Open Call Grant and Award Opportunities
This list includes general funding opportunities that are of broad interest to the UT Austin research community.
The list below can be sorted by column heading. You may also search the list by entering keywords (e.g., “NIH”) in the Search box.
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 |
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| NSF | Developmental Sciences (DS) | cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development |
Persons with a PhD, MD | January 15, 2021 |
2021-01-15 |
| NSF | Law & Science | Crime, Violence, and Policing, Cyberspace, Economic Issues, Environmental Science, Evidentiary Issues, Forensic Science, Governance and Courts, Human Rights and Comparative Law, Information Technology, Legal and Ethical Issues related to Science, Legal Decision Making, Legal Mobilization and Conceptions of Justice, Litigation and the Legal Profession, Punishment and Corrections, Regulation and Facilitation of Biotechnology (e.g., Gene Editing, Gene Testing, Synthetic Biology) and Other Emergi |
PI eligibility limit varies by the type of proposal. See Section II. Program Description for detailed information about each type of proposal. | January 15, 2021 |
2021-01-15 |
| DARPA | Young Faculty Award | temperature sensitive biomolecules, including vaccines and reagents, requires a dedicated supply chain typically referred to as a “cold-chain.” DARPA is interested in developing methods to stabilize temperature sensitive compounds required for the field deployment of biotechnology, including those related to reagents, vaccines, biologics, and other medical countermeasures (MCMs); technological approaches for understanding signatures of infectious disease within individuals, whether symptomat |
Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professors, Tenured faculty within 3 years of their Tenure date | 1/8/2021 |
2021-01-15 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Digital Humanities Advancement Award | museums, libraries, library, museum, humanities |
No restrictions | 1/15/2021 |
2021-01-15 |
| NSF | Social Psychology Program | social, psychology, behavior, social cognition, attitudes, social and cultural influence, stereotypes, motivation, decision making, group dynamics, aggression, close relationships, social and affective neuroscience, social psychophysiology, emotions, prosocial behavior, health-related behavior, and personality and individual differences |
No restrictions | 2/15/2021 |
2021-01-15 |
| International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA)/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Grand Challenges ICODA COVID-19 Data Science pilot programme | data science; public health; natural disease history, epidemiology and transmission; vaccines and prophylaxis, infection, prevention and control; therapeutics; clinical management |
The call is open to researchers from anywhere in the world. Researchers based at international organisations, government agencies, research and academic institutions, non-profit organisations and for-profit organisations can apply. | Information Session: January 7, 2021, 8:00am CST; deadline to sign up for the information session: January 4, 2021, 12:00pm CST Proposal Deadline: January 19, 2021 |
2021-01-19 |
| NIH | P50: Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) in Human Cancers | cancer, translational, human biology using cellular, molecular, structural, biochemical, and/or genetic experimental approaches |
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support | 1/25/2021, standard due dates from that point forward through 1/8/24 |
2021-01-25 |
| NSF | Human Networks and Data Science | human behavior, environment, network science, data-intensive, data science, sociology, sociocultural, economics, biological networks, geospatial, society, nonlinear dynamics, network heterogeneity, human networks, |
No restrictions or limits | February 4, 2021 First Thursday in February, Annually Thereafter |
2021-02-04 |
| NSF | Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | sustainability, electrochmical systems, interfacial engineering, process systems, reaction engineering, meolecular thermodynamics, biophotonics, biosensing, cellular and chemical engineering, disability and rehabilitaion engineering, engineering and biomedical systems, environmental engineering, environmental systainability, nanoscale interactions, combustion and fire systems, fluid dynamics, particulate and multiphase processes, thermal transport processes |
No restrictions or limits | Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. submitter's local time): February 11, 2021 January 12, 2022 January 12, Annually Thereafter Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter's local time): May 07, 2021 May 02, 2022 April 30, Annually Thereafter |
2021-02-11 |
