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COS: Community of Science Database: http://www.cos.com
COS is a database that enables individualized searches (including automatic updates) of approximately 400,000 funding opportunities and $33,000,000,000.00 in funding from federal and private sources.
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ORA (Medicine Office of Research Administration)
- Links to agency web sites, searchable funding databases and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine funding opportunities: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Research/ora/
- Proposal Preparation Information: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Research/FMIP/InfoForProposalPrep.html
Research Administration Funding Opportunities
- Links to agency web sites, searchable funding databases and JHU-coordinated programs: http://jhuresearch.jhu.edu/funding.htm
- Technology Transfer: http://www.techtransfer.jhu.edu/
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ACCM Research and Grants Foundations and Private Funding Opportunities
- JHU Corporate and Foundation Relations: Selected Grant Opportunities (Updated frequently)
Click here to download the table with current deadlines and additional information
Grant Sponsor | Grant Title | Description | Amount ($) | Link |
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation | Academic Drug Discovery and Development Program | To support research on novel targets and therapeutic approaches for Alzheimer's disease, related dementias and cognitive aging. | Averages 300,000 over 2 years | |
| Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation and Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration | Accelerating Drug Discovery for Frontotemporal Dementias | Priority areas for this program include: Identification, validation, high throughput screening, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, and in vitro testing of potentially disease modifying lead compounds; testing of lead compounds in a relevant animal model for preclinical proof of concept; development of biomarkers to accelerate drug development and early diagnosis; innovative pilot clinical trials PLEASE NOTE: THIS FUNDING WILL NOT SUPPORT APPLICATIONS FOR BASIC RESEARCH | 150,000 for 1 year | Click here for more |
| American Asthma Foundation | Strategic Program for Asthma Research | Looking for highly original thinking from investigators willing to step away from their current areas of research and tackle the riddle of asthma. Innovation and risk are strongly encouraged. Preliminary results are not required. | 450,000–750,000 | Click here for more |
American Cancer Society | Palliative Care of Cancer Patients and Their Families | To support pilot and exploratory research studies whose purpose is to test interventions, develop research methodologies, and explore novel areas of research in palliative care of seriously ill cancer patients and their families. | Up to 120,000 over 2 yrs | |
American Diabetes Association | Several | To support basic and clinical diabetes research aimed at preventing, treating, and curing diabetes. Areas of interest include genetics, islet cell biology, immunology, diabetes education, and behavioral research | Various | |
American Epilepsy Association | Research Infrastructure Awards | Scientists can obtain support for nationwide or international networks of clinical or basic science researchers focused on understanding the causes, consequences, and treatment of epilepsy. | Up to 75,000 per year | |
American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) | AFAR Research Grants | The goal of this program is to assist in the development of the careers of junior investigators committed to pursuing careers in aging research. The applicant must be an independent investigator with assigned independent space. The 2010 guidelines will be available in the summer of 2009. | 100,000 | |
American Geriatrics Society | Foundation for Health in Aging | Seeks to develop or support research initiatives that help reduce disability and frailty and improve the quality of life and health outcomes for all older adults. | ||
American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) Alzheimer’s Disease Research | Pilot Projects Award | Pilot awards are designed to take a highly innovative proposal with modest preliminary data and give investigators the opportunity to prove their ideas. These awards are typically described as being ‘high risk – high reward’. | 150,000 | |
American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) Alzheimer’s Disease Research | Standard Award | For researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data but still require substantial progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies. | 400,000 | |
American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) Alzheimer’s Disease Research | Research Fellowship Award | Postdoctoral fellowship awards are intended for young researchers in their final stages of mentored training. | 100,000 | |
American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) National Glaucoma Research | Standard Award | For researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data but still require substantial progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies. | 100,000 | |
American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) Macular Degeneration Research | Standard Award | For researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data but still require substantial progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies. | 100,000 | |
American Heart Association (Mid-Atlantic Affiliate) | Clinical Research Program | To encourage early career investi-gators to engage in high-quality introductory and pilot clinical studies that will guide future strategies for reducing cardiovascular disease and stroke while fostering new research in clinical and translational science. | 50,000/year for 2 years | |
American Heart Association (Mid-Atlantic Affiliate) | • Postdoctoral Fellowship | Research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease, stroke or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology, and public health problems. | • 41,000/year | |
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation | Beckman Young Investigators (BYI) Program | The BYI Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences. | 750,000/4 years | |
Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Career Awards for Medical Scientists | For physician-scientists to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service. Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented, or translational research. | 700,000/5 years | |
Brookdale Foundation Group | Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship Program | The foundation is looking for future leaders in aging and is not providing fellowships for people who are already well established in the field | 250,000 | |
Children's Cardiomyopathy Foundation | CCF Research Grant Program | Supports innovative basic, clinical, or translational studies relevant to the cause or treatment of cardiomyopathy in children under the age of 18 years. | 25,000-50,000 | |
Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Research Grants | To support basic and clinical research aimed at developing a cure for spinal cord injury. Two-year awards. | 250,000 | ||
Dana Foundation | Clinical Neuroscience Research Grant Program | Dana invites grant proposals for "first in man" studies of patients with devastating brain diseases for which there currently is no effective treatment. | 300,000 | |
Dana Foundation | Brain and Immuno-Imaging Grants | Research on imaging innovations that help reveal how the human brain functions normally, how disorders and injuries alter these functions, and how various therapies affect these conditions. | 200,000 | |
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation | Clinical Scientist Development Award | Supports clinical research that advances the translation of basic biomedical discoveries into applications that improve human health. The Clinical Scientist Development Award supports junior physician-scientists to facilitate their transition to independent clinical research careers. Does not support animal-based research. By nomination only. | 125,000 | |
Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, Michael J. (MJFF) | Rapid Response Innovation Awards | Grants to support projects with little to no existing preliminary data, but potential to significantly impact our understanding or treatment of Parkinson's disease. Funding is for 1 yr. | 75,000 | |
Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, Michael J. (MJFF) | Critical Challenges in Parkinson’s Disease | See website for funding opportunities. | ||
Gates Foundation, Bill and Melinda | Grand challenges Exploration | Global Health funding Priorities: Diarrhea, HIV/AIDS, malaria, maternal, newborn & child health, neglected diseases, nutrition, pneumonia & flu, polio, tobacco, tuberculosis, vaccines | Not specified | |
Greenwall Foundation | Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics | This is a career development award to enable outstanding junior faculty members to carry out original research that will help resolve important policy and clinical dilemmas at the intersection of ethics and the life sciences. | Not specified | |
Hartwell Foundation | Individual Biomedical Research Award | Supports early stage biomedical research that benefits children. The university nominates four individuals. Award recipients must be US citizens. | 100,000/yr for 3 yrs | |
Hartwell Foundation | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Awarded to a highly promising young scientist in medicine, biomedical engineering, or a closely related field and engaged in innovative biomedical research with the potential to benefit the health of children. Recipients must be US citizens. | 50,000/yr for 2 yrs | |
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) | Various | RFAs change all the time. Check the site periodically. | Various | |
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) | Various | Current funding opportunities are available in the areas of public health and childhood obesity. | Various | |
Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc. | Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences | Supports young investigators engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of epilepsy. Studies of: | 150,000 | |
Life Sciences Research Foundation (LSRF) | Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | LSRF awards fellowships across the spectrum of the life sciences: biochemistry; cell, developmental, molecular, plant, structural, organismic population and evolutionary biology; endocrinology; immunology; microbiology; neurobiology; physiology; virology. | 57,000/yr for 3 yrs | |
L'Oreal | L’Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in Science | Recognizes and rewards 5 US-based women researchers at the beginning of their scientific careers. The award must be put toward post-doctoral research | Up to 60,000 | |
Mallinckrodt Foundation, Edward Jr. | Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Grant | Provides grants for up to 3 years for young investigators, basic or clinical research. JH School of Medicine can submit up to 3 nominees per cycle and each must have an endorsement letter from the Dean of Medicine. | 50,000/year | Contact the ACCM Research and Grants Office or Joan Wisner-Carlson (jwisner2@jhu.edu) |
McCormick Science Institute (MSI) | The MSI is dedicated to funding research that advances scientific knowledge of the potential health benefits of culinary spices and herbs. Does not support animal-based research. | |||
