Diversity Funding Opportunities

This section provides information on research and educational grants for individuals from underrepresented groups in biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social sciences.

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 February Letter of intent
Alzheimer’s Disease Advancing Clinician Scientist Diversity in Dementia Research Alzheimer’s Association $250,000 total February Letter of intent
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Fellowship to Promote Diversity (AARF-D) Alzheimer’s Association $200,000 total over three years February 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 Up to two years of salary or stipend support. 2028 competition opens November 3, 2026 (9 AM ET) and closes December 15, 2026 (11:59 PM ET)
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 Proposal deadline
Gene and Cell Therapy Expanding Pathways Fellowship American Society of Gene + Cell Therapy $100,000. August
Neurology Child Neurology Career Development Program-K12 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. June
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


Last updated on August 27, 2025
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