Sources of Funding for Faculty and Postdocs
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| Featured institutional and external funding opportunities for UMN faculty and postdoctoral scholars |
Internal FundingResource: Internal Funding Opportunities
Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility
Global Health Seed Grants Deadline: 4/28/23; 5/19/23 Global Health Seed Grants foster interdisciplinary research collaborations to advance new global health research. Awards of up to $25,000 are available for global health or women's health interdisciplinary research projects. Institute on the Environment Spring 2023 Mini Grants Deadline: 4/30/23 Designed to support and spark collaborative projects with up to $3,000 to address environmental and sustainability issues across the U’s five-campuses, Extension, and outreach centers. UMN faculty, staff, and students are eligible to apply. The RFP is open through midnight April 30. Technology Commercialization Early Innovation Fund Deadline: 5/22/23 Up to $10,000 in funding is available for short-term projects that advance early-stage innovations. All UMN researchers and employees are eligible, including faculty, postdocs, grad students, and staff. |
Limited Extramural FundingThe Limited Extramural Funding list features opportunities that require university coordination. A few opportunities are highlighted below. For more information or to list a new opportunity, contact OVPR Research Advancement at [email protected].
Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr Foundation |
Government FundingCheck out the NIH Matchmaker tool ·Simply enter your abstract or terms into the search field (give it enough information for it to make as precise a match as possible). ·Select whether you want to search for: o Similar Projects, which will allow you to explore NIH funded projects that most closely match, which ICs funded those projects, to which study sections applications for those awards went, and more. o Similar Program Officials, which will show you which NIH program officials have grant portfolios that most closely match the information you input, allow you to explore the awards in those portfolios, provide you email addresses so you can contact the program officials, and shows you the ICs of the program officials o Explore the results screens! Filter results by clicking on the histograms. When in doubt, reach out – NIH staff are there to help you navigate the grants process! Federal
The UMN Washington Update is a weekly digest of congressional updates and funding opportunities prepared by Lewis-Burke Associates. A few opportunities are highlighted below.
State Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) - Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (ENRTF) Deadline: 3/31/23 |
Industry Funding & PartnershipsThe Industry Funding and Partnership Opportunities list is compiled by Technology Commercialization staff. For more information, contact Leza Besemann at [email protected].
Halo Science Halo Science is a quick and easy way for scientists to identify potential industry partners and find funding for research projects in their fields. Several UMN proposals have recently been funded. |
Private Foundation FundingThe Corporate and Foundation Relations Private Foundation RFP list includes a wide range of funding opportunities that are currently available from private funders and foundations.
Proposal Central
Funding opportunities from professional societies and foundations. Human Immunome Project
The Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants Deadline: 6/11/23 Awards of $150,000 to support early-career investigators working to significantly advance human immunology and vaccine and immunotherapy research for major global diseases. Vilcek Foundation 2024 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science Deadline: 6/12/23 Awards of $50,000 to young, immigrant biomedical scientists who demonstrate outstanding early achievement. ORGANIZATIONS THAT FUND RESEARCHA number of extramural funding opportunities are available for those interested in cancer-related research. A sampling of external funding agencies can be found below.
Other Funding ResourcesUniversity Libraries - The University Libraries provides resources for getting started with searching for funding and using reference databases, such as Pivot, SPIN, and the Foundation Directory Online (FDO). |
