Foundations
and Corporations Funding
Announcements
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Research Specific Grants - Some
of these foundation grants renew yearly.
We will
be updating these with current deadlines by May 1, 2009. Thanks!
Aging -
Brookdale Foundation Leadership in Aging Fellowship Program Deadline: November 6, 2008
Encourages and supports emerging leaders
in the field of aging. Seeks applications from a broad range of
disciplines including, but not limited to, the medical, biological, and
basic sciences, nursing, social sciences, and arts & humanities.Two-year grants of up to $125,000 will be awarded to
professionals in a broad range of aging-related disciplines who are
working on a project that contributes to the field as well as their own
professional or career development.
Ellison Medical Foundation
and the
American Federation for
Aging ResearchDeadline: December 16, 2008
Seeks proposals for the Julie Martin Mid-Career Award in Aging
where traditional funding sources are unlikely because the research is
high risk or has the potential for leading to new advances in the
understanding of basic aging mechanisms; processes underlying common
geriatric functional disorders are also encouraged, as long as these
include connections to fundamental problems in the biology of aging;
applicant must be an associate professor who achieved tenured status
after 12/1/05; Two four-year awards of $500,000 each will be made in
2009, at the level of $125,000 per year. An additional, ≤ $50,000 may be
requested for administrative/ indirect costs.
Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
Action Network Research
Grants
Program Deadline: November 10, 2008
The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network and American Association for Cancer
Research (AACR) will begin accepting applications for their joint 2009
Research Grants Program on September 19, 2008.
Applications must be directly relevant and applicable to pancreatic
cancer and may be in any discipline of basic, translational, or clinical
research;
2009 portfolio will include up to 6 Pilot Grants ranging
from $100,000 to $200,000 each that provide seed funds for a two-year
period for scientists to develop new ideas or innovative models in
pancreatic cancer research; 5 Career Development Grants of $100,000 each
that are awarded to junior faculty for a two-year period; and 1
Fellowship Grant of $45,000 that is awarded for a one-year period to a
promising postdoctoral or clinical research fellow who is sponsored by a
mentor.
Seeks
applications from nonprofit organizations and public agencies
working to address the health care needs of consumers with
hypertension, chronic stable angina, and/or angina due to
coronary artery spasm. Grants will be made on a one-time
basis for specific projects that have a nationwide impact.
The New York State Attorney General may award either one grant
in the amount of approximately $268,000 or more than one grant
in smaller amounts.
(Funds from an antitrust
settlement against two drug companies accused of conspiring to
keep a generic version of a widely used blood pressure and
angina medication off the market.)
Grants of up to $100,000 will be
awarded to organizations in the private, nonprofit, and academic
sectors working to find solutions related to diarrhea, HIV,
malaria, pneumonia, tuberculosis, other infectious diseases, and
drug resistance.
This year, grants of up to $60,000, in
addition to professional development and networking
opportunities, will be awarded to five women postdoctoral
researchers beginning a careers in the sciences, mathematics, or
engineering.
Focuses
on improving human brain and brain-immune functioning in
health and disease in 2 tracks: Track A is for conventional
imaging (anatomical imaging of white or gray matter and
measures of physiological functioning). Track B is for
cellular and molecular imaging of biochemical actions of
specific brain cells or their interactions with immune
cells. Institutions may submit only one application per
track. Both tracks support pilot-testing of promising,
high-risk innovative ideas with direct clinical application
and, when successful, competitive for larger-scale support
from other funders; program supports faculty researchers
with potential to advance in academic research
careers, and who are early in their careers, (assistant
professor level) or in the early years of their associate
professor appointment. Proposals from Sr. investigators must
represent a new research direction. [Each U.S. medical
school dean and invited presidents of biomedical research
institutions may nominate a total of 2 applicants: one for
Track A and one for Track B].
The
program invites Junior Investigators—scholars from
historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities who have
received their doctorate within the last seven years—to
address specific questions posed by one of RWJF’s program areas
using secondary data analysis. Eligible scholars include individuals
from ethnic or racial minorities or low-income communities,
first-generation college graduates, or others who historically have
been underrepresented in research disciplines that RWJF supports.
Deadline:
March 2, 2009 The Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award was created to protect and
cultivate those promising young physicians willing to devote their careers
to the development and application of new diagnostic approaches and
therapeutic strategies for cancer and cancer prevention through clinical
investigation. The award provides investigator financial support and an
allowance for research costs. The Foundation would also retire up to
$100,000 of medical school debt owed by awardees. Only 2 junior faculty
clinician scientists may be nominated per institution. Research in
translational clinical oncology and imaging technologies/molecular imaging
in cancer are particularly of interest. Neuroscience -
Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
Neuroscience Prize
Deadline: December 15, 2008
Honors scientists for major discoveries in
advancing the understanding of the nervous system. The Neuroscience
Prize is an unrestricted cash award of $500,000, a gold medal, and a
citation describing the achievement for which the recipient is being
honored. It is awarded to a person or persons chosen by a distinguished
advisory board of neuroscience experts from nominations that are
received from around the world. Nominations may be submitted by
individuals, organizations, and institutions that are active in or have
an appreciation for contemporary neuroscience research and study.
Eligible nominees are individuals from anywhere in the world who have
conducted highly distinguished research in the field of the brain,
spinal cord, or peripheral nervous system. Only candidates who have been
officially nominated on a fully completed nomination form (in English)
will be considered for the prize. Self-nominations are not accepted.
è Graduate and
Postdoctoral Research(coming soon)
For
assistance in applying to these opportunities contact:
Stephen J. Schäfer, Ph.D.
UAMS - Director of Development for
Corporations and Foundations
501.686.8168 (office)
501.319.2099 (mobile) sjschafer@uams.edu
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
4301 W. Markham St., Little Rock, AR 72205
