Current Funding Opportunities

Department of Agriculture

Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program – Organic Transitions
https://www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/funding-opportunities/integrated-research-education-extension-competitive-grants-program-0
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 6, 2025

This opportunity seeks to support the development and implementation of research, extension, and higher education programs to improve the competitiveness of U.S. organic livestock and crop producers, as well as those who are adopting organic practices.

Department of Agriculture

Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative
https://www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/funding-opportunities/organic-agriculture-research-extension-initiative
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 13, 2025

This opportunity aims to fund high priority integrated projects that will enhance the ability of producers and processors who have already adopted organic standards to grow and market high quality organic agricultural products, mitigate and adapt to climate change, build resilience of the organic farming system, and protect water and other resources.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: A.62 FarmFlux Science Team
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b40DCE90A-0924-7D5B-55E2-CC98DD824A5C%7d&path=&method=init
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 17, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 7, 2025

This opportunity is a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital mission designed to address major deficiencies in our understanding of the agriculture – atmosphere interface.

Department of Agriculture

Smith-Lever Special Needs Competitive Grants Program
https://www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/funding-opportunities/smith-lever-special-needs-competitive-grants-program
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 13, 2025

This opportunity aims to support innovative, education-based approaches to address disaster preparedness and specific responses related to disasters or disaster threats caused by natural, human-made, or technological hazards or by other factors that contribute to the exposure or vulnerability of a community. 

National Endowment for the Humanities

Fellowships
https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/fellowships
Sponsor Application Deadline: April 9, 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.

Department of Education

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

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

Department of Education

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

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

Department of Education

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

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

National Archives and Records Administration

Grant Opportunities
https://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 18, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: May 7, 2025

These opportunities are aimed at making historical record collections more accessible.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Institutes for Higher Education Faculty
https://www.neh.gov/grants/education/institutes-k-12-educators
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 12, 2025

This opportunity seeks programs that convene higher education faculty or K-12 educators from across the nation to deepen and enrich their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching.

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Jacob Hirsch Fellowship Program
https://ascsa.submittable.com/submit/271324/hirsch-application
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

This fellowship is for U.S. or Israeli citizens who are either Ph.D. candidates writing their dissertations in archaeology or early-career scholars (Ph.D. earned within the last five years) completing a project that requires a lengthy residence in Greece. 

National Endowment for the Humanities

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Coordination Center for the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project Consortium (U01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-25-015.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 14, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

This opportunity seeks to invite applications for the Coordination Center for the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) Consortium. The ADSP Consortium Coordination Center will lead and manage cross-consortium functions, including effective communication, collaboration, outreach, dissemination, training, and coordination across the components of the ADSP.

National Science Foundation

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

Department of the Interior

Aquatic Resource Management
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357663
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

This opportunity seeks to protect and restores riparian and wetland areas, aquatic habitats, and water resources to provide functioning ecosystems for a combination of balanced and diverse uses including fish and wildlife, and for the long-term needs of future generations.

Department of Commerce

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

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

Proposals are accepted at any time.

Department of the Interior

Bureau of Land Management National Conservation Lands – Management Studies Support Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357329
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 31, 2025

This opportunity supports studies aimed at increasing our understanding of the resources present on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, the values these areas protect, and the effectiveness of BLM’s resource management decisions.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants
https://www.bwfund.org/funding-opportunities/climate-change-and-human-health/climate-change-and-human-health-seed-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 23, 2025

This opportunity aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields who might together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health.

Department of Energy

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

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

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

New Earth Foundation

Enhance Life on Earth
https://newearthfoundation.org/apply.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c3877aa7f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_04_05_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-c3877aa7f4-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 1, 2025

This opportunity seeks to fund innovative projects that enhance life on our planet and brighten the future, furthering peace. The grant will support a wide variety of projects in many fields of endeavor, including but not limited to environmental initiatives that are working to help eliminate pollution and to save the planet’s ecosystems, community efforts that create models of social sustainability, educational innovations that prepare youth to become the socially responsible leaders of the future, and strategies that offer economic improvement and opportunities.

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.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

Northern Great Plains Program
https://www.nfwf.org/programs/northern-great-plains-program/northern-great-plains-2025-request-proposals
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 19, 2025

This opportunity seeks proposals to voluntarily conserve and restore grasslands and wildlife species in the Northern Great Plains.

Department of the interior

Rangeland Resource Management
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357665
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

This opportunity seeks projects that will 1) facilitate the conservation and restoration of rangelands to combat climate change, 2) aid in soil mapping and development of ecological site descriptions, and 3) engage community members and other stakeholders, through mentoring, training, and educational programs.

