Internal Awards

There are many opportunities for support within Yale University. Center grants and endowed programs offer excellent opportunities for proposals requiring smaller budgets.  Many of these grant opportunities are for pilot and feasibility studies, others are for postdoctoral fellowships, some specifically for junior faculty, and yet others for use of imaging and other core facilities. Dates and links shown are for the most recent competitions. They will be updated as new information becomes available.

If you would like to update award information or add a new internal award to this list, please forward information to melanie.smith@yale.edu. In addition, information on internal awards will be added to our Funding Opportunities Calendar and, if requested, an email announcement can be distributed broadly to the award’s target audience.

• Yale Cooperative Center of Excellence in Hematology (YCCEH)  
  Pilot & Feasibility Project Grants for Non-Malignant Hematology Research
  http://medicine.yale.edu/labmed/ycceh/
  Most recent application deadline: July 29, 2016  (new RFA late summer 2017)

• Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
  Pilot Research Grants
  http://medicine.yale.edu/adrc and http://medicine.yale.edu/adrc/research/pilot.aspx
  Contact: adrc@yale.edu
  Most recent application deadline: August 1, 2016

• George M. O’Brien Center for Kidney Research at Yale
  Pilot and Feasibility Studies
  http://obriencenter.yale.edu
  Most recent application deadline: April 15, 2016

• Yale Liver Center
  Pilot Feasibility Grants
  http://livercenter.yale.edu/pilot-feasibility-grants/index.aspx
  Most recent letter of intent deadline: February 10, 2017

• James Hudson Brown – Alexander Brown Coxe Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Medical Sciences 2017 (at Yale School of Medicine)
  https://your.yale.edu/research-support/office-sponsored-projects/funding/scholar-awards/brown-coxe-fellowships
  For new postdoctoral fellows conducting research at the Yale University School of Medicine who will have completed not more than two years of postdoctoral research as of July 1, 2017.
  Most recent application deadline:  March 3, 2017

• Yale Cancer Center  
  Leslie H. Warner Postdoctoral Fellowships for Cancer Research  (offered every other year)
  http://yalecancercenter.org/research/people/funding.aspx#page3  (scroll to bottom of page)
  Most recent application deadline: October 29, 2015

• Yale Cancer Center in collaboration with the Yale SPORE in Skin Cancer 
  Roslyn and Jerome Meyer Pilot Awards for Research in Melanoma and Immuno-Oncology
  http://yalecancercenter.org/research/people/funding.aspx#page3 (scroll half-way down page)
  Current application deadline: April 1, 2017

• Office of Cooperative Research
  Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale
  http://ocr.yale.edu/accelerator/blavatnik-fund
  Most recent deadline for pre-proposals: November 15, 2016

• Yale Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center (DERC)
  Pilot and Feasibility Project Grants
  http://derc.yale.edu/pilot/index.aspx
  Most recent application deadline: November 16, 2016

• Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA)
  Pilot Projects in HIV/AIDS Prevention Research   
  http://cira.yale.edu/opportunities/pilot-projects-hivaids-prevention-research
  Most recent letter of intent deadline: August 29, 2016

• The Yale Program on Aging/Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center
  Pilot/Exploratory Studies
  Career Development Awards
  Research Development Awards
  http://medicine.yale.edu/intmed/geriatrics/peppercenter/cores/pilot.aspx
  contact: robbin.bonanno@yale.edu
  Most recent letter of intent deadline: October 17, 2016

• Yale Rheumatic Diseases Core Research Center
  Pilot and Feasibility Program
  http://medicine.yale.edu/intmed/rheumat/core/feasibility.aspx
  Most recent application deadline: November 18, 2016

• Women’s Health Research at Yale
  2017 Pilot Project Research Funding
  http://medicine.yale.edu/whr/opportunities/funding.aspx
  Most recent letter of intent deadline: October 27, 2016 (noon)

• Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
  Pilot Programs and Awards:
  http://www.ycci.yale.edu/researchers/programs/index.aspx
  Contact helen.seow@yale.edu

• Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
  YCCI Scholar Awards for Support of Junior Faculty Members
  https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/education/jrfacscholars/scholarawards.aspx  
  Most recent letter of intent receipt date: April 25, 2017

• Rudolph J. Anderson Postdoctoral Fellowship (at Yale)
  Eligible Departments: All FAS and YSM
  Eligible Research: “…research and investigation in biochemistry…” by assistant professors and associate professors who are not yet tenured.
  Most recent application deadline: December 7, 2016    contact: robert.burger@yale.edu

• Quantitative Neuroscience with Magnetic Resonance (QNMR) Core Center at Yale – NIH: P30 NS052519
  http://qnmr.yale.edu/
  http://mrrc.yale.edu/funding/index.aspx
  Supports innovative, investigator-initiated, basic neuroscience research utilizing any of the Cores. Sall grants providing resources for each of the Cores, including scanner time and staff support, may be awarded. The total award amount is dependent on the project. The QNMR Core Center will support new research projects but will not supplement ongoing studies or provide bridge funding. Priority is given to projects from junior independent scientists and/or projects describing collaborations between two (or more) investigators.
  Contact: fahmeed.hyder@yale.edu
  There are no deadlines.

_{Last updated:  May 9, 2017 (MS)}