Current Funding Opportunities

The Teagle Foundation

Cornerstone: Learning for Living
https://www.teaglefoundation.org/Call-for-Proposals/RFPs/Cornerstone-Learning-for-Living
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 1, 2024

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 faculty.

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

American Council of Learned Societies

Digital Justice Development Grants
https://www.acls.org/competitions/acls-digital-justice-development-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 3, 2024

This program addresses inequities in access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects.

American Council of Learned Societies

Digital Justice Seed Grants
https://www.acls.org/competitions/acls-digital-justice-seed-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 3, 2024

This program addresses inequities in access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials and those in institutions with less support for digital projects.

Department of Education

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356880
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

This opportunity provides opportunities for doctoral students to engage in dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies.

Department of Education

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program – Long-Term Projects
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356825
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 21, 2025

This opportunity aims to promote, improve, and develop the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States. The program provides opportunities for faculty, teachers, and undergraduate and graduate students to conduct long-term group projects overseas. 

Department of Education

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program – Short-Term Projects
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356824
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 21, 2025

This opportunity aims to promote, improve, and develop the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States. The program provides opportunities for faculty, teachers, and undergraduate and graduate students to conduct short-term group projects overseas. 

CatchLight

Global Fellowship Program
https://www.catchlight.io/how-to-apply-global-fellowship
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 14, 2024

CatchLight supports innovative visual storytellers covering a multitude of topics and that come from all over the world. This fellowship supports individuals who want to cultivate significant audience engagement through inventive distribution methods that will increase the impact of their work. 

Department of the Interior

Historic Preservation Fund – Save America’s Treasures – Preservation Grants
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356727
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 12, 2024

These grants provide preservation and/or conservation assistance to nationally significant historic properties and collections.

Kress Foundation

History of Art
https://www.kressfoundation.org/Programs/Grants/History-of-Art
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 15, 2024

This opportunity supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Landmarks of American History and Culture for Higher Education
https://www.neh.gov/grants/education/landmarks/highered
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 12, 2025

This program supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation that enhance how K-12 educators, higher education faculty, and humanities professionals incorporate place-based approaches to humanities teaching and scholarship.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/sustaining-cultural-heritage-collections
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 5, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 10, 2025

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 that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, reduce energy consumption, and strengthen institutions’ abilities to anticipate and respond to disasters.

The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

Venetian Research Program for Individual Scholars – U.S.
https://www.delmas.org/how-to-apply-us
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 16, 2024

This opportunity provides travel grants to individual scholars in support of historical research on Venice and the former Venetian empire and/or for the study of contemporary Venetian society and culture.

National Institutes of Health

Cancer Immunoprevention Network Resource Coordinating Center (U24 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-24-036.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: November 2, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 2, 2024

The overall goals of this opportunity are to establish an agile and effective network to undertake collaborative research focusing on cancer immunoprevention research.

National Institutes of Health

Centers for Accelerating Phage (Bacteriophage) Therapy to Combat ESKAPE Pathogens (P01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-24-069.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 29, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 28, 2025

This opportunity aims to solicit applications to establish Centers for Accelerating Phage Therapy to Combat ESKAPE Pathogens (CAPT-CEP). The CAPT-CEPs will focus on developing preclinical assays, tools, and models for robust phage therapy research and development and advancing phage clinical research.

National Science Foundation

Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/iucrc-industry-university-cooperative-research-centers-program/nsf20-570/solicitation
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: March 12, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: June 11, 2025

This program help industry partners and government agencies connect directly and efficiently with university researchers to achieve three primary objectives: 1) conduct high-impact research to meet shared and critical industrial needs in companies of all sizes; 2) enhance U.S. global leadership in driving innovative technology development, and 3) identify, mentor, and develop a diverse, highly skilled science and engineering workforce.

Department of Energy

Advanced Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies to Drive National Goals
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356810
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: November 20, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 31, 2025

This opportunity supports the vision outlined in the U.S. National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap targeting topics critical to enabling increased adoption of clean hydrogen across sectors, including in heavy-duty vehicles, and also supports the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization. 

Department of Commerce

Broad Agency Announcement Type: Initial
https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/opportunities/instructions/PKG00287654-instructions.pdf

This Broad Agency Announcement is a mechanism to encourage research, education and outreach, innovative projects, or sponsorships that are not addressed through National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s competitive discretionary programs.

Proposals are accepted at any time.

Department of Energy

Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356630
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 27, 2025

This opportunity provides support for rural and remote communities to build clean energy projects that benefit their communities.

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund

Grant Applications
https://cieif.org/guidelines-for-grant-applicants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 1, 2024

This opportunity supports environmental impact assessments, predictive impact modeling, and engagement efforts with potentially impacted stakeholders for innovative climate intervention technologies that are on the verge of field testing.  

Department of Agriculture

Innovations Grant Program
https://www.fs.usda.gov/science-technology/energy-forest-products/wood-innovation
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 11, 2024

This opportunity support projects that will substantially expand and accelerate wood products and wood energy markets throughout the United States to support forest management needs on the National Forest System and other forest lands. 

Department of Energy

Oxygen-conducting SOFC and SOEC Research and Development for Hydrogen Production
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356550
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 2, 2024

This program in the Fossil Energy and Carbon Management collaborates with all Government offices which are a part of the Hydrogen Strategic Plan and supports only the Research and Development which is necessary to achieve the Hydrogen Strategic Plan targets and objectives and the Department of energy-wide Hydrogen Shot goals.

National Science Foundation

Regional Resilience Innovation Incubator
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/regional-resilience-innovation-incubator-r2i2/nsf24-595/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 16, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 16, 2025

This opportunity will support community- engaged team science to co-design high-impact solutions to climate-related societal challenges that leverage recent advances in fundamental climate change and Earth system science research. Each project will address specific regional climate challenges and will develop and demonstrate solutions to those challenges that can be effectively applied in real- world settings.

Water Quality Research Foundation

Request for Concept Papers
https://www.wqrf.org/uploads/8/3/5/5/83551838/form_.24002_wqrf_grantrfcp_resiliencygrant2.pdf
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 20, 2024

The grant program allows researchers flexibility for submission of unique study concepts that are topical to The Water Quality Research Foundation ‘s mission. Concepts with the best likelihood to advance knowledge and the science of high quality, sustainable drinking water will be invited to submit a full concept for funding consideration.

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: A.60 Earth Action: Ecological Conservation
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b9E6792EF-EF8C-A83B-9A10-51A35953C999%7d&path=&method=init
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 14, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 14, 2025

The NASA Earth Science Division seeks proposals for projects that apply Earth observations to improve or develop decision-making activities in ecological conservation and management.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: A.61 INjected Smoke and PYRocumulonimbus Experiment Science Team
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b01F8C0DA-01A4-E915-C444-DAC6420562A5%7d&path=&method=init
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 6, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 24, 2025

This opportunity will test the hypothesis that increasing wildfire size and intensity in a warming climate will amplify pyrocumulonimbus-driven smoke injection into the stratosphere and induce measurable changes to Earth’s radiative balance.

Department of Agriculture

Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance Program
https://www.fs.usda.gov/science-technology/energy-forest-products/wood-innovation
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 18, 2024

This opportunity is announcing the availability of up to $20 million of financial assistance to facilities that purchase and process byproducts from ecosystem restoration projects in areas at risk of unnaturally severe wildfire or insect or disease infestation.

Department of Defense

Broad Agency Announcement for the Joint Airborne Mission Survivability IPT
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356983
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 5, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 17, 2025

This opportunity is seeking wide-ranging aircraft survivability equipment technologies at technical readiness level three and higher for accelerated development in relation to modern missile threat systems.

Department of Defense

Department of Army Energetics Basic Research Center
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356583
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025

The purpose of this opportunity is to solicit ideas across a wide range of disciplines, including chemistry, physics, materials science, and engineering, that support discovery and innovation to enable the rapid and effective exploration and validation of novel energetic materials. These ideas should lead to and demonstrate significant advancements in the energy density, sensitivity, structural properties, synthesis, and prediction of properties and characteristics of energetic materials and energetic material systems.

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Defense

Quantum Sensing of Neutrinos
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356994
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: November 25, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 20, 2025

This opportunity is a 30-month program focused on demonstrating neutrino detection based on quantum sensing of athermal phonons.

Department of Defense

Young Faculty Award
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356821
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: November 18, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions in academia and equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions to expose them to Department of Defense needs and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s mission to create and prevent technological surprise for national security.

Institute of Museum and Library Services

21st Century Museum Professionals Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355959
Sponsor Application Deadline: November 15, 2024

This opportunity has two goals: 1) Support the professional development of the current museum workforce. 2)  Recruit and train future museum professionals.

National Science Foundation

Advancing Informal STEM Learning
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/advancing-informal-stem-learning-aisl/nsf24-601/solicitation#elig
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 8, 2025

The Advancing Informal STEM Learning Program is committed to funding research and practice, with a continued focus on investigating a range of informal STEM learning experiences and environments that make lifelong learning a reality.

AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps State and National Competitive Grants
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355964
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 23, 2025

This is a funding opportunity for Institutions of higher education; local governments, school districts; nonprofit organizations; State Service Commissions; States and US Territories; Indian Tribes; and public health departments to apply for AmeriCorps members to strengthen communities through service.  

National Institutes of Health

Cancer Epidemiology Cohorts: Building the Next Generation of Research Cohorts (U01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-186.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 28, 2025

This opportunity seeks to support initiating and building the next generation of population-based cancer epidemiology cohorts to address specific knowledge gaps in cancer etiology and survivorship.

Environmental Protection Agency

Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach Grant Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356422
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 20, 2024

This program aims to fund projects that will decrease wasted food from households, expand markets and sales of compost, and inform the public about new or existing residential food waste composting programs. All applications for this funding opportunity must be coalition applications.

National Science Foundation

Discovery Research PreK-12 Program Resource Center on Transformative Education Research and Translation
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/drk-12-rc-discovery-research-prek-12-program-resource-center/nsf24-602/solicitation?WT_mc_id=USNSF_25&WT_mc_ev=click#elig
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 28, 2025

This solicitation seeks proposals for the Discovery Research PreK-12 program’s Resource Center (DRK-12 RC) on Transformative Education Research and Translation. The DRK-12 RC will be an intellectual partner as NSF seeks to enhance the overall influence and reach of the DRK-12 Program’s research and development investments. In this partner role, the DRK-12 RC will support and recruit diverse, multi-sector constituencies with the goal of achieving the field-, knowledge-, and partnership-building aims of the DRK-12 program.   

National Institutes of Health

Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-144.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity aims to support studies that will identify, develop, and/or test strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, sustainability, scale-up, and spread of evidence-based interventions, practices, programs, tools, treatments, guidelines, and policies.

National Science Foundation

Ethical and Responsible Research
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/er2-ethical-responsible-research/nsf24-604/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 23, 2025

The Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) program supports projects that focus on what constitutes or promotes responsible and ethical research in STEM fields. The ER2 program promotes the development, improvement, and dissemination of responsible and ethical research practices and aims to build on organizational cultures that value and reward such practices.   

National Science Foundation

Geosciences Open Science Ecosystem
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/geo-ose-geosciences-open-science-ecosystem/nsf25-506/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

This program supports the development of innovative open science approaches that advance geosciences research and education through leveraging expanding information resources and computing capabilities. The program also supports initiatives to strengthen the capacity of current and future geoscientists to access, utilize, and collaborate within the growing ecosystem of open science resources. 

National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine Information Resource Grants to Reduce Health Disparities and Promote Health Equity (G08 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-281.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: November 13, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 13, 2024

This opportunity solicits resource grant applications for projects that will provide accurate, useful, usable, and understandable health information to populations that experience health disparities and their healthcare providers.   

Department of Education

Preparation of Early Intervention and Special Education Personnel Serving Children with Disabilities who have High-Intensity Needs
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356648
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 3, 2024

The purposes of this program are to 1) help address State-identified needs for personnel preparation in early intervention, special education, related services, and regular education to work with children, including infants, toddlers, and youth with disabilities and 2) ensure that those personnel have the necessary skills and knowledge, derived from practices that have been determined through scientifically based research, to be successful in serving those children.

Department of Education

Preparation of Special Education, Early Intervention, and Related Services Leadership Personnel
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356645
Sponsor Application Deadline: November 22, 2024

The purposes of this program are to 1) help address State-identified needs for personnel preparation in special education, early intervention, related services, and regular education to work with children, including infants and toddlers, with disabilities and 2) ensure that those personnel have the necessary skills and knowledge, derived from practices that have been determined through scientifically based research and experience, to be successful in serving those children.

Brady Education Foundation

Proposals for Program Evaluations
https://bradyeducationfoundation.org/application-guidelines/
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 1, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: April 1, 2025

The Foundation is currently accepting Research Project proposals and Existing Program Evaluation proposals that have the potential to provide data that will inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and family income.

National Science Foundation

Research Coordination Networks
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/research-coordination-networks/nsf23-529/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt

The National Science Foundation Research Coordination Networks (RCN) are designed to foster communication and promote new collaboration among scientists, engineers and educators with diverse expertise and who share a common interest in a new or developing area of science, engineering or technology translation. By encouraging the formation of new groups and networks, the RCN program will advance fields and create novel directions and opportunities for fundamental and applied research as well as science education.

Full applications are accepted anytime.

National Institutes of Health

Research Experiences and/or Mentoring Networks through Research Education to Enhance Clinician-Scientists’ Participation in National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders’ Research (R25 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-020.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 29, 2025

The overarching goal of this program is to support educational activities that help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral, and clinical sciences.

Spencer Foundation

Research Grants on Education: Small
https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/small-research-grant
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 4, 2024

This program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. The goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.

Department of Agriculture

Solid Waste Management Grant Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356558
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 31, 2024

This program is designed to assist communities by awarding grant funding to qualified organizations that provide technical assistance and training. The program funds can be used to help reduce or eliminate the pollution of water resources and improve planning and management of solid waste sites in rural areas.

Environmental Protection Agency

Training and Technical Assistance to Improve Water Quality and Enable Small Public Water Systems to Provide Safe Drinking Water
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356521
Sponsor Application Deadline: November 25, 2024

This opportunity supports training and technical assistance to communities of need and improve public health through enhancement of technical, managerial, and financial capacity, compliance, and drinking water infrastructure.

National Science Foundation

Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ascent-addressing-systems-challenges-through-engineering-teams/nsf25-503/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 22, 2025

This opportunity offers the engineering community the opportunity to address research issues and answer engineering challenges associated with complex systems and networks that are not achievable by a single principal investigator or by short-term projects and can only be achieved by interdisciplinary research teams.  The Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Division (ECCS) envisions a connected portfolio of transformative and integrative projects that create synergistic links by investigators across its three ECCS clusters – 1) Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems 2) Electronics, Photonics and Magnetic Devices and 3) Energy, Power, Control, and Networks- yielding novel ways of addressing challenges of engineering systems and networks.

Department of Energy

Advancing Technology Development for Securing a Domestic Supply of Critical Minerals and Materials (CMM)
https://netl-exchange.energy.gov/#FoaIda96f80f9-ea64-4933-9da0-edb16a6bbeb9
Sponsor Application Deadline: November 26, 2024

The overall objectives of this opportunity is to (1) continue to advance Critical Minerals and Materials technology development, not only in the area of new advanced recovery concepts, but also to (2) expand and improve process systems development, optimization, and efficiency, to (3) improve Critical Minerals and Materials process system economic feasibility and align production costs with existing market sectors, and to (4) produce Critical Minerals and Materials from multiple, diverse feedstocks including recycled materials.

