Boston University Medical Campus
Office of the Associate Provost for Research

 

Research Funding Opportunities
More details on the funding opportunities listed below can be found at:
1)      The COS (Community of Science) link to each FO profile;
2)      The FO’s own URL; or
3)      For more information contact:

Chris Bonner, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations
Office of Development, BUSM
617-638-4573 or at cbonner@bu.edu
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Sponsor:   American Otological Society (AOS)
                   Research Fund of the American Otological Society, Inc.

Amount Available:    $240,000

Grant Program:    AOS Clinician-Scientist Award

The purpose of this award is to provide salary and research support for a new academic clinician-scientist at the assistant professor level, in order to facilitate his or her development into an independent otologic investigator. The winner of this award will be designated an American Otological Society (AOS) Clinician-Scientist. Research and research training supported by this award may be related to any research questions relevant to otology or neurotology, as long as it is demonstrated that the training will have a direct impact on the individual's ability to pursue his or her long-range research objectives. The award is not restricted to research pertaining to otosclerosis or Ménière's disease.


Deadline: Application due January 31, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/66622
URL:   http://www.americanotologicalsociety.org/information.html
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Sponsor:    American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS)
                          

Amount Available:    $100,000 over 2 years

Grant Program:    ASTS – Astellas Faculty Development Grant

ASTS and Astellas continue their commitment to provide qualified ASTS Members with research funding in the field of organ transplantation. This grant is designed to support a junior faculty member in the development of transplant research so that further funding can be obtained.

The Awardee must attend the ASTS Award Ceremony at ATC to formally accept the grant.

Deadline: Full Proposal due January 4, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/132290
URL:    http://asts.org/Awards/AstFac.aspx

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Sponsor:    American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS)

Amount Available:    $100,000 over 2 years

Grant Program:    ASTS – Pfizer Collaborative Scientist Grant
ASTS and Pfizer continue their commitment to develop collaborative research between ASTS investigators and qualified established scientists. This grant provides qualified ASTS investigators and their scientific collaborators with research funding in the field of solid organ transplantation.

At least one of the Awardees must attend the ASTS Award Ceremony at ATC to formally accept the grant.

Deadline: Full proposal due January 4, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/132296
URL:   http://asts.org/Awards/WyethSci.aspx
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Sponsor:
    American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS)

Amount Available:    $100,000 over 2 years

Grant Program:    ASTS Pfizer Mid-Level Faculty Research Grant

ASTS and Pfizer continue their commitment to the development of transplant research by providing qualified ASTS Members with research funding in the field of solid organ transplantation. The grant is designed to support ongoing research so that independent funding can be obtained, or to fund a new avenue of research for an established investigator.

The Awardee must attend the ASTS Award Ceremony at ATC to formally accept the grant.

Deadline: Full Proposal due January 4, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/132295
URL:    http://asts.org/Awards/WyethFac.aspx
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Sponsor:    Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT)

Amount Available:    $100,000

Grant Program:    Career Development Award

This award for young faculty members is to assist in the establishment of investigators, basic or clinical, in digestive diseases. The supported research program can be focused on basic laboratory or rigorous clinical investigation. A significant amount of time should be devoted to research to accomplish the investigator's goals.

Deadlines:
 Full proposal due January 4, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/113886
URL:    http://www.ssat.com/cgi-bin/awards_Career_Development.cgi
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Sponsor:    American Heart Association (AHA)            
                 Affiliate Research Programs, Founders Affiliate

Amount Available:    $150,000 over two years

Grant Program:    Founders Affiliate Clinical Research Program

The objective of this program is to encourage early career investigators who have appropriate and supportive mentoring relationships to engage in high quality introductory and pilot clinical studies that will guide strategies for reducing cardiovascular disease and stroke while fostering new research in clinical and translational science, and encouraging community- and population-based activities. This grant does not fund basic science or support senior researchers, but encourages mentoring of early career investigators. Funding is available for research related to cardiovascular disease and stroke prevention or treatment, or to related clinical and public health problems, including multidisciplinary efforts. Proposals are encouraged on provider behavior, patient behavior, behavioral outcomes, risk factor outcomes, disease outcomes, cost benefit analyses, efforts to evaluate outcomes of patient care delivery and patient/provider and/or system compliance and adherence to recommendations, as well as pilot clinical research studies that may provide preliminary data for larger-scale investigation. Studies using existing databases are also encouraged. Ancillary studies or a clearly defined sub-study of an ongoing clinical research study are also encouraged. There must, however, be clear justification that the proposal is a sub-study and not a piece of an already funded project.

