Early Career Faculty Funding Opportunities
In today's increasingly competitive funding environment, leveraging research opportunities geared for early career investigators is even more essential for a productive research career. Click on the discipline categories to find early career research opportunities with deadlines upcoming in the next quarter. Please be sure to review the opportunity-specific sponsor sites for eligibility details, guidelines and relevance/fit for your research. Any noted deadlines below should be confirmed on sponsor/agency sites. These dates can be subject to change so please be sure to check!
If an opportunity is a limited submission, please visit the UMD Limited Submission and Seed Grant Portal to find the competition and for application information or contact Hana Kabashi (hkabashi@umd.edu).
To learn more, or to discuss with someone from the Research Development Office, please reach out to us at VPR@umd.edu.
- ONR Young Investigator Program 4/30/2024
- Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation/NASPGHAN IBD Young Investigator Awardee LOI: 5/6/2024
- Cottrell Scholar Award 7/1/2024
- William T. Grant Scholars Award 7/3/2024 (Limited Submission @ the College/School level - Check with your Dean/ADR)
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) 7/24/2024
- NSF/FDA Scholar-in-Residence at FDA Check site
- NASA ROSES Early Career Program Multiple Dates
- NEH Fellowship (support while writing a book) 4/10/2024
- NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication 4/17/2024
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) 7/24/2024
- National Endowment for the Humanities Multiple Dates
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Check site
- Early Career Psychology Research Awards Multiple Dates
- Luce/ACLS China Studies Collaborative Grants LOI: 4/17/2024
- Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan 4/24/2024
- Smith Richardson Foundation Strategy & Policy Fellows Program 6/17/2024
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) 7/24/2024
- K01: Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K series) 6/12/2024
- K01: Transition to Independent Environmental Health Research (TIEHR) Career Award (Clinical Trial Required) 6/12/2024
- K01: Transition to Independent Environmental Health Research (TIEHR) Career Award (Clinical Trial Not Allowed) 6/12/2024
- K01: Transition to Independent Environmental Health Research (TIEHR) Career Award (Independent Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required) 6/12/2024
- K02: Independent Research Scientist Development Award 6/12/2024
- K07: Academic Career Development Award 6/12/2024
- K08: Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development 6/12/2024
- K22: Career Transition Award 6/12/2024
- K23: Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award 6/12/2024
- K25: Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award 6/12/2024
- National Institutes of Health/DHHS Small Grants for New Investigators to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) 6/16/2024
- National Institutes of Health/DHHS Early Stage Investigator Research Using Nonhuman Primate (NHP) Models (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) 6/16/2024
- Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) 6/16/2024
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) 7/24/2024
- K01 Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K series) (NICHD, NIMH) 6/12/2024
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) 7/24/2024
- Fulbright Award (Award-Dependent--Check with Fulbright Office)