well we live.

Systems for Action (S4A) is a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that helps to build the evidence base for a Culture of Health by rigorously testing new ways of connecting the nation’s fragmented medical, social, and public health systems. S4A studies a variety of novel approaches for aligning systems, using rigorous scientific methods to determine their impact on health and health equity. This call for proposals (CFP) will provide funding for a new cohort of research studies to produce new, actionable evidence about how to help medical, social, and public health systems collaborate to address structural barriers to health and health equity, including racism and the social conditions that impact health.

The aim of the Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences (MPS) program is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. The questions addressed by the collaboration may be concrete or conceptual, but there should be little doubt that answering them would constitute a major scientific milestone. The project should involve outstanding researchers with a range of career stages. Excellence of the scientific leadership is one of the main criteria in the selection process. The project should be organized and managed in a manner engendering a high level of collaboration.

Getty Scholar Grants are for established scholars, or individuals who have attained distinction in their fields. Recipients are in residence at the Getty Research Institute or Getty Villa, where they pursue their own projects free from work-related obligations, make use of Getty collections, join their colleagues in a weekly meeting devoted to an annual research theme or the African American Art History Initiative, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty.

The foundation provides funding for research under the following programs:

• Linking Nutrient Reductions to Receiving Water Responses (Up to $150,000)
• Assessment of Vulnerability of Source Waters to Toxic Cyanobacterial Outbreaks (Up to $150,000)
• Guidance for Using Pipe Loops to Inform Lead and Copper Corrosion Control Treatment Decisions (Up to $150,000)
• Investigation of Alternative Management Strategies to Prevent PFAS from Entering Drinking Water Supplies and Wastewater (Up to $350,000)
• Case Studies on Water Sector Interdependencies (Up to $200,000)
• Implementation of Innovative Biological Nutrient Removal Processes through Improvement of Control Systems and Online Analytical Measurement Reliability and Accuracy (Up to $100,000)
• Assessing Water Quality Monitoring Needs, Tools, Gaps, and Opportunities for Potable Water Reuse (Up to $125,000)
• Advancing Low-Energy Biological Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal (Up to $200,000)
• Holistic and Innovative Approaches for Flood Mitigation Planning and Modeling under Extreme Wet Weather Events and Climate Impacts (Up to $100,000)
• Impact of a Haloacetic Acid MCL Revision on DBP Exposure and Health Risk Reduction (Up to $275,000)
• Defining Exposures of Microplastics/Fibers (MPs) in All Waters: Occurrence, Monitoring, and Management Strategies (Up to $225,000)
• Developing a Framework for Quantifying Energy Optimization Reporting (Up to $100,000)

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. The Fellowship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports the Mellon Foundation's mission to strengthen, promote, and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies.

The Whitehall Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. It is the Foundation's policy to assist those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not heavily supported by Federal Agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as follows: Invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior.

Through the E2 Energy to Educate grant program, Constellation offers students from sixth grade through college opportunities to address the energy challenges of today and tomorrow. Grant funds support projects designed to enhance students’ understanding of science and technology and inspire them to think differently about energy. Since the program's inception in 2010, nearly $5,500,000 in grant dollars have supported 269,000 students' learning nationwide.

These awards represent a focused effort to encourage and support investigators from diverse backgrounds that are under-represented in cancer research and to foster their career advancement. Eligibility is limited to members of racial or ethnic groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in the biomedical workforce who are junior faculty who, at the start of the grant term, will have completed their most recent doctoral degree or medical residency within the past 11 years.

The American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award is designed to recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry. Ten Arthur C. Cope Scholars will be named annually in three categories: two who have less than ten years of experience since their terminal degree will receive the Arthur C. Cope Early Career Scholars Award; four who have 10 to 25 years of experience since their terminal degree will receive the Arthur C. Cope Mid Career Scholars Award; and four who have 25 plus years of experience since their terminal degree will receive the Arthur C. Cope Late Career Scholars Award. 

All AFSP research grants are designed to support research on suicide from a variety of disciplines, including psychiatry,  medicine, psychology, genetics, epidemiology, neurobiology, sociology, nursing, social work, health services administration, and many others. Grants are not intended to support the development or implementation of prevention programs, educational programs, treatments, or other interventions that do not have a significant research component.

Awarded to investigators at any level, these grants provide seed funding for new projects that have the potential to lead to larger investigations. These grants typically entail feasibility studies rather than hypothesis-driven research. Examples include manual development and new biomarker development.

Standard Research Grants of up to $50,000 per year for a two-year period are awarded to investigators at any academic rank. Although prior research on suicide is not required, applicants are expected to show evidence of prior research or research training in a related field. These grants are intended to fund new directions and initiatives in suicide research rather than to supplement the applicant's existing research and junior investigators.

