CANCER
American Association for Cancer Research -- Judah Folkman Career Development Award for Antiangiogenesis Research
Deadline: January 10, 2012, at 12:00 noon, Eastern Time
Funding: $100,000 over two years ($50,000 per year) for direct research expenses (may include the salary and benefits of the grant recipient, postdoctoral/clinical research fellows/research assistants, research/lab supplies and equipment).
Purpose: To encourage and support junior faculty who are in the first four years of a faculty appointment (at the start of the grant term) to conduct cancer research and establish successful career paths in this field.
Eligibility: Applicants must have a medical degree (M.D., D.O., or international equivalent), or hold a combined M.D./Ph.D., and be affiliated with an institution in the U.S. Proposed research projects are restricted to basic, translational, clinical or epidemiological projects that substantially advance the field of antiangiogenesis research in cancer.
Link: www.aacr.org/funding
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American Cancer Society – Research Professor Award
Deadline: February 2, 2012 (Letter of Intent); April 1, 2012 (Full Application)
Funding: Up to $400,000 over five years.
Purpose: To support mid-career investigators who have made influential contributions that have changed the direction of basic cancer research.
Eligibility: Must be at the time of application U.S. citizens, noncitizen nationals or permanent residents; and have obtained rank of full professor or equivalent; must not have held rank for more than 15 years.
Additional Information: The American Cancer Society seeks to support and promote high impact and innovative cancer research across a wide range of discipline to meet critically important needs in the control of cancer.
Link: http://www.cancer.org/Research/ResearchProgramsFunding/
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Professors/research-professor
American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) – Translational Grants and Basic Research Fellowships
Deadline: January 10, 2012 at 5 p.m.
Funding: $75,000 over 1 year (Translational Grants); $100,000 over 2 years (Basic Research Fellowships)
Purpose: Translational Grants help scientists further develop studies on the cusp of moving from the laboratory into patient testing, and often support the collection of the preclinical data researchers need to apply for major funding from other sources. Basic Research Fellowships are designed to encourage talented scientists early in their careers to enter, or remain in, the field of brain tumor research. The experience provides an opportunity in which young, bright, motivated investigators learn from motivating mentors. Applications will be accepted from a broad variety of disciplines such as basic sciences, radiation oncology, imaging, neurosurgery, neurology, pharmacology, immunology, etc. but the training opportunity must be specific to brain tumor research.
Eligibility: For Translational Grants: As of July 1, 2012 M.D.s must be within eight years of completion of their post-residency training, and hold a Faculty or Junior Faculty appointment or as of July 1, 2012 Ph.D.s must be within three to ten years of having received their doctorate, and hold a Faculty or Junior Faculty appointment. For Basic Research Fellowships: M.D.s must be within two years of residency completion or within five years of post-residency training as of July 1, 2012, or Ph.D.s will have their doctorate conferred by January 1, 2012 and will have no more than 5 years postdoctoral laboratory experience by July 1, 2012.
Link: http://www.abta.org/Research_Progress/ABTA_Funding_Opportunities_/304
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Caring for Carcinoid Foundation-AACR Grants for Carcinoid Tumor and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Research
Deadline: January 17, 2012
Funding: $250,000/2 years; $125,000/year.
Purpose: To promote and support innovative cancer research. These grants are available to independent junior and senior investigators to develop and study new ideas and approaches that have direct application and relevance to carcinoid tumors or pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Proposed research may be in any discipline of basic, translational, clinical or epidemiological cancer research. Applications are invited from researchers currently in the field as well as from investigators with experience in other areas of cancer research who have promising ideas or research approaches that can be applied to carcinoid tumor and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor research.
Eligibility: Must have a doctoral degree (including Ph.D., M.D., D.O., D.C., N.D., D.D.S., D.V.M., Sc.D., D.N.S., Pharm.D., or equivalent doctoral degree, or a combined clinical and research doctoral degree) in a related field and not currently be a candidate for a further doctoral or professional degree. Will be accepted from independent investigators at all levels who are affiliated with an academic, medical or research institution. No citizenship or geographic requirements.
