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Featured: Early Career Award
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CZI invites applications for the second cycle of the Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Awards. This is an investigator award for early career academic investigators, especially those who are new to the field of neurodegeneration. CZI seeks to empower early career investigators to pursue bold ideas and to take risks within a supportive and collaborative environment.
- Award Amount: $1.2M (over 4 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due April 20, 2023
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Note: Funding opportunities are listed by deadline. New Requests for Proposals (RFPs) since our last digest are highlighted in orange text.
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The program aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who could change the course of climate change’s impact on human health.
- Award Amount: $50K
- Deadline: Applications are due April 12, 2023
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Funded partly by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc., this opportunity will support three of the best scientists researching animal behavior and cognition. Projects must focus on understanding the ultimate, proximate, or developmental causes of animal behavior and cognition in all its forms.
- Award Amount: $800K (over 4 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due April 12, 2023
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The foundation supports dynamic areas of basic biological research and research grants are available to established scientists of all ages working at accredited institutions in the United States.
- Award Amount: Up to $300K
- Deadline: Applications are due April 15, 2023
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ARDF's grant program was established to fund research projects that develop alternative methods to advance science and replace or reduce animal use. Priority will be given to proposals that utilize in silico and in vitro methods with human cells or tissues. Proposals are considered in fields of research, testing, or education.
- Award Amount: Up to $40K
- Deadline: Applications are due April 17, 2023
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The program aims to accelerate applications of quantum computing in health and demonstrate quantum-enabled solutions to address pressing human health challenges.
- Award Amount: $1.5M - $5M
- Deadline: Abstracts are due April 27, 2023
- Individuals interested in applying are strongly encouraged to partner with Sylvia Bierhuis
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The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location.
- Award Amount: $125K - $500K (over 1 - 5 years)
- Deadline: Letter of intent are due April 27, 2023
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The Innovation Prize seeks to identify, support, and elevate innovators who are spearheading transformative early-stage projects in the fields of the environment, heritage conservation, and social justice.
- Award Amount: $175K (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due April 28, 2023
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This program's research interests center on studies that examine ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. The foundation welcomes descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality, intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality, and studies that improve the measurement of inequality in ways that can enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, or policymakers.
- Award Amount: $100K - $600K (over 1 - 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due May 3, 2023
- Individuals interested in applying are strongly encouraged to work with Margaret Guerrero
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This program supports research on strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people in the United States. The foundation welcomes descriptive studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms, or conditions for improving research use, as well as evaluations of deliberate efforts to increase routine and beneficial uses of research in decision-making.
- Award Amount: $100K - $1M (over 2 - 4 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due May 3, 2023
- Individuals interested in applying are strongly encouraged to work with Margaret Guerrero
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The foundation will accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under all of its core programs and special initiatives: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality.
Additionally, the foundation will also accept LOIs relevant to any of its core programs that address the effects of social movements, such as drives for unionization and mass social protests, and the effects of racial/ethnic/gender bias and discrimination on a range of outcomes related to social and living conditions in the United States.
- Award Amount: $100K - $600K (over 1 - 2 years)
- Deadline: Letters of inquiry are due May 3, 2023
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The Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. Priority funding will go to studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of inequality in education, and which seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education.
- Award Amount: Up to $75K
- Deadline: Intent to apply forms are due May 16, 2023
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Early Career Opportunities
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The grant supports early career psychologists conducting research in the area of early intervention and treatment for serious emotional disturbance in children. The foundation hopes to empower early career psychologists to produce scientifically-based research and programs that could provide models for broad-based applications across the country.
- Award Amount: Up to $22K
- Deadline: Applications are due April 15, 2023
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The Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program awards up to 15 fellowships annually for individuals to advance their careers in gerontology. Residential and non-residential tracks are available for individual placement.
- Award Amount: Up to $100K
- Deadline: Applications are due April 17, 2023
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The foundation supports innovative cancer research from the next generation of leaders. These grants are awarded to outstanding early career investigators to support high-impact, high-risk projects that are distinct from their current research portfolio.
- Award Amount: $750K (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due May 1, 2023
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Funding opportunities for late postdoctoral investigators & new faculty members.
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