Early Career Faculty Funding Opportunities
The following is a list of links to funding agencies and foundations that provide opportunities for early career faculty. General discipline information is noted for each opportunity but please click on the link for more information. If opportunity is a limited submission, please visit the UMD Limited Submission and Seed Grant Portal to find the competition and for application information. If you would like to add an opportunity to the list of have any questions, please contact the Research Development office:
Hana Kabashi,
Program Manager
(301) 405-4178
- NIH Director's New Innovator Award
- NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (Biomedical Research disciplines)
- NIH Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award (Parent K25) (Quantitative science and engineering faculty interested in integrating their expertise with NIH-relevant research)
- NIH - Research Career Development (K) Awards
- NIH - Research Project (R01) Grants
- NIH - Exploratory/Developmental Research (R21) Grants
- NSF Alan T. Waterman Award (Any science or engineering fields supported by NSF)
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) (Any science or engineering fields supported by NSF)
- NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships (EAR-PF) (Geosciences/Earth Sciences)
- NSF Science, Technology and Society (STS) Scholars Awards (Humanities and social sciences as it relates to STEM)
- NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) (Computational Sciences)
- NSF/FDA Scholar-in-Residence at FDA (Scientific and engineering issues concerning emerging trends in medical device technology)
- Office of Naval Research - Young Investigator Program (Science; Engineering)
- DoE Early Career Research Program (General Sciences)
- Fulbright Scholars Programs (Multiple Disciplines)
- NASA New (Early Career) Investigator Program in Earth Science (Earth Science)
- NASA - Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST)
- NASA - ROSES Early Career Program (may include some/all of the following in a given year*):
Education:
Humanities and Social Sciences:
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation) New Investigators Research Grant (Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology)
- Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program (Limited)
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Stanford Humanities Center – External Faculty Fellowships
- Smith Richardson Foundation Strategy & Policy Fellows Program (Foreign Policy, International Relations, Military History)
- William T. Grant Scholars (Inequality in Research Evidence)
Library and Information Sciences:
Science, Health, and Engineering:
- American Federation for Aging Research Grants for Junior Faculty (Health, Disease, Biomedical)
- Beckman Young Investigators (General Sciences)
- Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists (Life Science, Physical Science & Engineering, Chemistry)
- The Clare Boothe Luce Program (Women in Science)
- Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant (Neurobiology, Health)
- Cottrell Scholar Award (Astronomy, Chemistry or Physics)
- Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards (Chemical Sciences, Biochemistry, and Chemical Engineering)
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Simons Foundation and HHMI (Biological Sciences)
- Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program) (Bioethics)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholars (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Science)
- International Life Sciences Institute Award Programs (Nutrition Sciences, Life Sciences)
- Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences (Neuroscience)
- Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation (Biomedical Research)
- The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience (Neuroscience)
- Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering (Natural and Physical Sciences, Engineering)
- Pew Biomedical Scholars (Limited) (Biomedical, Engineering)
- Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards (General Sciences)
- Searle Scholars Program (Biomedical Sciences and Chemistry)
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellows (General Sciences)
- Whitehall Foundation – Grant-in-Aid (Neurobiology)