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Current Funding Opportunities

The following is a list of current opportunities populated by the Office of Research and Innovation’s Funding Announcements. Funding Announcements is a weekly list of funding opportunities that aims to keep the UNL community informed of limited submission competitions, external funding opportunities, and internal funding opportunities. If you would like to subscribe to Funding Announcements, please contact Jackson Hardin (jhardin11@unl.edu), funding opportunity coordinator.

Agriculture and Rural Development

Department of Agriculture

Bison Production and Marketing Grant Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358257
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/26/2025

This opportunity seeks to support projects that strengthen and enhance the production and marketing of bison and bison products in the United States, including the improvement of business and resource development and the development of innovative approaches to solve long-term needs.

American Floral Endowment

Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation Research Fund
https://endowment.org/news/gloeckner-proposals-2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

This opportunity seeks grant proposals for research and educational projects in floriculture.

Department of Agriculture

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Poultry Innovation Grand Challenge
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358574
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/19/2025

This opportunity seeks to support high-value and high-impact projects that will explore vaccines, therapeutics, research, and other strategies to combat highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry.

Arts and Humanities

New York Foundation for the Arts

Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants
https://www.nyfa.org/awards-grants/anonymous-was-a-woman-environmental-art-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/15/2025

This opportunity supports environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories.

Frankenthaler Climate Initiative

Catalyst, Scoping, and Technical Assistance Grants
https://www.frankenthalerclimateinitiative.org/how-to-apply
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/28/2025

This opportunity provides visual arts institutions with the support and guidance required to undertake ambitious sustainability and energy efficiency initiatives.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Fellowships
https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/fellowships
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/09/2025

This opportunity seeks individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional humanistic research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/354348
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/06/2025

This opportunity seeks to strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new or improving existing humanities programs, educational resources, or coursework.

South Arts

Jazz Road Creative Residencies
https://www.southarts.org/grants-opportunities/jazz-road-creative-residencies
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/02/2025

This opportunity seeks provide financial support for professional jazz artists from across the United States in self-defined residency activities that advance their artistry, creative exploration, community engagement, and lifework in jazz.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum

Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant
https://paam.org/education/the-lillian-orlowsky-and-william-freed-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to promote public awareness of and a commitment to American art and to encourage interest in painters who lack adequate recognition.

American Council of Learned Societies

Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies
https://www.acls.org/competitions/luce-acls-collaborative-grant-in-china-studies/
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 04/01/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/11/2025

This opportunity is offering a collaborative grant for innovative pilot activities that initiate long-term transformative change in the field of China studies.

Department of the Interior

Preservation Planning Grants
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357990
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

This opportunity aims to support a variety of projects that contribute to the preservation and interpretation of historic battlefields and associated sites of armed conflict on American soil.

The Decorative Arts Trust

Publishing Grants
https://decorativeartstrust.org/publishing/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

These opportunities seek to support publications tackling the broad context of the Americas and to encourage projects that advance diversity in the study of American decorative arts and material culture.

National Endowment for the Humanities

State and Impact of the Humanities
https://www.neh.gov/program/state-and-impact-humanities
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/16/2025

This opportunity aims to expand our understanding of the role that the humanities play in private, public, and scholarly life by supporting data-grounded research studies that investigate the state, impact, and value of the humanities in the United States.

The American Library in Paris

Visiting Fellowship
https://americanlibraryinparis.org/about-the-visiting-fellowship/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

This opportunity offers writers, researchers, and creators the unique opportunity to spend a month in Paris working independently on their own creative project while contributing to the cultural life of the Library.

Mudflat Studio

Year-Long Residency
https://www.mudflat.org/year-long-residency
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/16/2025

This opportunity provides a private studio space at no cost with access to Mudflat’s facility, a monthly materials stipend, a monthly housing stipend, and opportunities to teach and sell work.

Centers

Department of Health and Human Services

Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects Program: Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355463
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/04/2025

This opportunity seeks to promote awareness and use of employment research findings and products to improve practices, services, policies, and systems that support improved employment outcomes of people with disabilities.

Department of Health and Human Services

Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERC) Program: RERC on Communication Technologies
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355687
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/04/2025

This opportunity seeks to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act by conducting advanced engineering research on and development of innovative technologies designed to solve rehabilitation problems or remove environmental barriers for people with disabilities.

Conservation and the Environment

Department of Commerce

Broad Agency Announcement Type: Initial
https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/opportunities/instructions/PKG00287654-instructions.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2026

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.

National Science Foundation

Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/fire-fire-science-innovations-through-research-education
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/20/2025

This opportunity seeks innovative multidisciplinary and multisector investigations focused on convergent research and education activities in wildland fire.

National Science Foundation

Life and Environments Through Time
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/let-life-environments-through-time/nsf25-517/solicitation

This program supports research that advances knowledge about the patterns and processes relating to the origin and evolution of Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of the Interior

Partners for Fish and Wildlife
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358381
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2025

This program helps private landowners restore and protect habitats for fish and wildlife. It offers both technical assistance and financial support, mainly through cooperative agreements.

Department of the Interior

Science and Technology Projects Related to Coal Mining and Reclamation; Applied Science Projects
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358234
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/21/2025

This opportunity seeks the development of new reclamation science and technology to address environmental issues related to the mining of coal and reclamation of the land after mining.

National Science Foundation

Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/spse-structure-physics-solid-earth/nsf25-518/solicitation

This aims to advance fundamental knowledge about the ongoing dynamical processes over the age of the Earth that evolve the structure of planet Earth and underpin geohazards.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

National Science Foundation

Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/walcz-water-landscape-critical-zone-processes/nsf25-519/solicitation

This program supports research on the Earth’s near-surface environment and how that environment responds to change.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of the Interior

WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase I
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358088
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/20/2025

This opportunity provides funding to watershed groups to encourage diverse stakeholders to form local solutions to address their water management needs.

Defense

Department of Defense

Bilateral Academic Research Initiative Program – Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358555
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 05/30/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/29/2025

This opportunity seeks to produce significant scientific breakthroughs and knowledge that will be critical steps in enabling revolutions in robotics technology and stimulate the emergence of new industries.

Department of Defense

Chemistries and monoLayers for Anti-aging Kinematics
https://sam.gov/opp/eb1f049c002c487fbdb2c4ee5a35de93/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=c8ddbe7b99-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_12_08_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-c8ddbe7b99-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/14/2025

This opportunity aims to develop methods to extend the lifetime of inertial sensors by covering or eliminating sensor surface and structural defects that can get worse with time.

Department of Defense

Compositional Optimization, Dynamical Systems and Control University Center of Excellence
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358351
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/21/2025

This opportunity seeks a fundamental, fresh formulation of dynamical systems and optimization that is inherently hierarchical/heterarchical and modular, addressing how approximation error, measures of optimality, robustness, uncertainty, and more propagate across problem composition, distribution, and decentralization.

Department of Defense

Defense University Research Instrumentation Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358449
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/25/2025

This opportunity seeks proposals from universities to purchase equipment and instrumentation in support of research and research-related education in areas of interest to the Department of Defense.

Department of Defense

Department of the Navy Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education and Workforce Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358025
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 04/11/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/29/2025

This opportunity seeks applications aimed at enhancing existing solutions or developing innovative approaches to maintain and cultivate a world-class Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics workforce.

Department of Defense

Engineer Research and Development Center Broad Agency Announcement
https://www.erdcwerx.org/u-s-army-engineer-research-and-development-center-broad-agency-announcement/

This broad agency announcement seeks research for various development topic areas, including hydraulics, dredging, coastal engineering, instrumentation, oceanography, remote sensing, geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, soil effects, vehicle mobility, self-contained munitions, military engineering, geophysics, pavements, protective structures, aquatic plants, water quality, dredged material, treatment of hazardous waste, wetlands, physical/mechanical/chemical properties of snow and other frozen precipitation, infrastructure and environmental issues for installations, computer science, telecommunications management, energy, facilities maintenance, materials and structures, engineering processes, environmental processes, land and heritage conservation, and ecological processes.

Pre-applications are accepted at any time. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Defense

Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356605
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2025

This opportunity is interested in receiving proposals for long-range science and technology projects that offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations.

Proposals may be submitted at any time until September 30, 2025.

Department of Defense

Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358531
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 05/02/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/05/2025

This opportunity supports basic research in science and engineering focusing on multidisciplinary research efforts where more than one traditional discipline interacts to provide rapid advances in scientific areas of interest to the Department of Defense.

Department of Defense

PFAS Destruction
https://sam.gov/opp/b07585c789cf4031a8937131f3767b93/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=c8ddbe7b99-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_12_08_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-c8ddbe7b99-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 04/21/2025

This opportunity seeks to develop and demonstrate efficient, environmentally compatible, cost efficient mobile and static technologies and systems for the receipt and processing of inputs containing solid- and liquid-phase per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances PFAS species into end products containing chemical species that have low to no environmental impact.

Full proposals may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Defense

Reclaiming Bus-based Systems During Compromise
https://sam.gov/opp/6d7d9e282e31451684a0da0430d12ac5/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=c17df6394a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_26_07_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c17df6394a-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/10/2025

This opportunity will explore algorithms to construct self-healing systems by retrofitting firmware for individual components on a bus to function as forensic sensors that collectively monitor peers to detect, repair, and inoculate on-system during a cyber-attack.

Department of Defense

Securing Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness
https://sam.gov/opp/5e377ad0bb1c4208a56f2f9187386be6/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=0529b51c3a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_18_06_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-0529b51c3a-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 03/31/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/06/2025

This opportunity seeks to develop an operational artificial intelligence (AI) red teaming construct and framework for operational test and evaluation of AI-enabled battlefield systems.

Department of Defense

The Right Space
https://sam.gov/opp/104a7ef9ccef4fa1b47aa9eaf4c89d0a/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=c8ddbe7b99-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_12_08_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-c8ddbe7b99-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/02/2025

This opportunity seeks to systematically discover new, insightful representations that enable solving Department of Defense-relevant modeling problems better and faster and find and analyze the limits of validity of these transformations.

Education and Outreach

Imagine Learning Foundation

Imagine Signature Grants Program
https://www.imaginelearningfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-Imagine-Learning-Foundation-Signature-Grant-Guidelines.pdf?v=0225
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/09/2025

This opportunity seeks to support organizations addressing and/or studying critical issues related to chronic absenteeism and student housing insecurity in K-12 learning environments.

Department of Agriculture

McGovern-Dole International Food For Education and Child Nutrition Program
https://www.grants.gov/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/18/2025

This opportunity seeks to carry out: 1) school and preschool food for education programs in foreign countries to improve food security, reduce the incidence of hunger, and improve literacy and primary education, particularly with respect to girls; and 2) maternal, infant, and child nutrition programs for pregnant women, nursing mothers, infants, and children who are five years of age or younger.

Spencer Foundation

Research Grants on Education: Small
https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/small-research-grant?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c17df6394a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_26_07_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c17df6394a-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/16/2025

This opportunity 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.

Brady Education Foundation

Research Project and Existing Program Evaluation Proposals
https://bradyeducationfoundation.org/application-guidelines/
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 04/01/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/01/2025

These opportunities seek to improve educational outcomes for children, including those living in low-income communities, and promote collaboration among researchers, educators, and other stakeholders.

Department of Commerce

Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358185
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/14/2025

This opportunity is seeking applications for activities to develop undergraduate and/or graduate level curricula to incorporate documentary standards, standards development, and standardization information and content into seminars, modules, courses, and learning resources.

National Science Foundation

Translation and Diffusion
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/td-translation-diffusion/nsf25-528/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

This opportunity addresses issues of translation and diffusion that arise in moving knowledge gained from fundamental learning and education research toward application in PreK-12 STEM classroom practice or leveraging knowledge derived from effective practice toward driving fundamental research.

Engineering and Technology

Aluminum Extruders Council

Aluminum Extrusion Student Design Competition
https://aec.org/design-competition
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/24/2025

This opportunity invites students interested in product design, industrial design, design engineering, manufacturing, and other fields from around the world to share their vision for the future using aluminum extrusions.

Department of Energy

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Accelerating CO2 Conversion Technology Development and Deployment: Biological, Catalytic, and Mineralization Pathways
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358223
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/11/2025

This opportunity seeks to advance the pilot scale testing of carbon conversion technologies with high technology readiness level (TRL > 5) capable of achieving significant carbon mitigation via biological, catalytic, or mineralization pathways.

Department of Energy

Call for Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science Research Proposals with Atmospheric Radiation Measurement and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
https://www.emsl.pnnl.gov/proposals/call-ficus-research-proposals-arm-and-emsl-fy-2026?utm_campaign=FICUS+ARM-EMSL&utm_source=facebook,linkedin&utm_medium=Mailchimp&utm_content=1734714397
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/02/2025

This opportunity seeks to encourage and enable ambitious research projects integrating the expertise and capabilities of multiple user facilities. Proposed research should investigate aerosol processes, aerosol–cloud interactions, or land–atmosphere processes over rural, urban, and coastal areas, toward improved Earth system models and mechanistic representations of these processes.

Department of Energy

Call for FICUS EMSL-JGI Research Proposals
https://www.emsl.pnnl.gov/proposals/call-ficus-emsl-jgi-research-proposals-fy-2026
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/01/2025

This opportunity seeks high-risk/high-payoff activities within the focus topic areas of biofuels, biomaterials, and bioproducts; hydro-biogeochemistry; and novel applications of molecular techniques.

Department of Energy

Call for Large-Scale Research Proposals
https://www.emsl.pnnl.gov/proposals/call-large-scale-research-proposals-fy-2026
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/02/2025

This opportunity seeks leading-edge research activities to advance scientific understanding in each of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory’s Science Areas and that align with the Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program.

National Science Foundation

Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/caig-collaborations-artificial-intelligence-geosciences/nsf25-530/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/02/2025

This opportunity seeks to advance the development and adoption of innovative artificial intelligence methods to increase scientific understanding of the Earth system.

National Science Foundation

Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/cici-cybersecurity-innovation-cyberinfrastructure/nsf25-531/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/02/2025

This program seeks to advance scientific discovery and innovation by enhancing the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure.

Department of Energy

Energy Storage Innovations Prize Round 2
https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge=storageinnovationsround2&tab=overview&utm_campaign=c8ddbe7b99-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_12_08_03&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-c8ddbe7b99-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/21/2025

This opportunity aims to gain insights on niche markets and inform the Department of Energy’s strategy on transformative energy storage technologies to accelerate grid modernization for all consumers, while achieving needed reliability, affordability, and energy security.

