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Through Education for American Civic Life, the Foundation seeks to elevate the civic objectives of liberal arts education through faculty-led efforts within the curriculum grounded in the issues that define and challenge American democracy. While grappling with matters of civic knowledge, it is the Foundation’s intention for projects to also mitigate uncivil speech and behavior. Successful proposals are expected move beyond mere additions to the course catalog and reflect an approach to integrative learning that serves the student body and can be sustained beyond the life of the grant. 

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The Mercury Project is a $10M research consortium investigating the impacts of health misinformation and evaluating interventions to prevent its spread in the U.S., Africa, Asia, and Latin America. LOIs are being accepted for projects that address at least one of the following goals:

• Estimating the causal impacts of mis- and disinformation on online and offline outcomes in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, including health, economic, and/or social outcomes, differential impacts across sociodemographic groups, and quantifying the global costs of those impacts.
• Estimating the causal impacts of online or offline interventions in the U.S., Africa, Asia, and Latin America to increase uptake of Covid-19 vaccines and other recommended public health measures by countering mis- and disinformation, including interventions that target the producers or the consumers of mis- and disinformation, or that increase confidence in reliable information.

Preference will be given to interdisciplinary research teams that include a diverse set of researchers and institutions, including those located in the country in which the study is being conducted and that have deep contextual knowledge and connections. For proposals that seek to evaluate the causal impacts of offline interventions, preference will be given to projects that engage local public, nonprofit, and/or private organizations, and that propose interventions likely to be cost-effective at scale.

View the Investigating the Impacts of Health Misinformation and Evaluating Interventions opportunity

E4A funds research that expands the evidence needed to build a Culture of Health, with an explicit emphasis on advancing racial equity. Culture of Health is broadly defined as one in which good health and well-being flourish across geographic, demographic, and social sectors; public and private decision-making is guided by the goal of fostering equitable communities; and everyone has the opportunity to make choices that lead to healthy lifestyles. RWJF partners with researchers, practitioners, community leaders, advocates, and policymakers to develop evidence about what works to dismantle or remedy unjust systems and practices and produce more equitable outcomes for people and communities of color.

Funded research will evaluate specific interventions (e.g., policies, programs, practices) that have the potential to counteract the harms of structural and systemic racism and improve health, well-being, and equity outcomes. This funding is focused on studies about upstream causes of health inequities, such as the systems, structures, laws, policies, norms, and practices that determine the distribution of resources and opportunities, which in turn influence individuals’ options and behaviors. 

 View the Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity opportunity

The Sloan Foundation seeks letters of inquiry for collaborative social science research projects led by early- and mid-career scholars examining critical and under-explored questions related to issues of energy insecurity, distributional equity, and just energy system transitions in the United States.

Proposals must demonstrate the following:

• Collaboration among scholars deploying a range of research methodologies and drawn from multiple social science disciplines, either within or across universities. Relevant disciplines and fields could include but are not limited to: political science, public policy, economics, anthropology, sociology, geography, and energy systems analysis, among others.
• Submissions from diverse teams led by Black, Latino/a, and Indigenous researchers and/or women are strongly encouraged.
• Project leadership by early- and mid-career faculty at the Assistant or Associate Professor (or equivalent) levels.
• Undertaking original empirical data collection and analysis, or combining existing datasets in novel, innovative ways.
• Training of students (racial and ethnic diversity in trainees is of special interest)
• Linking research to practice by engaging a wide range of stakeholders in helping to shape the scope and conduct of research and dissemination efforts used to inform decision-making.
• Potential ability to secure additional financial support

Researchers may participate in a maximum of two proposed projects. Senior researchers and non-U.S.-based researchers may participate in proposed projects and can receive funding as research team members, advisors, or collaborators.

Interested scholars should send a letter of inquiry of no more than two pages to energy@sloan.org.

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The Thriving Cultures Program seeks to foster the conditions in which artists, culture-bearers, designers, and media-makers of color can maximize their potential as leaders, agents of social change, and designers of just systems and communities. 

Please note, Surdna is not currently accepting unsolicited LOIs for this program, but expects to in early 2019.

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The Inclusive Economies Program seeks to foster the creation of an inclusive and equitable economy in which people of color can maximize their potential as leaders, creators and innovators across sectors. This program supports business start-up and growth, as well as equitable economic development.

Please note, Surdna is not currently accepting unsolicited LOIs for this program, but expects to in early 2019.

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The Sustainable Environments Program seeks to support communities of color and low-wealth communities to direct infrastructure and land use investment dollars, drive decision-making processes and design policy solutions because those who are disproportionately impacted by environmental and climate inequity have the most powerful solutions to resolve these inequities. The Foundation focuses on two core areas: environmental and climate justice, and land use through community power.

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This award program accepts inquiries throughout the year, and it's three core programs include: Criminal Justice, Youth Justice, and Workers' Rights.

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The program is intended to support high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis.

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This program supports research to help resolve an important emerging or unanswered problem in clinical, biomedical or public health decision-making, policy, or practice. The program aims to fund projects that promote the Foundation’s vision and mission through innovative bioethics research that will have a real-world, practical impact. 

The Foundation is particularly interested in proposals that address the ethical and policy issues raised by the following priority topics:

• The COVID-19 pandemic and other public health crises, including their impact on mental health;
• Bias and discrimination against patients or clinicians, which may be based on a broad range of characteristics and which may involve institutional and systemic contributors to bias and racism as well as health disparities or social determinants of health;
• Trust in science, medicine, and public health;
• Developments in artificial intelligence;
• Responses to the opioid epidemic;
• Healthcare access, costs, and resource allocation.

Proposals for projects that address other real-world, practical bioethics problems are also welcome. 

Projects may be empirical, conceptual, or normative. Projects to analyze the normative implications of already-completed empirical research are encouraged. Successful teams commonly involve a bioethics scholar and persons with on-the-ground experience with the bioethics dilemma, for example, in clinical care; biomedical research; biotechnology, pharmaceutical, big data, and artificial intelligence companies; or public service.

LOIs are due January 4, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due March 11, 2022.

View the Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas opportunity

The Cancer Research Foundation Young Investigator Awards are two-year research grants to be awarded to cancer scientists at the beginning of their investigative careers. These grants are intended to support scientists who have little or no established funding "track records" and who have not yet qualified for significant external research support at the time of submission. The Cancer Research Foundation is particularly interested in funding research focused on decoding the mechanics of cancer, its development, diagnosis and treatment, using genomics, informatics, molecular engineering, or image-oriented research, among other scientific disciplines.

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The purpose of the Physician Scientist Fellowship (PSF) program is to: 1) support physician scientists in subspecialty training to lead and conduct an outstanding clinical research project; 2) ensure research time protection to enable development of research skills; and 3) facilitate strong mentorship relations. The PSF award aims to support research during final years of subspecialty fellowship and aid in the transition into a research faculty appointment.

A clinical research project, defined as the scientific investigation of the etiology, prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of human disease using human subjects, human populations or materials of human origin, must be proposed in any disease area. Included in the definition are studies that utilize tissues or pathogens only if they can be linked to a patient.

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This program is paused indefinitely.

These grants are intended to provide support for the investigation of key unresolved research questions in autism, particularly those that connect etiology to brain function and behavior. Risk and novelty are welcome but are not required criteria for the proposal to be considered meritorious. Competitive applications will have preliminary data or other relevant groundwork that justifies substantial investment on the proposed topic

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Grants awarded through this request for applications (RFA) are intended to advance the understanding of ASD through analyses of human postmortem brain tissue donated to the Autism BrainNet collection.

Through this RFA, the Simons Foundation encourages individual and collaborative applications that study and compare gene expression at the tissue and single-cell level. Such analyses could also include alternative splicing/isoform analysis, RNA editing, noncoding RNAs, epigenetic modifications and/or proteomics. We also welcome studies of cellular neuroanatomy and immunohistochemical research on identified transmitter systems. For all studies, there is a nonexclusive emphasis on the cortex.

View the Analysis of Postmortem Brain Tissue from the Autism BrainNet Collection opportunity

The McKnight Scholar Awards encourage neuroscientists in the early stages of their careers to focus on disorders of learning and memory. The Scholar Awards support young scientists who: hold an M.D. and/or Ph.D. degree; have completed formal postdoctoral training; and demonstrate a commitment to neuroscience. The Endowment Fund especially seeks applicants working on problems that, if solved at the basic level, would have immediate and significant impact on clinically relevant issues.

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The mission of the Leakey Foundation is to increase scientific knowledge, education, and public understanding of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival. Current funding priorities include 1) paleoanthropology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene; and 2) primates (old and new world), including evolution, behavior, morphology, ecology, endocrinology, genetics, isotope studies, and modern hunter-gatherer groups.

Most grants range between $3,000-$15,000. Proposals of up to $25,000 will be considered.

Applications are accepted on January 10 and July 15 annually.

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This program provides support for career development activities for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows for stellar careers in biomedical or medical research.

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The W. T. Grant Foundation funds research that increases our understanding of the programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes, and strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.

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The Foundation supports scholarly research in the life sciences. The program is designed for researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. 

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The Whitehall Foundation supports scholarly research in the life sciences. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology.

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The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship program for early career researchers aiming at improving the development and living conditions of children and youth. This includes, but is not limited to educational sciences, psychology, economics, sociology, family studies, media studies, political sciences, linguistics, neurosciences, and medical sciences. Applicants should have received their PhDs within the past 10 years.

The total award is CHF 165'000 (approximately $180,000 USD).

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In a collaborative effort, the Arthritis National Research Foundation (ANRF) and the National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF) are seeking grant applications that focus on studying psoriatic arthritis.

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ANRF seeks applications focused on studying arthritis and related autoimmune diseases including, but not limited to osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile arthritis, lupus, psoriatic arthritis, gout, scleroderma, fibromyalgia and ankylosing spondylitis.

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The Moore Foundation's Experimental Physics Investigators initiative will provide support for creative mid-career individuals and their research teams to advance our understanding of physical phenomena and promote equity and inclusion in experimental physics communities. Investigators must have earned tenure (or equivalent) at their U.S. institution and be within four years of that appointment at the time of application. 

Fields of primary interest include atomic/molecular/optical physics, biophysics, chemical physics, condensed matter, fluid dynamics, geophysics, laser physics, materials, polymer physics, plasma physics, precision measurements, quantum information, soft matter physics, as well as detector and novel experimental design work in astrophysics/astronomy, exotic matter searches, fusion, gravitational physics, and nuclear physics.

Theoretical and computational work is not supported unless part of the applicant's larger experimental research efforts. High energy physics proposals are eligible if considering novel detector designs or other approaches that might pave the way to fundamentally new discoveries. Ongoing work of large collaborations, education research, and public engagement efforts will not be supported.

Pre-proposals are due are due January 25, 2022 (extended). Invited Stage 2 proposals will be due in mid-April 2022.

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This initiative provides timely support to a small number of research projects that are relatively high risk but which offer significant promise of yielding transforming discoveries in the fundamental biology of aging. 

LOIs are due January 25, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due in mid-May 2022.

View the Breakthroughs in Gerontology Award opportunity

The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 up through $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method.

The Intent to Apply form must be completed by January 26, 2022. The full proposal is due February 23, 2022.

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This grant is intended to stimulate collaboration in the field primarily through the funding of travel and related expenditures.

View the Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians opportunity

Supported work will contribute to large databases of information that can be shared and widely used, as well as identify possible mechanisms of intervention. The Foundation encourages applicants to develop collaborative proposals involving 2-3 labs. Grants will be up to $250,000 per year per PI for a period up to 3 years.

View the Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain - Targeted Collaborative Awards opportunity

The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood supports promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. Welfare is broadly defined to include physical and mental health, safety, nutrition, education, play, familial support, acculturation, societal integration and childcare.

Grants are only made if a successful project outcome will likely be of significant interest to other professionals, within the grantee’s field of endeavor, and would have a direct benefit and potential national application. The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale. 

Grants are made in the areas of:

• early childhood welfare
• early childhood education and play
• parenting education

Grants typically range between $25,000 and $50,000. LOIs are due January 31, 2022. 

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The Jane Coffin Childs (JCC) Memorial Fund for Medical Research supports research into the causes and treatment of cancer. The Fund has taken a broad approach to the study of cell growth and development, emphasizing the study of the basic biology and chemistry of the underlying processes. Applicants in general should not have more than one year of postdoctoral experience, PhDs must not have been conferred 18 months prior to the deadline date, and MDs should not have been conferred more than three years prior to the date the application is due. 

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The goal of this program is to enhance quality of life for individuals and their families living with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) through grants to support innovative programs/projects that improve participation and independence. Areas of focus include: assistive technology, education, employment, independent living, rehabilitation, and arts, sports and recreation.

LOIs are due February 1, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due April 23, 2021.

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The Ruth K. Broad Foundation seeks applications focused on advancing understanding of neurodegenerative disorders, with particular interest in the potential relationship to Alzheimer’s disease.

View the Award for Advancing Understanding of Neurodegenerative Disorders opportunity

The Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award supports independent young physician-scientists conducting disease-oriented research that demonstrates a high level of innovation and creativity. The goal is to support the best young physician-scientists doing work aimed at improving the practice of cancer medicine.

Note: Investigators must be nominated by the institution in order to apply.

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The ADDF offers funding to researchers for Alzheimer's drug discovery, clinical trials, and biomarker development research. Core request for proposals include:

• Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials (PACT), award amount: up to $3,000,000
• Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Development, award amount: up to $600,000
• Prevention Pipeline, award amount: up to $3,000,000
• Drug Development, award amount: up to $600,000 

LOIs are due February 4, 2022. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due April 8, 2022.

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The Leukemia Research Foundation exclusively funds New Investigators – individuals beginning to establish their own laboratories that are no longer under the tutelage of a senior scientist mentor. Preference is given to proposals that focus on leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and/or MDS . New Investigators are considered to be within seven years of their first independent position. 

LOIs are due February 4, 2022. Invited full applications will be due April 4, 2022.

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The David & Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowships for Science and Engineering provide the nation’s most promising early career scientists and engineers with flexible funding and the freedom to take risks and explore new frontiers in their fields of study. Packard Fellows must be faculty members within the first three years of their faculty career who are eligible to serve as principal investigators engaged in research in physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering. Recipients will receive individual grants of $875,000 distributed over five years.

This is a limited submission opportunity. Internal letters of intent are due February 7, 2022. If selected to move forward, the sponsor proposal will be due April 20, 2022.

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The Zenith Fellows award provides a vehicle for research support for donors with a substantial personal commitment to the advancement of Alzheimer’s and all other dementia research. The proposed research should address fundamental problems related to early detection, etiology, pathogenesis, treatment and/or prevention of Alzheimer’s and all other dementia. The proposed research must be “on the cutting edge” of basic science or biomedical research and thus may not conform to current conventional scientific wisdom or may challenge the prevailing orthodoxy.

Basic biology: these are bench science projects involving in vitro or animal work pertaining to the causes of dementia; early and accurate detection and diagnosis; animal models; treatments; and prevention. This may also include computation studies, such as mining existing datasets for genes linked to risk or other such studies. Please note that in vitro work involving human samples falls into this category.
 
Clinical investigations: projects in which the majority of data is derived directly from studies involving active participation of human subjects. Examples include pilot studies of new therapies; neuropsychological testing; drug administration; biomarker collection; imaging technology; and risk factors including genetics, cardiovascular issues, diabetes and metabolic factors and lifestyle issues. In vitro projects conducted in human samples should be categorized as basic biology rather than clinical investigations. Note that this definition of clinical investigation does not extend to clinical trials which will not be considered for funding under the Zenith program.

LOIs are due February 8, 2022. Invited full applications will be due March 25, 2021.

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The Joyce Foundation invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region. The Foundation accepts applications in the following program areas:

• Culture
• Democracy
• Education & Economic Mobility
• Environment
• Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform

LOIs are to be submitted at least 6-8 weeks in advance of the full proposal deadline (April 6, 2022). 

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This program supports researchers developing new methodologies or innovative approaches in regulatory science that will ultimately inform the regulatory decisions the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and others make. Individuals trained in mathematics, computer science, applied physics, medicine, engineering, toxicology, epidemiology, biostatistics, systems pharmacology, food safety and nutrition, etc, are encouraged to apply.

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Digital Justice Grants are designed to promote and provide resources for newly formulated projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues. 

ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grants ($10K-$25K) and Development Grants ($50K-$100K) support projects that pursue any of the following activities:

• Engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities; people with disabilities; and queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people.
• Explore or experiment with new materials, methodologies, and research agendas by way of planning workshops, prototyping, and/or testing products.
• Cultivate greater openness to new sources of knowledge and strategic approaches to content building and knowledge dissemination.  

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These awards are presented to highly promising, early career scientists and are aimed at advancing cutting-edge investigations in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The fellowship awards promote higher risk projects.

View the Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience opportunity

The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) is soliciting applications from early career investigators for Innovator Awards to be used for exploring the basic biology and translational potential of stem cells. The goal of this initiative is to foster bold and innovative scientists with the potential to transform the field of stem cell research, and advance understanding and use of stem cells in the development of treatments for human disease.

For this application year, NYSCF is extending its eligibility criterion to be within 6 years of starting a faculty (professorship) position on June 1, 2022 due to the pandemic.

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The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) is soliciting applications from early career investigators for Innovator Awards in Neuroscience. The goal of this initiative is to foster truly bold, innovative scientists with the potential to transform the field of neuroscience. Applicants are encouraged in all areas of neuroscience and do not need to be working in areas related to stem cells. Investigators must have completed their MD, PhD, and/or DPhil degree and be within 6 years of starting a faculty or comparable position on June 1, 2022. An additional year of eligibility was added this year due to the pandemic.

NYSCF especially encourages applications from neuroscientists whose research is focused on human systems. This might include research using patient-derived model systems and approaches using samples or data (genomic, epidemiological, imaging, real-world data, etc.) collected from individuals or human populations.

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This Request for Applications (RFA) aims to advance technology directed at the goal of obtaining near-atomic resolution readouts inside the cell. This RFA is explicitly aimed at technology development. It is not intended to support question-driven basic or translational research, clinical trials, or drug development. Preliminary data is encouraged but not required.

Examples of research themes include:

• Hardware and software development to enhance contrast and resolution for electron tomography, high-resolution correlated light and electron microscopy (CLEM), and FIB-SEM. 
• Sample preparation improvements for electron tomography, or high-resolution correlated light and electron microscopy (CLEM) approaches, and FIB-SEM.
• Software development or development of new computational techniques and algorithms for identifying protein molecules inside cells or segmenting cellular sub-structures.

Award amounts will be determined on a per project basis.

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The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) is accepting applications for funding of courses or conferences relevant to the SCGB mission. Of particular interest are courses that focus on training in computational and theoretical neuroscience. Courses and conferences that focus on the fields of systems and computational neuroscience are also encouraged to apply. 

Email inquiries are due February 22, 2022. Invited applications will be due March 1, 2022.

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The Thomas Jefferson Fund supports cooperation among the most promising young French and American researchers, and fosters forward-looking collaborative research that addresses the most pressing global challenges. The Thomas Jefferson Fund aims to encourage innovative research of the highest quality and new collaborations, and especially seeks to support projects involving young researchers (post-docs, PhDs). Applications are accepted in: Humanities and Social Sciences; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; and Science for Society (interdisciplinary STEM-HSS projects). Awards are up to $20,000 over two years.

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Production and Presentation Grants assist organizations with the production-related expenses that are necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation. These projects include, but are not limited to, publications, exhibitions, installations, films, new media projects, conferences/lectures, and other public programs.

If applying for publication support, the organization should have a committed publisher for the work, that is, a publisher with whom you have a contractual agreement to publish your project.

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The Hearing Health Foundation accepts applications for its Emerging Research Grants program in seven priority areas: general hearing health, central auditory processing disorders, hearing loss in children, hyperacusis, Meniere's disease, ototoxic medications, tinnitus, and Usher syndrome. Only early career scientists may apply in the general hearing health category. 

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The 2022 Knowledge Challenge RFP is intended to support activities that improve our understanding of entrepreneurship and generate practical, actionable, and rigorous evidence to inform decision making and change systems. Applicants will be asked to select one of the following focus areas:

• Systems and structures to support inclusive prosperity: This area will explore the infrastructure needed to support entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship.
• Equitable opportunities and the future of work: This area will explore how entrepreneurial activity might be structured as the economy emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Foundation encourages applications from teams of principal investigators (PIs) that represent two or more disciplines and teams that represent research-practice collaborations. Applicants may request funding up to $200,000 for projects led by a single PI and up to $400,000 for projects led by a team of collaborating PIs (interdisciplinary teams and research-practice collaborations) over 36 months. Applicants with smaller project budgets and scopes are also encouraged to apply. 

Stage 1 applications are due February 28, 2022. Invited Stage 2 proposals will be due May 2, 2022.

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The Bridge to Independence award program engages talented early-career scientists in autism research by facilitating their transition to research independence and providing grant funding at the start of their professorships. The award is aimed at Ph.D. and M.D. -holding scientists who are currently in training positions but intend to seek tenure-track research faculty positions during the upcoming academic year.

The BTI Award program welcomes applications that span the breadth of science that SFARI normally supports, including genetics, molecular mechanisms, circuits and systems, and clinical science.

Applications from scientists working on autism-related projects are encouraged, but the award is also open to researchers who are not currently working on autism but who are interested in starting research projects in this area and who have expertise that could be brought to bear on autism.

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Up to eight awards will be made for up to $10M total funding to support technology development in 1) Protein Lifespan and 2) Nutrient Sensing. 

• Protein Lifespan: Seeking innovative proposals for technology development and for research supporting technological innovation that will ultimately deepen our understanding of proteins and how they age, from synthesis to degradation.
• Nutrient Sensing: Seeking LOIs for development of technology to sense and/or visualize nutrients at the subcellular level.

The funder encourages researchers from across career stages, who are members of underserved groups, and/or who have followed less-traditional career paths to apply. PIs may participated on up to two LOI submissions total per call.

LOIs are due March 1, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due June 15, 2022.

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The Another Look grant program provides funding for health-related research projects that can improve the quality of care and the quality of life for adults who are 65 year or older and who are long term residents living in nursing homes, assisted living, and other congregate care facilities. This program requires researchers to rely on existing datasets to address the research question they seek to answer. Limited collection of new data is allowed if it will enhance the utility of the project outcomes to improve quality in care facilities. Researchers applying for this grant must include a stakeholder in the care delivery or policy arena with whom they will collaborate.

Letters of intent are due March 1, 2022. Invited applications will be due June 7, 2022.

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The Fund intends to enable and enhance development of identified gifted and talented children and adolescents, and encourage promising psychologists to continue innovative research and programs in this area. The Fund supports activities on the advancement and application of knowledge related to the psychological understanding of gifted and talented children and adolescents, including research, pilot projects, and research-based programs.

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Furthermore grants assist nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. The organization looks for work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production, and promises a reasonable shelf life.

Applications are accepted on March 1 and September 1 annually.

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• Advocacy: Achieving enduring social change around issues that affect older Americans
• Direct Service: Improve availability and quality of community-based and residential long-term services and supports
• Professional Education and Training: Increase the competency of professionals and paraprofessionals who serve older adults
• Research: Seek causes and solutions to significant problems for older adults

LOIs (optional) are due March 1 annually for the full proposal deadline of May 1.

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The Digital Art History Grants program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support may also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially essential art history photographic archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history. 

LOIs are due March 1; if selected to move forward, full proposals will be due April 1.

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The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era.

LOIs are due March 1; if selected to move forward, full proposals will be due April 1.

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The Wayne F. Placek Grant encourages research to increase the general public's understanding of homosexuality and sexual orientation, and to alleviate the stress that lesbian women, gay men, bisexual women, bisexual men and transgender individuals experience in this and future civilizations. 

View the Wayne F. Placek Grants for LGBT Issues opportunity

The History of Art program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture.

LOIs are due March 1; if selected to move forward, full proposals will be due April 1.

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The Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration Grant supports partnerships between academic or organizational researchers and clinical practitioners to conduct collaborative studies in practice settings that are designed to enhance evidence for improving communication sciences and disorders (CSD) services. The funding can be applied to one- or two-year studies.

Proposed studies must address a clinical problem/question that has direct application and is compatible to practice. This grant is designed to support preliminary research that will lead to a larger-scale study. The research question may originate with the researcher or the practitioner, but be of substantial interest to both in their mutual areas of expertise. The collaborative effort is central to this unique funding opportunity.

Interested applicants must submit an Intent to Submit form by March 2, 2022. Full proposals are due April 20, 2022.

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The New Century Scholars Research Grant is designed to advance knowledge, tools, and techniques in communication sciences and disorders. While proposal type and content area are not restricted, this grant supports studies that are innovative, have a promise of major impact, or can meet research needs not yet addressed. The funding can be applied to a one- or two-year study. These grants are not intended to provide additional or extended support for an established and funded research effort.

Interested applicants must submit an Intent to Submit form by March 2, 2022. Full proposals are due April 20, 2022.

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This grant program supports projects that advance our understanding of wholesome mental qualities and positive interpersonal and social action related to Prosociality, Empathy, Altruism, Compassion, and Ethics (PEACE). Mind & Life PEACE grants will fund projects that advance our understanding of the mechanisms, implementation, and outcomes of contemplative approaches to promote well-being and prosocial behavior in individuals and communities. The program encourages the active collaboration of scientists with contemplative scholars/practitioners in all phases of research. Proposals should examine one or more of the following:

• practices, methods, or interventions that may cultivate PEACE qualities,
• basic mechanisms (psychological, physiological, social, developmental, etc.) underlying PEACE qualities and their growth, and
• the development of measures to rigorously assess PEACE qualities in various contexts (both in the laboratory and in the real world).

While projects do not need to have an immediate applied component, applicants should make clear how the proposed research could support positive action in the world. 

LOIs are due March 2, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due July 29, 2022.

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The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation) invites new researchers to submit proposals in competition for up to ten research grants of $10,000 each. The New Investigators Research Grant competition is designed to help further new investigators' research activities by funding preliminary studies that could launch larger-scale research investigations. Investigators must have completed a PhD or equivalent research doctorate within the past five years. Research, while not limited in topic, should be focused to match the one-year scope and should have clinical relevance to audiology and/or speech-language pathology.

Interested applicants must submit an Intent to Submit form by March 2, 2022. Full proposals are due April 20, 2022.

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The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation) invites new investigators to submit proposals in competition for one $10,000 grant underwritten by an endowment fund in memory of the late Dr. Dennis Klatt. The grant can be used to initiate new research or supplement an existing research study. Funds may be requested for a variety of purposes—for example, equipment, subjects, research assistants, or research-related travel. Investigators must have completed a PhD or equivalent research doctorate within the past five years.

Interested applicants must submit an Intent to Submit form by March 2, 2022. Full proposals are due April 20, 2022.

View the Speech Science Grant opportunity

The goal of the portfolio is to develop sound data to inform and disseminate best practices that produce better outcomes, improving quality of life for people living with spinal cord injury. This research explores the interrelation of behavioral, social and psychological factors that influence participation, health practice, lifestyle, and support systems in community and clinical settings.

Postdoctoral Fellowships are up to $150,000 for two years. Pilot grants are up to $200,000 for two years. Studies and demonstration projects are up to $400,000 for three years.

LOIs are due March 3, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due July 12, 2022.

View the Psychosocial Research Grants opportunity.

This program will provide support for instrumentation acquisition, development, and maintenance; support for data science collaborations within research teams; and costs for the proposed research programs. 

Proposals should be centered around core biological problems and a research program that is enabled by the dynamic, 3D, and long-term imaging capabilities of advanced light-sheet microscopy. Proposals shall include one-page descriptions of up to 3 distinct research project(s) to which the light-sheet capability will be applied that will represent significant advances within this larger research program. Additional consideration will be given to proposals that include other imaging, sensing, or analysis technologies as an integral part of one or more of the proposed research project(s).

Pre-proposals are due March 6, 2020. Invitations to the full proposal stage are expected to be made in June 2020.

View the Instrumentation Grant for Advanced Light-Sheet Microscopy and Data Science opportunity

The goal of this program is to test new approaches and tools that organizations can readily use to improve the value of the healthcare they provide to their patients and communities. In order to be eligible, investigators must partner with an organization that delivers healthcare services. 

LOIs are due March 8, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due June 16, 2022.

View the Greater Value Portfolio opportunity

The 2023 Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Awards LOI deadline will be announced in September 2022.

The McKnight Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Awards (formally the Memory and Cognitive Disorders Awards) encourage research aimed at translating laboratory discoveries about the brain and nervous system into diagnoses and therapies to improve human health. Collaborative projects between basic and clinical neuroscientists are welcome, as are proposals that help link basic with clinical neuroscience.

 View the Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Awards opportunity

Academic program funding is available for in-person exchanges such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia that advance scholarship in the field of American art (circa 1500–1980) that take place:

• In Chicago or outside the United States, or
• In the United States, with at least one-third of the participants coming from outside the United States.

Additionally, the foundation welcomes applications for international research groups that involve 2 to 4 faculty members from two or more academic institutions, at least one of which must be located outside the United States. Groups should pursue specific research questions that will advance scholarship and meet in person two or more times. This opportunity excludes projects on architecture and commercial film/animation.

This application cycle is for programs taking place after January 1, 2023. LOIs are due March 15, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due June 15, 2022. 

View the Academic Workshop & Symposium Grants opportunity

Fellowships are available for theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention. Applicants must have completed at least an MD, PhD, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, or equivalent. Level 1 applicants (basic and physician scientists) must have received their degrees no more than 18 months prior to the deadline. Level 2 applicants (physician scientists-Mc, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, or equivalent) must have completed their residencies and clinical training, be board eligible, and able to donate at least 80% of their time to these activities.

View the Damon Runyon Fellowship Award opportunity

The purpose of this program is to encourage the development of medical research in child health by awarding small grants to new researchers. The Fund is open to a wide variety of research topics. They do not focus on a particular disease, but all funded projects deal directly with children's health. Those eligible to apply include physicians who are in a residency/fellowship training program; physicians who completed their residency program no more than one year before the date of submission of the Concept Paper; or postdoctoral researchers who received the doctoral level degree no more than three years prior to the date of submission of the Concept Paper. 

Concept papers are due March 15, 2022. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due May 6, 2022.

View the Early Career Awards for Children's Health opportunity

The Distinguished Scientist Award (DSA) seeks to provide career and research support to early career scientists who demonstrate outstanding promise for making scientific and medical breakthroughs in the field of brain cancer research. 

Applicants must have received their first independent, tenure-track faculty appointment no earlier than January 1, 2017 and no later than January 1, 2022. The applicant's career track and proposed research should demonstrate potential to generate new knowledge relating to causes, cure or treatment of primary brain tumors/brain cancer.

View the Distinguished Scientist Award - Brain Cancer opportunity

The mission of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by funding innovative research of the highest quality and relevance.

The goal of the Pilot Award is to provide early support for exploratory ideas, particularly those with novel hypotheses. Appropriate projects for this mechanism include those considered higher risk but with the potential for transformative results. In particular, the Foundation encourages applications that propose research to link genetic or other ASD risk factors to molecular, cellular, circuit or behavioral mechanisms and set the stage for development of novel interventions.

View the Pilot Award opportunity

Applicants must be women who:

• Earned a Ph.D. in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, or any chemistry related field.
• Are early in a research career as teaching or research staff with 10 or fewer years since earning a Ph.D, at the time of application (postdoctoral fellows are not eligible)
• Are teaching or research staff members originating independent research at an American Ph.D.-granting institution.
• Are American-born, naturalized citizens or permanent residents.

View the Marion Milligan Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences opportunity

The Energy and Environment program at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supports research, training, networking, and dissemination efforts to inform the societal transition toward low-carbon energy systems in the United States by investigating economic, environmental, technological, and distributional issues. The program is currently soliciting Letters of Inquiry for collaborative research projects led by early- and mid-career scholars to examine critical and under-explored questions related to issues of widespread energy system electrification, especially those related to energy infrastructure resiliency and energy system adaptation to climate change in the United States.

Projects are expected to feature collaboration among scholars deploying a range of research methodologies and drawn from multiple social science, engineering, or natural science disciplines, either within or across universities. Relevant disciplines and fields could include but are not limited to: political science, public policy, economics, anthropology, sociology, geography, and energy systems analysis, among others. Projects are also expected to contain a student training component. 

LOIs are due March 22, 2022. A small number of proposals will be invited to submit full proposals. The initial set of award decisions is expected at the end of 2022.

View the Collaborative Research Projects on Energy System Electrification opportunity

The Young Investigator Grant enables promising investigators in neuroscience and psychiatry to either extend research fellowship training or begin careers as independent research faculty. Funding is intended to help young investigators gather pilot data to apply for larger federal and university grants. All research must be relevant to our understanding, treatment, and prevention of serious psychiatric disorders or early onset brain and behavior disorders.

Applicants must have a doctoral degree and be employed in research training of a faculty research position. Postdoctoral fellows, instructors, and assistant professors are eligible to apply. Assistant professors who have served as a PI on a NIH R01 grant are not eligible for this award.

View the Young Investigator Grant opportunity

HFSP grants support innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems, with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries. Research grants are provided for teams of scientists (2-4 members, no previous collaborations) from different countries who wish to combine their expertise in innovative approaches to questions that could not be answered by individual laboratories. Participation of scientists from disciplines outside the traditional life sciences such as biophysics, chemistry, computational biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, nanoscience or physics is recommended .

There are two types of grants:

• Early Career Grants: Awarded to teams of researchers, all of whom must direct a research group, be within 5 years of obtaining an independent position, and within 10 years of obtaining their first doctoral degree (see guidelines for details).
• Research Grants - Program: Awarded to teams of independent researchers at any stage of their careers. The research team is expected to develop new lines of research through the collaboration.

LOIs must be initiated by March 24, 2022 and are due March 31, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due in September 2022.

View the Research Grants - Science and Engineering opportunity

This grant program advances ALSF’s mission to find cures and better treatments for childhood cancers by providing support to move hypothesis-driven research into the clinic. The Reach Grant provides support for important preclinical projects that are necessary to move a study from the pre-clinical arena into a clinical
trial, thereby supporting late-translational studies.

View the Reach Grant - Pediatric Cancer opportunity

The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) is a global effort to create a reference map of all cell types in the healthy human body in order to generate a fundamental reference for biomedical research and improve our understanding of health and disease. 

This RFA welcomes proposals that will make significant contributions toward single-cell reference data for the community of patients, clinicians, and researchers engaged in pediatric research. It is intended to support active collaborative teams of researchers that have access to established resources and protocols that are ready to be extended and scaled. The opportunity is also intended to support new collaborative teams that will benefit from the experience of existing teams while bringing complementary and differentiated perspectives and resources. The opportunity aims to support a variety of collaborative teams that will all make contributions to the larger community via regular engagement and sharing of learnings, data, samples, and other resources.

View the Pediatric Networks for the Human Cell Atlas opportunity

This program provides funding for software developers from any career stage and discipline to develop digital tools that will improve climate-sensitive infectious disease modelling. By the end of the award, successful applicants will have delivered a piece of open-source digital technology that will increase the impact of research in addressing this threat to health. It is expected that the development of the tool will take place in the early part of the award; later years will be used for maintenance of the software. 

The award amount is £ 500,000, approximately $680,000 USD.

View the Digital Technology Development Awards opportunity

VentureWell is seeking proposals with innovative ideas related to the development of new courses and programs or strengthening existing courses and programs that incorporate key concepts of sustainability and environmental responsibility with the end goal of developing novel inventions and technologies. Special consideration will be given to proposals that demonstrate clear support for student innovations that are dedicated to climate change solutions (i.e. mitigation and/or adaptation, as well as innovations to existing products or systems that address an opportunity to become carbon neutral or net-zero energy).

Internal LOIs are due April 1, 2021. If selected, the sponsor proposal will be due May 19, 2021.

View the Sustainable Design Faculty Grants opportunity.

This special program is designed to support education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. Studies should aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of educational inequality in education, and seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education. Thus, the Foundation is interested in research projects that seek to envision educational opportunities in a multiplicity of education systems, levels, settings, and developmental ranges and that reach beyond documenting conditions and paradigms that contribute to persistent racial inequalities.

Like other Spencer Foundation programs, this program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not required to be developed around a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or geographic location. 

Intent to Apply forms are due April 1, 2022. Full proposals are due April 7, 2022.

View the Racial Equity Special Research Grants opportunity

This opportunity seeks to advance the understanding of human cognition and behavior via a developmental science approach. JSMF is seeking projects leading to new conceptual and empirical studies of cognition and behavior that: 

• recognize the dynamic nature of cognition and behavior,
• are situated in real world contexts,
• cross levels of analysis,
• unite traditionally separate domains of inquiry (e.g. vision and speech),
• embrace complexity, and
• consider how behavior is influenced by interactions among individuals.