McDonnell Foundation, James S. | Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards in Complex Systems | The Complex Systems program supports scholarship and research directed toward the development of theoretical and mathematical tools that can be applied to the study of complex, adaptive, nonlinear systems. | ||
McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience | McKnight Scholar Award | Established to encourage emerging neuroscientists to focus on disorders of learning and memory. Awards are given to exceptional young scientists who hold the M.D. and/or Ph.D. degree and who are in the early stages of establishing an independent laboratory and research career. | 225,000 | |
McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience | McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorder Awards | These awards support innovativie efforts to solve the problems of neurological and psychiatric diseases, especially those related to memory and cognition. Collaborative projects between basic and clinical neuroscientists are welcomed, as are proposals that help link basic with clinical neuroscience. | 300,000 | |
McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience | Technological Innovations in Neuroscience | These awards encourage and support scientists working on the development of novel and creative approaches to understanding brain function. | 200,000 | |
Microsoft Research | New Faculty Fellowship Program | Microsoft Research seeks nominees who are advancing computing research in novel directions with the potential for high impact on the state of the art, and who demonstrate the likelihood of becoming thought leaders in the field. | 200,000 | |
National Patient Safety Foundation | Research Grants Program | Promotes studies leading to the prevention of human errors, system errors, patient injuries and the consequences of such adverse events in the health care setting. | 100,000 | |
Partnership for Cures | Partnership for Cures solicits research projects designed to create a direct patient impact in two years or less. Typically funds projects that "repurpose" FDA-approved drugs, non-drug therapies, or other compounds for new uses in different patient populations but will consider other types of patient-impact proposals. | 25,000–250,000 | ||
Partnership for Cures | Culpeper Scholar Program Research | The Charles E. Culpeper Scholars program in medical science nurtures the career development of exceptionally promising young scientists as they transition to independent researchers at the best academic medical institutions | ||
Pew Charitable Trusts | Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences | Supports young investigators of outstanding promise in the basic and clinical sciences related to the advancement of human health. Especially encourages researchers to pursue creative, innovative, and risk-taking approaches. Gives considerable weight to the candidate’s history as an independent investigator and to significant published work. | 60,000/yr for 4 yrs | |
Pfizer, Inc. | Numerous | Pfizer supports: Clinical studies of approved and unapproved uses, involving approved or unapproved Pfizer drugs Observational studies, such as epidemiology studies and certain outcomes research studies where the primary focus is the scientific understanding of disease Other types of independent research on disease states, including novel diagnostic screening tools and surveys where Pfizer has no direct commercial interest In vitro or animal studies which include funding. | Not specified | |
American Asthma Foundation | Strategic Program for Asthma Research | Looking for highly original thinking from investigators willing to step away from their current areas of research and tackle the riddle of asthma. Innovation and risk are strongly encouraged. Preliminary results are not required. | 450,000-750,000 | Click here for more |
Searle Scholars Program | Searle Scholars Program | Supports high-risk research of outstanding young faculty in the biomedical sciences. This focus includes, but is not limited to, awards supporting research in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences. Applicants must be in the first or second year of their first appointment as an assistant professor on a tenure track. | 100,000/yr for 3 yrs | |
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) | Norma J. Shoemaker Grant for Critical Care Nursing Research | Supports the research studies of an SCCM nurse member. The goal is to encourage research in critical care nursing and to provide funding for the continuation of research endeavors. | 15,000 | |
Whitehall Foundation, Inc. Grant Programs | Research Grants | Applications will be judged on the scientific merit and the innovative aspects of the proposal as well as on the competence of the applicant. Research grants will not be awarded to investigators who have already received, or expect to receive, substantial support from other sources, even if it is for an unrelated purpose. | 225,000 | |
Whitney Foundation, Helen Hay | Postdoctoral Research Fellowships | Supports postdoctoral research training in all of the basic sciences. Provides stipend and small research allowance. | 43,000 | |
W. M. Keck Foundation | Medical Research Program | Seeks to advance the fronteirs of medicine to benefit humanity by supporting high-risk/high-impact projects that are distinctive and novel in their approach to intractable problems, push the edge of their field, or question the prevailing paradigm. Note: the application must undergo internal JHU review. | ||
W. W. Smith Charitable Trust | Heart Research Grants | Specific basic, medical research projects dealing with cancer, heart disease, or AIDS. | Click here for more |
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