National Science Foundation

Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/fairos-findable-accessible-interoperable-reusable-open-science/nsf25-533/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/09/2025

This opportunity seeks to support socio-technical, collaborative, and sustainable findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable (FAIR) research data management capabilities facilitating the advancement of open science within and across multiple research domains while also incorporating FAIR Principles, Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility and Ethics Principles for Indigenous Data Governance, and The Transparency, Responsibility, User Focus, Sustainability and Technology Principles for digital repositories.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

LunaRecycle Challenge
https://lunarecyclechallenge.ua.edu/?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=c3877aa7f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_04_05_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-c3877aa7f4-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

This opportunity is focused on the design and development of recycling solutions that can reduce solid waste and improve the sustainability of longer-term lunar missions.

Department of Energy

Maximizing Algal System Yield
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358255
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to support high-impact, applied research and development focused on relieving “pinch points” in algal system cultivation and preprocessing, with the goal of improving process economics for biofuels and/or bioproducts.

Department of Energy

Nuclear Science and Engineering Consortium for Nonproliferation
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357982
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/04/2025

This opportunity seeks to direct-fund basic research at universities that complements applied research in nuclear nonproliferation at the DOE National Laboratories. This includes foundational disciplines of nuclear physics, science and engineering, radiation detection, nuclear material science, radiochemistry, and mass spectrometry.

Department of Health and Human Services

Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERC) Program: RERC on Rehabilitation Technologies for Children with Orthopedic Disabilities
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355682
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/19/2025

This opportunity seeks to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act by conducting advanced engineering research on and development of innovative technologies that are designed to solve particular rehabilitation problems or to remove environmental barriers for people with disabilities.

Department of Energy

Safe Lithium-Ion Battery Development
https://sam.gov/opp/78d791927dfb41779572b83d3078dd57/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=c17df6394a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_26_07_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c17df6394a-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/07/2025

This opportunity seeks to develop a lithium-ion battery as a backup energy storage system capable of providing 2.4 MW*hrs of usable energy throughout life.

National Science Foundation

Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/satc-20-security-privacy-trust-cyberspace/nsf25-515/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/29/2025

This opportunity aims to build trust in all aspects of global cyber ecosystems. Trust can assume different meanings according to the context but, for the purposes of this solicitation, is broadly defined to include concepts covering security, privacy, and resilience of cyberspace, particularly in the face of malicious intent and specific threats. This opportunity welcomes proposals that address trust in cyberspace that draw on expertise in one or more of these areas: computer and information science and engineering; education; mathematics; statistics; and social, behavioral, and economic sciences.

National Science Foundation

Strengthening American Infrastructure
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sai-strengthening-american-infrastructure/nsf25-534/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/17/2025

This opportunity seeks to stimulate human-centered, use-inspired, fundamental and potentially transformative research aimed at strengthening America’s infrastructure.

Open Philanthropy

Technical AI Safety Research
https://www.openphilanthropy.org/request-for-proposals-technical-ai-safety-research/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to support research that mitigates the risks and harms of artificial intelligence.

Department of Commerce

TraCSS Space Situational Awareness Research and Technology Development
https://sam.gov/opp/e01e1c07b909476790484203e6c3efb2/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=0529b51c3a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_18_06_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-0529b51c3a-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 05/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to enhance and advance technologies in Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Coordination.

Full proposals may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Energy

Vehicle Technology Office Program Wide
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358307
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/18/2025

This opportunity seeks applications to address improved battery technology for both light- and heavy-duty applications, smart charging infrastructure, sustainable farming, workforce development, and demonstration and deployment of these and other new innovative technologies.

External Funding Opportunities

National Institutes of Health

Accelerating the Pace of Substance Use Research Using Existing Data (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-26-055.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/17/2025

This opportunity seeks applications proposing innovative analysis of existing social science, behavioral, administrative, and neuroimaging data to study the etiology and epidemiology of substance using behaviors (defined as alcohol, tobacco, prescription, and other substances) and related disorders, prevention of substance use and HIV, and health service utilization.

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: 07/02/2025

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.

Aluminum Extruders Council

Aluminum Extrusion Student Design Competition
https://aec.org/design-competition
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/24/2025

New York Foundation for the Arts

Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants
https://www.nyfa.org/awards-grants/anonymous-was-a-woman-environmental-art-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/15/2025

This opportunity supports environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories.

National Science Foundation

Antarctic Research Not Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program Field Support
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/antarctic-research-not-requiring-us-antarctic-program-field/nsf25-526/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2025

This solicitation supports research that advances understanding of the biota and physical systems operating in the Antarctic region and adjacent seas primarily through laboratory, modeling, and theoretical work encompassing terrestrial, marine, cryospheric, atmospheric, and space settings.

National Science Foundation

Antarctic Research Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program Support for Fieldwork
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/antarctic-research-requiring-us-antarctic-program-support/nsf25-525/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2025

This opportunity supports research that advances understanding of the biota and physical systems operating in the Antarctic region and adjacent seas. The program focuses on research that must be performed, or is best performed, in Antarctica and requires logistical support from the U.S. Antarctic Program.

National Science Foundation

Applied Mathematics
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/applied-mathematics
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/17/2025

This opportunity supports mathematics research motivated by and contributing to the solution of problems arising in science and engineering.

Department of Health and Human Services

Autism Research Consortium
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355631
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/23/2025

This opportunity seeks to advance the evidence base on effective interventions, services, supports, and systems for children and adolescents with autism and other developmental disabilities across the lifespan.

Department of Defense

BioElectronics to Sense and Treat
https://sam.gov/opp/e2f29ccf8e0347449b275667f4c465e5/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=9c771426b2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_04_07_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-9c771426b2-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 03/25/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/06/2025

This opportunity seeks to develop an automated bioelectronic smart bandage that can predict, prevent, and treat wound infections and be deployed at all levels of military medical care including on the battlefield.

Department of Energy

Department of Agriculture

Bison Production and Marketing Grant Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358257
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/26/2025

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: 05/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/13/2025

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: New Concepts and Early-Stage Research for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-EY-25-001.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/17/2025

This opportunity seeks applications for unique and innovative recording and/or modulation technologies that are in the earliest stage of development, including new and untested ideas that are in the initial stages of conceptualization.

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: 04/03/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2025

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.

Department of Commerce

Broad Agency Announcement Type: Initial
https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/opportunities/instructions/PKG00287654-instructions.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2026

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Institutes of Health

Broad Spectrum Products Against Multiple Neurotoxin Botulinum Serotypes (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-24-080.html
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 04/02/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/02/2025

This opportunity seeks to support the development of improved products for treating Botulinum Neurotoxin intoxication.

Department of Energy

Call for FICUS EMSL-JGI Research Proposals
https://www.emsl.pnnl.gov/proposals/call-ficus-emsl-jgi-research-proposals-fy-2026
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/01/2025

This opportunity seeks high-risk/high-payoff activities within the focus topic areas of biofuels, biomaterials, and bioproducts; hydro-biogeochemistry; and novel applications of molecular techniques.

