Early Career Funding

Find Funding for Evaluating Social Programs and Policies: Meet Arnold Ventures

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Tuesday, April 29 | 12-1 pm Virtual Event Arnold Ventures (AV) is a philanthropy dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through evidence-based policy solutions that maximize opportunity and minimize injustice. AV focuses on improving systems where outcomes are falling short, incentives are misaligned, and the time is right for change in areas including criminal justice, higher […]

Meet the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research

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Friday, February 21 | 1-2 pm Virtual Event The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research funds groundbreaking basic and translational research that will transform the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. The foundation supports individual investigators, multi-disciplinary teams, and early-stage companies in the United States and across the globe. In this virtual presentation for BU faculty, Senior […]

Meet the LUNGevity Foundation (2025)

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Are you looking for funding to study lung cancer? The LUNGevity Foundation supports research with the potential to improve lung cancer outcomes. In this virtual workshop for the BU research community, LUNGevity Executive Director of Research Upal Basu Roy, PhD, MPH, will present on the foundation’s five grant programs: The Brown/LUNGevity Award to Understand Mechanisms of […]

Meet the American Cancer Society (2024)

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As the nation’s largest private, not-for-profit source of funds for scientists studying cancer, the American Cancer Society (ACS) remains committed to funding basic, translational, clinical, and cancer control research now and in the future. ACS supports early-career and established investigators who perform innovative cancer research across a wide range of disciplines, to meet critically important […]

Meet the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (2024)

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The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) supports research that will increase understanding of suicide or test treatments and other interventions that save lives. Recent focus areas include: Diversity: Suicide in underrepresented communities, health and mental health disparities and inequities, support for researchers from underrepresented backgrounds. Evaluation of technology: Testing of technological interventions for suicide […]

Meet the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2024)

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Hosted by BU Foundation Relations The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funds original research and education related to science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics. Join us for a webinar overview of the Sloan Foundation’s programs designed to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in STEM higher education, including University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring, Sloan Centers for […]

Meet the Human Frontier Science Program (2024)

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Hosted by BU Foundation Relations The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) supports innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems with an emphasis on novel and interdisciplinary approaches and scientific exchanges across national boundaries. Through faculty research grants and postdoctoral fellowships, HFSP supports scientists both within and outside the traditional life sciences (e.g., chemistry, computational biology, […]

Find Funding for Neuroscience Research and Youth Mental Health: Meet Klingenstein Philanthropies (2022)

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The Klingenstein Philanthropies is comprised of three foundations whose interests reflect the passions and experiences of the Klingenstein family. Although the focus of each foundation differs, together they aim to improve every person’s health, well-being, and education, particularly those most in need. Klingenstein Philanthropies will present to Boston University faculty members and postdocs about two […]

NSF CAREER: Overview and Advice for Competitive Proposals (2022)

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This event will provide an overview of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER). As part of NSF’s COVID-19 recovery efforts, the agency expects to increase funding this year for the CAREER program. Panelists from Lewis-Burke Associates, a federal lobbying and consulting firm in Washington, DC, will provide early career investigators with advice […]

Early Career Workshop (2022)

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Host: Foundation Relations & Federal Relations Young investigator awards provide critical support to early career faculty, often serving as a funding bridge between postdoctoral years and fully independent investigator status. These awards, however, are usually very competitive. To give BU’s young investigators valuable insights about how to secure these grants, we are convening a panel of […]