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Post-Docs, Faculty & Researchers
Grants and Awards for
Post-Docs, Faculty, and Researchers in Clinical Medicine,
Bio-Medical Sciences, Pharmacology, and Nursing
- American Cancer Society
800-227-2345
http://www.cancer.org/research
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- Research Scholar Grants in Psychosocial &
Behavioral Research. Provides awards to support
research projects centered on the psychosocial and
behavioral aspects of cancer.
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- Research Scholar Grants for Health Service
and Health Policy and Outcomes Research. Provides
awards to support research projects centered on
health services and health policy and outcomes research
that are initiated by investigators at any stage
of their careers.
- American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP)
2041 Broadway, Suite 320, Nashville, TN 37203, 615-322-2075
http://www.acnp.org/programs/awards.aspx
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ACNP is especially interested in young scientists
and clinicians who are committed to teaching and research
in neuropsychopharmacology relevant to the understanding
and or treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.
- American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)
1414 Avenue of the Americas, 18th floor, New York,
NY 10019, 212-752-2327
http://www.afar.org
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- AFAR Research Grants. Provides funding
for a one- to two-year award to junior faculty (MD's
and PhD's) to do research that will serve as the
basis for longer term research efforts, studying
a broad range of biomedical and clinical topics.
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- Paul Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging
Research Program. Aimed
at sustaining and promoting the research careers of clinically trained individuals who are pursuing research careers in aging.
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- The Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Foundation/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer's Disease. This program supports research in areas in which more scientific investigation is needed to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. The program also encourages junior investigators in the United States and Israel to pursue research and academic careers in the neurosciences, and Alzheimer's disease in particular.
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- The Julie Martin Mid-Career Award in Aging Research.Sponsored by the Ellison Medical Foundation, this program encourages outstanding mid-career scientists who have not been engaged in aging research but whose research is relevant and could lead to novel approaches to aging. Also eligible are aging researchers whose research is high risk, and thus not attractive to NIH or other traditional sources, but has the potential for high payoff in advancing our understanding of basic aging.
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- The Glenn/AFAR Breakthroughs in Gerontology Award.The goal of the Glenn/AFAR BIG program is to provide timely support to a pilot research program that may be of relatively high risk but which offers significant promise of yielding transforming discoveries in the fundamental biology of aging.
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- Ellison Medical Foundation/AFAR Postdoctoral Fellows in Aging Research Program.The program was developed to address the current concerns about an adequate funding base for postdoctoral fellows (both MDs and PhDs) who conduct research in the fundamental mechanisms of aging. Postdoctoral fellows at all levels of training are eligible.
- American Geriatrics Society
The Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite
801, New York, NY 10118, 212-308-1414
http://www.americangeriatrics.org
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- Geriatrics Recognition Award.The AGS established the GRA to encourage health professionals to acquire special knowledge and keep abreast of the latest advances in clinical care of older adults through participation in lifelong learning.
- American Psychological Association (APA)
750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242, 202-336-6027
http://www.apa.org/about/students.aspx
- With support from the National Institute for Mental
Health, the APA invites applications for the Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Neuroscience to
increase diversity among neuroscience researchers.
- Brookdale Foundation
126 East 56th Street, New York, NY 10022-3668
http://www.brookdalefoundation.org
- The Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship Program encourages and supports emerging leaders in the field of aging. They seek applications from a broad range of disciplines including, but not limited to, the medical, biological, and basic sciences, nursing, social sciences, and arts & humanities.
- Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
450 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10021-7928, 212-751-8228
http://www.hhwf.org/HTMLSrc/ResearchFellowships.html
- The postdoctoral research fellowships encourage
postdoctoral research training in all basic biomedical
sciences and to help further the careers of young
men and women engaged in biological or medical research.
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- John A. Hartford Foundation
55 East 59th Street, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10022-1178,
212-832-7788
http://www.jhartfound.org/program/index.asp - To increase the nation's capacity to provide effective
and affordable care to its rapidly increasing elderly
population. Grants are made in order to maximize the
Foundation's impact on the health and well-being of
the nation's elders.
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- Integrating and Improving Health-Related Services.
Supports a limited number of projects offering considerable
potential for national impact in demonstrating integrated
financing and care delivery for comprehensive geriatric
services.
- Life Sciences Research Foundation (LSRF)
Lewis Thomas Laboratory, Princeton University, Washington
Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, 609-258-3551
http://www.lsrf.org/pages/welcome.htm
- The postdoctoral research fellowships are administered
across the spectrum of the life sciences: biochemistry;
cell, developmental, molecular, plant, structural,
organismic population and evolutionary biology; endocrinology;
immunology; microbiology; neurobiology; physiology;
and virology.
- National Institute for General Medical Sciences
Center for Scientific Review, NIH, 6701 Rockledge
Drive, Room 1040, MSC-7710, Bethesda, MD 20892-7710,
301-594-0828
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/
- Postdoctoral fellowships are offered to individuals
with doctoral training in both traditional quantitative
disciplines (such as mathematics, physics, engineering,
and computer science) and biology who are seeking
additional training in biological areas congruent
to the mission of NIGMS. Postdoctoral (F32) fellowship
mechanisms will be used.
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Building 31, Room 5C27, 31 Center Drive, MSC 2292,
Bethesda, MD 20892, 301-496-1752
http://www.nia.nih.gov/GrantsAndTraining/
- Research Career Development Awards:
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- Mentored Research Scientist Development Award
(K01).An early or midcareer award for individuals with some prior postdoctoral research experience.
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- Independent Scientist Award (K02).An early-to-midcareer award for individuals with prior research grant funding who seek to become leaders in their research fields.
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- Academic Career Award (K07).An infrastructure-building award for established senior research leaders who wish to build aging research or an aspect of aging research at their institutions. NIA does not support Developmental K07 Award.
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- Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award
(K08).An award for junior clinicians with little-to-moderate research training who wish to become independent clinician-scientists.
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- Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program
Award (K12).An award for research leaders to provide research training and mentoring to several junior clinicians who wish to become independent researchers.
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- Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development
Award (K23).An award for junior clinicians with little-to-moderate research training who wish to become independent clinician-scientists trained in patient-oriented research.
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- Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development
Award (K25).An award for relatively junior scientists who have been trained in quantitative disciplines who wish to develop their careers in biomedical research.
- The NIA additionally administers a plentitude
of other opportunities for funding and training:
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- Biology of Aging
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- Geriatrics
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- Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of Aging
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Bethesda, MD 20892
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html
- The NIH has website lists a variety of grants and funding opportunities. Visit the site and subscribe to receive weekly updates on new grants.
- National Osteoporosis Foundation
1232 22nd Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037, 202-223-2226
http://www.nof.org/grants
- Scholar's, Foundation, and Mazess Research Grants
support clinical or basic research related to the
epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment
of osteoporosis.
- National Research Council (NRC)
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20418, 202-334-2760
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/RAP/
- Postdoctoral Research Associateships are offered at research laboratioris throughout the US representing nearly all federal agencies with research facilities.
- The Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in
Aging Research Program
Alliance for Aging Research, 2021 K Street, NW, Suite
305, Washington, DC 20006, 202-293-2856
http://www.beeson.org
- Provides a grant to individual physician-scientists
to draw outstanding professionals them into teaching
and research in the field of aging.
- Prevent Blindness America
500 East Remington Road, Schaumburg, Illinois 60173,
847-843-2020
http://fightforsight.com/
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
are awarded to offset salary or support research for promising postdoctoral fellows.
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- Society for Neuroscience (SFN)
Department of Biological Sciences, 106 Central Street,
Wellesley, MA 02481-8203
http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=FellowshipAndAwards#fellowships
- The SFN has a variety of funding opportunities. Check the website for the latest information.
- Wills Foundation
PO Box 27534, Houston, TX 77227-7534
713-965-9043, email: willsfnd@aol.com
http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/dbc/funding.htm
- Postdoctoral Fellowships in neurobiology are offered,
with special consideration given to work relevant
to Huntington's Disease.
This webpage was last updated on
November 22, 2010
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