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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: Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC) Friday, May 30, 2025 - The IUCRC program catalyzes breakthrough pre-competitive research by enabling close and sustained engagement between industry innovators, world-class academic teams, and government agencies. Amount: Varies by type Due Date: 09/1/2025 (Pre-Proposal) More Information
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
Gateway for Cancer Research: Traditional Grant Program Thursday, May 8, 2025 - This program funds Phase I and II patient-centered cancer clinical trials that have the potential to shift the paradigm for standard of care. The foundation strives to fund treatment-based studies at the bedside, including all types of cancers. Amount: $200,000 – $1,500,000 Due Date: 06/20/2025 (LOI) 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
DoD CDMRP: Alzheimer’s Research Program Transforming Research Award Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - This program supports non-incremental research designed to reduce risk of or prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease and/or Alzheimer’s disease related dementias. Allowable research includes projects utilizing animal models as well as clinical research projects. Amount: $1,000,000 Due Date: 06/12/2025 (Pre-Application); 08/29/2025 (Full Application) 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
DoD CDMRP: DoD Breast Cancer Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and 2 Friday, April 25, 2025 - This program supports promising research that has high potential to lead to or make breakthroughs in breast cancer research. Amount: Varies by Level Due Date: 06/13/2025 (Pre-Proposal); 06/27/2025 (Full Proposal) More Information
DoD CDMRP: Breast Cancer Research Program Clinical Research Extension Award Friday, April 25, 2025 - This program aims to extend or expand the data collection, follow-up, and analysis of breast cancer clinical studies, with the intent of increasing 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 and/or data collection and […]
The Teagle Foundation: Knowledge for Freedom Friday, April 25, 2025 - This initiative supports programs that invite underserved high school students to college to study humanity’s deepest questions about leading lives of purpose and civic responsibility. Amount: $100,000 – $300,000 Due Date: 08/01/2025 (Concept Papers) 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
NSF: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM) Friday, April 25, 2025 - This program supports research that incorporates social and behavioral processes in mathematical epidemiological models. The program specifically supports projects that involve integrated participation from the mathematical and social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Amount: $1,000,000 Due Date: 07/14/2025 More Information
NFWF: National Coastal Resilience Fund Friday, April 4, 2025 - This program will make investments in planning, design, and implementation of nature-based solutions to enhance protection for coastal communities from the impacts of storms, floods, and other natural hazards while improving habitats for fish and wildlife. Amount: $100,000 – $10,000,000 Due Date: 05/06/2025 (Pre-Proposals); 07/17/2025 (Invited Full Proposals) More Information
DoD: FY2026 Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - This program addresses high-risk basic research and attempts to understand or achieve something that has never been done before. Amount: Typically, up to $1,500,000 per year Due Date: 05/02/2026 (White Papers); 09/05/2025 (Full Proposals) More Information
Michael J. Fox Foundation: Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s: Collaborative Research Network – Scientific Track Friday, March 14, 2025 - This Initiative invites applications from collaborative teams to join the ASAP Collaborative Research Network (CRN). For this cycle, applications within the Scientific Track that focus on dissecting the mechanisms that contribute to Parkinson’s disease heterogeneity will be considered. Amount: $9,000,000 Due Date: 03/20/2025 (LOI); 08/07/2025 (Invited Proposals) 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
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research: Early Detection Award Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - This program supports projects focused on accelerating the development of effective new approaches to the early detection of cancer. These projects will advance our understanding of the origins and risk stratifications of recalcitrant cancers and accelerate the development of technological and methodological innovation in early cancer detection and interception. Amount: $2,000,000 Due Date: 03/10/2025 (LOI); 06/17/2025 (Full […]
NIH: Leveraging Network Infrastructure to Conduct Innovative Research for Women, Children, Pregnant and Lactating Individuals, and Persons with Disabilities (UG3/UH3 – Clinical Trial Optional) Friday, January 17, 2025 - This program’s purpose is to leverage NICHD clinical research network infrastructure relevant to infants, children, women, pregnant and lactating individuals, and persons with disabilities to conduct innovative, multisite, investigator-initiated clinical trials and observational studies. Amount: $6,250,000 DueDate: 07/15/2025 More 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
NIH: NIDA Avant-Garde Program for HIV and Substance Use Disorder Research (DP1) Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - This program supports exceptionally creative scientists, who propose high-impact studies that open new areas of HIV research in the context of substance use and Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and/or lead to new avenues for prevention and treatment of HIV in people with SUD. Amount: $5,285,000 Due Date: 07/15/2025 (LOI); 08/15/2025 (Full Proposal) 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.
NIH: Systems Biology for Infectious Diseases (U19 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Monday, October 11, 2021 - The purpose of the FOA is to support research that employs systems biology approaches to human pathogens.
NIH: SPARC Human Open Research Neural Engineering Technologies (HORNET) Initiative (U41) Monday, October 11, 2021 - This U41 opportunity will fund centers to create interoperable open-source modules that can be combined into custom profiles for new exploratory and clinical neuromodulation studies in the peripheral nervous system, and for potential applicability in the central nervous system.
NIH: Pediatric Obesity Discovery Science Research to Improve Understanding of Risk and Causal Mechanisms for Obesity in Early Life (R01) Monday, October 11, 2021 - The purpose of this FOA is to support innovative, discovery research studies to better characterize early-life risk factors and elucidate underlying causal mechanisms through which these risk factors contribute to the development of obesity during infancy and early childhood.
NSF: Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO) Saturday, September 25, 2021 - This solicitation invites submission of collaborative proposals that tackle bold questions in biology and require an integrated approach to make substantive progress.
NSF: Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) Saturday, September 25, 2021 - This solicitation expands the Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation program by adding a new project class: Transition to Sustainability.
NSF: Biology Integration Institutes (BII) Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - The NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences program for Biology Integration Institutes (BII) supports diverse and collaborative teams of researchers investigating questions that span multiple disciplines within and beyond biology.
NSF: EHR Core Research – Resource Coordination Hub (ECR Hub) Monday, September 13, 2021 - NSF seeks proposals to create an EHR Core Research (ECR) Resource Coordination Hub (ECR Hub) that will be an intellectual partner to the ECR:Core and the ECR:BCSER grantee communities and the NSF to enhance the overall influence and reach of ECR STEM education research investments.
DOE: Natural Gas Demand Response Pilot Program Monday, September 13, 2021 - FOA soliciting cooperative agreements for the development of multiple regional natural gas demand response pilot programs in collaboration with utilities, local distribution companies and public utility commissions.