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The PhRMA Foundation Drug Discovery Faculty Starter Grant provides $100,000 in funding to support early-career faculty conducting drug discovery research, including projects using AI and computational approaches. The grant explicitly welcomes proposals involving AI/ML/DL methodologies, requiring applicants to document their AI methodology, explain data curation processes (sources, quality, quantity), and detail validation processes.
Eligible research areas include target identification and validation, disease mechanism mapping using multi-omics, hit/lead identification with molecular modeling, protein biochemistry and structural biology, pharmacological profiling studies, biomedical imaging applications, and AI/computational drug discovery approaches.
The program targets new tenure-track faculty at PhD-granting U.S. universities who have limited existing research funding, with the goal of helping promising investigators establish independent research programs in drug discovery. Letters of intent are due April 15, 2026, with invited full applications due August 26, 2026, and award notifications on December 15, 2026.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Full-time, promotion-eligible, research-intensive faculty at PhD-granting U.S. universities. Faculty status must have begun on or after January 1, 2025, with terminal degree conferred on or after January 1, 2017. Must be eligible for independent external research funding. Cannot have substantial research funding (preference for startup funding under $750,000). Ineligible if PI on NIH R/K series, NSF CAREER, or awards exceeding approximately $250,000/year. Minimum of three first-author publications required. One applicant per lab only. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $100,000 for one year. Non-renewable. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for PhRMA Foundation Drug Discovery Faculty Starter Grant for AI-Enabled Therapeutic Research are due August 26, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
PhRMA Foundation Drug Discovery Faculty Starter Grant for AI-Enabled Therapeutic Research is funded by PhRMA Foundation. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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