JSMF is encouraging researchers to pursue important questions using conceptual and methodological approaches that takes seriously the trajectories, biological and experiential, contributing to the ongoing development of cognition and behavior occurring across the lifespan. 

Opportunity awards will not provide additional support for already established research programs. 

View the Opportunity Awards - Human Cognition opportunity

The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas:

• Applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations (e.g. serious mental illness, returning military, those who are incarcerated or economically disadvantaged)
• Preventing violence
• Understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity)
• Understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice (e.g. race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability and socioeconomic status)

Preference will be given to pilot projects that, if successful, would be strong candidates for support from major federal and foundation funding agencies, and “demonstration projects” that promise to generalize broadly to similar settings in other geographical areas and/or to other settings.

View the Visionary Grants opportunity

The Foundation seeks to support projects to develop and test the feasibility of new programs for promoting positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children (birth through 18 years) from underserved groups and/or low-resourced communities (minority ethnic groups, low-income families), as well as projects that evaluate the effectiveness of such programs.

Grants have ranged from $25,000 to $790,000.

LOIs are due April 1, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due August 1, 2022.

View the Brady Education Foundation opportunity 

Grants support studies to develop, refine, evaluate, or disseminate innovative interventions designed to prevent or ameliorate major social, psychological, behavioral, or public health problems affecting children, adults, couples, families, or communities.

Applications are accepted in April and November each year.

View the Research Grants in Human Services opportunity

The broad goal of the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders program is to produce diverse interdisciplinary leaders who conduct and apply high-quality, community-engaged, action-oriented, equity-focused health research in order to drive improvements in the health of communities. This opportunity seeks teams of researchers and community members who are committed to working together to produce community-relevant, action-oriented research to improve health and well-being. 

The program will recruit and select applicant organizations represented by teams of three people: two mid-career researchers and one community member to become IRL program fellows. IRL teams will join together as a diverse cohort of fellows that will participate in a three-year program.

View the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders opportunity

The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to early career investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. The program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding individuals at the assistant professor level. As of September 8, 2022, applicants must hold a full-time appointment at the rank of assistant professor. Pew Scholar awards provide a total of $300,000 over four years.

Northwestern's internal application deadline is April 5, 2022. If selected, the sponsor proposal will be due September 8, 2022.

View the Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences opportunity

The William T. Grant Scholars Program awards $350,000 over five years for early career researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. We encourage Scholars to tackle important questions that will advance theory, policy, and practice for youth. Applicants identify new methods, disciplines, or content they want to learn, and propose five-year research plans that foster their growth in those areas. We recognize that early career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take such risks, so this award includes a mentoring component. Potential Scholars should have a promising track record of conducting high-quality research, but want to pursue a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers.

Internal LOIs are due April 5, 2022. If selected to move forward, the sponsor proposal will be due July 6, 2022.

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The Dreyfus program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering provides funding for innovative projects in any area of Machine Learning (ML) consistent with the Foundation’s broad objective to advance the chemical sciences and engineering. The Foundation anticipates that these projects will contribute new fundamental chemical understanding, insight, and innovation in the field.

The award amount is not specified, however, awards averaged approximately $100,000 in 2020. Please see more information about the 2020 awards here.

View the Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering opportunity

The Mellon Foundation invites ideas for research and/or curricular projects focused on any of the three areas outlined below:

• Civic Engagement and Voting Rights: Ideas for scholarly and/or curricular projects that illuminate the significance of voting rights controversies in any period of US history, from any of the various angles of approach that characterize work in the humanities. Proposals that focus on the role of college and university communities in expanding voter access, whether historically or in the contemporary moment are especially welcome.
• Race and Racialization in the United States: Ideas for collective research, curricular innovation, and/or program development focused on any aspect of race and racialization in US culture and society, and are particularly interested in projects that would investigate the relationships and tensions between the social-structural constitution of race, on the one hand, and subjective experiences of it, on the other.
• Social Justice and the Literary Imagination: Inquiries might outline curricular development, new scholarship, community engagement, writer convenings, and other efforts that highlight and advance the role of literature—from canonical works to less-studied popular writing—in truth-telling and social change.

Only three submissions per university are permitted. Please email s-fodor@northwestern.edu if you are interested in applying. Internal LOIs are due April 11, 2022. If invited to submit, the full proposal to the funder will be due May 16, 2022.

View the Higher Learning - Humanities opportunity

SCPAB’s Transition to Independence (TTI) Award supports talented early-career scientists by facilitating their transition to research independence in the field of cognitive aging and providing grant funding at the start of their professorships. This request for applications (RFA) is aimed at Ph.D. and M.D.-holding scientists who are currently in training positions but intend to seek tenure-track research faculty positions during the upcoming academic job cycle.

View the Simons Collaboration on tPlasticity and the Aging Brain - Transition to Independence opportunity

SCGB’s TTI Award program aims to facilitate the transition of outstanding systems and computational neuroscientists from historically underrepresented backgrounds to research independence. This request for applications (RFA) is aimed at Ph.D. and M.D.-holding scientists who are currently in training positions but intend to seek tenure-track research faculty positions during the upcoming academic job cycle. Applicants must not have accepted a formal offer for a tenure-track faculty position.

View the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain - Transition to Independence opportunity

The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method. The Foundation's goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research. This program supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their career.

View the Research Grants on Education - Small opportunity

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) focuses on the measurement, analysis and modeling of neural coding and dynamics during behavior, with an emphasis on extending our understanding of the arc from sensory perception to action, including the presence and cognitive role of internal brain states. 

SCGB seeks pilot projects that investigate the general principles of global activity across multiple brain regions and its relationship to cognition. Applications using advanced methods for studying the brain at high spatio-temporal resolution in diverse organisms from invertebrates to humans are encouraged. This award is not intended to fund technology development.

LOIs are due April 15, 2021. Invited full proposals are due July 25, 2021.

View the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain - Pilot Award opportunity

The Whitehall Foundation assists scholarly research in the life sciences. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology. The Foundation does not support research focused primarily on disease(s) unless it will also provide insights into normal functioning.

View the Life Science Research Grants opportunity

The Foundation supports scholarly research in the life sciences. The program is designed for researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. 

View the Life Science Grants-in-Aid opportunity

The next competition for this program will be held in 2023.

These research grants are intended to encourage research that will impact the delivery of services to individuals with communication disorders. Research should directly advance our knowledge of the efficacy of treatment and assessment practices in speech-language pathology and audiology, or investigate the implementation of evidence into practice.

View the Clinical Research Grant opportunity

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invites applications in support of open source software projects that are essential to biomedical research. The goal of the program is to support software maintenance, growth, development, and community engagement for these critical tools. Projects should have already demonstrated impact, can show potential for continued improvement, and expect to deliver added value to the biomedical research community through the proposed activities. Applications will be considered in two categories:

• Domain-specific software for analyzing, visualizing, and otherwise working with the specific data types that arise in biomedical science (e.g., genomic sequences, microscopy images, molecular structures). 
• Foundational tools and infrastructure that enable a wide variety of downstream software across several domains of science and computational research (e.g., numerical computation, data structures, workflows, reproducibility). 

LOIs are due April 19, 2022. Invited full applications will be due June 2, 2022.

View the Essential Open Source Software for Science opportunity

The Brain Research Foundation’s Scientific Innovations Award Program provides funding for innovative science in both basic and clinical neuroscience. This funding mechanism is designed to support creative, exploratory, cutting edge research in well-established research laboratories, under the direction of established investigators.

Studies should be related to either normal human brain development or specifically identified disease states. This includes molecular and clinical neuroscience as well as studies of neural, sensory, motor, cognitive, behavioral and emotional functioning in health and disease.

Internal LOIs are due April 20, 2022. If selected to move forward, the Sponsor LOI will be due June 23, 2022.

View the Scientific Innovations Award opportunity

Through EPiQS, the foundation strives to accelerate progress in the field of quantum materials — solids and engineered structures characterized by novel quantum phases of matter and exotic cooperative behaviors of electrons.

The goal of flexible funding grants is to drive scientific innovation by enhancing experimental capabilities at leading research institutions and supporting projects with significant potential to create breakthroughs in the field of quantum materials. These grants have two varieties: equipment grants and rapid response grants. 

• Equipment grants support the development of sophisticated and sometimes one-of-a-kind instrumentation at institutions with active research programs in quantum materials. 
• Rapid response grants support projects that are exceptionally timely and have a very high potential impact. These projects may include experimental tests of novel important theoretical concepts and innovative, unconventional research endeavors that are unlikely to be supported through traditional funding channels due to their high-risk nature. 

View the Emergency Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative (EPiQS) Flexible Funding opportunity

The Foundation is primarily seeking letters of inquiry proposing highly innovative work related to the field of civic science, which seeks to promote broad engagement with science and evidence to help inform solutions to society’s most pressing problems. Submissions might draw on the fields of science communication, public support for science, effective science policy, misinformation, institutional trust, deliberative democracy, and related fields.

The Foundation is interested in ideas that bridge research and practice in the civic science field, and submissions that seek to work with underserved audiences and incorporate diverse perspectives are of particular interest.

LOIs are due April 22, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due May 20, 2022.

View the Civic Science opportunity

Grants awarded through this RFA are intended to produce foundational knowledge about the neurobehavioral differences associated with ASD, which will directly inform the development or refinement of tools needed for translational efforts, such as biomarkers and outcome measures. Special emphasis is placed on objective, quantitative measures that may be used in conjunction with standardized clinical measures and genomic information to better triangulate phenotypic and neurobiological variability within and across individuals with ASD.

