Early and Emerging Investigator Awardees

National Science Foundation Early CAREER Development Award

One of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science’s Early Career Research Program

This program supports the individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science: Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Biological and Environmental Research (BER), Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), High Energy Physics (HEP), Isotope R&D and Production (IP), and Nuclear Physics (NP).

National Institute of General Medical Sciences Maximizing Investigators' Research Award

The NIGMS MIRA award is designed to provide long-term funding, allowing investigators greater stability and flexibility, with the goal of enhancing scientific productivity and the chances for important research breakthroughs.

National Institutes of Health Trailblazer R21 Award

The Trailblazer R21 Award is an opportunity for New and Early Stage Investigators to pursue research programs of high interest to the NIBIB at the interface of the life sciences with engineering and the physical sciences.

NASA Early Career Faculty Award

The Early Career Faculty (ECF) component of the Space Technology Research Grants Program awards grants to accredited U.S. universities on behalf of outstanding faculty researchers early in their careers. ECF challenges early career faculty to examine the theoretical feasibility of ideas and approaches that are critical to