| NSF/NEH | NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) | dynamic language, endangered languages, data management, archiving |
There are no program-specific restrictions or limits. | February 15, 2021 February 15, Annually Thereafter Submission Deadline for Senior Research Proposals and Conferences September 15, 2021 September 15, Annually Thereafter Submission Deadline for Senior Research Proposals and Conferences |
2021-02-15 |
| NSF | Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) | brain, behavior, engineering, neuroscience, neuroengineering, theories, models, empirical, clinical, education, cognition, cognitive systems, BRAIN initiative, data science, computer modeling, neuron, neural |
No restrictions or limits | LOI (Frontiers Only): Dec. 15, 2020 Full Proposal: February 15, 2021 |
2021-02-15 |
| NSF | Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research (FW-HTF) | behavioral science, computer science, economic science, engineering, learning sciences, research on adult learning and workforce training, and the social sciences |
There are no restrictions, beyond the eligibility outlined in the PAPPG Chapter I.E, on who may serve as co-PIs, Senior Personnel or Consultant (see Categories of Proposers in PAPPG Chapter I.E). | March 23, 2021 |
2021-03-23 |
| NSF | Center for Advancement and Synthesis of Open Environmental Data and Sciences | environmental science, data science, environment, environmental biology, data sets, visualization, cyberinfrastructure, biology, team science |
Only a single investigator may appear on the cover sheet of a preliminary or full proposal. This individual should be the intended center director or provisional director. No co-PIs are allowed. | Letter of Intent (Required): 4/1/2021 Prelimiary Proposal (Required): 4/29/2021 Full Proposal: 9/15/2021 |
2021-04-01 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | NEH Research and Development | moving image and sound recordings, archaeological artifacts, born digital and time-based media, rare books and manuscripts, archival records, material culture, art, preservation, conservation, cultural heritage, under-represented communities |
no restrictions | Pre-recorded webinar for 2021 will be posted by March 4, 2021 Proposal Submission Deadline: May 18, 2021 |
2021-05-18 |
| Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) | Individual Investigator Research Awards | cancer detection, cancer prevention, cancer treatment, translational studies, clinical investigations |
The applicant must be a Texas-based entity. The Principal Investigator (PI) must have a doctoral degree, including MD, PhD, DDS, DMD, DrPH, DO, DVM, or equivalent, and must be a full-time resident of Texas during the time the research that is the subject of the grant is conducted. | Proposal Submission Window: March 3, 2021 - June 2, 2021 |
2021-06-02 |
| Cancer Prevention & Research Institution of Texas (CPRIT) | Individual Investigator Research Awards for Cancer in Children and Adolescents | children, adolescents, Laboratory, clinical, or population-based studiescauses, prevention, progression, detection, cancer, risk factors |
The applicant must be a Texas-based entity. The Principal Investigator (PI) must have a doctoral degree, including MD, PhD, DDS, DMD, DrPH, DO, DVM, or equivalent, and be a full-time resident of Texas during the time the research that is the subject of the grant is conducted. | Proposal Submission Window: March 3, 2021 - June 2, 2021 |
2021-06-02 |
| Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) | Individual Investigator Research Awards for Clinical Translation | clinical efficacy of a cancer therapy or diagnostic device, repurposed drugs, hormonal therapies, immune therapies, surgery, radiation therapy, stem cell transplantation, combinations of interventions, therapeutic devices |
The applicant must be a Texas-based entity. The Principal Investigators (PI) must have a doctoral degree, including MD, PhD, DDS, DMD, DrPH, DO, DVM, or equivalent, and must be a full-time resident of Texas during the time the research that is the subject of the grant is conducted. | Proposal Submission Window: March 3, 2021 - June 2, 2021 |
2021-06-02 |
| Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) | Individual Investigator Research Awards for Computational Systems Biology of Cancer | mathematics, computation, cancer, gene expression, molecular mechanism, functional cancer phenotypes |
The applicant must be a Texas-based entity. The Principal Investigator (PI) must have a doctoral degree, including MD, PhD, DDS, DMD, DrPH, DO, DVM, or equivalent, and must be a full-time resident of Texas during the time the research that is the subject of the grant is conducted. | Proposal Submission Window: March 3, 2021 - June 2, 2021 |
2021-06-02 |
| Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) | Individual Investigator Research Awards for Prevention and Early Detection | environmental and behavioral factors, genetic markers, health disparities, biomarkers and/or imaging methods, prevention, early detection, cancer, interventions, systemic change, outreach |
