Funding Opportunities

Federal Funding Opportunities

To search NIH funding opportunities visit Grants.gov

For NSF funding opportunities visit NSF.gov

For DOD grants you can search through Grants.gov, or by visiting the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) site.

For a variety of funders, type in key words to Pivot. (Note: you can save your search after creating an account and have emails automatically sent to you when funding opportunities come up that match your search criteria.)

GrantForward is a funding opportunity database that was built by academics for researchers. They have a number of federal, state, foundation, and corporate sponsors.

State of Minnesota Resources

Search the MN Grants portal for funding opportunities related to Science & Technology. For more information about applying for or managing a grant from the State of MN click here.

Internal Grants

There are several sources of internal (within the University of Minnesota) grants:

Foundations/Non-Profits

Radpn Database

This database contains a summary of funding opportunities from foundations and private sponsors and is maintained by the University of Minnesota Foundation.

Radpn Database with private sponsors

American Cancer Society

The American Cancer Society offers a variety of funding opportunities with a variety of focus areas.

One common ACS research grant for early stage investigators is the Research Scholar Grant, which are available to investigators in their first 10 years of an independent career and provide up to four years of support with $165,000/year in direct costs. Applications for this mechanism are due April 1st and October 15th each year.

Mentored grants are also provided under the Clinician Scientist Development Grant and the Postdoctoral Fellowship.

American Heart Association

The American Heart Association (AHA) offers grant support to Postdoctoral Researchers and Career Development Awards to support cardiovascular and cerebrovascular research. For general information on AHA research programs click here.