Health/Medical Research

Applications are invited for the 2022 Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) program, which will generate action-oriented research useful for dismantling structural racism, improving health, and advancing health equity for communities of color, those in low socioeconomic positions, and Native populations.

Applications are invited for projects that develop knowledge, techniques, and tools whose application reduces or eliminates risk of adverse events that cause harm to patients while under a doctor’s care.

Applications are invited for projects in support of promising approaches to create a higher value healthcare system.

Applications are invited for grants to facilitate the creation of national or international multicenter research programs, and proposals are welcomed across the spectrum of epilepsy research, including basic, translational, and clinical research methodology to study epilepsy, seizures, and related disorders.

Applications are invited for the OAR Applied Research competition which will award grants of up to $40,000 over up to two years in support of research with the potential to expand the body of knowledge related to autism intervention and treatment impact public policy, and to provide outcomes that enhance quality of life for persons with autism and their families.

The MDS Research Fund (MDSRF) will award three grants in support of cutting-edge MDS basic science, translational, or clinical research that could lead to future standards of care and ultimately cure.

The Helmsley T1D Program will fund studies that aim to understand how the environment experienced during prenatal development influences development of islet autoimmunity during childhood.

The Helmsley T1D Program aims to support studies that aim to understand and/or therapeutically emulate natural protection from T1D.

Applications are invited for the Dr. William E. Paul Distinguished Innovator Award in Lupus and Autoimmunity, which will award grants of up to $250,000 per year for up to four years in support of novel research into the fundamental causes of systemic lupus erythematosus and new directions toward a cure. LRA welcomes novel hypothesis- or discovery-driven proposals using clinically relevant models in lupus research.

Concept papers are invited for medical research projects in children’s health that are conducted by new researchers with oversight by a mentor. The fund anticipates awarding grants to 15 researchers with the potential to become independent principal investigators. Many research topics are eligible, as the fund does not focus on a particular disease but instead on children’s health broadly defined.