Department of Energy

Call for Large-Scale Research Proposals
https://www.emsl.pnnl.gov/proposals/call-large-scale-research-proposals-fy-2026
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/02/2025

American Cancer Society

Cancer Research Opportunities
https://www.cancer.org/research/we-fund-cancer-research/apply-research-grant/grant-types.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c17df6394a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_26_07_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c17df6394a-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/01/2025

These opportunities are seeking proposals aimed at advancing cancer research.

Frankenthaler Climate Initiative

Catalyst, Scoping, and Technical Assistance Grants
https://www.frankenthalerclimateinitiative.org/how-to-apply
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/28/2025

This opportunity provides visual arts institutions with the support and guidance required to undertake ambitious sustainability and energy efficiency initiatives.

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: 02/20/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/20/2025

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

Chemical Countermeasures Research Program Initiative: Basic Research on The Deleterious Effects of Acute Exposure to Ultra-Potent Synthetic Opioids (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-26-034.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 10/19/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/18/2025

This opportunity will support research towards understanding and mitigating the deleterious effects of acute exposure to Ultra-Potent Synthetic opioids (e.g., fentanyl, carfentanil, nitazenes) and their combinations (e.g., fentanyl and xylazine).

Department of Defense

This opportunity aims to develop methods to extend the lifetime of inertial sensors by covering or eliminating sensor surface and structural defects that can get worse with time.

National Science Foundation

This opportunity seeks to advance the development and adoption of innovative artificial intelligence methods to increase scientific understanding of the Earth system.

National Institutes of Health

Collaborative Research Using Biosamples and/or Data from Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Studies (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-26-007.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/26/2025

This opportunity seeks applications for studies of type 1 diabetes etiology and pathogenesis using data and samples from clinical trials and studies. This opportunity is intended to fund investigative teams collaborating to answer important questions about disease mechanisms leading to improved delay and durable prevention of type 1 diabetes.

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: 02/24/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/26/2025

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

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?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c17df6394a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_26_07_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c17df6394a-712519256#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/26/2025

Department of Defense

Compositional Optimization, Dynamical Systems and Control University Center of Excellence
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358351
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/21/2025

National Science Foundation

This program seeks to advance scientific discovery and innovation by enhancing the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure.

Department of Defense

Defense University Research Instrumentation Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358449
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/25/2025

This opportunity seeks proposals from universities to purchase equipment and instrumentation in support of research and research-related education in areas of interest to the Department of Defense.

Department of Defense

Department of Transportation

Developing Pedestrian Realistic Artificial Datasets
https://sam.gov/opp/daaec024d7144810b7c22d84eb184790/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=9c771426b2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_04_07_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-9c771426b2-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/07/2025

This opportunity seeks to determine the availability of pedestrian counts and data gaps for pedestrian research to develop crash modification factors and to develop a realistic artificial dataset of pedestrian volume for different roadway types.

Department of Health and Human Services

Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects Program: Research on Healthcare Policy and Disability
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355464
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/25/2025

This opportunity seeks to generate new knowledge about the effect of evolving healthcare policies on health and function, community living and participation, or employment outcomes of people with disabilities.

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: 05/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/13/2025

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.

AccessLex Institute

Diversity Pathway Intervention Grant Program
https://www.accesslex.org/grants/diversity-pathway-intervention-grant-program
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

This opportunity provides funding to programs and initiatives aimed at helping college students and/or college graduates from historically underrepresented groups successfully matriculate into law school and the legal profession.

Department of Energy

Early Career Research Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358302
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/22/2025

This opportunity seeks to support the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and to stimulate research careers in the areas supported by Office of Science.

National Institutes of Health

Elucidating Immunometabolic Responses to HIV Infection that Increase Tuberculosis or Hepatitis B Virus Risk (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-315.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/07/2025

This opportunity aims to support research to define how HIV-driven alterations to immunometabolism affect immune cell regulation, cell-cell interactions, response to treatment, and, ultimately, tuberculosis and hepatitis B virus disease progression.

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research

Emerging Leader Award
https://themarkfoundation.org/emerging-leader-award-2/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=0529b51c3a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_18_06_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-0529b51c3a-712519256
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 05/05/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/28/2025

This opportunity supports innovative cancer research from the next generation of leaders. These grants are awarded to outstanding early career investigators to support high-impact, high-risk projects that are distinct from their current research portfolio.

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Energy

Department of Defense

Engineer Research and Development Center Broad Agency Announcement
https://www.erdcwerx.org/u-s-army-engineer-research-and-development-center-broad-agency-announcement/

Pre-applications are accepted at any time. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

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: 06/02/2025

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

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: 07/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/14/2025

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 Endowment for the Humanities

Fellowships
https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/fellowships
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/09/2025

National Institutes of Health

Final Innovative Solutions Opening ARPA-H Rare Disease Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning for Precision Integrated Diagnostics
https://sam.gov/opp/382815eba6a34487a02bdbf8d871e842/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=ff9906c635-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_21_06_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-ff9906c635-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/11/2025

This opportunity seeks to develop novel diagnostic support tools for population-scale rare disease detection, systematically identifying and diagnosing rare disease patients more efficiently and accurately.

National Science Foundation

This opportunity seeks innovative multidisciplinary and multisector investigations focused on convergent research and education activities in wildland fire.

American Floral Endowment

Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation Research Fund
https://endowment.org/news/gloeckner-proposals-2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

This opportunity seeks grant proposals for research and educational projects in floriculture.

Department of Justice

Graduate Research Fellowship
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358055
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/15/2025

This opportunity provides grants to accredited academic institutions to support outstanding doctoral students whose dissertation research has direct implications for preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge of victimization and effective victim services, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice in the United States.

International Foundation for Ethical Research

Graduate Student Fellowships for Alternatives to the Use of Animals in Science
https://ifer.org/graduate-fellowships/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=9c771426b2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_04_07_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-9c771426b2-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 04/30/2025

This opportunity supports projects that advance the development, validation, or implementation of human-relevant, non-animal methodologies in research, testing, or education.

Full Applications may be submitted by invitation only.

National Institutes of Health

High Impact, Interdisciplinary Science in National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Research Areas (RC2 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-277.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 05/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/03/2025

This opportunity aims to support high impact ideas that may lay the foundation for new fields of investigation within the mission of National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

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: 06/02/2025

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

High-Priority Research in Tobacco Regulatory Science (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-25-001.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 04/07/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/06/2025

This opportunity seeks to support new high-priority biomedical and behavioral research that will provide scientific data to inform the regulation of tobacco products to protect public health.

Department of Agriculture

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Poultry Innovation Grand Challenge
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358574
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/19/2025

This opportunity seeks to support high-value and high-impact projects that will explore vaccines, therapeutics, research, and other strategies to combat highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry.

National Institutes of Health

HIV Prevention and Alcohol (R01 – Clinical Trials Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAS-25-208.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 04/07/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/07/2025

This opportunity seeks to expand the HIV/AIDS prevention toolkit among alcohol impacted populations with a range of patterns of episodic and long-term use and associated behavioral and biological risks for HIV acquisition.

FamilieSCN2A Foundation

Hodgkin-Huxley Research Grant
https://www.scn2a.org/professionals.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=0529b51c3a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_18_06_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-0529b51c3a-712519256

This opportunity seeks to address fundamental gaps in the basic and translational science of SCN2A related disorders and to accelerate therapy development in the SCN2A field to clinical trials.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/354348
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/06/2025

Imagine Learning Foundation

This opportunity seeks to support organizations addressing and/or studying critical issues related to chronic absenteeism and student housing insecurity in K-12 learning environments.

