Diversity Funding Opportunities

This section provides information on research and educational grants for individuals from underrepresented groups in biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social sciences. For a complete list of NIH current funding opportunities for underrepresented minorities, please visit the NIH Grants website.

Funding Area of Interest	Grant Mechanism	Funder	Funding Amount	Deadlines
Alzheimer’s Disease	Research Grant to Promote Diversity (AARG-D)	Alzheimer’s Association	$140,000 two year award, $200,000 over three years	September Letter of intent
Alzheimer’s Disease	Research Fellowship to Promote Diversity (AARF-D)	Alzheimer’s Association	$200,000 total over three years	September Letter of intent
Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lewy body dementia	Research Grant to Promote Diversity — New to the Field (AARG-D-NTF)	Alzheimer’s Association	$200,000 total over three years	September Letter of intent
Biological and Biomedical Sciences Research	Hanna H. Gray Fellows program	Howard Hughes Medical Institute	Raging $100,000-$270,000 from one to four years.	February
Biomedical Research	Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP)	Burroughs Wellcome Fund	$60,000 over three years.	January
Epilepsy	Sergievsky Award for Epilepsy Health Equity and Diversity Award	American Epilepsy Society	$150,000 over two years.	January
Gene and Cell Therapy	Underrepresented Populations Fellowship in Gene and Cell Therapy	American Society of Gene + Cell Therapy	$100,000.	August
Neurology	Minority Research Scholar Program (MRSP)	Kennedy Krieger Institute	$115,000/year salary for minimum of 75% effort/year plus fringe benefits and $38,000/year for research-related expenses, including travel, for up to a total of three years.	May
Retinal Degenerative Diseases (RDDs)	Foundation Fighting Blindness	Career Development Award for junior investigators to pursue vigorous research programs to drive the research to find the therapies and cures for retinal degenerative diseases (RDDs), i.e., inherited orphan retinal degenerative diseases and non-exudative age-related macular degeneration.	Five (5) years at $75,000/year.	January 30, 2025

Last updated on November 1, 2024
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