Deadlines: Application due January 22, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/140527
URL:    http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/SupportingInformation/Winter-2013---Clinical-Research-Program_UCM_443302_Article.jsp
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Sponsor:    American Heart Association (AHA)            
                    Affiliate Research Programs, Founders Affiliate

 

Amount Available:    $198,000

Grant Program:    Founders Affiliate Grant-In-Aid

The objective of this program is to encourage and adequately fund the most innovative and meritorious research projects from independent investigators. The science focus of this program is on research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease and stroke, or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology, and public health problems. Proposals will be accepted from all basic disciplines, as well as for epidemiological, community, and clinical investigations that bear on cardiovascular and stroke problems. No minimum research effort is required for this project.


Deadlines:
 Application due January 22, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/140523
URL:   http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/SupportingInformation/Winter-2013---Grant-in-Aid_UCM_443304_Article.jsp
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Sponsor:    American Heart Association (AHA)            
                  Affiliate Research Programs, Founders Affiliate

 

Amount Available:    $106,000 over two years

Grant Program:    Founders Affiliate Postdoctoral Fellowship

The objective of this program is to help trainees initiate careers in cardiovascular and stroke research while obtaining significant research results under the supervision of a sponsor or mentor; supports individuals before they are ready for some stage of independent research. The science focus is research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease and stroke, or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology, and public health problems, including multidisciplinary efforts. Proposals are encouraged from all basic disciplines as well as epidemiological, behavioral, community and clinical investigations that bear on cardiovascular and stroke problems.

Deadlines: Application due January 22, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/140520

URL:     http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/SupportingInformation/Winter-2013---Postdoctoral-Fellowship_UCM_443314_Article.jsp

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Sponsor:    American Heart Association (AHA)
                  National Research Program

Amount Available:    $593,000

Grant Program:    National Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award (FTF)

This program provides funding for trainees with outstanding potential for careers as physician-scientists in cardiovascular or stroke research during the crucial period of career development that spans the completion of research training through the early years of the first faculty/staff position. The award provides a supportive mentored experience during this period of transition. The award will (1) greatly enhance the awardee's chances of obtaining a high-quality faculty/staff appointment; (2) improve the awardee's success and retention in an investigative career in cardiovascular science; and (3) develop the mentoring skills of the awardee as a potential future mentor.

Deadlines: Application due January 30, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/66897

URL:     http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/ForScientists/Winter-2013---National-Fellow-to-Faculty-Transition-Award_UCM_431606_Article.jsp

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Sponsor:    American Heart Association (AHA)
                  National Research Program

Amount Available:    $308,000 over four years

Grant Program:    National Scientist Development Grant (SDG)

The objective of the SDG award is to support highly promising beginning scientists in their progress toward independence by encouraging and adequately funding research projects that can bridge the gap between completion of research training and readiness for successful competition as an independent investigator. Science focus is on research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease and stroke, or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology, and public health problems, including multidisciplinary efforts. Proposals are encouraged from all basic disciplines as well as epidemiological, behavioral, community and clinical investigations that bear on cardiovascular and stroke problems.

