United States and Canada
Canada
Brain Canada
Supports research in the neurosciences. Offers fellowships and awards in specific research programs.
Campus Alberta Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Neuroscience or mental health research and training activities at a minimum of two of CAN’s three partner campuses – the Universities of Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge. Fellows receive competitive financial support and guaranteed annual collaboration allowances to facilitate engagement at multiple campuses.
Canadian Foundation for Innovation
Funding for major science initiatives. Funds available for eligible institutions but not individual researchers.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Funding for biomedical and clinical sciences. Applicants affiliated with a Canadian institution or organization are eligible.
Fonds de Recherche Santé
Provides funding for human health research with funds given to individual researchers, groups, networks, and research centers. Research must be carried out at universities and hospital-based research centers.
International Development Research Centre
Funds research in multiple areas. Offers student fellowships, grants, and awards.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
Offers grants for research in various areas of natural sciences and engineering. Awards scholarships, fellowships, and research grants.
Dr. Samarthji Lal Award
The Dr. Samarthji Lal award for mental health research recognizes a Canadian researcher in the area of psychiatry with a focus on major mental disorders, who is mid-career and is making an outstanding contribution to the field.
United States of America
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Promotes research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economic performance. Offers two-year long research fellowships for early career researchers.
Alzheimer's Association
Funds research regarding Alzheimer's disease.
American Academy of Neurology
Funds research in neurological sciences. Offers clinical research fellowships and young investigators fellowships; professional development awards.
American Federation for Aging Research
Funds research regarding Alzheimer's disease and works in conjunction with the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation and The Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation. Funds research projects for independent investigators.
Brain Tumor Funder's Collaborative
Promotes research directly relating to brain tumors. Offers grants to professors and institutions to conduct research.
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience program (CRCNS)
Promotes collaborative activities that will enhance the understanding of the nervous system structure and function. Funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and The German BMBF.
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Offers fellowships and grants for cancer research.
Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN)
Offers awards for travel and attendance expenses associated with attending the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting for students who are presenting posters at the FUN-sponsored poster session.
Grass Foundation
Provides funding specifically for neuroscience. Offers fellowships as well as research grants.
Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar Awards
Offered by the Multiple Sclerosis Society, awards cover salary and grant support for a five-year period. Find other funding opportunities here.
Helmsley Charitable Trust
Promotes research in multiple areas, including health and medicine, and funds research grants for various projects.
Human Frontier Science Program (HSFP)
Funding for research regarding complex biological systems. Offers research grants, postdoctoral fellowships, career development fellowships, and short-, long-, and cross-disciplinary fellowships.
Huntington's Disease Society of America
Funds innovative research to better understand Huntington's disease. Summer research fellowships, HD Career development grants and the HD Human Biology Project are available to support HD researchers from around the globe.
Kavli Foundation
Promotes scientific advancement in multiple fields, including neuroscience. Operates multiple research institutes, as well as workshops, awards, prizes, and educational resources for neuroscience.
Lasker Foundation
Focuses on biomedical science research and provides awards for research (no research grants).
Life Sciences Research Foundation
Funds research in the life sciences and offers postdoctoral fellowships.
The McKnight Foundation
Offers grants for neuroscience research as part of the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
Offers multiple “pipeline” funding programs for foundational, translational, and clinical research
MJ Murdock Charitable Trust
Promotes research in multiple areas with research focus in natural sciences. Offers research grants and enrichment programs and a limited number of Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar Awards each year.
The Brain and Behavior Research Fund (NARSAD)
Funds research regarding psychiatric disorders. Offers grants for researchers at a university or nonprofit research institution.
National Academy of Sciences
Every three years, awards the Award in the Neurosciences for extraordinary contributions to the field. Gives the award every three years.
National Brain Tumor Society
Awards “Innovative Research Grants.” Hosts four calls for grant applications throughout the year.
National Institutes of Health
Funds research in a broad range of scientific fields, including neuroscience. Enter "neuroscience" into search section to find grant programs that fund neuroscience research.
National Science Foundation
Sponsors research in a broad range of scientific fields, including neurosciences. Enter "Neuroscience" into search section of webpage to find grant programs funding neuroscience research. Offers special minority and women postdoctoral fellowships.
New York Stem Cell Foundation
Open to early career investigators exploring the basic biology and translational potential of stem cells. Open to researchers based at both national and international accredited academic and nonprofit research institutions.
Spinal Cord Injury Research Program
Provides support for research of exceptional scientific merit that has the potential to make a significant impact on improving the health and well-being of military service members, veterans, and other individuals living with spinal cord injury. Supports basic, translational, qualitative, and clinical trial research.
University Hospitals Harrington Discovery Institute
Funds physician-scientists for patient-inspired drug discovery research.
