Research Grant Opportunities
BU Medical Campus
- Faculty Development grants (for BUSM Department of Medicine faculty)
- Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) – Includes the follow grant opportunities:
- Translational Technology Office (TTO) Online Core Subsidy Application
- BU Integrated Biomedical Pilot Grants Program
- BU Clinical and Translational Science Institute (BU CTSI)
- Department of Medicine
– including Obesity (co-funding with Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center) - Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology
- Department of Biomedical Engineering – Coulter Translational Partnership
- High-Throughput Screening Core
- Pilot Grant Programs
- Other Funding Opportunities
- American Cancer Society Pilot Research Grants
- Alzheimer’s Disease Center (ADC) Pilot Grant Program
- Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute K-L2 Fellowship
- Bridge Funding Grant Program (BUSM, Department of Medicine only – Funding for those who have received competitive scores on unfunded grant applications that will be resubmitted)
- Genome Science Institute (GSI) Seed Grant
- Ignition Award (funds to validate early-stage projects with clear commercial and medical potential)
- Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation (grants available for junior faculty in the BU School of Medicine only)
- Launch Awards (to support the commercialization and dissemination of faculty developed technologies)
- Pepper Center Awards for Aging
- Shared Instrumentation Grants (SIGs)
- Translational Technology Office (TTO) Online Core Subsidy Application
- Walter H. Coulter Translational Research Partnership Awards
External Grant Search Websites
- BU List of Funding Opportunities for Faculty, Postgraduates, Undergraduates
- COS Pivot
- COS searches by keyword
- Foundation Research Opportunities
- BU Office of Sponsored Programs External Funding Information
- Goldman School of Dental Medicine Funding Information
- Robert Porter’s Finding Funding presentation
- Instructions to search for funding opportunities using SPIN SMART
- Using InfoEd to find funding opportunities
External Grants
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- The Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)
- Clinical Innovation Awards Program
- Direct2Experts collaboration database
- Ellison Medical Foundation
- Federal Demonstration Partnership
- Grants.gov
- Health Resources in Action
- L’Oreal Fellowships for Women in Science
- National Center for Research Resources
- National Institutes of Health
- RePORT (Research Portfolio Online reporting tool)
- Science Magazine
- National Science Foundation
- American Cancer Society – Research Scholar
- American Federation for Aging Research – AFAR Research Grant
- Brookdale Foundation – Brookdale Fellowship
- Dana Foundation – Brain and Immuno-Imaging (Conventional or Cellular) Award
- Partnership for Cures/Goldman/Rockefeller Fund – Culpeper Medical Science Scholar
- Pew Charitable Trust – PEW Scholar Award
- Whitehall Foundation – Grants-in-Aid
- Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research – Kimmel Scholar Award
Peter Cahn’s blog
- Stuck in the Middle June 12, 2012Associate professors register more job dissatisfaction than faculty of other ranks according to a national survey conducted by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education. In several categories, associate professors feel less valued and less supported. Their dissatisfaction may reflect a concentration of resources for early career faculty and t […]
- Women PhDs and the Pipeline May 25, 2012Why women doctoral students are shunning academia. […]
- The Lost Art of Asking May 8, 2012How to pose a question to a speaker. […]
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