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Research Starter Grants

Deadline is February 15th

 

The Research Starter Grant is $10,000 and is 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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