Water Quality Research Foundation

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

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

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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

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

National 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.

Department of the Interior

Threatened and Endangered Species Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357661
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

This program is looking for projects that will result in or facilitate national implementation or outreach of tangible on the ground actions that will improve species populations (numbers, representation, or resilience) or reduce population level threats.

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

Wildlife Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357657
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

This program seeks to maintain functioning wildlife habitats, develop and implement habitat restoration projects, record and monitor priority habitats and species by tracking trends and use on public lands.

Department of Defense

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

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

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Defense

Emon
https://sam.gov/opp/7eccb16014c24858a2fb111028104e20/view?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: January 24, 2025

This opportunity aims to investigate the potential utility of constructing radar systems that benefit more completely from the tensorial nature of the electromagnetic field.

Department of Defense

Simulating Microbial Systems
https://sam.gov/opp/fa374c3b71db418fa6855902c95ee7da/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=c3877aa7f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_04_05_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-c3877aa7f4-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 15, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 25, 2025

This opportunity seeks to create generalizable and comprehensive computational simulations to predict the behavior of individual Escherichia coli.

Women Investing In Nebraska

2025 Grant Awards
https://womeninvestinginnebraska.org/grants/letter-of-inquiry/
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: April 11, 2025

This opportunity seeks out projects that offer bold, innovative solutions to urgent issues in the state of Nebraska.

National Science Foundation

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

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

AmeriCorps

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

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

Department of the Interior

Bringing Youth Outdoors Together and Environmental Steward Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357628
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 8, 2025

This program provides young people–particularly youth from underserved communities in urban, rural, military, and native settings — with outdoor experiences and excursions to their local national park.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

Environmental Protection Agency

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

Department of Education

Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Education Research
https://ies.ed.gov/funding/pdf/2025_84305B.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 7, 2025

This program provides grants that prepare individual early-career researchers at research institutions to conduct high-quality education research that advances knowledge within the education sciences and addresses issues important to education policymakers and practitioners.

National Science Foundation

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

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

National Science Foundation

Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/exlent-experiential-learning-emerging-novel-technologies/nsf25-511/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 24, 2025

This opportunity seeks to support experiential learning opportunities for individuals from all professional and educational backgrounds, resulting in increased access to, and interest in, career pathways in emerging technology fields.

Department of Education

Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (Partnership Grants)
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357207
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 3, 2025

This opportunity encourages eligible entities to provide support, and maintain a commitment, to eligible students from low-income backgrounds, including students with disabilities, to assist the students in obtaining a secondary school diploma (or its recognized equivalent) and to prepare for and succeed in postsecondary education.

National Science Foundation

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

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

Spencer Foundation

Large Research Grants on Education Program
https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/large-research-grant
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 14, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 11, 2025

This opportunity supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education.   

Department of Education

Methods Training for Education Researchers
https://ies.ed.gov/funding/pdf/2025_84305B.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 7, 2025

This program supports the training of current education researchers to expand and upgrade their methodological skills. Supported training should respond to the ongoing development and adaptation of methods concerning the design of education studies, data collection, data analysis, practical interpretation of the results of analyses, and the ethical issues regarding the use of the proposed methods. 

Department of Health and Human Services

Region XII Migrant and Seasonal Worker Collaboration Office
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355942
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 21, 2025

This opportunity seeks to facilitate collaboration among Region XII Migrant and Seasonal Worker Head Start (MSHS) agencies and other entities that carry out activities designed to benefit MSHS children and their families from birth to school entry to ensure their readiness for school.

National Science Foundation

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

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

Full applications are accepted anytime.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grant (Parent – T32)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-168.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 25, 2025

This opportunity seeks to develop and/or enhance predoctoral and postdoctoral research training to help ensure that a diverse and highly trained workforce is available to meet the needs of the Nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research agenda.   

Department of Agriculture

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

National Science Foundation

Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/brite-nsf-boosting-research-ideas-transformative-equitable/nsf25-512/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 3, 2025

This opportunity seeks proposals that 1) enable experienced researchers with active research programs to take risks not typically associated with proposals submitted to core programs by pivoting to research areas where they have no proven track record or gaining knowledge from a different discipline and using it to forge new directions in their research field or enter a new field, or 2) experienced researchers with a hiatus in research activity to reestablish a foundation for sustained research productivity and broader impacts.

Department of Transportation

Bus Safety and Accessibility Research Competitive Program
https://www.transit.dot.gov/notices-funding/fiscal-year-2025-bus-safety-and-accessibility-research-notice-funding
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 17, 2025

This opportunity seeks to make existing and new buses safer for their operators and vulnerable road users and safer and more accessible for their passengers. 

Department of Energy

HARMONY: Human-Centric Analytics for Resilient & Modernized Power sYstems
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357592
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 27, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 20, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications to enhance grid reliability and resilience in the face of growing uncertainties and in the age of big data to accelerate pathways towards grid modernization goals.

Catalyst Foundation

Integrated Circuits, Devices, and Systems
http://www.catalyst-foundation.org/call-for-proposals/
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 17, 2024

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

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: March 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

Nuclear Data Interagency Working Group Research Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357452
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 2, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 3, 2025

This opportunity seeks research projects focusing on acquiring and refining nuclear data essential for fusion applications.

National Science Foundation

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

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

Department of Energy

Realize Energy-rich Compound Opportunities Valorizing Extraction from Refuse Waters
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357286
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 31, 2024

This program seeks to develop technologies to concentrate and recover high value energy materials (ammonia and critical metals) from aqueous waste streams.

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Energy

Renewable Integration Management with Innovative High Voltage Direct Current Power Circuit Breakers
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357679
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 17, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 28, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications to support research and development that will standardize the technical specifications of high voltage direct current circuit breakers (HV DCCB) as well as advance existing HV DCCB designs.

Water Quality Research Foundation

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

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

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: A.48 Commercial Satellite Data Earth Science Research and Applications
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId={5DF8169C-C75C-C36D-A165-8C2CC1F98897}&path=&method=init
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 31, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 26, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications that will use Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) data to 1) advance Earth science research and applications; 2) demonstrate how this data supplements existing capabilities of the NASA’s Earth Observing fleet and other free and open data sources; and 3) assess the utility and accessibility of the CSDA data.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: F.11 Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon: Stand-Alone Landing Site-Agnostic
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b383AAAC1-8CEF-F372-7DA6-4D6A3279A820%7d&path=&method=init
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 15, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 18, 2025

This opportunity seeks stand alone, landing site agnostic investigations that includes development and flight of science-driven individual instruments that will be delivered to the lunar surface by the commercial lunar payload services.

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: September 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.

Department of Transportation

Technology Transfer Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357502?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c3877aa7f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_04_05_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-c3877aa7f4-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 11, 2025

This opportunity funds research, development, demonstration, and deployment projects, as well as evaluation of research and technology, of national significance to public transportation that will improve public transportation.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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

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

Application deadlines vary by program.

National Institutes of Health

Advancing Research Careers Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award to Promote Broad Participation (F99/K00 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-084.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 13, 2025

This opportunity aims to facilitate the transition of promising, late-stage graduate students from diverse backgrounds into mentored postdoctoral research positions.

National Institutes of Health

Aging Research Dissertation Awards to Promote Diversity (R36 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-130.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity aims to promote diversity in the scientific research workforce engaged in research on aging and aging-related health conditions by providing R36 dissertation awards in all areas of research within the National Institute on Aging’s strategic priorities.

American Psychological Association

Congressional Fellowship
https://www.apa.org/about/awards/congress-fellow?tab=1
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 2, 2025

This opportunity provides psychologists with an invaluable public policy learning experience to contribute to the more effective use of psychological knowledge in government and to broaden awareness about the value of psychology-government interaction among psychologists and within the federal government.   

American Psychological Foundation

Division 37 Diane J. Willis Early Career Award
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/willis/
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 10, 2025

This award supports talented young psychologists making contributions towards informing, advocating for, and improving the mental health and well-being of children and families, particularly through policy.   

National Science Foundation

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

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

Simons Foundation

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

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

Klingenstein Philanthropies

Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience
https://klingenstein.org/esther-a-joseph-klingenstein-fund/neuroscience/applying/
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 1, 2025

This opportunity supports innovative, basic research by early career investigators.

American Psychological Association Leadership Development Institute

Leadership Education and Advancement Program for Diverse Scholars
https://ldi.apa.org/programs/leap-for-diverse-scholars
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 16, 2025

This opportunity is a comprehensive mentoring and leadership development initiative aimed at supporting early career social and behavioral scientists pursuing research that is in alignment with the National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases mission and focuses on underrepresented populations.

Department of Health and Human Services

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

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

National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences Non-Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K22 – Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-317.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 12, 2025

This opportunity supports senior postdoctoral fellows or individuals in similar mentored roles who have not yet gained independence, helping them transition into assistant professor or equivalent roles. The program’s goal is to establish successful careers for these individuals as independent research scientists.

National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute Mentored Research Scientist Development Award to Promote Diversity (K01 – Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-316.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 12, 2025

This opportunity supports individuals from diverse backgrounds, including individuals from groups that have been shown to be nationally underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences, by providing salary and research support for a period of three to five years of “protected time” dedicated to intensive research career development under the guidance of an experienced advisor. 