Link: http://www.aacr.org/
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Fight Colorectal Cancer-AACR Career Development Award
Funding: $100,000 over two years ($50,000 per year)
Purpose: Research projects are restricted to translational or clinical cancer research that has an ultimate goal of developing or improving therapeutic interventions for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.
The award provides for direct research expenses, which may include salary and benefits of the grant recipient, postdoctoral or clinical research fellows, and/or research assistants, research/laboratory supplies and equipment.
Eligibility: Applicants must have a doctoral degree (including Ph.D., M.D., D.O., D.C., N.D., D.D.S., D.V.M., Sc.D., D.N.S., Pharm.D., or equivalent doctoral degree, or a combined clinical and research doctoral degree) in a related field and not currently be a candidate for a further doctoral or professional degree. Open to junior faculty who are in the first four years of a faculty appointment on July 1, 2012.
Link: http://www.aacr.org/Uploads/DocumentRepository/Grants/2012_FCC_CDA_PG.pdf
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Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) -- Translational Research Program (TRP)
Deadline: Letter of Intent due March 1, 2012 (3:00pm EST)
Full Application due March 15, 2012 (3:00pm EST)
Funding: Total $600,000 across 3 years, including $19,982 max. annual indirect costs
Purpose: To foster collaboration between basic and clinical scientists and enhance transfer of basic research findings to clinical usefulness. Applications are sought proposing novel approaches to prevention, diagnosis or treatment of leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. Proposals should be based on molecular, cellular or integrated systems findings and be conceptually innovative. The application should have a clear plan for the clinical exploitation of studies proposed and results expected. This feature of the proposal will be an important consideration of review process. While work directed at a further elucidation and understanding of the fundamental cellular and molecular biology of neoplastic lymphohematopoietic cells is a research priority of LLS, the Translational Research Program is specifically intended for support of clinical work.
Link: www.lls.org
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St. Baldrick’s Foundation – Childhood Cancer
Deadline: Letter of intent due by 1/31/2012; applications due by 4/6/2012.
Funding: Varies by program. See below.
Purpose: St. Baldrick’s Foundation funds programs and projects related to childhood cancer research, with priorities on: Education of new pediatric oncology researchers, New discovery research, and Translational research. In addition to research to find cures, topics of interest include but are not limited to adolescents and young adults; survivorship, outcomes and quality of life; and supportive care.
Link: http://www.stbaldricks.org/where-the-money-goes/grants
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St. Baldrick’s Fellows: Foundation funds years 2-3 of a pediatric oncology research fellowship, with an opportunity for one additional year of funding. (Fellow’s salary & benefits only.) The foundation encourages applications from institutions with fellowship programs which have not previously received St. Baldrick’s funding.
St. Baldrick’s Scholars: Career development award is to help develop the independent research of highly qualified individuals still early in their careers. Grant: $110,000/year, 3 year min, with opportunity for two additional years. Award is for Scholar’s salary & benefits only; adjustments may be allowed if the Scholar receives other funds after the first year, upon Foundation approval.
Research grants: These one-year grants are for specific research projects which are hypothesis driven and may be either laboratory or clinical in nature. Please submit a realistic budget for the project; average grant will be $100,000 or less.
Supportive Care Research grants: For specific research projects which are hypothesis driven and focus on areas related to supportive care of children and adolescents with cancer. Examples include: studies related to symptom clusters, patient-reported outcomes/quality of life, health communication, health promotion, and psychosocial support across trajectory from diagnosis to survivorship or end-of-life care. Average grant will be $50,000.
CEREBRAL PALSY RESEARCH
Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation – Research Grant Program
Deadline: January 15, 2012 Letter of Intent; March 1, Full Application.
Funding: Up to $100,000 over two years.
Purpose: To support pilot studies on research important to the prevention and treatment of cerebral palsy, including improvement in the quality of life of persons with disabilities due to cerebral palsy and closely related developmental brain disorders. The Foundation is particularly interested in basic, clinical and applied research in the biomedical and bioengineering sciences fields.
