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The AKC Canine Health Foundation (CHF) invites proposals addressing neurological disorders and epilepsy, conditions that affect dogs of all ages and breeds, including mixed breeds. CHF is dedicated to preventing, treating, and finding cures for neurological conditions and epilepsy to benefit all dogs. This request seeks to harness the best research addressing important canine neurological diseases to promote scientific progress that will impact dogs today and for generations. Canine neurological conditions result from many causes, including development, genetic variation, injury, inflammation, and infection. Studies may encompass disease prevention, promotion of health, novel diagnostics and therapeutics, improved care, and the pathologic and molecular basis of disease. Clinical, experimental, and translational topics are eligible, and studies with patient-focused outcomes are encouraged.  Epilepsy remains a significant canine health challenge, with opportunities to identify new strategies to prevent epilepsy, develop improved epilepsy treatments, understand the disease and comorbid conditions, and improve quality of life.

Applications are sought from researchers from a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, veterinary researchers, geneticists, and molecular biological scientists. Collaborative projects involving investigators from a variety of disciplines and/or institutions, including human health researchers, are encouraged to apply.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu. 

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EveryCat Health Foundation, a non-profit organization established in 1968, advances feline health by supporting groundbreaking research and education. Its work worldwide has funded nearly $10 million in cat health research at more than 30 partner institutions. Grant funding is made possible through the generosity of dedicated donors, collaborators, and sponsors.  Studies applicable to all cats and all aspects pertaining to feline health are encouraged, including shelter medicine and behavior.

• Projects should have discrete and achievable goals within the $50,000 limit. They must demonstrate their relevance or benefit to improving feline health, particularly regarding domestic cats.
• Applicants may be veterinary researchers, faculty veterinarians, post-doctoral fellows, practicing veterinarians or veterinary students.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu. 

Learn More about EveryCat Health Foundation—Feline Health Research Grants

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The Young Investigator grant is a three-year award designed to support early career researchers, such as postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows or instructors, pursuing promising childhood cancer research ideas. These grants aim to cultivate the best and brightest researchers of the future who demonstrate a commitment to a research career in pediatric cancer. A mentor is required, and a career development plan must be included. The Young Investigator grant offers up to $60,000 in direct costs per year for three years. Applicants must have an MD, PhD, or MD/PhD or equivalent and must not have achieved an appointment higher than Instructor. Assistant Professors, including adjuncts at this level, will not be considered.  Award recipients will be notified in May 2024.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu. 

Learn More about Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation—2024 Young Investigator Grant Program

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The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) is the nation’s oldest nonprofit organization dedicated to brain tumor education, support, and research. Multiple funding opportunities are available. Please see short descriptions below for individual opportunities.  

Discovery Grants are one-year $50,000 grants for high risk, high impact research with the potential to change current diagnostic or treatment models. Grants are intended to provide seed-funding for early-stage faculty-level researchers to develop their new ideas, and to get the preliminary data needed to apply for larger grans.
LOIs for 2024 funding will be accepted through December 13, 2023. Learn More and Apply Now. 

Basic Research Fellowships are two-year, $100,000 mentored grants supporting postdoctoral fellows who are conducting laboratory or field-based research projects that focus on brain tumors. Fellows must have a lead mentor who currently conducts brain tumor research at the same academic institution. The mentor will help the scientific management and other research guidance to foster the applicant’s career advancement.
LOIs for 2024 funding will be accepted through December 13, 2023.Learn More and Apply Now. 

Research Collaboration Grants are two-year, $200,000 grants for multi-investigator and multi-institutional brain tumor collaborative research projects. They are intended to promote team science, streamlining and accelerating research progress.
Research projects must be conducted by a team of at least two co-principal investigators (Co-PI’s) from different institutions. The research project should be multidisciplinary, incorporating multiple components such as basic, translational, clinical, and epidemiological research.
LOIs for 2024 funding will be accepted through December 13, 2023.Learn More and Apply Now.  

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson ande2476@msu.edu. 

Learn More about American Brain Tumor Association – Research Grants

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The Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award in Pain recognizes early-career leaders in basic pain research whose work holds high potential for uncovering new pathways to improve the treatment of chronic pain. 

The award is focused on innovative research that focuses on basic science mechanisms of pain. Proposed research projects should be directed toward investigating the molecular biology of pain and/or basic science topics related to developing new analgesics for managing pain. The entire award is made available to projects specifically chosen by the recipient. 

Applicants must have received committed start-up funds and independent laboratory space from their institution, be within three years of the start date of a tenure track position or equivalent (senior postdocs and associate professors are not eligible) and demonstrate a commitment to the field of pain research.  

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson ande2476@msu.edu.

Learn More about Rita Allen Foundation – Scholars Award in Pain

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 The History of Art Grants program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies. 

Grants are also awarded for activities that permit art historians to share their expertise through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, and other professional events. This grant program does not typically support the documentation (cataloging, photography, research and publication) of the object collections of individual art museums. 

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson ande2476@msu.edu

Learn More about Kress Foundation – History of Art Grants

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In response to a growing need in the field, the MRF has established its Mid-Career Bridge Grant to support investigators who are dedicated to melanoma research. This award will be for established researchers with pre-existing R01s, who have applied for a NIH RO1 grant that was scored, but not funded. To support and sustain these investigators while they generate the data for the Response to Reviewers in the revised R01 submission, the MRF is offering bridge funding of up to $100,000 for one year.  

• Applicants must hold a MD and/or PhD degree or equivalent.  
• Applicants must be within 15-years of obtaining their first independent position (e.g., as an instructor, assistant professor, etc.) AND previously held a R01 during this time period.  
• Applicants must have submitted a NIH R01 application within the past 6 months that was scored but not funded. The 6-month timeframe begins the date the R01 was reviewed by the NIH study section.  

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson ande2476@msu.edu. 

Learn More about Melanoma Research Foundation – Mid-Career Bridge Grants

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The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research by investigators in United States non-profit institutions proposing research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer. The Foundation funds projects for a one-year period which will allow establishment of capabilities of new cancer researchers, or new cancer approaches by established cancer researchers. It is anticipated that this early stage funding by the Foundation may lead to subsequent and expanded support using government agency funding. Project relevance to cancer detection, treatment, or cure should be clearly identified.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu

Learn More about Elsa U. Pardee Foundation—Innovative Cancer Research

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The Conservation Grants program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European works of art from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, exhibitions and publications focusing on art conservation, scholarly publications, and technical and scientific studies.  

Grants are also awarded to activities that permit conservators and conservation scientists to share their expertise with both professional colleagues and a broad audience through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, exhibitions that include a prominent focus on materials and techniques, and other professional events.  

The Kress grantmaking portal will accept LOIs for 15 days at the beginning of the Foundation’s three grant cycles. Organizations invited to apply for a grant will be notified via email within 7 business days of the LOI submission deadline.  

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson ande2476@msu.edu. 

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The Energy and Environment program at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supports research, training, networking, and dissemination efforts to inform the societal transition toward low-carbon energy systems in the United States by investigating economic, environmental, technological, and distributional issues. The program is currently soliciting Letters of Inquiry for interdisciplinary, collaborative, social and natural science research projects led by early- and mid-career scholars to examine under-explored questions related to issues associated with critical minerals and metals for the low-carbon energy transition in the United States. Three to four full proposals are expected to be invited from submissions received in response to this Call. Grant amounts are expected to be between $500,000 and $750,000 over a 2-3 year period

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu. 