Young Investigator Grants of up to $40,000 per year for a two-year period are awarded to investigators with an academic rank no higher than assistant professor.The Young Investigator Grant provides an additional $5,000 per year to a mentor, who serves as an advisor to the applicant.

The awards support small scientific meetings to promote collaboration and enable a number of individuals to gather and have focused discussions and presentations.

Each year, 15 to 20 yearlong awards are granted to ASH members who applied for an NIH R01 grant or equivalent and were scored but not funded. ASH Bridge Grants are intended to help sustain recipients' research and contribute to their retention in hematology investigation while they reapply.

The Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists recognize the country’s most promising faculty-rank researchers in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry. One Blavatnik Laureate in each disciplinary category will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds. The nominee must hold a doctorate degree and conduct research as a principal investigator in the Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, or Chemistry. The Blavatnik Awards strongly encourages the nomination of women and other underrepresented groups in science and engineering. Nominees and their work as independent investigators will be evaluated on the extent to which the work is reliable, valid, credible, and scientifically rigorous; the extent to which the work addresses an important problem and is influential in the nominee’s field; the extent to which the work challenges existing paradigms, employs new methodologies or concepts, and/or pursues an original question; and future prospects in the nominee’s field and potential for further significant contributions to science. 

BrightFocus provides research funds for U.S. and international researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

BrightFocus provides research funds for U.S. and international researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of glaucoma.

The Cancer Research Institute Technology Impact Award provides seed funding of up to $200,000 to be used over 12-24 months to address the gap between technology development and clinical application of cancer immunotherapies. These grants aim to encourage collaboration between technology developers and clinical cancer immunologists and to generate the proof-of-principle of a novel platform technology in bioinformatics, ex vivo or in silico modeling systems, immunological or tumor profiling instrumentation, methods, reagents and assays, or other relevant technologies that can enable clinician scientists to generate deeper insights into the mechanisms of action of effective or ineffective cancer immunotherapies.

The Foundation seeks to promote and facilitate collaborative research on the pathogenesis, early diagnosis, and treatment of upper gastrointestinal malignancies. They support high quality, innovative, and transformative translational and bench research to improve the understanding of the biology of these diseases, identification of potential novel therapeutic targets, or in the development and evaluation of novel biomarkers for early diagnosis and treatment. Pre-clinical research, basic mechanistic studies, genomic/epigenomic studies, as well as epidemiologic studies may also be supported.

The GRAMMY Foundation awards grants to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas for future generations.

The Harry J. Lloyd Charitable Trust Melanoma Research Basic Science Grant is designed to fund clinically important melanoma research.

The Harry J. Lloyd Charitable Trust Melanoma Research Career Development Grant is designed to provide support for promising young melanoma investigators.

The Harry J. Lloyd Charitable Trust Melanoma Research Translational Research Grant is designed to support new biological insights into melanoma development or progression.

The Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies seeks to maintain the vitality of China Studies in North America through fellowships for scholars early in their careers. Studies on and in China have developed over the last 30 years in the United States and Canada into a robust field, but current conditions pose daunting problems, especially for scholars just after the dissertation. Early Career Fellowships (formerly “postdoctoral fellowships”), support pre-tenure scholars in the humanities and the humanities-related social sciences who are preparing their PhD dissertations for publication, or who are embarking on new research projects. Early Career fellowships support research and writing with a priority given to proposals based on the applicant's research in China. Research in Hong Kong, Macau, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Taiwan is eligible. Research may also be conducted on Chinese culture and society outside these areas, as required by the research plan. However, diaspora studies are not eligible.

The Sabbatical Grant for Researchers offers grants up to $40,000 to assist research and writing projects that will advance religious and theological scholarship in ways that also address practical issues concerning Christian faith and life, pastoral leadership, and/or religious institutions. 

The Mary Kay Foundation is a non-profit public foundation, which focuses on funding research for innovative grants for translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast or cervical cancer. Translational research is broadly defined as research that will provide a scientific  link between laboratory research and the clinic. Ultimately, such research would lead to  improvement in diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, or treatment of the cancer.

The National Geographic Society welcomes proposals for projects in the areas of conservation, education, research, storytelling, and technology. 

The award acts as a bridge to ensure promising early career scientists stay in the Parkinson’s research field, helping us solve, treat and end the disease. In conjunction with their institution’s commitment, the award gives junior investigators the support they need to develop their own independent funding source (such as an NIH R01 award) and stay in the PD research field. Becoming an independent research leader with his or her own research space is the ultimate goal.

Created to allow established investigators to explore novel, innovative areas of research, the Albert Rose Established Investigator Award provides critical support to the development of new projects, and enables the investigator to pursue additional funding through the National Institutes of Health or other agencies. 

The I.M. Rosenzweig Junior Investigator Award was established to encourage researchers to maintain and enhance their interest in PF research during the early stages of their academic career.  

The PFF Scholars program will focus on engaging early-career investigators in their emerging research in the field of pulmonary fibrosis. With the goal of advancing research that could translate into successful therapies for PF, the PFF Scholars program is designed to support and enable promising researchers to obtain independent funding and continue their cutting- edge research. 

The RWJF Health Policy Fellows program provides the nation’s most comprehensive learning experience at the intersection of health, science, and policy in Washington, D.C. It is an outstanding opportunity for exceptional midcareer health professionals and behavioral/social scientists with an interest in health and healthcare policy. Fellows participate in the policy process at the federal level and use that leadership experience to improve health equity, healthcare, and health policy.

Achieving racial equity and justice in the United States requires a sustained, multipronged intersectional policy approach that addresses both the immediate social conditions leading to poor health outcomes, but also the long-standing structures fostering such conditions. The goal of the Policies for Action call for proposals is to build the evidence base about how national, state, and local policies can improve racial equity in health and well-being in the United States.

Grants will be made under the following programs: Future of Work; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; and Social, Political and Economic Inequality.

The Russell Sage Foundation, in partnership with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, seeks to advance innovative research on economic mobility and access to opportunity in the United States. We are interested in research focused on structural barriers to economic mobility and how individuals, communities, and governments have come to understand, navigate, and challenge the existence of systemic inequalities. This initiative will support early- and mid-career tenure-track scholars and promote diversity by prioritizing applications from scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences. This includes racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity.

The aim of the Simons Collaborations in MPS program is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. The project should involve outstanding researchers in a range of career stages. Excellence of the scientific leadership is one of the main criteria in the selection process. The project should be organized and managed in a manner engendering a high level of collaboration.

The Society for Classical Studies invites applications for a one-year Fellowship, tenable from July 2021 through June 2022, which will allow an American scholar to conduct lexicographical research at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) Institute in Munich. Fellows at the TLL develop a broadened perspective of the range and complexity of the Latin language and culture from the classical period through the early Middle Ages, contribute signed articles to the Thesaurus, have the opportunity to participate in a collaborative international research project in a collegial environment, and work with senior scholars in the field of Latin lexicography. 

The Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) Grants Program is intended to support education research projects that engage in collaborative and participatory partnerships. Proposals are encouraged from scholars and a broad array of practitioners in an effort to fund research that will result in new insights into the processes, practices, and policies that improve education for students, educators, schools, universities, families, and communities.

This award is intended to support PhD, MD/PhD and MD physician scientists at earlier stages of their careers to enable them to develop independent programs and compelling careers in breast cancer research. The foundation seeks to fund broadly the very best proposals across all relevant disciplines and as such focus areas can include basic, preclinical, clinical research and clinical care.

A limited number of fellowships are awarded each year for independent projects in selected fields, targeting support specifically to early mid-career individuals, those who have achieved recognition for at least one major project. A total of nine fellowships of $35,000 will be awarded in April 2021 for 2021-2022 in the fields of: Creative Nonfiction and History.

The BSF Research Grants program is the main program of the BSF, and it funds both U.S. and Israeli scientists who wish to work together.  Applications to the program are made jointly by U.S. and Israeli researchers.  No prior cooperation is required, but the synergy between the researchers must be evident.

The Start-Up Grant Program is meant to help newly appointed researchers who are beginning their independent research careers and may not yet have initial results to substantiate their application. Grants are for two years, in order to enable the grantees to submit a standard application to the next competition in their area of research. It is implemented within the framework of the regular BSF Research Grants program, i.e., it must exhibit scientific excellence, have a strong element of cooperation between Israeli and American scientists, and fall within the areas of research supported in that year by the BSF.

Supporting pioneering discoveries in science, engineering and medical research has been our mandate from the beginning. By funding the high-risk/high-impact work of leading researchers, we are laying the groundwork for new paradigms, technologies and discoveries that will save lives, provide innovative solutions, and add to our understanding of the world. Both Senior and Early Career investigators are encouraged to apply.

The Pinnacle Research Award in Liver Disease is a three-year basic science award that provides young scientists with support for their research to bridge the gap between completion of research training and attainment of status as an independent research scientist. The additional research experience provided by this award is intended to enable young scientists to successfully compete for research awards from national sources, particularly the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Well-trained investigators who hold MD, PhD or MD/PhD degrees and are pursuing a career in liver disease research are encouraged to apply.

Having a strong publication record is a key to receiving promotions and tenure in engineering, medicine and science. Yet persistent gender stereotypes and bias in these fields can make it difficult for women to find the time and institutional support needed to publish their research. These grants help women overcome these barriers by funding research projects that will culminate in scholarly publications.

Discovery Grants are one-year, $50,000 grants for high risk, high impact research with the potential to change current diagnostic or treatment models.

The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research (GFMR) and AFAR provide up to $150,000 for a one- to two-year award to junior faculty (MDs and PhDs) to conduct research that will serve as the basis for longer term research efforts on the biology of aging. These investigators study a broad range of biomedical and clinical topics related to aging. 

The AHA Career Development Award supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training necessary to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist in the field of cardiovascular and stroke research. AHA awards are open to the array of academic and health professionals. This includes but is not limited to all academic disciplines (biology, chemistry, mathematics, technology, physics, etc.) and all health-related professions (physicians, nurses, advanced practice nurses, pharmacists, dentists, physical and occupational therapists, statisticians, nutritionists, behavioral scientists, engineers, etc.). Clinical, translational, population, behavioral, and basic scientists are encouraged to apply AHA strongly encourages applications by women, underrepresented minorities in the sciences, and those who have experienced diverse and non-traditional career trajectories. Applicants must hold a faculty/staff position up to and including the rank of assistant professor (or equivalent) and no more than four years may have elapsed since the first faculty/staff appointment (after receipt of doctoral degree) at the assistant professor level or equivalent (including, but not limited to, instructor, research assistant professor, research scientist, staff scientist, etc.).

The American Lung Association Catalyst Award is a mentored award meant to support outstanding investigators on the path to independence for research into the mechanisms for lung disease and general lung biology. Preference is given to projects that are novel; innovative in design/approach; utilize modern technologies; and incorporate a multidisciplinary collaborative training plan. Successful applicants are early career faculty, on-track to pursue a career in lung health research with a mentor who has a demonstrated history of lung disease research and mentorship. 

The American Lung Association Dalsemer Research Grant is a mentored award meant to provide seed monies to junior investigators on the path to independence for researching the mechanisms and biology of interstitial lung disease. Applicants should be on-track to pursue a career in lung health research with a mentor who has a demonstrated history of lung disease research and mentorship.

The award is intended to support highly promising investigators with stellar track records of accomplishment, who have the potential to advance the field of lung disease science. Successful applicants are investigators with evidence of prior excellence and productivity in the early stages of their careers; applicants must have held a K or R type award within three years prior to applying for this Lung Association award. 

The American Lung Association Public Policy Research Award is intended to support research on and evaluation of existing public policy and programs, as well as pilot and demonstration projects that inject innovative ideas and provide evidence for the development of new public policies impacting lung health.

The primary aim must concern evaluating the effectiveness of programs designed to promote positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children (birth through 18 years) from underserved groups and/or low-resourced communities (specifically minoritized ethnic groups, low-income families) in order to inform ways to close the educational opportunity gaps associated with race and income.

The Seed Grant Program provides provide start-up monies for new research projects, especially those undertaken by junior faculty, in the field of neuroscience that will likely lead to extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other outside funding sources. BRF Seed Grant awards are not intended to supplement existing grants. To be eligible, PI must be a full-time Assistant or Associate Professor at an invited US academic institution, working in the area of studies of brain function. This includes molecular and clinical neuroscience as well as studies of neural, sensory, motor, cognitive, behavioral and emotional functioning in health and disease. Applicants at the Assistant Professor level should present a new research project that will generate pilot data that will lead to RO1 funding or a comparable outside grant.  Applicants at the Associate Professor level should present a project pursuing new research directions. A new technique is not considered a new direction unless it pertains to a different area of study. Grants are not to be used for bridge funding between grants.

Growing evidence suggests the interrelatedness of the duration of pregnancy, fetal growth, and adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth, preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, stillbirth, and maternal medical complications including maternal mortality. Other areas of interest are climate change and environmental impact on pregnancy, complications associated with ART, and epigenome-wide association studies. We seek to expand the scope of this award mechanism to capture these and other pregnancy outcomes as we believe they will be mutually informative and accelerate discovery.

The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer. 

The sustainability movement has reached the business models of nearly every industry in the United States, and many companies, municipalities and states have set aggressive sustainability goals that include how waste streams are being managed.  The EREF Board of Directors has set an initiative to ensure research funded reflects EREF’s long-term strategic plan to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increased sustainable solid waste management practices. Topics Include:

• Waste minimization
• Recycling
• Waste conversion to energy, biofuels, chemicals, or other useful products
• Strategies to promote diversion to higher and better uses (e.g. organics diversion, market analysis, optimized material management, logistics, etc.)
• Landfilling

The foundation seeks to identify outstanding inventors and innovators who harness science and technology to enhance the conduct of scientific research, strengthen environmental conservation, or improve the experience and outcomes of patient care. The Moore Inventor Fellows program focuses on supporting scientist-inventors at a critical prototyping stage to capture opportunities that otherwise might be missed. 

The Parkinson's Foundation Impact Awards are designed for researchers both established and new to the field of PD (both young investigators and those from outside the field). Projects should be "outside the box" with the goal of bringing new light to the biology of Parkinson's, or testing a truly novel therapeutic idea. Projects should be for the best ideas that are unlikely to be funded through more traditional funding mechanisms.

Investigators often struggle to find funding for innovative approaches to scientific questions because their new ideas may not yet be in the scientific mainstream. Each year we support multiple pilot studies with $75,000 each to pave the way for new avenues of ovarian cancer research and to expand our understanding of the disease. Pilot Study Program awards will support investigator-initiated projects in all areas of ovarian cancer research. In addition, projects designed to analyze data from already funded clinical trials will be considered.

Young, talented investigators often have novel ideas and fresh approaches to scientific challenges. In order to attract new investigators to ovarian cancer research, each year we support multiple Scientific Scholars with $120,000 each for their proposed research. Each award recipient names a mentor who will help guide him or her through the process of becoming an established researcher. 

The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era.

The History of Arts program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture.

The Small Research Grants program aims to fund academic work that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. Proposals are encouraged from scholars across a variety of disciplines in an effort to fund field-initiated education research.

Issues of equity are at the core of the Joyce Foundation's mission to improve quality of life, promote safe and healthy communities, and build a just society in the Great Lakes region. They focus specifically on advancing racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation. The foundation welcomes proposals that address the following program areas: Culture, Democracy, Education & Economic Mobility, Environment, and Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform. 

Grants are limited under the terms of the foundation’s charter to projects that primarily benefit programs for human nutrition in the areas of health, education, training, and research.

The AACR-Novocure Career Development Award for Tumor Treating Fields Research in Ovarian Cancer represents a joint effort to promote and support early-career investigators to conduct innovative research focused on Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields; intermediate frequency, low intensity, alternating electric fields that disrupt cell division in cancer cells) in ovarian cancer. This grant is intended to provide a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of action of this novel anti-cancer treatment modality and to accelerate the development of new treatment strategies to advance therapeutic options for ovarian cancer.

Sponsored by the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, in collaboration with the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), the "Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG)" initiative provides timely support to a small number of research projects which if successful offer significant promise of yielding transforming discoveries in the fundamental biology of aging. Projects which build on early discoveries that show translational potential for clinically relevant strategies, treatments and therapeutics, addressing human aging and health span are also considered.

The Investigator-Initiated Research Grant Program welcomes proposals for research addressing the effects of diet, nutrition, body composition and physical activity on cancer risk and outcomes.

The BCAN Bladder Cancer Research Innovation Awards support exceptionally novel, high-risk, high-reward projects with great potential to produce breakthroughs in our understanding of bladder cancer. The proposed research may be basic, translational, clinical or epidemiological and must have direct applicability and relevance to bladder cancer and/or upper tract urothelial carcinoma. Projects must address an important problem and/or critical barrier to progress as well as a significant knowledge gap in the field of bladder cancer research.

The CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR Program—Scientists Taking Risks—provides long-term funding to mid-career scientists, giving them the freedom and flexibility to pursue high-risk, high-reward research at the forefront of discovery and innovation in cancer immunotherapy.

The McKnight Scholar Awards are given to exceptional young scientists who are in the early stages of establishing an independent laboratory and research career. The intent of the program is to foster the commitment by these scientists to research careers that will have an important impact on the study of the brain. The program seeks to support scientists committed to mentoring neuroscientists from underrepresented groups at all levels of training. Applicants for the McKnight Scholar Award must demonstrate their ability to solve significant problems in neuroscience, which may include the translation of basic research to clinical practice. They should demonstrate a commitment to an equitable and inclusive lab environment.

The Just Tech Fellowship supports and mobilizes diverse and cross-sector cohorts of researchers and practitioners to imagine and create more just, equitable, and representative technological futures. Fellows will identify and challenge injustices emerging from new technologies and pursue solutions that advance social, political, and economic rights.

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth seeks to deepen our understanding of how inequality affects economic growth and stability. The Center supports research investigating the various channels through which economic inequality, in all its forms, may or may not impact economic growth and stability. Preference is given to projects creating new data that can be made publicly available and to studies that engage with relevant literature across disciplines. This request for proposals is organized around four channels: Macroeconomics and Inequality, Human Capital and Well-being, the Labor Market, and Market Structure.

The Whitehall Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. It is the Foundation's policy to assist those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not heavily supported by Federal Agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as follows: Invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior.

The W. T. Grant Foundation funds research that increases our understanding of the programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes, and strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.

Over the past decade, a growing body of research has illuminated the conditions that facilitate the use of research evidence in policy and practice. For example, studies find that when research is relevant to decision makers, deliberated over thoughtfully, and embedded in policymaking processes, routines, and tools, the findings are more likely to be used. Still, there remain many unanswered questions that are critical to understanding how to improve the production and use of research evidence. What’s more, there is a scarcity of evidence supporting the notion that research use in policy and practice will necessarily improve youth outcomes. Serious scientific inquiry is needed. The foundation is interested in the conditions under which using research evidence improves decision making, policy implementation, service delivery, and, ultimately, youth outcomes. In short, research on the use of research.

