Early Investigator Funding

Click on the links below for funding opportunities for Faculty and/or Post Doctoral Research.

For funding opportunities specifically geared towards graduate students, please see the Funding Information Search of The Graduate School Funding Database.

Faculty

• American Cancer Society Grant Opportunities
• AHRQ Career Development Grants Focused on Health Information Technology
• ASHP Foundation Research Grant
• American Federation for Aging Research Grants for Junior Faculty
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellows
• Beckman Young Investigator Program
• Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists (Limited)
• Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant
• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards (Limited)
• CDMRP Career Development Awards
• Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Innovation Award
• DARPA Young Faculty Award
• DOD-AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP)
• DOD-ARO Young Investigator Program (YIP)
• DOD-ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP)
• DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program
• Gabrielle's Angel Foundation Medical Research Awards (Limited)
• Greenwall Foundation Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics (Limited)
• Jefferson Science Fellowship
• Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowships (Limited)
• NASA Early Career Faculty
• NASA Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowships in Astrophysics for Early Career Researchers
• National Security Agency Mathematical Sciences Program
• NIH Director's New Innovator Award
• NIH Early Research Career Development Opportunities
• NIJ W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship Program
• NRC Research Associateship Programs
• NSF Alan T. Waterman Award
• NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
• Office of Naval Research-Young Investigator Program
• Pew Biomedical Scholars (Limited)
• Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award
• Research Corporation for Science Advancement Cottrell Scholar Award
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars
• Searle Scholars (Limited)
• Sydney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research Kimmel Scholars Award

Post Doc

• AHRQ Postdoctoral Fellowships and Awards
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program
• Army Research Laboratory Post Doctoral Research Program
• Burroughs/Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists (Limited)
• Burroughs/Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI)
• Burroughs/Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Award
• Chemical Heritage Foundation Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry Fellowships
• Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship Award
• DOE Argonne National Laboratory Maria Goeppert Mayer Fellowship
• DOE Los Alamos G.T. Seaborg Postdoc Fellowships
• DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory Director's Fellowship
• DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory Postdoctoral Researchers Program
• DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distinguished Fellowships
• DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship
• DOE PNNL-Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory William Wiley Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs
• NASA Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowships in Astrophysics for Early Career Researchers
• National Academies Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
• National Air & Space Museum Research Fellowships
• NIH Pathway to Independence Award
• NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows
• NIJ W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship Program
• NPS Research Fellowships
• National Security Agency Mathematical Sciences Program
• NRC Postdoctoral Research Associateship Programs
• NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship (AAPF)
• NSF Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (AGS-PRF)
• NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships (EAR-PF)
• NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF)
• NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
• NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF)
• PhRMA Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award
• Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowships
• Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellowships
• USDA-ARS Postdoctoral Research Program
• USGS Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program
• World Forest Institute Fellowship