National Science Foundation

Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/cssi-cyberinfrastructure-sustained-scientific-innovation/nsf22-632/solicitation#elig
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 2, 2024

The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation 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.

Department of Energy

Disruptive DC Converters for Grid Resilient Infrastructure to Deliver Sustainable Energy
https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaIdf98a04cf-9440-4f13-afb6-4f8d6e8cffee
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 10, 2024

This program will target transformative technologies that enable a multi-terminal high-voltage direct current transmission macrogrid.

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Energy

Galvanizing Leaps in Advanced Super INsulating Glass
https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaId723fe88b-d02d-45ac-9a8b-479c713c8c87
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: November 26, 2024

This program supports the development of low-cost, highly insulating, retrofittable Insulated Glass Units (IGUs). Specifically, the program seeks technologies that enable greater than R-10 IGUs that are cost competitive with double low-e IGUs (with R-values of roughly R-3.5) such that they can reduce energy loss by a factor of three or more and become the default choice for retrofit and new construction applications. 

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Energy

Gasification of Alternative Feedstocks
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356482
Sponsor Application Deadline: November 22, 2024

This opportunity supports the development of innovative gasification designs/systems for converting alternative feedstocks into syngas to enable the low-cost production of clean hydrogen.

National Science Foundation

Molecular Foundations for Sustainability: Sustainable Polymers Enabled by Emerging Data Analytics
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/mfs-speed-molecular-foundations-sustainability-sustainable-polymers/nsf24-567/solicitation?WT_mc_id=USNSF_25&amp%3BWT_mc_ev=click#elig
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 5, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 16, 2025

The goal of this opportunity is to support fundamental research enabling the accelerated discovery and ultimate manufacturing of sustainable polymers using state-of-the-art data science, and to enhance development of a cross-disciplinary workforce skilled in this area.   

The Catalyst Foundation

Multi-Year Project
https://www.catalyst-foundation.org/call-for-proposals/
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 10, 2024

The goal of this funding is to contribute to the fusion of scientific and engineering research. To provide a concrete paradigm, it fosters university cross-disciplinary research projects in which at least one discipline is related to integrated circuit design and analysis.

National Science Foundation

Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pose-pathways-enable-open-source-ecosystems/nsf24-606/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 14, 2025

The purpose of this program is to support a new pathway for translating research or innovation results by supporting the establishment of managing organizations that facilitate the creation and growth of sustainable, high-impact open-source ecosystems around already-developed open-source products, tools, and artifacts.

Department of Energy

Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry
https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaId195cf4c7-1192-4435-8306-80c969ad5272
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: November 21, 2024

This program aims to support the research and development of scalable quantum algorithms for chemistry and materials simulations for energy applications.

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Water Quality Research Foundation

Request for Concept Papers
https://www.wqrf.org/open-rfps.html
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 20, 2024

We invite researchers to submit concept papers on the efficacy of point-of-use and point-of-entry drinking water treatment technologies in real-world settings.   

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: C.23 Analog Activities to Support Artemis Lunar Operations
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b36590CEF-D30A-DFDA-EE45-F6C56E9460D5%7d&path=&method=init
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 4, 2024

The focus of this program is on supporting high-fidelity science operations and operations constraints through Artemis human analog mission campaigns, including, but not limited to, Joint Extravehicular Activity Test Team and Desert Research and Technology Studies.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: D.21 U.S. Contributions to Ariel Preparatory Science
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7bC0A12E83-6C51-94E8-FEE4-2512E1C29EA9%7d&path=&method=init
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 12, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 4, 2025

This program will support U.S. investigations that will complement the ongoing activities of the Ariel Science Consortium. There are three areas in which the Ariel Science Consortium has requested participation from the U.S. community as part of the ongoing preparatory science work being undertaken by the Consortium: Validation and Confirmation of TESS Candidates, Improved Masses and Orbits of Known Confirmed Exoplanets, and Improved Characterization of Host Stars.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

University Student Research Challenge
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7bF97021D4-09B1-92EF-44F9-692818541E49%7d&path=&method=init

This opportunity seeks to challenge students to propose new ideas/concepts that are relevant to NASA Aeronautics. The program will provide students, from accredited U.S. colleges or universities, with grants for their projects and with the challenge of raising cost share funds through a crowdfunding campaign. The process of creating and implementing a crowdfunding campaign acts as a teaching accelerator – requiring students to act like entrepreneurs and raise awareness about their research among the public.

Application deadlines vary by program.

National Science Foundation

Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ear-pf-earth-sciences-postdoctoral-fellowships/nsf25-500/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 14, 2025

The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) awards postdoctoral fellowships to recent recipients of doctoral degrees to conduct an integrated program of independent research and professional development that address scientific questions within the scope of EAR’s disciplinary portfolio.

American Psychological Foundation

Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Student Fellowship
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/koppitz-child-psychology-fellowship/
Sponsor Application Deadline: November 27, 2024

This Fellowship program supports graduate research projects and scholarships in child psychology.

Simons Foundation

Fellows-to-Faculty Award
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/fellows-to-faculty-award/?tab=rfa
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 14, 2025

This program supports talented early career scientists and their research vision as they transition into tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions. Fellows receive funding toward the end of their postdoctoral career and a commitment of a $600,000 USD faculty research grant.

Department of Health and Human Services

Merit Switzer Research Fellowships for Doctoral Dissertation Research
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355625
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 20, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 14, 2025

This fellowship seeks to provide support to highly qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, to research the experiences and outcomes of people with disabilities. This program will provide one year of funding to conduct dissertation research focused on a disability or rehabilitation topic. 

National Institutes of Health

National Institute on Aging Academic Leadership Career Award (K07 – Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-321.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 12, 2025

This opportunity aims to provide support for established investigators who have the expertise and leadership skills to enhance aging and/or Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias research capacity within their academic institution.   

National Institutes of Health

NINDS Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Training of Postdoctoral Fellows (F32 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-234.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 10, 2025

This fellowship seeks to support promising candidates during their mentored postdoctoral training under the guidance of experienced faculty sponsors. The integrated program of research and training should enhance the individual’s potential to develop into a productive, independent researcher.

National Science Foundation

Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students
https://www.nsf.gov/eng/eec/intern.jsp?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

This opportunity provides graduate students with experiential learning opportunities through research internships in non-academic settings. The program enables graduate students to acquire core professional competencies and skills to support careers in any sector of the U.S. economy.

Deadlines vary by program.

National Science Foundation

Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students
https://www.nsf.gov/eng/eec/intern.jsp?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

This opportunity provides graduate students with experiential learning opportunities through research internships in non-academic settings. The program enables graduate students to acquire core professional competencies and skills to support careers in any sector of the U.S. economy.

Deadline for applications varies by program.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: C.18 Planetary Science Early Career Award
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7bB83F054C-199A-09D7-E907-47260E4CBAB9%7d&path=&method=init
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 5, 2024

This program is intended to help promising young scientists play an increased and meaningful role in the planetary science community and pursue professional development in areas relevant to the Planetary Science Division.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Science Diversity Leadership Award
https://chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/science-diversity-leadership-award/
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 3, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: April 8, 2025

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invites applications for a five-year funding grant (2025-2030) that supports excellent biomedical researchers with a record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in their scientific field.

Simons Foundation

Scientific Software Research Faculty Award
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/scientific-software-research-faculty-award/?tab=rfa
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 5, 2024

This award aims to support new research professor positions in existing academic departments to be filled by scientific software-focused researchers. The goal is to stimulate the development and maintenance of core scientific software infrastructure in academic environments through that creation of a new, long-term, faculty-level career path.

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Arthritis National Research Foundation

2025-2026 Grant Cycle
https://curearthritis.org/research-grants/?emci=b957abb6-c39a-ef11-88ce-000d3a98fa6b&emdi=5b205d39-db9a-ef11-88ce-000d3a98fa6b&ceid=889387
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 24, 2025

These opportunities seek early-career researchers passionate about advancing the field of arthritis and autoimmune disease research. With four specialized grant pathways, these programs are aimed at supporting innovative scientists working toward better diagnostics, treatments, and ultimately, a cure. 

