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Award Name Level Of Study Award Type Award Amount Deadline
Organization:
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Purposes: To support research and other scientific and educational activities of career medical scientists.
Professional Development
Grant
$700,000
October
Organization:
MacArthur Foundation
Purposes: To award unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$625,000
Organization:
Health Resources in Action
Purposes: To support pilot studies towards innovative drug discovery research that will lead to improved therapies for individuals suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Professional Development
Grant
$250,000
$500,000
June
Organization:
Health Effects Institute
Purposes: To provide funding for outstanding promise who are interested in the health effects of air pollution.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Prize
$500,000
September
Organization:
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Purposes: To support accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the interplay between human and microbial biology, shedding light on how human and microbial systems are affected by their encounters; and to provide opportunities for accomplished investigators still early in their careers to study what happens at the points where human and microbial systems connect.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Grant
$500,000
November
Organization:
Conquer Cancer
Purposes: To provide flexible funding to outstanding researchers who have made, and are continuing to make, significant contributions in breast cancer research and will dedicate their time in training future breast cancer researchers.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Grant
$500,000
January
Organization:
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Purposes: To provide funds to developing physician-scientists to pursue research intensively.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Prize
$460,000
December
Organization:
BrightFocus Foundation
Purposes: To provide significant funding for researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
Graduate Degree
Prize
$400,000
November
Organization:
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Purposes: To support the work of investigators from all disciplines that contribute to the understanding of suicide and suicide prevention.
Professional Development
Grant
$300,000
August
Organization:
American Council of Learned Societies
Purposes: To offer small teams of two or more scholars the opportunity to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project.
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
$201,000
September
Organization:
Parkinson's Foundation
Purposes: To support clinician scientist’s research related to Parkinson's disease.
Professional Development
Grant
$20,000
$50,000
$200,000
Organization:
Life Happens
Purposes: To help deserving young people realize their dream of achieving a college education.
Bachelor's Degree
Scholarship
$200,000
March
Organization:
Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research
Purposes: To improve the basic understanding of cancer biology and to develop new methods for the prevention and treatment of cancer.
Graduate Degree
Grant
$200,000
December
Organization:
Cancer Research Institute
Purposes: To provide supports qualified young scientists at leading universities and research centers around the world who wish to receive training in fundamental immunology or cancer immunology.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$175,500
March
Organization:
Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research
Purposes: To help anesthesiologists develop the skills, preliminary data for subsequent grant applications and research publications needed to become independent investigators.
Professional Development
Grant
$75,000
$100,000
$175,000
February
Organization:
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Purposes: To recognize teachers who have demonstrated solid knowledge of science and/or mathematics content and have outstanding performance records in educating children.
N/A
Prize
$175,000
September
Organization:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Purposes: Fellows will attain and use leadership experience to improve health, health care, health policy, and health equity. The fellowship requires a full-time commitment with a minimum 12-month residence in Washington, D.C., which prepares individuals to influence the future of health and health care in the nation.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$104,000
$165,000
Organization:
American Cancer Society
Purposes: To provide resources for investigator-initiated research in a variety of cancer-relevant areas.
Professional Development
Grant
$165,000
Organization:
Health Resources in Action
Purposes: To support innovative clinical and service system research and demonstration projects from both nonprofit organizations and academic institutions that serve children with physical or developmental disabilities and associated health-related complications.
Professional Development
Grant
$80,000
$160,000
Organization:
Craig H. Neilsen Foundation
Purposes: To support scientist who are wishing to specialize or train in the field of spinal cord injury research.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$75,000
$150,000
June
Organization:
amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
Purposes: To encourage the investigators with limited experience and demonstrated interest in the field of HIV/AIDS to redirect or to embark on a career in biomedical, social or behavioral HIV/AIDS research.
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
$150,000
January
Organization:
March of Dimes Inc.
Purposes: To support young scientists just embarking on their independent research careers.
Professional Development
Grant
$150,000
March
Organization:
Tourette Association of America
Purposes: To promote, enhance, and support the research regarding Tourette Syndrome.
Graduate Degree
Grant
$75,000
$150,000
Organization:
American Cancer Society
Purposes: To support junior faculty members to become independent investigators as either clinician scientists or cancer control researchers.
