Career Resources: Funding

TSRI Funding Opportunities Website

(Internal Access Only) This website companion to the February 25, 2006, “Writing Successful NIH Grants” seminar includes:

• Actual examples of highly-scored NIH grants
• Current TSRI-related funding opportunities
• List of TSRI faculty who have served on NIH study sections
• Links to grant resources from the Kresge Library

Spring Grantsmanship and Funding Fest 2008

UCSD, TSRI, Burnham, and Salk offered a series of grant writing workshops and funding agency seminars in March, April, and May 2008. DVDs from several of these workshops are available for checkout through the Postdoctoral Services Office.

• Spring Grantsmanship & Funding Fest: Schedule of Events
• Mock Study Sections: Flyer; Detailed Outline; Grant Submission Cover Sheet
• "Grant Writing 101" (Powerpoint)
• "Online Grant Resources" handout
• NIH NIAID Training and Career Development Awards (Powerpoint)
• NIH 101: How the NIH Works (Powerpoint)
• Study Sections (Powerpoint)
• NEW: NIH/NCI Support for Research Training and Career Development (Powerpoint)
• NEW: American Heart Association Funding Opportunities (Powerpoint)

Grant and Fellowship Resources

• American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
• American Association of University Women (AAUW)
• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
• American Brain Tumor Association
• American Cancer Society
• American Diabetes Association
• American Federation for Aging Research
• American Heart Association
• American Institute for Cancer Research
• American Psychoanalytic Association
• Arthritis Foundation
• The Burroughs Wellcome Fund
• Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation
• Cancer Research Institute
• Concern Foundation
• The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
• Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences (NIH)
• Ford Foundation Postdoc Fellowships
• The Greenwall Fellowship Program in Biomedical Ethics-97
• Human Frontier Science Program
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
• Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International
• Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research Foundation
• Leukemia Society of America
• The Life Sciences Research Foundation
• Lupus Foundation of America
• Myasthenia Gravis Association
• National Academy of Sciences see Fellowhips & Postdoc Opportunities
• National Kidney Foundation
• National Institutes of Health
• National Research Council Fellowships
• National Science Foundation
• National Society to Prevent Blindness
• The Pew Charitable Trusts
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• Society for Neuroscience
• Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program
• The Whitaker Foundation
• Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

Fellowship Opportunities list from UCSD's Office of Graduate Studies and Research

UCLA Graduate and Postdoctoral Extramural Support (GRAPES) Database

Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Biological Sciences list from UC Berkeley

NIH New Investigators Program

More funding sources and databases are available on the TSRI grants website, including the IRIS database and search interface. This database includes funding opportunities for both U.S.A. and non-U.S.A. citizens.

"Where to Start" (Chronicle Careers article)

"What You Need to Know About Electronic R01 Submissions" (ScienceCareers article)

Career Workshop Series: Fellowship Writing