National Institutes of Health

Academic-Industrial Partnerships (AIP) to Translate and Validate In Vivo Imaging Systems (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-079.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity intends to stimulate translation of scientific discoveries and engineering developments in imaging, data science and/or spectroscopic technologies into methods or tools that address contemporary problems in understanding the fundamental biology, potential risk of development, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer.

National Institutes of Health

Advanced-Stage Development and Utilization of Research Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-219.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: July 2, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications that propose to support advanced-stage development and utilization of novel research infrastructure to advance the science of aging in specific areas requiring interdisciplinary partnerships or collaborations.

National Institutes of Health

Advancing Healthcare for Older Adults from Populations that Experience Health Disparities (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-273.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

The purpose of this opportunity is to advance the science and implementation of innovative multi-level healthcare research for older adults from populations that experience health disparities.   

National Institutes of Health

Advancing Research to Understand Congenital Malformations (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-146.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity seeks to support innovative research that will inform our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the formation of structural birth defects using animal models in conjunction with human translational/clinical approaches.    

National Institutes of Health

Assay Development and Screening for Discovery of Chemical Probes, Drugs or Immunomodulators (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-153.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity intends to stimulate research in discovery and development of novel, small molecules for cancer. Molecules discovered through this program may be used to probe cancer biology, to validate cancer targets, or as the basis for optimized drugs.

National Institutes of Health

Assay Development and Screening for Discovery of Validated Chemical Hits for Brain Disorders (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-063.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity seeks to support the development and validation of screening assays for the discovery of validated hits that can be used in future drug discovery/development efforts for identifying potential drug candidates for the treatment of mental illness.

National Institutes of Health

Assay Validation of High Quality Markers for Clinical Studies in Cancer (UH3 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-075.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

This opportunity intends to accelerate the adoption and validation of molecular/cellular/imaging markers and assays for cancer detection, diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring, and prediction of response or resistance to treatment, as well as markers for cancer prevention and control. This opportunity will also support the validation of pharmacodynamic markers and markers of toxicity.

National Institutes of Health

Bioengineering Partnerships with Industry (U01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-325.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 29, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 28, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications from research partnerships formed by academic and industrial investigators to accelerate the development and adoption of promising bioengineering tools and technologies that can address important biomedical problems.   

National Science Foundation

Biomedical Research Initiative for Next-Gen BioTechnologies – SynBio Control
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/bring-synbio-biomedical-research-initiative-next-gen-biotechnologies/nsf24-603/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 4, 2024

The goal of this solicitation is to support fundamental and interdisciplinary proof of principle approaches in synthetic and engineering biology that spur the development of novel, early-stage biomedical technologies. This solicitation is focused on the use of biological control theory in the design and characterization of new synthetic biological tools and parts and their downstream application to technology development in the biomedical field.   

National Science Foundation

Biomedical Research Initiative for Next-Gen BioTechnologies – SynBio Control
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/bring-synbio-biomedical-research-initiative-next-gen-biotechnologies/nsf24-603/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 4, 2024

The goal of this solicitation is to support fundamental and interdisciplinary proof of principle approaches in synthetic and engineering biology that spur the development of novel, early-stage biomedical technologies. This solicitation is focused on the use of biological control theory in the design and characterization of new synthetic biological tools and parts and their downstream application to technology development in the biomedical field.

National Institutes of Health

BRAIN Initiative: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization – Next Generation Sensor Technology Development (U01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-26-140.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: May 14, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: June 13, 2025

This opportunity is intended to support the development of next generation sensor technologies and bioelectronic devices to further the goals of the Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization program of the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative.

National Institutes of Health

BRAIN Initiative: Optimization of Instrumentation and Device Technologies for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (U01 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-25-017.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: April 3, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: June 2, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications to optimize instrumentation and device technologies for recording and modulation of neural cells and circuits to address major challenges and enable transformative understanding of dynamic signaling in the central nervous system.

National Institutes of Health

BRAIN Initiative: Reagent Resources for Brain Cell Type-Specific Access to Broaden Distribution of Enabling Technologies for Neuroscience (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-26-120.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 15, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

This opportunity is intended to support facilities at Resource-Limited Institutions and IDeA-eligible institutions for scaled production and distribution of brain cell type-specific access reagents. The reagents to be distributed will first be developed in separately supported reagent design and development projects for brain cell type-specific access across vertebrate species in the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative Armamentarium project.

National Science Foundation

Building Synthetic Microbial Communities for Biology, Mitigating Climate Change, Sustainability and Biotechnology
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/synthetic-communities-building-synthetic-microbial-communities-biology-mitigating/nsf25-501/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 3, 2025

This solicitation seeks projects that use a model synthetic microbial community to better understand the formation, maintenance, or functionality of natural communities and to understand a natural community’s impact on the host, when applicable.

Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

Cancer and Smoking Disease Research Program
https://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/Cancer-and-Smoking-Research-Grant.aspx
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 13, 2025

This opportunity supports cancer and smoking disease research.

National Institutes of Health

Cancer Immunoprevention Network Resource Coordinating Center (U24 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-24-036.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: November 2, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 2, 2024

This opportunity intends to establish a Cancer Immunoprevention Network Data and Resource Coordinating Center to establish an agile and effective network to undertake collaborative research focusing on cancer immunoprevention research.   

National Institutes of Health

Cellular Models of HIV Pathogenesis within National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Mission Areas (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-25-021.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 20, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 20, 2025

invites applications that are focused on developing, using, and/or improving cellular models that recapitulate critical aspects of normal human physiology, such as microphysiological systems, organoids, and other three-dimensional models, to explore the interaction of HIV with tissues and processes within National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases’ mission areas.   

National Institutes of Health

Centers for Precision Disease Modeling (U54 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-305.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 15, 2024

This opportunity invites cooperative agreement applications for the support and advancement of the Centers for Precision Disease Modeling. The goal of the Centers is to support collaborative research projects that bridge current personalized medicine efforts in human subjects with advances in animal genomics and genetic manipulation technologies, including the creation of interspecies somatic hybrids.

National Institutes of Health

Clinical Characterization of Cancer Therapy-induced Adverse Sequelae and Mechanism-based Interventional Strategies (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)

Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity supports basic, translational, and clinical research projects that seek to identify the mechanisms of therapy-induced adverse sequelae, clinically characterize the adverse sequelae, and translate the mechanistic understanding into therapeutic approaches to prevent or minimize the development of long-term sequelae.   

National Institutes of Health

Co-infection and Cancer (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-082.html
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity aims to enhance mechanistic and epidemiologic investigations addressing the roles of co-infection and cancer to shed light on presently unestablished pathways in carcinogenesis that may inform prevention and treatment strategies for infection-related cancers.

National Institutes of Health

Co-infection and Cancer (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-082.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

The goal of this opportunity is to enhance mechanistic and epidemiologic investigations addressing the roles of co-infection and cancer to shed light on presently unestablished pathways in carcinogenesis that may inform prevention and treatment strategies for infection-related cancers.

National Institutes of Health

Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Interdisciplinary Research Units (P01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-24-074.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 24, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 26, 2025

This opportunity seeks to support multidisciplinary, collaborative research programs focused on improving our understanding of bacterial and host factors important for antibiotic resistance and infection by bacterial pathogens for which antibiotic resistance is a known public health concern to inform new ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat antibiotic-resistant infections.   

National Institutes of Health

Computational Approaches to Curation at Scale for Biomedical Research Assets (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-131.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 29, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 28, 2025

This opportunity aims to accelerate access to, and availability of, secure, complete datasets and computational models that can serve as the basis for transformative biomedical discoveries. Innovative at-scale computational approaches that increase the speed and scope of curation processes are needed for data mining and knowledge discovery from growing quantities of biomedical data being produced from ongoing data science advances.

