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NSF Eliminates Fixed Deadlines for Directorate of Biological Sciences (BIO) Proposals
NSF is eliminating deadlines for BIO proposals effective calendar year 2018.
The NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) is eliminating the pre-proposal program and eliminating deadlines for full proposals, effective in calendar year 2018.
The change eliminating fixed deadlines will affect proposals for Division of Environmental Biology (DEB), the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS), the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB), and to the programs in the Research Resources Cluster of the Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI).
The change was implemented to promote interdisciplinary research that crosses biological scales and traverses current divisional boundaries.