Current Awards

2023 awards

The deadline for applications for the 2023 awards is Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at 5 p.m. Central time. Awards will be announced in Spring 2023.

For 2023, Benefactor-Funded Research Career Development Awards are available in these areas of research focus:

Cancer

  • Gerald J. Robbins, M.D., Career Development Award in Cancer Research — one award of $50,000 a year for up to three years.
  • Georg Haub Family Career Development Award in Cancer Research Honoring Richard F. Emslander, M.D. — one award of $100,000 a year for up to three years. This award is restricted to applicants at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida.
  • Gerald A. and Margaret A. Wellik Career Development Award in Lymphoma Research — one award of $50,000 a year for up to three years.
  • Grand Forks Endowed Clinician Career Development Award Fund in Cancer Research – one award of $50,000 a year for up to three years. This award is restricted to a practicing clinician.
  • Norma Lee and Morton Funger Clinician Career Development Award in Cancer Research — one award of $50,000 a year for up to three years. Applicants with projects focusing on colon cancer are especially encouraged to apply. This award is restricted to a practicing clinician.
  • Theodore W. Munns, Ph.D., Career Development Award in Endometrial Cancer Research Honoring Drs. Munns and Podratz — one award of $100,000 a year for up to three years.

Cardiovascular diseases

  • Cardiovascular Sciences Career Development Award — one award of $75,000 a year for up to two years.
  • Career Development Award in Cardiovascular Disease Research Honoring Earl H. Wood, M.D. — one award of $100,000 a year for up to three years. This award is restricted to projects focused on promoting innovation in interventional cardiology.
  • Eduardo G. Mestre and Gillian M. Shepherd, M.D., Clinician Career Development Award Honoring John T. Shepherd, M.D. — one award of $100,00 a year for up to three years. This award is restricted to clinicians at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota. Only clinicians without a Mayo-provided base research budget desiring to engage in cardiovascular research are eligible.
  • Eric Abraham and Sigrid Rausing Career Development Award in Cardiovascular Sciences — one award of $100,000 a year for up to two years.
  • Mandelbaum Family Career Development Award in Cardiovascular Sciences — one award of $100,000 a year for up to two years.
  • Marie Ingalls Cardiovascular Research Career Development Award in Honor of Alexander Schirger, M.D. — one award of $100,000 a year for up to three years. This award is restricted to applicants at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota.
  • Ted and Loretta Rogers Cardiovascular Career Development Award Honoring Hugh C. Smith, M.D. — one award of $100,000 a year for one year.

Endocrinology

  • Richard F. Emslander, M.D., Career Development Award in Endocrinology and Nutrition — two awards each of $100,000 a year for up to three years.

Integrative medicine and health

  • Career Development Award in Integrative Medicine and Health — one award of $100,000 a year for two years.

Nephrology and hypertension

  • Mary Kathryn and Michael B. Panitch Career Development Award in Hypertension Research Honoring Gary Schwartz, M.D. — one award of $100,000 a year for up to three years.
  • Robert W. Fulk Career Development Award in Nephrology Research Honoring Fernando C. Fervenza, M.D., Ph.D. — one award of $50,000 a year for up to three years.

Neurology

  • Dominium Foundation Career Development Award in Neurodegenerative Disease Research in Memory of Jack W. Safar — one award of $100,000 a year for up to three years. Applicants with projects focusing on frontotemporal dementia research are especially encouraged to apply.
  • Fink Family Career Development Award in Neurology — one award of $100,000 a year for up to two years. Applicants from Mayo's Florida campus are encouraged to apply.
  • Sigrid Rausing and Eric Abraham Career Development Award in Neurology — one award of $100,000 a year for up to two years. This award is designated to dementia research.
  • Zander Family Foundation Career Development Award — one award of $100,000 a year for up to three years. Applicants with projects focused on Alzheimer's and related dementia research, with a strong preference for Lewy body disease research, are particularly encouraged to apply.

Ophthalmology

  • Robert R. Waller, M.D., Career Development Award in Ophthalmology Research — one award of $100,000 a year for up to three years.

Orthopedics

  • Career Development Award in Orthopedics Research — one award of $100,000 a year for two years.
  • Career Development Award in Orthopedics Research — one award of $100,000 a year for two years. This award is restricted to a practicing clinician at Mayo's campus in Rochester, Minnesota.

Pediatric and neonatal

  • Marcia T. Kreyling Career Development Award in Pediatric and Neonatal Research — one award of $50,000 a year for one year.

Pulmonology

  • Lane Family Career Development Award Honoring Eric S. Edell, M.D. — one award of $100,000 a year for up to three years. Applicants with projects focused on conditions related to idiopathic subglottic stenosis are especially encouraged to apply.

Regenerative medicine

  • Regenerative Medicine Initiative Career Development Award — one award of $100,000 a year for up to three years.

Rheumatology

  • Audrey M. Nelson, M.D., Career Development Award in Rheumatology Research — one award of $75,000 a year for one year.
  • John M. Nasseff Sr. Clinician in Rheumatology Honoring Harvinder S. Luthra, M.D. — one award of $100,000 a year for up to three years. This award is restricted to a practicing clinician.

Surgery

  • Simons Family Career Development Award in Surgical Innovation — one award of $100,000 a year for up to three years. Preference will be given to innovative proposals focused on procedures, practices or processes occurring in the operating room environment and that programmatically align with the supporting infrastructure available through the Center for Surgical Innovation.

Transplant

  • Ara and Sonya Hacet Career Development Award in Transplant — one award of $100,000 a year for up to three years. Preference will be given for projects related to kidney and pancreas transplant.