Biotech grants in the United States
Explore Biotech grants for companies in the United States. This list brings together funding for drug discovery, diagnostics, cell and gene therapy, biomanufacturing and life-science research from US innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United States, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Biotech in the United States come first.
Showing 193-216 of 1,242 grants
Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds a single NIGMS investigator's whole research program with one grant, instead of juggling several project-specific awards.
INCLUDE Project — Clinical Trials Phased Awards
🇺🇸NICHD · United States
Funds phased clinical research programs for Down syndrome interventions through developmental and expansion awards.
INCLUDE Project — Exploratory/Developmental Awards
🇺🇸NICHD · United States
Supports early-stage exploratory Down syndrome studies through investigator grants advancing transformative research in the United States.
INCLUDE Project — Transformative Research Awards
🇺🇸NICHD · United States
Funds transformative Down syndrome research through investigator-led grants focused on evidence-based development.
Seed Instrumentation Support (SIS) Program
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds buying one commercially available research instrument new to the institution, shared across users, from $50,000 up to $400,000.
Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds a shared, state-of-the-art research instrument or system, from $300,000 up to $5,000,000, consolidating three older instrumentation programs.
Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds an early-stage investigator's pivot into a genuinely new research direction, for a project with no preliminary data at all.
BARDA BAA (through
🇺🇸BARDA · United States
Supports teams developing countermeasure technologies for CBRN, diagnostics, and readiness-focused therapeutics through BARDA BAA.
Cancer Center Support Grants (CCSGs) for NCI-designated Cancer Centers
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the shared infrastructure behind an NCI-designated Comprehensive, Clinical or Basic Cancer Center, not individual research projects.
Limited Competition: Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds Superfund Research Program Centers linking hazardous-substance science to engineering, ecology and epidemiology — by law, open only to universities.
NIDA Avant-Garde Award
🇺🇸NIDA · United States
Offers support for innovative researchers pursuing high-impact HIV and substance use science across career stages.
Animal and Biological Material Resource Centers
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds centres that maintain shared animal colonies, reagents, cultures and genetic stocks used across many kinds of biomedical research.
BARDA DRIVe ImmuneChip+ (through
🇺🇸BARDA · United States
Supports creators of immune-enabled organ-on-chip systems and biosensing manufacturing for critical health technology challenges.
Resource-Related Research Projects for Development of Models and Related Materials for Studying Human Health and Diseases
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds developing lab models, new-approach methods or biological materials useful across several NIH institutes, not just one disease.
US-Ireland R&D Partnership
🇮🇪HRB (Health Research Board Ire · Ireland
Connects United States and United Kingdom researchers through joint biomedical innovation grants.
CCRP Initiative: Promoting a Basic Understanding of Chemical Threats to Skin
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds basic research into how public-health chemical threats injure skin, aiming at future broad-spectrum countermeasures.
NHLBI Small Grant Program for K Recipients
🇺🇸NHLBI · United States
Supports former K awardees moving to independent NHLBI research through small grants.
Biomedical Technology Optimization and Dissemination Center (BTOD)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds late-stage optimization of a biomedical research technology and building sustainable ways to share it with the wider research community.
HEAL Initiative: Non-addictive Analgesic Therapeutics Development [Small Molecules and Biologics] to Treat Pain
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds optimizing an existing non-addictive pain drug or biologic candidate through IND filing and into a first human trial.
NIMHD SBIR Phase IIB Strategic Breakthrough Award
🇺🇸NIMHD · United States
Funds prior NIH SBIR and STTR Phase II small businesses bridging later-stage R&D to commercialization.
NIMHD SBIR/STTR Commercialization Readiness Pilot
🇺🇸NIMHD · United States
Funds NIH-funded small businesses moving SBIR or STTR projects from late-stage development to commercialization.
NIH CRP Commercialization Readiness Pilot
🇺🇸NIH SEED · United States
Offers late stage commercialization readiness support through NIH CRP for small firms advancing biomedical health solutions.
NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase IIB Strategic Breakthrough Award
🇺🇸NIMH · United States
Funds a small business already through NIH SBIR Phase II to cross the gap to commercialisation. A cost share is required.
SBIR/STTR Commercialization Readiness Pilot (CRP) Program
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds late-stage R&D and technical work — trials, manufacturing scale-up, regulatory support — to finish a small business's NIH SBIR or STTR project.