Internal Awards

There are many opportunities for support within Yale University, which may include funding for:

• Pilot and feasibility studies. 
• Postdoctoral fellowships
• Junior faculty career development
• 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 gina.dellaporta@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.

Open Opportunities

• Prospective Yale University and University of Puerto Rico Developmental Center For AIDS Research (Yale-UPR D-CFAR) 2019 Pilot Project Grants
• Yale Climate Change and Health Initiative Request for Proposals 2019
  The Yale Climate Change and Health Initiative seeks proposals for innovative pilot research projects focused on climate change and health. Potential research areas include, but are not limited to, health effects of heat waves; occupational heat stress; cardiovascular and respiratory health effects of climate change; interactions between climate change and air pollution; relationships between climate change and infectious or other environmentally-transmitted diseases; climate change and food insecurity; mental health effects of natural disasters; climate refugee health; social justice in relation to climate change and health; interplay between climate change and human exposure to chemical contaminants; health co-benefits of climate change mitigation; and adaptation strategies to minimize adverse health effects of climate change.
• Quantitative Neuroscience with Magnetic Resonance (QNMR) Core Center at Yale – NIH: P30 NS052519
  Pilot Study Program for MR-Based Neuroscience Research in Small Animals
  Supports innovative, investigator-initiated, basic neuroscience research utilizing any of the Cores. Small 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.

Closed Opportunities

• Women’s Health Research at Yale
  2019 Pilot Project Research Funding
  Letter of intent deadline: October 25, 2018 (noon)
• Office of Cooperative Research
  Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale
  Pre-proposal deadline: October 30, 2018
• Yale Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center (DERC)
  Pilot and Feasibility Project Grants
  Application deadline: November 17, 2018
• The Yale Program on Aging/Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center
  Pilot/Exploratory Studies
  Career Development Awards
  Research Development Awards
  contact: robbin.bonanno@yale.edu
  Most recent letter of intent deadline: October 15, 2018
• Yale Cooperative Center of Excellence in Hematology (YCCEH)  
  Pilot & Feasibility Project Grants for Non-Malignant Hematology Research
  Most recent letter of intent deadline: January 21, 2019
• Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA)
  Pilot Projects in HIV/AIDS Prevention Research
  Letter of intent deadline: August 20, 2018
• George M. O’Brien Center for Kidney Research at Yale
  Pilot and Feasibility Studies
  Most recent application deadline: June 4, 2018 (optional LOI due May 7)
• Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
  ADRC Pilot Research Grants
  ADRC Pilot Project Awards
  Contact: adrc@yale.edu 
  Application deadline: February 28, 2019
• Yale Cancer Center in collaboration with the Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer 
  Developmental Research Program
  Most recent letter of intent deadline: April 27, 2018
• James Hudson Brown – Alexander Brown Coxe Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Medical Sciences 2018 (at Yale School of Medicine)
  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, 2018.
  Most recent application deadline: March 15, 2018
• Yale Cancer Center  
  Leslie H. Warner Postdoctoral Fellowships for Cancer Research (offered every other year)
  Current Funding opportunities (scroll to bottom of page)
  Announcements
  Most recent application deadline: March 1, 2018.
• Yale Liver Center
  Pilot Feasibility Grants
  Most recent letter of intent deadline: February 16, 2018
• Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
  Pilot Programs and Awards
  Most recent letter of intent deadline: November 20, 2017
• Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
  YCCI Scholar Awards for Support of Junior Faculty Members
  Most recent letter of intent deadline: April 25, 2017