Funding for New Investigators

NOTE: These funding opportunities for new investigators require institutional nomination. Do not directly submit applications for these awards. Solicitation for nominations will be issued from UTSMC Research Administration to relevant department leadership.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s overall grantmaking strategy is to support biomedical scientists at the beginning of their careers and to make grants in areas of science that are poised for significant advance. BWF makes grants within six focus areas: Infectious Disease; Interfaces in Sciences; Medical Sciences; Population and Laboratory Bases Sciences; Science Education; Translational Research

The Dana Foundation is a private philanthropic foundation with principal interests in brain science, immunology, and arts education. Charles A. Dana, a New York State legislator, industrialist, and philanthropist, founded what is today the Dana Corporation. Science and health grants support brain research in neuroscience and immunology and their interrelationship in human health and disease.

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing cancer research. It encourages the nation's most promising young investigators to pursue careers in cancer research by funding initial postdoctoral Fellowship Awards, Scholar Awards and Clinical Investigator Awards.

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The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a family foundation that for over 40 years has been guided by the business philosophy and values of founders, David and Lucile Packard. We invest in and take smart risks with innovative people and organizations.

The Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship (CRF) program, established in 2000, is designed to encourage medical students to pursue careers in clinical research by giving exceptional students the opportunity to take a year to experience clinical research first hand.

The objective of The Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars Program is to support new investigators of outstanding promise in the basic biological sciences relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. The award is intended to provide significant support to new investigators needed to permit them to become established in the field of aging.

NARSAD's Young Investigator Award Program provides support for the most promising young scientists conducting neurobiological research. One and two year awards are provided to enable promising investigators to either extend research fellowship training or begin careers as independent research faculty. Basic and/or clinical investigators are supported, but research must be relevant to schizophrenia, major affective disorders, or other serious mental illnesses.

The Pew Charitable Trusts invests in an array of programs related to science that are aimed at improving the quality of scientific research as well as making data widely available. These projects are working toward solutions to environmental, health and safety dilemmas. We also have a decades-long commitment to support groundbreaking research by biomedical researchers early in their careers.

The Rita Allen Foundation was established in 1953. It was a modest sized Foundation until Rita Allen Cassel died in 1969 and left a substantial portion of her estate to the Foundation. She directed that most of these funds be used to advance medical research. It was from these beginnings, that the Foundation established the Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program which has supported more than eighty scientists over the last thirty years.

The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry.