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Research Starter Grants

Deadline is February 15th

 

The Research Starter Grants are small research grants from $2,000 to $5,000 available for active members in the first eight years after earning their Ph.D. and in the first five years of their first independent career position. These are one-time awards and do not provide indirect costs. They are awarded preferentially to applicants who have not yet received major external funding.

Application form requires the following:

  • Research proposal of no more than four double-spaced, typed pages
  • Budget
  • Statement of investigators current funding.
  • A curriculum vitae of the investigator
  • Brief letter from a departmental chair or institutional representative should be included, indicating that the applicant has institutional support for the application.
 
 

Past Research Starter Grant Recipients

  • 1997 - Ben Shen, Michael Calter, Kate Graham, Michael Jaspars, Helen Oketch
  • 1998 - R. Gomes de Souza Berlink, Jose L. Giner, Marc Slattery
  • 1999 - Dale Nagle, Gil Belovsky
  • 2000 - Darrick Kim
  • 2001 - Yu-Dong Zhou
  • 2002 - David Rowley
  • 2003 - Sylvia Urban, Sergio R. Peraza-Sanchez
  • 2004 - Leng Chang, John Berger
  • 2005 - Todd Barsby, Lyndon West
  • 2006 - Nikolas Fokialakis
  • 2007 - Wendy Kelly, Sergei Dzyuba, Robert Cichewicz
  • 2008 - Roger Linington
  • 2009 - Angela Calderón, Glenroy (Dean) Martin
  • 2010 - Katherine Maloney, Jennifer Anthony
  • 2011 - Brian T. Murphy, Marcy J. Balunas
  • 2012 - Bela Peethambaran, Amy Lane, Robert Keyzers
  • 2013 - Stephen Deyrup, Kevin Tidgewell, Kimberly White
  • 2014 - Ben Philmus, Michael Bradaric, Becky Wílliams
  • 2015 - Jason Kwan
  • 2016 - Daniel Dias, Tyler Johnson, Suthananda Sunassee, Christine M. Theodore 
  • 2017 - Matthew Bertin, Laura Sanchez, Katharine Watts, Jaclyn Winter
  • 2018 - Ethan Van Arnam, Lukasz Ciesla
  • 2019 - Stephen Eric Nybo
  • 2020 - Joseph Gerdt, Joshua Kellogg
  • 2021 - Jonathan Chekan, Eduardo Caro-Diaz
  • 2022 - Jie Li
  • 2023 - Ben Naman
  • 2024 - Christopher Cartmell
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