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: 05/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/05/2025

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.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Innovations for Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery
https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/innovations-gram-negative-antibiotic-discovery
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/25/2025

This opportunity encourages the discovery of antibiotics with broad spectrum activity against Enterobacteriaceae, using Klebsiella spp. as the pathogen to initiate a discovery program.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Innovations for Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery
https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/innovations-gram-negative-antibiotic-discovery?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=9c771426b2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_04_07_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-9c771426b2-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/25/2025

This opportunity focuses on the discovery of antibiotics with broad spectrum activity against Enterobacteriaceae, using Klebsiella spp. as the pathogen to initiate a discovery program.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Innovative Data and Modeling Approaches to Measure Women’s Health
https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/innovative-data-and-modeling-approaches-measure-womens-health
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/25/2025

This opportunity seeks innovative modeling approaches that rethink how women’s health is measured, using available data, or easily obtainable, in new ways to provide a more holistic and actionable understanding of health outcomes.

National Institutes of Health

Innovative Molecular and Cellular Analysis Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research (R61 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-25-001.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c8ddbe7b99-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_12_08_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-c8ddbe7b99-712519256#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/04/2025

This opportunity seeks exploratory research projects focused on the inception and early-stage development of highly innovative technologies with new or improved capabilities for targeting, probing, or assessing molecular and cellular features of cancer biology.

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: 05/05/2025

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

Department of Justice

Intellectual Property Enforcement Program: Protecting Public Health, Safety, and the Economy from Counterfeit Goods and Product Piracy
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358297
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/03/2025

This opportunity seeks to support law enforcement agencies that have an intellectual property enforcement task force or plan to create one.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Interdisciplinary Social Science Research on Energy System Interactions in the United States
https://apply.sloan.org/prog/energy_system_interactions/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=d695289899-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_11_07_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-d695289899-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/25/2025

This opportunity supports research, training, networking, and dissemination efforts to inform the societal transition toward low-carbon energy systems in the United States by investigating economic, environmental, technological, and distributional issues.

South Arts

Jazz Road Creative Residencies
https://www.southarts.org/grants-opportunities/jazz-road-creative-residencies
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/02/2025

International Center for Responsible Gaming

Large Grant
https://www.icrg.org/information/apply-for-icrg-funding/
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 04/04/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/18/2025

This opportunity seeks to support research investigating gambling disorder and responsible gambling.

National Science Foundation

Life and Environments Through Time
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/let-life-environments-through-time/nsf25-517/solicitation

This program supports research that advances knowledge about the patterns and processes relating to the origin and evolution of Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum

Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant
https://paam.org/education/the-lillian-orlowsky-and-william-freed-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to promote public awareness of and a commitment to American art and to encourage interest in painters who lack adequate recognition.

Department of Defense

Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356605
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2025

This opportunity is interested in receiving proposals for long-range science and technology projects that offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations.

Proposals may be submitted at any time until September 30, 2025.

American Psychological Foundation

Lorraine D. Eyde Fund Grant
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/eyde-fund-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/27/2025

This opportunity seeks to sponsor research investigating issues surrounding the ethical and professional use of psychological tests.

American Council of Learned Societies

This opportunity is offering a collaborative grant for innovative pilot activities that initiate long-term transformative change in the field of China studies.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

This opportunity is focused on the design and development of recycling solutions that can reduce solid waste and improve the sustainability of longer-term lunar missions.

amfAR

Mathilde Krim Fellowships in Biomedical Research
https://www.amfar.org/research/grants/mathilde-krim-fellowships/
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 03/27/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/13/2025

This opportunity seeks to facilitate the exceptional postdoctoral researcher’s transition to an independent career in HIV/AIDS research within an academic institution or nonprofit organization, support up to two years of postdoctoral biomedical HIV research, and provide the possibility of one additional year of research funding during the first year of an independent research position at an academic institution or nonprofit organization.

Registrations must be submitted no later than 3:00 PM EDT on March 19, 2025.

Department of Energy

Maximizing Algal System Yield
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358255
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/15/2025

Department of Agriculture

McGovern-Dole International Food For Education and Child Nutrition Program
https://www.grants.gov/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/18/2025

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: 04/05/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/05/2025

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

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Metascience and AI Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://sloan.org/programs/digital-technology/aipostdoc-rfp?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c8ddbe7b99-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_12_08_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-c8ddbe7b99-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/10/2025

This opportunity seeks to support early career researchers in the social sciences and humanities (with particular emphasis on philosophy, sociology of science, and metascience) who are interested in building a career in understanding the implications of artificial intelligence for the science and research ecosystem.

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: 07/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/14/2025

National Institutes of Health

Molecular Mechanisms of Combination Adjuvants (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-25-006.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/10/2025

This opportunity seeks to support research studies of two or more vaccine adjuvants in order to understand the mechanisms by which they work in concert.

Department of Defense

National Institutes of Health

Multidisciplinary Studies of HIV/AIDS and Aging (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-354.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/07/2025

This opportunity seeks to 1) improve the understanding of biological, clinical, and socio-behavioral aspects of aging through the lens of HIV infection and its treatment; and 2) improve approaches for testing, preventing, and treating HIV infection, and managing HIV-related comorbidities, co-infections, and complications in different populations and cultural settings by applying current aging science approaches.

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Catalyst Award (DP1 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-26-006.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/18/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/18/2025

This opportunity supports individual scientists who propose pioneering and transformational studies in topic areas of interest to National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases’ (NIDDK) Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, and to NIDDK’s Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition.

National Institutes of Health

National Institute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellowship Award to Promote Broad Participation in Translational Research for Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias (F32 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-332.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/08/2025

This fellowship supports research training of promising postdoctoral candidates from diverse backgrounds and emphasizes the development of translational research skills and their application to various aspects of Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias research.

National Institutes of Health

National Institute on Drug Abuse Avant-Garde Program for HIV and Substance Use Disorder Research (DP1 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-261.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/16/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

This opportunity seeks high-impact studies that open new areas of HIV research in the context of substance use and Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and/or lead to new avenues for prevention and treatment of HIV in people with SUD.

National Institutes of Health

New Investigator Gateway Awards for Collaborative T1D Research (R03 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-26-009.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/26/2025

This opportunity seeks to support a robust pipeline of innovative projects and talented new investigators in type 1 diabetes research.

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.

Department of Energy

Nuclear Science and Engineering Consortium for Nonproliferation
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357982
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/04/2025

Ploughshares

nuclear weapons-free world
https://ploughshares.org/grants/apply/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

Ploughshares fund organizations and people who drive policies and activities that help eliminate nuclear threats or address regional conflicts, create a stronger and more resilient nuclear field, build new partnerships with intersecting issues, and support transformational thinking and activities.

Cure Sanfilippo Foundation

Open Call for Research Proposals
https://curesanfilippofoundation.org/how-to-help/for-researchers/funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/28/2025

This opportunity seeks to support Sanfilippo syndrome research that fills critical gaps in current knowledge and access to treatment across basic and translational science, clinical care, and therapeutic interventions in clinical trials.

Department of the Interior

Partners for Fish and Wildlife
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358381
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2025

This program helps private landowners restore and protect habitats for fish and wildlife. It offers both technical assistance and financial support, mainly through cooperative agreements.

