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Past Funding Opportunities

November 2020

Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, Irrigation Innovation Consortium

Deadline:
  • $600,000 available for awards between $50,000-$100,000 for 21-month projects.
  • 1:1.25 match required. Half of which, must be cash.
  • Must be invited to submit full proposal due in February.

The IIC is an alliance between the irrigation industry and university researchers formed to collaboratively address short- and long-term needs of the agriculture and landscape irrigation industry. This partnership strategically capitalizes on existing strengths to develop powerful synergies between public and private entities working on advancing irrigation science and technology, providing opportunities for joint collaboration in demonstrations, technology transfer, tailored workshops, certifications, and student training.

Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Climate Resilience

Deadline:

• Awards expected to be between $250,000 - $1 million for projects up to 5 years. • No match required The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) is seeking applications through our Next Generation Crops Challenge Area. FFAR builds unique partnerships to support innovative and actionable science addressing today’s food and agriculture challenges. We are seeking innovative research focused on improving climate resilience in crops to provide the critical solutions necessary to enhance the sustainable production of nutritious food for a growing global population.

Templeton World Charity Foundation, Grand Challenges for Human Flourishing

Deadline:
  • $40 million available

The foundation has issued a Request for Ideas for Grand Challenges for Human Flourishing and invites researchers across disciplines to participate in an initial phase of idea generation and development, with ideas selected to be used by the foundation to shape its priorities for scientific discovery. Priority will go to interdisciplinary scientific research with the potential to promote physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being. Ideas that bridge gaps between empirical science and the humanities are welcomed. The foundation is especially interested in capacities that can be enhanced to promote human flourishing and is committed to the use of open-science practices such as the pre-registration of hypotheses, replication studies, and data sharing.

USDA-NRCS, Regional Conservation Partnership Program

Deadline:
  • $360 million available to fund locally-driven, public-private partnerships.

Potential partners are invited to propose RCPP projects where NRCS and partners co-invest in impactful and innovative solutions to on-farm, watershed, and regional natural resource concerns. Proposed projects must generate conservation benefits by addressing specific natural resource objectives in a State/multistate area or address one or more primary resource concerns within an NRCS-designated critical conservation area (CCA).  RCPP brings an expanded approach to investing in natural resource conservation that empowers local communities to work with multiple partners and agricultural producers to design solutions that work best for them.

NSF 20-602 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

Deadline:
  • $10-12 million available to fund approx. 65 awards
  • Awards to be made in 3 competitive areas: 1) Broadening Participation of Groups Underrepresented in Biology, 2) Integrative Research Investigating the Rules of Life Governing Interactions Between Genomes, Environment and Phenotypes, and 3) Plant Genome Postdoctoral Research Fellowships.
  • Approx. $7-9 million available for Competitive Areas 1 & 2, and up to $3 million for Competitive Area 3.

The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) awards Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) to recent recipients of the doctoral degree for research and training in selected areas supported by BIO and with special goals for human resource development in biology.

Simons Foundation, 2021 Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards

Deadline:
  • Awards can be no more than $222,000/year for 3-year projects.

Microbes inhabit and sustain all habitats on the planet, and in the oceans they capture solar energy, catalyze biogeochemical transformations, produce and consume greenhouse gases, and provide the base of the food web.

Through its Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards program, the foundation will award grants to outstanding investigators in the field of marine microbial ecology and evolution. To be eligible, investigators must be actively pursuing in research on microbial ecology and/or evolution, excluding research focused on the microbiomes of animals or plants. Investigators with backgrounds in different fields are encouraged to apply.

NSF 20-598 International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)

Deadline:

$10 million available to fund approx. 30 – 32 awards. The International Research Experiences for Students program supports international research and research-related activities for U.S. science and engineering students. The IRES program contributes to development of a diverse, globally engaged workforce with world-class skills. IRES focuses on active research participation by undergraduate and/or graduate students in high quality international research, education and professional development experiences in NSF-funded research areas. The overarching, long-term goal of the IRES program is to enhance U.S. leadership in science and engineering research and education and to strengthen economic competitiveness through training the next generation of research leaders.