The applicant must be a Texas-based entity. The Principal Investigator (PI) must have a doctoral degree, including MD, PhD, DDS, DMD, DrPH, DO, DVM, or equivalent, and be a full-time resident of Texas during the time the research that is the subject of the grant is conducted. | Proposal Submission Window: March 3, 2021 - June 2, 2021 |
2021-06-02 |
| Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) | Recruitment of Established Investigators | Cancer, prevention, treatment, diagnostics, computational biology and analytic methods |
doctoral degree, including MD, PhD, DDS, DMD, DrPH, DO, DVM, or equivalent; reside in Texas for the duration of the appointment; must devote at least 70%time to research activitiesprofessor (or equivalent) | June 21, 2021 |
2021-06-21 |
| Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) | Recruitment of First-Time, Tenure-Track Faculty Members | Cancer, prevention, treatment, diagnostics, computational biology and analytic methods |
doctoral degree, including MD, PhD, DDS, DMD, DrPH, DO, DVM; must devote at least 70%time to research activities; he candidate must not hold an appointment at the rank of assistant professor or above (or equivalent); non–tenure-track appointments at the rank of assistant professor are not eligible for this award; | June 21, 2021 |
2021-06-21 |
| Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) | Recruitment of Rising Stars | Cancer, prevention, treatment, diagnostics, computational biology and analytic methods |
already accepted a position at the recruiting institution; doctoral degree, including MD, PhD, DDS, DMD, DrPH, DO, DVM, or equivalent; devote at least 70%time to research activities; hold an appointment at the rank of assistant or associate professor tenuretrack or tenured(or equivalent) | June 21, 2021 |
2021-06-21 |
| National Science Foundation | Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | Engineering (ENG); Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS); Geosciences (GEO); Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE); Biological Sciences (BIO); Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE); Education and Human Resources (EHR) FAQs:https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20025/nsf20025.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
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Early-career faculty. A Principal Investigator may submit only one CAREER proposal per annual competition. In addition, a Principal Investigator may not participate in more than three CAREER competitions. Proposals that are not reviewed (i.e., are withdrawn before review or are returned without review) do not count toward the three-competition limit. | Due Date: July 27, 2020 and on the fourth Monday of July, annually thereafter |
2021-07-26 |
| NIH | NIDA Translational Avant-Garde Award for Development of Medication to Treat Substance Use Disorders | drug abuse, pharmacy, substance abuse disorders, pharmacotherapies, Chemistry and Pharmaceutics, Preclinical Development, Clinical Development |
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support. | July 26, 2021; July 25, 2022; July 25, 2023 |
2021-07-26 |
| 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. | 8/15/21: Application deadline |
2021-08-15 |
| 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. | September 9, Annually |
2021-09-09 |
| NSF | Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences (DMS/NIGMS) | mathematics, statistics, biology, biological sciences |
No restrictions or limits | September 1 - September 18, 2020 Every September 1 - September 18 annually thereafter |
2021-09-18 |
| NIH | NIDA Research Center of Excellence Grant Program | drug abuse, addiction, social, behavioral, biomedical, clinical |
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support. | LOI (Not required): 8/25/2021 Full Deadline: 9/25/2021 |
2021-09-25 |
| 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. | First Thursday in October: Application deadline |
2021-10-07 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES): Research on Biological Systems at Regional to Continental Scales | Supports quantitative, interdisciplinary, systems-oriented research on biosphere processes and their complex interactions with climate, land use, and invasive species at regional to continental scales as well as training activities to enable groups to conduct Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science research. |
Open to all qualified applicants. | Full Proposal Deadline(s): January 16, 2020 November 09, 2020 Second Monday in November, Annually Thereafter |
2021-11-08 |
| NSF | Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES) | geosciences; biological Sciences; social, behavioral, and economic Sciences; human decisions, actions, and behaviors; integrated socio-environmental systems |
