Anesthesiology
Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER)
FAER GEMSSTAR Grant
- New Investigators with R03 GEMSSTAR awards from the National Institute of Aging (NIA)
- $50K over 2 years
- Rolling basis
- Website
Autism
Simons Foundation
New Ideas Award - Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDD)
- Faculty position (or an equivalent role)
- PhD, MD, or equivalent
- SFARI encourages both applicants who have long been working in autism research and those new to the field to apply
- $600K over 2 years
- Rolling basis LOI
- Website
Basic Science
Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA)
Cottrell Scholar Award
- Faculty at the end of third year of first faculty appointment
- Limited to faculty members who started their first tenure-track appointment anytime in calendar year 2023
- $120K over 3 years
- Deadline 7/1/2026
- Website
Biomedical
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award Program
- Hold a full-time tenure-line academic appointment focused on the chemical sciences
- Are after the fourth and not after the twelfth years of their independent academic careers at the time of the submission of the nomination, and engaged in independent research and teaching primarily with undergraduates
- Renominations are accepted
- Institutions may submit only one Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award nomination annually
- Contact CFR if interested in applying
- $75K over 5 years
- Deadline 8/6/2026
- Website
Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation
Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research
- Full-time tenure-track (or equivalent) research faculty
- Assistant Professor
- Early career
- Received or will receive first independent research faculty appointment (normally tenure-track Assistant Professor) on or between October 1, 2024 through April 1, 2027
- $400K over 3 years; 5 awards
- Deadline 6/23/2026 LOI
- UMass Recipients: 2026 Wenqing Zhou, PhD; 2023 Jessica P. Spinelli, PhD; 2023 Josué Flores Kim, PhD; 2022 Megan Horn Orzalli, PhD; 2021 Gowthaman Uthaman, PhD; 2018 Paul Greer, PhD; 2014 Michael Jungho Lee, PhD; 2013 Jun R. Huh, PhD; 2012 Eduardo M. Torres, PhD; 2011 Jennifer Benanti, PhD; 2006 Yong-Xu Wang, PhD; 2004 Marc R. Freeman, PhD; 2003 Nathan D. Lawson, PhD; 2003 Francis Ka-Ming Chan, PhD; 2002 Patrick Emery, PhD; 2001 Nicholas Rhind, PhD; 2000 Steven R. Grossman, MD, PhD; 1996 David Lambright, PhD; 1995 Walter E. Demkowicz, PhD; 1994 Melissa J. Moore, PhD; 1993 Leslie J. Berg, PhD
- Website
Cardiology
American Heart Association (AHA)
AHA Institutional Research Enhancement Award (AIREA)
- AHA member
- $200K over 2 years
- Deadline 9/10/2026
- Website
AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship (collaborating with the AHA/CHF Congenital Heart Defect Research Awards, the AHA/VIVA Physician Research Award, Autism Speaks, the Barth Syndrome Foundation, the California Walnut Commission, and the Foundation for Sarcoidosis)
- 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, DVM, PharMD, DDS, DPh, or a PhD in nursing, public health or other clinical health science
- At the time of award activation, the applicant may have no more than five years of research training or experience since obtaining a post-baccalaureate doctoral-level degree (excluding clinical training)
- Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
- Over 2 years
- Deadline 8/5/2026
- UMass Recipients: 2021 Prince Tiwari, PhD; 2014 Maninjay Atianand, PhD; 2014 Fatma Kok, PhD
- Website
AHA Predoctoral Fellowship (collaborating with the AHA/CHF Congenital Heart Defect Research Awards, Autism Speaks, the Barth Syndrome Foundation, the California Walnut Commission, and the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research)
- Full-time Student
- Enrolled in a post-baccalaureate PhD, MD, DO, DVM, PharmD, DDS, DrPH, or PhD in nursing, public health, or equivalent clinical health science doctoral student who seeks research training with a sponsor prior to embarking upon a research career
- At the time of award activation, the candidate must have completed initial coursework and be at the stage of the program where they can devote full-time effort (80%) to research or activities related to the development into an independent researcher or a related career aimed at improving global cardiovascular health
- $35,914 over 1-2 years
- Deadline 8/4/2026
- UMass Recipients: 2025 Diana Fajardo Palomino; 2014 Yan Zhang, PhD
- Website
Career Development Award
- Faculty, Staff, Postdoctoral
- Up to and including Assistant Professor (or equivalent)
- Early career
- At the time of application, the applicant must hold an MD, PhD, DO, DVM, DDS, or equivalent post-baccalaureate doctoral degree
- Postdoctoral fellows are eligible to apply but must have attained faculty appointment by the time of award activation
- No more than six years may have elapsed since the first faculty/staff appointment (after receipt of doctoral degree) at the assistant professor level or equivalent (including, but not limited to, instructor, research assistant professor, research scientist, staff scientist, etc.)
