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)
This program supports anthropologically relevant archaeological research to increase understanding of past behaviors.
Amount: $200,000 – $350,000
Due Date: 12/01/2025
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
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)
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)
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)
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 novel tools that can be reliably produced and shared with the research community to accelerate validation and therapeutic R&D for emerging targets identified from ASAP discoveries will be considered.
Amount: $6,000,000
Due Date: 05/05/2025 (LOI); 09/08/2025 (Invited Proposals)
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
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
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
