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 25-48 of 731 grants
Energy-Efficient Buildings for a Sustainable Energy System
🇸🇪Energimyndigheten (Swedish Ene · Sweden
Funds Swedish companies, public bodies, universities and research institutes developing energy-efficient building solutions through Swedish Energy Agency research and innovation grants.
HEAL Initiative: Pain Research Enhancement Program (PREP)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds basic and mechanistic pain research at institutions that receive little NIH funding, with students working on the project alongside the investigator.
EME Programme researcher-led
🇬🇧NIHR · United Kingdom
Funds efficacy and mechanism studies on NHS interventions, up to about £500k for mechanistic work.
EXIST Transfer of Research
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German research teams for up to 36 months to spin their work into a startup.
Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award
🇺🇸Damon Runyon · United States
Supports clinical physicians transitioning into full-time cancer laboratory research through physician-scientist training.
Diabetes UK Project Grants
🇬🇧Diabetes UK · United Kingdom
Funds United Kingdom biomedical teams conducting diabetes projects with hypothesis-driven methods.
AFOSR YIP
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports early-career researchers in the United States through long-term federal science initiatives.
AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds early-career investigators in United States defense research through multi-year applied projects.
CPRIT Prevention — Dissemination of Cancer Control Interventions
🇺🇸CPRIT · United States
Funds Texas prevention programs scaling proven cancer initiatives into new communities and settings.
NIOSH WTC Health Program — R21 Exploratory Grant
🇺🇸NIOSH · United States
Funds exploratory clinical studies improving diagnostics and treatments from disaster-related conditions.
NIOSH WTC Health Program — U01 Cooperative Research
🇺🇸NIOSH · United States
Funds clinical research into health outcomes linked to complex urban disasters.
Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of the Navy (DoN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Program
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Funds research capacity at HBCUs and minority institutions doing naval-relevant science and engineering.
One-Step, Rapid, Low-Cost Definitive Drug Testing at the Point of Need Challenge
🇺🇸NIDA · United States
Pays up to $600,000 in prizes to teams building rapid, low-cost drug-testing device prototypes.
EIC Accelerator — Short Proposal
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Supports small and medium firms in early-stage deep technologies through public proposals and commercialization mentoring.
Genesis Mission AI FOA — Phase I and Phase II (FES)
🇺🇸DOE FES · United States
Supports AI-enabled fusion and plasma research with continuation pathways for strong performers.
CDG Josef Ressel Centres
🇦🇹CDG · Austria
Funds applied-research centres through public-industry co-financed long-term partnerships to strengthen real-world implementation.
Strengthening Environmental Safety in Industry (SVO)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Dutch industrial collaborations up to EUR 500,000 for above-and-beyond safety projects.
VFF Early Stage Financing
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Supports early-stage venture financing that helps start-ups turn prototypes into scalable, innovation-driven products.
NIH SBIR Phase I (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds United States small businesses advancing biomedical and behavioral-health innovations through early technical validation.
NIH STTR Phase I (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds United States small businesses partnering with nonprofit research institutions to validate biomedical ideas.
Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) for Undergraduate-Focused Institutions
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds small clinical-trial research at undergraduate-focused colleges that get under $6 million a year from NIH.
Academic-Industrial Partnerships (AIP) to Translate and Validate In Vivo Imaging Systems
NIH · United States
Funds a company and an academic group working as one team to turn an imaging, spectroscopy or data-science advance into something usable in the clinic.
National Cancer Institute's Investigator-Initiated Early Phase Clinical Trials for Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
NIH · United States
Funds a Phase 0, I or II cancer trial that the investigator designed, inside one of six named National Cancer Institute programme areas.
Personal Health Informatics for Delivering Actionable Insights to Individuals
NIH · United States
Funds informatics tools that take a person's own health data and hand back a risk assessment they can understand and do something about.