- AHA member
- $231K over 3 years
- Deadline 12/1/2026
- UMass Recipients: 2026 Kuang Shen, PhD; 2026 Melissa Marie Goulding, PhD, MS; 2022 Kuang Shen, PhD; 2019 Myoung Sook Han, PhD
- Website
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR)
Cardiac Sarcoidosis Grant
- Apply with an existing or new project and aim to support smaller scale or pilot research projects dedicated to cardiac sarcoidosis, which can be funded either singularly by FSR or through a partnership with additional funders
- $100K over 2 years
- Deadline 6/4/2026 LOI
- Website
FSR Pilot Grant
- Apply with an existing or new project and aim to support smaller scale or pilot research projects in sarcoidosis, which can be funded either singularly by FSR or through a partnership with additional funders
- $100K over 2 years
- Deadline 6/4/2026 LOI
- Website
Chemistry
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences - Chemical Probes of Biological Systems
- Faculty
- Any person may nominate a candidate for the Dreyfus Prize
- Self-nominations are not accepted
- $250K over 1 year; 1 award
- Deadline 12/3/2026
- Website
Dermatology
Pediatric Dermatology Research Alliance (PeDRA)
Emerging Investigator Research Grants Program
- Medical Student, Pediatric Resident
- Mentors must be Active, Affiliate, or Emeritus Members of PeDRA in good standing
- Applicants need not be PeDRA members at the time of application
- $2,500-$5K over 12 weeks; 10 awards in 2026
- Deadline 10/22/2026
- Website
Pediatric Alopecia Areata Challenge Grant
- Postdoctoral
- Early to mid career
- MD and/or PhD, or equivalent
- $75K over 1 year; 1 award
- Deadline 9/17/2026
- Website
Pediatric Hidradenitis Suppurativa Challenge Grant
- Postdoctoral
- Early to mid career
- MD and/or PhD, or equivalent
- $50K over 1 year; 1 award
- Deadline 7/30/2026
- Website
PeDRA Awards Program - Collaborator of the Year Award
- Nominees must be PeDRA members in good standing at the time of nomination
- Self-nominations are not allowed
- Deadline 8/13/2026
- Website
PeDRA Awards Program - Mentor of the Year Award
- Nominees must be PeDRA members in good standing at the time of nomination
- Self-nominations are not allowed
- Deadline 8/13/2026
- Website
Education
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Macy Faculty Scholars Program | Limited Submission
- Faculty
- Assistant Professor or early Associate rank
- Early career
- MD, PhD, DNP, EdD, etc.
- While the Foundation does not have strict guidelines related to rank or years of service, they expect likely candidates to be at the assistant professor or early associate rank with roughly 3-8 years of experience as a faculty member
- Be nominated by the dean of the nursing or medical school
- There can be only one nominee per school (i.e., one from nursing and one from medicine at a single institution), and a nursing or medical school with a first-year Macy Faculty Scholar is precluded from nominating a candidate
-
See email dated 5/5/26 from the Office of Research/Center for Clinical and Translational Science or InfoReady for more information
- Contact CFR for more information prior to contacting this sponsor as we have existing relationships
- $250K over 2 years
- Internal deadline 6/23/2026
- Website
Endocrinology
Breakthrough T1D
Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Early career
- MD, DMD, DVM, DO, PhD, or equivalent
- Degree will have been received no more than 6 years before the application is submitted
- $285K over 3 years
- Deadline 7/2/2026
- Website
Career Development Awards
- Faculty or equivalent
- Including Assistant Professor or equivalent
- Early career
- MD, DMD, DVM, DO, PsyD, PhD, or equivalent
- Researchers who have received their first faculty-level appointment less than 3 years before the submission date
- $1M over 5 years
- Deadline 7/2/2026
- UMass Recipients: 2011 Michael Brehm, PhD
- Website
Kellogg Family Early Career Patient-Oriented Diabetes Research Award
- Faculty
- Early career
- MD, MD-PhD, DO, or PsyD
- Hold an appointment or joint appointment in a subspecialty of clinical medicine, and conduct human clinical research