Eligibility: No restrictions.
To Apply: http://www.cpirf.org/research/grant-applications
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CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
PhRMA Foundation – Faculty Development Award
Deadline: February 1, 2012
Funding: Up to $240,000 over two years (includes 8% in indirect costs).
Purpose: To support and develop the potential of young investigators in order to meet workforce needs in the field of human clinical pharmacology.
Eligibility: Must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, hold a Pharm.D., M.D., or Ph.D. degree and have a sponsored mentor. Should have at least two years of training at the residency level, and two years clinical experience in a research training program related to clinical pharmacology. Foundation is particularly interested in providing support to applicants who are beginning a postdoctoral program and interested in a full-time career in human clinical pharmacology.
Special Note: In addition to the Faculty Development Award, the PhRMA Foundation offers other funding opportunities with the same deadline including, Postdoctoral Fellowships and Research Starter Grants. See the URL below for more details.
Link: http://www.phrmafoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&
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PhRMA Foundation Research Starter Grants -- Health Outcomes
Deadline: February 1, 2012 (online)
Funding: $60,000 for one year.
Purpose: To offer financial support to individuals beginning their independent research careers at the faculty level. Supports individuals beginning independent research careers in academia who do not have other substantial sources of research funding. Not offered as a means to augment substantially funded research efforts. Intended to offer support for researchers who are starting their independent research efforts.
- Health Outcomes
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Patient Reported Outcomes
Eligibility: Those holding the academic rank of instructor or assistant professor and investigators at the doctoral level with equivalent positions are eligible to apply for these research starter grants, providing their proposed research is neither directly nor indirectly subsidized to any significant degree by an extramural support mechanism. Not intended for those in postdoctoral training programs. However, individuals in unless finished and holding an academic appointment by January 1, 2012 may apply. Must be sponsored by the department or unit within which the proposed research is to be undertaken. Grant made to the university on behalf of applicant and with understanding that the university will administer the funds. Schools of medicine, pharmacy, public health, nursing, dentistry and schools of other areas where appropriate are eligible for this award. All applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Link: http://www.phrmafoundation.org/index.php?option=com_award&task=sdetail&id=16
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DIABETES
American Diabetes Association (ADA)
Deadline: January 17, 2012
Funding: $30,000-$200,000
Purpose: The American Diabetes Association provides general grant support to both new and established investigators, specialized grants assisting clinical and innovative researchers, and opportunities for established investigators as they advance their careers and the field of diabetes research and care. ADA also supports the careers of young scientists. ADA is currently accepting applications for General Research, Development, and Training Awards.
Link: http://professional.diabetes.org/Diabetes_Research.aspx?typ=18&
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EATING DISORDERS RESEARCH
Medical Foundation/Davis Foundation – Postdoctoral Fellowship/Eating Disorders Research
Deadline: January 12, 2012
Funding: Up to $189,000 over three years.
Purpose: To accelerate medical research discoveries that will lead to improved therapies for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Proposals must be focused on relevant aspects of the biological causes of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as defined by clinical criteria. Research areas of interest include but are not limited to: neural pathways of feeding behavior in animal models; molecular genetic analysis of relevant neural circuit assembly and function; testing of new chemical compounds that might be used in animal models as experimental treatments; and brain imaging technologies that identify neurochemical pathways in patients with these disorders.
Eligibility: Must not have completed no more than three years of postdoctoral research training as of the funding date.
Link: http://hria.org/tmfservices/tmfgrants/davis.html
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ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY RESEARCH
Heart Rhythm Society – Research Fellowships
Deadline: January 20, 2012 by 5:00 p.m.
Funding: Up to $50,000
Purpose: To support individuals interested in clinical and basic research relating to the latest advances in electrophysiology. Appropriate fields of study include: epidemiological, community, clinical and basic investigations within the general area of cardiac electrophysiology.
Eligibility: Applicants must hold an M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent degree and should not be enrolled in a graduate or medical school as of June 2012. Applicants may not have completed three cumulative years of postmedical school or graduate school research. Applicant should be intent on pursuing a career in independent research and interested in additional training under the supervision of a sponsor or mentor prior to a career in independent research. Sponsor should be a member of the Heart Rhythm Society by activation of the award (June 2012).
Link: http://www.hrsonline.org/Education/FellowsandPD/EPFellowships/
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GASTROENTEROLOGY
American Gastroenterological Association ‐ Takeda Research Scholar Award in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Deadline: January 13, 2012 (full application)
Funding: $60,000 per year for two years (total $120,000)
Purpose: For young investigators working toward independent careers in gastroenterology, hepatology, or related areas; to enable them to develop independent and productive research careers in digestive diseases by ensuring that a major proportion of their time is protected for research. Limited to research relevant to gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Eligibility: Candidates for this award must hold an MD, PhD or equivalent degree (e.g. MB, ChB, MBBS, DO) and a full‐time faculty position at a North American institution by July 1, 2012. AGA membership is required at the time of application submission. Established investigators are not appropriate candidates. For MD applicants: No more than 5 years following completion of clinical training (GI fellowship or its equivalent) and the start date of this award. PhD applicants: No more than 5 years following the PhD award and the start date of this award. Candidates must devote at least 70 percent of efforts to research related to the digestive system. Women and underrepresented minority applicants are strongly encouraged to apply. Physician/scientist/ investigators /candidates interested in translational research especially encouraged to apply. Appropriately documented parental leave of absence will not be counted toward 5 year eligibility. At time of application, candidates may not hold/have held an R01, R29, R21, K‐series award, Veterans Affairs Career Development Award or award with similar objectives from non‐federal sources.
Link: http://gastro.org/researchfunding
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HEART DISEASE RESEARCH
American Heart Association National Scientist Development Grant
Deadline: January 26, 2012
Funding: $77,000 over 4 years
Purpose: The award supports highly promising beginning scientists in their progress toward independence by encouraging and adequately funding research projects that can bridge the gap between completion of research training and readiness for successful competition as an independent investigator. Focus is on research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease and stroke, or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology, and public health problems, including multidisciplinary efforts. Proposals are encouraged from all basic disciplines as well as epidemiological, behavioral, community and clinical investigations that bear on cardiovascular and stroke problems.
Eligibility: At the time of the application, must hold an M.D., Ph.D., D.O., D.V.M. or equivalent post-baccalaureate doctoral degree and meet institutional requirements for grant submission.
At the time of award activation (July 2012), the applicant must hold a faculty/staff position up to and including the rank of assistant professor (or equivalent). Applications may be submitted for review in the final year of a postdoctoral research fellowship or in the initial years of the first faculty/staff appointment. Also, no more than four years will have elapsed since an applicant's first faculty/staff appointment (after receipt of doctoral degree) at the assistant professor level or its equivalent (including, but not limited to, research assistant professor, research scientist, staff scientist, etc.).
Link: http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/
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LUPUS RESEARCH
Alliance for Lupus Research (ALR) -- Functional Genomics and Molecular Genetic Pathways in SLE
Deadline: Application due to ALR by February 15, 2012
Funding: Approved Research Grants will be eligible for a 2-year award of up to $350,000 (up to $175,000/year for 2 years). Pilot Grants: Approved pilot grants will be eligible for a 1-year award of up to $75,000. Pilot grants are for projects that are not supported by preliminary data.
Purpose: Must focus on two principal areas: (1) functional validation to determine which candidate genes/variants identified in human lupus have an authentic role in the disease and (2) detailed elucidation of the molecular pathways modulated by these candidate genes/variants identified in human lupus. All proposals submitted must be based on information in the public domain. Responsive applications will propose research to elucidate the functional implications of the genetic variants identified in human lupus studies. Lupus-associated genes studied in animal models that are not among those also identified in human studies are not appropriate topics for this grant mechanism.