The Peanut Institute

Peanut Nutrition Grants
https://peanut-institute.com/research-resources/peanut-nutrition-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

These opportunities seek understanding of how consuming peanuts, peanut butter, peanut oil, and other peanut products affects health in various populations.

Department of Defense

Full proposals may be submitted by invitation only.

National Institutes of Health

Pilot Studies of Biological, Behavioral and Social Mechanisms Contributing to HIV Pathogenesis Within the Mission of National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-068.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/07/2025

This opportunity applications for innovative basic and translational pilot research projects within the mission of National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases that are aligned with NIH HIV/AIDS research priorities.

Department of the Interior

Preservation Planning Grants
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357990
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

This opportunity aims to support a variety of projects that contribute to the preservation and interpretation of historic battlefields and associated sites of armed conflict on American soil.

National Institutes of Health

Priority HIV/AIDS Research within the Mission of NIDDK (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAS-25-073.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/07/2025

This opportunity seeks to stimulate HIV/AIDS research within the mission of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases that aligns with the HIV/AIDS research priorities outlined by the National Institutes of Health Office of AIDS Research.

Rapid Novor

Protein Sequencing and Epitope Mapping Analysis Grant
https://www.rapidnovor.com/protein-sequencing-and-epitope-mapping-analysis-grant-2025/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

This opportunity seeks to support academic scientists by providing in-kind access to Rapid Novor’s cutting-edge Protein Sequencing and Epitope Mapping services.

The Decorative Arts Trust

Publishing Grants
https://decorativeartstrust.org/publishing/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

Department of Defense

Department of Health and Human Services

Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERC) Program: RERC on Communication Technologies
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355687
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/04/2025

Department of Health and Human Services

This opportunity seeks to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act by conducting advanced engineering research on and development of innovative technologies that are designed to solve particular rehabilitation problems or to remove environmental barriers for people with disabilities.

Department of Justice

Research and Evaluation of Policing Practices
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357991
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/20/2025

This funding opportunity seeks rigorous, applied evaluative research on: (1) police conduct and police-community interactions; (2) officer safety, health, and wellness; (3) criminal investigations; and (4) alternative traffic enforcement models.

Department of Justice

Research and Evaluation on Corrections
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358031
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/15/2025

This opportunity seeks proposals on: 1) special populations in corrections; 2) management and development of the correctional workforce; and 3) the impact of correctional culture and climate on safety and wellness.

Department of Justice

Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime: Nexus with Firearms and Violence
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358109
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

This opportunity supports rigorous applied research on drugs and crime to inform the development of evidence based tools, practices, and policies for state, tribal, and local law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies that address drug trafficking, drug markets, and drug-related violence.

Department of Justice

Research and Evaluation on Hate Crimes
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358112
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/27/2025

This opportunity seeks applications to conduct research and evaluation to inform efforts to prevent and combat hate crime crimes and their effects in two categories, described further below: (1) preventing and addressing hate crimes, and (2) school based hate crimes.

Department of Justice

Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice Topics
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357998
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/20/2025

This opportunity seeks proposals for research and evaluation projects to inform policy and practice in the field of youth justice in the following four topics: 1) Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice System Prosecution, 2) Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice Defense Delivery Systems, 3) Evaluation of Youth Reentry Practices, 4) Resubmissions of Youth Justice Reinvestment Studies.

The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

Research Fellowship
https://hhwf.org/research-fellowship/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c17df6394a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_26_07_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c17df6394a-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/16/2025

This opportunity grants financial support of sufficient duration to help further the careers of young researchers engaged in biological or medical research.

Advancing Research Impact in Society

Research Fellowship Program
https://researchinsociety.org/training/research-fellowship-program/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/18/2025

The Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) Research Fellowship aims to foster innovation, develop leadership skills, and enhance understanding of how researchers can extend and communicate their research for societal benefits, often called Broader Impacts (BI). The goals of the fellowship program are to: 1) expand researcher’s BI work, 2) strengthen their network of other researchers who are interested in strengthening their BI, and 3) disseminate effective BI practices through publications and presentations by fellows.

Learn more about the ARIS Research Fellowship Program in this informational webinar on Monday, March 31 at 3 p.m. CT. ARIS staff will answer your questions in this one-hour session.

SATB2 Gene Foundation

Research Grant Program
https://satb2gene.org/research/#grant-application
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/10/2025

This opportunity seeks applications that aim to further progress our understanding of SATB2-associated syndrome, enhance our understanding of potential treatment options, and better establish outcome measures.

Whitehall Foundation

Research Grants and Grants-in-Aid
https://www.whitehall.org/grants/
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 04/15/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/01/2025

The foundation is interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior.

Spencer Foundation

This opportunity 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.

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: 07/02/2025

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.

Department of Justice

Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358034
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/24/2025

This opportunity seeks to fund applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects in four topical areas: 1) evaluation of programs that seek to prevent, intervene in, or respond to the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults; 2) research on financial fraud against older adults, including knowledge building around scam prevention messaging; 3) research on formal and informal caregivers who abuse (either financially, physically, sexually, and/or emotionally) or neglect older adults, to inform intervention and prevention program development; and 4) forensic research involving the development of radiographic evidence and bioinformatic approaches relevant to the physical abuse of older adults.

Brady Education Foundation

National Institutes of Health

Role of Defective Proviruses in HIV Persistence (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-330.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/07/2025

This opportunity seeks to support research to define the impact of defective HIV proviruses on mechanisms of HIV persistence and pathogenesis during antiretroviral treatment and their potential deleterious effects on HIV cure strategies and interference with HIV-specific molecular assays.

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.

Department of Energy

This opportunity seeks to develop a lithium-ion battery as a backup energy storage system capable of providing 2.4 MW*hrs of usable energy throughout life.

Cedars Sinai

Scholarships and Pathways in Neuroscience
https://www.cedars-sinai.edu/education/professional-training-programs/scholarships-pathways-in-neuroscience/application.html
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/15/2025

This program offers a unique opportunity in one of the nation’s top neurology and neurosurgery hospitals. Awardees spend a year at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, benefiting from hands-on experience, networking with experts and peers, and learning from leaders in the field within a range of research areas, including nanomedicine, Alzheimer’s disease, blood-brain barrier and drug delivery, and gene therapy and discovery.

Department of the Interior

Science and Technology Projects Related to Coal Mining and Reclamation; Applied Science Projects
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358234
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/21/2025

This opportunity seeks the development of new reclamation science and technology to address environmental issues related to the mining of coal and reclamation of the land after mining.

Department of Defense

This opportunity seeks to develop an operational artificial intelligence (AI) red teaming construct and framework for operational test and evaluation of AI-enabled battlefield systems.

National Science Foundation

Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/satc-20-security-privacy-trust-cyberspace/nsf25-515/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/29/2025

The Shank2 Foundation

SHANK2 Innovation Grant
https://shank2.org/research/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=9c771426b2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_04_07_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-9c771426b2-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

This opportunity supports early-stage studies aimed at advancing novel research or therapeutic strategies for SHANK2-related disorders.

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: 06/02/2025

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

Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies and Approaches in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R25 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-25-003.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/09/2025

This opportunity seeks to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs.

