External Funding Sources

Resources Related to External Funding

ASA Committee on Funded Research Webinars

Unlocking PCORI: Exploring Statistical Methodology Research Opportunities, 4pm ET, October 10, 2024. Recording.
Peer Advice for Statisticians: Writing Your 1st NSF Proposal, 1 pm ET, November 1, 2023.
Funding Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Activities in Statistics, Biostatistics and Data Science, 4pm EDT, September 20, 2023.
NIH Center for Scientific Review’s new panels: Analytics and Statistics for Population Research Panel A & B, 2pm EDT, October 6, 2022. Recording
Funding Opportunities at NIH and NSF: An Introduction. October 22, 2021 at 1pm EDT. Recording; Messer slides; Wang slides.
NIH Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowships: Opportunities and Advice, January 15, 2021, 2pm EST. Recording; Gezmu slides; Banerjee slides; Mitani slides.
September 25, 2020, 1:00-2:15 pm EDT: Funding Opportunities for Statisticians, 5 Program Officers from NIH, NSF, Department of Energy, and Army Research Office. Slides for NSF’s Huixia Judy Wang, NSF’s Cheryl Eavey, NIH’s Karen Lugo Nieves, DoE Steven Lee, and ARO’s Michael Lavine; recording.
September 14, 2020, 12-1 pm EDT: NSF Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowships: An NSF Program Officers and three fellowship awardees discuss opportunities and offer advice. Slides for NSF’s Huixia Judy Wang; Slides for other speakers; recording.
March 1, 2019: Building Undergraduate Programs in Statistics and Data Science, Mark Daniel Ward, Purdue University; slides, recording.
April 26, 2019: Behavioral & Social Sciences Research in Health, Elizabeth Ginexi, National Institutes of Health; slides, recording.
June 14, 2019: Preparing an NSF CAREER proposal, Ana-Maria Staicu, North Carolina State University; slides, recording.
January 21, 2020: Graduate Training Fellowships and Grants: Opportunities and Advice, Lance Waller, Emory University, recording, slides.
March 13, 2020: NIH “K” Series Career Development Awards, Loni Philip Tabb, Drexel University, and Tyler McCormick, University of Washington, Recording, Slides .

Articles, Presentations, and Other Resources

Amstat News Q&A's featuring NSF awardees and program officers from across the Foundation
Slides from 2020 JSM Session on Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS), Foundations of Data Science: The TRIPODS Experience:
- The Decision-Making Side of Data Science: Computational, Inferential and Economic Perspectives, Michael Jordan, University of California, Berkeley
- TRIAD: Georgia Tech TRIPODS Phase 1, Xiaoming Huo
- University of Arizona TRIPODS, Helen Zhang
Committee for Funded Research Calls for Grant Review Panel Volunteers, Amstat News, February, 2018.
Serving Effectively on Funding Review Panels: Advice for Statisticians New to the Process; a document of the ASA Committee on Funded Research
Army Funding Opportunities in Probability and Statistics
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Fellowships for Graduate Study
Funding for Statistical Science Research: A 2016 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference Presentation
Funding Opportunities: Better Statistical Participation is Needed Across Collaborative Science
Graduate Fellows Discuss Fellowship Experiences
NSF Big Data Funding Opportunity for the Statistics Community
NSF Extends Program Funding Interdisciplinary Research of Mathematical Scientists
Post-doc Fellowships, Programs, and Opportunities
Statistical Issues Seen in Non-Statistics Proposals
Statistical Research Grants from the NIH
Tips for Writing a Statistical Analysis Plan
All About Grants Podcast hosted by the NIH

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Funding Sources by Sector and Targeted Audiences

Federal agencies and other organizations offering funding

Non-Profit Organizations

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Innovation in Regulatory Science Award: $500,000 over 5 years to academic investigators
- Career Award at the Scientific Interface: $500,000 over 5 years to bridge postdoctoral training and first three years of faculty service.
- Postdoctoral Enrichment Program: $60,000 over 3 years for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows
Ford Foundation
Gates Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Lumina Foundation
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Simons Foundation
Society for Research in Child Development
Spencer Foundation (education research)
William T. Grant Foundation

For-Profit Companies

Amazon
Facebook, Consider also the Facebook Research group
Genentech Postdoctoral Program
Google Research
J.P. Morgan/Chase: AI Research support for faculty and graduate students
Microsoft
Novartis Presidential Postdoctoral Program

Young Investigators

Graduate Student Fellowships

Postdoc Fellowships

NSF Mathematical Science Postdoctoral Research Program (MSPRF)
NIH Kirchstein Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (F32)
Intelligence community
See also Department of Defense, and Department of Energy and the Opportunities in Science at Science.gov.
The following organizations are among the private entities that provide post-doctoral fellowship opportunities: American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, and Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research.
Amstat News/STATtr@k/ASA articles: Fellowships for Graduate Study (2013); Panel Shares Advice on Applying for NSF Fellowships, Post-doc Fellowships, Programs, and Opportunities; Postdocs in Statistics: A Growing Trend; Attitudes About Postdoctoral Training for Statisticians Evolve; Postdoc Numbers Small but on the Rise for Statistics
National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships
Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Career Award at the Scientific Interface: $500,000 over 5 years to bridge postdoctoral training and first three years of faculty service.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Postdoctoral Enrichment Program: $60,000 over 3 years for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows
Army Research Laboratory Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships

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