Past Opportunities
ADNi Health Equity Scholars Mentored Training Programs Deadline: December 2, 2022
Advancing Research & Practice in the Retail Environment (ASPiRE) D&I Pilot Research Program – (note they are also interested in proposals examining the effects of COVID-19 on tobacco control) Deadline: July 15, 2022
American Cancer Society Catalyst Awards Deadline: September 9, 2024
American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grants (ACS-IRG) Washington University Deadline: August 22, 2025
Bauer Leadership Center – Research Grants Deadline: October 31, 2024
Big Ideas: A Data-Driven Innovation Competition Deadline: March 7, 2025
Cancer Biology Pathology (Postdoctoral Applications) Deadline: January 31, 2023
Cancer Biology Pathway Predoctoral Program Deadline: August 20, 2023
Center for Diabetes Translation Research Pilot and Feasibility Program (LOI Deadline) Deadline: December 8, 2025
Center for Dissemination and Implementation Pilot Grants Deadline: January 14, 2019
Center for Drug Discovery and Siteman Cancer Center QuikSTART Grant Program Deadline: October 24, 2025
Center for Drug Discovery and Siteman Cancer Center QuikSTART Grant Program Deadline: February 20, 2025
Center for Drug Discovery and Siteman Cancer Center QuikSTART Grant Program Deadline: July 1, 2025
Center for Drug Discovery Pilot Grant Funding Program Deadline: October 11, 2024
Center for Drug Discovery Pilot Grant Funding Program Deadline: June 6, 2025
Center for Multiple Myeloma Nanotherapy (CMMN) Collaborative Development Project Awards Deadline: March 29, 2019
Center for Multiple Myeloma Nanotherapy (CMMN) Developmental Research Project for PPG Application Deadline: September 13, 2019
Center for the Investigation of Membrane Excitability Diseases (CiMED) Deadline: November 16, 2018
Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity Deadline: April 1, 2022
Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity Faculty Fellowships Deadline: November 17, 2025
Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity Mid-Size Grants (Opens in 02/2026) Deadline: February 1, 2026
Center of Regenerative Medicine (CRM) Seed Grants Deadline: February 6, 2026
Center of Regnerative Medicine (CRM) In partnership with the Human Cells, Tissues, and Organoids Core (hCTO) Seed Grants RFA Deadline: February 1, 2024
Center on Biological Rhythms and Sleep (COBRAS) Summer Fellow Deadline: January 31, 2022
Children’s Discovery Institute – Research on Hirschsprung’s Disease and Related Conditions Deadline: June 17, 2019
Clinical Research Training Center Career Development Awards Deadline: August 1, 2018
Collaborative Cancer Disparities Research Program (CCDRP) at WUSM and SIUM Deadline: July 16, 2018
Dean’s Scholars Program – Division of Physician-Scientists (Supported by an Institutional Training Grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund) Deadline: October 20, 2025
Diabetes Research and Training Center Pilot & Feasibility Grant Program (DRTC) Deadline: August 19, 2019
Diabetes Research Center Pilot & Feasibility Awards Deadline: November 3, 2025
Digestive Diseases Research Core Center (DDRCC) Pilot and Feasibility Program (Letter of Intent) Deadline: September 3, 2024
Dissemination and Implementation Proposal Development Bootcamp Deadline: September 22, 2025
Doris Duke Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists Deadline: October 1, 2023
Doris Duke Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists Deadline: April 1, 2023
FARM Cultivate Grants Fund (Track 1) Deadline: July 1, 2025
Farm Cultivate Grants Fund (Track 2) Deadline: August 1, 2025
Funding for Trainees Impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic Deadline: September 11, 2020
Genome Integrity Development Awards (GIDA) Deadline: August 29, 2025
Global Health Seed Funding Deadline: October 15, 2022
Global Impact Award Deadline: November 17, 2025
Global Incubator Seed Grants Deadline: September 15, 2025
Grant Funding for Transplantation Research Deadline: December 23, 2019
Health Economics and Policy Pilot Program Deadline: March 12, 2018
Here and Next – Ignite Interdisciplinary Grant (formerly Tier 2) Deadline: September 27, 2024
Here and Next – Spark Funding: Pop-Up Initiative Grant (formerly Tier 1) Deadline: October 30, 2024
Humanities Symposium Grant Deadline: February 20, 2026
Identifying and addressing the challenges of COVID-19 through artificial intelligence, technology, and big data Deadline: February 26, 2021