National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-135.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 13, 2025

This program seeks to facilitate a timely transition of talented postdoctoral researchers with a research and/or clinical doctorate degree from mentored, postdoctoral research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions.

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Career Transition Award (K22 – Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-251.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 12, 2025

This opportunity seeks to assist postdoctoral fellows’ transition to positions of assistant professor or equivalent and initiate a successful biomedical career as an independent research scientist.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

Deadline for applications varies by program.

National Institutes of Health

The National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research Early Career Research Award (R03 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-124.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity seeks to support both basic and clinical research from rehabilitation scientists who are establishing independent research careers.

Department of State

Fiscal Transparency Innovation Fund Projects
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357057
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 13, 2025

This opportunity seeks proposals that offer the greatest benefit in helping governments meet core fiscal transparency requirements. These include the completeness, reliability, and public availability of budget information and public debt obligation data, as well as transparency in natural resource extraction licensing and tendering and procurement procedures.

Department of State

Program to End Modern Slavery
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357674
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 4, 2025

This opportunity aims to support the development and scaling of impactful counter-trafficking interventions.

Full proposals may be submitted by invitation only.

Arthritis National Research Foundation

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Alcohol Health Services Research (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-245.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity will broadly focus on closing the treatment gap for individuals with alcohol use disorder.

National Institutes of Health

Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets (R03 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-092.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity seeks to support the archiving and documentation of existing data sets within the scientific mission of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in order to enable secondary analysis of these data by the scientific community.

National Institutes of Health

Artificial Intelligence in Pre-clinical Drug Development for Alzheimer’s Disease/Alzheimer’s Disease-related dementias (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-24-049.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 13, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 13, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications that propose to apply existing or newly developed artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to various aspects of drug discovery and preclinical drug development to accelerate the identification, optimization, and selection of preclinical drug candidates for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias and increase their likelihood of success during clinical drug development.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Basic Research in Cancer Health Disparities (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-243.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity encourages grant applications from investigators interested in conducting basic, mechanistic research into the biological/genetic causes of cancer health disparities.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Biology of Bladder Cancer (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-129.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=fcd9c365bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_26_06_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-fcd9c365bf-712519256#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity encourages applications that investigate the biology and underlying mechanisms of bladder cancer.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

BRAIN Initiative: Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-26-170.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 7, 2025

This opportunity seeks to encourage research that will develop and validate novel tools to facilitate the detailed analysis of complex circuits and provide insights into cellular interactions that underlie brain function.

National Institutes of Health

BRAIN Initiative: Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-26-170.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 8, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 7, 2025

This opportunity aims to encourage research that will develop and validate novel tools to facilitate the detailed analysis of complex circuits and provide insights into cellular interactions that underlie brain function.

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: June 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: April 3, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: June 2, 2025

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National 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: April 2, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: May 2, 2025

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

National Institutes of Health

Building in vivo Preclinical Assays of Circuit Engagement for Application in Therapeutic Development (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-035.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity aims to identify, in animals, in vivo neurophysiological and behavioral measures for use as assays in the early screening phase of treatment development.   

National Science Foundation

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

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

Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

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

This opportunity supports cancer and smoking disease research.

National Institutes of Health

Cancer Tissue Engineering Collaborative: Enabling Biomimetic Tissue-Engineered Technologies for Cancer Research (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-171.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=fcd9c365bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_26_06_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-fcd9c365bf-712519256#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity will support the development and characterization of state-of-the-art biomimetic tissue-engineered technologies for cancer research.   

National Institutes of Health

Catalyze: Product Definition – Medical Device Prototype Optimization (R33 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HL-26-020.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=fcd9c365bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_26_06_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-fcd9c365bf-712519256#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 12, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 11, 2025

This opportunity will provide the early-stage translational support needed for prototype testing/design modification, assay development for diagnostic disease targets, and development of research tools for use in the treatment of heart, lung, blood, and sleep diseases and disorders.

National Institutes of Health

Cellular and Molecular Biology of Complex Brain Disorders (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-037.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity encourages research on the biology of high confidence risk factors associated with complex brain disorders, with a focus on the intracellular, transcellular, and circuit substrates of neural function. 

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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: October 19, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: November 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).

National Institutes of Health

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

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Developing Novel Theory and Methods for Understanding the Genetic Architecture of Complex Human Traits (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-255.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 5, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity aims to support applications for novel theory and methods development that enable better understanding of how genetic and non-genetic factors contribute to complex trait variation across individuals, families, and populations.    

