Open Call Grant and Award Opportunities
This list includes general funding opportunities that are of broad interest to the UT Austin research community.
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If you would like to see funding opportunities from a specific agency posted here, or if you or someone you know has been awarded any of these grants, let us know.
Note: For the opportunities listed here, there are no limits to the number of proposals that may be submitted by UT Austin investigators. In contrast, a “limited submission opportunity” is a funding opportunity in which the funding agency limits the number of proposals that UT Austin may submit. To select UT Austin nominees for these opportunities, the University holds internal competitions in advance of the sponsor’s deadline. To view active limited submission opportunities and apply for internal competitions, visit our Limited Submission Programs webpage.
| Sponsor | Grant/Program | Field/Areas | Who can apply | Sponsor Deadline | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | Focus Grants | Supports targeted, innovative and potentially high impact studies that seek to inform and even transform suicide prevention efforts. Areas: Short-term risk; Reaching 20% by 2025; Blue Sky. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 8/1/18: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 12/7/18: Application deadline (by invitation) | 2018-12-07 |
| Dept. of Energy (DoE) - Solar Energy Technologies Office | Advanced Systems Integration for Solar Technologies (ASSIST): Situational Awareness and Resilient Solutions for Critical Infrastructure | Supports projects that will strengthen the integration of solar on the electricity grid, especially at critical infrastructure sites, improve the resilience of the nation’s electricity grid, and streamline technology transfer challenges. These projects will help to develop tools that enhance the situational awareness of solar systems on both the distribution and transmission grid and validate technologies that improve the security and resilience of the grid. | Open to all qualified applicants. Applicants are encouraged to work with state, local, tribal, and territory owners and operators. | 11/14/18: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 12/7/18: Application deadline | 2018-12-07 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) | Supports projects that focus on aspects of neural and cognitive systems that are current targets of converging interdisciplinary interests. NCS projects must advance the foundations of one or more of these focus areas: Neuroengineering and Brain-Inspired Concepts and Designs; Individuality and Variation; Cognitive and Neural Processes in Realistic, Complex Environments; and Data-Intensive Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 12/7/18: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 2/26/19: Application deadline | 2018-12-07 |
| The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience | Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards | Supports innovative research designed to bring science closer to the day when diseases of the brain can be accurately diagnosed, prevented, and treated. These awards encourage and support scientists working on the development of novel and creative approaches to understanding brain function. The Endowment Fund is interested in how a new technology may be used to monitor, manipulate, analyze, or model brain function at any level, from the molecular to the entire organism. | Open to all qualified tenure-track investigators. A goal of the Technological Innovations awards is to foster collaboration between the neurosciences and other disciplines; therefore, collaborative and cross-disciplinary applications are explicitly invited. | 12/10/18: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 4/22/19: Application deadline | 2018-12-10 |
| American Lung Association (ALA) | Dalsemer Research Grant | A mentored award meant to provide seed monies to junior investigators on the path to independence for researching the mechanisms and biology of interstitial lung disease. | Applicants should be on-track to pursue a career in lung heath research with a mentor who has a demonstrated history of lung disease research and mentorship. | 12/13/18: Application deadline | 2018-12-13 |
| American Lung Association (ALA) | Public Policy Research Award | Supports research on and evaluation of existing public policy and programs, as well as pilot and demonstration projects that inject innovative ideas and provide evidence for the development of new public policies impacting lung health. Investigational areas include: tobacco control; air quality; health policy; disparities; modeling; and informatics. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 12/13/18: Application deadline | 2018-12-13 |
| Toyota Material Handling North America (TMHNA) | University Research Program | Supports projects that aim to develop the next generation of technology for the material handling industry. Encouraged focus areas: material handling for urban environments; material handling automation; VR/AR for material handling applications; machine learning in material handling; and ADAS systems for material handling equipment. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 12/15/18: Application deadline | 2018-12-15 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society / American Academy of Neurology (AAN) | Therapeutic Development Opportunities for Neuroprotection and Neuroregeneration in Multiple Sclerosis | Supports: early-stage target validation; optimization of pre-clinical compounds; PK/ADMET studies for valid compounds in development; imaging studies to measure target occupancy or studies to measure target-related pharmacodynamic effects that could support a future clinical trial. | Open to all qualified applicants in partnership with a commercial collaborator. | 12/19/18: Application deadline | 2018-12-19 |
