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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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dept. of Justice (DOJ) / National Institute of Justice ) NIJ) | Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearm Violence | Supports research and program evaluation projects that inform efforts to prevent and reduce intentional, interpersonal firearm violence and public mass shootings in the U.S. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 4/29/19: Application deadline | 2019-04-29 |
| 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. | 5/1/19: Current cycle application deadline. 8/1/19, 11/1/19, 2/1/20: Future cycle deadlines. | 2019-05-01 |
| Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (SWCOEH) | Pilot/Small Projects Research Training Program | Supports regional outreach efforts in research training and to foster stronger inter-institutional ties in occupational health research within Public Health Region 6 (PHR 6) (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas). | Open to all qualified applicants (including GRA junior investigators ). | 4/11/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 5/2/19: Application deadline | 2019-05-02 |
| Dept. of Energy (DOE) | Materials and Chemical Sciences Research for Quantum Information Science | Supports fundamental research for public benefit in materials and chemical sciences to advance our understanding of quantum phenomena in systems that could be used for QIS, and the use of quantum computing in chemical and materials sciences research. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 2/13/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 5/3/19: Application deadline | 2019-05-03 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering - Frameworks (I-DIRSE-FW) | Supports convergent approaches to data-driven research in science and engineering. Frameworks will consist of interdisciplinary teams to conceptualize and pilot new modalities for collaboration and convergence that go beyond institutional walls and traditional disciplinary boundaries, to build innovative connections between scientific groups and data scientists and engineers, to integrate research infrastructure and education infrastructure. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 5/7/19: Application deadline | 2019-05-07 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) / National Institutes of Health (NIH) | A Science of Science Policy Approach to Analyzing and Innovating the Biomedical Research Enterprise (SCISIPBIO) | Supports research to provide scientific analysis of important aspects of the biomedical research enterprise and efforts to foster a diverse, innovative, productive and efficient scientific workforce, from which future scientific leaders will emerge. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 5/6/19: 1st Cycle application deadline 9/9/19: 2nd Cycle application deadline | 2019-05-08 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Growing Convergence Research (GCR) | Supports multi-disciplinary team research that crosses directorate or division boundaries and is currently not supported by NSF programs, initiatives and research-focused Big Ideas. Proposers must make a convincing case that the research to be conducted is within NSF's purview and cannot be supported by existing NSF programs and multidisciplinary initiatives. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 5/8/19: Application deadline | 2019-05-08 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education (IUSE: CUE) | Supports teams of Institutions of Higher Education in re-envisioning the role of computing in interdisciplinary collaboration within their institutions. NSF will encourage partnering IHEs to use this opportunity to integrate the study of ethics into their curricula, both within core CS courses and across the relevant interdisciplinary application areas. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 5/9/19: Application deadline | 2019-05-09 |
| The Mark Foundation | Emerging Leader Award | Supports early career investigators conducting high-impact, high-risk cancer research. This award is intended to support highly promising projects for which other sources of funding are not readily available or for a separate innovative endeavor that will allow the applicant to pursue a distinct and novel research direction. | Applicant must be 3-8 years from the start of an independent faculty research appointment as of 12/31/19 (i.e., the official start date of the appointment must fall within the calendar years 2011-2016). | 5/10/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 7/12/19: Application deadline (by invitation) | 2019-05-10 |
| Pharmacotherapies for Alcohol and Substance Abuse (PASA) Consortium | Compound Development - Pre-clinical Study | Supports proof-of-principle basic research to determine which compounds are most appropriate for human research trials. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 5/13/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 7/22/19: Application deadline | 2019-05-13 |
| Planet Texas 2050 (PT2050) - UT Austin | Open Call for Projects | Supports new research collaborations related to one or more of the following focus areas: Climate-resilient infrastructure; Economics and policy: decision-making and modeling; Energy and ecosystems; Inventory of individual and collective responses to environmental and demographic stressors; Policy strategies and policies; Texas climate science. | Open to teams of 3 or more qualified UT faculty/staff researchers across at least 2 disciplinary areas. | 5/15/19: Application deadline | 2019-05-15 |
| Dept. of Defense (DOD) | Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) | DURIP is designed to improve the capabilities of accredited United States institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment or instrumentation.
| Open to all qualified applicants. | 4/26/19: deadline for all inquiries 5/17/19: Application deadline | 2019-05-17 |
| Ono Pharma Foundation | Ono Pharma Foundation Initiative | Supports research that exhibits the potential to transform human health. Applications comprising laboratory investigation will be considered. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 2/28/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 5/23/19: Application deadline | 2019-05-23 |
| Autism Speaks | Adult Transition Research Grants | Supports projects with the aim of establishing evidence-based scalable practices leading to improved postsecondary employment, education, community living and other key outcomes relevant to adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). | Open to all qualified applicants. | 3/13/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 5/23/19: Application deadline | 2019-05-23 |
| 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. | Late May: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline Summer: Expected application deadline | 2019-05-24 |
| Dept. of Defense (DOD) - Dept. of the Army | Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) | Supports basic research in science and engineering that is of potential interest to DoD. The program is focused on multidisciplinary research efforts where more than one traditional discipline interacts to provide rapid advances in scientific areas of interest to the DoD. The MURI program addresses high risk basic research and attempts to understand or achieve something that has never been done before. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 6/3/19: White paper deadline (optional) 9/13/19: Application deadline | 2019-06-03 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI) - Conceptualization Grant (CG) | Supports large-scale interdisciplinary research that aims to advance the frontiers of quantum information science and engineering. Projects will span the focus areas of quantum computation, quantum communication, quantum simulation and/or quantum sensing. Two types supported: (i) 12-month Conceptualization Grants to support teams envisioning subsequent Institute proposals and (ii) 5-year Challenge Institute awards to establish and operate Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes. | Open to all qualified applicants | 4/1/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 6/3/19: Application deadline | 2019-06-03 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI) - Challenge Institute (CI) | Supports large-scale interdisciplinary research that aims to advance the frontiers of quantum information science and engineering. Projects will span the focus areas of quantum computation, quantum communication, quantum simulation and/or quantum sensing. Two types supported: (i) 12-month Conceptualization Grants to support teams envisioning subsequent Institute proposals and (ii) 5-year Challenge Institute awards to establish and operate Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 6/3/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 8/1/19: Pre-proposal deadline 1/2/20: Application deadline | 2019-06-03 |
| Pharmacotherapies for Alcohol and Substance Abuse (PASA) Consortium | Research Planning Program (SRPP) | Supports planning grants for research concerning a specific compound or combination of compounds. Designed to determine the clinical development plan and associated studies needed to advance the compound to FDA approval for ASUD treatment. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 4/22/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 6/3/19: Application deadline | 2019-06-03 |
| Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative | Supports pursue innovative, risky research that has high potential for significant conceptual and methodological advances in aquatic symbiosis. Investigators will aim to generate new technologies, resources, theory, natural history and hypotheses to spark discovery in understanding aquatic organisms and their symbioses. | Applicants must hold a tenured or tenure-track position (or equivalent) for a minimum of four years, with the first appointment as an independent researcher no later than June 3, 2015; have served as PI on one or more active, major, competitive research grants. | 6/3/19: Pre-application deadline 9/16/19: Application deadline | 2019-06-03 |
| 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 |
| Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) | Individual Investigator Research Award | Supports innovative research addressing critically important questions that will significantly advance knowledge of the causes, prevention, and/or treatment of cancer. Areas of interest include laboratory research, translational studies, and/or clinical investigations. Competitive renewal applications accepted. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 6/5/19: Application deadline | 2019-06-05 |
| Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) | Individual Investigator Research Awards for Cancer in Children and Adolescents | Supports innovative research projects addressing questions that will advance knowledge of the causes, prevention, progression, detection, or treatment of cancer in children and adolescents. Laboratory, clinical, or population-based studies are all acceptable. Outcomes should reduce the incidence, morbidity, or mortality from cancer in children and/or adolescents in the near or long term. Competitive renewal applications accepted. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 6/5/19: Application deadline | 2019-06-05 |
| Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) | Individual Investigator Research Awards for Clinical Translation | Supports innovative clinical studies that are hypothesis driven and involve patients enrolled prospectively on a clinical trial or involve analyses of biospecimens from patients enrolled on a completed trial for which the outcomes are known. Areas of interest include clinical studies of new or repurposed drugs, hormonal therapies, immune therapies, surgery, radiation therapy, stem cell transplantation, combinations of interventions, or therapeutic devices. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 6/5/19: Application deadline | 2019-06-05 |
| Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) | Individual Investigator Research Awards for Prevention and Early Detection | Supports innovative research addressing questions that will advance knowledge of the causes, prevention, early-stage progression, and/or early detection of cancer. Research may be laboratory-, clinical-, or population- based, and may include behavioral/intervention, dissemination or health services/outcomes research to reduce cancer incidence or promote early detection. Competitive renewal applications accepted. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 6/5/19: Application deadline | 2019-06-05 |
| Vilcek Foundation | Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science | Biomedical research. | Open to all qualified foreign-born scientists age 38 and under from now through June 10, 2019 | 6/10/19: Application deadline | 2019-06-10 |
| Eppendorf & Science | Prize for Neurobiology | Supports the work of promising young neurobiologists. It is awarded annually to one young scientist for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology conducted by him/her during the past three years, as described in a 1,000-word entrance essay. | Applicants may not be older than 35 years. | 6/15/19: Application deadline | 2019-06-15 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) | Develops long-term partnerships among industry, academe, and government. The Centers are catalyzed by an investment from NSF and are primarily supported by industry Center members, with NSF taking a supporting role in the development and evolution of the Center. Each Center is established to conduct research that is of interest to both the industry members and the Center faculty. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 4/17/19: Pre-propsal deadline 6/19/19: Application deadline | 2019-06-19 |
| Dell Medical School | Texas Health Catalyst Program | Therapeutics, Diagnostics, Devices and Digital Health/Software. | UT Austin faculty, Dell Medical School faculty and affiliates. UT Grad students, postdocs and Dell Medical School residents are welcome to apply with a UT Austin/Dell Med faculty mentor. | June 24th 2019 at 5 P.M. Central Time. | 2019-06-24 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Antarctic Artists and Writers Program (AAW) | Facilitates writing and artistic projects designed to increase the public’s understanding and appreciation of the Antarctic and human endeavors on the southernmost continent. The Artist and Writers Program gives priority to projects that focus on interpreting and representing the scientific activities being conducted in the unique Antarctic region. Proposed projects must target audiences in the U.S. and be distributed/exhibited in the U.S. | Open only to U.S. residents/permanent residents who have a substantial record of achievement in the arts and letters or who are in early career and demonstrate exceptional promise. Must pass physical/dental exams for final qualification. | 7/1/19: Application deadline | 2019-07-01 |
| American Heart Association | 2020 Merit Award | To fund investigators with stellar track records of accomplishment, demonstrated by federal or equivalent funding [NIH, AHRQ, HRSA, etc.] from multiple sources and excellent publication records with substantial impact, who have the potential to move a field of science forward with creative approaches that are aligned with the mission of the American Heart Association: To be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives. This award will support exceptional scientists with e | It is anticipated this award will be given to applicants with the following or equivalent credentials: Ph.D. and/or M.D. (or the equivalent). Tenured or tenure-track professor (exceptional associate professors may be considered) at an eligible nonprofit U.S. institution or, if at an eligible institution that has no tenure track, hold an appointment that reflects a significant institutional commitment at the time of the application deadline. (F | Letter of Intent: July 11, 2019
Full application (for invited applicants only): September 24, 2019 | 2019-07-11 |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation | IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) Ventures Initiative | Supports research that advances the discovery or development of a specific product candidate with potential for positive impact in the IBD field. Projects should be approximately 12 months in duration. Funds up to $500,000 per project per year. | Open to all qualified applicants. Must demonstrate commitment to, and experience with, commercialization-oriented activities, and access to appropriate resources for commercialization. | 7/15/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) Fall deadline *Application deadline falls 4 weeks from invitation | 2019-07-15 |
| The Merck Family Fund | Conserving Ecologically Valuable Land | Supports research that: advocates for and secure public financial resources and commitments to land protection; demonstrates community engagement and certified sustainable management of land particularly concerning forestry/farming; and provides leadership to existing/emerging stakeholder coalitions. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 1/15/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 7/16/19: Application deadline (by invitation) | 2019-07-16 |
| The Merck Family Fund | Reducing CO2 Emissions Through Energy Efficiency and Carbon Pricing | Supports research that: advocates for residential/commercial codes/standards resulting in measurable energy efficiencies; demonstrates financing models that create affordable capital for investments in efficiency; and engenders bi-partisan study, design and acceptance of carbon pricing alternatives. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 1/15/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 7/16/19: Application deadline (by invitation) | 2019-07-16 |
| Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy | FY19 Bioenergy Technologies Office Multi-Topic Funding Opportunity | Bioenenergy research and development. Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $79 million in funding for bioenergy research and development including biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower. This funding supports the Energy Department’s goal of providing consumers and businesses with a range of domestic energy options that are affordable, reliable, and secure. “At DOE, we are focused on expanding America’s energy supply, growing the economy | Eligible Applicants i. IndividualsU.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are eligible to apply for funding as a prime recipient or participate as a subrecipient. ii. Domestic EntitiesFor-profit entities, educational institutions, and nonprofits that are incorporated (or otherwise formed) under the laws of a particular State or territory of the United States and have a physical location for business operations in the United States are eligible to a | Applicants must submit a Concept Paper by 5:00pm ET the due date listed above to be eligible to submit a Full Application. Submission deadline for full application: 5:00 p.m. ET on 07/22/2019. | 2019-07-22 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 (Mid-scale RI-2) | Supports implementation of projects that comprise any combination of equipment, instrumentation, computational hardware and software, and the necessary commissioning and human capital in support of implementation of the same. Will directly enable advances in any of the research domains supported by NSF, including STEM education. Projects may also include upgrades to existing research infrastructure. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 2/14/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 3/11/19: Pre-proposal deadline 8/2/19: Application deadline (by invitation) | 2019-08-02 |
| Organization for Autism Research (OAR) | Applied Research Competition | Supports research that expands the body of knowledge related to autism intervention and treatment, produces practical and clearly objective results, has the potential to impact public policy, and provides outcomes that offer to enhance quality of life for persons with autism and their families. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 3/25/19: Pre-proposal deadline 8/5/19: Application deadline (by invitation) | 2019-08-05 |
| MacArthur Foundation | 100 & Change | 100&Change is our competition for a $100 million grant to fund a single proposal that promises real and measurable progress in solving a critical problem of our time. MacArthur Foundation considers proposals from any field or problem area. Competitive proposals will address a significant problem and provide a solution that is impactful, evidence-based, feasible, and durable. | Any organization/project combination that meets the MacArthur Foundation Requirements. | You must submit your application no later than Tuesday, 6 August 2019, at 11:00 AM Central time. Before submitting an application, your organization must register by Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 11 AM Central. | 2019-08-06 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Geoinformatics (GI) | Supports the development of cyberinfrastructure (CI) for the Earth Sciences (Geoinformatics). EAR-supported geoinformatics opportunities will fit into three tracks: Catalytic track, Facility track, and Sustainability track. These tracks broadly support the lifecycle of geoinformatics resource development, from pilots (Catalytic) to broad implementation (Facility) to sunsetting and long-term sustainability (Sustainability). | Open to all qualified applicants. | 8/15/19: Application deadline | 2019-08-15 |
| Microsoft | Microsoft Investigator Fellowship | Two-year fellowship that recognizes higher education faculty in the United States whose exceptional talent identifies them as distinguished scientists and teachers. While a great deal of cloud computing research and teaching is conducted in traditional computer science departments or the broader data science field, this program is open to all higher education departments. | Full-time faculty member at a degree-granting college or university in the United States. Hold a PhD or equivalent (DSc etc.) Currently conducting research, advising graduate students, and teaching in a classroom Currently using or planning to use Microsoft Azure in research and/or teaching. Please indicate in your statement examples of what type of research and cloud computing workloads planned to be used in your research/teaching. | Submissions for the first cohort accepted through August 16, 2019. | 2019-08-16 |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund | Director's New Innovator Award (DP2 - Clinical Trial Optional) | Supports exceptionally creative early career scientists proposing innovative and high-impact projects. Note: The NIH definition of an Early Stage Investigator now includes clinical training. | Open to early stage investigators. | 8/26/19: Application deadline | 2019-08-26 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | Collaborative MS Research Centers | The Society welcomes applications for support of Collaborative MS Research Centers that will help stimulate collaboration and interaction in MS research among independent investigators, strengthen the ties between basic and clinical research, and stimulate recruitment of researchers from other fields into MS research. This will serve to leverage already available research support by stimulating and sustaining interdisciplinary collaborations, by developing new ideas and discoveries, and by at | Each proposal must have a designated principal investigator (PI), holding an M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent degree, who will assume the scientific and administrative oversight for the operation of the collaborative effort. This individual must also be a principal investigator for one of the base funding projects. The PI should be an established, highly qualified scientist with adequate administrative and leadership experience and authority appropriate to managing the collaborative program. | Deadline 2019: September 4, 5:00 pm EST (pre-applications due August 28) NOTE: After this September deadline, the Society will no longer be accepting applications for Collaborative MS Center awards. This award is being suspended in its current form, with the possibility that it may be reconfigured to meet future research needs. | 2019-08-28 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | PIlot Research Grants | The Society funds high-risk pilot grants to quickly test novel ideas. Funding is provided for one year to test innovative, cutting-edge ideas or untested methods, and to gather sufficient preliminary data to apply for longer-term funding. We welcome proposals for research relevant to our Research Priorities. | Researchers who have completed their post-doctoral training, and who are considered eligible by their institutions to apply for a research grant, are invited to apply. Individuals who are currently postdoctoral fellows or the equivalent, or who are graduate/medical students or residents, are not eligible for support under this program. Applicants are not eligible to apply if they have an existing National MS Society pilot research award that expires later than the application deadline. | Upcoming Deadlines: New applications are reviewed three times each year. September 11, 2019 (pre-application is due September 9) | 2019-09-11 |
