Funding Fridays | A Research Newsletter
Funding Fridays is the title of a bi-monthly newsletter aimed at amplifying and consolidating external funding opportunities shared with the faculty through various channels. This newsletter will highlight and foster funding opportunities that offer cross-unit, multidisciplinary, or unique collaborative opportunities. It will also highlight all limited-institution submissions or opportunities that are high risk / high reward. Below you will find links to standard funding search engines for those interested in exploring more available opportunities.
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2022 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists internal submission
Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, October 26, 2021
The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences announce the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists competition, open to faculty-rank scientists across the United States age born in 1980 or after. The Blavatnik Awards provides young, extraordinary scientists with the funding and recognition to carry out scientific work essential to address society's current and future challenges. The awards recognize high-impact and innovative accomplishments.
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2021-2022 CALL FOR URC PROPOSALS
Applications accepted October 1, 2021 through 11:59 PM January 14, 2022
The University Research Committee (URC) announces the annual Call for Proposals for funding to be used during 2022-2023 in the following categories:
- URC Regular Award
- URC Interdisciplinary Award
- URC-Halle Institute Global Research Award (specific criteria apply)
All regular, full-time Emory faculty, of all ranks, are welcome to apply. URC eligibility follows criteria for “full-time faculty” as defined within each school. Postdocs, Fellows, Adjuncts, Research Track lines in some schools, and part-time faculty are not eligible.
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New Funding Opportunities |
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants
Due October 10, 2021, 4 pm EST
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who might together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Over the next two years, the foundation will dedicate $1M to supporting small, early-stage grants of $2,500 - $50,000 toward achieving this goal.
Contact: Tiffany Worboy, Office of Foundation Relations, tworboy@emory.edu
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Emory Woodruff Health Sciences Center for Health in Aging:
Request for Pilot Proposals
Due Friday, November 5, 2021 at 5 pm EST
Send to Naquia Mitchell (naquia.mitchell@emory.edu)
We are seeking applications that fit the overall mission of the Emory Center for Health in Aging, can be completed in 1 year, and require no more than $45,000 indirect costs. Pilots can include basic science, translational studies, and health services research. Cross-disciplinary proposals with investigators from more than one School or Department/Division are encouraged.
For inquiries regarding the Center for Health in Aging, the pilot projects, or upcoming events, contact Associate Director of Programs, Naquia Mitchell, BSN, MPH (naquia.mitchell@emory.edu)
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2022 Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards
Letters of intent (LOI) is November 5, 2021, 5:00 p.m
The purpose of these awards is to help launch the careers of outstanding investigators in the field of marine microbial ecology and evolution who will advance our understanding through experiments, modeling or theory. Investigators must be currently active in research on microbial ecology and/or evolution, excluding research focusing on the microbiomes of animals or plants. Investigators with backgrounds in different fields are encouraged to apply.
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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Invites Proposals for 2022 Clinical Scientist Development Award
Deadline: November 12, 2021
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has issued a request for applications for its 2022 Clinical Scientist Development Award, which will provide approximately seventeen grants of up to $495,000 over three years ($150,000 direct cost and $15,000 in direct costs per year) to early-career physician-scientists (MD, MD/PhD, DO, or foreign equivalent degree) in support of major clinical research and enable them to transition to independent research funding.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Health Policy Fellows: Preliminary Application Due November 12, 2021
The RWJF Health Policy Fellows program provides the nation’s most comprehensive learning experience at the nexus of health, science, and policy in Washington, D.C
Up to six awards of up to $165,000 each will be made in 2022. During the first 12 months of the fellowship, a stipend of up to $104,000 (not to exceed the fellow’s salary prior to entering the program) in fellowship funds may be requested.
Contact: Nicole Dancz, Office of Foundation Relations, nicole.dancz@emory.edu
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American Heart Association: Career Development Award Due Decemeber 6, 2021
Supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals in the early years of first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist in the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular disease research. Award start date: April 1, 2022.
Supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training necessary to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist.
The award will develop the research skills to support and greatly enhance the awardee’s chances to obtain and retain a high-quality career position.
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National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs - Collaborative Research:
LOI Deadline: December 1, 2021
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The Collaborative Research program aims to advance humanistic knowledge through collaboration between two or more scholars. The program encourages projects that propose diverse approaches to topics, incorporate multiple points of view, explore new avenues of inquiry in the humanities, and lead to manuscripts for print publications or scholarly digital grant products. Projects that include partnerships with researchers from the natural and social sciences are encouraged but must propose a humanistic research agenda.
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Limited-Institution Submission Opportunities |
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2022 Moore Inventor Fellows
Internal Submission Deadline: Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 5:00 pm
Program Information: The Moore Inventor Fellows program is designed to identify outstanding early-stage inventors who harness science and technology solutions to enhance scientific research, strengthen environmental conservation, or improve the experience and outcomes of patient care. They seek a combination of the demonstrated promise of the individual and a compelling idea in which marked progress toward a defined goal can be measured during the three years of support. Further, the Foundation aims to support ideas at an early stage that could lead to proof-of-concept or advance an existing prototype toward application.
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SUNBEAM - Analysis and Bioinformatics Center (ABC)
Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, October 25, 2021
The purpose of the SUNBEAM - Analysis and Bioinformatics Center (SUNBEAM-ABC) is to establish a mechanistic omics center to support the birth cohort study Systems Biology of Early Atopy (SUNBEAM). The center will assay biologic samples collected within the SUNBEAM cohort using omics and systems biology approaches to identify determinants of atopic disease, focusing on food allergy and atopic dermatitis (AD) in newborns, infants, and very young children. SUNBEAM-ABC will support the SUNBEAM birth cohort study by providing analytic infrastructure for a comprehensive understanding of molecular and cellular pathways that contribute to atopic disease development and to identify early predictive biomarkers.
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Search Tool for Corporate and Foundation Funding Opportunities |
The Office of Corporate Relations and the Office of Foundation Relations have teamed up to create this resource site to provide a curated list of current funding opportunities and other resources. This site will help promote connections between Emory colleagues and corporate/foundation partners.
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Free access available through Databases@Emory. This database, produced by the nation's leading authority on philanthropy, includes extensive program details for thousands of leading foundations; detailed application guidelines for more than 7,000 grants; and a searchable file of approximately half a million grants.
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