Click on the below links for details about award amounts, duration, eligibility criteria, and application processes and deadlines. Some grants require institutional nomination.
Information may not be completely up to date. Please email Janice at Janice@pedsendo.org with any errors, corrections, updates, or additions. This list is provided for informational purposes only and does not represent an endorsement by PES.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
General funding mechanisms
- Ruth L. Kirchstein Individual National Research Service Award (F32)
- Career Development Awards (K series)
- Research Project Grants (R series)
- NIH Director’s Early Independence Award Program
- Loan Repayment Program
Individual institutes
- NIDDK – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disorders
- NICHD – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- NIA – National Institute on Aging
- NHLBI – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- NIEHS – National Institute of Enviromental Health Sciences
- Other institutes
Other federal funding agencies
- FDA – Food and Drug Administration Orphan Products Grants Program (diseases affecting <200,000 people in the USA)
- NSF – National Science Foundation
- USDA – United States Department of Agriculture
- Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (Department of Defense and other agencies)
- Others
Professional Societies and Foundations
Endocrinology
Diabetes
- American Diabetes Association
- Diabetes Action
- Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation
- Iacocca Family Foundation (type 1 diabetes )
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund
Other Specific Topics/Conditions
- American Cancer Society
- American Federation for Aging Research
- American Heart Association
- American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
- American Thyroid Association
- Human Growth Foundation
- Obesity Society
- Soft Bones Foundation (Hypophosphatasia)
- University of Pennsylvania Million Dollar Bike Ride Pilot Grant Program (multiple conditions, including adrenoleukodystrophy, fibrous dysplasia/McCune-Albright syndrome, and hyperinsulinism)
General
- American Philosophical Society
- American Medical Association
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund (biomedical sciences)
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (clinical research not involving animals)
- Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation (basic disease-related research)
- Faculty Scholars (Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation / Simons Foundation) (fundamental problems in biology)
- The Greenwall Foundation (ethics and life sciences)
- Hartwell Foundation (biomedical research at selected centers)
- Helen Hay Whitney Foundation (basic biomedical sciences)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Program (biomedical research)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hannah Gray Fellows Program (biomedical and life-sciences research; women of any ethnic or racial group as well as any individual identifying as Hispanic, Black, Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander, or American Indian / Alaska)
- Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation (medical education)
- Life Sciences Research Foundation
- March of Dimes (birth defects, prematurity, infant mortality)
- The Medical Foundation (various grants in life sciences, some are regional)
- The Pew Charitable Trusts (basic and clinical biomedical research)
- Searle Scholars Program (biomedical sciences, primarily basic research)
- Thrasher Research Fund (pediatric medical research)
- William T. Grant Foundation (inequalities in youth development)
Mission Alliance Partners