Toward this end, they seek studies that identify, build, and test strategies to enhance the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth. They are particularly interested in research on improving the use of research evidence by state and local decision makers, mid-level managers, and intermediaries. 

The foundation seeks studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people. They prioritize studies about reducing inequality on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.

The Energy and Environment program at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supports research, training, networking, and dissemination efforts to inform the societal transition toward low-carbon energy systems in the United States by investigating economic, environmental, technological, and distributional issues. As one of its newly defined topic areas of interest, the Sloan Foundation’s Energy and Environment program looks to advance timely, catalytic, rigorous, interdisciplinary social science research projects that examine questions related to energy insecurity, distributional equity, and just transitions in the United States, particularly those that introduce new scholars from various disciplines to these lines of inquiry. Therefore, the Sloan Foundation is currently soliciting Letters of Inquiry for collaborative social science research projects led by early- and mid-career scholars examining critical and under-explored questions related to issues of energy insecurity, distributional equity, and just energy system transitions in the United States.

The ADDF offers funding to researchers for Alzheimer's drug discovery and preclinical development, clinical trials, and biomarker development research. Core request for proposals include: Drug Development, Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials (PACT), Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Development, and Prevention Beyond the Pipeline.

The ADDF seeks to support studies of cognitive symptoms due to health conditions, comparative effectiveness research, and epidemiological studies that probe whether the use or choice of drugs alters the risk for dementia or cognitive decline. The Prevention Pipeline RFP supports: Studies of Cognitive Decline and Risk Reduction; Comparative Effectiveness Research; and Studies Leveraging the Consortium of Cohorts for Alzheimer's Prevention Action (CAPA). 

The Lustgarten Foundation-AACR Career Development Award for Pancreatic Cancer Research, in Honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has been established to honor the life and legacy of Justice Ginsburg, who worked tirelessly to advance gender equality, even while battling pancreatic cancer. The intent of this program is to support the development and diversity of talent working in pancreatic cancer research. This Award represents a joint effort to support the career advancement of a female scientist engaged in pancreatic cancer research relevant to the goals and mission of the Lustgarten Foundation. 

The American Cancer Society offers a limited number of grants to investigators who have had the rank of full professor for 15 years or less and made seminal contributions that have changed the direction of basic cancer research. It is expected that these investigators will continue to provide leadership in their research area. Up to 2 awards are made annually for a 5-year term that can be renewed once. 

The AHA Transformational Project Award supports highly innovative, high-impact projects that build on work in progress that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and stroke research. Successful applications are likely to be those building on strong preliminary data supportive of the hypothesis. This program aims to provide funding that should lead to successful competition for additional funding beyond the award period. The principal investigator (PI) is responsible for clearly and explicitly articulating the project's innovation and the potential impact on cardiovascular and stroke research. While no minimum percent effort is specified, the principal investigator must demonstrate that adequate time will be devoted to ensuring successful completion of the proposed project.

The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained in the early years of their appointment and a demonstrated commitment to education.

These awards are presented to highly promising, early career scientists and are aimed at advancing cutting-edge investigations in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The fellowship awards promote higher risk projects.

The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) is soliciting applications from early career investigators for Innovator Awards in Neuroscience. The goal of this initiative is to foster truly bold, innovative scientists with the potential to transform the field of neuroscience. Applicants are encouraged in the fundamental areas of developmental, cellular, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, broadly interpreted.

The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) is soliciting applications from early career investigators for Innovator Awards to be used for exploring the basic biology and translational potential of stem cells. The goal of this initiative is to foster bold and innovative scientists with the potential to transform the field of stem cell research, and advance understanding and use of stem cells in the development of treatments for human disease.

The PhRMA Foundation Health Outcomes Grant assists individuals beginning independent research careers in health outcomes at the faculty level. Health Outcomes research spans a broad spectrum of issues related to health-care delivery, from studies evaluating effectiveness of a pharmaceutical intervention, to the impact of reimbursement policies on outcomes of care. It also ranges from the development and use of tools to perform patient-based assessments to analyses of ways in which results of outcomes research are disseminated to providers or consumers to encourage behavior change. Those holding academic rank of instructor or assistant professor, and investigators at the doctoral level with equivalent positions, are eligible to apply—provided the proposed research is neither directly nor indirectly subsidized to any significant degree by an extramural support mechanism.