| U.S. Dept. of State - Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs | Fulbright Scholar Program | Offers nearly 470 teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and administrators as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others. | Only U.S. citizens may apply. | 9/16/19: Application deadline | 2019-09-16 |
| US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund | BARD Research Grant Program | MissionBARD supports mission-oriented cooperative agricultural research projects of mutual interest to the United States and Israel. Proposals are expected to deal with an agricultural issue or problem and yield tangible results that could be implemented within a reasonable time after completion of the project. Projects cover all phases of agricultural research and development. The outcomes of BARD funded Research must be accessible to the public. Coop | EligibilityAffiliates of public or private non-profit research institutions that demonstrate the necessary research and development capabilities are eligible for funding. Proposals must be submitted through such legally constituted institutions.InvestigatorsPrincipal Investigator (PI) is the person whose name appears first on the cover page of the proposal. The PI is mutually agreed upon by the cooperating scientists and is responsible for the | September 16, 2019 | 2019-09-16 |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund | Director's Pioneer Award (DP1 - Clinical Trial Optional) | Supports scientists with outstanding records of creativity pursuing new research directions to develop pioneering approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research. | Open to all qualfied applicants pursuing a new scientific research direction. | 9/19/19: Application deadline | 2019-09-19 |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund | Director’s Transformative Research Award (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional) | Supports individuals or teams proposing projects that are inherently risky and untested but have the potential to create or overturn fundamental paradigms. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 9/20/19: Application deadline | 2019-09-20 |
| 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 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | EHR Core Research (ECR) STEM Learning and Learning Environments, Broadening Participation, and Workforce Development | Invites proposals for fundamental research (basic research or use-inspired basic research) that advances knowledge in one or more of the three Research Tracks: Research on STEM Learning and Learning Environments, Research on Broadening Participation in STEM fields, and Research on STEM Workforce Development. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 10/3/19: Application deadline | 2019-10-03 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) | Supports strategic linkages among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad that will leverage research and educational resources to tackle grand scientific challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts. The program seeks to foster high-impact science and engineering by providing opportunities to create new collaborations and new combinations of resources and ideas among linked global networks. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 10/30/19: Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline 01/31/20: Application deadline | 2019-10-30 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI): Elements and Framework Implementations | Elements: target small groups that will create and deploy robust services for which there is a demonstrated need, and that will advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering. Framework Implementations: target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of common services aimed at solving common research problems faced by NSF researchers in one or more areas of science and engineering. | Open to all qualified applicants. | 11/1/19: 2nd Cycle application deadline | 2019-11-01 |
| Cancer Research Institute | Clinic and Laboratory Integration Program (CLIP) | The development of new and effective cancer treatment requires the translation of basic laboratory discoveries into novel therapies that can be tested in patients. This area of translational research—where laboratory findings move into clinical testing, and where questions from clinical studies are brought back into the lab—is critical to bringing new and better immunotherapies to patients. To this end, the Cancer Research Institute is reques | Applicants must hold a faculty appointment as a tenure-track assistant professor (or higher rank) at the time of award activation. | LOI Deadline: November 1, 2019 Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full research proposal with a submission deadline of February 15, 2020.
| 2019-11-01 |
| 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 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Dear Colleague Letter: STEM Workforce Development Utilizing Flexible Personal Learning Environments | Supports research on flexible personalized learning to prepare the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce of the future. NSF envisions projects that collectively apply to all learners, from young children to those already in the workforce. | Open to all qualified applicants. | Ongoing | 2029-01-22 |