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.

TitleSponsor
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants ProgramUSDA
Career Development AwardsAmerican Association for Cancer Research
Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) GrantsAmerican Chemical Society
Early Career and Program Research GrantsHuman Frontier Science Program
Early Career AwardsRussell Sage Foundation
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)NSF
Grants-in-Aid ProgramWhitehall Foundation
NARSAD Young Investigator GrantBrain & Behavior Research Foundation
New Investigator Grant ProgramLeukemia Research Foundation
New Investigator Research GrantFoundation For Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation
NIH Director's New Innovator Award ProgramNIH
Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP)Department of Defense
Scholars ProgramWilliam T. Grant Foundation
Young Faculty AwardDARPA
Young Investigator (YI) AwardNational Ataxia Foundation
Young Investigator ProgramONR
Young Scholars ProgramFoundation for Child Development
Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator AwardHealth 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.

TitleSponsor
DOD Office of Naval Research Summer Faculty Research and Sabbatical Leave ProgramDepartment of Defense
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering -  Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) ProgramDepartment of Defense
Argonne National Laboratory Faculty Research Leave Appointment Program  - Sabbatical LeaveDepartment of Energy
Creative Writing FellowshipsNational Endowment for the Arts
Research FellowshipsNational Endowment for the Humanities  
F33 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Senior FellowsNational Institutes of Health
K07 Academic Career Development AwardNational Institutes of Health
K18 Research Career Enhancement Award for Established InvestigatorsNational Institutes of Health
K25 Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development AwardNational Institutes of Health
NRC Research Associateship Programs at sponsoring federal laboratories and affiliated institutionsNational 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.