PhRMA Foundations Translational Medicine and Therapeutics Research Starter Grant assists individuals beginning independent research careers in translational medicine and therapeutics at the faculty level. The goal of the PhRMA Foundation’s Translational Medicine and Therapeutics Program is to promote the development and use of experimental and computational methods in an integrative approach towards clinical needs in diagnosis, treatment and prevention. The Foundation believes that to be successful, this requires working with clinicians to identify critical unmet clinical needs. This can involve enhanced understanding of human biological and disease processes but requires a strong translational component. This program will support the concepts of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics. Translational Medicine and Therapeutics awards will advance training and support career development of scientists engaged in research that significantly addresses specific clinician-defined problems and integrates innovative technologies with advanced biological, chemical, and pharmacological sciences and engineering methodologies in areas such as: Genetics (Molecular, Pharmaco-, Population, Medical) Genomics (Functional, Structural, Toxico-, Pharmaco-, Comparative) Systems (Biology and Pharmacology) Pathways and Networks Integrative Biology Modeling and Simulation
Target Identification and Validation Biomarker Discovery and Validation Vaccine Development Molecular Epidemiology Imaging Disease Modeling. Those holding the academic rank of Assistant Professor (or Research Assistant Professor) within a tenure track (or Research track) appointment, or Instructor, if eligible to apply for independent research funding by their institution, are eligible to apply for these research starter grants, providing their proposed research is neither directly nor indirectly already being subsidized to any significant degree by an extramural support mechanism.

The Small Research Grants program aims to fund academic work that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. Proposals are encouraged from scholars across a variety of disciplines in an effort to fund field-initiated education research.

Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. The foundation is interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, they welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Energy and Environment program looks to achieve its mission by supporting research, training, networking, and dissemination efforts in this domain that shape the direction of scholarship by investigating under-explored questions that warrant further attention, advance collaborative and interdisciplinary research across the social and natural sciences, involve early career faculty and train the next generation of students, link research with practice, and partner with other funders to amplify programmatic impact. The program’s predominant geographic focus is the United States.

The Diagnostics Accelerator is a partnership of funders dedicated to accelerating the development of affordable and accessible biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal degeneration, and other related dementias. The Diagnostics Accelerator supports research and development through translational research awards and access to consulting support from industry experts. The current RFP is soliciting projects to develop and validate digital biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Digital biomarkers are defined as objective, quantifiable physiological and behavioral data that are collected, measured and analyzed by means of digital devices such as portables, wearables, or ambient sensors. Digital biomarkers range from computerized or app-based versions of traditional neurocognitive tests to novel technology platforms that combine multiple complex data sources into a phenotypic signature.  

It is our mission to support our customers, colleagues and communities by helping them achieve their aspirations and helping their communities thrive. This shapes our work as a responsible corporate citizen. We deliver high-impact funding and initiatives that support people, businesses and non-profit partners so that together, we can make a meaningful difference in the world.

Priority areas include backing equal futures; inclusive economic growth and empowerment through financial literacy, mentoring, and training for diverse small business owners and individuals; and low-carbon communities.

The award provides 50% of current salary support per year for protected research for up to two years and up to $25,000 in direct costs for research over the two years. The applicant is required to provide confirmation for 25% of salary commitment from their institution of additional protected time for research above and beyond the 50% received as part of this award (Institutional Support Letter).

Individuals who are ID Fellows at the 4th or 5th year of fellowship, as well as MD or PhD (any discipline) with a faculty appointment of less than five years are eligible to apply. Applicants who work at a US domestic institution for the duration of the award irrespective of citizenship or visa status are eligible to apply. The clinical research project may be conducted in the US or internationally.

Independent Research Grants empower the global research community to develop new treatments and technological advancements in ocular health. Research grants have been funded by Bausch + Lomb to improve consumer standards of care, efficacy, patient satisfaction, safety and vision performance.

The Comcast Innovation Fund was created to support technology and public policy research that contributes to the betterment of the Internet, and the continued evolution of connectivity products and services. The fund provides grants to technologists, researchers, and academics to support Internet- and connectivity-focused projects within the fund’s areas of interest, which are updated annually.

General Research Grants provide unrestricted award of funds to support researchers, usually at colleges and universities. These grants are focused on supporting excellent technical research in a wide variety of fields that are relevant to the evolution of the Internet. Targeted Research Grants are more narrowly tailored and typically study more specific issues. Applicants for these grants often come from organizations, academic institutions, and occasionally individuals.

Through the General Grant Program, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation funds research initiatives and scalable educational projects with unique demonstration value to ensure that people in the United States and U.S. territories have the knowledge, skills and tools to make sound financial decisions throughout life.
 
The Foundation welcomes applications for research or educational projects of approximately $50,000–$100,000 that address financial inequities, especially within communities that experience systemic barriers to financial inclusion.

Gilead provides ISR grants primarily in our therapeutic areas of expertise and based on the scientific merit of the proposal. The research must be intended to contribute knowledge to the medical community. The budget must be reasonable and appropriate for the proposed work. In considering applications for support, Gilead will also consider the expertise of the proposed principal investigator and any sub-investigators, including their experience in the relevant therapeutic area, demonstrated ability to successfully conduct clinical trials, and available resources.

