The goal of this resource is to encourage grant submission to funding opportunities outside of the more typical NIH streams and to encourage recommendation of deserving colleagues for distinguished awards. Opportunities are listed by submission due date; please click the associated link in the table for more information on either the application or nomination process for a specific funder. Note that a larger list of distinguished awards can be found through this EVCP link.
If you intend to submit an application or nomination to an opportunity listed here, please inform us by email at [email protected]
List of Annually Recurring Funding Opportunities
Current Funding Opportunities
Funder |
Mechanism |
Due Date |
Award Amount |
| American Cancer Society (ACS) | Clinician Scientist Development Grant | Application deadline is Sunday, October 15, 2023,
Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed. |
$135,000 per year for 3 to 5 years |
| Gates Foundation and Wellcome | Strengthening Health and Disease Modeling for Public Health Decision Making in Africa | Monday, Oct. 23, 2023 | See mechanism description for funding amounts |
| Pfizer | Improving Health Equity in IBD through Disparities Research | 10/11/23 | Up to $250,000 for up to 2 years |
| Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Kavli Foundation, Wellcome Trust | Essential Open-Source Software for Science | LOI due Tuesday, 10/17/23. If invited full application due 12/5/23 | Between $50,000 and $200,000 per year for two years |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) | Interested candidates who meet the eligibility criteria may submit one online application through BWF’s Grant Application System by October 17, 2023, 12:00 pm Pacific Time. Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply. | $700,000 over 5 years |
| The Kenneth Rainin Foundation | Innovator Awards Program | LOI due by Saturday,September 30, 2023. If invited full proposals are due January 26, 2024.
Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed. |
Up to $150,000 will be awarded for individual research projects, and up to $300,000 will be awarded for collaborative projects involving multiple investigators. |
| William T. Grant Foundation | Institutional Challenge Grant | Due date is Wednesday, September 13, 2023.
Because of the institutional commitment required, applicants must obtain approval from their Chair or Dean before applying. Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP |
$650,000 over 3 years |
| Upstream Research Center (co-led by UCSF, UC Davis and Stanford) | Track 1: Community Partners Track 2: Pathways & Policy Track 3: Early Career |
Proposals due August 28, 2023 at 5 pm PST | Up to $75,000 fffor one year |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI) |
Interested candidates who meet the eligibility criteria may submit one online letter of intent through BWF's Grant Application System by September 1, 2023 12:00 pm PT |
$560,000 over 5 years |
| Hevolution and Rosenkranz Foundations | Impetus Grants | August 31, 2023 | Between $10,000 and $500,000 |
| Wolf Foundation | Wolf Prize | October 12, 2023 | $100,000 |
| Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) | Community-Partnered Participatory Research Awards (CPPRA) | LOI due August 24, 2023 at noon PT Invite full proposal due October 26, 2023 at noon PT | Up to $500,000 per year for 2 years for pilot grants and up to $600,000 per year for up to 3 years for full CPPRA grants |
| UCSF Brain Tumor Spore Program | Career Enhancement Program (CEP) | September 15, 2023 | $45,000 for a 12 month period |
| Ono Pharmaceuticals | UC DDC Ono Pharm Seed Funding | UCDDC Seed Funds LOI due August 31, 2023
Link: https://www.ucdrugdiscovery.org/2023loi. Password: DDC2023. |
Up to $100,000 |
| BARDA Division of Research, Innovation and Ventures (DRIVe) | Decentralize Clinical Operations for Healthcare and Research (D-COHRe) | Early submissions are highly encouraged, as opportunities may close based on available funding. Submissions received by July 25, 2023, have the opportunity for potential award by the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 2023. Deadline to submit your proposal is June 01, 2024. | See mechanism description for details |
Burroughs Wellcome Fund |
Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Awards |
Letters of intent will be received until August 31, 2023 12pm PT. Invitations to submit full proposal will be sent September 15, 2023. Please alert Jennifer Schmidt ([email protected]) to announce your decision to apply then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed. |
$375,000 over three years |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) | LOI due July 17, 2023 12:00 pm Pacific Full proposals due November 15, 2023 Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, |
$500,000 over 5 years |
| Nutrition Obesity Research Center at UCSF | UCSF Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (NORC) Pilot and Feasibility Awards | July 1, 2023 | Up to $50,000 |
| National Institutes of Health - Office of Research on Women's Health (NIH-ORWH) Understanding Chronic Conditions Understudied Among Women | R01 Project Research Grant R21 Exploratory/Development Research Grant |
See mechanism attachment for details | See mechanism attachment for details |
| UCSF P30 Center for Environmental Research and Translation for Health (EaRTH) | Mentored Scientist Award Mentored Clinician Award Mentored Postdoctoral Scholar Award |
All due Monday, June 4, 2023 11:59 pm | $15,000 for one year $15,000 for one year $12,000 for one year |
| ARPA-H | Accelerating Innovation through ARPA-H and FDA Collaboration | Interested persons and organizations are invited to submit comments on or before 5 p.m. ET on May 30, 2023 | See RFI for details |
| UCSF-BROAD Stem Cell Center | IRM Postdoc Independent Research Grants | Due July 14, 2023 by 11:59 PM PST | Up to $30,000 for one year |
| Research!America | 2023 Discovery Innovation Health Prize | Applications are open May 16 through June 15, 2023 | $200,000 |
| New York Academy of Sciences and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development | Interstellar Initiative 2023 |
May 22, 2023
Final applications with proposals are due by 15:00 PM May 22 (Japan), 2:00 AM May 22 (NY). |
See announcement for details |
| ARPA-H | NITRO - Novel Innovations for Tissue Regeneration in Osteoarthritis |
Proposers’ Day: June 15, 2023, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM EDT (8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CDT) Registration Due: June 8, 2023, 12:00 PM EDT Proposers’ Day Registration |
See announcement for details |
| Human Immunome Project and Michelson Medical Research Foundation | 2023 Michelson Prizes Next Generation Grants | June 11, 2023 | $150,000 |
| RTW Charitable Foundation | Research Grant Program | LOI due May 31, 2023. Please alert Jennifer Schmidt ([email protected]) to announce your decision to apply then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed | Up to $150,000 for one year to support translational projects |
| NIH Common Fund (Link to NIH Common Fund) | Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) | LOI due April 28, 2023 5:00 pm ;ocal time Full proposals due May 30, 2023 by 5:00 pm local time |
see instructions for details |
| BARDA | BARDA Influenza and Emerging Infectious Diseases Division (IEIDD) | AOI open until May 3, 2023 | See instructions for details |
| Simons Foundation | Pivot Fellowship Program | May 15, 2023, 9 AM PT | see announcement for funding details |
| NIH/Office of Strategic Coordination | NIH Common Fund (NOT-OD-23-070) | April 11, 2023 by 5:00 pm local time of the applicant organization | see announcement for details |
| Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) | Open ARPA-H Broad Agency Announcement | Open for one year ending March 14, 2024 | see announcement for details |
| Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) | ARPA-H Dash to Accelerate Health Outcomes | Nomination accepted through on online portal between March 29 and April 7, 2023 | ($6,000 - $15,000) can be won by the Dash participants who submit entries for health transformations and ($100 - $1,500) can be won by community participants who vote on the head-to-head matchups |
| Social Science Research Council | Mercury Project | Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis until May 1, 2023 | Average Grant is $650,000 |
| UCSF | California Collaborative for Pandemic Recovery & Readiness Research (CPR3) | April 17, 2023 by 6:00 pm PST
This is an open RFP for investigators from all UC campuses Please email [email protected] with any additional questions |
$100,000 to $300,000 for one year |
| Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research (PBBR) | NFR - New Frontier Research TMC - Technologies, Methodologies & Cores |
Friday, April 21, 2023 5:00 pm PDT | NFR - $25,000 - $150,000 for 1 year TMC - $50,000 - $500,000 for 1 year in matching funds |
| Genentech | Medical education regarding hepatocellular carcinoma research | April 7, 2023
Follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Industry Contracts Officer at https://icd.ucsf.edu/icd-departmental-assignments |
Up to $450,000 |
| Breakthroughprize.org | Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences | April 1, 2023 11:59 pm PDT | $3,000,000 |
| PCORI - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute | New Funding Opportunities | LOI for all PFAs are due Febreuary 7, 2023 | Various |
| Cancer Research Institute | CRI Immuno-Informatics Postdoctoral Fellowship | March 1, 2023 and September 1, 2023 | Newly awarded fellowships provide a stipend of $55,000 for the first year, $57,000 for the second year, and $59,000 for the third year. |
| Rainwater Charitable Foundation | Tauopathy Challenge Workshop (and subsequent grant opportunity) | LOI Deadline: February 15, 2023, 6 pm EST | $10,000 grant for full workshop participation |
| PhRMA Foundation | 2023 Fellowship and Grants - Value Assessment & Health Outcomes Research, Translational Medicine | February 1, 2023 12 pm (Noon) ET | See website for details |
| Danone North America | Danone North America Gut Microbiome, Yogurt and Probiotics Fellowship Grant | February 14. 2023 | $25,000 |
| Ono Pharma Foundation UCSF Sponsor Office of Strategic Alliances |
2023 Ono Pharma Breakthrough Science Initiative Awards | Internal Due Date February 7, 2023 5 pm PST UCSF Internal Application |
Annual funding of $300,000/year, totaling a maximum of $900,000 for the normal term of a research project. The Ono Pharma Foundation will provide up to a maximum of an additional 15% ($45,000) per year of the funding to be used for indirect costs of the PI’s institution. The total amount of the grant for three-year research would be up to $1,035,000. |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Regulatory Science Awards | February 10, 2023. 12 PM PT. Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, | See RFP for details |
| Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation | Transformation of Mental Health Care | January 13, 2023, 11:59 pm EST | $100,000 per year over a two-year period |
| St. Baldrick's Foundation |
Fight Osteosarcoma Together Super Grant (Review the full RFA in ProposalCentral for eligibility and application information) |
LOI due December 9, 2022 by 5 pm ET and must be submitted at Proposal Central | $500,000 distributed over a 3 year period |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative | December 1, 2022. 12 PM PT. Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, | Up to $500,000 over a four year period ($125,000 per year) |
| Larry L. Hillblom Foundation (Aging and Brain Related Research Funding) | Network Grant | LOI Submission Start Date December 30, 2022. Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed. | Max funding $600,000 per year for up to four years |
| Larry L. Hillblom Foundation (Aging and Brain Related Research Funding) | Start Up Grant | LOI Submission Start Date December 30, 2022. Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed. | Max funding $120,000 per year for up to three years |
| Larry L. Hillblom Foundation (Aging and Brain Related Research Funding) | Fellowship Grant | LOI Submission Start Date December 30, 2022. Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed. | Max funding $75,000 per year for up to three years |
| Larry L. Hillblom Foundation (Diabetes Research Funding) | Network Grant | LOI Submission Start Date December 30, 2022. Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed. | Max funding $600,000 per year for up to four years |
| Larry L. Hillblom Foundation (Diabetes Research Funding) | Start Up Grant | LOI Submission Start Date December 30, 2022. Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed. | Max funding $120,000 per year for up to three years |
| Larry L. Hillblom Foundation (Diabetes Research Funding) | Fellowship Grant | LOI Submission Start Date December 30, 2022. Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed. | Max funding $75,000 per year for up to three years |
| Biden Cancer Initiative | HESI THRIVE | LOI due April 10, 2023, June 19, 2023 Full Proposals are due (if selected) | $20,000 - $50,000 for up to 24 months |
| Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation | Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellowship Award | Deadline is December 1, 2022. Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply. | $240,000 over 3 years |
| Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation | Physician-Scientist Training Award | Deadline is December 1, 2022. Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply. | $460,000 over 4 years |
| Doris Duke Charitable Foundation | Clinical Scientist Development Award (CSDA) | Webinar on 10/5/22 12:00 pm ET Application deadline 11/17/22 3:00 pm ET |
$150,000 for 3 years |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Career Awards for Medical Scientists | Please email [email protected] to announce your intention to apply, then follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Research Services Coordinator as needed. Application deadline is October 4, 2022 at noon PDT. | $700,000 over five years |