AGING

RRF Foundation for Aging

Advocacy Grants

• Organizations may submit only one Letter of Inquiry per deadline
• Common exceptions include LOIs submitted by separate departments of large universities
• Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
• Deadline 2/1/2026, 5/1/2026 LOI
• Website

Professional Education and Training Grants

• Organizations may submit only one Letter of Inquiry per deadline
• Common exceptions include LOIs submitted by separate departments of large universities
• Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
• Deadline 2/1/2026, 5/1/2026 LOI
• Website

Research Grants

• Organizations may submit only one Letter of Inquiry per deadline
• Common exceptions include LOIs submitted by separate departments of large universities
• Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
• Deadline 2/1/2026, 5/1/2026 LOI
• Website

ANESTHESIOLOGY

Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF)

Investigator Initiated Research (IIR) Grants

• $200K over 2 years
• Possibility of a waiver for up to $300K
• Deadline 2/15/2026 LOI
• UMass Recipients: 2019 Jennifer, Waltz, MD
• Website

Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER)

APSF-FAER Mentored Research Training Grant

• Faculty
• Anesthesiologist faculty member within 10 years of their first faculty appointment
• ASA member
• $300K over 2 years
• Deadline 1/1/2026 LOI
• Website

FAER GEMSSTAR Grant

• New Investigators with R03 GEMSSTAR awards from the National Institute of Aging (NIA)
• $50K over 2 years
• Rolling basis
• Website

FAER Mentored Research Training Grant (MRTG)

• Faculty
• Anesthesiologist faculty member within 10 years of core anesthesiology training
• ASA member
• $300K over 2 years
• Deadline 2/15/2026, 8/15/2026
• Website

FAER Research Fellowship Grant (RFG)

• Trainee
• Anesthesiology trainees after CA-1 year
• ASA member
• $75K over 1 year
• Deadline 2/15/2026, 8/15/2026
• Website

FAER Research in Education Grant (REG)

• Faculty
• Anesthesiology faculty members of any rank (junior or senior faculty)
• ASA member
• $100K over 2 years
• Deadline 2/15/2026, 8/15/2026
• Website

FAER Transition to Independence Grant (TIG)

• Faculty
• Primary investigators (not co-investigators) who have completed work on a FAER Mentored Research Training Grant within the past two years and are in the process of revising and resubmitting an application for new independent research funding (R01/21, VA Merit, AHRQ or equivalent)
• ASA member
• $75K over 1 year
• Rolling basis
• Website

BASIC SCIENCE

Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA)

Scialog Award

• Faculty
• Early career
• Self-nominations accepted
• Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
• Over 1 year
• Rolling basis
• UMass Recipients: 2025 Eviatar Isac Yemini, PhD
• Website

BIOMEDICAL

American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS)

Grants for Laboratory Animal Science (GLAS) Program

• AALAS member
• $50K over 1 year
• Deadline 2/1/2026
• Website

UMass Chan Medical School

2026 OTCV Technology Development Fund LIMITED SUBMISSION

• Faculty
• See email dated 11/19/25 from the Office of Research/Center for Clinical and Translational Science or InfoReady for more information
• Please submit a 1-page research concept proposal, NIH Biosketch for PI(s) with link to full list of publications, and a Letter of Support from your Department Chair or Division Chief to InfoReady Submission
• $35K over 1 year
• Internal deadline 1/5/2026

CARDIOLOGY

American Heart Association (AHA)

Using Real-World Data to Address Prevalence and Treatment of Cardiovascular, Kidney and Metabolic Disease in Cancer Patients and Survivors

• Proposals are encouraged from multidisciplinary researcher teams with expertise in two or more of the following areas: cardio-oncology, cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic disease, health economics, epidemiology, and biostatistics with experience in causal inference methods, machine learning, and cardiovascular research
• AHA member
• $150K over 1 year; 5 awards
• Deadline 1/19/2026
• Website

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

Craig H. Neilsen Foundation

Community Support Grants: Creating Opportunity & Independence (CO&I) for Individuals and Families Living with Spinal Cord Injuries

