Grants of $250K to $1M
Explore grants with an award between $250,000 and $1 million. This directory lists funding for product development, applied research, feasibility and early commercialization, the range where most national innovation programs and second-phase awards sit, with the deadline and eligibility on every listing.
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Translational Call 2027
🇬🇧Arthritis UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK translational projects developing new technology for people with arthritis.
NIOSH OSH Training Project Grants
🇺🇸NIOSH · United States
Supports training grants for academic and non academic programs building occupational safety and health workforce capacity.
GREGoRi Innovation Projects
NIH · United States
Funds a genuinely new experimental or computational approach to finding the cause of a rare genetic disorder, where the current state of the art falls short.
ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) — Between
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports early-career faculty with naval research grants fostering next-generation discoveries.
RD Lawrence Fellowship
🇬🇧Diabetes UK · United Kingdom
Funds students and early career scholars with mentoring support for RD Lawrence Fellowship in biotechnology and medical technology.
Sir George Alberti Research Training Fellowship
🇬🇧Diabetes UK · United Kingdom
Helps students and early career scholars with mentoring support for Sir George Alberti Research Training Fellowship in medical technology and biotechnology.
Y Combinator Accelerator Program
🇺🇸YC · United States
Runs Y Combinator Accelerator for early-stage startups with a three-month batch, investment, and mentoring support.
NSF SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups demonstrating scientific feasibility of novel science and engineering innovations.
NSF STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups partnering with nonprofit research institutions for early-stage feasibility studies.
NSF SBIR Phase I (America's Seed Fund at NSF)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds early-stage US deep-tech startups to build and validate proof-of-concept technology through NSF's SBIR Phase I award.
MRA Young Investigator Award
🇺🇸MRA · United States
Supports early-career melanoma researchers through fellowships and grants that launch independent research direction.
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Technology Fund
🇺🇸Princeton Innovation / Schmidt DataX · United States
Funds eligible Princeton researchers inventing or applying new research technology through one- or two-year grants.
Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R01)
NIH · United States
Funds new analysis of clinical, genomic, environmental and registry data that already exists, to sharpen who is at risk of cancer and what happens to them.
Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research
NIH · United States
Funds the development and hard technical validation that turns a working cancer research technology into one other laboratories will actually adopt.
Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land-Grant Colleges of Agriculture Program (NLGCA)
🇺🇸USDA NIFA · United States
Funds certified Non-Land-Grant Colleges of Agriculture to build capacity for education, research and outreach in agriculture and renewable resources.
Introducing Green Technologies in SMEs
🇧🇬BG Competitiveness · Bulgaria
Pays Bulgarian SMEs up to €450,000, covering up to 70% of eligible project costs.
Transformative sustainable AI technologies
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Funding for speculative, high-risk research on sustainable AI technologies.
UKRI Translation: MRC Impact Acceleration Awards
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
Single-step support for high-risk medical product development.
1707 Order-Based R&D Support
🇹🇷TÜBİTAK · Türkiye
Co-funds R&D projects between a Turkish customer company and an SME supplier, covering 40% of costs.
Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Data Innovation Challenge — Track 1
🇺🇸NCI · United States
Pays entities up to $566,665 across three milestones to add shovel-ready cancer data or tools to NCI's CCDI ecosystem.
NCCIH Natural Product Early Phase Clinical Trial Phased Innovation Award
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds three years of pharmacokinetics and target-engagement work on a botanical, probiotic or supplement, then three more if the milestones are met.
CRI Technology Impact Award
CRI · United States
Pays tenure-track researchers up to $600,000 to build unproven cancer immunotherapy technology.
Special Program Announcement for Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: FY27 Communications and Networking Applied Research
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Funds communications and networking research that links distributed Navy and Marine Corps units into one tactical grid.
NCCIH Multi-Site Feasibility Clinical Trials of Mind and Body Interventions
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the multisite feasibility trial that has to happen before a full-scale trial of a complementary or integrative therapy can be designed.