External Grants
American Diabetes Association
Basic Science Award
These awards provide grant support to both new and established investigators. Applications will be considered in any area that is relevant to the etiology or pathophysiology of diabetes and its complications. Awards are up to $115,000 per year for up to three years. Up to 20% of total costs for PI salary support and up to 15% for indirect costs may be requested.
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Clinical/Translational Award
The Clinical/Translational Awards are designed to support patient-oriented research in diabetes. For the purpose of this award, clinical research is defined as research directly involving humans, and includes educational, psychosocial, behavioral, epidemiologic, and health services research as well as studies of normal physiology and mechanisms of disease. Awards are up to $200,000 per year for up to three years. Up to 20% of total costs for PI salary support and up to 15% for indirect costs may be requested.
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Innovation Award
These pilot and feasibility grants are designed to support novel hypotheses that may lack preliminary data, but offer considerable promise for the cure, prevention, or treatment of diabetes. Awards are a maximum of $50,000 per year for two years. No indirect costs may be requested.
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Henry Becton Innovation Award
These pilot and feasibility grants are designed to support hypotheses in the following areas: medical informatics in direct patient therapy, advanced methods of insulin delivery, community-based care, role of allied health professionals, care of children with type 2 diabetes Awards are a maximum of $50,000 per year for up to two years. No indirect costs may be requested.
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ADA-ASP Young Investigator Innovation Award in Geriatric Endocrinology
The American Diabetes Association (ADA)-Association of Subspecialty Professors (ASP) Young Investigator Innovation Award in Geriatric Endocrinology provides grant support to new investigators. This program supports entry-level faculty to integrate geriatrics with novel basic, clinical, or health services diabetes research. This award supports pilot and feasibility studies that may lack preliminary data, but offer considerable promise for the cure, prevention, or treatment of diabetes in an aging population. Awards are a maximum of $75,000 per year for up to two years. No indirect costs may be requested.
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Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award
This mid-career award is designed to recognize outstanding researchers who have advanced the field of patient-oriented diabetes research. This award provides flexible funding for established full-time investigators who have made novel or watershed contributions to clinical diabetes research and who will continue to provide leadership in their research area. Applicants should demonstrate excellence in research, mentoring and training. Candidates will generally have at least 10 years of experience beyond receipt of the doctoral degree and will have obtained the rank of Associate Professor or higher. Awards are up to $200,000 per year for four years. Up to 15% for indirect costs may be requested.
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Junior Faculty Award
These awards support new investigators who are establishing their independence in diabetes research. Applicants can have any level of faculty appointment up through assistant professor. Awards are up to $120,000 per year for up to three years for direct costs, plus 15% allowable indirect costs. Additionally, applicants can request up to $10,000 per year towards the repayment of the principal on loans for a doctoral degree (MD, PhD, PharmD, DPM or DO). There is not a fixed limit for PI Salary.
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Career Development Award
The American Diabetes Association’s Career Development Awards are designed to assist outstanding Assistant Professor level faculty investigators in conducting diabetes-related research. The award supports an individual’s salary and research project to enable the investigator to advance his/her career as an independent investigator. Awards are $150,000 per year for up to five years, plus 15% allowable indirect costs. Additionally, applicants may request a $25,000 stipend for each of the first two years for additional equipment.
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Clinical Scholars Award
These awards provide one year of research support to students interested in clinical and basic science diabetes research. Those working on an MD, PharmD, DPM or DO are eligible. Awards are $30,000 a year for one year. Applicants may request up to $20,000 for the student’s stipend and up to $10,000 for lab expenses. No indirect costs may be requested.
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Clinical Scientist Training Award
This award supports MD, PharmD, DPM or DO students who are working on joint degrees. Eligible students are pursuing a dual degree in medicine, pharmacy, podiatric medicine or osteopathy and must be a research-oriented PhD, Master in Clinical Research, or Master of Public Health degree. Awards are $30,000 a year for up to three years. Applicants may request up to $20,000 for the student’s stipend and up to $10,000 for lab expenses. No indirect costs may be requested.
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Mentor-Based Postdoctoral Fellowship
These awards are granted to established diabetes investigators to support a postdoctoral fellow. Applications must be initiated and completed by the mentor. Awards are $45,000 a year for up to four years. No indirect costs may be requested. No indirect costs may be requested.
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Mentor-Based Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship
These awards support minority postdoctoral fellows working with established diabetes investigators. Applications must be initiated and completed by the mentor. Eligible minorities include: African American, Spanish, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. The applying fellow must be a US citizen or permanent resident. Awards are $45,000 per year for up to 3 yrs. No indirect costs may be requested.
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American Diabetes Association-Takeda Pharmaceuticals Cardiovascular Complications in Diabetes Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
These awards, funded by Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc., are granted to established diabetes investigators to support a postdoctoral fellow being trained in the area of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.Awards are $45,000 a year for up to two years. No indirect costs may be requested.
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American Diabetes Association-Merck Clinical/Translational Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
These awards funded by Merck & Co., are granted to clinical diabetes investigators in the area of clinical/translational research to support a postdoctoral fellow. Applications must be initiated and completed by the mentor. Awards are $75,000 a year for up to two years. No indirect costs may be requested.
