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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative Friday, September 5, 2025
NIH: Partnerships for Development of Vaccines to Prevent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection and/or Disease (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Friday, August 29, 2025 - This program solicits research applications focused on preclinical development of lead candidate vaccines to prevent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection and/or disease, and to increase the clinical pipeline of viable vaccine candidates. Amount: $5,662,500 Due Date: 10/07/2025 (LOI); 11/07/2025 (Full Proposal) More Information
NIH: Tuberculosis Research Units (P01 Clinical Trial Optional) Friday, August 29, 2025 - This program supports the establishment of multidisciplinary Tuberculosis (TB) Research Units (TBRUs) that will operate as a collaborative network to improve understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)-host interactions through characterizing the roles of bacterial and host heterogeneity on infection outcomes and disease progression, and defining bacterial and host determinants relevant to Mtb establishment, dissemination, and disease […]
RWJF: Rapid Response – Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research Friday, August 29, 2025 - This program supports timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding. Rapid Response Research funding is exclusively available to applicants who have already received federal funding (e.g., from the NIH, CDC, NSF) for their health equity research, but have since had their funding partially or fully rescinded due to […]
NSF: Growing Convergence Research (GCR) Monday, August 25, 2025 - This program supports transitioning teams from research that is multidisciplinary to research that transcends disciplinary boundaries with novel conceptual frameworks, theories and methods. Proposals should explore novel avenues not previously investigated that are at the forefront of advancing science through deep integration. Amount: $1,200,000 (Phase I); $2,400,000 (Phase II) Due Date: 02/09/2026 More Information
The Teagle Foundation: Cornerstone Learning for Living Monday, August 25, 2025 - This initiative aims to reinvigorate the role of the humanities in general education, and in doing so, expose a broad array of students to the power of the humanities; help students of all backgrounds build a sense of belonging and community; strengthen the coherence and cohesiveness of general education; and increase teaching opportunities for humanities […]
Michael J. Fox Foundation: Parkinson’s Disease Therapeutics Pipeline Program Thursday, August 7, 2025 - This program seeks to advance therapeutic development through pre-clinical and/or clinical testing of approaches addressing unmet needs of people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The program is set up to benefit therapeutics with clear potential to prevent, stop, or delay disease progression or to reduce the burden of daily symptoms. Amount: Pre-Proposals Accepted Any Time; 10/09/2025 […]
FDA: Efficient and Innovative Natural History Studies Addressing Unmet Needs in Rare Diseases Friday, August 1, 2025 - This funding opportunity supports prospective or retrospective, efficient, and innovative natural history studies with a focus on collaborative and standardized approaches to ensure data quality and interpretability. Amount: $1,600,000 (Prospective Studies); $300,000 (Retrospective Studies) Due Date: 01/09/2026 (LOI); 02/10/2026 (Full Proposal) More information
NSF: Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) Friday, August 1, 2025 - This program supports the development of transformative high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, behavioral and/or cognitive research to address pressing questions in the biomedical and public health communities. Amount: $1,200,000 Due Date: 10/03/2025 More information
NEH: Public Humanities Projects Friday, August 1, 2025 - This program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in […]
Gateway for Cancer Research: Gateway Traditional Grant Program Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - Gateway funds Phase I and II patient-centered cancer clinical trials that have the potential to shift the paradigm for standard of care. This program funds early phase clinical trials for cancers of all types at institutions around the world. These grants are typically 2-5 years in duration. Amount: Typically$200,000 – $1,500,000 Due Date: 11/05/2025 (LOI) […]
FDA: Clinical Studies of Orphan Products Addressing Unmet Needs of Rare Diseases Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - This funding opportunity supports clinical trials of orphan products in all phases of product development (phase 1, 2 and/or 3) for rare diseases with unmet medical needs. These clinical trials should evaluate safety and/or efficacy of medical products in support of a new indication or a change in labeling. Amount: $2,600,000 Due Date: 09/22/2025 (LOI); […]
