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Boston University Medical Campus
Office of the Associate Provost for Research
Research Funding Opportunities – deadlines FEBRUARY 2015
Listed in alphabetical order, the following private organizations are offering one or more funding opportunities. For details on a specific opportunity click
on the corresponding hyperlink below:
American Asthma Foundation
American Institute for Cancer Research
Bladder Cancer Research Advocacy Network
Damon Runyon Cancer Fund **
Elsa U. Pardee Foundation
Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation
Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research
FRAXA Foundation
Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation **
Iaccocca Family Foundation **
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund
Klarman Family Foundation
Lasker Foundation
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society **
Leukemia Foundation **
Lupus Foundation of America
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
PhRMA Foundation
Rainin Foundation
Whitehall Foundation
** Dates not confirmed by the funding organization at the time of compiling this information. Always check foundation website for updated RFP.
American Asthma Foundation
AAF Scholar Awards
The program supports work in all investigative fields that may reveal new pathways in the pathogenesis of
asthma. Studies may involve laboratory or clinical investigation, including genetic and epidemiological
studies. Studies of humans are encouraged. The Program does not sponsor therapeutic trials.
Amount: $450,000
DEADLINE : FEBRUARY 4, 2014
URL: http://www.americanasthmafoundation.org/
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American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR)
Investigator-Initiated Grants
The AICR Grant Program is dedicated to funding research on cancer prevention, treatment and survival through
food, nutrition, physical activity and weight management.
Amount: $247,000
DEADLINE : LOI JANUARY 26, 2015
URL: http://www.aicr.org/research/grant/research_funded_grant_programs.html
PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/12129
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Bladder Cancer Research Advocacy Network
Bladder Cancer Research Innovation Award
The aim of the 2014 Bladder Cancer Research Innovation Award is to support exceptionally novel and creative
projects with great potential to produce breakthroughs in the management of bladder cancer. Proposals will be
accepted for creative ideas and innovative approaches that have direct application and relevance to bladder
cancer.
Amount: $300,000
DEADLINE : LOI: FEBRUARY 12, 2015 **
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URL: http://www.bcan.org/research/grants/bladder-cancer-research-innovation-award/
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/149669
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Clinical Investigator Award
The Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award supports independent young physician-scientists conducting
disease-oriented research that demonstrates a high level of innovation and creativity. The goal is to support the
best young physician-scientists doing work aimed at improving the practice of cancer medicine.
Amount: $450,000
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 17, 2015 **
URL: http://www.damonrunyon.org/for_scientists/more/clinical_investigator_award_overview
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/59848
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Elsa U. Pardee Cancer Research Foundation
Cancer Research Grants
Elsa U. Pardee, whose life was taken by cancer in 1944, provided a $1 million trust fund "for the promotion of
the control and cure of cancer." She directed that this bequest be used to support research in the field of cancer
and to provide for others the advantages of new knowledge and techniques for the treatment of cancer.
Amount: $100,000-150,000
DEADLINE : FEBRUARY 1, 2014
URL: http://www.pardeefoundation.org/grants.aspx
PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/3367
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Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation
Research Awards Program
Our Research Awards Program provides funding for investigator-initiated research projects that fall into either
of two categories: (1) preclinical and pilot clinical studies that promise to lead to the development of a
reimbursable clinical indication for focused ultrasound within the next five to seven years or (2) high-risk, earlystage, proof-of-concept projects that are unlikely to receive funding from other sources but that, if successful,
could have a profound impact on the advancement of the field of focused ultrasound.
Amount Available: $100,000
DEADLINE : FEBRUARY 1
URL: http://www.fusfoundation.org/Research-Program/research-program-applying-for-funding
PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/133596
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Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research
Mentored Research Training Grants
Mentored Research Training Grants help anesthesiologists develop the skills, preliminary data for subsequent
grant applications and research publications needed to become independent investigators.
Amount: $175,000
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DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15, 2015
URL: http://faer.org/research-grants/mentored-research-training-grant/
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/3702
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FRAXA Research Foundation
FRAXA Grants and Fellowships
FRAXA aims to accelerate research aimed at finding a specific treatment for fragile X syndrome. Our goal is to
bring practical treatment into current medical practice as quickly as possible; therefore, preference will be given
to research projects that have a clear practical application and the results of which will be shared in a timely
fashion.
Amount: $100,000
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 2, 2015
URL: http://www.fraxa.org/research/apply/
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/13772
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Data-Driven Discovery Investigator Competition
The Science Program of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is announcing a solicitation for applications for
an Investigator Program as part of its Data-Driven Discovery (DDD) Initiative. DDD seeks to advance the people
and practices of data-intensive science to take advantage of the increasing volume, velocity, and variety of
scientific data to make new discoveries. Data-intensive science is inherently multidisciplinary, combining natural
sciences with methods from statistics and computer science.
Amount: $1,500,000
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 24, 2015 **
URL: http://www.moore.org/programs/science/data-driven-discovery/ddd-investigators
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/152340
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Iacocca Family Foundation
Type 1 Diabetes Research Grants
This program twill support innovative and promising research projects that will lead to a cure for type 1
diabetes. The Foundation will accept novel projects which directly accelerate a cure for type 1 diabetes or
inform the understanding of the disease by a related or complementary mechanism of action.
