Grants & Funding

Featured Grants

Monsanto Company: Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program

The primary objective of this prestigious fellowship program is to develop highly educated rice and wheat plant breeders who can serve as future agricultural leaders. It will be administered by Texas AgriLife Research, an agency of the Texas A and M University System.

Deadline: 2009-05-31

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Grand Challenges Explorations

nges Explorations will foster innovation in global health research and expand the pipeline of ideas that merit further exploration. The initiative will use an agile, accelerated grant-making process with short two-page applications and no preliminary data required. Initial grants will be awarded multiple times per year at approximately $100,000 each. Additional funding of $1 million or more will be available for projects that show promise.

Deadline: 2009-05-28

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation: Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award

The Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with "high risk/high reward" ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cancer. The Innovation award is specifically designed to provide funding for extraordinary early career researchers who have an innovative new idea but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding. It is not designed to fund incremental advances.

Deadline: 2009-06-01

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: Therapeutics Development Initiative 2009

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research announces the launch of its Therapeutics Development Initiative (TDI) for Spring 2009, a funding mechanism to support and stimulate preclinical Parkinson's disease research at for-profit institutions.

Deadline: 2009-06-16

Foundation for Polish Science: Welcome Programme

The overall objective of the programme is to engage outstanding researches from abroad in creating research teams in Poland and intensifying international cooperation of the Polish institutes and universities.

Deadline: 2009-12-15

Franco-American Commission for Educational Exchange: Fulbright/Nord-Pas de Calais Regional Council Award

Fulbright/Nord-Pas de Calais Regional Council awards will be granted to four to six Americans to conduct research in Nord-Pas de Calais for periods of three to twelve months. Nord-Pas de Calais region welcomes candidates in the hard, social and human sciences, preferably in the following areas: biology, health, physics, chemistry, math and computer science; advanced technologies of information and communication; cognitive science, ethics, industrial societies and economic systems.

Deadline: 2009-08-01