Funding Opportunities

The purpose of the NIDCR Dentist Scientist Career Transition Award for Intramural Investigators (K22) program is to facilitate transition of highly qualified dentists from NIH Intramural postdoctoral research positions to extramural academic tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions at eligible institutions. The award will provide support for two years of mentored postdoctoral research training in the NIH Intramural Research Program, and three years of independent research funding at the extramural institution.

The Stryker | ORS Women’s Research Fellowship offers support of up to $60,000 to promote women in science. This is an opportunity for an ORS member who identifies as a woman or as gender non-conforming (non-binary, gender fluid, etc.). The award winner should be a recent PhD recipient (within the last four years) in science or engineering, a full time post-doctoral fellow, and should be conducting translational orthopaedic research with an experienced research advisor. Translational research is defined as research with a clearly articulated vision of how it can lead to improved musculoskeletal health of individuals.

The Prize is awarded annually to one young scientist for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular, cellular, systems, or organismic biology conducted during the past 3 years.

This NIDCR Small Grant Program for New Investigators supports basic and clinical research conducted by scientists who are in the early stages of establishing an independent research career in oral, dental and craniofacial research. This R03 program supports pilot or feasibility studies and developmental research projects with the intention of obtaining sufficient preliminary data for a subsequent investigator initiated Research Project Grant (R01) or equivalent application.

We invite research grant applications that utilize New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and Non-Animal Technologies (NATs)—such as archived human joint tissues, organoids, tissue chips, advanced in vitro systems, computational and mathematical models, and non-invasive imaging techniques. When appropriately justified, applications may also incorporate combinations of these approaches with animal models, including genetically modified mouse models and underutilized large animal models, to investigate the biological mechanisms driving the initiation and progression of osteoarthritis (OA).

To support UG3/UH3 phased, cooperative agreement research applications to plan and implement clinical trials within the mission of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

The purpose of the NIDCR Dentist Scientist Career Transition Award for Intramural Investigators (K22) program is to facilitate transition of highly qualified dentists from NIH Intramural postdoctoral research positions to extramural academic tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions at eligible institutions. The award will provide support for two years of mentored postdoctoral research training in the NIH Intramural Research Program, and three years of independent research funding at the extramural institution.

This NIDCR Small Grant Program for New Investigators supports basic and clinical research conducted by scientists who are in the early stages of establishing an independent research career in oral, dental and craniofacial research. This R03 program supports pilot or feasibility studies and developmental research projects with the intention of obtaining sufficient preliminary data for a subsequent investigator initiated Research Project Grant (R01) or equivalent application.