Non Federal Funding
Opportunities Organized by Specialty
| Overview | Details | Purpose/Description |
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| Organization International Anesthesia Research Society Specialty Area Anesthesiology Award/Grant Mentored Research Award |
Deadline 4/30/2026 Award Amount $175,000 over two years Target Audience/Eligibility Must be members of IARS; have yet to establish substantial independent reseearch funding or who are initiating a new area of research. Completion of clinical training or PhD must be under 10 years. |
Applications may be basic, clinical or translational but should have relevance to the broad practice of anesthesiology and its subspecialities. |
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| Organization Pulmonary Hypertension Association Specialty Area Cardiology; Pulmonary Hypertension; Pediatrics Award/Grant Pediatric PH Award |
Deadline 4/24/2026 Award Amount $65,000 Target Audience/Eligibility Applicants must be U.S. citizens, permanent residents or non-residents working at a U.S.-based institution. Non-citizens must provide evidence of employment at a qualified U.S. institution. Simultaneous submission of grants with scientific overlap is allowed, but awardees must notify PHA within one month of multiple fundings. Awards are based on individual and institutional merits. Awards are not transferable unless previously approved by PHA. |
The Pediatric PH Research Award supports pilot studies that address unmet needs or expand limited knowledge in pediatric pulmonary hypertension. This award is intended to provide foundational data for larger research efforts and future funding. |
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| Organization Vascular Cures Specialty Area Medicine; Vascular Award/Grant Wylie Scholar Program |
Deadline 4/13/2026 Award Amount $50,000 Target Audience/Eligibility Candidates must hold a full-time faculty appointment as a vascular surgeon; must be within 3 years of their first faculty appointment at the time of application |
Support outstanding young vascular surgeon-scientists who are dedicated to an academic career combining their clinical practice with original, innovative research. |
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| Organization Lewy Body Dementia Association Specialty Area Neurology Award/Grant New Investigator Pilot Study Award |
Deadline 4/17/2026 Award Amount $50,000 Target Audience/Eligibility Applicant’s career stage should be no higher than assistant professor |
The Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA) New Investigator Pilot Study Award is intended to support pilot translational or clinical studies for the purpose of developing preliminary data to be used in future grant applications. The program is open both to early-stage investigators, and to more established researchers from other fields, who have not yet received an NIH R01 in Lewy body dementia (LBD) research. |
| Organization American Epilepsy Society Specialty Area Neurology; Epilepsy Award/Grant Research and Training Workshops Grant |
Deadline 4/8/2026 Award Amount $10-20,000 Target Audience/Eligibility Preference will be given to workshops that include AES members as participants or attendees, that describe plans to support and encourage the participation of trainees and junior investigators, and that allow open attendance rather than participation by invitation only. |
Support scientific conferences and workshops that address timely and important topics in epilepsy research. Proposed conferences or workshops should address important and timely topics in epilepsy research of interest to AES members. |
| Organization American Epilepsy Society Specialty Area Neurology; Epilepsy Award/Grant Seed Grant |
Deadline 4/8/2026 Award Amount $20,000 Target Audience/Eligibility The primary investigator (PI) or at least one of the primary investigators in a multiple-PI seed grant must be: 1) an AES member; 2) an established investigator with at least an Associate Professor or equivalent level appointment; and 3) an epilepsy-focused academic investigator. |
Provides support to established investigators to: Pursue new and innovative directions in epilepsy research; Bring new research methods to their research programs; Begin new collaborations with other investigators in epilepsy or in different, complementary disciplines |
| Organization American Epilepsy Society Specialty Area Neurology; Epilepsy Award/Grant Infrastructure Grants |
Deadline 4/8/2026 Award Amount $50,000 Target Audience/Eligibility The contact principal investigator(s) should be members of the American Epilepsy Society; Collaborators may be based at international academic research institution as well as at non-profit or for-profit organizations; Applications should include a minimum of three collaborators across three institutions. |
Each grant will provide financial support for organizational planning sessions, infrastructure development, and/or pilot projects to enable the research program to compete for subsequent investment by other organizations. Proposals should outline the one-year and the long-term goals for creating a multicenter research program to hasten the speed of discovery. Examples of eligible goals include, but are not limited to, establishing centralized databases, common protocols, shared resources, core laboratories, and exchange of rapidly developing techniques and technologies to collect and analyze large scale data. |
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| Organization Whitehall Foundation Specialty Area Neuroscience; Biology; Basic Research Award/Grant Research Grants |
Deadline 4/15/2026 (LOI) Award Amount $200,00 per year, up to 3 years Target Audience/Eligibility Must be an Assistant Professor (or higher). Status - must hold Principal Investigator status. Independent - must be considered an “independent investigator” with his/her own dedicated lab space or with lab space independent of another investigator. A minimum time allocation of 20% is required. |
Basic neurobiology research, including neural mechanisms of social, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organisms; overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior - does not primarily support research focused on disease. |
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| Organization Elsa U. Pardee Foundation Specialty Area Oncology Award/Grant Research Grants |
Deadline 4/30/2026 Award Amount Various Target Audience/Eligibility New oncology researchers, or new oncology approaches by established oncology researchers. |
Basic research for treatment and cures for oncology; proposals should lead to expanded NIH support, project relevance to oncology detection, treatment, or cure should be clearly identified. |
| Organization Mark Foundation for Cancer Research Specialty Area Oncology Award/Grant Emerging Leaders Award |
Deadline 4/30/2026 (LOI) Award Amount $250,000 per year for 4 years Target Audience/Eligibility Must have an MD or PhD. Must be 3-8 years within start of independent faculty appointment by 12/31/24; applicants should have multi-year independent funding that sustains the laboratory. |
Supports early investigators conducting high-impact, high-risk cancer research. Intended to support projects for which other sources of funding are not readily available. |
| Organization American Association for Cancer Research Specialty Area Oncology; Breast; Carcinoma Award/Grant AACR-Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance Invasive Lobular Carcinoma Research Fellowship |
Deadline 4/9/2026 Award Amount $130,000 over 2 years Target Audience/Eligibility Applicants must have a doctoral degree (PhD, MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent) in a related field and not currently be a candidate for a further doctoral degree. At the start of the grant term on July 1, 2026, applicants must: Hold a mentored research position with the title of postdoctoral fellow, clinical research fellow, or equivalent. Have completed their most recent doctoral degree within the past five years (i.e., degree cannot have been conferred before July 1, 2021; the formal date of receipt of doctoral degree is the date the degree was conferred as indicated on their diploma and/or transcript). Applicants with a medical degree must have completed their most recent doctoral degree or medical residency - whichever date is later - within the past five years. Work under the auspices of a mentor at an academic, medical, or research institution anywhere in the world. |
The AACR-Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance Invasive Lobular Carcinoma Research Fellowship is a joint effort to support and encourage innovative research projects with direct applicability and relevance to ILC and to help establish a successful career path in the field. Research projects may be basic, translational, clinical, or population science-based, and must have direct applicability and relevance to invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC). |
| Organization American Association for Cancer Research Specialty Area Oncology; Melanoma; Dermatology Award/Grant AACR-Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance Invasive Lobular Carcinoma Innovation and Discovery Grants |
Deadline 4/9/2026 Award Amount $50,000 for 1 years Target Audience/Eligibility Applicants must have a doctoral degree (PhD, MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent) in a related field and not currently be a candidate for a further doctoral degree or equivalent. At the start of the grant term on July 1, 2026, applicants must: Be independent investigators and be affiliated with an academic, medical, or non-profit research institution. Work at an academic, medical, or research institution anywhere in the world. |
These grants are intended to support innovative research projects focused on invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC). Applications addressing any aspect of basic or clinical research directly related to lobular breast cancer are eligible. Proposals investigating rare ILC subtypes-such as pleomorphic and alveolar ILC-as well as studies on dormancy and recurrence will receive priority consideration. |
| Organization National Brain Tumor Society Specialty Area Oncology; Neurology Award/Grant Quality of Life Research Grant |
Deadline 4/13/2026 (LOI) Award Amount $200,000 Target Audience/Eligibility Principal Investigators (PIs) and co-Principal Investigators (co-PIs) must hold an MD, PhD, MD/PhD, or equivalent. • PIs must be based in the United States and affiliated with an academic institution, a health care organization, or community-based organization with demonstrated infrastructure and experience in clinical research, including access to appropriate human subjects’ research oversight. • Applicants must be independent investigators with a demonstrated track record of peer-reviewed publications and prior funding to support successful completion of the proposed project within the funding period. |
To be considered for funding, all applications for the 2026 QoL Research Award must address one of the two focus areas described below. Please note that proposals that address QoL needs across the life span, including pediatric, adolescent, and young adult populations, are welcome. For additional details around each focus area please refer to the QoL Research Agenda. A. Survivorship • Research on understanding, monitoring, and addressing the concerns of brain tumor survivors throughout their lives. B. Behavioral and Emotional Healthcare/Support • Research focused on mental health, depression, anxiety, coping and caregiver burden and distress, nutrition, exercise, sleep, and complementary therapies. |
| Organization Alex's Lemonade Stand Specialty Area Oncology; Pediatrics Award/Grant Reach Grants |
Deadline 4/14/2026 Award Amount $250,000 over 2 years Target Audience/Eligibility Applicants need not be United States citizens. Funds must be granted to nonprofit institutions or organizations. Applicants must have an MD, PhD, or MD/PhD or equivalent and be appointed as faculty (or equivalent) at an academic institution. Applicants must have a demonstrated track record of pediatric cancer research with experience in translational research. |
Significant barriers exist that impede the translation of innovative and important ideas to the clinic. The Reach Grant seeks to remove one of these barriers by providing support for important pre-clinical hypothesis-driven research projects that are necessary to move a study from the pre-clinical arena into a clinical trial. Thus, the goal of this award is to support translational studies that will result in a phase 1 and/or 2 clinical trial, two to three years from the project end date. Examples of appropriate research projects include but aren’t limited to, completing IND-enabling studies, providing requisite pre-clinical data for clinical trial development, or perhaps through the validation of biomarkers that will enable selection of the correct patients for entry into new clinical trials. |
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| Organization Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation (PHRMA) Specialty Area Pharmacology Award/Grant Drug Delivery Faculty Starter Grant |
Deadline 4/15/2026 (LOI) Award Amount $100,000 Target Audience/Eligibility Applicants must be within the first three years of their independent status. |
The PhRMA Foundation Faculty Starter Grant in Drug Delivery offers financial support to individuals beginning independent careers at the faculty level at an accredited U.S. university in drug delivery research, including basic pharmaceutics, biopharmaceutics, pharmaceutical technology, pharmaceutical biotechnology, or biomedical engineering. |
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| Organization American Psychological Foundation Specialty Area Psychology Award/Grant John and Polly Sparks Early Career Grant for Psychologists Investigating Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) |
Deadline 4/24/2026 Award Amount $22,000 Target Audience/Eligibility An early career psychologist (no more than 10 years postdoctoral with a degree from an accredited university). |
Supports early career psychologists conducting research in the area of early intervention and treatment for serious emotional disturbance in children. |
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| Organization American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Specialty Area Speech Language Pathology Award/Grant Grant Program for Projects on Multicultural Activities |
Deadline 4/20/2026 Award Amount up to $15,000 Target Audience/Eligibility An ASHA member must serve as project director. |
To provide support for the infusion of multiculturalism into our clinical, educational, and professional programs; and the activities of allied/related associations and organizations. |
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| Organization Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care Foundation Specialty Area Surgery; Orthopaedics; Trauma Award/Grant Research Grants |
Deadline 4/15/2026 Award Amount $50,000 Target Audience/Eligibility A trauma or orthopedic surgeon must serve as either the principal or coprincipal investigator. |
The main topic for 2025 grant proposals is Ballistic Injuries. The subject areas in which proposals are invited have include: Management of gunshot wounds (GSWs) and blast injuries and related complications in the pelvis and extremities, including incidence, diaphyseal and periarticular bone injuries, and soft tissue management (debridement, tissue viability, and wound coverage). Studies include comparative studies between GSWs and other types of open fractures, prospective investigations, and registries Treatment of nerve injuries and defects, including the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes following GSW and blast injuries Effectiveness of pre- and post-operative systemic and local antibiotic administration and new anti-infective therapies (e.g., phage therapies) in the axial and appendicular skeleton to treat and prevent infections following GSWs Validation of classification systems for GSWs |