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.
Showing 361-384 of 731 grants
MMRF Scholars Program
🇺🇸MMRF · United States
Supports early-career myeloma investigators through sustained training and research opportunities in global medical research settings.
Modern Equipment for Shared-use Biomedical Research Facilities: Advancing Research-Related Operations
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds up to $350,000 of equipment that keeps a shared research facility running — but explicitly not scientific instruments. A cost share is required.
MS Society PhD Fellowships
🇬🇧MS Society UK · United Kingdom
Supports three-year doctoral training pathways in multiple sclerosis research led by United Kingdom university supervisors.
MTRAC Life Sciences — Mid-Stage Award
🇺🇸U-M Innovation Partnerships · United States
Supports MTRAC life sciences teams with mid-stage funding that advances prototypes toward clinical and industry use.
mVRAF
🇦🇺Vic Gov · Australia
Supports Victoria RNA research teams translating mRNA science into practical therapies and health-focused prototypes.
NCI IMAT R61 & R33
🇺🇸NCI · United States
Supports translational cancer technology from concept proof to advanced development through NCI.
Neotec (project start)
🇪🇸CDTI · Spain
Supports Spanish young technology companies with non-repayable grants for early product validation and enterprise growth.
Neotec Grant
🇪🇸CDTI · Spain
Funds Spanish technology ventures from concept into validated innovation through early and follow-on development.
NEP Advanced Track
🇯🇵NEDO · Japan
Funds early stage Japanese start ups with support for technology validation, business model testing, and customer driven commercialization planning.
NEP Exploratory Track
🇯🇵NEDO · Japan
Supports Japanese early innovators exploring deep-tech ideas before formal company formation through applied feasibility work.
NERC-NSF Lead Agency — Collaborative
🇬🇧NERC · United Kingdom
Supports joint United Kingdom and United States environmental teams through the NERC NSF Lead arrangement for collaborative proposals and shared review.
NIDILRR SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸Administration for Community L · United States
Supports disability-focused technology commercialization in small United States firms from earlier research.
NIH Director's Early Independence Award
🇺🇸NIH Common Fund · United States
Funds a scientist to skip the postdoc entirely and run their own lab straight after the doctorate — ten awards of $350,000 each.
NIH Director's Pioneer Award
🇺🇸NIH Common Fund · United States
Funds one exceptionally creative scientist to change direction entirely — eight awards of $700,000 each from an $8 million pool.
NIH Small Business Transition Grant for New Entrepreneurs
🇺🇸NIH SEED · United States
Supports first-time founder entrepreneurs in the United States with healthcare prototypes from early ideas.
NSF-DFG Lead Agency Opportunity in Chemistry and Chemical Process and Transport Systems
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds joint US–German chemistry and chemical engineering projects through one proposal and one review, not two.
NSF-UEFISCDI Lead Agency Opportunity
🇷🇴NSF-UEFISCDI · United States
Funds joint US-Romanian teams in mathematical and physical sciences, with NSF paying the US side and UEFISCDI funding the Romanian research organisation's share.
NSFC Young Scientists Fund Class A
🇨🇳NSFC · China
Supports high-tier Chinese investigators pursuing nationally recognized excellence in science.
NTIS Fund
🇲🇾MTDC · Malaysia
Supports Malaysian technology innovators through NTIS with mentoring and grants toward commercialization pathways.
Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (NORCs)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds shared research cores, pilot funding and a catalyst programme where a substantial nutrition or obesity research effort already exists.
NY Life Sciences R&D Credit
🇺🇸ESD · United States
Funds New York life sciences companies with tax credits that support innovation with high patient impact potential.
Ohio Third Frontier Startup Grants
🇺🇸Ohio Third Frontier · United States
Gives Ohio tech startups non-dilutive funding of up to roughly $250,000 for commercialization projects.
PARD Science Award
🇺🇸FFB · United States
Funds collaborative retinal disease research within Friedreich ataxia scientific programs.
Parkinson's UK Senior Research Fellowships
🇬🇧Parkinson's UK · United Kingdom
Supports postdoctoral Parkinson's researchers in the United Kingdom transitioning toward independent research leadership.