View the Autism Research Initiative: Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science opportunity

The Prostate Cancer Foundation  champions investment in human capital to fast-forward solutions for prostate cancer with the ultimate goal of ending death and suffering from metastatic prostate cancer. Funds from the Young Investigator Awards may be used innovatively and flexibly to advance the career and research efforts of awardees. 

Applications are sought from early-career basic scientists, medical oncologists, pathologists, urologists, radiologists, radiation oncologists, public health experts, bioinformaticians, bioengineers, or professionals from any other field that could contribute to the end of prostate cancer. Applicants traditionally under-represented in science and medicine are highly encouraged.

View the Young Investigator Awards-Prostate Cancer opportunity

View the Novel PET Tracer Development Program opportunity

The Catalyst Award Program funds transformational research focused on increasing the impact of the Trust's funding and provide support in moving insights gained from basic science into clinical practice.

• The Catalyst Research Award provides one-year seed funding to help investigators lay the foundation for the Transformational Award. *This RFP seeks applications for this award only.
• The Transformational Research Award provides two-years of additional research funding to support successful projects funded by a Catalyst Award and help them achieve their final goals.

The Catalyst Awards provide an opportunity to conduct preliminary work on high-risk, high-reward research addressing a wide variety of clinical disease areas. The target of the Falk Catalyst’s funding are projects at the intersection of technology and clinical science, intended to move from insights gained from basic science towards solutions, techniques and tools that can be transferred to clinical practice in the near term. Catalyst research projects must describe specific milestones and benchmarks that if successfully met, would then enable recipients to apply for additional funding through the two-year Transformational Awards program.

Internal proposals are due April 29, 2022. If selected to move forward, the sponsor proposal deadline is June 16, 2022.

The Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives program supports the digitization of rare and unique content stewarded by collecting organizations in the U.S. and Canada. The 2021 program aims to fund projects to digitize materials that deepen public understanding of the histories of people of color and other communities and populations whose work, experiences, and perspectives have been insufficiently recognized or unattended.  This may include, but is not necessarily limited to, those of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other People of Color; Women; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Non-binary, and other Genderqueer people and communities; Immigrants; Displaced populations; Blind, Deaf, and Disabled people and communities; and Colonized, Disenfranchised, Enslaved, and Incarcerated people.

View the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives opportunity

The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer.

Applications are accepted December 31, April 30, and August 31 annually.

View the Cancer Research Grants opportunity

Post-Ph.D. Research Grants are awarded to individuals holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree to support individual research projects. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. 

Applications are accepted May 1 and November 1 annually.

View the Post-Ph.D. Grant opportunity.

The Anna Lalor Burdick Program seeks to empower young women through education about healthy reproduction in order to broaden and enhance their options in life. The program focuses particularly on young women who have inadequate access to information regarding sexual and reproductive health.

Concept papers are due May 1 and November 1 annually.

View the Anna Lalor Burdick Program opportunity 

This program supports research projects related to sustainable solid waste management practices. EREF's long-term strategic plan is to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increases sustainable solid waste management practices.

Pre-proposals are due on May 1 and December 1 annually. 

View the Solid Waste Management Research Grants opportunity

The Mark Foundation Emerging Leader Awards support innovative research from the next generation of leaders in cancer research. These grants are awarded to outstanding early career investigators to support high-impact, high-risk projects that are distinct from their current research portfolio. Applicants must be three to nine years from the start of an independent faculty research appointment as of December 31, 2022. See description for more information about eligibility.

LOIs are due May 2, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due July 25, 2022.

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This program funds historical research into conflict histories surrounding the correct order and just society. The theme of "Democracy as Utopia, Experience and Threat" expands the program beyond the classic fields of protest and revolutionary history, or the history of constitutions, elections and political parties – which are likewise part of it all – to include a multiperspectival history of conflict and culture surrounding the right order in society and politics. Applicants should be research groups in the humanities and/or social sciences.

View the Democracy Funding Programme opportunity.

The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 up through $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method.

Intent to Apply forms must be completed by May 4, 2022. Full proposals are due June 15, 2022.

View the Research Grants on Education - Large opportunity.

Grants will be made under the following programs: Behavioral Science and Decision Making / Future of Work / Race, Ethnicity and Immigration / Social, Political and Economic Inequality / Immigration & Immigrant Integration

LOIs must address at least one of the following:

• Research on the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession in the U.S. Specifically, research that assesses the social, political, economic, and psychological causes and consequences of the pandemic, especially its effects on marginalized individuals and groups and on trust in government and other institutions. The priorities do not include analyses of health outcomes or health behavior.
• Research focused on systemic racial inequality and/or the recent mass protests in the U.S. Specifically, research that investigates the prevalence of racial disparities in policing and criminal justice and their social, political, economic, and psychological causes and consequences; the effects of the current social protest movement and mass mobilization against systemic discrimination; the nature of public attitudes and public policies regarding policing, criminal justice, and social welfare; and the effects of those attitudes in the current political environment.

LOIs are due May 4, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due August 9, 2022.

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The W. T. Grant Foundation funds research that increases our understanding of the programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes, and strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.

View the Research Grants to Reduce Inequality and Improve the Use of Research Evidence opportunity

The Conference Grant Program provides support to scholars to organize small research conferences, focused symposia, or other forms of convenings around important issues in education. This program is intended to bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers and other important collaborators whose expertise, substantive knowledge and practice, theoretical insight, or methodological expertise can be engaged in ways that help to build upon and advance education research.

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This call for proposals focuses on teachers learning to facilitate high quality communication in K-12 classrooms. Proposals should bridge gaps in the topics represented in the currently funded projects or that complement the current projects by focusing on subject matter content or teacher and classroom populations that may be underrepresented. Desired outcomes include refined theories of teachers as learners and, through knowledge acquired by the research, improvements in programs predicated on the factors contributing to teachers’ uptake and effective use of evidence-based educational practices in the context of their classrooms.

Pre-proposals are due May 8, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due August 14, 2019.

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The Simons Foundation invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships to support research on fundamental problems in marine microbial ecology. The foundation is particularly interested in applicants with training in different fields who want to apply their experience to understanding the role of microorganisms in shaping ocean processes, and vice versa, as well as applicants with experience in modeling or theory development. While these cross-disciplinary applicants will receive particular attention, applicants already involved in ocean research are also encouraged to apply.

Applicants should have received their Ph.D. or equivalent degree within three years of the fellowship’s start date. Preference will be for applicants with no more than one year of postdoctoral experience.

View the Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology opportunity

• focus on important and emerging areas of research
• have the potential to develop breakthrough technologies, instrumentation or methodologies
• are innovative, distinctive and interdisciplinary
• demonstrate a high level of risk due to unconventional approaches, or by challenging the prevailing paradigm
• have the potential for transformative impact, such as the foundation of a new field of research, the enabling of observations not previously possible, or the altered perception of a previously intractable problem
• do not focus on clinical or translational research, treatment trials, or research for the sole purpose of drug development
• fall outside the mission of public funding agencies (PIs must already have applied / provide proof from a program officer that project is outside program focus)
• demonstrate that private philanthropy generally, and the W. M. Keck Foundation in particular, is essential to the project’s success.

One-page concept papers are due May 15, 2022. If selected as the nominee, the Phase I application will be due November 1, 2022.

Please contact Sarah Fodor if you are interested in applying for this opportunity

Grant-making interests are focused on nutrition and/or health-related research having a significant impact on issues facing infants and young children from the first year before birth to age 3.

Concept papers are due May 15 and November 15 annually.

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RWJF is partnering with the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) on an opportunity to make their valuable data on food and nutrition available to researchers to contribute to research, evaluation, and learning, especially for its healthy children and families focus area. In doing so, the Foundation hopes to support research that will help to overcome structural barriers to equitable access to healthy food. ERS has acquired several food-related data which will support research on relevant and timely evidence that informs the USDA, Congress, and the public about the food sector and about key national issues regarding food and health—such as food insecurity, obesity, diet quality, and nutrition assistance programs. The Foundation hopes to develop a cohort of researchers from diverse academic disciplines and institutions who will produce policy-relevant research on food policy; food retail markets; consumer behaviors related to food purchases and diet; and USDA nutrition assistance programs.

Brief proposals are due May 16, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due August 4, 2022.

View the Food and Health Research Using the Consumer Food Data System opportunity

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide assistance in the form of grants for the development of innovative clinical quality measures (see Appendix A here) that promote excellence in diagnosis of three categories of disease – acute vascular events (e.g., stroke and myocardial infarction), infections (e.g., sepsis and pneumonia) and cancer (e.g., lung and colorectal).

This funding opportunity is part of Moore's Diagnostic Excellence Initiative, which focuses on diagnostic performance improvement and aims to reduce harm from erroneous or delayed diagnoses, reduce costs and redundancy in the diagnostic process, improve health outcomes and save lives.

The scope of the RFP is not aimed at 1) development or evaluation of new diagnostic tests, products, or devices;
(2) development of new clinical guidelines or clinical prediction rules or clinical decision support, or
(3) clinical investigations designed to test a hypothesis.

A webinar on the opportunity will be held on March 16 and April 20. Email diagnosis@moore.org to register for the webinar and receive login instructions.