- Clinical researchers who have received their first faculty-level appointment less than 5 years before the submission date are eligible to apply for this award
- $1M over 5 years
- Deadline 7/2/2026
- Website
Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Postdoctoral
- Early career
- MD, DMD, DVM, DO, PhD, or equivalent
- Degree will have been received no more than 5 years before the application is submitted
- Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
- Over 3 years
- Deadline 7/2/2026
- Website
Gastroenterology
Gates Foundation
Global Grand Challenges - Estimating the Global Burden of Diarrheal Diseases
- $1.5M over 2 years
- Deadline 6/16/2026
- Website
Immunology
National Scleroderma Foundation
Established Investigator Grant
- Established career
- Must have a doctorate degree in Medicine, Osteopathy, Veterinary Medicine or one of the sciences
- Must have completed a postdoctoral fellowship
- Must have been principal investigator on grants from the National Scleroderma Foundation or other national, private or government agencies in the past
- $200K over 2 years
- Deadline 9/15/2026
- Website
New Investigator Grant
- Early career
- Must have a doctoral degree in Medicine, Osteopathy, Veterinary Medicine or one of the sciences
- Must have completed a postdoctoral fellowship by the grant award date
- $200K over 3 years
- Deadline 9/15/2026
- Website
Pediatric Scleroderma
- Early to established career
- Open to submissions from both new and established investigators
- Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
- Deadline 9/15/2026
- UMass Recipients: 1998 Stephen J. Doxsey, PhD
- Website
Scleroderma-Related Lung Disease
- Established career
- Open to an established investigator conducting scleroderma-related lung disease research
- $200K
- Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
- Deadline 9/15/2026
- Website
Neurology
Breakthrough Initiatives
Breakthrough Prize
- Self-nominatons are not allowed
- $3M over 1 year
- Deadline 7/17/2026
- UMass Recipients: 2015 Victor Ambros, PhD
- Website
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF)
Targets to Therapies (T2T): Aggregation and Synuclein Biology Target Validation
- Researcher, Clinician
- Post-doctoral fellows are eligible to apply as co-investigators with the designation of an administrative primary investigator who directs the laboratory in which the fellow will conduct research
- $250K-$2M over 3-24 months
- Deadline 5/27/2026 LOI
- Website
Radala for ALS Research
Advanced Research Grants in ALS
- 200,000 CHF over 2 years; 1-2 awards
- Deadline 9/30/2026
- UMass Recipients: 2022 Daryl Bosco, PhD
- Website
Oncology
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
AACR-Exelisis Renal Cell Carcinoma Research Fellowship
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Clinical Research Fellow, or the equivalent
- Early career
- PhD, MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent
- Completed most recent doctoral degree within the past 5 years
- AACR member
- $130K over 2 years
- Deadline 6/11/2026
- Website
American Pancreatic Association
Young Investigator in Pancreatology Grants
- Senior Post-doctoral Researcher, Instructor, Research Associate, and Assistant Professor, including Clinical and Research Track Faculty
- Early career
- MD, MD-PhD, PhD or DVM
- For the APAF/IAP grant, the applicant and the mentors must be members of the APA or IAP
- $100K over 1 year; 4 awards
- Deadline 6/26/2026
- Website
The Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Gastrointestinal Cancers (CGA-IGC)
CGA-IGC & Fight CRC Early Career Award
- Early career
- Within 5 years of completion of training
- GA-IGC member
- $15K over 1 year
- Deadline 7/10/2026
- Website
CGA-IGC & Roxanne and Henry Brandt Foundation Award for FAP Research
- Early to established career
- GA-IGC member
- $40K over 2 years
- Deadline 7/10/2026
- Website
CGA-IGC Research Award
- Early to established career
- GA-IGC member
- $30K over 2 years
- Deadline 7/10/2026
- Website
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Damon Runyon Fellowship Award
- Postdoctoral
- MD, PhD, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, DO
- Only one application will be accepted from a Sponsor, co-Sponsor or Fellow per review session
- $300K over 4 years
- Deadline 8/14/2026
- UMass Recipients: 2015 Gina V. Caldas, PhD; 2013 Summer Thyme, PhD
- Website
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
2028 Head and Neck Pathology Fellowship
- Early career
- For appointments beginning 2 years later (ie. 8/1/2021 for start date 7/1/2023)
- Early application is encouraged because completed applications may be considered on a rolling basis
- Over 1 year; 1 award
- Deadline 8/1/2026
- Website
2028-2029 Gastrointestinal Pathology Fellowship
- Early career
- For appointments beginning 2 years later (ie. 8/1/2020 for start date 7/1/2022)
- Early application is acceptable because completed applications may be considered on a rolling basis
- Over 1 year; 3 awards
- Deadline 8/1/2026
- Website
North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society
NANETS Basic/Translational Science Investigator Grant (BTSI)
- Faculty
- MD, PhD, MD/PhD, DO, or equivalent
- Within 6 years of starting their first faculty position and currently have an academic appointment OR hold a postdoctoral fellowship appointment
- NANETS member
- $100K over 2 years
- Deadline 6/26/2026
- Website
NANETS Clinical Investigator Scholarship (NCIS)
- Faculty
- MD, PhD, MD/PhD, DO, or equivalent
- Within 6 years of starting their first faculty position and currently have an academic appointment OR hold a postdoctoral fellowship appointment
- NANETS member
- $50K over 1 year
- Deadline 6/26/2026
- Website
Pfizer
Improving Metastatic Prostate Cancer (mPCa) Care Through Innovative Strategies
- $250K over 2 years; 2-5 awards
- Deadline 7/1/2026
- Website
Novel Therapies for Relapsed/Refractory Large B-Cell Lymphoma in Community Oncology Practice
- $250K over 18 months; 2-3 awards
- Deadline 6/11/2026
- Website
When Everyone Survives Foundation
Leukemia Research Grants
- Early to established career
- $50K over 1 year
- Deadline 6/15/2026
- UMass Recipients: 2017 Glen Raffel, MD, PhD
- Website
Orthopedics
Orthopaedic Trauma Association
OTA Directed Topic Grant
- Either the principal investigator, or co-principal investigator must be an OTA Active, Clinical or Research member in good standing
- $150K over 2 years
- Deadline 6/15/2026
- Website
OTA Member Full Research Grant - Basic
- Either the principal investigator, or co-principal investigator must be an OTA Active, Clinical, or Research member in good standing, with no outstanding reporting requirements for currently active OTA-funded projects
- You may apply in more than one grant category, if applicable
- $50K over 2 years
- Deadline 6/15/2026
- Website
OTA Member Full Research Grant - Clinical
- Either the principal investigator, or co-principal investigator must be an OTA Active, Clinical, or Research member in good standing, with no outstanding reporting requirements for currently active OTA-funded projects
- You may apply in more than one grant category, if applicable
- $80K over 2 years
- Deadline 6/15/2026
- Website
OTA Research Development Program
- OTA members, and Orthopaedic Trauma fellows with a pending full membership application, who are within the first 8 years of practice are eligible to apply for a 2-year Research Development Opportunity which is designed to foster early career clinician scientists, and build early integration within the OTA
- $35K over 2 years
- Deadline 6/15/2026
- Website
OTA Resident Research Grant
- Orthopaedic Resident
- The principal investigator must be an orthopaedic resident (the co-principal investigator does NOT have to be a resident)
- Either the principal investigator, or co-principal investigator, must be an OTA member (in good standing)
- $20K over 1 year
- Deadline 6/15/2026
- Website
Psych
American Psychological Association (APA)
Jacquelin Goldman Congressional Fellowship
- Psychologist
- PsyD
- Commit to working full-time in an in-person office environment in Washington, D.C.