Professional Development
Grant
$135,000
Organization:
Council on Foreign Relations
Purposes: To encourage younger scholars studying nuclear security issues and stimulate the development of the next generation of thought leaders in nuclear security.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Fellowship
$96,000
$132,000
December
Organization:
Council on Foreign Relations
Purposes: To offer university-based scholars valuable hands-on experience in the nuclear security policymaking field.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$125,000
Organization:
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
Purposes: To provide critical and significant seed funding for experienced investigators with a novel and promising approach to finding causes and cures for childhood cancers.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Grant
$125,000
March
Organization:
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Purposes: To support the work of investigators from all disciplines that contribute to the understanding of suicide and suicide prevention.
Professional Development
Grant
$125,000
November
Organization:
Open Society Foundations
Purposes: To support seasoned, established, and accomplished leaders and experts in the field of criminal justice.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$120,000
November
Organization:
Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Purposes: To support a single scholarship in maternal-fetal medicine.
Graduate Degree
Scholarship
$120,000
July
Organization:
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Purposes: To support the work of investigators from all disciplines that contribute to the understanding of suicide and suicide prevention.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$112,000
November
Organization:
Russell Sage Foundation
Purposes: To promote writing and research in the social sciences.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Fellowship
$110,000
July
Organization:
Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation
Purposes: To support innovative research on myotonic dystrophy.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Fellowship
$105,000
September
Organization:
National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Purposes: To promote research into, and writing about, the history of aviation and space flight.
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
$100,000
December
Organization:
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
Purposes: To support research of investigators who have a specific focus on the epidemiology, early detection or the prevention of childhood cancer.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Grant
$100,000
June
Organization:
American Society for Radiation Oncology
Purposes: To stimulate interest in radiation research early in junior faculty's careers by offering them the opportunity to have focused time for research projects in radiation oncology, biology, physics or outcomes/health services.
Professional Development
Prize
$100,000
Organization:
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Purposes: To help Hispanic American students pursue undergraduate studies.
Bachelor's Degree
Scholarship
$5,000
$10,000
$20,000
$100,000
January
Organization:
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Purposes: To provides entry into a national community of outstanding scholar-educators who produce significant research and educational outcomes.
Bachelor's Degree
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Prize
$100,000
July
Organization:
Open Society Foundations
Purposes: To support individuals seeking innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges.
N/A
Fellowship
$80,000
$100,000
Organization:
American Parkinson Disease Association
Purposes: To assist promising young neurologists in establishing careers in research, teaching, and patient service relevant to the problems, causes, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson's disease and related neurological movement disorders.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$100,000
March
Organization:
National Association of Secondary School Principals
Purposes: To recognize and support the education of student leaders from the senior class.
Bachelor's Degree
Scholarship
$100,000
Organization:
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation
Purposes: To offer financial support to individuals beginning their independent research careers at the faculty level.
Graduate Degree
Grant
$100,000
February
Organization:
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Purposes: To provide the best clinical care and support to families living with muscle disease by funding the most promising and innovative research in neuromuscular disease.
Professional Development
Grant
$100,000
Organization:
Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research
Purposes: To advance the careers and knowledge of anesthesiologists interested in improving the concepts, methods and techniques of education in anesthesiology.
Professional Development
Grant
$50,000
$100,000
February
Organization:
Bush Foundation
Purposes: To support and develop more leaders who are better equipped and better networked to effectively lead change.
N/A
Fellowship
$100,000
September
Organization:
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
Purposes: To develop independent and productive research careers in liver disease.
Professional Development
Prize
$50,000
$100,000
December
Organization:
Mensa Education and Research Foundation
Purposes: To support students in their educational pursuits.
Graduate Degree
Scholarship
$100,000
January
Organization:
National Eating Disorders Association
Purposes: To support encourage applications from eligible individuals from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, social and clinical sciences.
N/A
Grant
$50,000
$100,000
September
Organization:
Council on Foreign Relations
Purposes: To promote the quality of responsible and discerning journalism
Professional Development
Fellowship
$100,000
March
Organization:
American Lung Association in the District of Columbia
Purposes: To support independent investigators conducting clinical, laboratory, epidemiological or any groundbreaking project aimed at revolutionizing our current understanding of lung cancer and improving diagnostic, clinical and treatment methods.