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This interdisciplinary funding program aims to place current challenges facing shrinking and abandoned "lost cities" in historical context. It focuses not on the question of which factors led to a city's abandonment, but rather on the ways in which lost cities are "read," instrumentalized, and codified in various cultures and periods of time. Applicants should be part of research groups in the humanities and/or social sciences.

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VentureWell Course & Program Grants (formerly called “Faculty Grants”) are awarded to faculty or staff at US higher education institutions to support curriculum that engaged students in science and technology innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E). 

VentureWell's Spring 2022 program focus is on Sustainable Design and seeks proposals with innovative ideas that incorporate key sustainable design concepts in the development of new courses and programs or the strengthening of existing courses and programs, with the end goal of developing novel interventions and technologies, while increasing access and broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented, underestimated, and under-resourced groups. Activities supported by C&P grants should lead to effective courses and programs that are sustained by the institution, lead to the formation of student teams (ideally with the VentureWell E-Team Program), and expand opportunities for learning across science and technology I&E.

Examples of sustainable design concepts, tools, and frameworks include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Systems thinking & whole system mapping
• Environmental impact measurement methods (i.e., Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Cradle-to-Cradle Certification, etc.)
• Greener materials development and/or selection (i.e., green chemistry, materials science, or manufacturing)
• Engineering for One Planet (EOP) Framework
• Circular economy
• United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

VentureWell is currently accepting proposals ONLY for sustainable design or sustainable technology at this time and will be accepting proposals on other topics in fall 2022.

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In partnership with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Science Diversity Leadership awards will recognize the leadership and scientific accomplishments of outstanding early- to mid-career researchers at U.S. universities, medical schools, or nonprofit research institutes who — through their outreach, mentoring, teaching, and leadership — have a record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in their scientific fields. Awardees will have made significant research contributions to the biomedical sciences, show promise for continuing scientific achievement, and demonstrate leadership in efforts to diversify the sciences

Prioritized fields include: single-cell biology and inflammation; neurodegeneration; rare diseases; imaging science, and computational biology. 

PIs must: 

• Perform research relevant to the biomedical sciences and holds an M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D., M.D./Ph.D., DDM, DVM, or equivalent degree;
• Lead an independent research laboratory — defined as having control of its budget, grants, and space — in a university, medical school, or nonprofit research institution in the U.S. or a U.S. territory; and
• Started their first independent laboratory no earlier than January 1, 2012.

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The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) and The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) seek to accelerate and support innovative small molecule and biologic drug discovery programs for FTD. The funding priorities are:

• Lead optimization of novel disease-modifying compounds, including medicinal chemistry refinement and in vitro ADME.
• In vivo testing of novel lead compounds, biologics, or repurposed drug candidates in relevant animal models for pharmacokinetics, dose-range finding, target engagement, in vivo efficacy, and/or preliminary rodent tolerability studies.

LOIs are due May 20, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due July 30, 2022.

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The ADDF offers funding to researchers for Alzheimer's drug discovery, clinical trials, and biomarker development research. Core request for proposals include:

• Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials (PACT), award amount: up to $3,000,000
• Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Development, award amount: up to $600,000
• Prevention Pipeline, award amount: up to $3,000,000
• Drug Development, award amount: up to $600,000 

LOIs are due May 20, 2022. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due July 22, 2022.

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This call provides funding for teams of researchers working across any discipline of relevance to mental health science. They will investigate the causal mechanisms underpinning effective interventions for anxiety, depression, and/or psychosis, to inform the development of new and improved early interventions.

This call focuses on investigating the causal mechanisms underpinning the active ingredients of effective interventions for anxiety, depression and/or psychosis. Active ingredients are those aspects of an intervention that:

• drive resolution or reduction of symptoms
• are conceptually well defined
• link to specific hypothesized mechanisms of action.

Active ingredients are diverse and wide-ranging, including: 

• biological (for example, sleep-wake cycles, reduced inflammation in the body, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) 
• cognitive (for example, emotion regulation, mental imagery, reduced repetitive negative thinking) 
• behavioral (for example, behavioral activation, exposure, physical activity) 
• relational (for example, peer support, social relationships, working alliance) 
• societal (for example, social inclusion, urban access to green space). 

Preliminary applications are due May 24, 2022. Invited full applications will be due September 13, 2022.

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As part of its Human Cell Atlas (HCA) program, CZI seeks proposals for collaborative projects for the generation of healthy, single-cell reference data from ancestrally diverse tissue samples. 

The RFA intends to bring together teams of experts to 1) ethically and appropriately generate data derived from tissues from people whose ancestral groups are historically understudied and thereby expand the ancestral diversity of single-cell data that is available via the HCA, and 2) utilize best practices and build up systems to enable long-term engagement of potential participants and donors from diverse communities to contribute to the current and future drafts of the HCA. This work will help provide insights into the contribution of genetic ancestry to disease now and in the future, resulting in an atlas that may be more generalizable and representative of the diversity found in the global human population.

This Ancestry Network should collectively generate new tools, open source analysis methods, and openly available data from ancestrally diverse donors across multiple tissue types that provide valuable contributions to the HCA community. Applications should focus on healthy human tissues that will contribute to the reference atlas.

View the Ancestry Networks for the Human Cell Atlas opportunity

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Award provides support for collaborative exploratory work that opens new ground for comprehensively assessing or mitigating the impacts of climate change on human health. This program will support both individual scientists and multi-investigator teams. Early career faculty and postdoctoral fellows nearing their transition to independence are especially encouraged to apply, whether individually or within teams.

Through this program BWF will provide flexible funding for conceiving and piloting work that will grow into productive and informative collaborations among researchers approaching connected questions from fields that usually do not interact. Projects must draw on the basic or applied biomedical sciences—disciplines ranging from biochemistry to population health, including public health research focused on social justice and equity—collaborating with disciplines beyond biomedicine, for example field ecology, agricultural sciences, veterinary medicine, law, public policy, other applied social sciences, geological and planetary sciences, architecture, engineering, mathematics, communications, or other relevant disciplines appropriate to the research proposed. 

Examples of projects might include but are not limited to the following:

• A community-based assessment of health literacy regarding climate change
• A neighborhood initiative to support use of local green space and increase physical activity
• The role of climate change (e.g., floods, heat) in exacerbating vector borne-, and non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
• Using “big data” to predictively model how vulnerable populations, especially those with existing health burdens, are impacted by climate change.

LOIs are due May 25, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due July 22, 2022.

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The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood supports promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. Welfare is broadly defined to include physical and mental health, safety, nutrition, education, play, familial support, acculturation, societal integration and childcare.

Grants are only made if a successful project outcome will likely be of significant interest to other professionals, within the grantee’s field of endeavor, and would have a direct benefit and potential national application. The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale. 

Grants are made in the areas of:

• early childhood welfare
• early childhood education and play
• parenting education

Grants typically range between $25,000 and $50,000. LOIs are due May 31, 2022. 

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The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method. The Foundation's goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research. This program supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their career.

View the Research Grants on Education - Small opportunity

This imaging program seeks to give biologists access to reproducible quantitative image analysis. CZI has partnered with napari, a community-built, Python-based, open- source tool for browsing, annotating, and analyzing large multi-dimensional images. CZI invites applications for grants to improve the quality of one or more existing napari plugins through improvements to documentation, user support, usability, reliability, or other activities.

Applications for two types of grants will be considered in scope according to the level of maturity of the plugin:

• Quality improvement grants to improve the quality of one or more existing open source napari plugins
• Cell biology grants to convert existing open source tools, methods, or processing steps that support common cell biology workflows into one or more napari plugins.

View the napari Plugin Foundation Grants opportunity

One $100,000 grant is to be awarded for research projects to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions most commonly delivered by physical therapists as determined by current practice standards and developing innovative physical therapist interventions and evaluating their effectiveness.

The Foundation provides support to emerging investigators to promote scientifically based and clinically relevant research related to the effectiveness of physical therapy practice. Research projects in any specialty may be supported. The Foundation supports only those intervention studies in which the interventions are provided by physical therapists, or selected components of the interventions are provided by physical therapist assistants under the direction and supervision of physical therapists.

LOIs are due June 1, 2022.

View the Magistro Family Foundation Research Grant opportunity.

Priority for conference and workshop grants will be given to events that foster the creation of an international community of research scholars in anthropology and advance significant and innovative anthropological research. Workshops, defined as working meetings that focus on developing and debating topical issues in theoretical anthropology, will involve a small group of scholars meeting for a sufficient period of time to deal intensely with the project. It is expected that workshops will result in a publication.

Applications are accepted on June 1 and December 1 annually.

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Support is primarily provided for the historical humanities, in particular to support research projects in the fields of Archaeology, Art History, Historical Islamic Studies, History, History of Law, History of Science, Prehistory and Early History. Candidates can apply regardless of their nationality and place of work.

Grants cover costs for personnel, travel, materials and/or other costs.

Grant amounts are not specified; however, they averaged $25,000 in 2017. See the opportunity for more information.

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Open, but not limited to, early career researchers. 

These awards grant support to individuals for cutting-edge biomedical applied research that may potentially benefit children. Based upon submitted nominees, the foundation will select ten investigators to receive a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award for three years at $100,000 per year. For each nominee selected for funding, the sponsoring participating institution will also receive a Hartwell Fellowship to fund one postdoctoral candidate of their choice who exemplifies the values of the Foundation.

Internal LOIs (required) are due June 1, 2022. If selected, the sponsor proposal will be due September 15, 2022.

