FROM emerging scholars
TO established researchers
At The Graduate School, we believe that groundbreaking research starts with access to the right resources. We’re dedicated to connecting researchers with funding opportunities, empowering them to pursue their innovative ideas and make meaningful contributions.
Holly Shuford, MS
Grant Program Manager
hshuford@augusta.edu
| 2024 TOPMed Fellowship National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH/DHHS |
Predocs, Postdocs, Early career faculty |
The goal of the TOPMed Fellowship program is to promote broad participation and engagement of early-career researchers in applying novel and innovative AI/ML approaches on data-focused research problems. Applicants need to focus on the area within the NHLBI’s mission and propose to use existing or up- coming data to conduct discovery research. |
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| Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation |
Predocs |
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports outstanding New Americans—immigrants and children of immigrants—pursuing graduate school in the United States. Selection criteria focuses on accomplishments that show creativity, originality, and initiative in all fields. |
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| Hertz Foundation Fellowship The Hertz Foundation |
First-year graduate students |
The Hertz Foundation awards fellowships to graduate students pursuing a PhD in the applied physical and biological sciences, mathematics, or engineering. We do not award fellowships based on an applicant’s particular field of study; however, we do require that applicants direct their work toward understanding and solving major, near-term problems facing society. It’s up to the applicant to advocate for their specific field of study and demonstrate how it will be applied to address real-world challenges with the greatest impact. |
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| AAUW Dissertation Fellowship American Association of University Women |
Female Predocs in their final year |
The American Dissertation Fellowship must be used for the final year of writing the dissertation. Applicants must have completed all coursework, passed all preliminary exams, and had the dissertation research proposal or plan approved. |
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| Grass Fellowship The Grass Foundation |
Late-stage Predocs, Postdocs |
Grass Fellowships at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, support investigator-designed, independent research projects. Successful applicants often take advantage of the model organisms available through the Marine Resource Center. Supported approaches include neurophysiology, biophysics, integrative neurobiology, neuroethology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, systems neuroscience, cellular and developmental neurobiology, and computational approaches to neural systems. The Foundation has a longstanding interest in epilepsy-related research. |
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| Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral
Fellowship (Parent F31) NIH |
Predocs, Postdocs, Early Career Faculty |
The goal of the TOPMed Fellowship program is to promote broad participation and engagement of early-career researchers in applying novel and innovative AI/ML approaches on data-focused research problems. Applicants need to focus on the area within the NHLBI’s mission and propose to use existing or up- coming data to conduct discovery research. |
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| Mark Frank Diversity Travel Awards American Physiological Society |
Postdocs (under 35; less than 2 yrs of Postdoc experience) |
The Martin Frank Diversity Travel Award program is designed to broaden participation of those pursuing professional careers in physiological sciences. The specific intent of this program is to increase active participation in and networking at scientific meetings among trainees and early career faculty who are from historically underrepresented backgrounds in the physiological sciences. |
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| Porter Physiology Development Fellowship American Physiological Society |
Predcos from underrepresented racial/ethnic minority backgrounds |
The goal of the Porter Physiology Development Fellowship is to encourage diversity among students pursuing full-time studies towards a PhD in the physiological sciences and to encourage their participation in the American Physiological Society (APS). |
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| Career Development Award The Marfan Foundation, Loeys-Fietz Syndrome Foundation, The VEDS Movement |
Postdocs |
The Marfan Foundation and its divisions award grants to support research related to Marfan syndrome, VEDS, LDS, EDS, and other genetic aortic and vascular conditions. One goal is to advance research and to identify methods for earlier diagnosis, improved therapies, and to find an eventual cure. The Marfan Foundation and its divisions award grants to support research related to Marfan syndrome, VEDS, LDS, EDS, and other genetic aortic and vascular conditions. Another goal is to advance research in this area and to identify methods for earlier diagnosis, improved therapies, and to find an eventual cure |
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| 2024 TOPMed Fellowship National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH/DHHS |
Predocs, Postdocs, Early career faculty |
The goal of the TOPMed Fellowship program is to promote broad participation and engagement of early-career researchers in applying novel and innovative AI/ML approaches on data-focused research problems. Applicants need to focus on the area within the NHLBI’s mission and propose to use existing or up- coming data to conduct discovery research. |
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| Postdoctoral Fellowship The Parkinson's Foundation |
Postdocs |