Deadlines: Application due January 30, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/2135

URL:     http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/SupportingInformation/Winter-2013---Scientist-Development-Grant_UCM_443318_Article.jsp

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Sponsor:    Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Foundation (SCA Foundation)

Amount Available:    $100,000

Grant Program:    Research Grants

SCA Foundation is offering the following grants in 2012:
- SCA/IARS Starter Grant
- Roizen Anesthesia Research Foundation New Investigator Grant
- SCA/IARS Mid-Career Grant

Deadlines: Full Proposal due January 16, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/133159

URL:     http://scahqgive.org/2013-sca-foundation-research-grant/

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Sponsor:    Health Resources in Action (HRiA)
                  The Medical Foundation
Amount Available:    $186,000

Grant Program:    Hilda and Preston Davis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
                                      In Eating Disorders Research

Proposals must be focused on relevant aspects of the biological causes of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as defined by clinical criteria. Examples of areas of interest include but are not limited to neural pathways of feeding behavior in animal models; molecular genetic analysis of relevant neural circuit assembly and function; testing of new chemical compounds that might be used in animal models as experimental treatments; and brain imaging technologies that identify neurochemical pathways in patients with these disorders. Clinical psychotherapeutic studies, medication trials, and obesity research are currently outside the scope of this program.

Deadlines: Application due January 10, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/117153

URL:     http://www.hria.org/tmfservices/tmfgrants/davis.html
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Sponsor:
    Klingenstein Fund, Inc. Esther A. and Joseph

Amount Available:    $150,000 over 3 years

Grant Program:    Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in the neurosciences

The purpose of these awards is to support, in the early stages of their careers, young investigators engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The Klingenstein Fund recognizes that to accomplish this goal it is necessary to encourage a variety of new approaches. Several areas within the neurosciences are of particular interest to the Fund:
1. Cellular and molecular neuroscience - Studies of the mechanisms of neuronal excitability and development, and of the genetic basis of behavior.
2. Neural systems - Studies of the integrative function of the nervous system.
3. Clinical research - Studies designed to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and our understanding of the causes of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Deadline:
 Application due January 10, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/3386

URL:
    http://www.klingfund.org/
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Sponsor:    McKnight Endowment Fund for Neurosciences

Amount Available:    $225,000

Grant Program:    McKnight Scholar Awards

The Endowment Fund supports innovative research designed to bring science closer to the day when diseases of the brain can be accurately diagnosed, prevented, and treated. To this end, the fund established these awards … more »to encourage emerging neuroscientists to focus on disorders of learning and memory.

Deadline:
 Application due January 7, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/2327
URL:    http://www.mcknight.org/neuroscience/the-awards/scholar
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Sponsor:    Whitehall Foundation, Inc. Grant Programs            

Amount Available:    $225,000

Grant Program:    Research Grants

The Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. It is the Foundation's policy to assist those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not … more »heavily supported by Federal Agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. In order to respond to the changing environment, the Foundation periodically reassesses the need for financial support by the various fields of biological research.

The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as follows: Invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior.


Deadline:
Letter of Intent due January 15, 2013

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/3561
URL:    http://www.whitehall.org/grants/
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Sponsor:
    Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF)

Amount Available:    $1,000,000

Grant Program:    Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials (PACT) for Alzheimer’s Disease

The true test for new Alzheimer's drugs is in human clinical trials. Numerous treatments for Alzheimer's disease have been shown to be safe and to have some positive effect when tested in animal models of Alzheimer's disease. However, many of these potentially successful drugs have not been brought to human trials because of the increased cost and risk at this stage of research. The ADDF is responding to this problem by creating the Alzheimer's Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials (PACT). The goal of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to increase the number of innovative drugs tested in humans for Alzheimer's disease. This program will fund biomarker-based pilot clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease.

Deadlines:
 Application due January 19, 2013 * Letter of Intent due two weeks prior

Pivot:    http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/130523
URL:    http://www.alzdiscovery.org/
Note: The ADDF accepts Letters of Intent for their General Request for Proposals research award programs throughout the year. Additional information can be found at the link above.
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Sponsor:    Coins for Alzheimer’s Research Trust (C.A.R.T.)        

Amount Available:    $250,000 over two years

Grant Program:    Rotary CART Fund

 

The goal of the fund is to encourage exploratory and developmental AD research projects within the United States by providing support for the early and conceptual plans of those projects that may not yet be supported by extensive preliminary data but have the potential to substantially advance biomedical research. This proposal should be distinct from those projects designed to increase knowledge in a well established area unless it is intended to extend previous discoveries toward new directions or applications.