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Development of Animal Models and Related Biological Materials for Down Syndrome Research (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-214.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity encourages exploratory and innovative research to develop, characterize, or improve animal models and related biological materials for Down syndrome (DS) related research and to improve access to information about or from the use of animal models for DS research.

National Institutes of Health

Development of Animal Models and Related Biological Materials for Research (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-273.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity encourages innovative research to develop, improve, characterize, and preserve animal models as well as animal model related biological materials, technologies, and new approach methodologies for studies relevant to human health and disease.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Enhancing Reuse of National Human Genome Research Institute Data Assets (R03 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-25-005.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 13, 2025

This opportunity seeks to encourage the genomics research community to leverage data sets available through National Human Genome Research Institute’s AnVIL platform for innovative research and secondary analysis projects.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Epitranscriptomics Crosstalks and Toxicants (R01 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-25-001.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 6, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications that propose innovative studies to explore how exposures to environmental toxicants may inhibit, create new, or otherwise impact epitranscriptomic crosstalks and provide mechanistic insights into how these interactions play a role in the initiation, progression, and/or exacerbation of adverse health outcomes.    

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

This opportunity focuses on different aspects of cancer control by modifying behavior, screening, and understanding etiologic factors contributing to the development of cancer and developing ways to control cancer.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-346.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications to demonstrate feasibility and potential utility of new capabilities or improvements in quality, speed, efficacy, operability, costs, and/or accessibility of solutions to problems in basic biomedical, pre-clinical, or clinical research, clinical care delivery, or accessibility.

National Institutes of Health

Exploratory/Developmental Research on Guillain Barre Syndrome and Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-25-025.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 3, 2025

This opportunity solicits applications for support of exploratory/developmental studies aimed at accelerating progress toward understanding, preventing, or treating Guillain Barre Syndrome and/or Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy. 

National Institutes of Health

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

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

Department of Defense

Glioblastoma, Transformative Consortium Award
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357297
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: December 23, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 13, 2025

This opportunity challenges the scientific community to design innovative research that fosters new directions or addresses neglected issues in the field to advance the development of health care solutions for individuals affected with glioblastoma.

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research

H5N1 Risk to Swine Research Program
https://www.swinehealth.org/call-for-research/
Sponsor Application Deadline: December 31, 2024

This opportunity seeks to enhance prevention, preparedness, mitigation, and response capabilities for H5N1 influenza in the U.S. swine herd. 

National Institutes of Health

HEAL Initiative-Early-Stage Discovery of New Pain Targets Within the Understudied Druggable Proteome (R03 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-154.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opprotunity seeks to provide a needed opportunity for the collection of preliminary data around the role of understudied proteins in the context of pain and pain management.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

High 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: May 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: June 3, 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: June 2, 2025

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

National Institutes of Health

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: April 7, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: June 6, 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.

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: April 7, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: May 7, 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.     

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Impacts of climate change across the cancer control continuum (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-094.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity aims to support innovative research relevant to advancing the understanding of the effects of climate change across the cancer control continuum, from cancer etiology and cancer risks through survivorship and ways to prevent or mitigate negative health effects.

National Institutes of Health

Improving Care and Outcomes for Cancer Survivors from Sexual and Gender Minority Populations (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-237.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity intends to support the rigorous assessment of barriers to quality cancer treatment and follow-up care for sexual and gender minority cancer survivors.

National Institutes of Health

In Vivo Non-Invasive Optical Imaging Approaches for Biological Systems (UG3/UH3 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-24-012.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 7, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 7, 2025

This opportunity seeks to overcome the problem of light scattering in biological systems. Current optical imaging techniques that are non-invasive and allow rapid assessment of tissue function and structure suffer from strong light scattering within biological tissues, limiting the penetration depth and resolution. This funding opportunity encourages development of next-generation non-invasive or minimally-invasive optical imaging techniques to overcome these issues and to allow deeper imaging of biological systems with high spatial and temporal resolution.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Informatics Tools for the Pangenome (U01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-25-007.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 3, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 3, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications for the development of informatics tools to facilitate uptake and scientific use of the human pangenome reference being developed and maintained by the National Human Genome Research Institute Human Genome Reference Program.

National Science Foundation

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

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

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Science Foundation

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

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

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Innovations for Exceptionally Low-Cost Monoclonal Antibody Manufacturing
https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/innovations-exceptionally-low-cost-monoclonal-antibody-mab-manufacturing?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c3877aa7f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_04_05_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-c3877aa7f4-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 31, 2025

This opportunity seeks to 1) develop proof-of-concept for manufacturing platforms that produce monoclonal antibodies at a final drug substance cost-of-goods of $10 per gram or 2) provide additional support to organizations that have already completed proof-of-concept work that could result in cost-of-goods of $10 per gram.

