Note: as I pick up information along the way, I have started a parallel post with helpful dates on the timelines for the foundation grants which vary widely, since it can be useful for planning when to write them. I will populate it as I go along, so please do not hesitate to post your experience on some of the other grants.
Career development awards:
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER and PECASE): http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214
- March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar grant ($75,000/year for 2 years): http://www.marchofdimes.com/research/researchgrants.html
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator grant ($30,000/year for up to 2 years): http://bbrfoundation.org/yi
- Klingenstein/Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences ($225,000 for 3 years): http://www.klingfund.org/index.php
- McKnight Scholar Awards ($75,000 for 3 years): http://www.neuroscience.mcknight.org/the-awards/scholar
Other government grants:
- Department of Defense - Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (DOD-CDMRP): various program announcements on this site https://cdmrp.org/Program_Announcements_and_Forms/
- NIH Director New Innovator Award ($300,000/year for 5 year, must fall into the Early Stage Investigator category): http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-13-007.html
- DARPA Young Investigator Award ($250,000/year for 2 years): http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=247637
- March of Dimes General research grant (around $100,000/year): http://www.marchofdimes.com/research/researchgrants.html
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Independent Investigator grant ($50,000/year for up to 2 years): http://bbrfoundation.org/II
- Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative grants (from $60,000 for Explorer grants to $250,000 for 3 years): http://sfari.org/funding/grants
- Epilepsy Foundation Research grant ($50,000 for 1 year): http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/research/grant-and-fellowship-opportunities.cfm
- CURE Epilepsy Research grants ($50,000 to $250,000 for 1 year): http://www.cureepilepsy.org/research/grant_categories.asp
- Muscular Dystrophy Association research grant (no limit for 1, 2 or 3 years, but $100,000/year is a safe bet): http://mda.org/research/guidelines-mda-research-grants-programs##completeGuidelines
- Cure CMD short and mid-range grants ($30,000/year for up to 2 years, or $50,000/year for up to 2 years): http://curecmd.org/scientists/grants
- National Organization for Rare Diseases affiliated foundations (various): http://www.rarediseases.org/medical-professionals/research-grants/rfps
- Whitehall Foundation ($35,000-75,000/year for 3 years): http://www.whitehall.org/grants/
- John Merck Fund - Developmental Disabilities Translational Research Program ($250,000/year for 4 years): http://www.jmfund.org/TranslationalResearchProgram.php
- Burroughs Wellcome Collaborative Research Travel Grants ($15,000): http://www.bwfund.org/grant-programs/biomedical-sciences/collaborative-research-travel-grants
Fellowship resources:
- a great list from UC Berkeley sponsored programs of many available governmental and non-governmental post-doctoral fellowships: http://www.spo.berkeley.edu/Fund/biopostdoc.html
- post-doctoral fellowships for European postdocs:
1. EMBO Long-Term Fellowships: http://www.embo.org/funding-awards/fellowships/long-term- fellowships
2. Human Frontiers Science Program: http://www.hfsp.org/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships
3. Marie Curie Global Fellowships: 2 year abroad and 1 year back in home country
- pre-doctoral fellowships:
- NIH NRSA fellowships: http://grants.nih.gov/training/F_files_nrsa.htm
- NSF Graduate Research fellowship: https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/grfp/Login.do
- HHMI international student fellowship: http://www.hhmi.org/grants/individuals/intl_fellows.html
- Ford Foundation Diversity fellowships: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/fordfellowships/
Picture credit: By Victor Dubreuil (Private collection) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Thanks for the really useful and accessible list!
ReplyDeleteI currently have an R00 grant, and I would like to apply to the junior faculty awards. For these private foundation awards, is it necessary to come up with project and aims that are different from the R00, or can they overlap?
Hi, that is tricky. The short answer is: No, they cannot overlap. Also you are supposed to spend 75% of your effort on the R00 which leaves you very little effort to give. In theory, the foundation grants should also be all relatively different from each other so that there is no overlap and you risk getting your budget cut. This said, many people send the same grant to multiple foundations hoping that one will pick it up. I applied for two grants on the same project and did my best to keep them relatively different and only had 1.5 aims overlapping and when they were funded I stated the overlap to the funding agencies, and they were fine with it. I don't think the NIH is that lenient, so if you have overlap, you may get cut (right now you get cut even without overlap...). It's a huge amount of work coming up with all these different proposals, but also kind of fun.
DeleteI'm actually preparing a post on effort distribution, so stay tuned.
I heard that the NIH only cares if there is overlap with other public funding sources, like the NSF, but not so much with private foundation grants. So this is not true?
DeleteMy understanding is that you have to declare scientific or budgetary overlap for every foundation or government grant you have and that they can decide to cut or not fund the grant if they thing that the research is being duplicated. The NIH and NSF will actually check if there is duplication and they will not fund duplicated grants, foundations may be more lenient if you make the case that you need the extra money to perform a different aspect of the research, but they may decide to reduce the amount of the grant. You can probably figure out strategies to work around your aims with some of the senior investigators or the grants people where you are.
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