Deadlines: Letter of Intent due December 1, 2012

Pivot: none
URL:   http://www.cartfund.org/cart/cart-grants/how-to-apply/
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Sponsor:
    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Amount Available:    $335,000

Grant Program:    Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research program supports educational and other nonprofit institutions where highly qualified individuals propose to undertake broad studies of America’s most challenging policy issues in health and health care. Grants of up to $335,000 each are awarded to institutions to support Investigators from a variety of disciplines for innovative research projects that have national policy relevance.

Deadlines:
Application due January 16, 2013

Pivot:
   none
URL:     http://pweb1.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21413&cid=XEM_A6569
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Sponsor:
    Emergency Medicine Foundation Grants

Amount Available:    up to $150,000

Grant Program:    EMF Grants

•EMF 2-Year Fellowship, $150,000;  EMF Fellowship Application 
•EMF/ENA Foundation Team Grant, $50,000;  EMF-ENA Foundation Team Application
•EMF Health Policy Grant, $50,000;  EMF Health Policy Application 
•EMF Career Development Grant, $50,000;  EMF Career Development Application
•EMF/Mindray Ultrasound Grant, $20,000; EMF/Mindray Ultrasound Application
•EMF EMBRS Course (Emergency Medicine Basic Research Skills) Grant, $5,000, Available only through the EMBRS Course. Click here for the EMBRS Course Information.
•EMF/EMRA Resident Research Grant, $5,000 (up to 3 available);  EMF/EMRA Resident Resident Application
•EMF/SAEM Medical Student Grant, $2,400 (up to 2 available);  EMF/SAEM Medical Student Application
•EMF/MTF Toxicology Research Grant, $5,000;  EMF/MTF Toxicology Application

Deadlines:
Applications due January 11, 2013

Pivot:   none
URL:    http://www.emfoundation.org/EMF.aspx?id=108
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Sponsor:   Radiological Society of North America

Amount Available:    $150,000 over two years

Grant Program:    Research Scholar Grant

Purpose: To support junior faculty members who have completed the conventional resident/fellowship training program(s); but have not yet been recognized as independent investigators. The purpose of the funding is to help establish the recipient as an independent investigator, and to collect preliminary data that could lead to further funding through established mechanisms such as the NIH. Recipients will devote a minimum of 40% of their time in the approved research project

Deadlines: Application due January 15, 2013

Pivot:    none
URL:   http://rsna.org/Research_Scholar_Grant.aspx
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Sponsor:    American Diabetes Association

Amount Available:    $100,000 - $600,000 over 3 years

Grant Program:    Core Research Awards

Basic Science Awards                                     $345,000
Clinical Science and Epidemiology Awards       $600,000
Translational Science Awards                           $600,000
Innovation Awards                                          $100,000

Deadlines:
Application due January 15, 2013

Pivot:    none
URL:    http://professional.diabetes.org/Diabetes_Research.aspx?typ=18&cid=89693

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Sponsor:    American Diabetes Association

Amount Available:    $360,000 - $800,000

Grant Program:    Core Development Awards

Junior Faculty Awards                                            $360,000 over three years
Career Development Awards                                    $750,000 over five years
Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award                      $800,000 over four years
Deadlines: Application due January 15, 2013

Pivot:    none
URL:    http://professional.diabetes.org/Diabetes_Research.aspx?typ=18&cid=89693
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Sponsor:    American Diabetes Association

Amount Available:    $30,000 - $135,000

Grant Program:    Core Training Awards

Clinical Scholar Award                                     $30,000
Clinical Scientist Training Award                       $90,000 over three years
Mentor-based Postdoctoral Fellowships               $180,000 over four years
Mentor-based Minority Postdoc Fellowships        $135,000 over three years
Deadlines: Application due January 15, 2013

Pivot:    none
URL:    http://professional.diabetes.org/Diabetes_Research.aspx?typ=18&cid=89693
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