The North Central Integrated Pest Management Center

Critical Issues, Working Groups, and Community Initiatives Grants
https://www.ncipmc.org/grants/apply-funding/
Sponsor Application Deadline: November 22, 2024

The North Central Integrated Pest Management Center is offering several grants that support the research and educational outreach of sustainable pest management.

National Institutes of Health

Development and Application of Positron Emission Tomography and Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging Ligands as Biomarkers for Drug Discovery and for Pathophysiological Studies of CNS Disorders (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-036.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity seeks the development and evaluation of novel radioligands for positron emission tomography or single photon emission computed tomography for molecular targets (e.g., receptors, intracellular messengers, disease-related proteins) that are implicated in brain disorders as tools to study disease pathophysiology and/or for assessing target engagement of potential therapeutic candidates.   

National Institutes of Health

Development of Alternative Human Models of Radiation-Induced Injuries (Extracorporeal Systems) (U01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-24-067.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 7, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 6, 2025

The purpose of this opportunity is to support early to mid-stage research focused on development of alternative human models of acute and/or delayed radiation-induced injuries (extracorporeal systems) to elucidate mechanisms of injury and to test medical countermeasures to treat and/or mitigate these injuries.

National Institutes of Health

Development of Resources and Technologies for Enhancing Rigor, Reproducibility, and Translatability of Animal Models in Biomedical Research (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-076.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity is aimed at developing and implementing broadly applicable technologies, tools, and resources for validating animal models and enhancing rigor, reproducibility, and translatability of animal research.

National Institutes of Health

Discovery and Development of Natural Products for Cancer Interception and Prevention (UG3/UH3 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-25-013.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: May 14, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: June 13, 2025

The National Cancer Institute intends to support the discovery and development of novel natural products that are safe, non-toxic, and efficacious for cancer interception and prevention.

National Institutes of Health

Discovery and Development of Novel Therapeutics for Select Fungal Pathogens (R21/R33 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-24-065.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 29, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 28, 2025

The purpose of this opportunity is to support milestone-driven, early-stage translational research focused on drug discovery and development of novel therapeutics against select fungal pathogens, including: Candida species, specifically Candida auris; Aspergillus fumigatus; Coccidioides; and Mucorales.

National Institutes of Health

Engineering Next-Generation Human Nervous System Microphysiological Systems (R01 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-198.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity encourages research grant applications directed toward developing next-generation human cell-derived microphysiological systems and related assays that replicate complex nervous system architectures and physiology with improved fidelity over current capabilities.

National Institutes of Health

Enhancing Mechanistic Research on Precision Probiotic Therapies (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-211.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: June 2, 2025

This opportunity aims to support highly innovative mechanistic research to accelerate the development of effective precision probiotic interventions using a milestone-driven, biphasic award mechanism.

National Institutes of Health

Epidemiologic Research on Emerging Risk Factors and Liver Cancer Susceptibility (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-123.html
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

The purpose of this opportunity is to promote epidemiologic research investigating novel and innovative hypotheses on emerging risk factors (biological, environmental, and social) and their interplay with established risk factors (e.g., viral hepatitis) associated with the development of liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma and other histological subtypes) in the United States.

National Institutes of Health

Exploratory Grants in Cancer Control (R21 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-253.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity encourages the submission of exploratory/developmental research grant applications that focus on different aspects of cancer control by modifying behavior, screening, and understanding etiologic factors contributing to the development of cancer and developing ways to control cancer.   

National Institutes of Health

Exploratory Studies to Investigate Mechanisms of HIV infection, Replication, Latency, and/or Pathogenesis in the Context of Substance Use Disorders (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-25-073.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: July 14, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: August 14, 2025

This opportunity will support high-risk, high-impact studies that 1) develop or apply novel tools or technologies or 2) test novel hypotheses to investigate mechanistic questions in HIV infection, replication, latency, and/or pathogenesis (including neuroHIV) in the context of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs).  

National Institutes of Health

Functional Validation and/or Characterization of Genes or Variants Implicated in Substance Use Disorders (R21/R33 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-267.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 1, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 3, 2025

The purpose of this initiative is to support projects that functionally validate and/or characterize genes or variants involved in substance use disorder-relevant phenotypes.

Department of Energy

Genomics – Enabled Understanding and Advancing Knowledge on Plant Gene Function(s)
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356709
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 10, 2025

This opportunity solicits applications to effectively design bioenergy crops by developing approaches to 1) understand regulatory elements and biological mechanisms and develop predictive models for dissecting multigene traits and their component parts that govern plant growth under different growing conditions, biochemical, and signaling pathways; 2) understand genetic components and molecular mechanisms underlying plant regeneration/organogenesis in tissue culture to improve heterologous DNA transfer to germlines of bioenergy crops; and 3) understand genetic and molecular mechanisms that will reduce the cycle time for out-crossing energy crops (e.g. self-incompatibility) to speed development of new plant feedstocks underpinning a broader, more competitive U.S. bioeconomy.   

National Institutes of Health

HEAL Initiative: Studies to Enable Analgesic Discovery (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-25-023.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 29, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 28, 2025

This opportunity aims to encourage research grant applications for initial translational efforts that will enable a drug discovery program for novel, non-opioid, and non-addictive treatments for pain.    

National Institutes of Health

High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (S10 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-264.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: June 2, 2025

This opportunity encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. The minimum award is $750,001. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $2,000,000.

National Institutes of Health

Human Brain Single-cell Genomics Explorer (U24 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-24-038.html
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 14, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

This opportunity is soliciting applications to pilot the establishment of an integrated resource for users to explore, analyze, and download processed deidentified human brain single-cell transcriptomics and epigenomics data harmonized across reference and disease datasets.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Human Exploration Research Opportunities
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary!init.do?solId=%7b0FCFE162-702B-B48A-F815-7D6E4C6C85E7%7d&path=open
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 11, 2025

This opportunity seeks applied research in support of NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP). The research will fall into one or more categories corresponding to the HRP’s five Elements: space radiation, human health countermeasures, exploration medical capability, human factors and behavioral performance, and research operations and integration. 

National Institutes of Health

Human Virome Program: Developing novel and innovative tools to interrogate and annotate the human virome (U01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-24-009.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 27, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 27, 2025

This opportunity aims to address the technological challenges that are currently hindering robust interrogation of the constituents and functionality of the human virome.

National Institutes of Health

Imaging – Science Track Award for Research Transition (R03 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-297.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications to facilitate the entry of investigators to the area of neuroimaging, including both newly independent investigators and established investigators seeking to adopt neuroimaging methodologies in their research programs, to enable the conduct of small “proof of concept” studies.

National Institutes of Health

In-Depth Phenotyping and Research Using IMPC-Generated Knockout Mouse Strains Exhibiting Embryonic or Perinatal Lethality or Subviability (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-140.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: May 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: June 5, 2025

This opportunity seeks to: 1) to encourage submission of applications to do more in-depth phenotyping on investigator-selected cohorts of embryonic lethal or subviable Knockout (KO) mouse strains generated by the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) of which the National Institutes of Health Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Program is a member; and, 2) to encourage submission of applications to use investigator-selected embryonic lethal, perinatal lethal, or subviable IMPC-generated KO mouse strains in hypothesis-driven research focused on placental defects, structural birth defects, and/or fertility issues.

National Science Foundation

Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/infrastructure-capacity-biological-research/nsf23-580/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt

The Infrastructure Capacity for Biology (Capacity) Program supports the scaling of or major improvements to research tools, products, and services that advance contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation. The Capacity Program focuses on building capacity in research infrastructure that is broadly applicable to a wide range of researchers in three programmatic areas: Cyberinfrastructure, Biological Collections, and Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories.