Simons Foundation

Simons Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-dissertation-fellowship-in-mathematics/?tab=rfa
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

This opportunity seeks to provide research support to excellent graduate students in the final years of their Ph.D. studies.

Department of Justice

Social Science Research and Evaluation on Forensic Science Systems
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358057
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/24/2025

This opportunity seeks proposals for rigorous applied social science research and evaluative studies on the forensic science system.

Department of Commerce

Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358185
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/14/2025

National Endowment for the Humanities

State and Impact of the Humanities
https://www.neh.gov/program/state-and-impact-humanities
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/16/2025

Handel and Haydn Society

Stone Fellowship
https://handelandhaydn.org/stone-fellowship-announcement/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/03/2025

This opportunity supports a two-year fellowship for emerging string instrumentalist musicians pursuing careers in period performance of Baroque and Classical music.

National Science Foundation

Strengthening American Infrastructure
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sai-strengthening-american-infrastructure/nsf25-534/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/17/2025

This opportunity seeks to stimulate human-centered, use-inspired, fundamental and potentially transformative research aimed at strengthening America’s infrastructure.

National Science Foundation

Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/spse-structure-physics-solid-earth/nsf25-518/solicitation

This aims to advance fundamental knowledge about the ongoing dynamical processes over the age of the Earth that evolve the structure of planet Earth and underpin geohazards.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation

Supporting Innovative Cancer Research
https://pardeefoundation.org/how-to-apply/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=0529b51c3a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_18_06_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-0529b51c3a-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/30/2025

This opportunity funds research to investigators in U.S. non-profit institutions proposing research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer.

National Institutes of Health

Targeting Cell Surface HIV Envelope for Cell Elimination (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-300.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/07/2025

This opportunity aims to support the investigation of HIV-1 Envelope (Env) cell surface expression, the structural mechanism of biologic-mediated cell killing, and the development of novel approaches to enhance the recognition and elimination of Env-expressing, HIV-1 infected cells.

Open Philanthropy

Technical AI Safety Research
https://www.openphilanthropy.org/request-for-proposals-technical-ai-safety-research/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to support research that mitigates the risks and harms of artificial intelligence.

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: 09/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/17/2025

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: 05/21/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/20/2025

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.

Department of Defense

Department of Commerce

This opportunity seeks to enhance and advance technologies in Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Coordination.

Full proposals may be submitted by invitation only.

National Science Foundation

Translation and Diffusion
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/td-translation-diffusion/nsf25-528/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

Department of Energy

Vehicle Technology Office Program Wide
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358307
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/18/2025

American Psychological Foundation

Visionary Grants
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/visionary-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/03/2025

This opportunity seeks to seed innovation through supporting research, education, and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems.

The American Library in Paris

Visiting Fellowship
https://americanlibraryinparis.org/about-the-visiting-fellowship/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

National Science Foundation

Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/walcz-water-landscape-critical-zone-processes/nsf25-519/solicitation

This program supports research on the Earth’s near-surface environment and how that environment responds to change.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of the Interior

WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase I
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358088
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/20/2025

This opportunity provides funding to watershed groups to encourage diverse stakeholders to form local solutions to address their water management needs.

Mudflat Studio

Year-Long Residency
https://www.mudflat.org/year-long-residency
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/16/2025

This opportunity provides a private studio space at no cost with access to Mudflat’s facility, a monthly materials stipend, a monthly housing stipend, and opportunities to teach and sell work.

Fellowships, Awards, and Internships

International Foundation for Ethical Research

This opportunity supports projects that advance the development, validation, or implementation of human-relevant, non-animal methodologies in research, testing, or education.

Full Applications may be submitted by invitation only.

amfAR

Registrations must be submitted no later than 3:00 PM EDT on March 19, 2025.

National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

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

Deadline for applications varies by program.

The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

This opportunity grants financial support of sufficient duration to help further the careers of young researchers engaged in biological or medical research.

Advancing Research Impact in Society

Research Fellowship Program
https://researchinsociety.org/training/research-fellowship-program/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/18/2025

Learn more about the ARIS Research Fellowship Program in this informational webinar on Monday, March 31 at 3 p.m. CT. ARIS staff will answer your questions in this one-hour session.

Cedars Sinai

Simons Foundation

Simons Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-dissertation-fellowship-in-mathematics/?tab=rfa
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

This opportunity seeks to provide research support to excellent graduate students in the final years of their Ph.D. studies.

Handel and Haydn Society

Stone Fellowship
https://handelandhaydn.org/stone-fellowship-announcement/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/03/2025

This opportunity supports a two-year fellowship for emerging string instrumentalist musicians pursuing careers in period performance of Baroque and Classical music.

Internal Funding Opportunities

Office of Research & Innovation

Biomedical Research Seed Grants
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/

These seed funds are intended to enhance the competitiveness of faculty submitting grant proposals requesting R21- or R01-level support from the National Institutes of Health. Investigators are expected to leverage seed funding to accumulate evidence in support of a working hypothesis; demonstrate the feasibility of a new approach; or build reviewers’ confidence in a project team’s ability to handle cutting-edge technologies, understand methods, and interpret results.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research

Energy Research Grants
https://uofnelincoln.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/UNL-ResearchDevelopmentGroup/EaZs4Ru6Y4FBor306QC1J4gBpdM_d_LG5mHZx_LqsLGwnA?e=uJcgwZ
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 05/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to foster research and education in energy sciences by providing funding to support innovative research and collaboration among UNL faculty and with other public and private-sector organizations and businesses.

Full proposals may be submitted by invitation only.

Buffet Early Childhood Institute

Graduate Scholars
https://buffettinstitute.nebraska.edu/about-us/graduate-scholars
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/25/2025

This opportunity offers fellowships for advanced doctoral students conducting research concerning early development, with applications to the learning and development of young children, prenatal to eight years old.

Office of Research & Innovation

Layman New Directions
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

This program provides funding for tenured faculty (associate/full professors) who are branching into new research directions or need funding to support pilot/development work toward the next step in a funded research program.

Office of Research & Innovation

Layman Seed Awards
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

This program provides funding for research projects proposed by early-career faculty who are non-tenured at the time of submission.

Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication

New Seed Projects
https://ncibc.unl.edu/funding-opportunities/seed-project-funding/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to fund several new biomedical research seed projects that aim to support the Center’s focus areas.

Office of Research & Innovation

Revision Awards
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/

Revision Awards enhance the competitiveness of faculty revising and resubmitting grant proposals by providing developmental and/or financial support to help improve highly meritorious, but previously unfunded, federal funding proposals that are eligible for resubmission.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

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.

Law, Justice, and Human Rights

AccessLex Institute

Diversity Pathway Intervention Grant Program
https://www.accesslex.org/grants/diversity-pathway-intervention-grant-program
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

Department of Justice

Graduate Research Fellowship
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358055
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/15/2025

Department of Justice

This opportunity seeks to support law enforcement agencies that have an intellectual property enforcement task force or plan to create one.

Department of Justice

Research and Evaluation of Policing Practices
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357991
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/20/2025

Department of Justice

Research and Evaluation on Corrections
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358031
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/15/2025

Department of Justice

Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime: Nexus with Firearms and Violence
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358109
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

Department of Justice

Research and Evaluation on Hate Crimes
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358112
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/27/2025

Department of Justice

Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice Topics
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357998
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/20/2025

Department of Justice

Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358034
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/24/2025

Department of Justice

Social Science Research and Evaluation on Forensic Science Systems
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358057
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/24/2025

This opportunity seeks proposals for rigorous applied social science research and evaluative studies on the forensic science system.