Learn More about Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Interdisciplinary Social and Natural Science Research Projects on Critical Minerals and Metals in the United States

Learn More about American Heart Association – AHA/AV Collaborative Sciences Awards in Single Ventricle Heart Disease

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The AKC Canine Health Foundation (CHF) is pleased to announce a call for proposals to support outstanding early career investigators focused on patient-oriented canine research. The purpose of this award is to support translational and clinical research advancing the care and health of canine patients while investing in clinical researchers who have the potential to advance the future of veterinary medicine.  Investigators are encouraged to submit proposals in any of the 23 Research Program Areas. Principal investigators must have a DVM (or VMD) and/or a PhD and a demonstrated interest for pursuing a career in canine health research.

The research may focus on any one or a combination of the following:

1) mechanisms or progression of canine disease;

2) new diagnostics or technologies to advance the care of dogs and improve patient outcomes;

3) therapeutic interventions; 4) clinical trials.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu. 

Learn More about American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation—Early Career Investigator Grant

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PLEASE NOTE:  This opportunity is limited to one concept per organization.  Reach out to Allison Jones if you have an interest in applying.

The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect the environment, improve food production, and promote public health in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.  

The Foundation supports projects and applied research that: 

• Generate local or regional solutions to problems affecting the quality of the environment and human life; 
• Advance local leadership and promote professional development in the conservation, agricultural, and health sciences; 
• Develop the capacity of local organizations and coalitions; and 
• Address challenges in the field.  

The Foundation prefers to support projects that address under-funded issues and geographic areas. 

The Foundation funds applied research, pilot projects, new initiatives, training, and technical assistance, rather than ongoing support for programs that are already well underway.  An important goal for the Foundation is to provide seed money to help promising projects, organizations, and individuals develop the track record they need to attract major foundation funding in the future. 

The following are examples of the Foundation’s areas of interest within the fields of conservation, food, and health, and are not meant to be exclusive. 

Conservation: Conservation grants promote environmental conservation through field research, projects, and advocacy that: 

• Protect biodiversity and preserve natural resources. 
• Help mitigate the adverse effects of climate change. 
• Build the scientific and technical capacity of local conservation organizations and promote local, regional, and international partnerships. 
• Increase engagement between scientists, local communities and organizations, and decision-makers. 
• Partner with indigenous communities and local people. 

Food: Grants in the food and agriculture program area focus on research-based projects that build capacity for self-sufficiency and resilience to climate change, strengthen local food systems, and support healthy nutrition through projects that:  

• Enhance food security. 
• Develop and promote sustainable agricultural practices 
• Build the capacity of small-scale farmers. 
• Advance farmer research and research partnerships. 
• Develop environmentally sound and affordable approaches to control pests and diseases affecting important local food crops. 
• Promote indigenous food sovereignty and knowledge systems. 
• Address challenges of uptake and scalability through new methods of extension, education, and technology transfer. 

Health: The Foundation supports efforts that test new ideas and approaches that promote public health, with a special emphasis on reproductive health and family planning and their integration with other health promotion activities.  It favors community-level disease prevention and health promotion projects and efforts that help strengthen regional and country public health systems over disease diagnosis, treatment, and care provided by clinics, hospitals, and humanitarian aid programs. 

Activities that help increase capacity include applied research, program development, technical assistance, and training projects that: 

• Promote reproductive health and family planning. 
• Address issues related to mental and behavioral health. 
• Address issues relating to pollution and environmental health. 
• Increase the understanding of zoonotic and neglected tropical diseases. 
• Address issues relating to nutrition and health. 

Key Priorities 

In all of its areas of interest, the Foundation gives priority to projects that have the potential to advance the field, build local capacity, promote replication, influence public opinion and policy, affect systems change, and benefit people beyond the immediate project and its local context. 

For more information, please contact Allison Jones jonesa70@msu.edu. 

Learn More about The Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation – Grants for Conservation, Food, and Health Projects

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The Greenwall Foundation is requesting proposals for the Spring 2024 cycle of its bioethics grants program, Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas. The Making a Difference program supports research to help resolve an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical, biomedical, or public health decision-making, policy, or practice.  The Foundation’s vision is to make bioethics integral to decisions in health care, policy, and research. In addition, the Foundation is committed to building broad and inclusive bioethics that welcomes everyone, elevates many perspectives, asks a wide range of questions, and learns from diverse voices.

