Funding Opportunities
AAAS Policy Brief on Stem Cell Research
This brief from the American Association for the Advancement of Science gives an overview of stem cell research, including a history of federal policies, the President's position, ethical issues, NIH guidelines, and a 2004 update.
Federal Funding Opportunities
Federal stem cell R&D funding includes recently announced initiatives and programs from the following agencies:
Non-Federal Funding Opportunities
- ALS Association - supports innovative research of high scientific merit in stem cell research, disease mechanisms, therapeutic approaches, model systems, and genetics
- Children's Neurobiological Solutions Foundation supports research leading to a Phase I clinical trial for pediatric neurological disorders
- Chronic Granulomatous Disorder Research Trust seeks innovative research opportunities targeting the cause, inheritance, management, and a cure for this primary immunodeficiency
- Cooley's Anemia Foundation offers research fellowships to clinical and basic science investigators interested in research related to Cooley's anemia
- Dysautonomia Foundation is accepting applications for research grants dealing with molecular, biochemical, cellular and clinical pathologic studies relevant to function of the gene or to the pathophysiology of Familial Dysautonomia
- Fanconi Anemia Research Fund provides grants for efforts to find effective treatment and a cure for Fanconi anemia
- Human Frontier Science Program supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms; topics range from molecular and cellular approaches to systems and cognitive neuroscience
- Johnson & Johnson funds basic research in the field of cell therapies directed at diabetic or cardiac disorders
- Joslin Diabetes Center brings individuals with unique and interesting perspectives to study broad areas of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and related complications in collaboration with Joslin faculty
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation offers a wide variety of grants in diabetes research, including regular research grants, innovative (seed money) grants, career development awards, early career awards, center grants, program project grants, clinical investigations research grants, and conference grants
- Jerome Lejeune Foundation undertakes research for the treatment of Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome)
- McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience funds work in the application of basic research to human brain injury or disease
- National Fragile X Foundation supports a broad range of research endeavors that will lead to better recognition, treatment and an eventual cure of fragile X syndrome
- National Marrow Donor Program sponsors outreach programs and research to improve the understanding and outcome of unrelated marrow and blood cell transplantation
- National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases Association funds innovative research projects likely to generate strong preliminary data in the area of neurodegenerative disorders affecting the central nervous system
- Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation provides grants for research directed at understanding the cause of Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) disease
- Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA) - Research on Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Roche Organ Transplantation Research Foundation seeks to advance the science of solid organ transplantation. A new initiative has been announced to offer grants for research in cell biology and gene therapy
- Scleroderma Foundation supports the development of innovative and high quality research by new investigators in fields related to systemic sclerosis and scleroderma, including related stem cell biology
- Stem Cell Research Foundation supports innovative basic and clinical research in the emerging and critical areas of stem cell therapy
- United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (UMDF) is committed to finding cures for mitochondrial illness. UMDF realizes that new, aggressive research for rare disorders is often not underwritten by federal grants and seeks to fund such grants that will forward the cause of research into mitochondrial diseases
- U.S. Immunodeficiency Network (USIDNET) funds peer-reviewed research grants for the primary immune deficiency diseases. Call for Concept Research Proposals on Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases (PIDD)
- Walther Cancer Institute funds collaborative translational cancer research within or between WCI-affiliated institutions and investigators and the Institute's basic, clinical, and behavioral research programs
- Wellcome Trust funds research into human pluripotent stem cells as part of a joint program with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- World Community Grid invites organizations to apply to use its powerful grid technology at no cost for projects that benefit humanity, including research on genomics and disease
To Find More Funding Opportunities
- Consult the GrantSource Library - Carolina faculty and research staff interested in obtaining more information about funding opportunities related to stem cell research are invited to contact the GrantSource Library at 962-3463 or gs@unc.edu. We would be happy to help you set up a customized COS Funding Alert service for funding opportunities relevant to your specific research interests.
- Search COS - multidisciplinary database containing federal and private grants that address needs related to stem cell research.
- Search InfoEd Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPIN) - multidisciplinary database of federal and private grants
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