The Parkinson’s Foundation seeks research proposals from promising early career scientists that will directly impact the understanding of Parkinson’s disease or its treatment. Applicants must name an individual who will serve as their research mentor and supervisor. |
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| Research Grant Program GBS/CIDP Foundation International |
Postdocs/Faculty |
The GBS|CIDP Foundation International believes in supporting research on GBS, CIDP, and variants by funding grants for projects that contribute to the knowledge of, and towards an eventual cure for, GBS, CIDP, and variants. Foundation funding interests include GBS, both demyelinating and axonal variants, Miller Fisher syndrome, CIDP, Multifocal Motor Neuropathy, and others. |
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| Gianni Family Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship & Leadership Award A.P. Gianni Foundation |
Postdocs |
The Fellowship and Leadership Award supports innovative research in the basic sciences and applied fields and trains fellows to become established investigators and to pursue scientific leadership positions in academia, industry, public and non-traditional career pathways. Research projects should advance the translation of biomedical science into preventions, treatments, and cures for human diseases. Physician-scientists and junior researchers with 3 to 36 months of postdoctoral research experience. |
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| AAUW Postdoctoral Leave Fellowship American Association of University Women |
Postdocs (female) |
The primary purpose of the American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship is to increase the number of women in tenure-track faculty positions and to promote equity for women in higher education. Aims to assist the candidate in obtaining tenure and further promotions by enabling them to spend a year pursuing independent research. Scholars engaged in science, technology, engineering, and math fields or those researching gender issues are especially encouraged to apply. |
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| Grass Fellowship The Grass Foundation |
Late-stage Predocs, Postdocs |
Grass Fellowships at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, support investigator-designed, independent research projects. Successful applicants often take advantage of the model organisms available through the Marine Resource Center. Supported approaches include neurophysiology, biophysics, integrative neurobiology, neuroethology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, systems neuroscience, cellular and developmental neurobiology, and computational approaches to neural systems. The Foundation has a longstanding interest in epilepsy-related research. |
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| STEM Education Individual Postdoctoral Research Felowships NSF |
Postdocs |
This postdoctoral fellowship funds projects designed to enhance the research knowledge, skills, and practices of STEM Education research by recent doctoral graduates in STEM, STEM Education, Education, & related disciplines. These awards provide direct support to Fellows to enable them to engage in ongoing research, to develop independent research, and to implement an independent professional development plan under the guidance of a sponsoring researcher. Fellows must affiliate with an appropriate host organization and are expected to devote themselves full time to the fellowship activities for the duration of the fellowship. |
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| Dalsemer Interstitial Research Award American Lung Association |
Postdocs |
The American Lung Association Dalsemer Interstitial 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. |
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| Catalyst Award American Lung Association |
Postdocs |
For mentored early career scientists ascending toward independence, this award supports junior investigators conducting basic science, behavioral, clinical or translational research into lung health and disease. |
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| Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral
Fellowship (Parent F32) NIH |
Postdocs |
The purpose of the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent F32) is to support research training of highly promising postdoctoral candidates who have the potential to become productive, independent investigators in scientific health-related research fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. Applications are expected to incorporate exceptional mentorship. |
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| PSC Young Investigator Award (PSC = Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis) PSC Partners |
Postdocs |
PSC Partners awards annual grants that drive research to identify treatments and a cure. Past studies have addressed an important and novel, basic, or clinical research question related to PSC and closely associated diseases (such as inflammatory bowel diseases and cholangiocarcinoma. Our Research Grants Program seeks to encourage investigators to conduct research in promising new areas, with the goal that data generated will lead to further seed funding from additional sources. |
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| Mark Frank Diversity Travel Awards American Physiological Society |
Postdocs (under 35; less than 2 yrs of Postdoc experience) |
The Martin Frank Diversity Travel Award program is designed to broaden participation of those pursuing professional careers in physiological sciences. The specific intent of this program is to increase active participation in and networking at scientific meetings among trainees and early career faculty who are from historically underrepresented backgrounds in the physiological sciences. |
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| Post-Doctoral Fellowship American Parkinson Disease Association |
Applicants must have completed their MD, PhD, MD/PhD or clinical residency program within two (2) years of the onset of the proposed award. |
APDA Post-doc fellowships are intended to support post-doctoral trainees at U.S. research institutions whose research training focuses on new insights into the pathophysiology, etiology, and/or treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Proposals can address research questions anywhere along the pipeline from basic science to rehabilitation-focused projects. |
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| NCC Fellowship Award National Cancer Center |
Postdocs (under 35; less than 2 yrs of Postdoc experience) |
National Cancer Center (NCC) has established funding for a limited number of post-doctoral fellowships for qualified applicants to receive training and experience in molecular genetics and the cellular aspects of cancer biology and tumor immunology. Preference will be given to studies directly relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of human cancer. |
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| Fellowship Grant Polycystic Kidney Foundation |
Postdocs |
The PKD Foundation is interested in fostering research in the areas relevant to PKD with the goal of furthering our understanding of the physiological, biochemical, molecular and genetic mechanisms of this disease. This fellowship is designed to facilitate young investigators to obtain significant research experience as they initiate careers in PKD research. This program is intended to assure the continuity over time of outstanding investigators committed to the study of PKD. |
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| Victor A. McKusick Fellowship The Marfan Foundation, Loeys-Fietz Syndrome Foundation, The VEDS Movement |
Postdocs (up to year 6) |
The fellowship program is designed to support the development of a fellow with a research interest in the care and study of individuals with Marfan syndrome, Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Loeys-Dietz syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and other genetic aortic and vascular conditions. Proposals are being accepted for two-year grants in basic, translational, or clinical research. |
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| Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Awards to Promote Diversity in Translational
Research for AD/ADRD NIH/NIA |
Postdocs |
The goal of this program is to expand the pool of translational researchers who can effectively participate in or lead a team-science, precision medicine approach to studies of AD/ADRD treatment, prevention, early detection and disease management and care. This program is open to eligible candidates interested in an area of translational research who can leverage NIA's investment in research on AD and aging to advance cross-disciplinary training in new approaches to AD/ADRD treatment, prevention, disease management and care. |
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| NCC Fellowship Award National Cancer Center |
Postdocs (under 35; less than 2 yrs of Postdoc experience) |
National Cancer Center (NCC) has established funding for a limited number of post-doctoral fellowships for qualified applicants to receive training and experience in molecular genetics and the cellular aspects of cancer biology and tumor immunology. Preference will be given to studies directly relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of human cancer. |
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| Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific & Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) Postdoctoral
Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) NIH, etc. |
Postdocs |
This program supports a cohort of early career investigators from diverse backgrounds conducting research in NIH mission areas. It has 2 components: an individual career transition award for postdoctoral scholars (K99/R00) & a research education cooperative agreement (UE5) awarded to organizations to provide these scholars with mentoring, networking & professional development activities to support their transition to independent, tenure-track or equivalent research-intensive faculty careers. This program supports NIH’s efforts to develop a diverse biomedical research workforce. |
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| The Bassi Foundation Postdoctoral Research Grant Bassi Foundation |
Early career postdocs |
The Bassi Foundation has been committed to fostering research on neglected topics within academia. We provide support and resources for scholars exploring areas that have traditionally received insufficient attention, aiming to deepen academic engagement with these subjects. |
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| Career Development Award The Marfan Foundation, Loeys-Fietz Syndrome Foundation, The VEDS Movement |
Faculty (<7 years experience) |
The Marfan Foundation and its divisions award grants to support research related to Marfan syndrome, VEDS, LDS, EDS, and other genetic aortic and vascular conditions. One goal is to advance research and to identify methods for earlier diagnosis, improved therapies, and to find an eventual cure. The Marfan Foundation and its divisions award grants to support research related to Marfan syndrome, VEDS, LDS, EDS, and other genetic aortic and vascular conditions. Another goal is to advance research in this area and to identify methods for earlier diagnosis, improved therapies, and to find an eventual cure. |
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| Innovators Grant The Marfan Foundation, Loeys-Fietz Syndrome Foundation, The VEDS Movement |
Faculty |
The grant program is designed to provide financial support for investigators studying any or all disciplines involved in Marfan syndrome, Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (VEDS), LoeysDietz syndrome (LDS), Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS, and other genetic aortic and vascular conditions. |
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| Breakthrough T1D Innovative Awards Breakthrough T1D (formerly Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) |
Faculty |
Breakthrough T1D provides seed funding for highly innovative, high-risk-high-reward research with significant potential to accelerate the mission of Breakthrough T1D. Proposals should address key outstanding questions and have the potential to lead to a challenge or a change in the current paradigm or conventional wisdom and/or lead to a groundbreaking discovery. |
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| 2024 TOPMed Fellowship National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH/DHHS |
Predocs, Postdocs, Early career faculty |
The goal of the TOPMed Fellowship program is to promote broad participation and engagement of early-career researchers in applying novel and innovative AI/ML approaches on data-focused research problems. Applicants need to focus on the area within the NHLBI’s mission and propose to use existing or up- coming data to conduct discovery research. |
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| Research Grant Program GBS/CIDP Foundation International |
Postdocs/Faculty |
The GBS|CIDP Foundation International believes in supporting research on GBS, CIDP, and variants by funding grants for projects that contribute to the knowledge of, and towards an eventual cure for, GBS, CIDP, and variants. Foundation funding interests include GBS, both demyelinating and axonal variants, Miller Fisher syndrome, CIDP, Multifocal Motor Neuropathy, and others. |
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| NLM Information Resource Grants to Reduce Health Disparities and Promote Health Equity NIH |
Faculty |
The goal of this program is to expand the pool of translational researchers who can effectively participate in or lead a team-science, precision medicine approach to studies of AD/ADRD treatment, prevention, early detection and disease management and care. This program is open to eligible candidates interested in an area of translational research who can leverage NIA's investment in research on AD and aging to advance cross-disciplinary training in new approaches to AD/ADRD treatment, prevention, disease management and care. |
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| NSF 24-597: U.S. National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program NSF |
Faculty (trainees must be in a research-based degree program that requires a thesis or dissertation) |
NRT projects are expected to develop trainees' technical skills broadly, including facility and/or familiarity with the techniques, languages, and cultures of fields integral to the interdisciplinary or convergent research theme; foster the development of transferable professional skills; and provide trainees with mentoring & vocational counseling from professionals who have the backgrounds, experience, & skills to advise trainees on how to prepare for a variety of STEM career pathways. |
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| AAUW Short-term Research Publication Grant American Association of University Women |
Faculty (female) |
These awards are for tenure-track, part-time, and temporary faculty, as well as new and established researchers at universities. Scholars with strong publication records should seek funding elsewhere. Applicants must have time available for eight consecutive weeks of final manuscript preparation. Limited to females or those who identify as female. |
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| ACG Clinical Research Awards; Established Researcher Bridge Funding ACG Institute for Clinical Research and Education and the American College of Gastroenterology |
Faculty |
The goal of the Established Investigator Bridge Funding Award is to provide short-term (up to two-year) funding to established Clinical Scientists with a proven track record of federal program funding in innovative and impactful clinical research in gastroenterology or hepatology |
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| AGA Research Scholar Award American Gastroenterological Association |
Early-career faculty |
The objective of the AGA Research Foundation Research Scholar Award (RSA) is to support early-career investigators working toward independent and productive research careers in digestive diseases by ensuring that a major proportion of their time is protected for research |
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| AHA Innovative Project Award American Heart Association |
Faculty |
To support highly innovative, high-impact research that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular research |
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| AHA Career Development Award American Heart Association |
Early-career faculty |
This grant 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. |
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| Scaling-up and Maintaining Evidence-based Interventions to Maximize Impact on Cancer
(SUMMIT)- Lung Cancer Screening (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Required) NIH, NCI |
Faculty |
This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) invites proposals for Research Projects to advance the science of scale-up and sustainment of lung cancer screening (LCS) for populations at high risk for lung cancer. Each Research Project will propose a trial to test implementation strategies to equitably and effectively scale-up and sustain the delivery of LCS to a large number of diverse clinical care delivery settings and populations at high risk for lung cancer, with an emphasis on populations experiencing health inequities. |
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| PSC Partners Research Seed Grant (PSC = Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis) PSC Partners |
Faculty |
PSC Partners and affiliate PSC Partners Canada award annual grants that drive research to identify treatments and a cure. Past studies have addressed an important and novel, basic, or clinical research question related to PSC and closely associated diseases (such as inflammatory bowel diseases and cholangiocarcinoma). Our Research Grants Program seeks to encourage investigators to conduct research in promising new areas, with the goal that data generated will lead to further seed funding from additional sources. |