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Minority Undergraduate Internship
Current ADA award holders are eligible to apply for a $3,000 stipend for a minority undergraduate intern to train in their laboratory or clinical setting. Eligible minorities include: African American, Spanish, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
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American Foundation for Aging Research
Paul Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging Research Progra
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), The NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, The John A. Hartford Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies (USA), the Starr Foundation, and an anonymous donor are collaborating on this initiative to sustain and promote the research careers of clinically trained individuals who are pursuing research careers in aging.
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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. Two four-year awards of $550,000 will be awarded.
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AFAR Research Grants
AFAR provides up to $75,000 for a one- to two-year award to junior faculty (M.D.'s and Ph.D.'s) to do research that will serve as the basis for longer term research efforts. AFAR-supported investigators study a broad range of biomedical and clinical topics including the causes of cellular senescence, the role of estrogen in the development of osteoporosis, the genetic factors associated with Alzheimer's disease, the effects of nutrition and exercise on the aging process, and much more. Since 1981, over 650 AFAR Research Grants have been awarded.
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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. Full-time faculty members at the rank of Assistant Professor or higher who can demonstrate a strong record of independence are eligible. Two two-year grants of up to $200,000 will be awarded.
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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. Up to fifteen one-year fellowships ranging from $45,218 to $59,402 will be awarded.
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Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Program
To encourage medical students - particularly budding researchers - to consider a career in academic geriatrics, this program awards short-term scholarships. AFAR has partnered with the NIA and several foundations to continue and strengthen the original Hartford/AFAR Medical Student Geriatric Scholars Program.
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Diabetes Action Research & Education Foundation
Diabetes Action is committed to funding promising and innovative diabetes research with a special interest in alternative, complementary, integrative, and nutritional therapies to prevent, treat, and cure diabetes and its complications.
http://www.diabetesaction.org/site/PageNavigator/research
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowships, Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowships, Career Development Awards, Research and Development Awards, Scholar Awards are available through this foundation whose current grants target Beta Cell Replacement, Beta Cell Regeneration, Autoimmunity, Complications, Metabolic Control in type 1 diabetes.
http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=103207
National Institutes of Health
Diabetes focused Program Announcements
General program announcements from NIDDK
All funding opportunities (RFA and PA) through NIDDK
Funding specifically for type1
Raymond J. and Mary C. Reisert Foundation Inc.
The Reisert Foundation’s is fairly flexible in what it funds. It is especially interested in working with small, community based programs and priority is given to projects where its grant can make a significant impact. Over the years, the Foundation has provided funding for everything from building repairs and office equipment, to startup salaries for charitable organizations.
http://www.reisertfoundation.com/criteria.html
Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation Inc.
DRWF accepts research applications related to finding the cause, prevention, treatment, and cure of diabetes and its complications. The maximum support of these grants is up to $50,000 per year for up to 2 years. If the proposed research is within an area of primary interest and is judged as having high scientific merit by the Foundation’s advisors, the Board of Directors may make special grant awards that exceed the stated maximum. Currently, the Foundation’s area of primary interest and focus are islet cell transplantation, macrovascular disease & neuropathy. All other research proposals will not be reviewed.
Johnson & Johnson Giving Program
http://www.jnj.com/community/index.htm
The IACOCCA Family Foundation
The foundation will make grants to support specific and detailed diabetes research projects involving:
- Fellowships under the sponsorship of a strong advisor
- Research supplies and equipment
- Principle investigator salaries and associated research projects
- Projects directly to principle investigators
The foundation does not make grants for:
- Projects not on diabetes
- Buildings or capital improvements
- Embryonic stem cell research
- Hospital and university general fund drives
General operating costs of hospitals, research institutes, buildings, clinical care clinics, etc The foundation will consider approximately 20 grants a year ranging in amounts of $10,000 to $500,000.
http://www.iacoccafoundation.org/grant_application_joinleenow.html
F.M. Kirby Foundation
Foundation grants are made to a wide range of nonprofit organizations in education, health and medicine, the arts and humanities, civic and public affairs, as well as religious, welfare and youth organizations. Churches, hospitals, schools and colleges, other than those attended or used by members of the family, are unlikely to receive support. The Foundation supports a number of national medical research and service organizations and public policy organizations espousing the Foundation's fundamental beliefs.
http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/kirby/apply.html
The Ames Stores Foundation
The foundation makes grants to qualified charitable organizations that address the following areas of interest:
- Social and Economic Welfare
- Religious and Ethnic Pluralism
- Social Justice
- Education
http://www.kathrynames.org/Guidelines%202006a.pdf
American Urological Association Foundation
The Research Scholars Program provides support to young men and women who are interested in pursuing a career in urologic research. The AUA Foundation Research Scholars Program provides a valuable opportunity for young scientists to begin a career in urologic research at a time when many urology departments across the country are faced with budget challenges that limit research capabilities. One-year fellowships for M.D.s and Ph.D.s are available for the 2010 Research Scholars Program.
http://www.urologyhealth.org/researchpage.asp?toggle=research6&WT.cg_s=Professional