Young Investigator Funding

Several funding agencies offer grants and fellowships to young investigators, who are typically at the assistant professor level or who are untenured. Some may specify the applicant must be within a certain number of years from obtaining the Ph.D.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association of University Women Educational Foundation

American Council of Learned Societies - Ryskamp Fellowships

American Historical Association

American Mathematical Society

American Philosophical Society

American Psychological Foundation

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, Jane Coffin

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Human Frontier Science Program

Huntington Library

Jeffress Memorial Trust

Library of Congress: Kluge Center Fellowships

Life Sciences Research Foundation

L'Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in Science

McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience

National Academies

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Geographic Society

National Institutes of Health

National Security Agency

Newberry Library

Pew Charitable Trusts

Research Corporation for Science Advancement

Russell Sage Foundation

Smith Richardson Foundation

Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine

Whitehall Foundation, Inc.

Funding Opportunities

Young Investigator Funding