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
ACS Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF): Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Grants American Chemical Society (ACS) Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 03/08/2025 ( Anticipated) Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grants provide start-up funding ($110,000 over two years) to support fundamental research in the petroleum field. Applicants must be within the first three years of their first academic appointment at the level of…
OREF New Investigator Grant Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 8/12/2025 (Anticipated) The New Investigator Grant advances the scientific training of the next generation of orthopaedic physician-scientists by providing seed and start-up funding for promising research projects.Residents, fellows, and orthopaedic surgeons having…
U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)/Minority - Serving Institutions (MI) Early Career Program (ECP) U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (DEVCOM ARL) Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences, Mathematics, Computational, & Data Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering 01/25/2025 (Anticipated) The DEVCOM Army Research Lab seeks unclassified research proposals from Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI) under Broad Agency Announcement (FOA) W911NF-23-S-0001-0002 (hereafter referred to as…
Seed Grant Program Brain Research Foundation (BRF) Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences, Mathematics, Computational, & Data Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering 11/21/2025(Anticipated) Brain Research Foundation invites eligible US institutions to nominate one faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor) to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the BRF Seed Grant Program.

Brain Research Foundation’s Annual Seed…
Start-Up Grant Program United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, Computational, & Data Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, Research Commercialization 11/29/2025(Anticipated) The Start-Up Grant Program is meant to help newly appointed researchers who are beginning their independent research careers and may not yet have initial results to substantiate their application. Grants are for two years, in order to enable the…
US National Awards: Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Blavatnik Family Foundation Physical Sciences & Engineering 11/29/2025(Anticipated)
Provides $250,000 in unrestricted funds to one Laureate in each disciplinary category (Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry). Interested participants must hold a doctorate degree and a faculty position at…
CTF Young Investigator Award (YIA) Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF) Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 11/30/2025(Anticipated)
CTF’s longest running program, the YIA provides two-year funding, commensurate with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to young scientists early in their careers, bringing them into the NF field and helping to establish them as…
Early-Career Scientific Research Grants Program National Blood Foundation (NBF) Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 12/01/2025(Anticipated) Since its inception, the NBF has awarded over $10 million to early-career investigators through its Scientific Research Grants Program. Many NBF early-career grant recipients have become leaders in the field. NBF awards grants for investigator-…
Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation) Arts & Humanities 12/01/2025(Anticipated)
The Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award supports tenure-track faculty who have passed their midpoint review. The award is structured to free the time of junior faculty who have passed their midpoint tenure review—including those from…
RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) Early Career Investigator Grant and Exploration Grant Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF) Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering 12/03/2025 ( Anticipated) The purpose of the RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grant is to promote the establishment of a new generation of translational and clinical researchers interested in tackling inherited hematologic malignancy predisposition disorders with a focus on…

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