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Current Funding Opportunities

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

Agriculture and Rural Development

Department of Agriculture

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

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

American Floral Endowment

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

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

Arts and Humanities

Bogliasco Foundation

Bogliasco Fellowships
https://www.bfny.org/en/about/program-overview
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/07/2025

This opportunity provides month-long residential fellowships at the Bogliasco Center for exceptional international artists and scholars in all phases of their careers to deepen creativity, connect to other perspectives, and develop their best work. The regular deadline for this opportunity is 3/7/2025, with an extended deadline of 3/14/2025.

Frankenthaler Climate Initiative

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

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

National Endowment for the Arts

Creative Writing Fellowships
https://www.arts.gov/grants/creative-writing-fellowships
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/12/2025

This program offers $50,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.

National Endowment for the Humanities

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

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

Department of the Interior

Historic Preservation Fund – Semiquincentennial Grants
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357790
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/18/2025

This opportunity will support the physical preservation of a broad variety of cultural resources associated with the founding of America as a nation in commemoration of the country’s semiquincentennial.

Kress Foundation

History of Art
https://www.kressfoundation.org/Programs/Grants/History-of-Art
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/01/2025

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

National Endowment for the Humanities

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

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

Provincetown Art Association and Museum

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

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

Department of the Interior

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

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

The Decorative Arts Trust

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

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

The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America

Ronald Barnes Memorial Grant
https://www.gcna.org/grants/barnes
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to help North Americans pursue studies in carillon performance, composition, music history, or instrument design.

The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation

Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program
https://www.rair.org/application-info
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/15/2025

This opportunity provides talented artists a year-long opportunity in Roswell, New Mexico, to focus on their creative work. The program is dedicated to the development of the individual artist and seeks to provide unobstructed studio time.

National Endowment for the Humanities

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

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

Center for Craft

Teaching Artist Cohort
https://www.centerforcraft.org/grants-and-fellowships/teaching-artist-cohort
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/17/2025

This opportunity provides $10,000 grants to mid-career craft artists who teach and the ability to join a six-month cohort experience that supports their artistic and teaching career development with programs, mentorship, and peer-to-peer learning, creating an enriching impact on the communities they engage and developing a network of teaching craft artists.

Centers

National Institutes of Health

Complement-ARIE New Approach Methodologies Data Hub and Coordinating Center (U24 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-24-013.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/10/2025

This opportunity seeks to implement better models for understanding human health and disease outcomes across diverse populations that complement traditional models and make biomedical research more efficient and effective.

Department of Health and Human Services

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

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

Department of Education

Education Research and Development Center Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357775
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/14/2025

This opportunity seeks to develop centers to conduct a focused program of research that will contribute to solving a specific education problem and generate new knowledge in their topic area; provide national leadership, research training, capacity building, and outreach within their topic area; and conduct relatively rapid research and scholarship on supplemental questions that emerge within their topic area.

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: 03/12/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/11/2025

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

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 Health and Human Services

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

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

Conservation and the Environment

National Environmental Education Foundation

Biodiversity Conservation Grant
https://www.neefusa.org/2025-biodiversity-conservation-grant
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 03/01/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to support shovel-ready pollinator habitat enhancement projects on America’s public lands. Habitat enhancement projects should directly support the creation, restoration, remediation, improvement, and/or protection of habitats for important pollinator species such as butterflies, bees, bats, and more. The project should directly impact pollinators on at least 500 acres of public land.

Department of Commerce

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

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

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Science Foundation

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

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

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of the Interior

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

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

National Science Foundation

Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Practice
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pacsp-partnership-advance-conservation-science-practice/nsf25-524/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/17/2025

This opportunity aims to support conservation research that investigates organismal biology, ecology, and/or evolution and is designed to contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based activities and/or technology solutions to advance biodiversity conservation.

Department of the Interior

Preservation Technology and Training Cooperative Agreements
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358002
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/04/2025

This opportunity seeks cultural resource projects which will create better tools, better materials, and better approaches to conserving buildings, landscapes, and cultural resources.

Department of the Interior

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

National Science Foundation

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

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

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of the Interior

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

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

Defense

Department of Defense

Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling for the Greater Enterprise
https://sam.gov/opp/6a02d717da864bcba98fe0cf6e74e713/view
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/17/2025

This opportunity seeks to mature and scale Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling as an enterprise capability while fostering a vibrant community of users, developers, and maintainers contributing to its evolution.

Department of Defense

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

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

Department of Defense

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

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

Department of Defense

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

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

Department of Defense

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

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

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

Department of Defense

INnovations in Qubit Science for Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358422
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 03/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/12/2025

This opportunity seeks basic research into solid-state qubits for quantum computing at various stages of maturity. Qubits of interest may support one or more of the required functions in a fault-tolerant quantum computing system. These functions may include but are not limited to data processing, memory storage, communication, spectator roles, or measurement.

Department of Defense

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

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

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

Department of Defense

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

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

Department of Defense

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

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

Department of Defense

Strategic Materials Research & Development Program
https://sam.gov/opp/a35cd542d164489bbea984001dfa0944/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=d695289899-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_11_07_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-d695289899-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to restore and stabilize strategic and critical materials supply chains that have been compromised by decreased or abandoned domestic mining and refining activities or lack of domestic manufacturing. The research could include material and production process substitutes or drop-in replacements to relieve (1) a single point of failure in a supply chain, (2) dependence upon unreliable foreign sources of supply, or (3) replacement of a legacy or obsolete material.

Pre-applications may be submitted at any time.

Department of Defense

U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Broad Agency Announcement for Basic Research
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358408
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 03/09/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to improve its capability to acquire, develop, employ, and retain Soldiers and leaders.

Department of Defense

U.S. Army STEM Education Consortium Cooperative Agreement
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358240
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/14/2025

This opportunity aims to broaden science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) literacy and prepare the STEM workforce of the future for the Army, the Department of Defense, and for the Nation.

Education and Outreach

Department of Justice

Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358241
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/18/2025

This opportunity seeks to support state, local, and tribal law enforcement and correctional entities to develop and implement crisis response training programs.

Department of Health and Human Services

Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects Program: Employment (Development)
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355450
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/18/2025

This opportunity seeks development projects aimed at improving employment outcomes among people with disabilities. Grantees must use knowledge and understanding gained from research to create materials, devices, systems, methods, measures, techniques, tools, prototypes, processes, or intervention protocols that are beneficial to the target population.

Department of Education

Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Education Research
https://ies.ed.gov/funding/pdf/2025_84305B.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/07/2025

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.

Department of Health and Human Services

Enhancing State No Wrong Door Systems for Efficient Access to Long-Term Services and Supports
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357720
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/17/2025

This opportunity seeks to support state efforts to modernize access to long-term services and supports through the No Wrong Door System to make it easier for individuals in need of long-term services and supports to connect to existing community resources.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Fellowships Open Book Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357405
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/12/2025

This opportunity seeks to make outstanding humanities books digitally available to a wide audience. The program takes advantage of low-cost e-book technology toallow teachers, students, scholars, and the public to read humanities books that can be downloaded or redistributed for no charge.

Department of Agriculture

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

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

Department of Education

Methods Training for Education Researchers
https://ies.ed.gov/funding/pdf/2025_84305B.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/07/2025

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.

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.

Spencer Foundation

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

This opportunity supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years.

Department of Commerce

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

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

Department of Education

Supporting Effective Educator Development Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358276
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/18/2025

This opportunity provides funding to increase the number of highly effective educators by supporting the implementation of evidence-based practices that prepare, develop, or enhance the skills of educators.

Department of Education

Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358221
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/17/2025

This opportunity seeks to promote academic achievement and improve results for children with disabilities by providing technical assistance, supporting model demonstration projects, disseminating useful information, and implementing activities that are supported by scientifically based research.

National Science Foundation

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

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

Engineering and Technology

Department of Energy

Aligning Manufacturability & Pre-production Design for Storage Technologies
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358253
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/17/2025

This opportunity seeks to facilitate innovative energy storage technology material, subcomponent, component, or system pre-production design to improve the manufacturability of one or more energy storage technologies.

Aluminum Extruders Council

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

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

Department of Energy

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

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

National Science Foundation

Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/brite-nsf-boosting-research-ideas-transformative-equitable/nsf25-512/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/03/2025

This opportunity seeks proposals that 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 experienced researchers with a hiatus in research activity to reestablish a foundation for sustained research productivity and broader impacts.

Department of Energy

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

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

Department of Energy

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

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

Department of Energy

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

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

Department of Energy

Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357824
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 03/01/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This opportunity seeks carbon capture, utilization, and storage projects that demonstrate substantial improvements in the efficiency, effectiveness, cost, and environmental performance of carbon capture technologies for power, industrial, and other commercial applications.

National Science Foundation

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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

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

Department of Energy

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

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

American Chemical Society

New Directions Grants
https://www.acs.org/funding/grants/petroleum-research-fund/programs/new-directions-grants.html
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/07/2025

This opportunity provides funds to scientists and engineers with limited -or even no- preliminary results for a research project they wish to pursue and who intend to use the Petroleum Research Fund-driven preliminary results to seek continuation funding from other agencies.

Department of Energy

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

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

Department of Energy

Plant Engineering to Revolutionize Sustainable Energy Production and Heighten Opportunities for Novel Efficiency
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358293
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/04/2025

This opportunity seeks to develop disruptive new technologies for bioenergy crop genetic engineering.

Department of Health and Human Services

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

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

Department of Energy

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

Department of Defense

Sources for Ultraviolet Nuclear Spectroscopy of Thorium
https://sam.gov/opp/54d33f01c86045b98b6d707e15e14d4d/view
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/13/2025

This opportunity is seeking innovative proposals in the development of highly coherent sources of vacuum ultraviolet radiation for clock-grade spectroscopy of the recently discovered thorium nuclear isomeric transition.

National Science Foundation

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

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

Department of Energy

Sustainable Propane and Renewable Chemicals
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358113
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 03/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/30/2025

This opportunity supports research and development of domestic chemicals and fuels from a variety of biomass and waste resources.

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.

Department of Energy

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

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

External Funding Opportunities

National Institutes of Health

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

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

Department of Defense

Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling for the Greater Enterprise
https://sam.gov/opp/6a02d717da864bcba98fe0cf6e74e713/view
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/17/2025

National Institutes of Health

Advanced-Stage Development and Utilization of Research Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-219.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/02/2025

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

Department of Justice

Advancing Data in Corrections Initiative
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358044
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/12/2025

This opportunity seeks a training and technical assistance provider to bolster state correctional agencies’ capacity to use data to inform policy and operational decision making through a combination of direct assistance, resources, and training.

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: 02/12/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/13/2025

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.

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: 03/14/2025

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

Aligning Manufacturability & Pre-production Design for Storage Technologies
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358253
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/17/2025

Aluminum Extruders Council

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

Organization for Autism Research

Applied Research Competition
https://researchautism.org/researchers/applied-research/
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 03/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/14/2025

This opportunity seeks to fund studies that expand the body of knowledge related to autism intervention and treatment, produce practical and clearly objective results, have the potential to positively affect public policy, and provide outcomes that offer to enhance the quality of life for persons with autism and their families.

Department of Health and Human Services

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

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

National Environmental Education Foundation

Biodiversity Conservation Grant
https://www.neefusa.org/2025-biodiversity-conservation-grant
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 03/01/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/01/2025

Department of Defense

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

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

Department of Energy

Department of Agriculture

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

Bogliasco Foundation

Bogliasco Fellowships
https://www.bfny.org/en/about/program-overview
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/07/2025

National Science Foundation

National Institutes of Health

BRAIN Initiative: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization – Next Generation Sensor Technology Development (U01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-26-140.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 05/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/13/2025

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

BRAIN Initiative: Optimization of Instrumentation and Device Technologies for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (U01 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-25-017.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 04/03/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2025

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

Department of Commerce

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

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

Department of Energy

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

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

Department of Energy

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

American Cancer Society

Cancer Health Equity Research Centers
https://www.cancer.org/research/we-fund-cancer-research/apply-research-grant/grant-types/rfa-cancer-equity-research-centers.html
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 03/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/01/2025

This opportunity seeks solution-based research addressing cancer health disparities that will enable fair and just opportunities to prevent, detect, and survive cancer for everyone.

American Cancer Society

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

These opportunities are seeking proposals aimed at advancing cancer research.

Department of Energy

Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357824
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 03/01/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

National Academy of Medicine

Catalyst Award Competition
https://nam.edu/initiatives/grand-challenge-healthy-longevity/u-s-nam-catalyst-award-competition-round-2-2021/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/04/2025

This opportunity seeks to reward bold, new, potentially transformative ideas to improve the physical, mental, or social well-being and health of people as they age.

Frankenthaler Climate Initiative

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Cellular Models of HIV Pathogenesis within National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Mission Areas (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-25-021.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 02/20/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/20/2025

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

Department of Justice

Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358241
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/18/2025

This opportunity seeks to support state, local, and tribal law enforcement and correctional entities to develop and implement crisis response training programs.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Interdisciplinary Research Units (P01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-24-074.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 02/24/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/26/2025

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

National Institutes of Health

Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Interdisciplinary Research Units (P01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-24-074.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c17df6394a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_26_07_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c17df6394a-712519256#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/26/2025

National Institutes of Health

Department of Defense

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

National Science Foundation

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: 03/05/2025

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 Endowment for the Arts

Creative Writing Fellowships
https://www.arts.gov/grants/creative-writing-fellowships
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/12/2025

National Institutes of Health

Cutting-Edge Basic Research Awards (R21 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-101.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/10/2025

This opportunity seeks to foster highly innovative and/or conceptually creative research that advances our understanding of the etiology, pathophysiology, prevention, or treatment of substance use disorders

National Science Foundation

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

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Damon Runyon Fellowship Award
https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/fellowship
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/17/2025

This opportunity supports theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for its causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention.

Department of Defense

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

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

Department of Defense

Department of Transportation

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

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

Department of Health and Human Services

Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects Program: Employment (Development)
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355450
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/18/2025

Department of Health and Human Services

Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects Program: Employment (Research)
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355454
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/18/2025

This opportunity seeks projects aimed at improving employment outcomes among people with disabilities. In carrying out a research project under this program, a grantee must identify one or more hypotheses or research questions and, based on the hypotheses or research questions identified, perform an intensive, systematic study directed toward producing 1) new or full scientific knowledge or 2) understanding of the subject or problem studied.

Department of Health and Human Services

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Discovery and Development of Natural Products for Cancer Interception and Prevention (UG3/UH3 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-25-013.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 05/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/13/2025

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

AccessLex Institute

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

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

Thrasher Research Fund

Early Career Awards
https://www.thrasherresearch.org/early-career-award?lang=eng&utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c17df6394a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_26_07_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c17df6394a-712519256#eligibility3
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 03/18/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/08/2025

This opportunity seeks to encourage the development of researchers in child health by awarding small grants to new researchers, helping them gain a foothold in this important area.

Department of Education

Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Education Research
https://ies.ed.gov/funding/pdf/2025_84305B.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/07/2025

Department of Energy

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

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

Department of Education

Education Research and Development Center Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357775
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/14/2025

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Science Foundation

Emerging Mathematics in Biology
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/emb-emerging-mathematics-biology/nsf25-509/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/03/2025

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 Defense

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Enhancing Mechanistic Research on Precision Probiotic Therapies (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-211.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2025

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

Department of Health and Human Services

Enhancing State No Wrong Door Systems for Efficient Access to Long-Term Services and Supports
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357720
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/17/2025

American Psychological Foundation

Esther Katz Rosen Fund Grants
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/katz-rosen-fund-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/06/2025

This opportunity seeks to enable and enhance development of identified gifted and talented children and adolescents and encourage promising psychologists to continue innovative research and programs in this area.

National Institutes of Health

Exploratory Studies to Investigate Mechanisms of HIV infection, Replication, Latency, and/or Pathogenesis in the Context of Substance Use Disorders (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-25-073.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/14/2025

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

National 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: 03/03/2025

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 Endowment for the Humanities

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

National Endowment for the Humanities

Fellowships Open Book Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357405
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/12/2025

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Science Foundation

American Floral Endowment

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

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

Department of Education

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357997
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/10/2025

This opportunity provides grants to colleges and universities to fund fellowships for faculty members seeking to improve their area studies and foreign language skills by conducting research abroad.

Department of Justice

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

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

International Foundation for Ethical Research

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

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

Full Applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Honor Society

Grants in Aid Research
https://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/grants-in-aid-of-research
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to provide undergraduate and graduate students with valuable educational experiences by offering grants of up to $5,000 for astronomy research and $2,500 for vision-related research.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Health Policy Research Scholars
https://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/active-funding-opportunities/2025/health-policy-research-scholars.html
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/11/2025

This opportunity offers training in health policy, including the various stages of the policy process, approaches to systems change, and how to craft an actionable research question that can inform solutions to advance health equity-as well as mentorship, and career and leadership coaching.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (S10 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-264.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2025

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

Department of the Interior

Historic Preservation Fund – Semiquincentennial Grants
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357790
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/18/2025

Kress Foundation

History of Art
https://www.kressfoundation.org/Programs/Grants/History-of-Art
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/01/2025

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Endowment for the Humanities

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

National Institutes of Health

In-Depth Phenotyping and Research Using IMPC-Generated Knockout Mouse Strains Exhibiting Embryonic or Perinatal Lethality or Subviability (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-140.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 05/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/05/2025

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Science Foundation

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

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

Proposals are accepted at any time.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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

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

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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

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

Department of Defense

National Institutes of Health

Innovative Biospecimen Science Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research (R61 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-25-003.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 03/05/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 04/04/2025

This opportunity solicits grant applications proposing exploratory research projects focused on the early-stage development of highly innovative technologies that improve the quality and handling of samples used for cancer research or clinical care.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Innovative Research in Cancer Nanotechnology (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-106.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/05/2025

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

Department of Justice

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

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

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Laboratory Flexible Funding Model
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-FD-25-007.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=ff9906c635-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_21_06_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-ff9906c635-712519256#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/17/2025

This opportunity seeks to enhance the capacity and capabilities of state human and animal food testing laboratories in support of an integrated food safety system.

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: 03/16/2025

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.

American Council of Learned Societies

Leading Edge Fellowships
https://www.acls.org/competitions/acls-leading-edge-fellowships/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/12/2025

This opportunity seeks to place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations promoting social justice in their communities. Fellows take on substantive roles that draw on the skills and capacities honed in the course of earning the humanities PhD, including advanced communication, research, project management, and creative problem-solving.

National Science Foundation

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

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

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum

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

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

Department of Defense

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

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

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

American Psychological Foundation

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

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

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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

amfAR

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

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

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

Department of Energy

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

Department of Agriculture

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

National Institutes of Health

Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Substance Use Research (R21 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-298.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 04/05/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/05/2025

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

Department of Education

Methods Training for Education Researchers
https://ies.ed.gov/funding/pdf/2025_84305B.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/07/2025

National Institutes of Health

Microglial Pathophysiology in Comorbid Substance Use Disorder and HIV (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-25-063.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/14/2025

Department of Health and Human Services

Modeling Infectious Diseases in Healthcare to Improve Pathogen Prevention and Healthcare Delivery
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355935
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/19/2025

This opportunity seeks to support development of innovative and applied mathematical models and computational tools for: 1) modeling the spread of pathogens in healthcare settings, for example, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial resistant organisms (AROs); 2) predicting outbreaks of HAI pathogens and trends in the burden of antimicrobial resistant and susceptible HAIs; and 3) assessing the effectiveness of intervention strategies.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

Department of Defense

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

American Chemical Society

New Directions Grants
https://www.acs.org/funding/grants/petroleum-research-fund/programs/new-directions-grants.html
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/07/2025

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

Deadline for applications varies by program.

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: 03/18/2025

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

Department of Energy

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

Ploughshares

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

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

Cure Sanfilippo Foundation

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

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

Department of the Interior

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

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

National Science Foundation

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Planning for Product Development Strategy (R34 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-099.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/13/2025

This opportunity seeks to provide support for product development planning activities that will accelerate development of next-generation treatments for HIV and HIV-associated comorbidities, coinfections, and complications, and preventive strategies for HIV.

Department of Energy

This opportunity seeks to develop disruptive new technologies for bioenergy crop genetic engineering.

Department of the Interior

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

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

Department of the Interior

Preservation Technology and Training Cooperative Agreements
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358002
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/04/2025

This opportunity seeks cultural resource projects which will create better tools, better materials, and better approaches to conserving buildings, landscapes, and cultural resources.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

Rapid Novor

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

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

The Decorative Arts Trust

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

Department of Defense

Department of Health and Human Services

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

Department of Health and Human Services

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

Department of Justice

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

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

Department of Justice

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

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

Department of Justice

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

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

Department of Justice

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

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

Department of Justice

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

Full applications are accepted anytime.

The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

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

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

Center for the Study of Federalism

Research Grants
https://federalism.org/teaching/grants-and-awards/research-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/15/2025

This opportunity awards grants totaling up to $15,000 each for original research and/or writing that advances thinking about federalism as a principle of American government, law, or politics.

Spencer Foundation

This opportunity supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years.

National Institutes of Health

Research Infrastructure Development for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-218.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/02/2025

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

National Institutes of Health

Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer’s Disease and Its Related Dementias (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-332.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/11/2025

This oppportunity invites applications proposing research on current topics in Alzheimer’s disease and its related dementias, encouraging biomedical, social, and behavioral research and research training directed toward greater understanding of the aging process and the diseases, special problems, and needs of people as they age.

Department of Justice

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

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

National 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: 02/18/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/18/2025

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

The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America

Ronald Barnes Memorial Grant
https://www.gcna.org/grants/barnes
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to help North Americans pursue studies in carillon performance, composition, music history, or instrument design.

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.

The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation

Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program
https://www.rair.org/application-info
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/15/2025

Department of Energy

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

Department of the Interior

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

The Shank2 Foundation

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (S10 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-265.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2025

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

Simons Foundation

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

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

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: 02/19/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/19/2025

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.

Department of Justice

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

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

Department of Defense

Sources for Ultraviolet Nuclear Spectroscopy of Thorium
https://sam.gov/opp/54d33f01c86045b98b6d707e15e14d4d/view
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/13/2025

Department of Commerce

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

National Endowment for the Humanities

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

Department of Defense

Pre-applications may be submitted at any time.

National Science Foundation

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

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

National Science Foundation

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

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

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of Education

Supporting Effective Educator Development Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358276
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/18/2025

Department of Energy

Sustainable Propane and Renewable Chemicals
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358113
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 03/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 05/30/2025

This opportunity supports research and development of domestic chemicals and fuels from a variety of biomass and waste resources.

National Institutes of Health

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

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

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: 02/13/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/13/2025

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.

Center for Craft

Teaching Artist Cohort
https://www.centerforcraft.org/grants-and-fellowships/teaching-artist-cohort
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/17/2025

Department of Education

National Institutes of Health

The Chemical Countermeasures Research Program Initiative: National Institutes of Health Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats Basic Research on Chemical Threats that Affect the Nervous System (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-077.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/17/2025

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

National Institutes of Health

The Metastasis Research Network: MetNet Research Projects (U01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-130.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 05/21/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/20/2025

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

National Science Foundation

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

Department of Commerce

U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service Pilot Fellowship Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358053
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/06/2025

This opportunity provides outstanding candidates entering graduate school an up to eight-week overseas internship at a U.S. embassy, consulate, or mission.

Department of Defense

This opportunity seeks to improve its capability to acquire, develop, employ, and retain Soldiers and leaders.

Department of Defense

U.S. Army STEM Education Consortium Cooperative Agreement
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358240
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/14/2025

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

Application deadlines vary by program.

Department of Energy

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

Department of Justice

Virtual Reality De-escalation Site-Based Initiative
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358201
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/19/2025

This opportunity seeks to support law enforcement agencies through the adoption of innovative, immersive virtual reality technology designed for training law enforcement.

National Science Foundation

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

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

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of the Interior

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

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

Fellowships, Awards, and Internships

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Damon Runyon Fellowship Award
https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/fellowship
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/17/2025

This opportunity supports theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for its causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention.

Thrasher Research Fund

This opportunity seeks to encourage the development of researchers in child health by awarding small grants to new researchers, helping them gain a foothold in this important area.

International Foundation for Ethical Research

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

Full Applications may be submitted by invitation only.

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: 03/16/2025

American Council of Learned Societies

Leading Edge Fellowships
https://www.acls.org/competitions/acls-leading-edge-fellowships/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/12/2025

amfAR

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

National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

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

Deadline for applications varies by program.

The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

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

Simons Foundation

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

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

Internal Funding Opportunities

Office of Research & Innovation

Arts and Humanities Research Enhancement Program
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/03/2025

This program is designed to foster research, scholarship, and creative activity in the arts and humanities and to support excellence in these disciplines. This program provides seed money to help faculty achieve short-term goals that, in turn, increase their competitiveness for external grants and/or increase the broader impact of their work, to ultimately set the stage for larger projects.

Office of Research & Innovation

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

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

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Research Council

Distinguished Lecturer
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/14/2025

This program supports distinguished invited scholars who appeal to and interact with a large interdisciplinary segment of the university community. The speaker must be distinguished in his or her field. The stature of the speaker will be judged by his/her academic rank and institution, the number and significance of the speaker’s scholarly publications (books, journal articles, and abstracts of meeting presentations) or artistic works/productions, honors or honorary degrees, volumes, books or journals edited, research grants, and contracts secured.

Buffet Early Childhood Institute

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

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

Office of Research & Innovation

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

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

Office of Research & Innovation

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

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

Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication

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

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

Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases

Pilot Grant
https://npod.unl.edu/funding-and-employment-opportunites/npod-pilot-grant-rfa-january-2025/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/10/2025

This opportunity seeks to stimulate collaborative, multidisciplinary research in related to obesity and/or signaling by nutrients or bioactive food compounds.

Office of Research & Innovation

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

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

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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

These unique opportunities are aimed at substance use research.

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

Research Council

Symposia
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/14/2025

This program supports outstanding invited scholar(s) who will give symposia or colloquia that should be of interest to a large interdisciplinary segment of the university community. The program must include at least one lecture that is open, free-of charge, and advertised to the entire University community.

Research Council

Visiting Scholar
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/14/2025

This program supports visiting scholars who are recognized for excellence in their fields and whose research and scholarly activities are closely related to the research interests of the faculty and graduate students at UNL. Each visitor is to give at least one lecture that is open, free-of-charge, and advertised to the entire University community. The Research Council requests that every consideration be given to having scholars visit when a maximum number of people are present on campus.

International

Department of Education

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357997
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/10/2025

This opportunity provides grants to colleges and universities to fund fellowships for faculty members seeking to improve their area studies and foreign language skills by conducting research abroad.

Department of Commerce

U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service Pilot Fellowship Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358053
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/06/2025

This opportunity provides outstanding candidates entering graduate school an up to eight-week overseas internship at a U.S. embassy, consulate, or mission.

Law, Justice, and Human Rights

Department of Justice

Advancing Data in Corrections Initiative
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358044
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/12/2025

AccessLex Institute

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

Department of Justice

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

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Health Policy Research Scholars
https://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/active-funding-opportunities/2025/health-policy-research-scholars.html
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/11/2025

Department of Justice

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

Department of Justice

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

Department of Justice

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

Department of Justice

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

Department of Justice

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

Department of Justice

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

Center for the Study of Federalism

Research Grants
https://federalism.org/teaching/grants-and-awards/research-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/15/2025

This opportunity awards grants totaling up to $15,000 each for original research and/or writing that advances thinking about federalism as a principle of American government, law, or politics.

Department of Justice

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

Department of Justice

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

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

Department of Justice

Virtual Reality De-escalation Site-Based Initiative
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358201
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/19/2025

This opportunity seeks to support law enforcement agencies through the adoption of innovative, immersive virtual reality technology designed for training law enforcement.

Life Sciences

National Institutes of Health

Department of Defense

National Institutes of Health

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

American Cancer Society

These opportunities are seeking proposals aimed at advancing cancer research.

National Institutes of Health

Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Interdisciplinary Research Units (P01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-24-074.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c17df6394a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_26_07_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c17df6394a-712519256#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/26/2025

National Institutes of Health

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

National Institutes of Health

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

National Institutes of Health

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

National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

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

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Science Foundation

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

Proposals are accepted at any time.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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

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

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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

National Institutes of Health

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

National Institutes of Health

This opportunity seeks to enhance the capacity and capabilities of state human and animal food testing laboratories in support of an integrated food safety system.

