»Early & Mid-Career Funding Opportunities

New and Early Career Faculty Funding

This list includes funding opportunities directed towards new and early-career faculty members. Principal Investigators (PIs) should notify sponsored projects services of their intention to submit a proposal. For any questions or concerns please reach out to [email protected].

Title Sponsor
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program USDA
Career Development Awards American Association for Cancer Research
Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Grants American Chemical Society
Early Career and Program Research Grants Human Frontier Science Program
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) NSF
K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award NIH
K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Researcher Career Development Award NIH
K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award NIH
Grants-in-Aid Program Whitehall Foundation
NARSAD Young Investigator Grant Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
New Investigator Grant Program Leukemia Research Foundation
New Investigator Research Grant Foundation For Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation
NIH Director's New Innovator Award Program NIH
R01 Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant NIH
Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) Department of Defense
Scholars Program William T. Grant Foundation
Small Grants Program in Behavioral Economics Russell Sage Foundation
Young Faculty Award DARPA
Young Investigator (YI) Award National Ataxia Foundation
Young Investigator Program ONR
Young Scholars Program Foundation for Child Development
Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award Health Effects Institute

 

Mid-Career Faculty Funding

This list includes research funding opportunities targeted for mid-career faculty in pursuit of new directions, sabbatical funding, or revitalizing research after a gap in productivity.

Title Sponsor
DOD Office of Naval Research Summer Faculty Research and Sabbatical Leave Program Department of Defense
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering -  Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) Program Department of Defense
Argonne National Laboratory Faculty Research Leave Appointment Program  - Sabbatical Leave Department of Energy
Creative Writing Fellowships National Endowment for the Arts
Research Fellowships National Endowment for the Humanities  
F33 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Senior Fellows National Institutes of Health
K07 Academic Career Development Award National Institutes of Health
K18 Research Career Enhancement Award for Established Investigators National Institutes of Health
K25 Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award National Institutes of Health
NRC Research Associateship Programs at sponsoring federal laboratories and affiliated institutions National Research Council
NSF 20-586 Re-entry to Active Research Program (RARE) National Science Foundation
NSF 22-603 Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) National Science Foundation
NSF 21-508 Transitions to Excellence in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Research (Transitions) National Science Foundation
NSF 22-548 Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) National Science Foundation