| Dept. of Defense (DOD) | National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) 2019 BAA | Supports: CubeSat sensors for investigating littoral ocean & atmosphere dynamics; sustained observations of marine biodiversity; advanced sensor technology; autonomous profiling floats for investigating tropical Pacific Ocean biogeochemistry; improving Arctic operational forecasts: Arctic observing system simulation experiments using year of polar prediction data; new approaches for data assimilation to improve operational ocean prediction; autonomous mapping. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 11/2/18: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 12/21/18: Application deadline | 2018-12-21 |
| NIH - National Institutes of Health | BRAIN Initiative: Research Resource Grants for Technology Integration and Dissemination (U24) | Supports efforts to disseminate resources and to integrate them into neuroscience research practice. Projects should be highly relevant to specific goals of the BRAIN Initiative: distribution of tools and reagents; user training on the usage of new technologies or techniques; providing access to existing technology platforms and specialized facilities; minor improvements to increase the scale/efficiency of resource production and delivery; minor adaptations to meet the needs of a user communi | Open to all qualified applicants. | 12/4/18: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 1/4/19: Application deadline | 2019-01-04 |
| Whole Communities – Whole Health | UT Families Pilot Studies Program | Supports the development, validation, and/or feasibility and acceptability trialing of measurement technologies, analytics, and models supporting next generation child development science. Purpose: to advance interdisciplinary science that encourages breakthrough ideas that move beyond traditional approaches in the measurement of risk, resilience, and health/mental health among vulnerable (i.e. low-SES, minority) children, adolescents, and families. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 1/15/18: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 3/15/19: Application deadline (by invitation) | 2019-01-15 |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (Postdoc) | Fosters the early career development of researchers who have transitioned or are transitioning from undergraduate and/or graduate work in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences or engineering into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences, and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. | Open to scientists trained in areas such as chemistry, physics, applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering. Candidates must have completed between 12 and 60 months of postdoctoral research by the date of the full invited application deadline. | 9/5/18: Pre-proposal deadline 1/9/19: Application deadline (by invitation) | 2019-01-19 |
| American Heart Association (AHA) | Transformational Project Award (TPA) | Supports highly innovative, high-impact projects that build on work in progress that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and stroke research. TPA represents the second phase of a successful exploratory study that is already showing a high probability of revealing new avenues of investigation; proposals should include preliminary data. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 1/23/19: Application deadline | 2019-01-23 |
| The 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund | Request for Proposals for Mary Street Jenkins Foundation Competition | Supports projects that focus on creating new student exchange/training opportunities between the U.S. and Mexico in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities. Special consideration will be given to proposals that focus on academic areas of Archaeology, Anthropology, or Education, and exchange programs that would benefit economically-disadvantaged and/or racial/ethnic minority student populations. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 1/31/19: Application deadline | 2019-01-31 |
| Spencer Foundation | Small Research Grants | Supports smaller scale or pilot research projects that have budgets of $50,000 or less. Proposals are encouraged from scholars across a variety of disciplines in an effort to fund field-initiated education research. | Small Research Grant budgets may not include indirect cost charges. PIs and Co-PIs may only hold one active research grant from the Spencer Foundation at a time. Simultaneous submissions to the Foundation from PIs and Co-PIs are discouraged due to this policy. | 2/1/19: Current cycle application deadline. 5/1/19, 8/1/19, 11/1/19: Future cycle deadlines. | 2019-02-01 |
| The 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund | Brazil-U.S. Competition for Innovation and Technological Development | Supports projects from teams in Brazil and the U.S. that will increase student exchange and training in the following academic themes with an emphasis on their focus areas: Info. Communications and Tech., focus on smart tech. and the Internet of Things; Civ. Engr., focus on structures and/or mining; Chem. Engr., focus on advanced materials and/or metallurgy; Elec. Engr., focus on computers a | Open to all qualified applicants. | 2/15/19: Application deadline | 2019-02-15 |
| Urban Institute & Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) | Visualizing Healthy Lives & Powering Healthy Lives | Visualizing Healthy Lives is a $1 million grant initiative that will select 3-5 projects committed to narrowing the gaps in life expectancy by effectively and powerfully visualizing USALEEP data for a wider audience. Powering Health Lives is a $1 million grant initiative that will select 6-10 projects interested in narrowing the gaps in life expectancy by putting local data to work for healthier, more equitable communities. | Qualified applicants can apply to either Visualizing Healthy Lives or Powering Healthy Lives, but not both. Universities cannot apply as leads, but can serve as a partner to other eligible applicants. | 11/16/18: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 2/22/19: Application deadline | 2019-02-22 |