Who may be PI: no restrictions or limits, though individual will need to have PI status (tenure-track faculty and those given approval to be PI) | November 16, 2020 |
2021-11-15 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) | Supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, and social principles and processes that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The central theme of submitted projects must be quantitative or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics. The intent is discovery of principles of infectious disease transmission and testing mathematical or computational models that elucidate infectious disease systems. |
Open to all qualified applicants. Projects should be broad, interdisciplinary efforts that go beyond the scope of typical studies. | November 18, 2020 Third Wednesday in November, Annually Thereafter |
2021-11-17 |
| NSF (in cooperation with multiple domestic and international agencies) | Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) | computational neuroscience, neuroscience, data science, statistics, domestic, international |
No restrictions | Deadline for FY 2022 competition: November 23, 2021 Deadline for FY 2023 competition: November 22, 2022 |
2021-11-23 |
| NSF | Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) | computer science, electrical and computer engineering, internet, agriculture, aeronautics, building design, civil infrastructure, energy, environmental quality, healthcare and personalized medicine, manufacturing, and transportation, automation, autonomy, artificial intelegence, AI, machine learning, ML |
no restrictions | Full Proposal Window SMALL and MEDIUM Proposals December 1, 2021 - December 15, 2021 FRONTIER proposals |
2021-12-31 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| NSF-BSF | NSF-BSF Joint Programs | Various |
Applications must be submitted jointly by an Israeli, and an U.S. scientist from a U.S. research institution. The addition of a UK, or a Chinese scientist to the proposal, to form a multinational proposal, is also allowed. | Various |
2029-07-19 |
| NSF | *COVID-19 Opportunity: NSF RAPID* | In light of the emergence and spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States and abroad, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is accepting proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to explore how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19, to inform and educate about the science of virus transmission and prevention, and to encourage the development of processes and actions to address this global challenge. |
NSF encourages the research community to respond to this challenge through existing funding opportunities. | Varies |
2030-03-19 |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation | IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) Ventures Initiative (Multiple opportunities) | 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. | LOIs can be submitted at any time and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. |
2030-08-07 |
| DOD United States Army Medical Research and Development Command | DoD USAMRDC FY18-FY22 Broad Agency Announcement for Extramural Medical Research | vaccines, therapetics, contact tracing, mortality and morbidity reduction, psychology, kinesiology, rehabilitation, restorative treatments, rehabilitative care, protection from biological warfare agents, protection from chemical warfare agents, medical simulation, medical assist support technologies, ionization radiation injury |
Eligible investigators include all individuals, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, or citizenshipstatus, who are employed by, or affiliated with, an eligible organization. | open through September 30, 2022 |
2030-08-07 |
| NIH | *COVID-19 Opportunities: Funding Opportunities Specific to COVID-19 | This is a rapidly evolving situation and NIH will provide updated guidance and information as it becomes available. |
Open | Varies |
2030-08-28 |
| NSF | Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) | populations, species, communities, ecosystem, ecology, marine biome, statistics |
No restrictions | No set deadline, PIs may submit applications anytime. |
2030-10-08 |
| BARDA's Division of Research, Innovation & Ventures | *COVID-19 Opportunity: Easy Broad Agency Announcement* | AOI #4.1-A: Molecular Diagnostic Assay for SARS-CoV-2 virus on existing FDA-cleared platform The development and Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of an in vitro diagnostic assay for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV) RNA in clinical specimens, including upper (e.g, nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs, nasopharyngeal wash/aspirate, or nasal aspirate) and lower (e.g., bronchoalveolar lavage, tracheal asp |
Open | Varies |
2030-12-17 |