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USDA-NIFA: Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - The program funds high priority integrated projects that will enhance the ability of producers and processors who have already adopted organic standards to grow and market high quality organic agricultural products, mitigate and adapt to climate change, build resilience of the organic farming system, and protect water and other resources. Amount: $50,000 – $3,500,000 Due Date: 02/15/2024 […]
NIH: NIDA Core “Center of Excellence” Grant Program (P30 Clinical Trial Optional) Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - This program enhances and extends existing research relevant to substance use/misuse and addiction and HIV. Centers are expected to transform the scientific field of study by facilitating research, providing administrative support and a rigorous research climate that promotes new and creative directions. Amount: Unspecified Due Date: 08/25/2024 (LOI); 09/25/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
National Archives: Major Collaborative Archival Initiatives Thursday, November 30, 2023 - This program funds collaborations among multiple institutions to undertake to either 1) digitize and publish as a “virtual” collection online historical records housed at multiple repositories but centered on a common theme, organization, or important historical figure(s); or 2) create and test new tools and methods for the archival field. Amount: $150,000 – $350,000 Due Date: 02/15/2024 […]
USDA NIFA: Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative Thursday, November 30, 2023 - This program will fund high priority integrated projects that will enhance the ability of producers and processors who have already adopted organic standards to grow and market high quality organic agricultural products, mitigate and adapt to climate change, build resilience of the organic farming system, and protect water and other resources. Amount: $50,000 – $3,500,000 Due […]
NIH: Antigens Predicted for Broad Viral Efficacy through Computational Experimentation (APECx) Thursday, November 30, 2023 - This program aims to transform vaccine antigen discovery by leveraging recent advances to deliver genus-level evolution-resistant vaccine candidates against various viral infections. Amount: Unspecified Due Date: 12/15/2023 (Required Abstract); 02/16/2024 (Full Invited Proposal) More Information
NSF: Frontier Research in Earth Sciences (FRES) Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - This program supports research in Earth systems from the core through the critical zone. Projects should have a larger scientific scope and budget than those considered for funding by disciplinary programs in the Division of Earth Sciences. Amount: $3,000,000 Due Date: 02/07/2024 More Information
NSF: Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI-2024/25) Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - This program supports foundational and transformative research to advance the design, engineering, and fabrication of organoid systems that are capable of processing information dynamically while interfacing with non-living systems. Amount: $2,000,000 Due Date: 01/17/2024 (LOI); 02/22/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NSF: Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - This program funds Institutes that are national resources aiming to advance research in the mathematical sciences through programs supporting discovery and dissemination of knowledge in mathematics and statistics and enhancing connections to related fields. Amount: $12,500,000 – $30,000,000 Due Date: 03/14/2024 More Information
NIH: Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) Research Centers (P50 Clinical Trial Optional) Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - This NOFO invites applications for centers to support transdisciplinary teams to engage in high-impact studies that will significantly advance clinical practice and generate knowledge that will fuel transformation of mental health care in the United States. Amount: $11,325,000 Due Date: 04/17/2024 (LOI); 05/17/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NEH: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - This program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Multidisciplinary teams that include the necessary range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise are encouraged. Amount: $250,000 Due Date: 02/15/2024 More Information
NIH: National Drug Early Warning System Coordinating Center (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - This NOFO seeks applications for a single Coordinating Center to support research on the identification and dissemination of signals of emerging drug use patterns in communities across the United States. Amount: $7,550,000 Due Date: 02/20/2024 (LOI); 03/20/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NEH: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities Thursday, November 9, 2023 - This program supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology. NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine the role of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues. Amount: $150,000 Due Date: 09/12/2024 More Information
NIH: Phased Research to Support Substance Use Epidemiology, Prevention, and Services Studies (R61/R33 Clinical Trials Optional) Thursday, November 9, 2023 - This program supports translational research across epidemiology, addiction services, and prevention to, ultimately, reduce the burden of substance use on public health. Amount: $5,587,000 Due Date: 01/14/2024 (LOI); 02/14/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NIH: Long-Acting Drug Delivery Systems for ART Optimization in Children Living with HIV-1 II (LADDS II) (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Thursday, November 2, 2023 - This program’s purpose is to accelerate the development of safe and effective long-acting drug delivery systems for improved, simplified treatment of HIV-1 in children. Amount: $8,229,500 Due Date: 02/13/2024 (LOI); 03/13/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NIH: Engineering and Preclinical Development of Biological Products that Eliminate HIV-infected Cells (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Thursday, November 2, 2023 - This program supports the late-stage engineering and preclinical development of innovative biological products that safely and specifically kill HIV-infected cells. Amount: $5,285,000 Due Date: 02/12/2024 (LOI); 03/13/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NIH: Resource Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Thursday, November 2, 2023 - This program will fund a Center that addresses challenges and barriers to conducting research on cannabis and its constituents and enables researchers to successfully generate more rigorous scientific evidence across a variety of research domains. Amount: $6,417,500 Due Date: 03/16/2024 (LOI); 04/16/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NEH: Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Thursday, November 2, 2023 - This program helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting environmentally sustainable preventive care measures. Amount: $50,000 – $350,000 Due Date: 12/07/2023 (Optional Draft); 01/12/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NSF: Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Resource Center Thursday, November 2, 2023 - This program funds projects that engage pre-K-12 youth and educators in equitable, innovative technology learning and education experiences within and across STEM disciplines in formal or informal settings. Amount: $5,000,000 Due Date: 01/22/2024 More Information
