The Health Effects Institute is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1980 to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. HEI established the Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award to provide funding to outstanding investigators who are beginning independent research. Each award will grant up to $150,000 per year, with a maximum of $450,000 over three years. Scientists of any nationality holding a PhD, ScD, MD, DVM, or DrPH degree or equivalent are eligible to apply.
NKF will award grants of up to $35,000 in support of research projects in the field of nephrology and related disciplines conducted by individuals who have completed fellowship training and who hold a junior faculty position at a university-affiliated medical center in the United States. Projects must be patient-oriented. Elements of patient-oriented research activities may include but are not limited to development of new technologies, mechanisms of human disease, educational or therapeutic interventions, epidemiological studies, health policy studies, and clinical trials.
The CHOP Pediatric Center of Excellence in Nephrology (CHOP PCEN) was established to break down barriers to implementing clinical trials in childhood kidney disease. The CHOP PCEN will support two research projects funded to a maximum of $50,000 per year for up to two years. The pilot projects must utilize at least one of the CHOP PCEN cores and focus on research that will accelerate the pace of clinical trials in nephrology.
Frontier Programs differentiate CHOP as innovators because of their unique combination of translational research and exceptional clinical care of children with highly complex conditions. These programs are vital to CHOP’s mission, reputation and financial well-being and contribute to our success regionally, nationally and internationally. Selected programs will be eligible to receive up to $1M in the first year and $1.5M per year for 1-2 additional years. If selected, the funding will be effective July 1, 2018.
The mission of the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation is to improve the lives of patients and their families through nursing-driven innovation. The foundation currently is accepting proposals for innovative patient- and family-centered approaches that challenge conventional strategies, improve health outcomes, lower costs, and enhance the patient and family caregiver experience. The foundation is particularly interested in the areas of maternal and child health, care of the older adult, and chronic illness management. Two grants of up to $600,000 will be awarded in 2018.
The Institutional Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center at CHOP/Penn announces funding to support pilot projects relevant to elucidating the causes of and/or developing potential new therapies for intellectual or developmental disabilities. These pilot projects may be basic, translational, or clinical research. Applicants must hold a faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor for less than four years from the date of appointment by July 1, 2018. The center expects to issue three awards of up to $50,000 per year for two years.
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Thrasher Research Fund provides grants for clinical, hypothesis-driven research that offers substantial promise for meaningful advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of children's diseases, particularly research that offers broad-based applications. The fund is inviting concept papers for its Early Career Awards Grants program. Through the program, the fund awards small grants of up to $25,000 to new researchers to help them gain a foothold in the area of pediatric research. The program will consider a variety of research topics important to children's health but will give priority to applicants who show great potential to impact children's health through medical research.
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has joined together with the Sohn Conference Foundation, dedicated to curing pediatric cancers, to establish the Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award. This award provides funding to basic scientists and clinicians who conduct research with the potential to significantly impact the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of one or more pediatric cancers.
Grants of up to $20,000 are available to help support the research of faculty members or post-doctoral researchers affiliated with non-profit human service organizations in the United States and Canada. Areas of interest to the Fund are: studies to develop, refine, evaluate, or disseminate innovative interventions designed to prevent or ameliorate major social, psychological, behavioral or public health problems affecting children, adults, couples, families, or communities, or studies that have the potential for adding significantly to knowledge about such problems.
The foundation awards grants for research focused on issues faced by care providers that, when implemented, will improve health, nutrition, and/or developmental outcomes for infants and young children. Projects can address the etiologic mechanisms of disease; new, improved, or less invasive diagnostic procedures; the reduction or elimination of side effects; the alleviation of symptoms; new, improved, or less invasive therapies or treatments; dosage or dosing requirements or mechanisms for drugs, nutrient supplementation, or other therapeutic measures (under or overdosing); and preventative measures. The total requested grant size should be no more than $350,000.
The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation supports organizations that contribute to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual welfare of children. The foundation awards grants for the dissemination of information about new and innovative programs designed to benefit youth or information already possessed by well-established organizations. Projects must have the potential to help American children in a large geographic area (more than one state).
Last year, the NIH received approximately $30 billion in federal support. In spite of this amount, about 42,500 grants were not funded. To address these unfunded proposals, the NIH has a new Pilot Program that is designed to match researchers with nonprofit disease Foundations or with investments from private companies. Through a new collaboration between the NIH and the private contractor Leidos, researchers can now upload their unfunded NIH Proposals into an online portal at the Online Partnership to Accelerate Research (OnPAR). Foundations and other potential funders can review the NIH scores, and decide whether they might be interested in funding the Projects. Currently, this Pilot Program allows researchers with priority scores better than the 30th percentile to submit their abstracts. Interested Foundations might ask that a researcher send their full NIH Application along with its scores. The consensus opinion is that there are a lot of worthy grants being submitted to the NIH, but there is only so much funding available. OnPAR is one way of trying to match researchers with private Foundations.
