AFSP Innovation Grants for Suicide Prevention Research

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention funds suicide research through Innovation Grants in six categories: Linked Standard Research Grants (up to $450,000 over two years, by invitation after a letter of intent), Distinguished Investigator Innovation Grants (up to $150,000 over two years for associate professors and above), Standard Innovation Grants (up to $125,000 over two years), Early Career Researcher Innovation Grants (up to $140,000 over two years with a mentor fee, for investigators at or below assistant professor), Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Innovation Grants (up to $140,000 over two years: $56,000 salary and $14,000 institutional allowance per year) and Pilot Innovation Grants (up to $50,000 over two years). Projects from any discipline must focus on suicide and include a suicide outcome measure. Applications are evaluated on their potential to advance understanding of suicide or the treatment of suicidal individuals, innovation, and methodology. Review takes place in spring 2027, funding decisions are made at the end of May 2027 and the earliest start date is October 2027.

Awards go to individuals affiliated with not-for-profit research institutions or organisations in the U.S. and abroad; for-profit organisations and federal or state government agencies cannot apply, although the Veterans Administration and NIH/NIMH are eligible. Research from all disciplines is eligible if it focuses on suicide and includes a suicide outcome measure. Postdoctoral fellows must hold a PhD, MD or other doctorate before the fellowship starts and have fewer than three academic years of postdoctoral fellowship experience; Early Career Researcher applicants must hold a rank no higher than assistant professor and cannot have held an NIMH or federal R01. Linked Standard Research Grants require an invited letter of intent.