Each funding opportunity linked below includes information on eligibility, grant terms, use of funds, reporting stipulations, and application requirements.

Interested parties must submit a letter of intent (LOI) by December 15, 2025, to be eligible. Pending approval, full applications for the 2026 CORE Grants are due January 15, 2026.
For CORE Grant program details, and to determine the grant mechanism that best fits your career stage and project, click on the resources below.
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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD AND NECK SURGERY FOUNDATION (AAO-HNSF)
- AHNS/AAO-HNSF Translational Innovator Award – $100,000, two years.
- AHNS/AAO-HNSF Young Investigator Research Development Award – $50,000, two years.
- ANS/AAO-HNSF Herbert Silverstein Otology/Neurotology Research Award – $25,000, two years.
- AAO-HNSF Bobby R. Alford Endowed Research Grant – $30,000, one year.
- AAO-HNSF Maureen Hannley Research Grant – $50,000, one year. For relevant research gaps, please refer here.
- AAO-HNSF Percy Memorial Research Award – $25,000, one year.
- AAO-HNSF Resident Research Grant – $10,000, one year.
- AAO-HNSF Health Services Research Grant – $10,000, one year.
- AAO-HNSF Reg-ent Research Grant – $10,000, one year.
- AAO-HNSF Rande H. Lazar Health Services Research Grant – $10,000, one year.
ELI LILLY AND COMPANY
- Lilly Research Grant: Genetic Hearing Loss Advancing Research and Understanding – $10,000, one year. Up to 2 available.
INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL SLEEP SOCIETY (ISSS)
- ISSS Research Grant – $10,000, one year.
AMERICAN HEAD AND NECK SOCIETY (AHNS)
- AHNS/AAO-HNSF Translational Innovator Award – $100,000, two years.
- AHNS/AAO-HNSF Young Investigator Research Development Award – $50,000, two years.
- AHNS Alando J. Ballantyne Trainee Research Pilot Grant – $20,000, one year.
- AHNS Trainee Pilot Research Award – $20,000, one year.
- AHNS Pilot Grant – $20,000, one year.
- AHNS Presidential Award: Novel Therapeutic Targets and Combinations in Head and Neck Cancer – $15,000, one year.
- AHNS Presidential Award: Integrating Emerging Technologies for Head and Neck Cancer Translational Clinical and Epidemiologic Research – $15,000, one year.
- AHNS Presidential Award: Defining and Implementing Value-Based Care in Head and Neck Cancer – $15,000, one year.
- AHNS Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association Award for Thyroid Cancer Research – $10,000, one year.
ASSOCIATION OF MIGRAINE DISORDERS (AMD)
- AMD Resident Research Grant – $12,000, one year.
AMERICAN NEUROTOLOGY SOCIETY (ANS)
- ANS/AAO-HNSF Herbert Silverstein Otology/Neurotology Research Award – $25,000, two years.
AMERICAN RHINOLOGIC SOCIETY (ARS)
- ARS New Investigator Research Grant – $40,000, two years.
- ARS Friends in Research Award – $25,000, two years.
- ARS Women in Rhinology Research Grant Sponsored by Medtronic – $25,000, one year.
- ARS Resident Research Grant – $10,000, one year.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY (ASPO)
- ASPO Research Career Development Award – $40,000, one to two years.
- ASPO Research Grant – $20,000, one year.
- ASPO Dustin Micah Harper Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis (RRP) Research Grant – $10,000, one year.
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