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Science Foundation

Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/infrastructure-innovation-biological-research/nsf23-578/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt

The Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (Innovation) Program supports research to design novel or greatly improved research tools and methods that advance contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Biological Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation. The Innovation Program focuses on research infrastructure that is broadly applicable to researchers in three programmatic areas: Bioinformatics, Instrumentation, and Research Methods.

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Institutes of Health

Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts (IGNITE): Neurotherapeutic Agent Characterization and In vivo Efficacy Studies (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-058.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 18, 2025

This opportunity provides funding to conduct pharmacodynamic, pharmacokinetic, and in vivo efficacy studies to demonstrate that proposed therapeutic agent(s) have sufficient biological activity to warrant further development to treat neurological disorders that fall under the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke mission.

National Institutes of Health

Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts: Neurotherapeutic Agent Characterization and In vivo Efficacy Studies (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-225.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 18, 2025

This opportunity provides funding to conduct pharmacodynamic, pharmacokinetic, and in vivo efficacy studies to demonstrate that proposed therapeutic agent(s) have sufficient biological activity to warrant further development to treat neurological disorders that fall under the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s mission.

National Institutes of Health

Innovative Research in Cancer Nanotechnology (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-106.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: May 5, 2025

This opportunity encourages applications promoting transformative discoveries in cancer biology and/or oncology through the use of nanotechnology.

National Institutes of Health

Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Substance Use Research (R21 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-298.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: April 5, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: May 5, 2025

This opportunity will support pilot, feasibility or exploratory research in priority areas in substance use epidemiology, prevention, and health services

National Institutes of Health

Mechanistic links between diet, lipid metabolism, and tumor growth and progression (UH2 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-118.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 15, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

This opportunity requests applications that propose mechanistic investigations of the links among diet, lipid metabolism, and tumor growth and progression.   

National Institutes of Health

Microbial-based Cancer Imaging and Therapy – Bugs as Drugs (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-107.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications proposing to utilize bacteria, archaebacteria, bacteriophages, or other non-oncolytic viruses and their natural products to study the underlying mechanisms of the complex interactions between microorganisms, tumors, and the immune system and to explore their clinical potential for cancer imaging, therapeutics, or diagnostics. 

National Institutes of Health

Microglial Pathophysiology in Comorbid Substance Use Disorder and HIV (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-25-063.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: July 14, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: August 14, 2025

National Institutes of Health

Mitochondrial-associated Mechanisms of Neuropathological and Immunodeficient Aging in the Context of HIV and SUD (R21 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-26-010.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 10, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 10, 2025

This opportunity invites applications to investigate protective and pathogenic mechanisms at the nexus of mitochondrial function and aging in the context of HIV infection, antiretroviral therapy, and exposure to addictive substances.

National Institutes of Health

Modular R01s in Cancer Control and Population Sciences (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-172.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity intends to stimulate translation of scientific discoveries and engineering developments in imaging, data science, and/or spectroscopic technologies into methods or tools that address contemporary problems in understanding the fundamental biology, potential risk of development, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer. 

National Institutes of Health

Molecular Imaging of Inflammation in Cancer (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-311.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity encourages applications focused on developing integrated imaging approaches to investigate the role of inflammation in cancer through strong cross-discipline collaboration between cancer basic science researchers and imaging scientists.

National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute Small Grants Program for Cancer Research (NCI Omnibus) (R03 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-078.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 24, 2025

This opportunity supports small research projects on cancer that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.

National Institutes of Health

National Evaluation Center (NEC) for AHRQ’s Healthcare Extension Service: State-based Solutions to Healthcare Improvement (U19)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HS-24-005.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: October 26, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: November 25, 2024

invites applications for a National Evaluation Center (NEC) to evaluate Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Healthcare Extension Service: State-based Solutions to Healthcare Improvement. The NEC will: 1) develop data, measures, and methods to assess the range, reach, effectiveness and equity of healthcare extension service models implemented by state cooperative recipients; and 2) conduct a multi-method rapid-cycle formative and summative program evaluation of the Healthcare Extension Service, and the technical assistance and other services provided by the National Coordinating Center.

National Science Foundation

National Institute on Aging Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Awards to Promote Diversity in Translational Research for AD/ADRD (K99/R00 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-271.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 12, 2025

The purpose of this opportunity is to promote diversity in the translational research workforce for Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias, including frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body dementia, and vascular dementia.   

National Institutes of Health

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Early Career Research Award (R21 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-120.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 19, 2025

This award is intended to support both basic and clinical research from scientists who are beginning to establish an independent research career. It cannot be used for thesis or dissertation research. The research must be focused on one or more of the areas within the biomedical and behavioral scientific mission of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders: hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, or language.

National Institutes of Health

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Early Career Research Award (R21 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-120.html
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 19, 2025

This award is intended to support both basic and clinical research from scientists who are beginning to establish an independent research career. The research must be focused on one or more of the areas within the biomedical and behavioral scientific mission of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders: hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, or language.    

National Institutes of Health

National Institute on Drug Abuse Animal Genomics Program (U01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-269.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 11, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 11, 2025

The purpose of this opportunity is to identify genetic, genomic, and molecular (epi)genetic variants that underlie neural and behavioral processes and phenotypes relevant to substance use disorders (SUD) risk, the SUD trajectory and SUD comorbidities. 

Letter of intent is optional.

National Institutes of Health

NCI Small Grants Program for Cancer Research (R03 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-078.html
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 24, 2025

This opportunity supports small research projects on cancer that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects, including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.   

National Institutes of Health

New Therapeutic Strategies for Genital Herpes (R21/R33 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-24-068.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 1, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 31, 2025

This opportunity aims to stimulate the development of new treatments for genital herpes that suppress shedding and lesion formation and reduce transmission and invites applications that propose research into a broad range of therapeutic approaches, including but not limited to development of new or improved antivirals, monoclonal antibodies, therapeutic vaccines, and gene editing technologies for treatment of people living with genital herpes.

National Institutes of Health

NICHD Resource Program Grants in Bioinformatics (P41 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-301.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 26, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 25, 2025

The purpose of this opportunity is to support the continued operation, maintenance, and dissemination of unique knowledge, data, and/or bioinformatics resources that are of major importance to the research community using animal models of embryonic developmental processes.

National Science Foundation

Organismal Response to Climate Change
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/orcc-organismal-response-climate-change/nsf25-504/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 23, 2025

The goal of this solicitation is to invite mechanistic studies of organismal response to climate change as a foundation that, when integrated with research at other levels of organization, will lead to a deeper understanding and better predictions of the integrity, resilience, and adaptation of organismal systems to climate change.

National Institutes of Health

Personal Health Informatics for Delivering Actionable Insights to Individuals (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-235.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity aims to advance the development of novel informatics and data science approaches that can help individuals understand and improve their health through actionable insights.   

National Institutes of Health

Pilot Projects Investigating Understudied Proteins Associated with Rare Diseases (R03 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-122.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 17, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity aims to jumpstart research on understudied proteins that are associated with rare diseases and provide applicants with sufficient funding to perform basic biochemical and/or biological work to further the characterization of understudied proteins within the context of rare disease.

National Institutes of Health

Pilot projects to enhance utility and usage of data sets from the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (R03 – Clinical Trials Not allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-24-011.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 26, 2024

This opportunity aims to support novel approaches for analyzing Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC) data, generate hypotheses and catalyze discoveries for comparing the publicly released MoTrPAC data to other datasets, and develop analytic pipelines.   

National Institutes of Health

Population Genomic Screening in Primary Care Coordinating Center (U01 – Clinical Trials Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-24-022.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 2, 2024

This opportunity solicits applications for a Coordinating Center to be part of an implementation and evidence generation pilot program of population genomic screening for common, actionable genomic conditions predominantly in the primary care setting.

National Institutes of Health

Promoting a Basic Understanding of Chemical Threats to Skin (R34 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-093.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity intends to support fundamental research that will contribute to basic understanding of skin injuries caused by chemicals that have been identified as public health threats, with an emphasis on investigating the commonalities of such injuries and identifying potential shared signaling pathways and therapeutic targets for medical countermeasure development.