National Institutes of Health

Innovative Approaches to Studying Cancer Communication in the New Information Ecosystem (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-294.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity seeks meritorious research projects in three distinct domains related to cancer communication: 1) the utility and application of new cancer communication surveillance approaches; 2) the development and testing of rapid cancer communication interventions using innovative methods and designs; and 3) the development and testing of multilevel cancer communication models emphasizing bidirectional influence between levels.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Interventions to Address Disparities in Liver Diseases and Liver Cancer (R01 – Clinical Trials Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-299.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity will support multi-level and/or multi-domain intervention research to reduce disparities in liver diseases and liver cancer among populations who experience health disparities in the United States.

National Institutes of Health

Interventions to Reduce Sleep Health Disparities (R01 – Clinical Trials Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-330.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity seeks to support non-pharmacological interventions to promote sleep health, reduce sleep health disparities, and examine sleep as a modifiable factor to reduce disparities for other health outcomes among populations that experience health disparities.

National Institutes of Health

Investigator Initiated Innovation in Computational Genomics and Data Science (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-228.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity seeks to support investigator-initiated research efforts fostering innovation in computational genomics, data science, statistics, bioinformatics, and data visualization and exploration.   

Department of Health and Human Services

Maternal and Child Health Secondary Data Analysis Research
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355633
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 25, 2025

This opportunity seeks to support research that analyzes existing national data sets or administrative records to answer questions that can improve the health and well-being of maternal and child health populations, including children and adolescents with autism and other developmental disabilities.    

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Mechanisms that Impact Cancer Risk with Use of Incretin Mimetics (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-069.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity supports investigator-initiated studies addressing mechanisms by which incretin mimetics, specifically glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 or dual GLP-1/ glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypepide (GIP)-1 receptor agonists, impact cancer risk.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Microbial-based Cancer Imaging and Therapy – Bugs as Drugs (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-108.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

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

National Institutes of Health

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Mood and Psychosis Symptoms during the Menopause Transition (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-281.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=fcd9c365bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_26_06_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-fcd9c365bf-712519256#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity encourages applications that will advance mechanistic and translational research on the onset and worsening of mood and psychotic disorders during the menopausal transition.   

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

Letter of intent is optional.

National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-238.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This funding opportunity focuses on biomedical discovery and data-powered health, integrating streams of complex and interconnected research outputs that can be translated into scientific insights, clinical care, public health practices, and personal wellness.

Department of Defense

Naval Engineering Education Consortium Broad Agency Announcement Broad Agency Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357484
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 6, 2025

This initiative seeks to develop biomarker-based tools for predicting disease contagiousness before or after symptom onset.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

New Approaches for Measuring Brain Changes Across Longer Timespans (R21 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-272.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity seeks to encourage multidisciplinary investigators to develop exploratory, highly novel new approaches, or innovative applications of existing approaches, to measure brain activity, connectivity, genomics, or other aspects across the age spectrum of neurodevelopment.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Science Foundation

NSF/CASIS Collaboration on Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology on the International Space Station to Benefit Life on Earth
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/nsfcasis-collaboration-tissue-engineering-mechanobiology/nsf25-513/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 18, 2025

This solicitation seeks to increase use of the International Space Station National Lab for flight research projects in the field of biomedical engineering.

National Science Foundation

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Prevention and Intervention Approaches for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (R34 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-159.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 17, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity aims to support research that advances 1) prevention approaches to reduce prenatal alcohol exposure and incidence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and 2) interventions for FASD.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

Whitehall Foundation

Research Grants and Grants-in-Aid
https://whitehall.org/about/
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 15, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: June 1, 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.   

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Research Opportunities in Established Cancer Epidemiology Cohort Studies (U01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-275.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 28, 2025

This opportunity encourages grant applications to support research in established cancer epidemiology cohort studies, defined as studies that have achieved their initial planned recruitment goal.   

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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: May 7, 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 Institutes of Health

Role of T-Cells in HIV Central Nervous System Reservoir Seeding, Persistence, and Neuropathogenesis (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-26-110.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: February 18, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 18, 2025

This opportunity encourages research to define the mechanisms and roles of T-cells in HIV/central nervous system reservoir seeding, persistence, and neuropathogenesis. 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: A.63 Ecohydrology
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b4BAB4308-BBC3-0FD7-7246-8D1CDCE8B404%7d&path=&method=init
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 16, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 19, 2025

This opportunity focuses on interactions between water and ecosystems through the lens of the coupled water, energy, and carbon cycles. The program element is motivated by the hypothesis that periods of strong land-atmosphere coupling, which may be initiated by environmental pulse events, are limited in frequency and duration, but constitute untapped sources of hydroclimate predictability.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-095.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity encourages applications proposing to conduct secondary data analysis and integration of existing datasets and database resources, with the ultimate aim to elucidate cancer risk and related outcomes

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

Letter of intent is optional.