NSF: Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - This program partners across sectors to advance three primary focus areas – accelerating technology translation and development, fostering regional innovation and economic growth, and preparing the American workforce for future high-wage jobs in STEM fields. Amount: $600,000 (TTP-E Projects); $1,200,000 (TTP-T Projects); $2,000,000 (TTP-P Projects) Due Date: 09/16/2025 More information
NIH: NIGMS National and Regional Resources (R24 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - This program encourages applications for support of resources that will provide access to state-of-the-art equipment, technologies, research tools, materials, organisms, software, and/or services to a substantial regional (multi-state) or national user base. Only those resources with technical capabilities that fall within the NIGMS-supported program areas are eligible for awards. Amount: Unspecified Due Date: 09/25/2025 More […]
Lupus Research Alliance: Global Team Science Award Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - This program supports interdisciplinary, collaborative, and highly synergistic projects that focus on the molecular understanding of human lupus and the heterogeneity of the disease. Successful teams will push the boundaries of innovation and bridge research and clinical efforts in lupus by using cutting-edge technologies to address critical questions that could bring about breakthroughs in lupus […]
The Hairy Cell Leukemia Foundation-Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: HCL2030 Collaborative Team Grants Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - This program funds targeted research to uncover novel features of classic Hairy Cell Leukemia (HCL) biology, understand the distinguishing features of HCL variant and apply that knowledge in the clinic, translate new medical knowledge to clinical application, test novel treatments in patients through clinical trials, and apply the HCL registry created by HCLF to examine […]
NEH: Scholarly Editions and Translations Friday, June 27, 2025 - This program supports collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to generating new scholarships but are inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations. Works from any humanities field may be the subject of an edition. Amount: $65,000 (Planning); $300,000 (Implementation) Due Date: 09/29/2025 (Optional Draft); 12/03/2025 […]
Simons Foundation: Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences Friday, June 27, 2025 - This program aims to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. Proposals should address a mathematical or theoretical topic of fundamental scientific importance, where a significant, new development creates a novel area for exploration or provides a new direction for progress in an established field. […]
DOD CDMRP: Breast Cancer Research Program – Clinical Research Extension Award Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - This program aims to extend or expand the data collection, follow-up, and analysis of breast cancer clinical studies. The intent of this award mechanism is to increase the clinically relevant impact of breast cancer patient participation in clinical research by addressing the knowledge lost due to early trial termination, limited patient follow-up, or suboptimal sample […]
DOD CDMRP: Breast Cancer Research Program – Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and 2 Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - This program supports promising research that has high potential to lead to or make breakthroughs in breast cancer. Amount: Ranges from $750,000 to $3,350,000 Due Date: 08/27/2025 (Pre-Application); 09/10/2025 (Full Application) More information
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1 Clinical Trial Optional) Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - This program supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important areas relevant to NIH’s mission. The proposed research must reflect substantially different scientific directions from those already being pursued in the investigator’s research program or elsewhere. Applications in […]
NSF: Computer Science for All Friday, June 6, 2025 - This program supports partnerships and research that helps equip high school teachers to teach computer science, K-8 teachers to incorporate computer science and computational thinking in their classes, and school districts to create computing pathways across all grades. Amount: $300,000 (Small RPP); $1,000,000 (Medium RPP); $2,000,000 (Large RPP) Due Date: 02/11/2026 More information
NSF: Growing Convergence Research (GCR) Friday, June 6, 2025 - This program aims to cultivate and grow the earliest foundations of convergent approaches for addressing a specific and compelling problem. Proposals should explore novel avenues not previously investigated that are at the forefront of advancing science through deep integration. Amount: $1,200,000 (Phase I); $2,400,000 (Phase II) Due Date: 02/09/2026