National Institutes of Health

Research Infrastructure Development for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-218.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: July 2, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications that propose to develop novel research infrastructure that will advance the science of aging in specific areas requiring interdisciplinary partnerships or collaborations.

National Institutes of Health

Research Opportunities for New and “At-Risk” Investigators to Promote Workforce Diversity (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAS-25-190.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity is intended to promote and provide opportunities for new researchers and earlier research independence and to maintain the careers of at-risk investigators.   

National Institutes of Health

Research Projects to Enhance Applicability of Mammalian Models for Translational Research (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-306.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity encourages submission of projects devoted to demonstrating that mammalian models, including organoids, tumoroids, and cell models, used for translational research are robust representations of human biology, are appropriate to test questions of clinical importance, and provide reliable information for patient benefit. 

National Institutes of Health

Research Resource for Human Organs and Tissues (U42 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-258.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 24, 2025

The purpose of this opportunity is to support a Human Tissue and Organ Research Resource program to enable the continued availability of human tissues and organs to biomedical researchers. The overall goal of the research resource is to provide a wide variety of human tissues and organs, both diseased and normal, to investigators. 

National Institutes of Health

Research With Activities Related to Diversity (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-117.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity provides support for the health-related research of scientists who are making a significant contribution to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility and who have no current National Institutes of Health research project grant funding.

National Institutes of Health

Revision Applications for Validation of Biomarker Assays Developed Through NIH-Supported Research Grants (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-304.html
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

Through is opportunity for currently funded National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01 research projects, applicants should propose projects that are expected to accelerate the pace of translation of NCI-supported methods/assays/technologies to the clinic. Specifically, the focus of applications should be on the adaption and clinical validation of molecular/cellular/imaging markers for cancer detection, diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring, and prediction of response in treatment, as well as markers for cancer prevention and control.

National Institutes of Health

Screening and Functional Validation of Genomic Variants Associated with Human Congenital Anomalies (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-185.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity aims to promote the screening, functional validation, and characterization of congenital anomaly-associated genetic variants identified through public facing databases and individual efforts using in-silico tools, appropriate animal models, in vitro systems, or multi-pronged approaches. 

National Institutes of Health

Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (S10 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-265.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: June 2, 2025

This opportunity encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-priced, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated instrumentation system. The minimum award is $50,000. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $750,000.

National Institutes of Health

Single Cell Opioid Responses in the Context of HIV Program: Data Mining and Functional Validation (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-26-002.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 19, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 19, 2025

The purpose of this opportunity is to support data mining of single cell data sets to identify cell types, transcripts, enhancers, or transcriptional networks that play a role in HIV/antiretroviral therapy (ART) and Substance Use Disorder (SUD)-relevant molecular responses, and/or to support functional validation studies (e.g. epigenomic or transcriptomic manipulation, high throughput secondary screening) to confirm or deny a biological role for one or more of the data-mined cell types, transcripts, enhancers, or transcriptional networks in HIV/ART and SUD molecular responses.

Letter of intent is optional.

Continuum Educational Technologies

STARTUP Central
https://uofnelincoln.sharepoint.com/sites/UNL-ResearchDevelopmentGroup/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?id=%2Fsites%2FUNL%2DResearchDevelopmentGroup%2FShared%20Documents%2FFunding%20Opportunities%2FFunding%20Announcements%2FRFAs%2DNOFOs%2DSolicitations%2Detc%2FPosted%202024%2FSTARTUP%20Central%20Solicitation%20Cohort%202%5FSeptember%202024%2Epdf&parent=%2Fsites%2FUNL%2DResearchDevelopmentGroup%2FShared%20Documents%2FFunding%20Opportunities%2FFunding%20Announcements%2FRFAs%2DNOFOs%2DSolicitations%2Detc%2FPosted%202024&p=true&ga=1
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 2, 2024

This program is providing support for testing initial proof of concept for biomedical product ideas for researchers in academic institutions in the IDeA Central Region (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma).   

National Institutes of Health

Stimulating Hematology Investigation: New Endeavors (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAS-25-205.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity seeks to 1) catalyze discoveries in basic molecular and cellular biology that provide new insights into the pathogenesis, prevention, detection, and potential treatment of nonmalignant hematologic diseases; 2) attract new investigators into basic and translational hematology research; and 3) promote productive interdisciplinary research collaborations.

National Institutes of Health

Strategies for Eliminating HIV Proteins (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-24-057.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: November 4, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 4, 2024

The purpose of this opportunity is to support the development of molecules that target HIV proteins or RNA for degradation or that interfere with the translation of HIV RNA into protein. This approach has the potential of eliminating HIV proteins that have been difficult to target via traditional drug discovery methodologies.  

National Institutes of Health

Targeting Inflammasomes in HIV and Substance Use (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-25-068.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 13, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 13, 2025

This opportunity aims to encourage research to explore mechanisms of inflammasome activation and their link to neurocognitive disorder and immune function in people with HIV and substance use disorders.

National Institutes of Health

The Chemical Countermeasures Research Program Initiative: National Institutes of Health Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats Basic Research on Chemical Threats that Affect the Nervous System (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-077.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: September 17, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: October 17, 2025

This opportunity invites applications for basic research to inform toxicology of chemical warfare agents and select toxic industrial chemicals and materials that have primary or secondary effects on the nervous system.    

National Institutes of Health

The Metastasis Research Network: MetNet Research Projects (U01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-130.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: May 21, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: June 20, 2025

This opportunity invites applications for MetNet research projects. These research projects should be defined as discrete entities that use systems-level approaches to address gaps and opportunities in metastasis research to integrate into the MetNet and complement ongoing research across the network.    

National Institutes of Health

Toward ElucidAting MechanismS of HIV Pathogenesis within the Mission of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-25-024.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: October 21, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: November 21, 2024

This opportunity seeks to support multidisciplinary research teams with complementary expertise in HIV and pathobiology, pathophysiology, and/or metabolism in organs, tissues, and/or biological systems of specific interest to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

National Institutes of Health

Towards a Better Understanding of the Neurological Effects of Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-116.html
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity aims to solicit applications focused on the neurological and/or mental health-related manifestations of infection-associated chronic illnesses, including the post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (Neuro-PASC) as well as other chronic illnesses with a potential infectious trigger (post-treatment Lyme Disease, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, post-viral fatigue syndromes, etc.).

National Science Foundation

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement: EPSCoR Research Fellows
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/epscor-research-infrastructure-improvement-epscor-research/nsf24-528/solicitation
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: November 25, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: April 8, 2025

This program provides awards to build research capacity in institutions and transform the career trajectories of investigators and further develop their individual research potential through collaborations with investigators from the nation’s premier private, governmental, or academic research institutions and/or centers. Organizations may submit up to four proposals to this solicitation.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 11/25/2024. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/limited-submissions-funding-programs/.   

Department of Energy

Atmospheric System Research
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356957
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 7, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 27, 2025

This opportunity solicits research grant applications for observational, data analysis, and/or modeling studies that use biological and environmental research-supported Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility observations to improve understanding and model representation of: 1) atmospheric processes from ARM’s Coast-Urban-Rural Atmospheric Gradient Experiment and 2) high latitude and Southern Ocean atmospheric processes using ARM observations. 

National Science Foundation

Emerging Mathematics in Biology
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/emb-emerging-mathematics-biology/nsf25-509/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 3, 2025

This program seeks to stimulate the development of innovative mathematical theories, techniques, and approaches to investigate challenging questions of great interest to biologists and public health policymakers.   

Department of Energy

Environmental System Science
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356977
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 11, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 13, 2025

This program seeks to advance an integrated, robust, and scale-aware predictive understanding of terrestrial systems and their interdependent microbial, biogeochemical, ecological, hydrological, and physical processes.

