Funding Opportunities

UC San Diego has several resources for finding research funding, including signing up for internal and external mailing lists, accessing grant databases, and finding internal funding opportunities.

UC San Diego Funding

• Academic Senate Grants and Awards
• Foundation Relations Funding Opportunities
• Moores Cancer Center Grants and Funding
• UC San Diego Foundation: Since its establishment in 1972, the UC San Diego Foundation has been dedicated to raising and managing philanthropic support in the form of new gifts for both its endowment and expendable purposes. View upcoming deadlines
• UC San Diego Internal Funding and Limited Submission

Non-UC San Diego Funding

• American Heart Association (AHA) Established Investigator Award
• Novartis US Foundation Novartis US COVID-19 Initiatives
• Partnership for Clean Competition Grants Program
• Retirement Research Foundation Research Grants
• Wellcome Trust Innovator Awards

Surgical Society Funding

• American Association for Study of Liver Diseases
• American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (scholarship)
• American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (mentorship)
• American Association for Vascular Surgery
• American College of Surgeons
• American Gastroenterology Association
• American Pediatric Surgical Association
• American Society of Breast Surgeons
• American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
• American Society for General Surgeons
• American Society of Plastic Surgeons
• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
• American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery
• American Society for Surgery of the Hand
• American Society of Transplant Surgeons
• American Surgical Association 
• Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
• Association for Academic Surgery
• Association for Surgical Education
• Association of Women Surgeons
• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
• International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
• International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
• Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
• Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
• Society of Black Academic Surgeons
• Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
• Society of Surgical Oncology
• Society of Thoracic Surgeons
• Society of University Surgeons
• Southeastern Surgical Congress
• Southwestern Surgical Congress
• Surgical Infection Society
• The Thoracic Surgery Foundation
• Women in Thoracic Surgery