- Member of APA (or applicant for membership)
- U.S. citizen
- $93,750 over 1 year
- Deadline 1/4/2027
- Website
The Cure JM Foundation
Mental Health Grants
- Early to established career
- PhD, MD, or equivalent
- $15K over 18 months; 1 award
- Deadline 7/31/2026
- Website
Miracle Grants
- Clinician
- Early to established career
- Clinicians who are part of Cure JM’s Clinical Care Network have been invited to apply for these grants
- Amount and/or duration vary and/or are unpublicized
- Rolling basis
- Website
Robert J. Mullen Charitable Trust
Grants Providing Aid or Assistance to Disabled Children and the Elderly or Infirm
- $20K-$50K over 1 year
- Deadline 6/1/2026
- Website
Pulmonology
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF)
LEAPP-ACE CF Fellowship: Developing Advanced Clinical Expertise for Advanced Practice Providers
- $76,100 over 18 months
- Deadline 6/17/2026
- Website
Radiology
Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Foundation
Academic Transition Grant
- Full-time Faculty
- MD, DO, PhD, or equivalent
- Have been in academia for 5 years or less and do not have any other research funding (not including internal institutional funding)
- Over the age of 40
- Must be an active member of the Society of Interventional Radiology
- $35K over 1 year
- Deadline 1/15/2027
- Website
Dr. Ernest J. Ring Academic Development Grant
- Full-time Faculty
- Up to and including Assistant Professor
- Early career
- MD, DO, PhD, or equivalent
- Must be within the first seven years of their initial faculty appointment after having completed all formal training
- SIR member
- $150K over 2 years
- Pre-review application deadline 9/20/2026
- Deadline 1/15/2027
- Website
Incubator Grant
- MD, DO, PhD or equivalent degree/accreditation
- SIR member
- $25K over 1 year
- Deadline 1/15/2027
- Website
Pilot Research Grant
- Faculty, Postdoctoral
- MD, DO, PhD, or equivalent
- SIR member
- $35K over 1 year
- Pre-review application deadline 9/20/2026
- Deadline 1/15/2027
- Website
Radiology Resident Research Grant
- SIR membership is encouraged but not required
- $20K over 1 year
- Deadline 1/15/2027
- Website
Women's Research Mentorship Grant
- Radiologist
- MD, DO, or eqivalent
- SIR member
- $25K over 1 year
- Pre-review application deadline 9/20/2026
- Deadline 1/15/2027
- Website
Rare Disease
Histiocytosis Association
Research Grants
- Full-time Faculty
- $50K over 1 year
- Deadline 6/2/2026
- Website
Williams Syndrome Association
Early Investigator Award
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Clinical/Research Faculty
- Early career
- PhD, MD, or equivalent
- Within 5 years of first faculty appointment
- $150K over 2 years
- Rolling basis
- Website
Rheumatology
The Cure JM Foundation
Research Grants
- Early to established career
- PhD, MD, or equivalent
- The foundation strongly encourages collaborations from two or more institutions that bring together a spectrum of expertise
- $150K over 2 years
- Deadline 10/31/2026
- Website
Lupus Research Alliance
Empowering Lupus Research Administrative Supplement (“ELR Supplement”)
- Has an active LRA grant or currently holds an NIH, DOD, or equivalent grant in good standing that addresses major challenges in lupus research, including genetic causes of lupus and disease mechanisms, novel targets and pathways, or novel treatment approaches and technologies
- There must be at least one year of grant funding remaining at the time of application to be eligible to apply
- $30K over 2 years
- Deadline 6/15/2026
- Website
Surgery
American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)
Alain Carpentier Honoring Our Mentors Program
- Resident
- Early career
- Must be a cardiac surgical resident who is currently enrolled in an accredited I6 program or general surgery residents intending to follow either a traditional 5-2 training pathway or a 4-3 Early Specialization Program in cardiothoracic surgery in the U.S. or Canada
- $45K over 2 years
- Deadline 12/2/2026
- Website
Matthew Gerdisch Fellowship in Arrhythmia Surgery | Deadline Update
- Fellow
- Early career
- Applicant must be in an approved CT training program and seek to develop exceptional skill and knowledge in the field of cardiac arrhythmias and become a future leader in the field
- $50K over 1 year
- Deadline 7/1/2026
- Website
American Society of Transplantation (AST)
Priority Focused Grants - Organ Allocation & Value, Equity, and Access to Transplantation | Deadline Update
- Faculty, Clinician
- Early to established career
- The applicant must be an active member of the AST or have submitted a completed membership application by June 14, 2026
- $75K over 1 year; 1 award
- Deadline 6/15/2026
- Website
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation
Clinical Research Support Grants
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
- Doctoral degree
- Must have completed an oral and maxillofacial surgery training program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association (CODA)
- The OMS who is the PI or Co-PI, as the case may be, must be a fellow or member of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) and must be a donor of the OMS Foundation
- $150K over 2 years
- Deadline 8/31/2026
- Website
Research Support Grants
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
- Doctoral degree
- Must have completed an oral and maxillofacial surgery training program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association (CODA)
- The OMS who is the PI or Co-PI, as the case may be, must be a fellow or member of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) and must be a donor of the OMS Foundation
- $100K over 2 years
- Deadline 8/31/2026
- Website
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