National Institutes of Health

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

National Institutes of Health

Department of Health and Human Services

Modeling Infectious Diseases in Healthcare to Improve Pathogen Prevention and Healthcare Delivery
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355935
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/19/2025

National Institutes of Health

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

National Institutes of Health

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

National Science Foundation

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

Cure Sanfilippo Foundation

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

National Institutes of Health

Rapid Novor

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

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

National Institutes of Health

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

The Shank2 Foundation

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

National Institutes of Health

Letter of intent is optional.

National Institutes of Health

Limited Submission Competitions

National Science Foundation

Advanced Computing Systems & Services: Adapting to the Rapid Evolution of Science and Engineering Research 2.0
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/advanced-computing-systems-services-adapting-rapid-evolution/nsf24-583/solicitation
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 03/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/24/2025

This opportunity seeks organizations who are willing to serve as resource providers within the National Science Foundation Advanced Computing Systems and Services program.

An organization may submit only one proposal to this deadline.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 03/17/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

Beckman Scholars Program
https://www.beckman-foundation.org/programs/beckman-scholars/
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 03/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/13/2025

This opportunity seeks to help stimulate, encourage, and support research activities by talented, full-time undergraduate students who are pursuing their studies at accredited four-year colleges and universities located in the United States of America. These research activities shall be centered on chemistry, biochemistry, biological and medical sciences, or some interdisciplinary combination of these subjects.

Each institution may submit one application for consideration for an award.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 03/10/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

Non-Embryonic Stem Cell Research Grants
https://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/Grant-Opportunities.aspx
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 03/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2025

This opportunity seeks to support non-embryonic stem cell research by Nebraska research institutions.

Each sponsoring institution may submit a maximum of five proposals in a given funding cycle.

Mathematics and Physical Sciences

National Science Foundation

Department of Energy

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

National Science Foundation

Emerging Mathematics in Biology
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/emb-emerging-mathematics-biology/nsf25-509/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/03/2025

Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Honor Society

Grants in Aid Research
https://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/grants-in-aid-of-research
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/15/2025

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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

Applications are accepted at any time.

Miscellaneous

Ploughshares

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

NU-wide

Buffet Early Childhood Institute

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

Social Sciences

National Institutes of Health

Organization for Autism Research

Applied Research Competition
https://researchautism.org/researchers/applied-research/
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 03/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/14/2025

Department of Health and Human Services

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

American Cancer Society

This opportunity seeks solution-based research addressing cancer health disparities that will enable fair and just opportunities to prevent, detect, and survive cancer for everyone.

National Academy of Medicine

Catalyst Award Competition
https://nam.edu/initiatives/grand-challenge-healthy-longevity/u-s-nam-catalyst-award-competition-round-2-2021/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/04/2025

This opportunity seeks to reward bold, new, potentially transformative ideas to improve the physical, mental, or social well-being and health of people as they age.

National Institutes of Health

Department of Health and Human Services

Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects Program: Employment (Research)
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355454
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/18/2025

Department of Health and Human Services

American Psychological Foundation

Esther Katz Rosen Fund Grants
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/katz-rosen-fund-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/06/2025

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

American Psychological Foundation

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

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

National Institutes of Health

Transportation

Department of Transportation

Uncategorized

Department of Defense

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

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

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

UNL

Office of Research & Innovation

Arts and Humanities Research Enhancement Program
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/03/2025

Office of Research & Innovation

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

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Research Council

Distinguished Lecturer
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/14/2025

Office of Research & Innovation

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

Office of Research & Innovation

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

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

Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication

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

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

Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases

Pilot Grant
https://npod.unl.edu/funding-and-employment-opportunites/npod-pilot-grant-rfa-january-2025/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/10/2025

This opportunity seeks to stimulate collaborative, multidisciplinary research in related to obesity and/or signaling by nutrients or bioactive food compounds.

Office of Research & Innovation

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

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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

These unique opportunities are aimed at substance use research.

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

Research Council

Symposia
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/14/2025

Research Council

Visiting Scholar
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/14/2025