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| Mark Frank Diversity Travel Awards American Physiological Society |
Predcocs, Postdocs, early career faculty from underrepresented racial or ethnic group |
The Martin Frank Diversity Travel Award program is designed to broaden participation of those pursuing professional careers in physiological sciences. The specific intent of this program is to increase active participation in and networking at scientific meetings among trainees and early career faculty who are from historically underrepresented backgrounds in the physiological sciences. |
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| Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Basic and Translational Oral Health Research Related
to HIV/AIDS National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) |
Faculty |
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) is issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to encourage innovative and multi-disciplinary basic and translational research to elucidate the mechanisms of, and strategies for, addressing HIV pathogenesis, HIV-associated comorbidities, co-infections, and complications in the oropharyngeal cavity. |
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| NCI Transition Career Development Award to Promote Diversity NIH/National Cancer Institute |
Faculty |
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is a continuation of the NCI Transition Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K22) to enhance the diversity in the NCI-funded cancer research workforce by supporting eligible individuals from diverse backgrounds, including groups that have been shown to be nationally underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, social and clinical sciences. This award will provide "protected time" through salary and research support for 3 years beginning at the time when the candidate starts a tenure-track faculty position. |
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| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Intermediate Patient Population Expanded Access
(U01 Clinical Trial Required) NIH, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) |
Faculty |
The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to encourage grant applications for the conduct of scientific research utilizing data from expanded access (EA) for investigational drugs or biological products. These applications will target EA for intermediate size populations of people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who are not eligible for ongoing clinical trials for the prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, or cure of ALS |
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| Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN): Biologic-based Drug Discovery and Development
for Disorders of the Nervous System (U44 Clinical Trial Optional) NIH, etc. |
Faculty |
The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to provide funding, resources, and expertise to accelerate the development of diverse biotherapeutic modalities — including but not limited to antibodies, peptides, proteins, oligonucleotides, gene therapies, cell therapies, and other emerging therapeutic modalities — for the treatment of nervous and neuromuscular system disorders. |
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| AHA Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Science American Heart Association |
Faculty |
To enable current AHA awardees to identify and serve as mentors for predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows from underrepresented groups in science and medicine |
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| Faculty Starter Grant PhRMA Foundation |
Faculty |
The PhRMA Foundation Research Starter Grants provide funding to individuals beginning independent research careers at the faculty level in the fields of Health Outcomes Research, Drug Delivery Research, Drug Discovery Research, and Translational Medicine. |
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| AHA Transformational Project Award American Heart Association |
Faculty |
To support 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/or cerebrovascular research |
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| Mechanisms that Impact Cancer Risk after Bariatric Surgery (R21 Clinical Trial Not
Allowed) NIH/National Cancer Institute |
Faculty |
Through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites applications for support of investigator-initiated studies addressing mechanisms by which bariatric surgery impacts cancer risk, and seeks to draw in talented scientists who study bariatric surgery to investigate its effects on cancer, rather than shorter-term outcomes such as weight loss and diabetes. |
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| Clinical and Translational Science Award (UM1 Clinical Trial Optional) NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences |
Faculty |
This Notice of Funding Opportunity announcement (NOFO) invites applications for the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program hubs that will be part of a national, collaborative consortium focused on bringing more treatments to all people more quickly through advancing clinical and translational science. |
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| Discovery and Development of Natural Products for Cancer Interception and Prevention
(UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) NIH, NCI |
Faculty |
The Martin Frank Diversity Travel Award program is designed to broaden participation of those pursuing professional careers in physiological sciences. The specific intent of this program is to increase active participation in and networking at scientific meetings among trainees and early career faculty who are from historically underrepresented backgrounds in the physiological sciences. |
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