Early Career Funding Opportunities
For more information, review funding opportunities in the GrantForward database.
Federal Opportunities
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: Young Faculty Award
- NASA: Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowships for Early Career Researchers
- NIH: Early Independence Award
- NIH: New Innovator Award
- NIH: Early Research Career Development Awards
- NSF: Faculty Early Career Development Program
- NSF: Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative
- Office of Naval Research: Young Investigator Program
- U.S. Air Force: Young Investigator Program
- U.S. Department of Defense: Parkinson's Early Investigator Research Award
- U.S. Department of Energy: Early Career Research Program
- U.S. Department of Agriculture: Early Career
- Non-Federal Opportunities
Non Federal Opportunities
- Academic Pediatric Association: Young Investigator Awards
AGU100: Basu U.S. Early Career Award for Research Excellence in Sun-Earth Systems Science - Rita Allen Foundation: Rita Allen Scholars Program
- Alzheimer’s Association: Research Grants
- American Association for Cancer Research: AACR Funding Opportunities
- American Cancer Society: Research Scholar Grants
- American Chemical Society: Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Grants
- American Council of Learned Societies: Fellowships
- American Diabetes Association: Core Program: Junior Faculty Development
- American Federation for Aging Research: Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: Young Investigator Innovation Grants
- American Heart Association: Career Development Award
- American Liver Foundation: Liver Scholar Award
- American Mathematical Association: Centennial Fellowships
- American Society for Mass Spectrometry: Research Awards
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation: New Investigators Research Grant
- ARVO Foundation for Eye Research: Genentech Age-related Macular Degeneration Research Fellowships
- Bay Area Lyme Foundation: Emerging Leader Award
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation: Beckman Young Investigators Program
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation: NARSAD Young Investigator Grants
- Breast Cancer Alliance: Young Investigator Grants
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease
- Children’s Tumor Foundation: Young Investigator Awards
- CURE: Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy: Grant Opportunities
Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation: Research Grants - New Investigators - Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation: Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards
- Foundation Fighting Blindness: Career Development Award
- Foundation for Child Development: Young Scholars Program
- Global Probiotics Council: Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research
- Greenwall Foundation: Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics
- Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program: Postdoctoral and Early Career Awards
- Health Effects Institute: Rosenblith New Investigator Award
Human Frontier Science Program: Young Investigators’ Research Grants - Human Vaccine Projects: Michelson Prizes
- Infectious Diseases Society of America: IDSA Foundation Young Investigator Awards
- International Life Sciences Institute North America: Future Leader Award
- International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation - Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation: Trainee Expansion 51
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: Career Development Awards
- The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund: Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences
- Leukemia Research Foundation: Hollis Brownstein Research Grants Program
- LUNGevity: Career Development Awards
- Lymphoma Research Foundation: Young Investigator Grants
- March of Dimes: Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Awards
- Marfan Foundation: Early Investigator Grant Program
- McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience: Scholar Awards
- Melanoma Research Alliance: Young Investigator Awards
- MQ: Transforming Mental Health Through Research: MQ Fellows Award
- National Ataxia Foundation: Young Investigator Awards
- National Hemophilia Foundation: Career Development Award
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society: Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar Awards
- Craig H. Neilsen Foundation: Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation: Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering
- Pew Charitable Trusts: Pew Biomedical Scholars
- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation: Research Starter Grants
- Prostate Cancer Foundation: Young Investigator Awards
- Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: I.M. Rosenzweig Junior Investigator Awards
- Research Corporation for Science Advancement: Cottrell Scholars
- Research Corporation for Science Advancement: Scialog
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation: Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award
- Russell Sage Foundation: Small Grants in Behavioral Economics
- Russell Sage Foundation: Small Grants in Computational Social Science
- Scleroderma Foundation: New Investigator Grant
- Scoliosis Research Society: New Investigator Research Grant
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Sloan Research Fellowships
- Smith Richardson Foundation: Strategy and Policy Fellows Program
- Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging: Pilot Research Grant
- Sontag Foundation: Distinguished Scientist Award
- Stanford Humanities Center: External Faculty Fellowships
- Thrasher Research Fund: Early Career Awards
- S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation: Start-Up Research Grants
- Whitehall Foundation: Grants-in-Aid
Proposal Preparation Contact
For questions regarding proposal preparation, contact Karen Katrinak at vpr.proposals@UND.edu or 701-777-2505.