Funding resources

This is a growing list of funding and grant writing resources that may be helpful to graduate students and postdocs.

Grant writing tips:

Ten Simple Rules for Getting Grants | PLOS Computational Biology

Funding resources for graduate students:

American Society of Gene+Cell Therapy – The ASGCT Career Development Awards provide vital financial support to early-career scientists and postdoctoral fellows poised to drive the next wave of cell and gene therapy innovation.

American Association of University Women – The American Association of University Women (AAUW), officially founded in 1881, is a non-profit organization that provides fellowship and grant opportunities for women in higher education and beyond.

Funding resources for postdocs:

Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities | VPR at JHU – A continuously updated repository of federal and private funding opportunities that are intended for postdoctoral investigators. Also includes separate lists specifically for cancer/oncology and neuroscience/neurology research.
Life Sciences Research Foundation – LSRF provides grants with 3 years of support for postdoctoral and early career researchers, to help them make discoveries that impact public health, biotechnology, and our understanding of life, addressing our most pressing challenges.
Cancer Research Institute – The Cancer Research Institute (CRI) offers competitive grants, fellowships, and awards in cancer immunotherapy. CRI fund scientists at every career stage — from early-career researchers to established investigators.
American Society of Gene+Cell Therapy – The ASGCT Career Development Awards provide vital financial support to early-career scientists and postdoctoral fellows poised to drive the next wave of cell and gene therapy innovation.
American Association of University Women – The American Association of University Women (AAUW), officially founded in 1881, is a non-profit organization that provides fellowship and grant opportunities for women in higher education and beyond.

Research Resources

JoVE (Journal of Visual Experiments) – JoVE has an excellent collection of videos describing general laboratory techniques, animal handling, and lab safety.

Benchling – A cloud-based software platform that provides various molecular biology tools including DNA sequence design, cloning, CRISPR guide design, and protein analysis. It is free for academic email accounts.

Bioinformatics tools:
The R Project for Statistical Computing – R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS.
R Studio Desktop – R Studio Desktop is a versatile and user-friendly IDE for R programming, offering a comprehensive suite of tools for data analysis and visualization.
UCSC Xena – UCSC Xena allows users to explore functional genomic data sets for correlations between genomic and/or phenotypic variables.

Graphical illustration:
GraphPad Prism – Prism is a purpose-built software for scientific research, offering comprehensive analysis, powerful statistics, and elegant graph customization.
Inkscape – An open-source vector-based software for making publication figures, schematics, and posters.
BioArt – A great resource from NIH that provides biology-related high-quality, vectors, icons, and brushes for creating illustrations, figures, and schematics.

Power analysis and statistical tools:
InVivoStat – A free to use, statistical Windows program which uses R as its statistics engine. It is designed specifically for scientists conducting animal experiment. The user interface is both easy to use and intuitive to the non-statistician.
Statpages – a resource for free statistical analysis software.