N/A
Prize
$100,000
September
Organization:
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation
Purposes: To provide financial support to individuals beginning their independent research careers at the faculty level.
Graduate Degree
Grant
$100,000
February
Organization:
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation
Purposes: To provide financial To provide research careers to support and reward innovation in disciplines essential to the development.
Graduate Degree
Grant
$100,000
September
Organization:
Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation
Purposes: To support research into causes, cures, and treatment for blepharospasm. The BEBRF provides funding for research projects through an annual call for proposals for research.
Graduate Degree
Grant
$100,000
September
Organization:
National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Purposes: To promote research into, and writing about, the history of aviation and space flight.
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
$100,000
December
Organization:
American Veterinary Medical Association
Purposes: To support fellows in influencing key legislation affecting the veterinary profession.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$6,000
$94,911
February
Organization:
American Mathematical Society
Purposes: To provide an outstanding mathematician to help further their career in research.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Fellowship
Scholarship
$9,300
$93,000
Organization:
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Purposes: To support the work of investigators from all disciplines that contribute to the understanding of suicide and suicide prevention.
Professional Development
Grant
$90,000
November
Organization:
National Black Nurses Association
Purposes: To provide funding for continuing education.
Bachelor's Degree
Scholarship
$1,000
$90,000
April
Organization:
Open Society Foundations
Purposes: To advance professional growth, support career development, and both seed and deepen leadership in the field of criminal justice reform.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$87,000
February
Organization:
International Society of Explosives Engineers
Purposes: To support students pursuing a technical undergraduate, graduate or doctorate degree in the fields of education related to the commercial explosives industry.
Bachelor's Degree
Graduate Degree
Scholarship
$81,000
May
Organization:
Open Society Foundations
Purposes: To support writers, print and broadcast journalists, bloggers, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinctive voices proposing to complete media projects that engage and inform, spur debate and conversation, and catalyze change on important U.S. criminal justice issues.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$80,000
November
Organization:
American Nuclear Society
Purposes: To promote a better understanding of public policy procedures.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$5,000
$80,000
May
Organization:
Ecological Society of America
Purposes: To provide financial support to deserving students.
Bachelor's Degree
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
$80,000
May
Organization:
American Kidney Fund
Purposes: To improve the quality of care provided to kidney patients and to promote clinical research in nephrology.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Fellowship
$80,000
February
Organization:
Wallace House - University of Michigan
Purposes: To provide a life-changing experience to journalists from the United States and abroad.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$80,000
December
Organization:
United States Naval Research Laboratory
Purposes: To increase the involvement of scientists and engineers from academia and industry to scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Navy.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$79,720
February
Organization:
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
Purposes: To provide salary and benefit support for certified and licensed Nurse Practitioners or Physician Assistants pursuing a full-year of training focused on clinical care in hepatology.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$78,000
January
Organization:
American Institute of Physics
Purposes: To contribute scientific and technical expertise to the department and raise awareness of the value of scientific input.
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
$77,500
November
Organization:
American Institute of Physics
Purposes: To help scientists broaden their experience through direct involvement with the legislative and policy processes.
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
$77,500
December
Organization:
American Lung Association in the District of Columbia
Purposes: To support research that will advance the understanding of allergic respiratory disease.
Graduate Degree
Prize
$75,000
December
Organization:
Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research
Purposes: To provide anesthesiology residents and fellows the opportunity to obtain significant training in research techniques and scientific methods.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Grant
$75,000
August
Organization:
American Institute of Physics
Purposes: To provide scientific and technical expertise to the State Department.
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
Prize
$75,000
November
Organization:
Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry
Purposes: To provide a unique opportunity for a board-certified or board-eligible physician-scientist trained in psychiatry to spend working with the Pfizer Neuroscience Research Unit (NSRU) in Cambridge, Massachusetts and performing clinical activities at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$75,000
Organization:
American Parkinson Disease Association
Purposes: To provide financial support to junior investigators intending to pursue research in Parkinson's disease.
Professional Development
Grant
$75,000
March
Organization:
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Purposes: To stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
$75,000
September
Organization:
Society of Professional Journalists Foundation
Purposes: To provide financial assistance to outstanding editorial writers to help broaden their journalistic horizons and knowledge of the world.
