Early & Mid-Career Funding Opportunities

New and Early-Career Faculty Funding

This list includes research funding opportunities targeted for new and early-career faculty members. Researchers should notify their college research administration office their intention to submit a proposal, by the deadline set by that office. Proposals will route from your college research administration office to the Office of Pre-Award Services (OPAS) in Kuali. All proposals are due to OPAS five (5) business days before the official agency deadline, see: Sponsored Project Proposal Submission Requirements and Procedures.

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

 

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

 

Questions? Contact the Office of Research Development (ORD) at @email.