Funding

2023 Summer Pilot Award: Request for applications
Deadline: Sept 14
Early support for exploratory ideas, particularly those with novel hypotheses for autism.
Questions? Contact sfarigrants@simonsfoundation.org.
Posted 6/12/2023

Application open!
Rolling deadline
To support scholarship within the history of medicine and the next generation of scholars, physicians and scientists
Questions? Contact Rose Kettler.
Posted 9/7/2021

Call for Proposals: Pilot & Feasibility Awards
Deadline Oct 31 by 5p (CST)
To support generation of preliminary data leading to submission of new NIH, JDRF, or ADA applications
Questions? Contact David Piston or Marie Kenney.
Posted 7/28/2023

Career conference, “What Can You Be With a PhD?
Virtual, Oct 21-22
WashU folks, please register through WashU and NOT on the event website, thanks!
Questions? Contact Peter Myers.
Posted 9/11/2023

Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience: Postdoc fellows
Joint initiative with WashU Medicine, Engineering, Arts & Sciences
To work at the interface between theoretical and experimental labs and help forge new collaborations
Questions? Contact ctcn@wustl.edu.
Posted 2/24/2023

Competitions for WashU nominees
Posted Sept 26
Current funding opportunities which require pre-selection of WashU candidates.
Learn more. (WUSTL Key required)
Questions? Contact internalselections@wustl.edu.
Posted 9/26/2023

Dean’s Scholars Program: Request for Applications
Deadline Oct 16
To support outstanding MD-only individuals committed to a career as a physician-scientist.
Questions? Contact Jacqui Hawkins.
Posted 8/31/2023

Developmental Project Grant Applications
LOI with Specific Aims due Oct 4
To encourage investigators new to Alzheimer disease to initiate research in dementia and aging.
Questions? Contact Krista Moulder.
Posted 9/6/2023

Doris Duke Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists
Biannual deadlines: April 1, October 1
Open to Physician Scientists (MD, DO, or MD/PhD degree) at the Instructor or Assistant Professor level.
Questions? Contact Jennifer Mosher.
Posted 3/23/2022

Funding Opportunities
An expansive portfolio of funding opportunities
To advance our understanding of how race, ethnicity, and equity are integral to the most challenging issues of our global past, present, and futures
Posted 8/16/2022

Pilot & Feasibility Application Cycle
LOIs due Nov 1; Full proposals due Dec 1

Postdoctoral Fellow Award; Postdoctoral Travel Award
Rolling admissions for both awards
Fellow award to support recruitment, faculty invited to apply. Travel award to attend a conference/course, postdocs invited to apply.
Questions? Contact Carmen Horn.
Posted 9/6/2023

Seed Funding Opportunities for Research Excellence
Starting in Fall 2023
To catalyze interdisciplinary research activities in Here & Next priority areas: Environmental Research, Public Health, Digital Transformation, and research impacting the STL Community
Questions? Contact the Research Development Office.
Posted 5/15/2023

Trainee travel fellowships: Request for applications
Apply by Oct 10 for a travel fellowship or to propose a tutorial lecture
For graduate students, post-bacc research assistants, and postdoctoral fellows
Questions? Contact Mark Gluck.
Posted 8/31/2023