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
Museums for America (MFA 2015) IMLS Arts & Humanities 12/03/2014
Advancing Solutions to Improve the Energy Efficiency of the U.S. Commercial Buildings United States Department of Energy (DOE) Physical Sciences & Engineering, Social Science & Law 11/22/2014 (Concept Paper)01/20/2015 (Full)
W.M. Keck Foundation Research Program: Concept Paper W.M. Keck Foundation Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 05/01/2015
NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards (DP5) NIH Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences, Social Science & Law 12/30/2014
Scalable Nanomanufacturing (SNM) 15-507 NSF Mathematics, Computational, & Data Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering 01/20/2015
Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Awards Program Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc. Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering 02/01/2015
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into Geoscience (IUSE: GEOPATHS) NSF Physical Sciences & Engineering, STEM, Education, Training Jan 05, 2015 (Letter of Intent)
National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) NSF Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences, Mathematics, Computational, & Data Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering 02/02/15 (LOI)04/03/15 (Full)
Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (RO1) NIH Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 01/27/2015 LOI02/27/2015 Full
Clinical Investigator Award Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences 02/17/2015

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