Funding Support and Opportunities

Why and how to pursue funding opportunities

• Watch a 15-min presentation by Pallavi Eswara, MS, Director of Postdoctoral Affairs at BU, on why and how to secure private foundation and federal funding to support your research or career as an early-career researcher (Pallavi Eswara’s Slides can be accessed here).

Where to find funding opportunities at BU CAMED

• Watch a 5-min overview of the resources available to all BUMC researchers to identify funding opportunities and potential research collaborators, by Andy Taylor, PhD.
• Watch a 11-min overview of the support provided by the Office of Foundation Relations to early-career faculty members to secure funding from private foundations and societies, by David Gillerman, PhD.

Further resources to identify funding opportunities:

• Resources from the CAMED Office of Research – Finding funding.
• Graduate Student Funding Opportunities – JHU Research.
• Boston University Foundation Relations – Finding funding.
• The Graduate Women in Science + Engineering (GWISE) at Boston University has compiled an extensive list for science and engineering fellowships for graduate research linked below as Trainee Fellowships. For more information and other fellowship opportunities please visit the Pivot Database (pivot.cos.com).

Getting support throughout the funding application and management cycle

• Overview of the BUMC Office of Proposal Development services, by Julia Hunstman, PhD (here are Proposal Development overview slides).
• Overview of the BU Office of Sponsored Programs services, by Rachelle Joseph, MS and Todd Conley, BA (here are Sponsored Programs Overview slides).