Explore funding opportunities, corporate partnerships, and foundation relations dedicated to faculty in the Division of Biology and Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School, and Brown University Health.
Explore funding opportunities, corporate partnerships, and foundation relations dedicated to faculty in the Division of Biology and Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School, and Brown University Health.
The Office of Corporate Engagement and Foundation Relations (CEFR) partners with the Office of Biomedical Advancement to provide dedicated, end-to-end support for:
Our team offers a wide range of services to guide faculty and researchers through the funding process, from individual research funding opportunities to strategic partnerships.
Deadline: November 15, 2026 (LOI)
Amount: up to $600,000 over 2-4 years
The CRI Technology Impact Award aims to bridge the gap between conceptual technological innovation and real-world clinical application. By encouraging collaboration between technology
developers and clinical cancer immunologists, CRI hopes to accelerate the creation of technologies that can generate proof-of-principle data and unlock novel biological insights.
Technology Impact Awards are not intended to fund the continuation or refinement of existing technologies. Instead, they support visionary, high-risk/high-reward ideas that could lay the groundwork for a new generation of tools, platforms, and systems capable of overcoming the most critical barriers in the field. Proposals that fundamentally apply existing technologies (e.g. scSeq, spatial seq, etc.) without substantial instrumentation, device, or algorithm development will typically be considered non-responsive.
Deadline: December 9, 2026
Amount: $150,000 over three years
Since 2009, the Rita Allen Foundation has provided a special award for early-career leaders in basic pain research whose work holds high potential for uncovering new pathways to improve the treatment of chronic pain.
Eligible candidates will have completed their training and provided persuasive evidence of distinguished achievement or extraordinary promise in basic research in pain. Candidates should be in the early stages of their career with an appointment at the faculty level.
Proposed research projects should be directed toward investigating the molecular biology of pain and/or basic science topics related to developing new analgesics for managing pain. The entire award is made available to projects specifically chosen by the recipient; university overhead (i.e., indirect costs) is not supported.
Deadline: January 13, 2027
Amount: $600,000 over three years
The Simon's Foundation Fellows-to-Faculty program is supporting early-career scientists by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. As part of the Simons Foundation’s Autism & Neuroscience division, the Fellows-to-Faculty program aims to nurture new talent and broaden the community of scientists contributing to the missions of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain (SCPAB), and Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE).
Brown uses Pivot-RP, a curated source of global research funding opportunities that allows you to search and customize funding alerts. A Brown University email is required to access Pivot-RP.
To help streamline your search, we have created curated searches for biomedical-related foundation and corporate opportunities.
CEFR has created a guide to provide an easy-to-understand overview of the main functions of Pivot to help Brown faculty and researchers conduct their searches.
Set up your own search by using our template with pre-set filters.
Additional resources from Pivot-RP:
When funders limit the number of submissions from an institution or require institutional nomination, Brown’s Research Strategy and Development (RSD) team manages the nomination process and CEFR supports faculty nominees through the proposal development and submission process.
CEFR partners with other departments and offices to support you.