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