Translational Medicine Faculty Starter Grant

Translational Medicine Faculty Starter Grant is sponsored by PhRMA Foundation. Funds early-career faculty conducting translational medicine research that bridges lab discoveries with clinical applications.

Faculty Starter Grants — PhRMA Foundation Providing support to promising young scientists beginning independent research careers at the faculty level The Faculty Starter Grants provide $100,000 for one year. These grants support individuals in academia who do not have other substantial sources of research funding. Applicants will be judged on the scientific merit of the proposed research and on the degree of financial need.

Funds must be used to conduct the proposed research. Funds may not be used for salary support of the grantee or indirect costs. The PhRMA Foundation Faculty Starter Grant provides tremendous support for me to hit the ground running during my early independence.

This award will help my lab develop noninvasive diagnostics for disease detection and treatment monitoring at the point of care, and ultimately make precision health care accessible for cancer patients. Applicants (U.S. and non-U.S. citizens) must be full-time, promotion-eligible, research-intensive faculty at a PhD-granting accredited U.S. university by the time of LOI submission.

Applicants are ineligible if their faculty status began before January 1, 2025. Applicants are ineligible if their last terminal degree was conferred before January 1, 2017. Applicants must be eligible to apply for independent external research funding by their university.

Applicants should not have other substantial sources of research funding, excluding intramural funding or startup funding from their university. Preference will be given to applicants with startup funding less than $750,000.

Applicants are ineligible if they are the principal investigator (PI) of an R or K series award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, or other substantial financial award from any grant-making institution. Generally, funding over $250,000 a year is considered substantial, unless you are the PI of a grant where funds go to training others.

If this is the case, explain in your extended letter. Applicants are ineligible if they do not have at least three first author publications. The PhRMA Foundation provides faculty starter grants in these research areas.

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