• $200K over 1-2 years
• Deadline 1/26/2026 LOI
• Website

ENDOCRINOLOGY

Thomas J. Beatson Jr. Foundation

Passion to Find a Cure Grants Program in Type 1 Diabetes

• Faculty
• Senior Instructor, Assistant Professor or higher
• $250K over 2 years; 5 awards
• Deadline 2/13/2026
• Website

Sanofi

T1D Innovation Grant Program

• Early to established career
• €140,000 over 1 year; 5 awards
• Deadline 12/19/2025
• Website

GENETICS

Children's Tumor Foundation

NF Clinical Research Award (CRA)

• MD, PhD, or other advanced degree
• $200K over 2 years
• Deadline 2/3/2026 LOI
• Website

Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics (FAST)

FAST Impact Award

• Early to established career
• $1M over 1 year
• Rolling basis LOI
• Website

FAST Innovation Seed Grant

• Early to established career
• Open to both individual researchers and collaborative teams, including partnerships between academic institutions and industry entities
• $10K-$50K over 1 year
• Rolling basis LOI
• Website

FAST Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Early career
• Applicants must hold a postdoctoral fellowship position at an institution/university at the time of award submission and throughout the proposed awarded period
• $100K over 2 years
• Rolling basis LOI
• Website

FAST-TRAC Award

• Early to established career
• Recipients of this funding are expected to generate data that can be utilized for future grants and publications
• $300K over 2 years
• Rolling basis LOI
• Website

New Investigator Award

• Faculty
• Early career
• Within first five years of an academic position
• $150K over 1 year
• Rolling basis LOI
• Website

Malan Syndrome Foundation

Grants for Basic, Translational and Clinical Research

• Early to established career
• $60K over 2 years
• Rolling basis
• Website

HEALTH CARE

The Greenwall Foundation

Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas Program

• PhD, JD, MD, or equivalent doctoral-level degree
• Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
• Over 1 year
• Deadline 1/5/2026 LOI
• Website

William T. Grant Foundation

Research Grants on Reducing Inequality - Major Research Grants

• Projects involving secondary data analysis are typically at the lower end of the budget range, whereas projects involving new data collection and sample recruitment can be at the higher end
• Applicants may submit only one application per cycle as the Principal Investigator
• $100K-$600K over 2-3 years
• Deadline 1/7/2026 LOI
• Website

Research Grants on Reducing Inequality - Officers' Research Grants

• Studies may be stand-alone projects or may build off larger projects
• Applicants may submit only one application per cycle as the Principal Investigator
• $25K-$50K over 1-2 years
• Deadline 1/7/2026 LOI
• Website

HEMATOLOGY

Cooley’s Anemia Foundation

Ongoing Clinical Research in Thalassemia

• Faculty
• Early to established career
• MD, RN, PhD, MPH, MSW, or other disciplines
• $100K over 2 years
• Deadline 12/15/2025 LOI
• Website

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Campbell Foundation

Grants for HIV & AIDS Research

• LOIs are accepted during January, April, July and October of each year with no set deadlines, but since all grants are handled chronologically, they suggest submitting as early as possible
• Only able to consider LOIs from one research team at any given institution within a one-year time frame due to funding limitations
• $60K-$100K over 1 year
• Rolling basis LOI
• Website

MICROBIOME

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize

• Early career
• MD, PhD, MD/PhD
• Have received their degree in the last 10 years
• $25K over 1 year
• Deadline 2/14/2026
• Website

NEUROLOGY

Alzheimer's Association

Alzheimer’s Association World Wide FINGERS Network Funding Program (ALZ WW-FNFP)

• Full-time Faculty
• Open to researchers in the WW-FINGERS Network
• $500K over 3 years
• Rolling basis LOI
• Website

American Academy of Neurology

Ralph L. Sacco Scholarships in Brain Health (partnered with the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association)

• Early career
• At the time of award activation, the applicant must hold a post-baccalaureate PhD degree or equivalent, or a doctoral-level clinical degree such as MD, DO, DNP, DVM, PharmD, DDS, DrPH, or PhD in nursing, public health or other clinical health science
• At the time of award activation, the applicant may have had no more than five years of research training or experience since obtaining a post-baccalaureate doctoral-level degree (excluding clinical training)
• $150K over 2 years
• Deadline 1/29/2026
• Website

Brain Injury Association of America

The Sheldon Berrol, M.D. Clinical Service Award

• Deadline 12/30/2025
• Website

The William Fields Caveness Award

• Deadline 12/30/2025
• Website

The Dana Foundation

Neuroscience & Society Pilot Grants

• $150K over 18 months
• Deadline 1/30/2026 LOI
• Website

FSHD Global Research Foundation Ltd.

Research Grants

• Clinician, Scientist
• Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
• Rolling basis
• UMass Recipients: 2014 Rossella Tupler, MD, PhD
• Website

Jain Foundation

Research Grants for the Treatment or Cure for Dysferlinopathy

• Submission of a pre-proposal is optional
• Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
• Over 1 year
• Rolling basis
• Website

Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy 2i Research Fund

Research Grants

• Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
• Rolling basis LOI
• UMass Recipients: 2024 Charles P. Emerson Jr., PhD
• Website

Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF)

Alpha-Synuclein Imaging Prize

• $2M over 1 year
• Rolling basis
• Website

Migraine Research Foundation

Research Grants

• Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
• Rolling basis LOI
• Website

Moebius Syndrome Foundation

Research Grant

• Faculty, Medical Graduate, or Post-doctoral Student
• The investigator must be a medical, graduate, or post-doctoral student or be within three years of obtaining his or her first faculty appointment
• For medical, graduate, and post-doctoral students, a faculty mentor is required, but this mentor should not have extensive experience studying Moebius syndrome as the aim is to develop an independent research project by the applicant
• $100K over 2 years; 1 award
• Rolling basis
• Website

Tourette Association of America

Support for Research Consortia and Collaborative Research Projects

• Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
• Rolling basis LOI
• Website

Young Investigator Award

• Post-doctoral Fellow, Independent Clinical/Research Faculty
• Early career
• PhD, MD, or equivalent
• Within 5 years of first independent faculty appointment at the time of pre-proposal application submission
• $150K over 2 years
• Deadline 1/23/2026 LOI
• Website

NURSING

Agnes Marshall Walker Foundation

Research Grants in Neuroscience

• Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
• Deadline 2/13/2026
• Website

ONCOLOGY

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

AACR Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Research Fellowship

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Clinical Research Fellow, or the equivalent
• PhD, MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent
• Have completed their most recent doctoral degree within the past 5 years
• Applicants with a medical degree must have completed their most recent doctoral degree or medical residency - whichever date is later - within the past five years
• AACR member
• $130K over 2 years
• Deadline 1/22/2026
• Website

Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN)

Research Innovation Award

• Faculty
• Assistant Professor, Research Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track Investigator, or higher
• Early to established career
• PhD, MD, DO, DDS, DVM, PharmD, ScD, DNS, or equivalent doctoral degree
• $300K over 2 years
• Deadline 1/13/2026 LOI
• Website

Edward P. Evans Foundation

EvansMDS Discovery Research Grants

• Tenure-track or Tenured Faculty
• Assistant Professor (or equivalent) or higher
• Mid to established career
• $750K over 3 years
• Deadline 1/31/2026 LOI
• UMass Recipients: 2018 Michelle A. Kelliher, PhD
• Website

EvansMDS Young Investigator Awards

• Physician, Scientist
• Early career
• MD, PhD, MD/PhD
• Currently in a non-tenure track (or equivalent) position with a university or hospital
• Within nine years of completing their last graduate degree
• $450K over 3 years
• Deadline 1/31/2026
• Website