NSF: Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems (VINES) Friday, May 30, 2025 - This is a multisector effort led by NSF in partnership with several industry and international agency partners, and other U.S. Federal agencies. The program seeks to support both fundamental research and verticals-driven technology development, demonstration, and translation activities that will lead to leaps in performance and capabilities of next generation advanced intelligent network systems that […]
NHPRC: Archival Projects Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - This program supports archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. The program welcomes projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day. Amount: $150,000 Due Date: 08/15/2025 (Optional Draft); 11/05/2025 […]
DoD CDMRP: DoD Melanoma, Team Science Award Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - This program supports a broad range of hypothesis-driven, multidisciplinary studies that have a short-term goal of advancing the state of the science in melanoma research and/or patient care. Amount: $2,265,000 Due Date: 06/30/2025 (Pre-Application); 10/01/2025 (Full Application) More Information
DoD CDMRP: Melanoma Research Program, Focused Program Award – Rare Melanomas Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - This program supports a multidisciplinary research program of at least two, but not more than three, distinct but complementary research projects addressing an overarching question relevant to rare melanomas. Amount: $3,020,000 Due Date: 06/30/2025 (Pre-Application); 10/01/2025 (Full Application) More Information
NSF: Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) Thursday, May 8, 2025 - NSF: Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) This program provides the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) research and education community with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing and information. Amount: $15,000,000 Due Date: 06/22/2026 (Pre-Proposals) More Information
NSF: Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - This program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI). The program continues to emphasize integrated CI services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation. Amount: $600,000 (Elements); $1,000,000 (Transition to Sustainability); $600,001-$5,000,000 (Framework Implementations) Due Date: 12/01/2025 More Information
NSF: Archaeology Program Senior Research Awards (Arch-SR) Friday, April 25, 2025 - This program supports anthropologically relevant archaeological research to increase understanding of past behaviors. Amount: $200,000 – $350,000 Due Date: 12/01/2025 More Information
Michael J. Fox Foundation: Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s: Collaborative Research Network – Technical Track Friday, March 14, 2025 - This Initiative invites applications from collaborative teams to join the ASAP Collaborative Research Network (CRN), which works to address high-priority research questions in an effort to advance our understanding of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and drive new ideas into the R&D pipeline. For this cycle, applications within the Technical Track that focus on the development of […]
NSF: Growing Convergence Research (GCR) Friday, February 21, 2025 - This program aims to cultivate and grow the earliest foundations of convergent approaches for addressing a specific and compelling problem. Proposals should explore novel avenues not previously investigated that are at the forefront of advancing science through deep integration. Amount: $1,200,000 (Phase I); $2,400,000 (Phase II) Due Date: 02/09/2026 More Information
NIH: Comprehensive Partnerships to Advance Cancer Health Equity (CPACHE) (U54 Clinical Trial Optional) Friday, February 21, 2025 - This program aims to achieve a stronger national cancer program and address challenges in cancer and cancer disparities research, education, and outreach, as well as cancer’s impact on underserved populations. Amount: $12,835,000 – $16,610,000 Due Date: 10/09/2025More Information
NIH: Translational Bioinformatics and Experimental Approaches to Advance Drug Repositioning and Combination Therapy Development for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Wednesday, January 8, 2025 - The central goal of this NOFO is to establish robust proof of concept in mouse models or cell-based models of AD/ADRD that will enable rational drug repositioning and the development of precision combination therapies for the treatment and prevention of AD/ADRD. Amount: $7,550,000 Due Date: 06/09/2025; 10/06/2025 More Information
FY 2026 Faculty Seed Grants in the Sciences and Engineering Monday, December 30, 2024 - The Office of Research announces the FY 2026 cycle for the Faculty Seed Grants in the Sciences and Engineering. The deadline for proposal submission is 11:59 pm on Saturday, March 1, 2025. Grants for successful applications will be awarded with a start date of July 1, 2025 (FY26).
NSF-NEH: Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages Senior Research Grants Friday, December 13, 2024 - This partnership between the NSF and NEH supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning dynamic language infrastructure in the context of endangered human languages — languages that are both understudied and at risk of falling out of use. Amount: $450,000 Due Date: 09/15/2025 More information
Georgia Network for Electric Mobility Seed Grants Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - This program supports interdisciplinary research in e-mobility related topics along the electric vehicle/mobility value chain such as battery manufacturing and rare earth materials mining, supply chain and logistics, vehicle manufacturing, charging infrastructure and utilities, sales and consumer knowledge, and battery and EV components/materials recycling. Amount: $40,000 up to $60,000 per award Proposal due date: December 18, […]
NEH: Landmarks of American History and Culture Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - This program supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation to enhance how K-12 educators and higher education faculty and humanities professionals incorporate place-based approaches to humanities teaching and scholarship. Amount: $190,000 Due Date: 01/06/2025 (Optional Draft); 12/12/2025 (Full Proposal) More Information
NSF: Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs, Large Projects Wednesday, September 18, 2024 - This solicitation invites proposals on bold new scientific ideas tackling ambitious fundamental research problems that cross the boundaries of two or more CISE core programs, which range from Computing and Communications to Computer and Network Systems, to Information and Intelligence Systems. Amount: $3,000,000 – $5,000,000 Due Date: 09/29/2025 More Information
NIH: Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) (K12 Clinical Trial Optional) Monday, March 18, 2024 - This program supports mentored research career development of junior faculty members who have recently completed clinical training or postdoctoral fellowships, and who will be engaged in interdisciplinary basic, translational, data science, behavioral, clinical, and/or health services research relevant to the health of women and, where appropriate, the use of both sexes to better understand the […]
NIH: Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation in Mental Health Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - Supports the work of the research projects funded under the Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation in Mental Health (IMPACT-MH) initiative described in the companion announcement RFA-MH-23-105. Amount: $18,875,000 Due Date: 6/14/23 More Information
NEH: Digital Projects for the Public Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - This program supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments. Amount: $400,000 Due Date: 6/14/23 More Information
NIH: Development of Novel Nonsteroidal Contraceptive Methods Tuesday, October 18, 2022 - Supports multidisciplinary research approaches for the development of novel nonsteroidal contraceptive products for men and women that act prior to fertilization. Amount: $3,020,000 Due Date: 3/29/23 More information
NIH: BRAIN Initiative: Exploratory Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs Wednesday, March 16, 2022 - Supports interdisciplinary teams to elucidate the contributions of dynamic circuit activity to a specific behavioral or neural system.
NSF: Biodiversity on a Changing Planet (BoCP) Thursday, October 21, 2021 - The Biodiversity on a Changing Planet program is a cross directorate and international program led by NSF that invites submission of interdisciplinary proposals addressing grand challenges in biodiversity science within the context of unprecedented environmental change.
CDC: Vector-Borne Disease Regional Centers of Excellence Thursday, October 21, 2021 - The purpose of this NOFO is to support research to improve national capacity to address the growing problem of vector-borne diseases via continued support for regional Centers of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases.
NSF: Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science Phase II (TRIPODS) Monday, October 18, 2021 - NSF's Harnessing the Data Revolution Big Idea is a national-scale activity to enable new modes of data-driven discovery that will allow fundamental questions to be asked and answered at the frontiers of science and engineering.
NSF: Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community Research Infrastructure Program Monday, October 18, 2021 - The Computer and Information Science and Engineering Community Research Infrastructure program drives discovery and learning in the core CISE disciplines by funding the creation and enhancement of world-class research infrastructure.
NIH: Development of Microbiome-Related Approaches for Diagnosis/Mitigation/Treatment of Radiation Injuries (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Monday, October 11, 2021 - The purpose of this FOA is to support research that will advance the understanding of how the microbiome affects radiation injury.
DOC: US Marine Life Observations: Coordinated Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) and Animal Telemetry Network (ATN) Activities to Ensure Resilient, Productive Ecosystems and Human Communities in the Face of Change Monday, October 11, 2021 - This program supports proposals that: (1) build upon the foundation established by MBON, ATN and the US IOOS Regional Associations to work across sectors and disciplines towards an integrated, sustained marine life observing capability for the U.S. ocean, coasts and Great Lakes, from estuaries to the deep ocean.