External Funding Sources

Federal agencies and
other organizations offering funding:

Federal Agencies

• National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Divisional of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
  • Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)
  • Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Office of Extramural Research (OER)
  • Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
  • National Cancer Institute (NCI) site with select statistical FOAs
  • Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
  • Enhancing the Diversity of the NIH-Funded Workforce
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • National Center for Health Statistics/AcademyHealth fellowship
• Department of Defense (DoD)/National Security Agency
• DoD/Congressional Directed Medical Research Program
• DoD/Army Research Office
• DOD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
• Department of Education/ Institute of Education Sciences
• Department of Energy/ Office of Science
• Department of Justice/ Office of Justice Programs
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• DARPA
• NASA
• USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Non-Profit Organizations

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund
  • Innovation in Regulatory Science Award: $500,000 over 5 years to academic investigators
  • Career Award at the Scientific Interface: $500,000 over 5 years to bridge postdoctoral training and first three years of faculty service.
  • Postdoctoral Enrichment Program: $60,000 over 3 years for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows
• Ford Foundation
• Gates Foundation
• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Lumina Foundation
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
• Simons Foundation
• Society for Research in Child Development
• Spencer Foundation (education research)
• William T. Grant Foundation

For-Profit Companies

• Amazon
• Facebook, Consider also the Facebook Research group
• Genentech Postdoctoral Program
• Google Research
• J.P. Morgan/Chase: AI Research support for faculty and graduate students
• Microsoft
• Novartis Presidential Postdoctoral Program

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Young Investigators

• NIH Career Development Programs (K-Series) (See also this page on the K awards)
  • E.g., Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01)
  • E.g., Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25)
• NSF CAREER Development Awards
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Programs for Career and Leadership Development
• American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant
• NIH NHLBI Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE)

Graduate Student Fellowships:

• NIH Predoctoral Fellowship
• NIH F31 Diversity Fellowship
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF) (DOE)
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (DOD)
• Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program (DOE)
• Amstat News/STATtr@k/ASA articles: Fellowships for Graduate Study (2013); Panel Shares Advice on Applying for NSF Fellowships; Fellowships for Graduate Study, Graduate Fellows Discuss Fellowship Experiences, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, NSF and NIH Graduate Research Fellows Offer Advice for Applying to Program
• National Academy of Education Dissertation Fellowship Program
• Google PhD Fellowship Program
• Microsoft PhD Fellowship Program

Postdoc Fellowships

• NSF Mathematical Science Postdoctoral Research Program (MSPRF)
• NIH Kirchstein Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (F32)
• Intelligence community
• See also Department of Defense, and Department of Energy and the Opportunities in Science at Science.gov.
• The following organizations are among the private entities that provide post-doctoral fellowship opportunities: American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, and Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research.
• Amstat News/STATtr@k/ASA articles: Fellowships for Graduate Study (2013); Panel Shares Advice on Applying for NSF Fellowships, Post-doc Fellowships, Programs, and Opportunities; Postdocs in Statistics: A Growing Trend; Attitudes About Postdoctoral Training for Statisticians Evolve; Postdoc Numbers Small but on the Rise for Statistics
• National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
• AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Career Award at the Scientific Interface: $500,000 over 5 years to bridge postdoctoral training and first three years of faculty service.
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Postdoctoral Enrichment Program: $60,000 over 3 years for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows
• Army Research Laboratory Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships