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Office of the Associate Provost for Research
Research Funding Opportunities – deadlines JANUARY 2015
Listed in alphabetical order, the following private organizations are offering one or more funding opportunities. For details on a specific opportunity click
on the corresponding hyperlink below:
American Heart Foundation
American Institute for Cancer Research **
American Otological Society
American Pain Society
American Roentgen Ray
Avon Foundation for Women **
Bay Area Lyme Foundation
Craig Neilsen Foundation **
Gates Foundation
Iacocca Family Foundation
McKnight Endowment Fund for Neurosciences
Radiological Society of America
Research to Prevent Blindness **
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Whitehall Foundation
William T. Grant Foundation
** Dates not confirmed by the funding organization at the time of compiling this information. Always check foundation website for updated RFP.
American Heart Association
National Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award (FTF)
This program provides funding for trainees with outstanding potential for careers as physician-scientists in
cardiovascular or stroke research during the crucial period of career development that spans the completion of
research training through the early years of the first faculty/staff position. The award provides a supportive
mentored experience during this period of transition.
Amount: $593,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 22, 2015
URL: http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/ForScientists/Winter-2013--National-Fellow-to-Faculty-Transition-Award_UCM_431606_Article.jsp
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/66897
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Scientist Development Award
This award supports highly promising beginning scientists in their progress toward independence by
encouraging and adequately funds research projects that can bridge the gap between completion of research
training and readiness for successful competition as an independent investigator. Proposals are encouraged
from all basic disciplines as well as epidemiological, behavioral, community and clinical investigations that bear
on cardiovascular and stroke problems.
Amount: $308,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 13, 2015
URL:http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/SupportingInformation/Winter2013---Scientist-Development-Grant_UCM_443318_Article.jsp
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/2135
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Founders Affiliate – Grant in Aid
This program encourages and adequately funds the most innovative and meritorious research projects from
independent investigators. Science focus: Research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease
and stroke, or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology, and public health problems,
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including multidisciplinary efforts Proposals are encouraged from all basic disciplines as well as epidemiological,
behavioral, community and clinical investigations that bear on cardiovascular and stroke problems
Amount: $198,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 13, 2015
URL:
http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/SupportingInformation/Winter2013---Grant-in-Aid_UCM_443304_Article.jsp
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/140523
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National Mentored Clinical and Population Research Award
To encourage early career investigators who have appropriate and supportive mentoring relationships 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, and encouraging
community- and population-based activities.
Amount: $154,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 13, 2015
URL:
http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/SupportingInformation/Winter2013---Clinical-Research-Program_UCM_443302_Article.jsp
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/114200
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Founders Affiliate Clinical and Population Research Award
This program encourages early career investigators who have appropriate and supportive mentoring
relationships 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, and
encouraging community- and population-based activities. Funding is available for research related to
cardiovascular disease and stroke prevention or treatment, or to related clinical and public health problems,
including multidisciplinary efforts.
Amount: $150,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 13, 2015
URL http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/SupportingInformation/Winter2013---Clinical-Research-Program_UCM_443302_Article.jsp
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/140527
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American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR)
Investigator-Initiated Grants
The AICR Grant Program is dedicated to funding research on cancer prevention, treatment and survival through
food, nutrition, physical activity and weight management. (Check website for 2014 RFP)
Amount: $247,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 27, 2015 **
URL: http://www.aicr.org/research/grant/research_funded_grant_programs.html
PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/12129
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American Otological Society
Clinician-Scientist Award
The AOS Society is committed to advancement of knowledge and science and to a free exchange of medical
education in otology and neurotology. This award is meant to provide salary and research support for a new
academic clinician-scientist to facilitate his/her development into an independent otologic investigator.
Amount: $240,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2015 (LOI DECEMBER 31)
URL: http://www.americanotologicalsociety.org/images/forms/FY16%20Clinician%20Scientist%20Award.pdf
PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/66622
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American Pain Society
2015 Rita Allen Award in Pain
The Rita Allen Foundation and the American Pain Society are accepting applications for the 2015 Rita Allen
Award in Pain. Proposed research projects should be directed toward the molecular biology of pain and/or basic
science topics related to the development of new analgesics for the management of pain due to terminal illness.
Amount: $150,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 16, 2015
URL: http://www.americanpainsociety.org/about-aps/awards/rita-allen-foundation-award-in-pain.html
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American Roentgen Ray Foundation
2015 Neuroradiology Scholarship
The American Roentgen Ray Society, in partnership with the American Society of Neuroradiology, is accepting
applications for its 2015 ARRS/ASNR Scholarship program.
The annual scholarship is designed to establish the recipient as an independent investigator in the field of
neuroradiology and to stimulate the collection of preliminary data that could result in further funding through
established mechanisms such as the National Institutes of Health.
Amount: $150,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 11, 2015
URL: http://www.arrs.org/RoentgenFund/Scholarships/ARRS_ASNR.aspx
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Avon Foundation for Women
Supporting the Safety Net Program
The Avon Safety Net Program supports institutions and organizations that have traditionally cared for uninsured,
at-risk, low-income and minority patients to enable medically underserved women and men to access postscreening diagnostics and care.
Amount: $250,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 6, 2015 (LOI DUE) **
URL: http://www.avonfoundation.org/grants/breast-cancer/safety-net-guidelines/
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PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/30093
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Bay Area Lyme Foundation
2015 Emerging Leader Award
This annual award program recognizes up-and-coming researchers bringing new approaches and creative
thinking to the field of Lyme disease. The $100,000 grant is designed to support innovative projects and attract
aspiring new scientific talent to the field.
Amount: $100,000
DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 16, 2015
URL: http://www.bayarealyme.org/our-research/emerging-leader-award/
Craig Neilsen Foundation
Neilsen SCIRTS Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants
The Neilsen Foundation sponsors two cycles per year of Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational
Spectrum (SCIRTS) conducted by non-profit institutions in the United States or Canada. The scope of this
program is broad, but emphasizes work whose purpose is to fill gaps in the field and to further new strategies to
restore function SCI.
Amount: $150,000
DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 15, 2015 **
URL: http://chnfoundation.org/
PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/149996
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Gates Foundation
Grand Challenges: New Interventions for Global Health
This challenge focuses on innovative concepts for vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics with the potential to
be translated into safe, effective, affordable, and widely utilized interventions to protect against the acquisition,
progression, or transmission of infectious diseases, or to provide a cure for infectious diseases, in resource‐
limited settings.
Amount: $10,000,000
DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 13, 2015
URL: http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/GrantOpportunities/Pages/NewInterventions.aspx
PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/155846
Grand Challenges: Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Development
Amount: $2,500,000
DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 13, 2015
URL: http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/GrantOpportunities/Pages/WomenandGirls.aspx
PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/155843
Grand Challenges: Creating and Measuring Integrated Solutions for Healthy Birth, Growth, and
Development
Amount: $2,500,000
DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 13, 2015
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URL: http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/GrantOpportunities/Pages/AllChildrenThriving.aspx
PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/155845
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Iacocca Family Foundation
Type1 Diabetes Research Grants
The Foundation will accept novel projects which directly accelerate a cure for type 1 diabetes or inform the
understanding of the disease by a related or complementary mechanism of action. Investigators in traditional
type 1 diabetes research, as well as investigators currently working on other autoimmune diseases are
encouraged to apply, provided that the proposed project focuses directly on Type 1 diabetes and supports the
mission of the Foundation.
Amount: $160,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2015 **
URL: http://www.iacoccafoundation.org/diabetes-research/grant-guidelines
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McKnight Endowment Fund for Neurosciences
2015 McKnight Scholar Awards
These awards were established to encourage emerging neuroscientists to focus on disorders of learning and
memory. Applicants for the McKnight Scholar Awards must demonstrate interest in solving important problems
in relevant areas of neuroscience, including the translation of basic research to clinical neuroscience.
Amount: $225,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 7, 2015
URL: http://www.neuroscience.mcknight.org/
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Radiological Society of North America
Research Scholar Grant
The purpose of this grant is to support junior faculty members who have completed the conventional
resident/fellowship training program(s); but have not yet been recognized as independent investigators. The
purpose of the funding is to help establish the recipient as an independent investigator, and to collect
preliminary data that could lead to further funding through established mechanisms such as the NIH. Recipients
will devote a minimum of 40% of their time in the approved research project.
Amount: $625,000-1,025,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2015
URL: http://rsna.org/Research_Scholar_Grant.aspx
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Research to Prevent Blindness
Jules & Doris Stein RPB Professorships
Jules and Doris Stein RPB Professorships help attract exceptionally talented basic scientists to devote their
careers to eye research. RPB Grantee department heads may recruit from basic science departments outside of
or within their own institution. The nominee must be recruited into a primary appointment in the
ophthalmology department, with a secondary appointment in a basic science department (which must provide a
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small portion of salary support)
Amount: $625,000-1,025,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 10, 2015 **
URL: http://www.rpbusa.org/rpb/grants/grants/#stein_professorships
PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/132753
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Society for Surgery of Alimentary Tract
Career Development Award
This award was created for young faculty members who have not yet been funded by a NIH R01 award, in order
to further their career goals in becoming established (basic or clinical) investigators in digestive diseases.
Amount: $100,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 16, 2015
URL: http://www.ssat.com/cgi-bin/awards_Career_Development.cgi
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Whitehall Foundation
Research Grant Programs
The Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. It
is the Foundation's policy to assist those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not … more »heavily
supported by Federal Agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. In order to respond to the
changing environment, the Foundation periodically reassesses the need for financial support by the various
fields of biological research. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as
follows: Invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural
mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to
behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior.
Amount: $225,000
DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 15, 2015
URL: http://www.whitehall.org/grants/
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/3561
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William T Grant Foundation
William T. Grant Distinguished Fellows Program
The William T. Grant Foundation's Distinguished Fellows Program creates bridges between the research,
practice, and policy communities. The program is designed to increase the supply of, demand for, and use of
high-quality research to improve the lives of youth.
Amount: $175,000
DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 4, 2015
URL: http://www.liverfoundation.org/2015_research_awards/
PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/111359
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For more information contact:
Bettina Durkop, Executive Coordinator
Office of the Associate Provost for Research
Boston University Medical Campus
617-638-4292 | [email protected]
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72 E Concord Street
Boston, MA 02118
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