Hyundai Motor America: Hyundai Hope on Wheels

Hope Scholar Grant LIMITED SUBMISSION

• Faculty
• Assistant Professor or higher
• Mid to established career
• MD/DO, MD/DO/PhD
• No less than 7 years may have elapsed from the start of their pediatric oncology fellowship training
• See email dated 12/9/25 from the Office of Research/Center for Clinical and Translational Science or InfoReady for more information
• Contact CFR as there are limited applicants we can put forth and CFR is coordinating our applications
• $400K over 2 years
• Internal deadline 1/12/2026
• UMass Recipients: 2021 Jason Shohet, MD, PhD; 2019 Jason Shohet, MD, PhD; 2016 Wen Xue, PhD; 2015 Lucio Castilla, PhD; 2014 Jack Leonard, PhD; 2013 Michelle Kelliher, PhD; 2011 Peter Newburger, MD, PhD
• Website

Young Investigator Grant LIMITED SUBMISSION

• Faculty, Postdoctoral
• No higher than Assistant Professor
• Early career
• MD/DO, MD/DO/PhD
• Currently in the 3rd or 4th year of an ACGME accredited pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship training program and conducting pediatric cancer research OR PI may be a pediatric oncologist holding a rank no higher than Assistant Professor
• No more than 7 years may have elapsed since the start of pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship training
• A PhD is not eligible to be a PI, for the purposes of the award, but may participate as a member of a research team
• See email dated 12/9/25 from the Office of Research/Center for Clinical and Translational Science or InfoReady for more information
• Contact CFR as there are limited applicants we can put forth and CFR is coordinating our applications
• $300K over 2 years
• Internal deadline 1/12/2026
• Website

Lung Cancer Foundation of America (LFCA)

LCFA/IASLC Translational Research Grants in Thoracic Oncology

• Faculty
• Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or equivalent level
• PhD, MD, DO, PharmD, ScD, or equivalent
• For physicians: be within seven years of completion of residency or fellowship
• For laboratory scientists: be within seven years of completion of post-doctoral work
• IASLC member
• $200K over 2 years
• Deadline 1/8/2026
• Website

The Lustgarten Foundation

Lustgarten Foundation-AACR Career Development Award for Pancreatic Cancer Research, in Honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Robert Lewis

• Faculty
• Assistant Professor
• PhD, MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent
• AACR member
• Contact CFR as there are limited applicants we can put forth and CFR is coordinating our applications
• $300K over 3 years
• Deadline 1/6/2026
• Website

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PANCAN)

Research Recovery Grants

• PhD, MD, DO, DC, ND, DDS, DVM, ScD, DNS, PharmD, or equivalent
• Applicant must be Principal Investigator (PI) on a federal award who either received notification in 2025 of sudden, unanticipated termination in extramural funding prior to the anticipated project end date/no-cost extension date, through no action of the PI, or routine course of grant OR expected to be funded in 2025 (received a Summary Statement containing scores and critiques as communicated by the agency delegate) but has not received the anticipated funding because of federal agency delays
• $125K over 1 year
• Deadline 1/9/2026
• Website

Pfizer

Advancing Care for Patients with Advanced ALK+ Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer [NSCLC] (partnered with ALK Positive)

• $100K over 18 months; 4 awards
• Deadline 2/18/2026
• Website

ORTHOPEDICS

Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF)

OREF Mentored Clinician Scientist Grant

• Must be an orthopaedic surgeon licensed to practice in the United States and working at an institution in the U.S.
• $20K over 1 year
• Deadline 2/16/2026
• Website

OREF Prevention of Musculoskeletal Youth Sports Injuries Research Grant in Honor of James R. Andrews, MD

• An orthopaedic surgeon licensed to practice in the United States may serve as Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI
• Multidisciplinary research activity is always encouraged
• PhDs and DVMs may serve as the principal investigator (PI) if she/he has a primary or secondary faculty appointment in an orthopaedic department
• $25K over 1 year
• Deadline 2/16/2026
• Website

OREF/Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Research Grant

• Faculty
• PhD may serve as the principal investigator (PI) and must hold a faculty appointment in an orthopaedic department
• $100K over 2 years
• Deadline 2/16/2026
• Website

PEDIATRICS

Thrasher Research Fund

E.W. "Al" Thrasher Awards

• Doctoral-level degree
• $550K over 3 years
• Deadline 1/13/2026, 7/14/2026 LOI
• Website

PHARMACEUTICAL

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Foundation (ASHP)

Optimizing Technology Solutions Innovation Grant

• The principal investigator must be a licensed pharmacist
• $50K over 1 year; 2 awards
• Deadline 1/30/2026
• Website

Sanofi

iDEA-TECH Awards North America

• $150K over 1 year
• Deadline 12/12/2025 LOI
• Website

PSYCH

Hilda and Preston Davis Foundation

Grants for Eating Disorders and Youth Development

• $25K over 1 year
• Rolling basis
• Website

EMDR Research Foundation

Research Grant - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

• Faculty, Postdoctoral, Clinician
• A researcher who has earned a doctorate in social work, psychology, nursing or a related field, who is affiliated with a college, university, or research institution, is eligible to apply for this grant
• Practitioners/clinicians who possess relevant research experience are encouraged to apply
• $40K over 2 years
• Deadline 2/1/2026, 7/1/2026
• Website

The William C. Risser Charitable Trust

Grants for Mental Health Research (managed by Wells Fargo)

• Research relating to Schizophrenia
• $25K-$55K over 1 year; 1-2 awards
• Deadline 2/15/2026
• Website

Society for Research in Child Development

Victoria S. Levin Grant for Early Career Success in Young Children’s Mental Health Research

• Early career
• Received a doctoral degree (or equivalent) within ten years of submitting the application
• SRCD member
• $25K over 1 year; 1 award
• Deadline 1/9/2026
• Website

PULMONOLOGY

European Respiratory Society (ERS)

ERS Mid-Career Gold Medal Awards

• Early to established career
• Candidates may be nominated by a peer or may apply directly for themselves
• Age 50 years old or below by the application deadline
• ERS member
• Deadline 1/15/2026
• Website

Pulmonary Hypertension Association

PHA Innovation Research Award

• $120K over 2 years
• Deadline 1/7/2026 LOI
• Website

RHEUMATOLOGY

Breakthrough T1D

Common Mechanisms in Autoimmunity Insight Awards (partnered with the Lupus Research Alliance and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society)

• Faculty
• Early to established career
• MD, DMD, DVM, PhD, or equivalent
• Contact CFR for more information prior to contacting this sponsor as we have existing relationships
• $150K over 1 year
• Deadline 1/8/2026
• Website

Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA)

CARRA-AF Flex Fund

• Pediatric Rheumatologist, Fellow
• MD or equivalent, PhD, or MD/PhD
• The project principal investigator (PI) must be a CARRA member in good standing
• $20K over 1 year; 11 awards
• Deadline 1/20/2026, 5/18/2026, 9/21/2026
• Website

Lupus Research Alliance

Mechanistic Clinical Award

• Faculty or equivalent position
• MD, PhD, DO, or equivalent
• Must lead an independent research team
• Only one application will be accepted per applicant in a grant cycle (applications on distinct projects can be submitted to other grant mechanisms)
• $750K over 3 years
• Deadline 2/12/2026
• Website

SPINE

North American Spine Society (NASS)

Nontraditional, Nonsurgical Treatment Grants

• Early to established career
• NASS member
• $50K over 1-2 years
• Deadline 2/9/2026 LOI
• Website

Research Grants (Basic, Clinical, Translational)

• Early to established career
• NASS member
• $50K over 1-2 years
• Deadline 2/9/2026 LOI
• Website

Young Investigator Grants

• Early career
• NASS member
• $50K over 1-2 years
• Deadline 2/9/2026 LOI
• Website

SURGERY

AlloSource

Investigator-Initiated Research for Organ and Issue Transplantation

• Early to established career
• Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
• Rolling basis
• Website

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST)

AAST Research Scholarships

• Early career
• AAST Associate Members are strongly encouraged to apply
• $50K over 1 year
• Deadline 2/2/2026
• Website

Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation

Clinical Awards

• Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
• Rolling basis LOI
• Website

Preclinical Awards

• $100K over 1 year
• Rolling basis LOI
• Website

WOMEN'S HEALTH

The She Plus Foundation (formerly the Patty Brisben Foundation)

Research Grants

• Deadline 1/21/2026 LOI
• Website