External Funding Opportunities

Washington University Strategic Alliances

• Eli Lilly Open Innovation Drug Discovery
  • Please contact CDD staff for more information

 

NIH Resources for Drug Discovery or Development

• Multi-Center NIH Funding Opportunities (More than one sponsor)
  • Fast Track Entry of Medicinal Chemistry Projects into the NIH Roadmap Molecular Libraries Probe Production Centers Network
  • Assay Development for High Throughput Molecular Screening (R21)
  • High Throughput Screening (HTS) to Discover Chemical Probes (R03)
  • Development of Assays for High-Throughput screening for use in Probe and Pre-therapeutic Discovery (R21)
  • Solicitation of Assays for High Throughput Screening (HTS) to Discovery Chemical Probes (R01)
  • Solicitation of Validated Hits for the Discovery of in vivo Chemical Probes (R01)
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
  • Early-Stage Pharmacological Validation of Novel Targets and Accompanying Pre-Therapeutic Leads for Diseases of Interest to the NIDDK (R01)
• National Institute of Mental Health/NIH/DHHS
  • Drug Discovery for Nervous System Disorders (R01)
  • Drug Discovery for Nervous System Disorders (R21)
  • National Cooperative Drug Discovery/Development Groups (NCDDG) for the Treatment of Mental Disorders, Drug or Alcohol Addiction (U01)
  • Complex Technologies and Therapeutics Development for Mental Health Research and Practice (R43/R44)
  • Complex Technologies and Therapeutics Development for Mental Health Research and Practice (R41/R42)
  • Development of Assays for High-Throughput Screening for Use in Probe and Pre-therapeutic Discovery (R01)
• National Institute on Aging/NIH/DHHS
  • Revision Requests for Active Alzheimer’s Disease Centers (P50)

 

Non-Profits and Foundations

• American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund

 

Disease-Specific Funding Sources 

Autoimmune Diseases

• CDMRP Multiple Sclerosis Research Program
• Scleroderma Foundation

Infectious Diseases

• Defense Threat Reduction Agency
• DARPA
• BARDA
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

 

Neurosciences

• Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation
• Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
• CDMRP ALS Research Program
• CDMRP Autism Research Program
• CDMRP Gulf War Illness Research Program
• CDMRP Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program

Oncology

• American Cancer Society
• Cancer Research Institute
• CDMRP Breast Cancer Research Program
• CDMRP Lung Cancer Research Program
• CDMRP Ovarian Cancer Research Program
• CDMRP Prostate Cancer Research Program
• CDMRP Neurofibromatosis Research Program
• Children’s Tumor Foundation
• Prostate Cancer Foundation
• Susan G. Komen Foundation
• Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Respiratory

• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation