The American Diabetes Association's Pathway to Stop Diabetes provides crucial support to individuals focusing on innovative ideas and transformational approaches that will lead to groundbreaking discoveries in diabetes prevention, management, and cures. The program aims to build a pathway to tackle the toughest questions in diabetes by driving research innovations through 1:1 mentorship and building a brain trust in diabetes. The ideal applicant will propose innovative research that will be an important step toward the eventual goal of improving the lives of people at risk of or living with diabetes.

The Initiator Award is designed to support the transition of scientists from mentored training to independent research.
The Accelerator Award is designed to support promising early career researchers in the beginning stages of establishing successful, sustainable diabetes research programs.

2026 Internal RFA

The purpose of the GCC John S Dunn Foundation Collaborative Research Award Program is to foster new, exemplary inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional engagement in the quantitative biomedical sciences by providing research seed grants. The goal of this program is to fund new projects with high potential for future competitive research funding within 2.5 years of project start and a "best case scenario" plan for transitioning to clinical studies within 5 years. 

Funds will be awarded to NEW collaborative teams in which the PI and co-PI are from different GCC member institutions: Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, University of Houston, UT Health Science Center at Houston, UTMB, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, The Texas A&M (TAMU) Institute of Biosciences and Technology (IBT) in Houston, and Houston Methodist Research Institute. 

2026 UTMB Internal RFA

2026 Sponsor RFA

The Pew Scholars Program in Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. The program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding individuals who are in their first few years of their appointment at the Assistant Professor level. Ideas with the potential to produce an unusually high impact are encouraged. 
As of September 3, 2026, candidates must run an independent lab and hold a full-time appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor. Candidate must not have been appointed as Assistant Professor and run an independent lab at any institution prior to June 10, 2023. Current appointments such as research assistant professor, adjunct assistant professor, assistant professor research track, visiting professor, or instructor are not eligible. 

UTMB 2027 Internal RFA

The Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research is a national initiative designed to support promising early career scientists whose research will accelerate discovery and advance progress to a cure for cancer. The program is funded by The Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust and administered by Pew. In line with The Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust's mission to invest in innovative, cutting-edge cancer research that may accelerate and advance progress toward a cure for cancer. The program is distinct from the Pew Biomedical Scholars Program and follows a different, but parallel set of guidelines and procedures for nominating an applicant whose research is related to cancer. Ideas with the potential to produce an unusually high impact are encouraged.
As of August 27, 2026, candidates must run an independent lab and hold a full-time appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor. Candidate must not have been appointed as Assistant Professor and run an independent lab at any institution prior to June 10, 2023. Current appointments such as research assistant professor, adjunct assistant professor, assistant professor research track, visiting professor, or instructor are not eligible. 

2027 UTMB Internal RFA

The Brain Research Foundation’s Scientific Innovations Award Program provides funding for innovative science in both basic and clinical neuroscience. This funding mechanism is designed to support creative, exploratory, cutting-edge research in well-established research laboratories, under the direction of established (Associate and Full Professor) investigators. The objective of the SIA is to support projects that may be too innovative and speculative for traditional funding sources but still have a high likelihood of producing important findings. It is expected that investigations supported by these grants will yield high impact findings and result in major grant applications and significant publications in high impact journals.

2027 UTMB Internal RFA