Department of Commerce

Precision Measurement Grant Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356849
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 3, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: May 21, 2025

This opportunity supports research in the field of fundamental measurement or the determination of fundamental constants.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: C.3 Solar System Workings
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b944C9FF1-979D-BA46-7AEA-78AB7891B012%7d&path=&method=init

This program solicits investigations that address compelling scientific questions into the evolution of our Solar System during the time that large planetary bodies were in or near their modern configuration up to the present day.

Applications are accepted at any time.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: F.5 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b2AAB44BB-6DFB-C42E-315A-DC2D70683A9D%7d&path=&method=init
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity solicits proposals from accredited U.S. universities and other eligible organizations for graduate student-designed and performed research projects that contribute to Science Mission Directorate’s science, technology, and exploration goals.

Department of the Interior

The Educational Component of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356584
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

This opportunity provides funds for undergraduate and graduate student research projects that involve all activities relevant to the creation of geologic maps.

University of Nebraska Collaboration Initiative

Collaboration Initiative
https://nebraska.edu/collaboration-initiative
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

This opportunity seeks to enhance the competitiveness of University of Nebraska (NU) faculty for federal extramural funding by fully leveraging the intellectual capacity and research resources across the NU campuses. This single-year seed grant is designed to facilitate research collaborations among faculty in any discipline that will help position them to compete for federal extramural funding.

Department of Energy

Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE): A Mid-Course Evaluation
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356790
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 20, 2024

The Department of Energy seeks to obtain perspectives on the successes and needed improvements of the CarbonSAFE initiative.

Department of Energy

Circularity for Secure and Sustainable Products and Materials: A Draft Strategic Framework Request for Information
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356667
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 16, 2024

The purpose of this request is to solicit feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on issues related to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s strategic framework to increase product and material circularity. 

Department of Energy

Geologic Hydrogen Resource Exploration
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356964
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 2, 2024

This request seeks to solicit input for a potential Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program focused on evaluating novel approaches to: 1) explore for naturally occurring subsurface hydrogen resources or geologic targets for hydrogen stimulation and 2) develop methodologies to determine the recoverable reserves of hydrogen from natural accumulation or available through stimulation.

Department of Agriculture

Partnerships for Aquatic and Watershed Restoration
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356647
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 7, 2025

This opportunity is intended to solicit responses to explore future projects meeting the needs and interests of potential partners through partnership agreements within legislative authority with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The USDA Forest Service is looking to address aquatic and watershed restoration needs and empower local communities and partners to assist with implementation of activities.  The intent of this solicitation is to gauge interest, feedback, and/or proposed projects ideas and concepts. 

Department of Agriculture

Recreation Sites and Visitor Services: Creating Quality Recreation Experiences
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356653
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 7, 2025

This opportunity is intended to solicit responses to explore future projects meeting the needs and interests of potential partners through partnership agreements within legislative authority with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. This solicitation seeks to foster a shared commitment to quality recreation experiences on National Forest System lands. New partnerships will help add capacity in support of a growing interest in outdoor recreation. 

Department of Energy

Request for Information Technology and Market Potential of Photovoltaic-Thermal Systems in the United States
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356440
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 31, 2024

The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) seeks to gain a better understanding of photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) technologies. SETO is looking to solicit information on PVT technology, including but not limited to  business, state-of the-art, regulatory statutes, and consumer opinion.

National Institutes of Health

Advancing Health Equity through Interventions to Prevent and Address Housing Instability (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NR-25-001.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: November 13, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 13, 2024

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support research that advances health equity through development, testing, and evaluation of interventions that prevent and address housing instability.

National Institutes of Health

Advancing Research on Molecular Targets and Mechanisms that Influence the Interplay Between Sex Hormones, HIV, and Addictive Substances (R21 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-26-008.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 12, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 13, 2025

The purpose of this opportunity is to support studies to delineate the mechanisms by which sex hormones influence the consequences of comorbid HIV and drug use and use this knowledge to explore biological mechanisms as potential therapeutic targets to address HIV-substance use disorder comorbidity.

Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy

Applications for Research
https://www.horowitz-foundation.org/apply
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 1, 2024

This opportunity will award grants of $10,000 to aspiring PhD students at the dissertation level to support the research they are undertaking for their project. Applicants must be PhD (or DrPH) candidates and be currently working on their dissertation. Applicants must not have received a PhD and must have had their topic approved by their department before applying. Neither United States citizenship nor United States residency is required.

National Institutes of Health

Behavioral & Integrative Treatment Development Program (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-299.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

The purpose of this opportunity is to encourage research grant applications on the development and testing of behavioral and integrative treatments for drug and alcohol use, misuse, and dependence.

National Institutes of Health

Bidirectional Influences Between Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health (R21 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-25-206.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 29, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 28, 2025

This opportunity encourages applications that focus on understanding bidirectional relationships between social media use and adolescent mental illness, psychiatric symptoms, and risk or resilience for psychopathology, as well as intervention/services research focused on examining the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary utility of social-media focused interventions and services. 

Wenner-Gren Foundation

Conference and Workshop Grant
https://wennergren.org/program/conference-and-workshop-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 1, 2024

This grant program supports meetings and events that promote the development of inclusive communities of anthropologists and advance significant and innovative research.

National Science Foundation

Cultural Anthropology Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ca-ddrig-cultural-anthropology-program-doctoral-dissertation-research/nsf24-605/solicitation?WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#pgm_desc_txt
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants provide funds for items not usually available from the student’s U.S. academic institution. The awards are not intended to provide the full costs of a student’s doctoral dissertation research or to replace support for a student’s program of graduate study that is typically provided by the student’s institution.

National Science Foundation

Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ca-sr-cultural-anthropology-program-senior-research-awards/nsf25-502/solicitation#summary
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding of the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability.

National Institutes of Health

Engaging Loved ones in Recovery Processes to Enhance Recovery Capital and Outcomes (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-26-024.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 27, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 27, 2025

This opportunity addresses a crucial research gap regarding approaches to understanding and enhancing relationships individuals with a substance use disorder have with their loved ones.

National Science Foundation

Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/hegs-human-environment-geographical-sciences-program/nsf25-507/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 3, 2025

This program aims to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, consequences, or evolution of the spatial dimensions of human behaviors, activities, and dynamics as well as their interactions with environmental and social processes across a range of scales.

Department of Defense

Minerva Research Initiative University Research Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356694
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: November 29, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 28, 2025

This program aims to support innovative basic research projects that contribute to the advancement of social science and provides new methods and understandings on social and behavioral questions of security and defense-related interest.

National Institutes of Health

The Confluence of Cancer Stigma and HIV Stigma in HIV-positive Individuals Diagnosed with Cancer (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-25-011.html
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: November 10, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 10, 2024

This opportunity intends to support research that expands the current understanding of the confluence of cancer stigma and HIV stigma among people with HIV (PWH) diagnosed with cancer.

Letter of intent is optional.

American Psychological Foundation

Theodore Millon Grant in Personality Psychology
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/millon-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 9, 2024

This opportunity will fund research to advance the science of personality psychology, including the areas of personality theory, personality disorders, and personality assessment.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2025 RDAR Pilot Applications
https://rdar.unl.edu/rdar-funding-opportunities
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 3, 2025

The goal of this pilot program is to provide support to emerging scholars to conduct promising research and creative activities that advance the Center’s mission.

Office of Research and Innovation

Book Fellowship and Manuscript Workshop Program
https://research.unl.edu/blog/ri-offers-new-book-fellowship-program-for-authors/
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

This fellowship aims to provide faculty with a block of time to write a new book and/or funding to publish a new book. The block of time may include a course buyout for one semester and/or one month of summer salary support. This program will also provide support for manuscript workshops to enhance the quality of books published by UNL faculty.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Secondary Analysis to Publication Awards & Building on Our Strengths Award
https://rdar.unl.edu/rdar-funding-opportunities

These unique opportunities are aimed at substance use research.

These solicitations are on a rolling deadline. Applications may be submitted at any time.