Morris Animal Foundation, Wildlife/Exotics Proposals

Deadline:
  • Maximum indirect costs - 8% of total direct costs
  • Tuition not allowed.
  • Studies focused on human-health impacts do not qualify for this RFP.

The Morris Animal Foundation works to advance the health of animals by funding hypothesis-driven, humane animal health research projects with scientific merit and the potential for significant impact on animal health.

To that end, the foundation welcomes applications for its Wildlife/Exotics animal research program. Through the program, grants will be awarded in the following categories: Established Investigator, First Award, Pilot Study, and Fellowship Training Grants.

NSF 20-595 Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program

Deadline:

• $4 million available to fund up to 10 awards.

• IGE awards expected to be up to $500,000 for 3-year projects.

NSF 20-593 Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII)

Deadline:

• $10 million available to fund 55-60 awards.

• Awards expected to be no more than $175,000 for up to 2 years.

NSF 20-554 ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions (ADVANCE)

Deadline:
  • $29 million available to fund approx.

NIH PAR-20-289 NIAID Research Education Program (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Deadline:
  • Awards can be no more than $325,000 in direct costs per year for 5-year projects.

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH.  The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.

To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities related to NIAID's mission areas with a primary focus on:

  • Courses for Skills Development
  • Research Experiences
  • Mentoring Activities

NSF 20-579, Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES)

Deadline:
  • Opportunity will support research projects and Research Coordination Networks (RCN).  Research projects may be 2 -5 years with a budget max of $1.6 million.  RCN awards may be 4 -5 years with a max budget of up to $500,000
  • $18 million available to fund approx. 15 awards

The DISES Program supports research projects that advance basic scientific understanding of integrated socio-environmental systems and the complex interactions (dynamics, processes, and feedbacks) within and among the environmental (biological, physical and chemical) and human ("socio") (economic, social, political, or behavioral) components of such a system.

Department of Energy DE-FOA-0002196 Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT)

Deadline:
  • $60 million available to fund approx. 60 awards.
  • Awards expected to be no more than $3 million

The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to research and develop next-generation building technologies that have the potential for significant energy savings and improved demand flexibility, affordability, and occupant comfort.  An additional goal is to advance building construction, remodeling, and retrofit practices, and associated workforces.

NSF 20-516, Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into the Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences (IUSE:GEOPAths)

Deadline:
  • $6 million available to fund approx. 18 awards.
  • Awards are available in 3 different tracks: Informal Networks, Undergraduate Preparation, and Graduate Operations. NSF plans to award 6 of each.

The National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Initiative is a Foundation-wide effort to accelerate improvements in the quality and effectiveness of undergraduate education in all STEM fields including the learning, social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Undergraduate STEM education is critical for preparing both a diverse STEM workforce and a STEM-literate public that is ready to support and benefit from the progress of science [Reference 1].

October 2020

Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, Target Application Program

Deadline:

Grants awards can be up to $150,000 for an 18– 24-month project. The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research believes that promoting target and pathway validation studies within academic and industry laboratories can bridge the critical gap between basic biology and therapeutic development. Through the program, grants for research aimed at validating targets and defining pathways implicated in Parkinson's pathological processes and/or symptomology. Validation efforts should focus on early-stage targets that have previously been implicated in Parkinson's but have not yet been rigorously tested for their ability to impact disease-relevant outcomes in Parkinson's model systems.

USDA-NIFA-NCR-SARE 2021 Research and Education Grant Program

Deadline:
  • Awards expected to be between $10,000 and $250,000 for up to 3 years.
  • Projects that explore social, environmental, and economic aspects are encouraged; and all projects must have a strong outreach component.

The North Central Region SARE (NCR-SARE) Research and Education (R&E) Grant Program is a competitive grant program for researchers and educators involved in projects that explore and promote environmentally sound, profitable, and socially responsible food and/or fiber systems.

Research and Education projects include a strong outreach component and significant farmer/rancher or other end-user involvement from the inception of the idea through the implementation of the project.

Iowa Water Center - Iowa Nutrient Research Center: 2020 Request for Proposals - Nutrient Management and Social Wellbeing for Iowa Communities

Deadline:
  • $40,000 available to support 1 or multiple projects.
  • Studies focused on human-health impacts do not qualify for this RFP.

The research focus for this request for proposals is social justice and equity issues surrounding populations impacted by water pollution from nitrogen and phosphorus. By seeking to understand downstream impacts and social well-being in relation to nutrient issues, the RFP will address the wellbeing of all members of society within the larger agroecosystem of the Mississippi River Basin.

USDA-NIFA-SBIR-007712 Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I

Deadline:
  • Awards expected to be between $100,000 and $106,500 for a project period of no more than 8 months.

The USDA SBIR program focuses on transforming scientific discovery into products and services with commercial potential and/or societal benefit. Unlike fundamental research, the USDA SBIR program supports small businesses in the creation of innovative, disruptive technologies and enables the application of research advancements from conception into the market.

Whitehall Foundation Bioscience Research Projects

Deadline:

The Whitehall Foundation assists scholarly research in the life sciences through its research grants and grants-in-aid programs. It is the foundation's policy to support those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not heavily supported by federal agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. The foundation emphasizes the support of young scientists at the beginning of their careers and productive senior scientists who wish to move into new fields of interest.

To that end, the foundation invites LOIs for two grant programs:

NIH PAR-19-371 NIAID Career Transition Award (K22 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Deadline:
  • Projects can be no longer than 2 years in duration.
  • Award will contribute up to $150,000 and $100,000 in direct costs in years 1 and 2 respectively.  This includes no more than $50,000 in salary for the award recipient.

The purpose of the NIAID Career Transition Award (CTA) program is to assist postdoctoral fellows' transition to positions of assistant professor or equivalent and initiate a successful biomedical career as an independent research scientist.

U.S. Dept. of Interior F21AS00157 NAWCA FY21 U.S. Small Grants

Deadline:
  • $3 million available.
  • Awards expected to be between $1,000 and $100,000
  • Program requires a 1:1 non-federal match.

The U.S. Small Grants Program is a competitive, matching grants program that supports public-private partnerships carrying out projects in the United States that further the goals of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. Projects must involve only long-term protection, restoration, enhancement and/or establishment of wetland and associated upland habitats to benefit migratory birds. This program supports the DOI and FWS mission of protecting and managing the nation's natural resources by collaborating with partners and stakeholders to conserve land and water and to expand outdoor recreation and access.

Department of Energy FOA-0087 Energy and Carbon Optimized Synthesis for the Bioeconomy (ECOSynBio)

Deadline:
  • $25 million available to fund approx. 12 awards
  • Awards expected to be between $250,000-$7million.

ECOSynBioThis funding opportunity seeks submissions to establish new technologies to significantly improve the carbon efficiency of bioconversion platforms through the accommodation of external reducing equivalents. Proposed systems of interest include, but are not limited to: (1) carbon optimized fermentation strains that avoid CO2 evolution, (2) engineered mixotrophic consortia or systems that avoid CO2 evolution, (3) biomass or gas fermentation with internal CO2 utilization, (4) cell-free carbon optimized biocatalytic biomass conversion and/or CO2 utilization, and (5) cross-cutting or other proposed carbon optimized bioconversion schemes.

Sociological Initiatives Foundation, Sociological Research Projects

Deadline:
  • Must be invited to submit full proposal due Spring 2021
  • Awards expected to be between $10,000 - $20,000 for 2-year projects.

The Sociological Initiatives Foundation supports social change by linking research to social action and funds research that investigates laws, policies, institutions, regulations, and normative practices that limit equality in the United States and Puerto Rico.

 

American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation 2019 Neurology & Epilepsy Request for Proposals

Deadline:
  • Available funding
    • Acorn proposals – up to $15,000 maximum including 8% indirect costs
    • Oak proposals - $15,000 - $108,000 maximum including 8% indirect costs
  • Indirect cost limitation: 8% total funds awarded or 8.695% total direct costs

Projects funded through the RFP include research into better diagnosis and characterization, the pathophysiology, and the molecular and genetic basis of canine neurologic disease, including inflammatory neurological disorders and epilepsy and the identification of novel therapeutics to treat neurologic disorders. CHF seeks improved diagnostics, novel therapies, and a better understanding of the pathophysiology and genetics of canine neurological disorders, with the aim of ensuring quality of life and excellent care for affected dogs.