Life Sciences

National Institutes of Health

Department of Defense

National Institutes of Health

This opportunity seeks to support the development of improved products for treating Botulinum Neurotoxin intoxication.

American Cancer Society

These opportunities are seeking proposals aimed at advancing cancer research.

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?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c17df6394a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_26_07_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c17df6394a-712519256#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/26/2025

National Institutes of Health

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

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

National Institutes of Health

This opportunity aims to support high impact ideas that may lay the foundation for new fields of investigation within the mission of National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

National Institutes of Health

This opportunity seeks to support new high-priority biomedical and behavioral research that will provide scientific data to inform the regulation of tobacco products to protect public health.

National Institutes of Health

FamilieSCN2A Foundation

This opportunity seeks to address fundamental gaps in the basic and translational science of SCN2A related disorders and to accelerate therapy development in the SCN2A field to clinical trials.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

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

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

Proposals are accepted at any time.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Innovations for Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery
https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/innovations-gram-negative-antibiotic-discovery
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/25/2025

This opportunity encourages the discovery of antibiotics with broad spectrum activity against Enterobacteriaceae, using Klebsiella spp. as the pathogen to initiate a discovery program.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

This opportunity focuses on the discovery of antibiotics with broad spectrum activity against Enterobacteriaceae, using Klebsiella spp. as the pathogen to initiate a discovery program.

National Institutes of Health

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

National Institutes of Health

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

National Institutes of Health

This opportunity seeks to support research studies of two or more vaccine adjuvants in order to understand the mechanisms by which they work in concert.

National Institutes of Health

This opportunity seeks to support a robust pipeline of innovative projects and talented new investigators in type 1 diabetes research.

Cure Sanfilippo Foundation

Open Call for Research Proposals
https://curesanfilippofoundation.org/how-to-help/for-researchers/funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/28/2025

The Peanut Institute

Peanut Nutrition Grants
https://peanut-institute.com/research-resources/peanut-nutrition-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

These opportunities seek understanding of how consuming peanuts, peanut butter, peanut oil, and other peanut products affects health in various populations.

National Institutes of Health

Rapid Novor

Protein Sequencing and Epitope Mapping Analysis Grant
https://www.rapidnovor.com/protein-sequencing-and-epitope-mapping-analysis-grant-2025/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

This opportunity seeks to support academic scientists by providing in-kind access to Rapid Novor’s cutting-edge Protein Sequencing and Epitope Mapping services.

SATB2 Gene Foundation

Research Grant Program
https://satb2gene.org/research/#grant-application
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/10/2025

Whitehall Foundation

Research Grants and Grants-in-Aid
https://www.whitehall.org/grants/
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 04/15/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/01/2025

National Institutes of Health

The Shank2 Foundation

This opportunity supports early-stage studies aimed at advancing novel research or therapeutic strategies for SHANK2-related disorders.

National Institutes of Health

This opportunity seeks to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs.

The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation

This opportunity funds research to investigators in U.S. non-profit institutions proposing research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer.

National Institutes of Health

Limited Submission Competitions

National Science Foundation

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement-Focused EPSCoR Collaborations Program
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/epscor-research-infrastructure-improvement-focused-epscor/nsf24-573/solicitation
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 04/21/2025
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 12/16/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 01/27/2026

This program, formerly known as “EPSCoR Track-2 program,” builds interjurisdictional collaborative teams of EPSCoR investigators in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics focus areas consistent with the current National Science Foundation Strategic Plan. Projects must include researchers from at least two EPSCoR eligible jurisdictions with complementary expertise and resources necessary to address challenges that neither party could address as well or as rapidly independently.

For this year’s competition, proposals will be accepted in the following focus area: “Building capacity towards use-inspired research.”

An organization may submit only one proposal to the competition as lead.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 04/21/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

Project Apis m.

Honey Bee Health Research
https://www.projectapism.org/apply-for-funding?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=0529b51c3a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_18_06_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-0529b51c3a-712519256
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 04/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/01/2025

This opportunity seeks research dedicated to enhancing the health of honey bees.

Organizations may submit one proposal per cycle.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 04/14/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

National Science Foundation

U.S. National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/us-national-science-foundation-research-traineeship-program/nsf24-597/solicitation
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 04/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/08/2025

This opportunity seeks proposals that explore ways for graduate students in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers.

Institutions of Higher Education may only participate in two proposals as lead or collaborative non-lead.

Department of Veterans Affairs

Veterans Legacy Grants Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355645
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 03/28/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/21/2025

This opportunity seeks to provide tools for the public to learn about the histories of Veterans interred in national cemeteries and state, territorial, and Tribal Veterans cemeteries.

Organizations may submit one application in response to this opportunity.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 03/28/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

Mathematics and Physical Sciences

National Science Foundation

Applied Mathematics
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/applied-mathematics
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/17/2025

This opportunity supports mathematics research motivated by and contributing to the solution of problems arising in science and engineering.

Department of Energy

Early Career Research Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358302
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/22/2025

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

Applications are accepted at any time.

Miscellaneous

Ploughshares

nuclear weapons-free world
https://ploughshares.org/grants/apply/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

NU-wide

Buffet Early Childhood Institute

Graduate Scholars
https://buffettinstitute.nebraska.edu/about-us/graduate-scholars
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/25/2025

Social Sciences

National Institutes of Health

Department of Health and Human Services

Autism Research Consortium
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355631
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/23/2025

Department of Health and Human Services

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

International Center for Responsible Gaming

Large Grant
https://www.icrg.org/information/apply-for-icrg-funding/
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 04/04/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/18/2025

This opportunity seeks to support research investigating gambling disorder and responsible gambling.

American Psychological Foundation

Lorraine D. Eyde Fund Grant
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/eyde-fund-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/27/2025

This opportunity seeks to sponsor research investigating issues surrounding the ethical and professional use of psychological tests.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

National Institutes of Health

American Psychological Foundation

Visionary Grants
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/visionary-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/03/2025

This opportunity seeks to seed innovation through supporting research, education, and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems.

Transportation

Department of Transportation

Uncategorized

Department of Defense

Hybridizing Biology and Robotics through Integration for Deployable Systems
https://sam.gov/opp/580b34f2b653452badd8ec37590e27ec/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=e0d1f55d74-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_15_05_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-e0d1f55d74-712519256

This opportunity aims to address significant engineering and design obstacles that prevent the development of deployable biohybrid robotic systems by understanding and controlling the integration of synthetic and biological components to achieve desired emergent system properties.

Pre-applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

UNL

Office of Research & Innovation

Biomedical Research Seed Grants
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research

Full proposals may be submitted by invitation only.

Office of Research & Innovation

Layman New Directions
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

Office of Research & Innovation

Layman Seed Awards
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/01/2025

This program provides funding for research projects proposed by early-career faculty who are non-tenured at the time of submission.

Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication

New Seed Projects
https://ncibc.unl.edu/funding-opportunities/seed-project-funding/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to fund several new biomedical research seed projects that aim to support the Center’s focus areas.

Office of Research & Innovation

Revision Awards
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

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.