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Anticipated Due Date: April
Amount: $250,000
The Noble Fund will focus on identifying, supporting and accelerating high-risk, high-reward research, from basic to translational, with promise for commercialization and societal impact. Our goal is to create a model for academic research and entrepreneurship that enables strategic investment to seed discoveries that have the potential to be translated for the public good.
Anticipated Due Date: July
Amount: $250,000
The David Geffen School of Medicine Research Themes have been charged with increasing the impact of basic, translational, clinical, and community research at UCLA in high-priority and broadly defined research areas; our aim is to promote the assembly of teams of researchers that are well-positioned to perform innovative, high-impact research and ultimately compete for large team science grants from federal agencies and private foundations.
Anticipated Due Date: April
Amount: $15,000
This research funding is provided to assist faculty as they advance an on-going research project, creative activity, or as they embark on a new project, with emphasis in equity, diversion and inclusion.
Anticipated Due Date: October
Amount: $50,000
The primary goals of this Seed Grant Program are to: (1) support multidisciplinary teams of faculty from across schools and departments to perform research in low- and middle-income countries; (2) establish or further build global research partnerships that address pressing health questions; and (3) build the capacity of early career researchers at both UCLA and global partner sites.
Anticipated Due Date: July
Amount: $500,000
The goal of the W. M. Keck Foundation Junior Faculty Awards is to support outstanding early career scientists who are 4-6 years into their first assistant professor position.
Anticipated Due Date: Any time
Amount: $40,000
This program of the Cousins Center for PNI, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is an open application with submissions welcomed at any time, and supports new and innovative research in the area of brain, behavior and immunity that builds bridges between basic biomedical science and clinical sciences.
Anticipated Due Date: November
Amount: $40,000
This Seed Grant Initiative will support research analyzing the psycho-neuro-immunologic pathways through which prejudice and discrimination contribute to disparities in physical and mental health as a function of race and ethnicity, sex and sexual identity, age, ability, and other aspects of social identity.
Anticipated Due Date: June
Amount: $150,000
The goal of this effort is to support research that will significantly enhance our understanding and treatment of Parkinson disease. Preference will be given to projects representing new collaborations, that engage early or new investigators, and that have the potential to develop into an exciting and impactful long-term program.
Anticipated Due Date: May
Amount: $50,000
The Developmental Research Program encourages high risk/high impact projects that take advantage of new research opportunities in the brain cancer research field and promote multidisciplinary collaboration between basic, preclinical and clinical programs.
Anticipated Due Date: May
Amount: $50,000
The Career Enhancement Program supports M.D. or Ph.D. junior faculty and established researchers who wish to commit their research interests to or refocus on translational approaches in the brain cancer research area. Exceptional postdoctoral fellows with plans to transition to a faculty position within a year may also apply but must submit a letter from an institution supporting their transition to faculty.
Anticipated Due Date: June
Amount: $50,000
The Developmental Research Program supports pilot projects focusing on innovative and interdisciplinary translational research with emphasis on high risk/high impact projects that take advantage of new research opportunities in the prostate cancer research field and promote multidisciplinary collaboration between basic, preclinical and clinical programs.
Anticipated Due Date: June
Amount: $50,000
The Career Enhancement Program supports M.D. or Ph.D. junior faculty and established researchers who wish to commit their research interests to or refocus on translational approaches in the prostate cancer research area. Exceptional postdoctoral fellows with plans to transition to a faculty position within a year may also apply, but must submit a letter from an institution supporting their transition.
Anticipated Due Date: June
Amount: $50,000
This early-stage funding helps accelerate projects to a position of seeking advanced stage funding or investment to advance the creation of drugs that address important unmet medical needs.
Anticipated Due Date: March
Amount: $Varies
Each year the AIDS Institute provides seed funding to support specific projects, the work of particular labs, and to cover part or all of the salaries of newly recruited faculty members.
Anticipated Due Date: March
Amount: $35,000
The UCLA Digestive Diseases Research Center Core Pilot and Feasibility Studies provides funding for high quality and innovative research in the biology, function and diseases of the digestive system, with emphasis on receptor and signal transduction mechanisms, brain-gut interactions, gastrointestinal and pancreatic physiology, pathophysiology and inflammation, and mechanisms underlying diseases of the digestive system.
Anticipated Due Date: April
Amount: $200,000
Focusing on advanced therapeutics, medical devices/diagnostics, and digital health technologies, the UCLA Innovation Fund speeds technologies from idea to market, bridging the funding gap between academia and industry.
Anticipated Due Date: May
Amount: $200,000
Focusing on advanced therapeutics, medical devices/diagnostics, and digital health technologies, the UCLA Innovation Fund speeds technologies from idea to market, bridging the funding gap between academia and industry.
Anticipated Due Date: March
Amount: $50,000
The UCLA/UCSD Diabetes Research Center Pilot & Feasibility Projects mechanism will fund innovative new projects that will explore the feasibility of novel testable concepts and enhance the endocrine/diabetes research scope within the institutions, with a special emphasis on promoting promising junior faculty involved with diabetes research.
Anticipated Due Date: June
Amount: $30,000
The goal of this effort is to promote compelling collaborative projects across the whole range of neuroscience between UCLA Faculty and Faculty at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot Israel.
Anticipated Due Date: March
Amount: $30,000
These Racial and Social grants are designed to help launch and support research projects demonstrably centered on exploring the sources and consequences of racial inequities and social justice, with the goal to facilitate investigators’ preparedness for attaining extramural funding.
Anticipated Due Date: March
Amount: $30,000
The purpose of these grants is to catalyze transdisciplinary research and creative activities by supporting early stage projects with the specific goal of facilitating investigators’ chances for attaining extramural funding.
Anticipated Due Date: March
Amount: $10,000
The purpose of the awards is to recognize Senate faculty whose research and/or other creative work has had a significant scientific, social, cultural, political, or other form of public benefit (locally, nationally, or globally).
Anticipated Due Date: March
Amount: $5,000
To foster collaboration among BC labs, the Department aims to fund 3-4 groups of trainees for innovative experiments that are also collaborative.
Anticipated Due Date: May
Amount: $10,000 to $30,000
The goal of the Fellowship program is to provide research funding to Post-Doctoral Fellows and Graduate Students from all areas of cancer research, including basic, translational, and clinical and population science, with support and guidance to fellows so they can use it as a tool towards developing and submitting an NIH F-grant application.
Anticipated Due Date: May
Amount: $50,000
The Career Enhancement Program supports M.D. or Ph.D. junior faculty and established researchers who wish to commit their research interests to or refocus on translational approaches in the brain cancer research area. Exceptional postdoctoral fellows with plans to transition to a faculty position within a year may also apply but must submit a letter from an institution supporting their transition to faculty.
Anticipated Due Date: June
Amount: $50,000
The Career Enhancement Program supports M.D. or Ph.D. junior faculty and established researchers who wish to commit their research interests to or refocus on translational approaches in the prostate cancer research area. Exceptional postdoctoral fellows with plans to transition to a faculty position within a year may also apply, but must submit a letter from an institution supporting their transition.
Anticipated Due Date: May
Amount: $6,000
To provide funding to doctoral students during the summer in order to release them from outside UCLA employment and/or loan obligations that might delay progress in graduate study.
Anticipated Due Date: June
Amount: $2,800
Targeted to individual who is a parent, in the lab of a faculty member in MBIDP, Biological Chemistry or MIMG who exemplifies research excellence, passion for science and demonstrates commitment to mentoring and compassion for others.
Anticipated Due Date: March
Amount: $35,000
The UCLA Digestive Diseases Research Center Core Pilot and Feasibility Studies provides funding for high quality and innovative research in the biology, function and diseases of the digestive system, with emphasis on receptor and signal transduction mechanisms, brain-gut interactions, gastrointestinal and pancreatic physiology, pathophysiology and inflammation, and mechanisms underlying diseases of the digestive system.
Anticipated Due Date: May
Amount: $10,000 to $30,000
The goal of the Fellowship program is to provide research funding to Post-Doctoral Fellows and Graduate Students from all areas of cancer research, including basic, translational, and clinical and population science, with support and guidance to fellows so they can use it as a tool towards developing and submitting an NIH F-grant application.
Anticipated Due Date: March
Amount: $35,000
The UCLA Digestive Diseases Research Center Core Pilot and Feasibility Studies provides funding for high quality and innovative research in the biology, function and diseases of the digestive system, with emphasis on receptor and signal transduction mechanisms, brain-gut interactions, gastrointestinal and pancreatic physiology, pathophysiology and inflammation, and mechanisms underlying diseases of the digestive system.