National Institutes of Health

Small Research Grants for Analyses of Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Data (R03 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-109.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity seeks to develop a pediatric research data resource populated by genome sequence and phenotypic data that will be of high value for the communities of investigators who study the genetics of childhood cancers and/or structural birth defects.   

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Systematic Testing of Radionuclides in Preclinical Experiments (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-174.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity seeks research projects utilizing state-of-the-art cancer biology methods and model systems to study effects of different types of radiation used in radionuclide-based therapeutics (e.g., radiopharmaceutical therapy) on normal tissue, tumor cells, and the tumor microenvironment. 

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: May 7, 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.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Technology Development Research for Establishing Feasibility and Proof of Concept (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-202.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity supports exploratory research leading to proof of concept for the development of new technologies relevant to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences’ mission. Projects should entail a high degree of risk and/or novelty and have a high future potential impact in biomedical research. 

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities in Environmental Health Sciences (R21 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-25-003.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 4, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 3, 2025

This opportunity is intended to support novel environmental health research in which an unpredictable event or policy change provides a limited window of opportunity to collect human biological samples or environmental exposure data.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Utilizing Invasive Recording and Stimulating Opportunities in Humans to Advance Neural Circuitry Understanding of Mental Health Disorders (R21 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-291.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=fcd9c365bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_26_06_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-fcd9c365bf-712519256#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity encourages applications to pursue invasive neural recording studies focused on mental health-relevant questions.

National Institutes of Health

Utilizing the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Biospecimens Resource to Bridge Gaps in Cancer Etiology and Early Detection Research (U01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-248.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 11, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 10, 2025

This opportunity encourages the submission of applications that propose to advance research in cancer etiology and early detection biomarkers, utilizing the advantages of the unique biorepository resources of the National Cancer Institute-sponsored Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial.    

Department of Energy

Systems Biology Research to Advance Bioenergy Crop Production
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357662
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: December 19, 2024
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 17, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 26, 2025

This opportunity seeks 1) systems-level research to improve understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying bioenergy feedstock productivity under varied and at times suboptimal environmental conditions and 2) systems biology-enabled investigations into the roles of microbes and microbial communities (including rhizosphere consortia, e.g. bacteria, fungi, diazotrophs, endophytes, viruses) in supporting plant productivity and vigor. Institutions may submit one pre-application and 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 12/19/2024. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/limited-submissions-funding-programs/.

Department of Energy

Wind Turbine Technology Recycling
https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/#FoaIdafc19951-5624-436d-b8bc-07f898aa5dc0
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: December 19, 2024
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 11, 2025

This opportunity seeks to address various barriers to widespread adoption of recycling for two major materials found in wind energy systems, fiber reinforced composites and rare earth elements. Organizations may submit one application for each topic area.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 12/19/2024. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/limited-submissions-funding-programs/.

National Science Foundation

AFRL REsearch in FLoquet Engineered QuanTum Systems
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/nsf-afrl-refleqts-nsf-afrl-research-floquet-engineered-quantum-systems/nsf25-520/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 14, 2025

This opportunity seeks the development of: 1) novel and scalable quantum systems, 2) cutting-edge spectro-microscopy techniques, and micro- and nano-photonic, phononic, millimeter/THz frequencies, and electronic structures and mechanisms, 3) enhancing efficiency in generation and detection, and iv) direct read-out of novel states of matter.

Department of Energy

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

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

National Science Foundation

Chemical Evolution of the Solid Earth and Volcanology
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/cesev-chemical-evolution-solid-earth-volcanology/nsf25-516/solicitation

This program aims to advance fundamental knowledge about the origin and evolution of our home planet including its core, mantle, and continental crust.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

National Science Foundation

Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/cedar-coupling-energetics-dynamics-atmospheric-regions/nsf25-510/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 5, 2025

This program supports research to increase our understanding of the behavior of atmospheric regions from the middle atmosphere upward through the thermosphere and ionosphere into the exosphere. Projects explore coupling, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics on regional and global scales.

National Science Foundation

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

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

Department of Commerce

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

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

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: A.22 NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7bD7C69A72-3D85-6E10-8746-5B844B2C97A5%7d&path=&method=init
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 9, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 20, 2025

This program seeks proposals to leverage the NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study Integrated Analysis (NEWS-IA) dataset and ongoing development work to better quantify and characterize changes to Earth’s water and energy cycles.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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

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

Applications are accepted at any time.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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

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

Department of the Interior

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

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

University of Nebraska Collaboration Initiative

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

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

University of Nebraska Collaboration Initiative

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

This opportunity seeks to enhance the competitiveness of University of Nebraska (NU) faculty for federal extramural funding by fully leveraging the intellectual capacity and research resources across the NU campuses.

University of Nebraska Collaboration Initiative

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

This opportunity seeks to enhance the competitiveness of University of Nebraska (NU) faculty for federal extramural funding by fully leveraging the intellectual capacity and research resources across the NU campuses.

Department of Energy

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

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

Department of Agriculture

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

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

Department of Agriculture

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

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

Department of Energy

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Accelerating Solutions to Improve Access and Quality of Empirically-Supported Practices for Youth Mental Health (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-310.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 22, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 21, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications that will study methods to increase access to, and quality of, empirically-supported practices for youth mental health.

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: June 17, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: July 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

Advancement and Innovation in Measurement of Language Development and Predictors (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-112.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity aims to encourage community-engaged research that broadens the conceptualization of qualities of the environment that can support language development in children and that focuses on the development of novel measures of children’s language development.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

Department of Health and Human Services

Advancing Strategies to Deliver and Sustain Evidence-Based Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Programs to Support Older Adult Behavioral Health
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355835
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 9, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 19, 2025

This opportunity seeks applications that will develop capacity for, deliver, and sustain evidence-based chronic disease self-management education and support programs to improve the behavioral health of older adults and adults with disabilities through a statewide initiative

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

Center for Retirement Research

Dissertation Fellowship Program in Retirement or Disability Research
https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2025-Dissertation-Guidelines.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: January 31, 2025

This opportunity aims to promote the next generation of scholars in retirement or disability policy research and to improve the quality of scholarship in retirement and disability research studies.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Leveraging Extant Data to Understand Developmental Trajectories of Late Talking Children (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-220.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 3, 2025

This opportunity seeks projects that aim to further understanding of the developmental trajectories of late talking children by leveraging existing data and creating open and shared data resources to aid in identifying patterns and predictors of developmental outcomes in late talking children, and exploring potential underlying mechanisms, risk factors, and sequelae.   

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: July 16, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: August 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

Novel Mechanism Research on Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer’s Dementia (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-065.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity encourages applications for studies that will enhance knowledge of mechanisms associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms in persons with Alzheimer’s disease or Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias.

National Institutes of Health

Novel Mechanism Research on Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer’s Dementia (R21 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-064.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity encourages applications for studies that will enhance knowledge of mechanisms associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms in persons with Alzheimer’s disease or Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias.

National Institutes of Health

Pilot Health Services and Economic Research on the Treatment of Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use Disorders (R34 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-100.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity is seeking projects that may test a wide range of approaches, including interventions, practices, and policies designed to optimize access to, and the quality, effectiveness, affordability and utilization of tobacco or substance use disorder treatments and related services, as well as services for comorbid medical and mental disorder conditions.

Department of Health and Human Services

Projects for Translating the Findings and Products of Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Development into Practice
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355457
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 10, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: March 17, 2025

This opportunity seeks grantees that will engage in knowledge translation activities to promote the use or adoption of findings or products from National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research-sponsored research or development projects.

National Institutes of Health

Schizophrenia and related disorders during mid- to late-life (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-039.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity seeks to encourage applications that will advance translational research to better understand the emergence, trajectory, and outcomes of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders in mid- to late-life and to identify targets for future development of prevention and treatment interventions. 

National Institutes of Health

Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Researchers in AD/ADRD Research (R03 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-246.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity will support meritorious projects to provide needed scientific insight to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and/or care for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias.

National Institutes of Health

Social disconnection and Suicide Risk in Late Life (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-067.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 5, 2025

This opportunity encourages research that addresses the link between social disconnection in late-life and late-life suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

Department of Health and Human Services

Switzer Research Fellowships Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355624
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: January 8, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 3, 2025

This opportunity seeks to build research capacity by providing support to highly qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, to conduct high quality research on the experiences and outcomes of people with disabilities.

National Institutes of Health

Tobacco, Alcohol, and Cannabis Policy Research for Health Equity (R21 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-241.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: February 16, 2025

This opportunity seeks to support policy research projects that examine new or adapted policies pertaining to tobacco, alcohol, and/or cannabis in the U.S., with a particular focus on how the policy or policies influence tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis use or secondhand exposure among populations experiencing disparities.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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

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

Office of Research and Innovation

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

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

Office of Research and Innovation

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

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

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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

These unique opportunities are aimed at substance use research.

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