Early Career Faculty Research Award
Funding Amount
$5,000
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
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Other requirements
- Early-career faculty members
- Neonatologists, neonatologist-scientists, and clinician-researchers
- Researchers from academic medical institutions
Overview
Purpose: To support early-career faculty conducting research on necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and related neonatal conditions. The NEC Society funds this award to recognize researchers who are key to driving progress and innovation in the NEC field.
Geographic Scope: United States (CA-based funder)
Focus Areas:
- NEC pathogenesis and mechanisms
- Diagnostic tools and biomarker identification
- Gut motility and intestinal adaptation in premature infants
- Intestinal barrier function and dysfunction
- NEC prevention, diagnosis, and treatment innovations
Eligibility:
- Early-career faculty members
- Neonatologists, neonatologist-scientists, and clinician-researchers
- Researchers from academic medical institutions
Recent Awardees:
- 2025: Dr. Geoanna Marie Bautista, MD (UC Davis Children's Hospital) - Two-year project on NEC pathogenesis and the role of Piezo1 in gut maturation
- 2024: Dr. Lauren Frazer, MD, PhD (University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill) - Project on NEC diagnostic tools through biomarker identification
Contact Information:
- NEC Society
- 907 3rd Street #128
- Davis, CA 95616
- Email: Sarah@NECsociety.org
- Phone: 1-530-448-8088
Organization Status: 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (Tax ID: 46-4426455)
What Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) Society actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 3
- Total given
- $15K
- Median grant
- $5,000
- By dollars: California 33%, Ohio 33%, Illinois 33%. Top recipient cities: Oakland, CA; Columbus, OH; Itasca, IL.
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Research Institute at Nationwide Ch · Columbus, OH
$5,000
AAP Neonatal Perinatal Medicine · Itasca, IL
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Fields of Work
- Science research
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