Early Investigator Opportunities

This page lists funding opportunities for early career investigators that have been hand-curated by RDS. As with all funding lists and search engines, it is critical to review the primary source to confirm the organization’s definition of "early career", deadlines, and description. To assist with this, the award titles are hyperlinked to the opportunity's home page or guidelines. Find more opportunities using Search Engines, Databases and Tools such as Pivot, which are provided to UA faculty and staff free of cost. In Pivot, select “Individuals: Early Career and Emerging in Field” under “Applicant Type”, or go to the Pivot search results for New Faculty/New Investigator.

Updates occur approximately once-per-quarter, check back regularly for new listings.

Search tips: the table below defaults to the submission deadline, be sure to check the bottom of the table to search for opportunities that are open year round or for opportunities that have passed for the current year that have anticipated release and due dates for the following year. A program is listed as "anticipated" if the program has a multi-year history of funding. Dates for anticipated announcements are best estimates and while we try to keep these posts up-to-date it's always good practice to check the homepage of the opportunity that you are interested in for full details. You can also search by Program Title by clicking on the "Program Title" column heading. To revert back to sorting by submission deadline, click the back arrow on your browser.

Early Investigators Opportunities

 
Program Title Sponsor Research Category Funding Type External Deadline Notes
Agilent Early Career Professor Award Agilent Technologies Mathematics, Computational, & Data Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, Research Commercialization 02/13/2025 (Anticipated) The purpose of the Agilent Early Career Professor Award is to:

Promote and encourage excellent research enabling measurements of importance to Agilent Technologies and the world
Establish strong collaborative relationships…
NIDCD Early Career Research (ECR) Award (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 01/27/2025 (Anticipated) The NIDCD Early Career Research (ECR) Award (R21) is intended to support both basic and clinical research from scientists who are beginning to establish an independent research career. It cannot be used for thesis or dissertation research. The…
Sontag Distinguished Scientist Award Sontag Foundation Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 3/13/2025 (Anticipated)
The Distinguished Scientist Award (DSA) seeks to provide career and research support to early career scientists who demonstrate outstanding promise for making scientific and medical breakthroughs in the field of brain cancer research. …
Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Awards Thrasher Research Fund Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 03/18/2025
The purpose of this program is to encourage the development of medical research in child health by awarding small grants to new researchers, helping them gain a foothold in this important area. Awards are $25,000 in direct costs for…
HFSPO Early-career grants Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 03/21/2025 (Anticipated)
Research grants are provided for teams of scientists from different countries who wish to combine their expertise in innovative approaches to questions that could not be answered by individual laboratories. Emphasis is placed on novel…
Early Career Investigator Grant Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA) Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 03/29/2025 (Anticipated) Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance is requesting Letters of Intent for the Early Career Investigator Grant (formerly called the Liz Tilberis Early Career Award). The Early Career Investigator Grant (ECIG) is for junior faculty with a strong commitment…
NARSAD Young Investigator Grant Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 03/31/3025 (Anticipated)
The NARSAD Young Investigator Grant provides support for the most promising young scientists conducting neurobiological research. Two-year awards up to $70,000, or $35,000 per year are provided to enable promising investigators to…
Research Scholar Grant (RSG) American Cancer Society (ACS) Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 04/01/2025
Grants eligible for investigators within the first 6 years of an initial independent research career or faculty appointment; eligibility extends to 8 years for clinician scientists who remain active in clinical care. Awards are for up…
Russell Sage Behavioral Small Grants Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) Social Science & Law 04/16/2025 (Anticipated)
Representative categories of expenditure include acquisition of data, the purchase of data sets, research assistance (but not including payment to any researchers who will be co-authors on the project), payment to subjects in…
ARO Young Investigator Program (YIP) Army Research Office (ARO) Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences, Mathematics, Computational, & Data Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering 04/18/2025 (Anticipated)
The YIP is included as part of the Army Research Office Broad Agency Announcement FY17-FY22. The objective of the YIP is to attract to Army research outstanding young university faculty members, to support their research, and to…

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