Link: http://www.lupusresearch.org/research/grants.html
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NEUROSCIENCE
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience Scholar Awards
Deadline: January 3, 2012
Funding: up to $225,000 over 3 years
Purpose: The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience invites applications for the 2012 McKnight Scholar Awards. These awards were established to encourage emerging neuroscientists to focus on disorders of learning and memory. Applicants for the McKnight Scholar Awards must demonstrate interest in solving important problems in relevant areas of neuroscience, including the translation of basic research to clinical neuroscience.
Eligibility: Applicants must have the following:
- An M.D. and/or Ph.D. degree and have completed formal postdoctoral training;
- tenure-track status at a U.S.-based sponsoring institution, to which awards will be paid;
- a record of meritorious research in areas pertinent to the interests of the Endowment Fund;
- no more than four years of experience in an independent/tenure-track faculty position (exceptions may be made to account for parental leave);
- evidence of a commitment to a career in neuroscience; and
- U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status.
Link:http://www.mcknight.org/neuroscience/news/news_detail.aspx?
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PSYCHIATRY
Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation: Fellowship in Child & Adolescent ADHD; Fellowship in Child & Adolescent Depression
Deadline: January 13, 2012 (Online Nominations Only from Chair of Departments of Psychiatry)
Fellowship Applications are due March 23, 2012
Funding: $30,000/yr for 2 yrs
Purpose: To support 2-year research projects that could lead to federal funding and other national research awards. Institutions should nominate candidates who have strong evidence of independent research ability and who are planning a career in research related to child and adolescent psychiatry.
Eligibility: Chair of Dept of Psychiatry should nominate 1 post-doc w/Ph.D. and/or M.D. who has completed all clinical training; should be at the junior faculty level, but will consider candidates in research training programs. Investigators who received R01 awards from NIMH are not eligible; those w/K awards or who applied for K awards or hope to use a KTGF fellowship as a stepping stone to K award or other funding are eligible. Fellow must have IRB approval before receiving award.
Link: http://www.ktgf.org/fellowship_prog.html
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RHEUMATOLOGY
American College of Rheumatology Research and Education Foundation (ACR REF)/Arthritis Foundation (AF)
Deadline: December 30, 2011
Funding: $75,000 over 1 year
Purpose: The ACR REF/AF Career Development Bridge Funding Award provides bridge funding for promising investigators as they are revising outstanding career development awards (i.e., NIH K08/K23 awards or VA CDA-2 awards). Through this bridge funding award, the REF plans to support young faculty members so that they have the highest likelihood of achieving success in obtaining longer term career development awards. This funding mechanism is consistent with the REF goal of helping to ensure the future of academic rheumatology.
Eligibility: Applicants must be ACR or ARHP members with an M.D., D.O., Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral level degree from an accredited institution, M.D./Ph.D.s and D.O./Ph.D.s are eligible to apply. Applicants must have received a score on the latest of their initial or first re-submission of their K08, K23, or CDA-2 award. Past recipients of this award and applicants with A1 resubmission status are not eligible to apply.
Link: http://www.rheumatology.org/ref/awards/bfa.pdf
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SPINAL CORD INJURY RESEARCH
Paralyzed Veterans of America Education Foundation – Research Utilization and Dissemination
Deadline: February 1, 2012
Funding: Up to $100,000 over two years.
Purpose: To support investigators conducting projects in spinal cord injury or disease that translates research findings into practice. Areas the Foundation plans to fund:
- Consumer, Caregiver and Community Education – demonstration projects that seek to improve the health, independence and quality of life of individuals with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D);
- Professional Development and Education – programs that improve the knowledge and competencies of professionals providing health care and related services to the SCI/D community; or
- Fellowship programs for professionals providing health care and related services to the SCI/D community;
- Research Utilization and Dissemination – projects that translate research findings into practice;
- Assistive Technology – demonstration projects that improve the identification, selection, and use of assistive devices by people with SCI/D; and
- Conference and Symposia – meetings that provide education and opportunities for collaboration among members of the SCI/D community
Eligibility: Grantees must be located in the U.S. or Canada. However, project directors, staff and PIs are not required to be U.S. or Canadian citizens.
Link: http://www.pva.org/site/c.ajIRK9NJLcJ2E/b.6305829/k.6E40/
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