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
  https://medicine.yale.edu/labmed/ycceh/
  Letter of intent deadline: August 20, 2018

• Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA)
  Pilot Projects in HIV/AIDS Prevention Research   
  https://cira.yale.edu/opportunities/pilot-projects-hivaids-prevention-research
  Letter of intent deadline: August 20, 2018

• Women’s Health Research at Yale
  2019 Pilot Project Research Funding
  https://medicine.yale.edu/whr/opportunities/funding.aspx
  Letter of intent deadline: October 25, 2018 (noon)

• Yale Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center (DERC)
  Pilot and Feasibility Project Grants
  https://medicine.yale.edu/intmed/drc/pilot/index.aspx
  Application deadline: November 17, 2018

• Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
  Pilot Research Grants
  ADRC Pilot Research Grants and https://medicine.yale.edu/adrc/research/pilot.aspx
  Contact: adrc@yale.edu
  Most recent application deadline: May 30, 2018

• George M. O’Brien Center for Kidney Research at Yale
  Pilot and Feasibility Studies
  https://obriencenter.yale.edu
  Most recent application deadline: June 4, 2018 (optional LOI due May 7)

• Yale Liver Center
  Pilot Feasibility Grants
  https://livercenter.yale.edu/pilot-feasibility-grants/index.aspx
  Most recent letter of intent deadline: February 16, 2018

• James Hudson Brown – Alexander Brown Coxe Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Medical Sciences 2018 (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, 2018.
  Most recent application deadline:  March 15, 2018

• Yale Cancer Center  
  Leslie H. Warner Postdoctoral Fellowships for Cancer Research  (offered every other year)
  https://yalecancercenter.org/research/people/funding.aspx  (scroll to bottom of page)
  Upcoming application deadline: not yet scheduled.

• Yale Cancer Center in collaboration with the Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer 
  Career Enhancement Program
  https://www.yalecancercenter.org/lungspore/funding/career/index.aspx 
  Most recent letter of intent deadline: May 18, 2018

• Yale Cancer Center in collaboration with the Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer 
  Developmental Research Program
  https://www.yalecancercenter.org/lungspore/funding/developmental/index.aspx 
  Most recent letter of intent deadline: April 27, 2018

• Office of Cooperative Research
  Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale
  https://blavatnik.ocr.yale.edu/
  Most recent deadline for initial pre-proposals: November 1, 2017

• 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

• Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
  Pilot Programs and Awards:
  https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/researchers/programs/index.aspx
  Most recent letter of intent deadline:  November 20, 2017

• 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 deadline: 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 8, 2017    contact: robert.burger@yale.edu

• Quantitative Neuroscience with Magnetic Resonance (QNMR) Core Center at Yale – NIH: P30 NS052519
  Pilot Study Program for MR-Based Neuroscience Research in Small Animals
  https://medicine.yale.edu/diagnosticradiology/qnmr/
  https://medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/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:  August 10, 2018 (MS)}