National Geographic AI for Earth Innovation

Deadline:
  • Awards can be up to $100,000 for 1-year projects

The National Geographic Society and Microsoft’s AI for Earth program have issued an RFP for novel projects that create and deploy AI tools to improve the way we monitor, model, understand, and ultimately manage Earth’s natural systems for a more sustainable future. Under the AI for Earth Innovation RFP, grants will be awarded in support of projects that use cloud computing to create and deploy open source trained models and algorithms that make key analytical processes more efficient in the environmental field. As an additional opportunity, Microsoft will help the successful proposals make the completed models available for use by other environmental researchers and innovators.

Bayer Crop Science, Grants4Ag Program

Deadline:
  • $5,000-$15,000 per project
  • No IDC allowed

Three funding opportunities:

Fighting pests while preserving biodiversity

For novel approaches and technologies that preserve natural habitats and protect crops by: reducing insect and nematode damage, reducing fungal growth and symptoms, increasing tolerance to herbicide applications, and/or lower weed pressure.  Additional details and application portal here.

Accelerating precision agriculture

NSF 20-592 Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI): Elements and Framework Implementations

Deadline:
  • $33 million available to fund approx. 35 awards.

The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) umbrella program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI). This program continues the CSSI program by removing the distinction between software and data elements/framework implementations, and instead emphasizing integrated CI services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation.

The CSSI umbrella program anticipates two classes of awards:

EPA-USDA Next Gen Fertilizer Challenges

Deadline:

The Next Gen Fertilizer Challenge is a joint EPA-USDA partnership and competition to advance agricultural sustainability in the United States. The competition includes two challenges that seek proposals for new and existing fertilizer technologies to maintain or improve crop yields while reducing the impacts of fertilizers on the environment. • The first challenge, the EEFs: Environmental and Agronomic Challenge, aims to identify existing Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers (EEFs) that meet or exceed certain environmental and agro-economic criteria. This challenge will not have a monetary prize, but winners will receive scientific evaluation of their product and recognition from EPA, USDA, and other collaborators and participants. Proposals for this challenge due Oct. 30, 2020.

NIH PAR-19-343 Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00 - Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Deadline:
  • Project period can be up to 5 years.
  • Each award has a mentored (K99) phase and an independent (R00) phase.  Special budgetary restrictions are applied in each phase.
  • A companion announcement (PAR-19-342) was also released for Institutionally-Focused projects.
  • Another round for this solicitation will be due Feb. 12, 2021

The purpose of the MOSAIC Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) program is to support a cohort of early career, independent investigators from diverse backgrounds conducting research in NIH mission areas.

Facebook Fellowship Program

Deadline:
  • Awards are up to $42,000/year for 2 years.
  • Will cover tuition and fees, along with travel costs visit Facebook headquarters.

The Facebook Fellowship is a global program designed to encourage and support promising doctoral students who are engaged in innovative and relevant research in areas related to computer science and engineering at an accredited university.

The program is open to students in any year of their PhD study. We also encourage people of diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply, especially those from traditionally under-represented minority groups. Applications are evaluated based on the strength of the student’s research statement, publication record, and recommendation letters.

NSF 20-118 Dear Colleague Letter: UKRI/BBSRC-NSF/BIO Lead Agency Opportunity in Biological informatics, Microbes and the Host Immune System, Quantum Biology and Synthetic Cell

Deadline:
  • Feedback will be provided, and applicants will be invited to submit to the most relevant NSF opportunity anytime.

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Research Cooperation. The MOU provides an overarching framework to encourage collaboration between US and UK research communities and sets out the principles by which jointly supported activities might be developed. The MOU provides for a lead agency arrangement whereby proposals may be submitted to either NSF (via Research.gov or Grants.gov) or UKRI (via Je-S).

NSF 20-587 Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

Deadline:
  • Award provides a $34,000 stipend and a $12,000 cost of education allowance for 3 years of a 5-year fellowship.