N/A
Fellowship
$75,000
June
Organization:
American Speech Language Hearing Foundation
Purposes: To support investigations that will advance knowledge of the efficacy of treatment and assessment practices.
Graduate Degree
Grant
$50,000
$75,000
April
Organization:
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
Purposes: To help support young investigators to begin their studies in the field of multiple myeloma while advancing the understanding of myeloma disease biology, treatment and drug resistance.
Professional Development
Grant
$75,000
June
Organization:
Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health
Purposes: To provide professional training and opportunities for early career public health professionals by enabling them to work in EPA on current and emerging environmental public health needs.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Fellowship
$60,471
$73,626
January
Organization:
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.
Purposes: To increase the number of African Americans working as professional staff in the U.S. Congress.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$60,000
$70,000
Organization:
American Council of Learned Societies
Purposes: To help scholars devote to full-time research and writing.
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
$40,000
$50,000
$70,000
December
Organization:
Association of Public Health Laboratories
Purposes: To provide an opportunity for post-bachelors, -masters and setting.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Fellowship
$41,000
$68,000
Organization:
American Council of Learned Societies
Purposes: To support advanced assistant professors and untenured associate professors in the humanities and related science.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$2,500
$64,000
Organization:
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Purposes: To allow postdoctoral scholars to engage in research at NMNH.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$5,000
$62,000
Organization:
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Purposes: To provide a broad foundation in health sciences information services, and to prepare librarians for future leadership roles in health sciences libraries and in health services research.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$60,129
January
Organization:
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Purposes: To support the training of the brightest postdoctoral scientists as they embark upon their research careers.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Fellowship
$50,000
$60,000
August
Organization:
Society for Classical Studies
Purposes: To support American scholars who wish to broaden their knowledge in the work of Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Institute in Munich.
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
$60,000
November
Organization:
Center for Population and Development Studies
Harvard University
Purposes: To provide opportunities for research and leadership training in the field of population and development.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$60,000
Organization:
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Purposes: To provide financial assistance for promising new neuromuscular disease researchers in launching their scientific programs.
Graduate Degree
Grant
$60,000
Organization:
Michigan Society of Fellows
Purposes: To assist qualified candidates who are at the beginning of their academic careers, having received the Ph.D. Or comparable professional or artistic degree.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$60,000
September
Organization:
L'Oreal USA, Inc.
Purposes: To reward five U.S.-based women researchers with grants for their outstanding contributions to science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$60,000
Organization:
The Federalist Society
Purposes: To provide young legal thinkers the opportunity to spend one or two years working full time on writing and developing their scholarship with the goal of entering the legal academy.
N/A
Fellowship
$60,000
March
Organization:
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Purposes: To provide funds to basic scientists and clinicians who conduct research with the potential to significantly impact the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of one or more pediatric cancers.
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
$50,000
$60,000
Organization:
Open Society Foundations
Purposes: To support writers, print and broadcast journalists, bloggers, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinctive voices proposing to complete media projects that engage and inform, spur debate and conversation, and catalyze change on important U.S. criminal justice issues.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$58,000
February
Organization:
American Cancer Society
Purposes: To support the training of researchers who have received a doctoral degree to provide initial funding leading to an independent career in cancer research.
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
$4,000
$52,000
$54,000
$56,000
April
Organization:
Terra Foundation for American Art
Purposes: To support full-time independent and dissertation research by scholars from abroad or by US scholars.
Graduate Degree
Professional Development
Fellowship
$40,000
$55,000
November
Organization:
National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Purposes: To support candidates to pursue programs of research and writing professional in tone and substance, but addresses to an audience with broad interests.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$55,000
December
Organization:
Open Society Foundations
Purposes: To support and mentor recent law school graduates.
Graduate Degree
Fellowship
$55,000
October
Organization:
Scleroderma Research Foundation
Purposes: To provide outstanding postdoctoral fellows with strong records of accomplishment, to have a clear sense of direction and/or novel ideas they wish to develop in the field of scleroderma research.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$35,000
$55,000
February
Organization:
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
Purposes: To award fellowships to suitably qualified individuals for full-time postdoctoral studies in the medical and related sciences bearing on cancer.
Professional Development
Fellowship
$1,000
$52,000
$52,500
$53,000
February
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