Searchable Funding Lists

To identify field specific funding agencies, start by asking your faculty mentor(s), laboratory colleagues and recent alumni about their experiences. Federal agencies, such as NIH and NSF, sponsor fellowships and career development awards. The NIH fellowships are focused on providing training for biomedical, behavioral, and clinical researchers. Other federal agencies, and nonfederal agencies, such as societies, foundations, and associations, also solicit fellowship applications too.  Additionally, many institutions, like Stanford University, offer internally supported fellowships as well as institutional research training grants like NIH’s T32 awards.

At Stanford University, Chelsey R. Perry compiles lists of funding opportunities for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty. Email rmg_communications AT stanford.edu and  request to be added to the SMART email list.

• SBSA’s list of Funding and Training Opportunities (graduate students): https://med.stanford.edu/sbsa/resources/funding-and-training.html
• RMG’s Funding opportunities list (graduate students, postdocs, clinical fellows, instructors, etc.): https://med.stanford.edu/rmg/funding/funding-opportunities.html
• Stanford list of NIH T32s (graduate students, postdocs): https://biosciadmin.stanford.edu/2019/11/t32-program-websites/
• VPGE Fellowships (graduate students): https://vpge.stanford.edu/fellowships-funding/all
• Stanford University Seed Funding: https://seedfunding.stanford.edu/
• Searchable databases (GrantForward): https://doresearch.stanford.edu/stanford-research-development-office/finding-funding/funding-search-resources/grantforward
• UCLA’s GRAPES funding opportunities list (graduate students, postdocs): https://grad.ucla.edu/funding/#/
• Harvard University’s CARAT funding opportunities list (graduate students): https://carat.fas.harvard.edu/applicant/browse?type=G
• John Hopkins University funding opportunity list (graduate students): https://research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-opportunities/graduate/