While we welcome all innovative proposals that will have a real-world impact, we are particularly interested in proposals that address the ethical and policy issues raised by the following priority topics:

• Bias and discrimination in health care, which may be based on a broad range of characteristics, and which may involve institutional and systemic contributors to bias and racism as well as health disparities or social determinants of health;
• Trust in science, medicine, and public health;
• Public health crises (related to, for example, emerging infectious diseases, climate change, and the opioid epidemic), including their impact on mental health;
• Healthcare access, costs, and resource allocation.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu. 

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These Awards represent a focused effort to encourage and support investigators from diverse backgrounds that are underrepresented in cancer research and to foster their career advancement. This grants program also intends to build a more diverse and inclusive future for breast cancer research. Eligibility is limited to member of racial or ethnic groups that have been shown to be traditionally excluded in the cancer related sciences workforce. Selection is competitive and will be based on outstanding accomplishments both in scientific research and in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within the cancer research community.  

Proposed projects must be basic, translational, clinical, epidemiological, population health, and/or community-based cancer research projects designed to accelerate the discovery, development, and application of new agents to treat breast cancer. Research that aims to advance the science of understanding cancer health disparities in racial and ethnic minorities that has relevance to breast cancer will also be considered.  

Applicants hold a faculty position with the title of assistant professor, instructor, research assistant professor, or the equivalent. Applicant must have independent laboratory space and belong to racial or ethnic group(s) that has (have) been shown to be traditionally excluded in the canc3er related sciences workforce.  

The grant may provide for expenses related to the research project, which may include salary and benefits of the grant recipient and any collaborator, research/laboratory supplies; equipment; publication charges for manuscripts that pertain directly to the funded project; and other research expenses. 

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson ande2476@msu.edu. 

Learn More about American Association for Cancer Research – Breast Cancer Research Foundation-AACR Career Development Awards to Promote Diversity and Inclusion

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The Simons Foundation invites applications for the SFARI Bridge to Independence (BTI) program, which engages talented early-career scientists from diverse and/or historically underrepresented backgrounds to pursue research in autism and facilitates their transition into independent faculty positions at a research institution within or outside the United States.

The BTI Award program welcomes applications that span the breadth of science that SFARI supports, including genetics, molecular mechanisms, circuits and systems, and clinical science.

The program is aimed at PhD- and/or MD-holding scientists from diverse and/or historically underrepresented groups in science who are currently in a non-independent, mentored training position at an institution within or outside the U.S. and who will be actively seeking and applying to tenure-track faculty positions between September 2024 and May 2025. Fellows are expected to apply for, secure, and transition to a tenure-track faculty position at a research institution within or outside the U.S. by the end of the 2025–26 academic year. 

Simons Foundation scientists and staff are available to provide perspective and personalized coaching throughout the faculty job search, offer and negotiation process. The intention is to provide support as fellows negotiate a start-up package that allows each individual to be optimally successful as an independent investigator. Fellows will be provided with up to five years of support, split into two awards: 1) Postdoctoral Award (for a maximum of two years), and 2) Faculty Research Award (over three years).

Applicants must hold a PhD and/or MD, or equivalent degree. Applicants must be currently in a non-independent, mentored training position as recognized by their institution. The program is open to individuals who self-identify as members of diverse groups within these categories: race, ethnicity, disadvantaged social and/or economic background, gender identity, sexual orientation and disability status. U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status is not required.

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu.  If you are interested in learning about additional foundation funding opportunities, please visit the MSU Foundation Relations website.

 

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This program supports research on strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We want to know what it takes to produce useful research evidence, what it takes to get research used, and what happens when research is used.

Research evidence can be a powerful resource for policymakers, agency leaders, organizational managers, and others who make high-stakes decisions that shape youth-serving systems. In addition to informing policy formation and service delivery, evidence from systematic research can deepen decision-makers’ understanding of issues, generate reliable assessment tools, support strategic planning, and guide program improvement. But only if it is used.

Studying ways to improve the use of research evidence will require new and innovative ideas, and we welcome creative studies that have potential to advance the field. Proposals for studies are evaluated on the basis of their fit with our interests; the strength and feasibility of their designs, methods, and analyses; their potential to inform improvements to research use; and their contribution to theory and empirical evidence.

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu. 

Learn More about William T. Grant Foundation – Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence

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Our research interests center on studies that examine ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. We welcome descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality. We also welcome intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality. Finally, we welcome studies that improve the measurement of inequality in ways that can enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, or policymakers.

We invite studies from a range of disciplines, fields, and methods, and we encourage investigations into various youth-serving systems, including justice, housing, child welfare, mental health, and education.

Applications for research grants on reducing inequality must:

1. Identify a specific inequality in youth outcomes, and show that the outcomes are currently unequal by engaging with the extant literature on the causes and consequences of inequality
   • We are especially interested in research to reduce inequality in academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes.
2. Make a convincing case for the dimension(s) of inequality the study will address
   • We are especially interested in research to reduce inequality along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origin status.
3. Articulate how findings from your research will help build, test, or increase understanding of a program, policy, or practice to reduce the specific inequality that you have identified

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu. 

Learn More about William T. Grant Foundation – Research Grants on Reducing Inequality

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The program aims to support the next generation of outstanding cognitive aging scientists and welcomes applications from scientists planning to do work consistent with SCPAB’s scientific mission. A previous background in aging research is not required; candidates with a background in fields including neuroscience, molecular biology, genetics, immunology, cell biology, and the physical and information sciences are encouraged to apply. Applicants must focus their scientific proposal on their future lab and independent research program plans, not the remainder of their postdoctoral position.

Independence Fellows will receive up to two years of postdoctoral fellowship support during their job search, with an annual salary of $85,000, fringe benefits, an annual resource and professional development allowance of $10,000, and indirect costs followed by a commitment of $600,000 over three years, including indirect costs activated upon assumption of a tenure-track research professorship. Additionally, Fellows will form a learning community and engage in professional development activities throughout their transition to research independence.

The program is aimed at PhD and/or MD-holding scientists from diverse and/or historically underrepresented groups in science who are currently in a non-independent, mentored training position at an institution within or outside the U.S. and who will be actively seeking and applying to tenure-track faculty positions between September 2024 and May 2025. The program is open to individuals who self-identify as members of diverse groups: race, ethnicity, disadvantaged social and/or economic background, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability status. U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status is not required.

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu. 

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The foundation invites applications for the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) Transition to Independence (TTI) award. The SCGB TTI program engages talented early-career scientists from diverse and/or historically underrepresented backgrounds to pursue systems and computational neuroscience. It facilitates their transition into independent faculty positions at research institutions within or outside the United States. The program invites applications from scientists doing work consistent with SCGB’s scientific mission, specifically investigating large-scale circuits at single-cell resolution to understand neural dynamics and coding.

The program is aimed at PhD and/or MD-holding scientists from diverse and/or historically underrepresented groups in science who are currently in a non-independent, mentored training position at an institution within or outside the U.S. and who will be actively seeking and applying to tenure-track faculty positions between September 2024 and May 2025. Fellows are expected to apply for, secure, and transition to a tenure-track faculty position at a research institution within or outside the U.S. by the end of the 2025–26 academic year.

Fellows will be provided with up to five years of support, including up to two years of postdoctoral fellowship support during their job search, with an annual salary of $85,000, fringe benefits, an annual resource and professional development allowance of $10,000, and indirect costs followed by a commitment of $600,000 over three years, including indirect costs activated upon assumption of a tenure-track research professorship. Additionally, fellows will form a learning community and engage in professional development activities throughout their transition to research independence. 

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu. 

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