NEH: Landmarks of American History and Culture Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - The program supports a series of one-week workshops across the nation that 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: 01/05/2024 (Optional Draft); 02/14/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NSF/NIH: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM) Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - This program supports research that incorporates research on social and behavioral processes in mathematical epidemiological models. Projects should involve balanced participation from mathematical sciences and social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Amount: $4,000,000 – $5,500,000 Due Date: 03/15/2024 More Information
NIH: Microphysiological Systems to Advance Precision Medicine for AD/ADRD Treatment and Prevention (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - This program aims to develop 2D and 3D models of AD/ADRD as reproducible and scalable platforms that recapitulate key features of human AD/ADRD pathophysiology to be used as precision medicine research tools to investigate the complex biology of AD/ADRD and to accelerate drug discovery and preclinical drug development. Amount: $18,875,000 Due Date: 01/15/2024 (LOI); 02/15/2024 (Full Proposal) […]
NIH: Comprehensive Alcohol-HIV/AIDS Research Center (P60 Clinical Trial Optional) Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - This NOFO supports research center grants to conduct a range of basic and behavioral cross-cutting, intervention, and translational research in alcohol and HIV/AIDS. Amount: $9,060,000 Due Date: 03/16/2024 (LOI); 04/18/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
DOI: Save America’s Treasures (SAT) Grant Program Wednesday, October 11, 2023 - This program funds “Collections” or “Preservation” projects. Collections include artifacts, documents, sculptures, and other works of art, and must be of national significance. Preservation includes planning and “bricks and mortar” preservation/conservation work on historic buildings. Amount: $25,000 – $750,000 (Collections); $125,000 – $750,000 (Preservation) Due Date: 12/19/2023 More Information
NEH: Public Humanities Projects Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - This program funds 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 and reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings. Amount: $1,000,000 Due Date: 01/11/2024 More Information
NIH: Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) in Human Cancers for Years 2024, 2025, and 2026 (P50 Clinical Trial Required) Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - This program funds state-of-the-art investigator-initiated translational research that will contribute to improved prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of an organ-specific cancer or a highly related group of cancers. Amount: $10,570,000 Due Date: 12/25/2023 (LOI); 01/25/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NIH: Computational Models of Influenza Immunity (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - This program will employ computational modeling and immunologic studies to advance our understanding of the requirements for improving anti-influenza immunity, including inducing broad immune protection and enhancing immune durability. Amount: $5,662,500 Due Date: 12/26/2023 (LOI); 01/26/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NIH: HEAL INITIATIVE: Development and validation of remote or patient wearable device derived objective biosignatures or functional assessments to monitor pain for use as endpoints in clinical trials (UG3/UH3 – Clinical Trial Optional) Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - This program promotes the discovery, development, and validation of real-world digital endpoints derived from data generated by existing remote or wearable devices. These endpoints will be used for monitoring the experience of pain, its progression, response to interventions, and impact on quality of life. Amount: $1,510,000 (UG3 Phase); $6,795,000 (UH3 Phase) Due Date: 01/30/2024 More Information
NEH: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Wednesday, August 9, 2023 - This program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Multidisciplinary teams that include the necessary range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise are encouraged. Amount: $250,000 Due Date: 02/15/2024 More information
NSF: Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes Thursday, August 3, 2023 - These Institutes aim to advance research in the mathematical sciences through programs supporting discovery and dissemination of knowledge in mathematics and statistics and enhancing connections to related fields in which the mathematical sciences can play important roles. Amount: $12,500,000 – $30,000,000 Due Date: 03/14/24 More Information
NIH: Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) Research Centers (P50 Clinical Trial Optional) Thursday, July 13, 2023 - This program invites applications for centers to support transdisciplinary teams to engage in high-impact studies that will significantly advance clinical practice and generate knowledge that will fuel transformation of mental health care in U.S. Amount: $11,325,000 Due Date: 4/17/24 (LOI); 5/17/24 (Full Proposal) More Information
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
NSF: Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 Wednesday, April 5, 2023 - Seeks to implement unique and compelling Research Infrastructure projects that may include any combination of equipment, instrumentation, cyberinfrastructure, broadly used large-scale data sets, and commissioning and/or personnel. Amount: $20,000,000 – $99,999,999 Due Date: 5/15/23 (LOI); 6/20/23 (Preliminary Proposal); 12/18/23 (full proposal) More Information
NSF: Synthesis Center for Understanding Organismal Resilience Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - Brings together communities that leverage existing data to catalyze discoveries through synthesis, analysis, and integrative training focusing on organisms as integrated units of biological organization i.e., why they are structured as they are and function as they do. Amount: $20,000,000 Due Date: 1/12/24 (preliminary proposal), 7/15/24 (full proposal) 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 Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) Wednesday, December 8, 2021 - The S&CC program supports integrative research that addresses fundamental technological and social science dimensions of smart and connected communities and pilots solutions together with communities.
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.
NEH: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants Monday, September 13, 2021 - computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching and public programming in the humanities.
NSF: Facility and Instrumentation Request Process (FIRP) Monday, September 13, 2021 - The Facility and Instrumentation Request Process (FIRP) solicitation describes the mechanism by which the research community can propose projects that require access to instrumentation and facilities sponsored by the FARE Program.
NIH: National Cancer Institute Youth Enjoy Science Research Education Program (R25) Friday, September 3, 2021 - This funding opportunity seeks to facilitate the education of students from diverse backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical research who will become knowledgeable about cancer, and available to focus on cancer later in their careers.
NSF: Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes Tuesday, July 6, 2021 - The goals of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes program include advancing research in the mathematical sciences, increasing the impact of the mathematical sciences in other disciplines, and expanding the talent base engaged in mathematical research in the United States.