Funder: American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): January 2027 (Cycle 1) | June 2027 (Cycle 2)
Funding Amounts: Up to $50,000 per grant for one year; indirect costs capped at 8%
Summary: Seed funding supports mentored sleep and circadian research that helps early-career investigators establish a research funding track record.
Key Information: Applicants must be within 10 years of their terminal degree or subsequent training and identify a research mentor.
Description
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation’s Focused Projects Grant for Junior Investigators supports early-career investigators conducting basic, translational, clinical, or population sleep and circadian science. This career development program provides seed funding for mentored projects addressing important unanswered questions about sleep, sleep disorders, and sleep health, while helping investigators build a track record of research funding.
Research topics are cycle-specific. The 2026 Cycle 2 opportunity was limited to idiopathic hypersomnia, pediatric sleep, and the diagnosis, management, and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). OSA proposals must address known diagnostic or treatment research gaps and advance sleep medicine and population sleep health. Priority goes to OSA projects following outcomes for at least six months.
