October
The Private Funding Opportunities searchable and sortable database table below is listed by disease and/or field in alphabetical order. Please type inside the search table below the disease, the specific grant name, name of agency or any other keywords to find more information about any biomedical research grants or educational grants available with deadlines in October.
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| Disease/Field | Funding Agency | Name of Grant / Description | Eligibility / Amount | Deadlines |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 3, 2024 LOI. January 9, 2025 application |
| Aging | Healthy Longevity | American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) | 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, 2024 LOI. January 31, 2025 invited for grant proposals |
| 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 |
| Cystic Fibrosis | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) | Clinical Pilot and Feasibility Award is intended to support a project involving human subjects or samples that will develop and test new hypotheses and/or new methods in research areas relevant to cystic fibrosis. | $80,000 per year (plus 12% for indirect costs) for single-center studies; and up to $150,000 per year (plus 12% indirect costs) for multi-center clinical studies for up to two years. Up to an additional $100,000 over the entire project period may be available via supplemental funding. | October 10, 2024 LOI. February 18, 2025 Full application |
| Dermatologic Disease | Dermatology Foundation | Medical Frontiers Career Development Award. | $75,000 per year and awards may be renewed annually for up to a total of three years of funding. | October 15, 2024 |
| Dermatologic Disease | Dermatology Foundation | Dermatopathology Research Career Development Award | $75,000 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. | $35,000 for 1 year | October 15, 2024 |
| Dermatopathology | Dermatology Foundation | Research grants provide seed money for a variety of dermatologic research projects. | $25,000 one-year grant. | October 15, 2024 |
| Glaucoma | BrightFocus Foundation – Glaucoma | Standard Research Award provides significant funding for researchers that need additional data to apply for governmental or industrial funding agencies. | $200,000 over 2 years | October 30, 2025 |
| Glaucoma | BrightFocus Foundation – Glaucoma | Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards | $150,000 over 2 years | October 30, 2025 |
| Global Health | Gairdner Foundation | Canada Gairdner Global Health Award is given to a scientist whose advances have (or will potentially have) any field of research impacting global health and health inequity. | $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, 2025 |
| Immunotherapy, Melanoma | Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) | Young Investigators Awards to conduct projects supported by preliminary data and focused on advancing immunotherapies in melanoma. | $85,000 per year for three years total of $225,000 | October 21, 2024 eligibility checklist. November 4, 2024 full proposal |
| Orphan Inherited Retinal Degenerative Diseases, Dry Age-related Macular Degeneration | Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) | Clinical Research Fellowship Award (CRFA) | $65,000 for one year | October 17, 2024 application |
| Inherited Orphan Retinal Degenerative Diseases | Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) | Individual Investigator Research Awards | $100,000 per year for 3 years. | October 24, 2024 LOI. January 2025 |
| Inherited Retinal Degenerative Diseases(IRD) & Blindness | Foundation Fighting Blindness & Harrington Discovery Institute | Gund-Harrington Scholar Award to accelerate the translation of research findings in retinal degenerative diseases with the ultimate goal of developing new therapies to improve and/or restore vision. | $900,000 over 3 years | This program is currently closed. October LOI. January Full application. |
| Juvenile Diabetes | Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) | Innovative Award provides seed funding for highly innovative, high-risk-high-reward research with significant potential to accelerate the mission of JDRF |
Total of $200,000 for one year not renewable grant in direct and indirect costs of 10%. | October 24, 2024 |
| Juvenile Diabetes | Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) | Innovative Clinical Trials Advancing Metabolic Therapies for T1D to target metabolic imbalances to improve glucometabolic outcomes in people with established type 1 diabetes (T1D). | $2M over 3 years | October 31, 2024 |
| Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma | Leukemia Lymphoma Society | Translational Research Program (TRP) to enhance the transfer of basic research findings to clinical usefulness. | $250,000 per year for 3 years | October 16, 2024 letter of intent. January 21, 2025 full application. |
| Lupus | Lupus Research Alliance | Empowering Lupus Research Administrative Supplement (“ELR Supplement”) | Up to $15,000 for pre-doctoral and up to $30,000 for post-doctoral trainees | October LOI |
| Lupus and Scleroderma | Dermatology Foundation | Women’s Health Career Development Award (CDA) | $55,000 per year and awards may be renewed annually for up to a total of three years of funding. | October 15, 2024 |
| Marfan Syndrome | Marfan Foundation | Innovators Award will or faculty investigators for $100,000 over 2 years ($50,000 per year), to explore an innovative concept in “translational” science that has applicability to improving human health. | $100,000 grants ($50,000 per year). | October 23, 2024 application |
| Marfan Syndrome | Marfan Foundation | Career Development Award will support two-year in basic, translational, or clinical research studying any discipline involved in Marfan syndrome, Loeys-Dietz syndrome, Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and other related conditions. | $100,000 grants ($50,000 per year). | October 23, 2024 application |
| Melanoma | Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) | RTFCCR-MRA Special Opportunity Team Science Award on Patient-Centric Melanoma Clinical Trials | Total $1,500,0000 for five-year term | September 27, 2024 LOI. |
| Melanoma | Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) | Dermatology Career Development Award aims to attract early career faculty and clinical research fellows in departments or divisions of dermatology with original ideas into the field of melanoma, thereby recruiting and supporting the next generation of melanoma research leaders | $75,000 per year up to $150,000 total | October 21, 2024 eligibility checklist. Full proposal November 4, 2024 |
| Melanoma | Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) | Young Investigator Awards aim to attract early career faculty with original ideas into the field of melanoma, thereby recruiting and supporting the next generation of melanoma research leaders. | $85,000 per year for three years | October 21, 2024 eligibility checklist. Full proposal November 4, 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. Applicants can be based outside the UK and Ireland if the project is unique and involves significant collaboration with a UK institute. | £95,000 per annum (and £285,000 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 | $100,000 per year for the two- and three-year | January 15, April 15 and October 1 (LOI). June 1, September 1 and February 15 application. |
| Neurobiology | Whitehall Foundation | 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 | Launch Award will cultivate a strong cohort of new and talented independent investigators dedicated to PD research. | $400,000 for up to 4 years | October LOI. February 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. March 7, 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, 2024 |
| Mathematics │ Theoretical Physics │ Theoretical Computer Science | Simons Foundation | Simons Collaborations in MPS program is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. | $2 million annual total four-year budget is no more than $8 million. | October 31, 2024 LOI. February 25, 2025 Full proposal. |
| Psychology Type 1 Diabetes | Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) | Breakthrough T1D Diabetes Psychology Fellowship Program | $65,000 for 1-2 years. | October 23, 2024 |
| 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 provides research support to clinical and basic scientists embarking on careers in clinical, laboratory or translational science related to Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. | $225,000 over three years. | October 10, 2025 |
| Rheumatologic Diseases | Rheumatology Research Foundation | Innovative Research Award for Physician Scientists, health professional Researchers and Clinicians. | $200,000 per year for 2 years | October 1, 2024 Letter of Intent. November 1, 2024 application |
| 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 |
| Spinal Muscular Atrophy | Cure SMA | PI Awarded Basic Research Grants. | $150,000 (including 8% overhead) over the duration of the entire project | October 4, 2024 proposals due. |
| Spinal Muscular Atrophy | Cure SMA | Basic Research Postdoctoral Fellowship | $100,000 (including 8% overhead) over the duration of the entire fellowship. | October 4, 2024 proposals |
Last updated on March 7, 2025