Prestige Awards
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Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program
Funder: Carnegie Corporation of New York
Award amount: $200,000
Fields eligible: political science, economics, humanities, social sciences
Career level: PhD, hold a terminal degree, or be a high-level professional working outside of academia
Explore the previous call: 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program call
Beckman Scholars Program
Funder: Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Award Amount: $156,000
Fields elibile: chemistry, biochemistry, the biological and medical sciences, or some interdisciplinary combination of these subjects
Career level: must be full-time students throughout the duration of the award
Explore the previous call: 2024 Beckman Scholars Program call
Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists
Funder: Blavatnik Family Foundation
Award Amount: $250,000
Fields eligible: life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and chemical sciences
Career level: early-career
Explore the previous call: 2023 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists call
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program
Funder: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Award amount: <$8,600,000
Fields eligible: biological and biomedical sciences
Career level: MD and/or PhD (began their first post-training position and a tenure-track [or equivalent] faculty position on or after March 1, 2020)
Explore the previous call: 2024 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program call
Keck Research Program
Funder: W.M. Keck Foundation
Award amount: varies (typically <$2,000,000)
Fields eligible: medical research, science, engineering, innovative, high-risk
Career level: any
Explore the previous call: 2024 Keck Research Program call
Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards
Funder: The Hartwell Foundation
Award amount: $300,000
Fields eligible: early-stage, applied biomedical research that has not qualified for funding from traditional sources and has the potential to benefit children of the United States
Career level: if the applicant does not hold an MD, at least one collaborator must be identified as a practicing physician, preferably in pediatrics
Explore the previous call: 2024 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award call
Moore Inventor Fellows
Funder: The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Award amount: $675,000
Fields eligible: science, environmental conservation, patient care
Career level: (M.S., Ph.D. or M.D. received on or after 2014)
Explore the previous call: 2023 Moore Inventor Fellows call
Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering
Funder: The David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Award amount: $875,000
Fields eligible: science and engineering (including physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering)
Career level: within first 3 years of faculty career
Explore the previous call: 2024 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering call
Pew Biomedical Scholars
Funder: Pew Charitable Trusts
Award amount: $300,000
Fields eligible: basic, translational, and applied biomedical research
Career level: doctorate in biomedical sciences, medicine, or a related field, including engineering or the physical sciences
Explore the previous call: 2024 Pew Biomedical Scholars call
Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research
Funder: Pew Charitable Trusts
Award amount: $300,000
Fields eligible: cancer, oncology, treatment, diagnosis, prevention
Career level: early-career
Explore the previous call: 2024 Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research call
Rita Allen Foundation Scholars
Funder: Rita Allen Foundation
Award amount: <$550,000
Fields eligible: cancer, immunology, and neuroscience
Career level: early-career (preferable that candidates be in the first three years of their tenure track)
Explore the previous call: 2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Program call
Rita Allen Scholars Award in Pain
Funder: Rita Allen Foundation
Award amount: $150,000
Fields eligible: basic science mechanisms of pain
Career level: early-career
Explore the previous call: 2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award in Pain call
Searle Scholars Program
Funder: Kinship Foundation
Award amount: $300,000
Fields eligible: biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences
Career level: nominee must have begun their appointment as a principal investigator at the assistant professor level as of May 1 of the calendar year prior to the competition
Explore the previous call: 2023 Searle Scholars call
Sloan Research Fellowships
Funder: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Award amount: $75,000
Fields eligible: chemistry, computer science, earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, or a related field
Career level: early-career
Explore the previous call: 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships call