Funder: American Thyroid Association
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Proposal submission) | March 2027 (Membership application)
Funding Amounts: $25,000–$37,500 annually for up to two years; up to $75,000 total
Summary: Supports new investigators conducting thyroid function, disease, and cancer research to generate preliminary data for larger research applications.
Key Information: ATA membership is required; prior ATA, ThyCa, or BMC research grant recipients and NIH R01-equivalent principal investigators are ineligible.
Description
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) Thyroid Research Grant Program supports early-career investigators conducting new investigator-initiated research on thyroid function, thyroid disease, and thyroid cancer. Established in 1996, it aims to improve diagnosis and treatment and advance the ATA’s mission of “Optimal Thyroid Health for All.” Awards help US and international investigators obtain preliminary data for more substantial applications, such as those to the National Institutes of Health.
Research topics include thyroid function disorders, iodine uptake and metabolism, autoimmunity, cancer, hormone effects and metabolism, development and the brain, health disparities, health services research, health economics and outcomes, imaging, nodules and goiter, and pregnancy. ATA also administers research funding from ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Bite Me Cancer, and the Thyroid, Head and Neck Cancer (THANC) Foundation.