Amount: $500,000
DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2015 **
URL: http://www.iacoccafoundation.org/diabetes-research/grant-guidelines
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/149277
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Office of the Associate Provost for Research
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund
Fellowship Awards
The Fund awards fellowships to suitably qualified individuals for full time postdoctoral studies in the medical and
related sciences bearing on the causes, origin and treatment of cancer.
Amount: $150,000
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 2, 2015
URL: http://www.jccfund.org/fellowship-information
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/221
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Klarman Family Foundation/The Medical Foundation
Grants Program in Eating Disorders Research
The Klarman Family Foundation is interested in providing strategic investment in translational research that will
accelerate progress in developing effective treatments for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating
disorder. The Program’s short-term goal is to support the most outstanding science and expand the pool of
scientists whose research explores the basic biology of feeding, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and/or binge
eating disorder. The long-term goal is to improve the lives of patients suffering from these conditions.
Amount: $400,000
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 11, 2015
URL: http://klarmanfoundation.org/eating-disorders-research/
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/110977
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Lasker Foundation
Lasker Award Nominations
The Lasker Awards will be offered in three categories in 2015: Basic Medical Research, Clinical Medical
Research, and Public Service. The Special Achievement Award, presented every other year, will next be given in
2016.
Amount: $100,000
DEADLINE: NOMINATIONS DUE FEBRUARY 2, 2015
URL: http://www.laskerfoundation.org/nominate.htm
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/18487
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Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Translational Research Program
The goal of the program is to accelerate transfer of findings from the laboratory to clinical application. The
program's purpose is to fund research that shows high promise for translating basic biomedical knowledge to
prevention or new treatments and, ultimately, to prolong and enhance life..
Amount: $600,000
DEADLINE: LOI FEBRUARY 15, 2015 **
URL: http://www.lls.org/#/researchershealthcareprofessionals/academicgrants/translationalresearch/
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/14383
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Leukemia Research Foundation
The Hollis Brownstein Research Grants Program
The Leukemia Research Foundation exclusively funds New Investigators - individuals beginning to establish their
own laboratories that are no longer under the tutelage of a senior scientist mentor. It is difficult for them to get
the level of funding they need at this critical point in their careers.
Amount: $100,000
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 17, 2015 **
URL: http://www.allbloodcancers.org/hollis-brownstein-research-grants
PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/65400
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Lupus Foundation of America
LIFELINE Grant Program
The LIFELINE grant (RFA 014-01 LL) will provide five (5) one-year grant awards in the amount of $140,000. Of the
five awards given, one award will specifically focus on pediatric lupus research and another will focus specifically
on lupus nephritis research.
Amount: $140,000
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 21, 2015 **
URL: http://www.lupus.org/research/request-for-applications
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/149634
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National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Research Grants
The National MS Society welcomes applications for studies related to multiple sclerosis that may serve to
advance our mission of stopping MS progression, restoring function and improving quality of life, and
preventing MS. The Society supports fundamental as well as applied studies, non-clinical or clinical in nature,
including projects in patient management, care and rehabilitation.
Amount: unspecified
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 4, 2014
URL: http://www.nationalmssociety.org/For-Professionals/Researchers/Society-Funding/Research-Grants
PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/15546
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PhRMA Foundation
Clinical Pharmacology Faculty Development Awards
The goals of this program are to insure that the discipline of clinical pharmacology will recruit promising
individuals with a career commitment to the study of drugs and therapeutics.
Amount: $240,000
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 1, 2015
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URL: http://www.phrmafoundation.org/index.php?option=com_award&task=sdetail&id=19
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/117251
Health Outcomes Fellowships
This program in health outcomes provides stipend support for individuals engaged in a research training
program that will create or extend their credentials in health outcomes. The intent of this program is to
support post-doctoral career development activities of individuals prepared (or preparing) to engage in
research that will strengthen representation of health outcomes in schools of pharmacy, medicine, nursing
and public health
Amount: $110,000
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 1, 2015
URL: http://www.phrmafoundation.org/index.php?option=com_award&task=sdetail&id=7
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/62473
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Rainin Foundation
Innovator Awards Program for IBD Research
The Foundation supports research projects that are potentially transformative to diagnosing, treating and
curing Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The Program is open to tenure track professors (or the equivalent)
at all levels from any scientific discipline and from any non-profit research institutions worldwide.
Interdisciplinary collaboration is strongly encouraged.
Amount: $225,000
DEADLINE: LOI FEBRUARY 15, 2015
URL: http://krfoundation.org/health/innovator-awards/
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/122583
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Whitehall Foundation
Research Grant Programs
The Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. It
is the Foundation's policy to assist those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not heavily
supported by Federal Agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. In order to respond to the
changing environment, the Foundation periodically reassesses the need for financial support by the various
fields of biological research. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as
follows: Invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural
mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to
behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior.
Amount: $225,000
DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 15, 2015
URL: http://www.whitehall.org/grants/
Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/3561
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Boston University Medical Campus
Office of the Associate Provost for Research
For more information contact:
Bettina Durkop, Executive Coordinator
Office of the Associate Provost for Research
Boston University Medical Campus
617-638-4292 | bdurkop@bu.edu
Boston University Medical Campus
Office of the Associate Provost for Research
72 E Concord Street
Boston, MA 02118
APRBUMC@bu.edu
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