Innovations for Poverty Action's Peace & Recovery Program is accepting proposals for research on homicide reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean. This funding window will support the following types of projects: 

• Full studies, including randomized evaluations, long-term follow-ups, downstream studies, and, in exceptional cases, high-quality natural experiments (up to $450,000)
• “Infrastructure” and “public good” creation (up to $150,000)
• Pilot studies, for the purpose of informing full impact evaluations (up to $50,000)
• Evidence and policy outreach support (up to $25,000)
• Reviews and meta-analysis of relevant literatures (up to $20,000)
• Exploratory work, contributing to the development of impact evaluations (up to $10,000)

Fellowships play an important role in ensuring that fellows are trained in the latest medical procedures and technologies.

Applications for awards are submitted by teaching institutions, community hospitals, medical societies, and associations that have a bona fide fellowship program and selection process to determine fellowship recipients. Fellowships are not contingent upon the use, purchase, recommendation of Medline’s products. The fellowship application deadline is March 31st of each year. Applications will not be reviewed by the Committee until after this date and grants will be awarded for fellowships once per year.

Financial and product support is available for educational programs and activities that promote health care provider education, enhance the quality of patient care, and align with Medline’s therapeutic and clinical interests.

Education proposals that may be considered for financial support include accredited education activities, independent education activities, web-ex programs, publication/monograph development, national/regional scientific and medical congresses and symposia, and patient/caregiver education relating to medical or public health information/needs. Grant recipients maintain independence with respect to the content development and delivery of the funded program or activity. Application deadlines are March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31 of each year. All requests received during an application period are reviewed competitively and awarded after the deadline. Please keep these deadlines in mind to ensure your application will be reviewed before the event date.

The IIS Program provides support for research that advances scientific and medical knowledge about Medline products and generates promising approaches to medical care. Our support of projects can include direct funding to cover all or a portion of study-related costs, product and study design input. Proposals are competitively reviewed; acceptance is based on scientific, medical and health economic merit and alignment with Medline’s strategic business interests. Application deadlines are March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31 of each year. All requests received during the application period will be reviewed after the deadline. If the Scientific Review Committee approves an application, execution of an agreement is required for disbursement of funds, which includes milestones and publishing expectations.

The Motorola Solutions Foundation, which has donated donated more than $100 million in the last 10 years, aims to partner with organizations that are creating safer cities and thriving communities, and prioritizes underrepresented and/or underserved populations, including people of color and women, within the three focus areas below:

• Technology and engineering education
• First responder programming
• Blended first responder programming and technology/engineering education programs

Overarching Priorities:

• Reach people of color, women and other underrepresented and/or underserved populations within our focus areas below
• Leverage robust partnerships with other nonprofit organizations and institutions
• Support organizations that exhibit strong financial health
• Support organizations with data-driven evaluation methods, including quantifiable metrics

This award program accepts inquiries throughout the year, and its three core programs include: Criminal Justice, Youth Justice, and Workers' Rights.

The program is intended to support high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis.

The Chemistry of Indoor Environments Program aims to grow a new field of scientific inquiry focused on understanding the fundamental chemistry taking place in indoor environments and how that chemistry is shaped by building attributes and human occupancy. Successful research proposals should focus on some aspect of the following broad inquiry areas: 

• Environment and Occupancy: How does the built environment and its human and microbial inhabitants affect indoor chemistry?  How does indoor chemistry affect the built environment and its inhabitants?
• Sources: What are the primary sources of reactive compounds indoors?  What role does outdoor air play in affecting the abundance and distribution of chemicals in indoor air?
• ​Chemical and Physical Transformations:  What is the nature of indoor gas, aerosol, and surface chemistry?  What indoor processes drive transitions between gas, aerosol, and surface chemistries?

Deep Carbon Observatory Program Grants aim to radically transform our understanding of the quantities, movements, distribution, and properties of deep Earth carbon and its roles in the origin and limits of life, the creation of hydrocarbons, and the global carbon cycle.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey program aims to accelerate discoveries in astronomy through the support of a variety of astronomical surveys using a pioneering 2.5-meter telescope at Apache Point Observatory, New Mexico that comprehensively maps the sky to examine the history and structure of the universe.

Education and Professional Advancement for Underrepresented Groups Program aims to increase the diversity of higher education institutions and the work force in STEM fields through college and university initiatives that support the education and professional advancement of high-achieving individuals from underrepresented groups. 

This initiative supports efforts to prepare students to become informed and engaged participants in the civic life of their local and national communities. Grants of varying amounts, ranging from $100,000- $400,000 over a 24-36 month period, will be made to each funded project participating in this initiative. The size of the grant will be based on the scope of the project. We expect this grant program will remain open for approximately three to five years.