Please note: The NIH considers a Principal Investigator/Program Director an Early Career (or Early Stage) Investigator "if he/she is within 10 years of completing his/her terminal research degree or is within 10 years of completing medical residency (or the equivalent)."
All Countries
Title JDRF Career Development Awards
Deadline July 15, 2012
Funding organization Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Amount $150,000 USD/year
Project timeline Up to 5 years
Note The purpose of these awards is to attract qualified and promising scientists early in their faculty careers and to give them the opportunity to establish themselves in areas that reflect the JDRF research emphasis areas. Investigators may emphasize either basic or clinical topics.
Web site http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=114014
United States
Title Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity – New Connections Grants
Deadline May 22, 2012 (concept paper)
Funding organization Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Amount $100,000 total
Project timeline 12-18 months
Note For research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among those populations at highest risk. New Connections grants are to support new investigators (within 10 years of their terminal degree) representing underrepresented racial/ethnic minority groups, lower-income groups, first-generation college graduates, and other populations historically underrepresented in childhood obesity prevention research.
Web site http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21393
Title Liz Tilberis Scholars Program
Deadline May 29, 2012 (letter of intent)
Funding organization Ovarian Cancer Research Fund
Amount $150,000/year
Project timeline 3 years
Note For junior faculty within the first five years of their first academic appointment after having completed their fellowship or postdoctoral training (Assistant Professor or equivalent). Applications that are creative, original, and hold the most promise in the areas of early detection, prevention, treatment, and translational ovarian cancer research will be considered favorably.
Web site http://www.ocrf.org/images/pdfs/lt.loi.rfp.2013.doc
Title 2012 ASPIRE Young Investigator Research Awards in Endocrinology
Deadline June 15, 2012
Funding organization Pfizer Inc.
Amount US $50,000/award (3 awards for 2012)
Project timeline 1 year
Note Funding will be provided to research proposals that seek to explore basic, translational, or clinical research in the area of endocrine disease in adults and children. The proposed research work could include but is not limited to clinical or basic studies in the GH-IGF system, which might in the future provide a benefit for patients specifically in areas where unmet medical needs exist. Applicants are considered early career "if he/she is within 10 years of completing his/her post-doctoral degree or is within 10 years of completing medical residency (or the equivalent)." The ASPIRE applications will be reviewed by an independent, external review committee comprised of medical and scientific experts.
Web site http://www.pfizer.com/research/investigator/investigator_initiated_research.jsp (click on Submit an IIR request and follow the instructions)
Title Career Awards for Medical Scientists
Deadline October 1, 2012
Funding organization Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Amount $700,000 total
Project timeline 5 years
Note For physician-scientists to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and early years of faculty service. Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented, or translational research. Open to applicants in the US and Canada.
Web site http://www.bwfund.org/page.php?mode=privateview&pageID=188
Title Grants-in-Aid
Deadline October 1, 2012 (letter of intent)
Funding organization Whitehall Foundation
Amount $30,000
Project timeline 1 year
Note Designed for researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. The Foundation is interested in basic research in neurobiology and does not support investigators who have substantial existing or potential support.
Web site http://www.whitehall.org/about/
Canada
Title Career Awards for Medical Scientists
Deadline October 1, 2012
Funding organization Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Amount $700,000 total
Project timeline 5 years
Note For physician-scientists to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and early years of faculty service. Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented, or translational research. Open to applicants in the US and Canada.
Web site http://www.bwfund.org/page.php?mode=privateview&pageID=188
