early career

Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 0

A. Josephson (Agricultural and Resource Economics)

Limiting Language
Institutions are expected to run their own internal competitions and may only forward one nomination to the Foundation

Overview 

Limit: 4* (see below) // Tickets Available: 3

Cancer Data Science // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1

Cancer Control Science // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 0
S. Yeo (Public Health - Competitive Resubmission) 

Molecular Precision/Cancer Prevention // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1 

Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 0

M.M. Kaelberer (Physiology)

Program Overview
The Searle Scholars Program supports research of outstanding individuals who have recently begun their appointment at the assistant professor level, and whose appointment is their first tenure-track position at a participating academic or research institution. Today, 168 institutions are invited to participate in the Program.

Limit: 3* // Tickets Available: 2

The University of Arizona may submit a total of three nominations:

• One from the College of Medicine - Tucson // Tickets Available: 0
  Y. Shirai (Family and Community Medicine)
• One from the College of Medicine - Phoenix // Tickets Available: 1
• One from the College of Nursing // Tickets Available: 1

Eligibility:

Limit: 2* // Tickets Available: 0

Basic through Pre-clinical Research Studies // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 0
S. Soto (Public Health)

Clinical through Public Health Research // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 0
E. Lee (Engineering)

ADA will accept up to two (2) nominations per institution with one (1) nomination spanning basic through preclinical research and one (1) nomination spanning clinical through public health research.

No Applicants // Limit: 4* (see below) // Tickets Available: 4

Cancer Data Science // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1

Cancer Control Science // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1

Molecular Precision/Cancer Prevention // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1 

Major divisions (e.g., College of Arts and Sciences, Medical School) of an institution may nominate only one applicant each year.

College of Engineering - E. Lee (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.

Nomination Statement Requirements

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M.M. Kaelberer (Physiology) 

The current grant level is $300,000; $75,000 per year for a four-year period. For the 2026 award, one nomination will be invited from each of the participating institutions listed at the bottom of this page.

Eligibility

Limit:  1  // Tickets Available: 1 

Applicants may submit only one grant application per grant review.

Institutionally coordinated // S. Song (Biomedical Engineering)
For information, please contact: Marie Teemant, Associate for Research Development