| Spencer Foundation | Lyle Spencer Research Awards | Supports intellectually ambitious research oriented to improving the practice of education, independent of any particular reform agendas or methodological strictures. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 10/2/18: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 3/1/18: Expected application deadline | 2019-03-01 |
| The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) | Advancing Gene Editing Technologies and Tools for Cystic Fibrosis - Collaborative Research Program | Supports an integrated, multi-investigator collaborative research program project with a well-defined, central focus related to technology development for gene editing. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 3/12/19: Application deadline | 2019-03-12 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Dear Colleague Letter: STEM Education for the Future (NSF 18-084) | Supports STEM educational research and development projects whose results can enable our country to: better prepare its scientific and technical workforce for the future; use technological innovations effectively for education; advance the frontiers of science; and adapt to both new work environments and new education pathways needed to prepare students at all levels for those environments. | Open to all qualified musti-disciplinary investigator teams. | 3/19/19: Submission deadline | 2019-03-19 |
| RAND Corporation | National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research Program | Research on gun policy or gun violence. | Open to all qualified applicants. | RFP will be released in Jan 2019 | 2019-04-01 |
| Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) | Dissemination of CPRIT-Funded Cancer Control Interventions | Funds projects that will facilitate the dissemination and implementation of successful CPRIT-funded, evidence-based cancer prevention and control interventions across Texas. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 6/4/19: Application deadline. Rolling reviews. | 2019-06-04 |
| Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) | Fundamental Research to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (C-WMD) | Science, technology, engineering and mathematics. | Open to all qualified applicants. See BAA for suggested research focus areas. | Open: White paper pre-applications Phase II: By invitation
| 2019-09-30 |
| The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters | Kavli Prize | Astrophysics; Nanoscience; Neuroscience. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 12/1/19: Nomination deadline. | 2019-12-01 |
| Simons Foundation | Bridge to Independence Award | Invests in the next generation of top autism investigators by identifying talented early-career scientists interested in autism research and facilitating their transition to independent research careers. | Aimed at senior postdoctoral fellows who intend to seek tenure-track faculty positions during the 2018-2019 academic year. Successful applicants will receive a commitment of $495,000 over three years, activated upon assumption of a tenure-track professorship. | 8/6/18: Letter of Intent (LOI) and letters of recommendation deadline 12/1/19: Approval application deadline (rolling, beginning 12/1/18) | 2019-12-01 |
| Dept. of the Army | Space and Terrestrial Communications BAA 2018 | Funds research on command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) technologies that enable information dominance and decisive lethality for the networked Warfighters. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 5-year submission window 6/19/23: Application deadline | 2023-06-19 |
| Simons Foundation | Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences | High risk projects with a scientific importance in mathematics and physical sciences. | Established U.S. and foreign public and private educational institutions and stand-alone research centers. | The application deadline is rolling. Proposals can be submitted at any time. | 2027-02-27 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | NCEP Visiting Scientist Program | Environmental prediction, atmospheric research, weather forecasting, data analysis, and weather center operation | Short-term visiting scientists (one week to a few months) and graduate Students | The application deadline is rolling. Proposals can be submitted at any time. | 2027-06-01 |
| U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) | National Inventors Hall of Fame | Open to all qualified applicants. | Rolling | 2027-11-20 | |
| Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) | Directed Research and Development (ODRD) Program | Funds select innovative research-based approaches/solutions that fall within the intersection of core capabilities of ORAU and our member universities research interests. | Open to all qualified applicants. | Rolling applications | 2028-03-02 |
| United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation | Joint NSF-BSF Program in Cyber Security and Privacy | Supports projects that address cybersecurity from: a Trustworthy Computing Systems (TWC) perspective and/or a Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) perspective; the Secure, Trustworthy, Assured and Resilient Semiconductors and Systems (STARSS) perspective; or the Transition to Practice (TTP) perspective. | Open to all qualified applicants. Applications must be written jointly by an Israeli and a U.S. scientist from a U.S. research institution. | Rolling | 2028-07-11 |