IDSA Foundation Awards
The IDSA Foundation is committed to reducing the burdens of infectious diseases and offers various awards for investigators throughout the year.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Training Programs
Research and public health training programs and fellowships
Fulbright Programs for US Scholars
Fulbright programs offer U.S. faculty, administrators and professionals grants to lecture, conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields, or to participate in seminars.
Fulbright Programs for Non-US Scholars
Programs support research and teaching of visiting scholars to the U.S.
US Department of Veterans Affairs Career Development Program
Provides mentoring for junior researchers, clinicians and non-clinicians, so they can learn from renowned, experienced VA researchers. Awards are provided in biomedical laboratory, clinical science, health services, and rehabilitation research.
Burroughs Welcome Fund Grant Programs
International Society for Infectious Diseases Grants
ISID aims to enhance research, prevention, and treatment of infectious diseases, particularly in low resource countries. Several fellowships and small grants for early investigators (younger than 40) are available.
March of Dimes Research Grants
NIAID Fellowship Grants
See information on NRSA postdoctoral fellowships.
European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases Awards
Training fellowships and other awards for ESPID members conducting basic or clinical pediatric research.
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development
Postdoctoral fellowships and young investigator awards.
NIAID Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG)
Seeking proposals for clinical studies to address antibacterial resistance, including infections caused by Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention, and diagnostics.
Resources and Opportunities
Application/Review Process
Bay Area Lyme Foundation
Emerging Scientific Leader in Lyme Research Award
Emerging Leader Award
NIH Common Fund High Risk-High Reward Programs
Funding opportunities for scientists with exceptional creativity who propose highly innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research
NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program
NIH Director's Transformative Research Award Program
NIH Fogarty International Center Funding Opportunities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Grant and award opportunities for health-related research organizations that focus on health prevention, research, and surveillance
Grants General Information
National Prevention Information Network
Ellison Medical Foundation
Funding opportunities for investigators at various career stages
Ellison Medical Foundation Opportunities
Senior Scholar in Aging
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Offered to members of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Young Investigator Award
Thrasher Research Fund
Offering awards in pediatric medical research
E.W. "Al" Thrasher Awards
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Current scientific competitions
The AGS Foundation for Health in Aging T. Franklin Williams Research Scholars Award
Grants.gov
Search and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies
NIH Resources for New Investigators
Portal with helpful resources for new investigators
NIH Career Development Awards
Also known as K awards, career development awards are usually mentored research awards given by each institute and designed for individuals who have not yet obtained an independent research award.
NIH Institutional Training Grants
Includes research and training grants and fellowship opportunities.
NIH Common Fund High Risk-High Reward Programs
NIH Fogarty International Center
Career development opportunities available for individuals, including fellowships and career development awards.
National Biosafety & Biocontainment Training Program
NBBTP is a 2 year program to train fellows to work in high containment research environments by acquiring knowledge and skills necessary to meet the scientific, regulatory, biocontainment, biosafety, engineering, communications, management, and public relations challenges associated with the conduct of research in these facilities.
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01, Clinical Trial Optional)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support innovative approaches to identifying, understanding, and developing strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up and sustainability of evidence-based interventions, tools, policies, and guidelines.
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21, Clinical Trial Optional)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support innovative approaches to identifying, understanding, and developing strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up and sustainability of evidence-based interventions, tools, policies, and guidelines.
NIAID New Innovators Awards (DP2 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The NIAID New Innovator Awards supports post-doctoral investigators of exceptional creativity who propose highly innovative bold new research with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important problems in biomedical research of priority to NIAID. Deadline: October 2019
NIH Loan Repayment Program
Application for the loan repayment program is available for researchers who commit to at least two years of qualified research in the extramural or intramural program. Qualified research includes clinical and pediatric, and NIH will pay up to $35,000 per year of student loan debt.
NIH Postdoctoral Training
Information available on applying for postdoctoral training at NIH.
NIAID Career and Training Portal
Useful resource to help direct trainee researchers through the maze of programs and grants available through NIAID and NIH.
NIH Resources for New Investigators
Portal with helpful resources for new investigators
NIH Loan Repayment Program
Application for the loan repayment program is available for researchers who commit to at least two years of qualified research in the extramural or intramural program. Qualified research includes clinical and pediatric, and NIH will pay up to $35,000 per year of student loan debt.
NIH Postdoctoral Training
Information available on applying for postdoctoral training at NIH.
NIAID Career and Training Portal
Useful resource to help direct trainee researchers through the maze of programs and grants available through NIAID and NIH.
NIH Resources for New Investigators
Portal with helpful resources for new investigators
NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education Videocasts
Topics include poster presentations, oral presentations, and improving spoken English.
Partners Infectious Disease Images website
IDSA continues to partner with colleagues at Brigham and Women’s Hospital through the fellow/student case submissions that are reviewed and selected for presentation at the Fellows Day course. Once the course concludes, the selected cases along with others submitted for consideration, are posted on a central repository site that can be accessed at www.idimages.org and used for fellow-in-training teaching and other educational projects. These case studies are open access and available to all.
Entering Mentoring: A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Scientists
Materials, including articles, case studies, and syllabus, from a seminar taught by HHMI Professor Jo Handelsman and others at University of Wisconsin-Madison.