IMPACT Center Pilot Study Deadline: February 9, 2024
Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) Clinical and Translational Research Funding Program Deadline: June 23, 2025
Intellectual and Developmental Disability Research Center (IDDRC) Flagship Project Pilot Funding Deadline: May 15, 2023
Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant Awards (Provost Office)
International Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (InCEES) Research Grants Deadline: February 9, 2018
International Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (InCEES) Summer Internship Deadline: February 9, 2018
K12 Career Development Award Program in Substance Use and Substance Use Disorder (Summer Cycle) Deadline: September 1, 2024
K12 Career Development Award Program in Substance Use and Substance Use Disorder (Winter Cycle) Deadline: March 1, 2024
K12 Mentored Training in Implementation Science (MTIS) program Deadline: March 9, 2020
K12 Paul Calabresi Career Development Award for Clinical Oncology Deadline: October 15, 2022
Kidney Disease & Regenerative Medicine Early Career Seed Grants Deadline: December 4, 2020
KL2 Career Development Awards Program (Summer LOI Deadline) Deadline: July 21, 2025
KL2 Career Development Awards Program (Winter LOI Deadline) Deadline: January 18, 2025
Knight ADRC Developmental Project Grant (abstract and LOI due 10/15) Deadline: October 15, 2021
Knight ADRC Research Education Component (REC) Scholar Program Deadline: January 12, 2024
Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (Knight ADRC) Developmental Project Deadline: October 1, 2025
Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Pilot Research Grants Deadline: November 1, 2018
LEAD Global Training Program (Training LEADers to Accelerate Global Mental Health Disparities Research Program) Deadline: November 1, 2022
Leadership and Entrepreneurial Acceleration Program (LEAP) – fall cycle Deadline: August 19, 2019
Leadership and Entrepreneurial Acceleration Program (LEAP) – spring cycle Deadline: January 27, 2020
Mallinckrodt – Washington University Collaboration Deadline: April 8, 2019
March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center at Washington University: Pilot Grant Funding for Research in Preterm Birth Deadline: May 18, 2018
McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environment Partnership (MAGEEP)
McDonnell Academy International Symposium Call for Proposals Deadline: November 15, 2019
McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Postdoctoral Fellowship Deadline: April 12, 2019
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences Seed Grant Funding Deadline: December 13, 2024
McKelvey Collaboration Initiation Grants (CIG) Deadline: April 15, 2024
Mentored Training Program in Clinical Investigation (MTPCI) Deadline: April 15, 2023
Mentored Training Program in Clinical Investigation (MTPCI) Deadline: November 1, 2022
Midwest D-CFAR Pilot Funding Cycle Deadline: October 31, 2025
Molecular Oncology Pre- and Postdoctoral Program Deadline: June 1, 2025
Musculoskeletal Research Center Pilot and Feasibility Studies Deadline: February 9, 2026
Myelodysplastic Syndrome Program (Postdoctoral) Deadline: May 16, 2025
Needleman Program for Innovation & Commercialization (NPIC) Deadline: June 16, 2023
Newman Exploration Travel Fund Deadline: March 3, 2024
NGI Pilot Grant Deadline: December 9, 2022
Nutritional Obesity Research Center (NORC) Pilot and Feasibility Program Deadline: September 2, 2025
Omics of Inflammatory Airways Disease K12 (Last deadline was 03/01/2018 and no longer accepting applications since grant ended 05/31/2018)
OVCR Planning Grants for Interdisciplinary Research – currently on hold Deadline: May 1, 2020
OVCR Seed Grants for Interdisciplinary Research (LOI REQUIRED) – Program on HOLD Deadline: March 3, 2005
Pediatric Centers of Excellence in Nephrology Call for Pilot & Feasibility Proposals in Pediatric Kidney Disease Deadline: October 27, 2023
PEDSnet Scholars Deadline: October 31, 2018
Penelope Biggs Travel Award (faculty and student travel related to Greco-Roman antiquity) Deadline: February 15, 2024
Penelope Biggs Travel Award (study of Greco-Roman antiquity) Deadline: February 15, 2026
Pre-SPORE for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities Deadline: May 6, 2019
Program for Underrepresented Medicine for Equity and Diversity (PROUD-MED) Deadline: May 1, 2023
Public Health Cubed Seed Funding Deadline: May 31, 2019
Public Health Cubed Seed Funding Deadline: December 13, 2019
Research Education Component Inaugural Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Collaborative Competition (WU Knight ADRC and Wisconsin ADRC) Deadline: October 17, 2022
Research on Hirschsprung’s Disease and Related Conditions (by CDI) Deadline: June 17, 2019
Rheumatic Diseases Research Resource-based Center (RDRRC) Pilot and Feasibility Studies Deadline: April 14, 2023
Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Career Development Award Deadline: May 13, 2024
Robert H. Choplin and Marjorie A. Bowman New Investigator Award in Healthcare Research Deadline: September 30, 2024
Robustness for Autonomy In Human-System Engagement (RAISE-AI) Pilot Grants Deadline: January 15, 2026
Route 66 Endometrial Cancer SPORE Deadline: October 27, 2023
Route 66 Endometrial Cancer SPORE: Career Enhancement Program Deadline: May 15, 2024
Route 66 Endometrial Cancer SPORE: Developmental Research Program Deadline: May 15, 2024
Sam Fox Creative Activity Research Grants Deadline: March 19, 2019
SCC Catchment Prevention and Control Trial Grants Deadline: October 13, 2025
SEAS Collaboration Initiation Grants (CIG) – please see McKelvey Collaboration Initiation Grants entry Deadline: March 4, 2019
Second Book Writing and Research Support Grant Deadline: April 28, 2023
Seeding Projects for Enabling Excellence & Distinction (SPEED) Program Deadline: September 3, 2024
Siteman Investment Program (SIP) Awards Deadline: March 15, 2024
Siteman Investment Program Research Development Awards (SIP RDAs) Deadline: August 26, 2024
Siteman Investment Program Research Develpoment Awards (SIP RDA) – 2025 Cycle 2 (required LOI) Deadline: August 29, 2025
Siteman Travel Award [for pre & Postdoctoral Trainees & Early Stage Investigators (ESI)] Deadline: March 31, 2024
Skandalaris Venture Competition (Innovator Funding; Disruptor Funding; Catalyst Funding) Deadline: September 11, 2024
Social Policy Institute Seed Grant Program Deadline: November 30, 2019
SPARC LEAP Deadline: February 17, 2020
SPORE in Leukemia Developmental Research Program Deadline: May 1, 2019
SPORE in Pancreatic Cancer Development Research Program Deadline: April 30, 2019
SPORE in Pancreatic Cancer Development Research Program in Disparities Research Deadline: May 15, 2018
Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) Program in Cross-Disciplinary Oncology Clinician-Scientist Training at Washington University Deadline: January 5, 2024
Summer Global Public Health Research Program Deadline: January 20, 2026
Summer Research Seed Grants (Center for Humanities) Deadline: February 20, 2026
Systems Science for Social Impact Summer Training Institute Deadline: July 1, 2019
T32 Pediatric Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Research Training Grant Deadline: October 2, 2023
T32 Pediatric Training Program in Hematology and Oncology Deadline: September 1, 2022
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity Large Grants (Closed but will open in early January 2026) Deadline: January 1, 2026
The Institute for Informatics and Healthcare Innovation Lab Big Ideas Grant program (COVID-19 related) Deadline: September 30, 2020
TL1 Postdoctoral Program for MD or MD/PhD Clinical Fellows Deadline: October 1, 2022
TL1 Predoctoral Clinical Research Program Deadline: December 31, 2025
TL1 Translational Sciences Postdoctoral Program (TSPP) Deadline: April 15, 2023
W.M. Keck Postdoctoral Program in Molecular Medicine at Washington University Deadline: May 6, 2022
Washington University Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control (WU-ISC3) Pilot and Methods Studies Deadline: September 12, 2022
Washington University Pediatric Nephrology Research Core (WUPNRC) Pilot and Feasibility Awards Deadline: February 28, 2020
WashU Medicine Bold Pioneer Award Deadline: October 1, 2025
WashU-ACCERT Community Responsive Pilot Studies Deadline: November 17, 2025
Weidenbaum Center Impact Program Grant Deadline: January 15, 2025
Weidenbaum Center Small Grant program Deadline: October 2, 2024
William H. Danforth St. Louis Confluence Award Deadline: October 15, 2025
WU/Pfizer Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (contact Mark Van Horn at markv@wustl.edu no later than June 10) Deadline: June 13, 2022
Zebrafish Models for Pediatric Research Services Cooperative (ZRSC) – a CDI funded Core Deadline: January 15, 2021
Zebrafish Models for Pediatric Research Services Cooperative (ZRSC) – a CDI funded Core Deadline: May 24, 2019