Prestige Awards

Funder: Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

Award Amount: $600,000

Research eligibility: Chemistry and life sciences

Career stage: Within the first four years of a tenure-track position, or an equivalent independent research appointment

Explore the previous call: 2025 Beckman Young Investigators Program

Funder: Blavatnik Family Foundation

Award Amount: $250,000

Research eligibility: Life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and chemical sciences

Career stage: Have been born in or after 1984. Tenured or tenure-track academic faculty position, or equivalent

Explore the previous call: 2025 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists

Funder: Carnegie Corporation of New York

Award amount: $200,000

Research eligibility: Social sciences and humanities including political science, sociology, history, economics, and anthropology, among others

Career stage: A junior scholar is any holder of a terminal degree who doesn’t have tenure or the equivalent. A senior scholar is defined as one who has tenure or an equivalent position.

Explore the previous call: 2025 Carnegie Fellows Program

Funder: William T. Grant Foundation

Award amount: $425,000

Research eligibility: Proposed research must address youth ages 5-25 in the U.S.

Career stage: Doctorate within seven years of submitting their application

Explore the previous call: 2025 William T. Grant Scholars Program

Funder: The Hartwell Foundation

Award amount: $300,000

Research eligibility: 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 stage: 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: 2025 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award

Funder: W.M. Keck Foundation

Award amount: Varies (typically <$2,000,000)

Research eligibility: Medical research, science, engineering, innovative, high-risk

Career stage: Any

Explore the previous call: 2025 Keck Research Program

Funder: Mellon Foundation

Award amount: Varies

Research eligibility: Humanities and humanistic social science scholars whose research interests call for formal training in a discipline other than the one in which they are expert

Career stage: Doctorate in the humanities or humanistic social sciences within the last six to twelve years

Explore the previous call: 2025 Mellon New Directions Fellowship

Funder: The David and Lucille Packard Foundation

Award amount: $875,000

Research eligibility: Physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering

Career stage: Within first 3 years of faculty career

Explore the previous call: 2025 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering

Funder: Pew Charitable Trusts

Award amount: $300,000

Research eligibility: Pioneering approaches to basic, translational and applied biomedical research; no clinical trials research

Career stage: Full-time appointment at the rank of assistant professor within the last four years

Explore the previous call: 2025 Pew Biomedical Scholars

Funder: Pew Charitable Trusts

Award amount: $300,000

Research eligibility: Pioneering approaches to basic, translational and applied biomedical research; no clinical trials research

Career stage: Full-time appointment at the rank of assistant professor within the last four years

Explore the previous call: 2025 Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research

Funder: Rita Allen Foundation

Award amount: <$550,000

Research eligibility: Cancer, immunology, and neuroscience

Career stage: Independent investigator in early stages of career, first three years of tenure track preferred

Explore the previous call: 2025 Rita Allen Scholars Program

Funder: Kinship Foundation

Award amount: $300,000

Research eligibility: Biological sciences, chemistry and medicine

Career stage: Within first year of first assistant professor appointment

Explore the previous call: 2025 Searle Scholars Program

Funder: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Award amount: $75,000

Research eligibility: Chemistry, computer science, earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics or related field

Career stage: Tenure-track through untenured as of September 15 of nomination year

Explore the previous call: 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships