| Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) |
Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) |
Free Family Foundation award for a meritorious research proposal that proposes to understand pathophysiologic mechanisms that cause the transition from aging to early, dry AMD. |
$200,000 per year for 3 years |
October 1, 2024 LOI. January 9, 2025 application |
| Aging | Healthy Longevity |
American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) |
The Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging (K76) |
$225,000 in direct costs per year for five years |
October 18, 2024 |
| Basic Biomedical, Disease-oriented, or Translational Research |
Burroughs Wellcome Fund |
Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides for physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career, to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service. |
$700,000 over 5 years |
October 8, 2024 |
| Chronic Pain |
American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA) |
ASRA Chronic Pain Medicine Research Grant aims to promote and facilitate high quality research in pain medicine. |
$75,000 |
October 1, 2025 |
| Coat’s Disease, Retinal Diseases. |
Jack McGovern Coats’ Disease Foundation |
Research Grant to support medical research specific to Coats’ Disease and other retinal diseases, which may lead to a cure or improve treatments and understanding of the pathophysiology for Coats’ Disease. |
$35,000 |
April 1 and October 1 |
| Dermatologic Disease |
Dermatology Foundation |
Medical Dermatology Career Development Award (CDA) provides funding for future intellectual leaders, educators, and clinical scholars in that aspect of the specialty that addresses severe dermatologic disease. |
$55,000 per year and awards may be renewed annually for up to a total of three years of funding. |
October 15, 2024 |
| Dermatology |
Dermatology Foundation |
Dermatologist Investigator Research Fellowship supports dermatologists who desire research training and have a commitment to an academic career in medical and surgical dermatology. |
$30,000 for 1 year |
October 15, 2024 |
| Dermatopathology |
Dermatology Foundation |
Research Grant support for research projects in dermatology and cutaneous biology that benefit the dermatology community at large. |
$25,000 one-year grant. |
October 15, 2024 |
| Glaucoma |
BrightFocus Foundation – National Glaucoma Research |
Standard Research Award offers substantial funding to researchers with preliminary data who need further progress before seeking government or industry support. |
150,000 over 2 years |
October 30, 2025 |
| Global Health |
Gairdner Foundation |
The Canada Gairdner Global Health Award is given to a scientist whose advances have (or will potentially have) a significant impact on health outcomes in the developing world. |
$150,000 |
October 1, 2025 |
| Human Biology and Disease |
Gairdner Foundation |
Gairdner International Award recognizes outstanding biomedical scientists who have made original contributions to medicine with the goal of contributing through research to increased understanding of human biology and disease. |
$100,000 |
October 1 |
| Humanities │ Humanistic Social Sciences |
American Council of Learned Societies |
ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship program offers recent humanities PhDs two-year fellowship positions with organizations dedicated to advancing justice and equity. |
$67,000 per year for 2 years and up to $8000 to defray the cost of providing employee benefits to the fellow. |
October 4, 2024 |
| Inherited Orphan Retinal Degenerative Diseases, Dry Age-related Macular Degeneration |
Foundation Fighting Blindness |
Individual Investigator Research Awards are designed to concentrate research in areas with the greatest potential to move toward treatments and cures for the inherited orphan retinal degenerative diseases and dry age-related macular degeneration. |
$100,000 per year per year up to three (3) years. |
October 24, 2024 letter or intent. March 6, 2025 application |
| Inherited Orphan Retinal Degenerations |
Foundation Fighting Blindness |
Clinical Research Fellowship Award (CRFA). |
$65,000 one-year |
October 17, 2024 application |
| Leukemia, Cancer |
Leukemia Lymphoma Society |
Career Development Program |
Fellow award $70,000 per year direct for 3 years. Special Fellow $75,000 per year for 2 to 3 years. Scholar $120,000 per year for 5 years. Scholar in Clinical Research $125,000 per year for 5 years. |
October 17, 2025 Eligibility Phase. November 1, 2025 LOI . November 15, 2025 application |
| Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma |
Leukemia Lymphoma Society |
Translational Research Program to the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of hematological malignancies and related pre-malignant conditions. . |
$250,000 per year for 3 years |
October 16, 2024 letter of intent. January 21, 2025 full application. |
| Lupus and Scleroderma |
Dermatology Foundation |
Women’s Health Career Development Award (CDA) is intended to focus the areas of women’s health issues, which range from disorders that affect primarily women, such as lupus and scleroderma, to the effects of hormones and environmental factors on the skin and cutaneous aging. |
$55,000 per year and awards may be renewed annually for up to a total of three years of funding. |
October 15, 2024 |
| Radiation │ Melanoma |
Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) |
ASTRO-MRA Young Investigator Award in Radiation Oncology offers a special opportunity to support research in radiation oncology to improve treatment options for melanoma patients |
$85,000 per year for three years total of $225,000 |
October 21, 2024 eligibility checklist. November 4, 2024 full proposal |
| Motor Neurone Disease (MND) |
Motor Neurone Disease Association |
Biomedical Research Project Grants to support research aimed at understanding the causes of MND, elucidating disease mechanisms and facilitating the translation of therapeutic strategies from the laboratory to the clinic. |
£105,000 per year (and £315,000 in total) |
October 31, 2025 |
| Neurobiology |
Whitehall Foundation |
Research Grants Program: Research grants are available to established scientists of all ages working at accredited institutions in the United States. Applications will be judged on the scientific merit and the innovative aspects of the proposal as well as on the competence of the applicant |
$30,000 to $75,000 per year up to 3 years |
January 15, April 15 and October 1 (LOI). June 1, September 1 and February 15 application. |
| Neurobiology |
Whitehall Foundation |
The Grants-in-Aid program is designed for researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. Grants-in-Aid can also be made to senior scientists. All applications will be judged on the scientific merit and innovative aspects of the proposal, as well as on past performance and evidence of the applicant’s continued productivity. |
$30,000 for 1 year |
January 15, April 15 and October 1 (LOI). June 1, September 1 and February 15 application. |
| Ovarian Cancer |
Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer |
Bridge Funding to produce data needed to substantiate their proposal resubmission to federal funding agencies for a promising new research project. |
$30,000 1 year |
April 15 and October 15 |
| Parkinson’s Disease |
Parkinson’s Foundation |
Impact Awards are designed for researchers both established and new to the field of PD. |
$150,000 for 12-18 months. |
October 31, 2024 LOI. February 28, 2025 application |
| Parkinson’s Disease |
Parkinson’s Foundation |
Postdoctoral Fellowships for Basic Scientists are two-year fellowships for young scientists, fresh from their PhD training or neurology residency, to study at major research institutions. |
$124,000 over two years to Basic Scientists, including $57,000 for the postdoctoral fellowship salary stipend and an annual $5,000 research allowance. |
October 31, 2024 LOI. February 28, 2025 application |
| Pediatric Cancer |
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) |
Innovation Grant is designed to provide critical and significant seed funding for researchers with a novel approach to pediatric oncology scientific investigation. |
$250,000 or below over two years. A maximum of $125,000 in total costs may be requested per year. |
October 16, 2024 letter of intent. Full application by invitation March 18, 2025 |
| Pediatric Dermatology |
Dermatology Foundation |
Pediatric Dermatology Career Development Award (CDA) supports future intellectual leaders, educators, clinical scholars, and/or translational investigators in aspects of the specialty that relate to dermatologic diseases in infants and children. |
$55,000 per year and awards may be renewed annually for up to a total of three years of funding. |
October 15 |
| Physical Sciences │Chemistry │Physics |
Simons Foundation |
Targeted Grants program is intended to support established institutes or centers in the mathematics and physical sciences through funding to help strengthen contacts within the international scientific community |
$250,000 per year for three years, which includes up to 20 percent of direct costs per year in indirect costs to the institution, per the foundation’s indirect cost policy. |
October 2, 2025 application |
| Polycystic Kidney Disease |
Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation |
Medical Research Grants for the treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease through the support of basic laboratory research aimed at increasing understanding of the genetic and pathological processes involved in PKD |
$160,000 |
October full applications invitation, and proposal deadline in mid-January. |
| Public Health |
Dermatology Foundation |
The Public Health Career Development Award (CDA) supports the establishment and/or development of careers in public health. |
$55,000 per year and awards may be renewed annually for up to a total of three years of funding. |
October 15, 2024 |
| Pulmonary Science, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine |
Parker B. Francis Family Foundation |
PBF Fellowship Program is open to new scientists holding a relevant doctoral degree (e.g., MD, PhD, ScD, DVM, Dr. PH) who are embarking on a career in clinical, laboratory or translational science related to Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. |
$225,000 over three years.(Limit of 3 applications per institution) |
October 10, 2025 |
| Sleep Medicine |
American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) |
Strategic Research Award for applications that is focused on specific research domains that will advance the field of sleep medicine and population sleep health. |
Category I: Up to $250,000 1-3 years. Category II: Up to $100,000 1-2 years. Category III: Up to $50,000 1 year |
October 21, 2024 letter of intent. March 10, 2025 full application |