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 73-96 of 694 grants
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.
Major Projects
🇬🇧ARUK · United Kingdom
Funds major dementia research programs in the United Kingdom through multi-year grants.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CDG Josef Ressel Centres
🇦🇹CDG · Austria
Funds applied-research centres through public-industry co-financed long-term partnerships to strengthen real-world implementation.