Non-Federal Funding/Fellowship Sources
Below are links to foundations, organizations, societies and others who offer grant and fellowship funding. SC INBRE does not endorse these links. This list is provided for your guidance and research.
If you know of a source that is not listed below, please contact us for consideration of inclusion on this page.
We are continuing to add to this page. Last updated August 27, 2025.
Research Categories
Activist/Policy Making
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (fellowships, internships)
American Association of Immunologists Public Policy Fellows Program (PPFP)
Lasker Foundation: Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award
Brain (Neuroscience, Psychology)
Lumosity’s Human Cognition Project (Online Platform)
The Lundbeck Foundation (The Brain Prize)
Cardiovascular, Heart
Cancer
Hyundai Hope on Wheels (pediatric cancer)
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN)
Community (Health, Patients)
The Duke Endowment (patient care, community health)
Johnson & Johnson (community care)
Pfizer (grants)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (health equity)
Data Science/AI
American Heart Association Data Science Grants
Big Data Health Science Center (training programs)
PanKbase (a pancreas knowledge base)
Diseases
Michelson Medical Research Foundation (human immunology)
Kidney
American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology
George M. O’Brien Kidney Resource Alliance (OKRA)
Innovative Science Accelerator Program (ISAC)
Parkinson’s
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (AMP® Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders)
Miscellaneous
AcademyHealth (scholarships and fellowships for members)
Alternatives Research & Development Foundation (research projects that develop alternative methods to advance science and replace or reduce animal use)
American Nurses Foundation (nursing research grants)
American Red Cross (fellowships)
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (grants and fellowships)
Humanity Unlocking Biomaterials (funded by NIH NIBIB)
Lasker Foundation (awards)
Lymphatic Malformation Institute (research grants, awards)
Societies/Associations
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (awards, grants, fellowships)
American Society for Cell Biology (awards and grants)
American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology
American Society of Transplantation (grants)
American Urological Association (awards and fellowships)
Endocrine Society (awards and grants)
Microscopy Society of America (awards and scholarships)
Society for Vascular Surgery (grants and awards)
Academic Ranks/Types
Faculty
Alfred P Sloan Foundation (early-career)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (faculty)
Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation (grants: early career tenure-track faculty)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (early-career and mid-career/senior faculty)
Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience (early-career, tenure-track faculty)
Pew Foundation (in SC: limited to MUSC and USC)
PhRMA Foundation (starter grants and special awards for specific research questions or topics of interest)
Searle Scholars Program (early-career on tenure-track) (in SC: limited to Clemson, MUSC and USC)
Institutions
Postdocs
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (grants and fellowships)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (postdocs)
Fulbright Scholar Program (postdocs)
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation (research fellowship)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program
Novartis (postdoc fellowships)
PhRMA Foundation (stipend support)
Students (Medical/Professional)
American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (scholars program)
Students (Undergrad, Grad)
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (grants and fellowships)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (grad students)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Gilliam Fellows Program
PhRMA Foundation (stipend support for grad students)
Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research (undergrad and grad students)
Nursing (Research)
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (faculty scholars grants)
American Nurses Foundation (nursing research grants)
Johnson & Johnson (nursing scholarships, funding programs)
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma Foundation for Nursing)
