Common Funding Opportunities for ZI Early Career Investigators
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- "Early Stage Investigator" (ESI) : A Program Director / Principal Investigator (PD/PI) who has completed their terminal research degree or end of post-graduate clinical training, whichever date is later, within the past 10 years and who has not previously competed successfully as PD/PI for a substantial NIH independent research award. See NIH's list of NIH grants that a PD/PI can hold and still be considered an ESI.
- More info on ESI
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- Funding Search: Schedule a meeting with Arthur and Tori about grant options at your career stage or questions about funding opportunities you are considering
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- Summary statement review + strategy: Set up a meeting with us to discuss the next steps after receiving your summary statement
Common Grants for ZI Early Career Investigators (not limited submission)
- Title and Link
- Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience
- Key Dates
- Full application: Early – Mid February
- Key Deadline Month
- 02
- Total Costs
- $225,000
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Maximum of 4 years since completed postdoc
- Permanent U.S. residency expected
- Title and Link
- Beckman Young Investigator
- Key Dates
- Letter of intent: June – August
- Full application: Mid November – Early January
- Program Begins: September 1
- Key Deadline Month
- 08
- Total Costs
- $600,000
- Years of Support
- 4
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- 4
- Other Eligibility
- No more than 10 years since terminal degree
- U.S. Citizen/permanent resident at time of award (conditional permanent resident allowed)
- No more than $225,000 in direct, annualized external funding (transition grants, startup funds, department-wide instrumentation grants not included)
- Title and Link
- NY Stem Cell Foundation Neuroscience Investigator Awards
- Key Dates
- Full application: Mid February
- Key Deadline Month
- 02
- Total Costs
- $1,500,000
- Years of Support
- 5
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- 5
- Other Eligibility
- Stem cell research not required
- Title and Link
- McKnight Foundation Scholar Awards
- Key Dates
- Full application: Early January
- Award begins: July 1
- Key Deadline Month
- 01
- Total Costs
- $225,000
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- 4
- Other Eligibility
- Assistant professor less than 4 years at application deadline
- No other awards from McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience that would overlap
- Title and Link
- IMHRO One Mind Rising Star Awards
- Key Dates
- Full application: Early June
- Key Deadline Month
- 06
- Total Costs
- $300,000
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- 10
- Other Eligibility
- Cutting edge, high-risk Neuropsychiatric illness research
- Should not overlap with existing funding
- Title and Link
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellowships
- Key Dates
- Full application: Early – Mid September
- Key Deadline Month
- 09
- Total Costs
- $75,000 (lump sum)
- Years of Support
- 2
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Tenure-track (not tenured) faculty with regular teaching obligation
- Must have nomination from department head or other senior researcher
- Title and Link
- Whitehall Foundation Research Grants
- Key Dates
- Letter of Intent: Mid January + Mid April + Early October
- Application: Early June + Early September + Mid February
- Key Deadline Month
- 01 + 04 + 10
- Total Costs
- $225,000
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Must not receive or expect to receive substantial support from other sources
- Title and Link
- McKnight Foundation Neurobiology of Brain Disorders
- Key Dates
- Letter of intent: Early – Mid March
- Full application: Late August – Early September
- Award begins: February 1
- Key Deadline Month
- 03
- Total Costs
- $300,000
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Assistant Professor or higher position
- No other awards from McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience that would overlap
- Title and Link
- McKnight Foundation Technology Awards
- Key Dates
- Letter of intent: Early December
- Full application: Mid – Late April
- Award begins: August 1
- Key Deadline Month
- 12
- Total Costs
- $200,000
- Years of Support
- 2
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Assistant Professor or higher position
- No other awards from McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience that would overlap
- Title and Link
- NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2 Clinical Trial Optional)
- Key Dates
- Full application: Mid August
- Key Deadline Month
- 08
- Total Costs
- $1,500,000
- Years of Support
- 5
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Early Stage Investigator (completed terminal research degree or end of post-graduate clinical training, whichever date is later, within the past 10 years and who has not previously competed successfully as PD/PI for a substantial NIH independent research award)
- Title and Link
- R01 - NIMH Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (NIMH BRAINS)
- Key Dates
- Full application: Mid June
- Key Deadline Month
- 06
- Total Costs
- $2,500,000
- Years of Support
- 5
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Early Stage Investigator (completed terminal research degree or end of post-graduate clinical training, whichever date is later, within the past 10 years and who has not previously competed successfully as PD/PI for a substantial NIH independent research award)
- Tenure-track or equivalent
- Title and Link
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER Award)
- Key Dates
- Full application: Late July
- Key Deadline Month
- 07
- Total Costs
- Minimum $500,000
- Years of Support
- 5
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- U.S. citizen/national/permanent resident
- Tenure-track professor, but prior to earning tenure
- Can apply a maximum of 3 times
Common Grants for ZI Early Career Investigators (limited submission - internal application required)
- Title and Link
- Rita Allen Foundation
- Key Dates
- Call for submissions: Mid – Late July
- Internal application: Early – Mid August
- Letter of Intent: Early September
- Sponsor proposal due: Mid October
- Key Deadline Month
- 08
- Total Costs
- $550,000
- Years of Support
- 5
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- 3
- Other Eligibility
- Title and Link
- Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation Grants
- Key Dates
- Call for submissions: Mid June
- Internal application: Early July
- Sponsor proposal due: Late July – Early August
- Key Deadline Month
- 07
- Total Costs
- $180,000
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- 4
- Other Eligibility
- high risk/high reward proposal
- Title and Link
- Pew Biomedical Scholars
- Key Dates
- Call for submissions: Early – Mid March
- Internal application: Early April
- Sponsor proposal due: Early August – Late September
- Key Deadline Month
- 04
- Total Costs
- $300,000
- Years of Support
- 4
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- 4
- Other Eligibility
- Can only apply twice
- Applicants with recent breakthrough publication are favored
- Must spent at least 80% of time on your overall research goals
- Title and Link
- Searle Scholars Program
- Key Dates
- Call for submissions: Mid – Late June
- Internal application: Mid August
- Sponsor Application: Mid – Late September
- Key Deadline Month
- 08
- Total Costs
- $300,000
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Assistant professor in first tenure-track position
- Only have been appointed faculty member for about a year (or less) at internal deadline
- Title and Link
- Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program
- Key Dates
- Internal application: Late August
- Letter of intent: Early - Mid September
- Sponsor application due: Early January
- Key Deadline Month
- 08
- Total Costs
- 50% salary support
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Junior faculty (preference for those not yet considered for tenure)
- Proposed work aims to advance Bioethics field
- Title and Link
- Moore Inventor Fellows
- Key Dates
- Call for submissions: Mid-Late September
- Internal application: Early - Mid October
- Sponsor application due: Early – Mid November
- Key Deadline Month
- 10
- Total Costs
- $600,000
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- No more than 10 years since terminal degree received
- Title and Link
- 1907 Foundation Trailblazer Award
- Key Dates
- Call for submissions: Mid April
- Internal application: Early – Mid May
- Key Deadline Month
- 05
- Total Costs
- $120,000
- Years of Support
- 2
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- No more than 10 years since terminal degree received
- Title and Link
- Irma T. Hirschl Research Awards
- Key Dates
- Call for submissions: Early – Mid October
- Internal application: Late October
- Sponsor application due: Mid November
- Key Deadline Month
- 10
- Total Costs
- $175,000
- Years of Support
- 5
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Tenure-track assistant professor for at least a year
- Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Appointment
View currently open limited submissions
Additional Funding Opportunities for ZI Early Career Investigators
- Name and Link
- Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grants
- Key Dates
- Full application: Mid – Late March
- Key Deadline Month
- 03
- Total Costs
- $70,000
- Years of Support
- 2
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- For beginning career as independent research faculty
- Name and Link
- Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain Scholars
- Key Dates
- Application opens: Mid April
- Application due: Early August
- Key Deadline Month
- 08
- Total Costs
- $150,000
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- 3
- Other Eligibility
- Research in pain field
- Name and Link
- Greenwall Foundation About Making a Difference Grants
- Key Dates
- Fall Cycle
- Letter of intent: Mid – Late June
- Full application: Late August – Early September
- Letter of intent: TBD
- Full application: TBD
- Key Deadline Month
- 06
- Total Costs
- Up to 1.5X NIH salary budget + 10% indirect (salary and benefits only) + can request additional funds for research
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Must focus your research on its contributions to bioethics
- Name and Link
- DoD Young Investigator Program
- Key Dates
- Pre-proposal inquiries: Mid October
- Full Proposal: Late October
- Key Deadline Month
- 10
- Total Costs
- $510,000
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- U.S. citizen/national/permanent resident
- First or second tenure-track position
- Received Ph.D. within the past 7 years
- Name and Link
- MQ Mental Health Research Fellows Program
- Key Dates
- Letter of intent: Late February – Early April
- Full application: Early June – Early July
- Key Deadline Month
- 04
- Total Costs
- £225,000
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Show that the award will help establish independence relative to current position
- Research mental health conditions
- Name and Link
- William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Program
- Key Dates
- Internal application: unclear when
- Finalist interviews: February
- Key Deadline Month
- Total Costs
- $350,000
- Years of Support
- 5
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Relate research to young people ages 5-25 in the U.S.
- Terminal degree conferred within 7 years of application
- Name and Link
- Bumpus Foundation Innovation Award
- Key Dates
- Call for submissions: Mid September
- Internal application: Late September
- Sponsor proposal due: Late October – Early November
- Key Deadline Month
- 09
- Total Costs
- $300,000
- Years of Support
- 3
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- 3
- Other Eligibility
- Limited submission
- Cannot have an R01
- Name and Link
- Feldstein Medical Foundation Research Grants
- Key Dates
- Call for submissions: January/February
- Internal application: Late February
- Sponsor proposal due: Late March
- Key Deadline Month
- 02
- Total Costs
- $80,000
- Years of Support
- 1
- Years since start of faculty appointment
- Not specified
- Other Eligibility
- Limited submission
- Assistant professor in VP&S, MSPH, or Nursing with a history of some prior funding
Additional Resources
- Johns Hopkins University monthly updated funding lists (comprehensive)
- Columbia PIVOT custom search engine for funding opportunities
- Duke University database