The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the quality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time research-based master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education. The GRFP provides three years of support for the graduate education of individuals who have demonstrated their potential for significant research achievements in STEM or STEM education.

September 2020

NIH RFA-EB-20-001, BRAIN Initiative: Proof of Concept Development of Early Stage Next Generation Human Brain Imaging (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Deadline:
  • $4 million available to fund approx. 6-12 awards
  • Awards limited to $300,000 direct costs per year for up to 2 years

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), in support of the NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, aims to support early stage development of entirely new noninvasive imaging methods or unusually bold approaches for existing noninvasive imaging methods that will lead to transformative advances in our understanding of the function and connectivity of the human brain. The FOA solicits small-scale projects to prove exceptionally innovative, original and/or unconventional concepts.

Lupus Research Alliance, Global Team Science Award

Deadline:

The Lupus Research Alliance Global Team Science Awards will support interdisciplinary, collaborative, and highly synergistic projects that push the boundaries of innovation and bridge research and clinical efforts in lupus. The successful Teams will focus on unraveling human lupus heterogeneity by applying cutting-edge technologies to address critical questions that could bring about breakthroughs in lupus care, research or drug development.

NIH RFA-AG-21-003 New/Unconventional Animal Models of Alzheimer’s Disease (R24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Deadline:
  • $5.25 million available to fund approx. 4 awards.
  • No budget limit, but need to reflect the actual costs for a 4-year project.

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) invites research to develop, characterize, and validate new, unconventional, or innovative non-rodent mammalian models of late-onset (sporadic) Alzheimer's Disease (AD). These new models are expected to recapitulate molecular, cellular, neuropathological, behavioral, and/or cognitive hallmarks and aspects of late-onset AD. Research supported under this FOA is expected to provide new investigative tools to identify the gaps in current knowledge related to molecular mechanisms of late-onset AD and identify potential therapeutic targets.

Binational Agricultural R&D Fund BARD Research Proposals RFA

Deadline:
  • Funds projects conducted cooperatively by US and Israeli scientists. Covers all phases of agricultural R and D including strategic or applied research
  • Maximum amount that can be requested is $310,000 for a three year award

The primary rationale of BARD is bringing together American and Israeli scientists to address important agricultural challenges that concern both countries. Fostering this cooperation creates a synergy which generates results that would not be possible had the scientists worked independently.

USDA-NIFA-AFRI-007252 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Education and Workforce Development: Prog. Code A7601: Agricultural Workforce Training Grants

Deadline:
  • Total budgets of up to $500,000 for up to five years
  • Collaborative proposals with three or more PI/co-PIs; proposals of only one PI not permitted.
  • Funds requested may include, but are not limited to, support participant stipends and travel; costs of continuing education units; provider personnel salaries; software; and curricula.
  • Limit of one award per lead institution.

The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Education and Workforce Development (EWD) focuses on developing the next generation of research, education, and extension professionals in the food and agricultural sciences.

Mosaic Company Applications for Food, Water, and Local Investments

Deadline:

The company currently is inviting applications in support of three core areas — food, water, and local investment — in communities where it has facilities, offices, and key stakeholder agreements.

NIH PAR-20-250, NICHD Research Education Programs (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Deadline:
  • Awards limited to $150,000 direct costs per year for up to 5 years

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH.  The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on courses for Skills Development.

TREE Fund John Z. Duling Grant Program

Deadline:
  • Awards can be up to $25,000 for 1 – 3 year projects.
  • LOIs must be a maximum of 100 words.
  • 10% minimum cost share; can include unrecovered IDC
  • Must be invited to submit full proposal.

The Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund (TREE Fund) works to support the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge in arboriculture and urban forestry.

To that end, the fund welcomes applications for its John Z. Duling Grant Program to be awarded in support of innovative research and technology transfer projects that benefit arborists in their everyday work.

DoD FOA-AFRL-AFOSR-2020-0004, Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR)

Deadline:
  • Must be invited to full proposal
  • $7.2 million available to fund approx.

August 2020

NIH-RFA-HG-20-036, Advancing Genomic Medicine Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Deadline:
  • $2.4 million available to fund approx. 4 projects
  • Awards can be up to $600,000 direct costs/yr for 5 year projects

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications that stimulate innovation and advance understanding of when, where, and how best to implement the use of genomic information and technologies in clinical care, irrespective of participants’ ancestral origins or sociodemographic status. Proposed projects should be broadly applicable to genomic medicine as a field, and yield findings of significance beyond a single disease, gene, or setting.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Evidence for Action: Approaches to Advance Gender Equity From Around the Globe 2020 Call for Proposals

Deadline:
  • $100,000 and $250,000 for up to 30 months
  • Up to $1 million will be awarded

Through this special call for proposals (CFP), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Evidence for Action (E4A) program and Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions team seek the goal to translate and adapt knowledge from around the world to the United States with respect to approaches that can improve health or the determinants of health by improving gender equity. RWJF is especially interested in understanding how to change systems, norms, and practices — such as patriarchy and heterosexism — that systematically disfavor women, girls, and other groups based on gender or sexual identity.

NIH RFA-HG-20-037, Advancing Genomic Medicine Research (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)

Deadline:
  • Awards can be up to $200,000/yr in direct costs for 2 year projects

Advancing Genomic Medicine Research (Clinical Trial Optional) (R21) This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications that stimulate innovation and advance understanding of when, where, and how best to implement the use of genomic information and technologies in clinical care, irrespective of participants ancestral origins or sociodemographic status. Proposed projects should be broadly applicable to genomic medicine as a field, and yield findings of significance beyond a single disease, gene, or setting.

NSF 20-564 Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)

Deadline:
  • $3 million funding available for anticipated 15 awards
  • Funding awards between $175,000 - $350,000

The OPUS program provides an opportunity for an individual or a group of investigators to revisit and synthesize a significant body of their prior research or data they have previously collected to enable new understanding. This program is appropriate for scientists at any career stage and for any synthetic activities that aim to produce unique, integrated insight useful to the scientific community, now and in the future. All four clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology (Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and Biodiversity Science) encourage the submission of OPUS proposals.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Deep Tissue Imaging RFA

Deadline:

The CZI Deep Tissue Imaging RFA aims to advance the field of deep tissue imaging and support the development of technologies that will allow researchers to view information at cellular resolution, in complex tissue, and through skin and bone, in living organisms.

NIH PA-20-242, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent F32)

Deadline:
  • Awards may be up to 5 years for predoctoral level and 3 years at the postdoctoral level
  • Awards can be used for stipends, tuition and fees, and institutional allowance

The purpose of the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent F32) is to support research training of highly promising postdoctoral candidates who have the potential to become productive, independent investigators in scientific health-related research fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers.  Applications are expected to incorporate exceptional mentorship.

NIH RFA-RM-20-012, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2 Clinical Trial Optional)

Deadline:
  • $80 million available to fund approx. 33 awards
  • Awards expected to be up to $300,000 in direct costs for 5 year projects.

The NIH Directors New Innovator Award Program supports early stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important problems relevant to the mission of NIH. For the program to support the best possible researchers and research, applications are sought which reflect the full diversity of the research workforce. Individuals from diverse backgrounds and from the full spectrum of eligible institutions in all geographic locations are strongly encouraged to apply to this Funding Opportunity Announcement.

USDA-NIFA-AFRI-007252, Rapid Response to Novel Coronavirus (SARS-COV-2): Innovating Formal and NonFormal Educational Experiences in Food and Agricultural Sciences During the Time of Social Distancing

Deadline:
  • Regional Scale Grants – up to $1 million per project for up to two years. Not renewable
  • National Scale Grants – up to $3 million per project for project periods for up to two years. Not renewable 
  • New applications only. Only one award per institution

Before preparing an application, applicants must contact Dr. Emma Moran, (202) 309-1731 or emma.moran@usda.gov by email to inquire about the suitability of their project for submission to this program. All projects must clearly demonstrate capability of rapid implementation and should not require lengthy exploration or start-up efforts. Applicants must provide evidence that training and resources developed through the proposed project will be immediately deployed.