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• Advocacy: Achieving enduring social change around issues that affect older Americans
• Direct Service: Improve availability and quality of community-based and residential long-term services and supports
• Professional Education and Training: Increase the competency of professionals and paraprofessionals who serve older adults
• Research: Seek causes and solutions to significant problems for older adults

LOIs (optional) are due June 1 for the full proposal deadline of August 1.

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The Water Research Foundation Endowment for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research recognizes outstanding achievement and creative vision through the Paul L. Busch Award. The award seeks to distinguish individuals poised for greater recognition of their innovative, ongoing contributions to water quality advancements.

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The Capita Foundation mission is to support innovative research that works toward the prevention and cure of hearing disorders.

Applications must be received before August 1 annually.

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The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) Collaborations program funds interdisciplinary, synergistic research efforts across multiple laboratories. Investigative groups within a collaboration will focus on the same conceptually unified topic but will incorporate different scientific disciplines and multiple levels of analysis, and will include a robust data-sharing infrastructure.

For this opportunity SFARI welcomes proposals that will use an array of modern technologies to examine sex differences in brain function, within and across species, including humans, to identify key differences in gene, cell and circuit function that account for the observed differential sensitivities of the two sexes to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A successful collaboration must enhance our understanding of the biological bases for sex-specific differences in ASD and set the stage for development of novel interventions.

*Note: The deadline for this opportunity has been extended from April 21 to June 5.

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The One Mind Rising Star Awards identify and fund pivotal, innovative research on the causes of and cures for brain disorders by supporting the most promising emerging leaders in the field of neuropsychiatry. Proposals for studies on any of a wide range of neuropsychiatric conditions are in scope, with studies focusing on bipolar disorder of special interest, including applications that would advance therapeutics for bipolar disorder, ranging from biomarkers to promising therapeutic modalities including neurostimulation.

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Career Catalyst Research Grants provide opportunities for scientists who have held faculty positions for no more than five years. This program supports hypothesis-driven research projects that have significant potential to advance our understanding of breast cancer, lead to reductions in incidence and mortality, and move us toward the goal of a world without breast cancer.

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This call for proposals (CFP) will provide funding for new research to rigorously test and evaluate innovative solutions to the 'wrong-pocket' problem that persists across health and social service systems. RWJF defines 'wrong-pocket' problems as the outcomes of investments in systems designed to improve social and economic conditions, but the financial benefits flow elsewhere. 

Each study funded under the S4A program will undertake the following activities:

• Design and implement the proposed study that evaluates the impact of an innovative solution to a wrong-pocket problem involving social service systems, medical systems, and/or public health systems.
• Engage local, state, and/or national stakeholders in the design, implementation, and translation of the research project.
• Work collaboratively with the S4A national coordinating center and other S4A research investigators to identify and leverage potential synergies across research projects and to disseminate results broadly.
• Participate actively both in research dissemination and translation mechanisms organized by the national coordinating center and RWJF, including research-in-progress webinars, blogs, podcasts, research meetings, and policy briefings.
• Identify and pursue opportunities for research expansion, replication, and follow-on studies from RWJF and other research funding agencies.
• Attend RWJF’s Annual Sharing Knowledge Conference and 4Action Conference each year the grant is active.

An informational webinar will be held March 17. Optional LOIs are due April 30.

View the Systems and Services Research to Build a Culture of Health opportunity

LOIs are due June 9, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due October 13, 2022.

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The Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum (SCIRTS) portfolio focuses on research designed to improve understanding and advance the current treatment of acute and chronic spinal cord injury. The goal of the portfolio is to address gaps in the field and advance novel approaches to improving function and developing curative therapies after spinal cord injury. The program encompasses mechanistic, preclinical modeling, translational and/or clinical research. The Foundation offers postdoctoral fellowships (up to $150K), two-year pilot research grants for new investigators (up to $300K), and three-year senior research grants (up to $600K).

LOIs are due June 10, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due November 11, 2022.

View the Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum opportunity

The Character Virtue Development department at the John Templeton Foundation invites proposals from organizations that seek to strengthen their understanding and practice of character development through communities of practice. 

Character refers to the thoughts, attitudes, and motivations that guide a person’s behavior. These qualities are sometimes described as strengths of heart (gratitude, generosity), strengths of mind (curiosity, humility), and strengths of will (self-control). Alternatively, some organizations use the headings of moral character (e.g., gratitude, generosity), intellectual character (e.g., curiosity, humility), performance character (e.g., self-control), and civic character (e.g., civility).

Community of practice is “a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” A community of practice does not necessarily need to involve formalized, contractual relationships between the organizations and individuals involved. Examples of communities of practice could include a group of teachers within a school or school network, a group of coaches with a sports league, a group of business leaders with an organization, or a group of religious youth leaders within a faith tradition.

Project activities may include:

• conceptualization of character
• community and context
• content expansion
• organizational capacity
• evaluation

Online funding inquiries are due June 11, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due October 15, 2021.

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The Joyce Foundation invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region. The Foundation accepts applications in the following program areas:

• Culture
• Democracy
• Education & Economic Mobility
• Environment
• Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform

LOIs are to be submitted at least 6-8 weeks in advance of the full proposal deadline (August 6, 2022). 

View the Advancing Racial Equity and Economic Mobility in the Great Lakes Region opportunity 

The Bridge to Success for Mid-Career/Senior Investigators awards are targeted to mid-level and senior investigators in sleep and biological rhythms who need ‘bridge’ funding while re-applying for research support.

The Bridge to Success for Mid-Career/Senior Investigators Award is designed to assist established sleep investigators who have been independently supported by the NIH or other government research grants for at least five years, but whose recent grant proposals are unlikely to be funded. A Bridge to Success Mid-Career/Senior Investigator Award will provide support for one year to help an independent investigator stay in the field of sleep and circadian research while reapplying for external funding.

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The American Sleep Medicine Foundation (ASMF) “Bridge to Success” awards are designed to provide ‘bridge’ funding to promising early-career sleep scientists who have applied for a career development award such as a K-award grant from the NIH, a Career Development Award from the VA, or an equivalent career development grant from another federal or non-federal entity. Individuals who previously submitted an application for review, but whose applications are unlikely to be within the funding range, are eligible to apply.

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The mission of the Foundation is to support early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of disease. Mallinckrodt Research Grant applicants should be in the first to fourth year of a tenure-track faculty position. The funds are designed to provide faculty members who hold MD and/or PhD degrees with support to move the project forward to the point where R01 or other independent funding can be obtained. Grants provide up to $60,000 per year for three years. 

Applicants with current R01 funding should not apply.

Internal proposals are due June 14, 2021. If selected, the sponsor proposal will be due August 1, 2021.

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The goal of HES4A is to support the career development and academic advancement of researchers from historically underrepresented backgrounds who conduct health equity research. Grants will be awarded to address the challenges that underrepresented researchers experience; help them overcome obstacles to earning tenure; and make progress toward acquiring independent research funding. Grants will support three aspects of career development: research, mentorship, and connection with a community of support.

 Applicants must have completed a doctoral degree in the last five years (in any field), be a junior faculty member or postdoc poised to be in such a position by the start of the grant, and have never served as a principal investigator since receiving their doctoral degree. Please see the program description for additional eligibility criteria.

LOIs are due June 16, 2021. Invited full applications will be due September 1, 2021.

View the Health Equity Scholars for Action (HES4A) opportunity

The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors an annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.

At least three research grants of $60,000 will be awarded to enable the recipients to research and write a book. 

View the Strategy & Policy Fellows Program opportunity

No competition will be held in 2021. An update is expected in March 2022.

The Building Bridges 2020 Grants Program will support planning and implementation of projects that engage U.S.-based Muslims and their neighbors in online and/or live arts- and media-based experiences designed to advance relationships and understanding for mutual well-being. Through this approach, the program’s larger aim is to contribute toward a more just civil society and greater well-being among people.

Proposed projects or programs should offer immersive and interactive experiences that may be conducted in collaboration with other organizations and are tailored to the needs and interests of the specific intended audience(s). These experiential activities can be conducted online and/or live. There are many ways organizations might design, structure and implement projects that engage U.S.-based Muslims and their neighbors through digital, literary, multimedia, and/or performing arts-based experiences to foster relationships and understanding between communities. Organizations are encouraged to draw upon their core capabilities, knowledge of the selected population(s) and resources in the creation of their proposals. Competitive projects may include, but are not limited to:

• Development of new programs informed by past experience with successful U.S.-based or international programming grounded in the creative arts and;
• Expansion of existing programs that advance Building Bridges Grants Program goals.

Internal LOIs are due June 16, 2020. If selected to move forward, the sponsor letter of interest will be due July 13, 2020.

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This program aims to support policy-relevant, community-engaged research that helps improve the affordability of care for communities most impacted by structural racism, inequities, and discrimination. The Foundation seeks proposals for research and policy analysis projects that examine the design, implementation, and/or impact of local, state, and/or national policies related to the affordability of high-quality, equitable care. Studies may include people’s ability to: afford health insurance; pay for healthcare services (even with insurance); pay for transportation; childcare; and other services that in turn affect access to medical care.

Proposals should focus on a historically marginalized racial or ethnic group; people with disabilities; immigrants; people from the LGBTQ+ community; or another community that has historically faced systemic and persistent barriers to good health.

A webinar will be held on May 3. Brief proposals are due June 24, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due November 15, 2022.

View the Research in Transforming Health and Health Care Systems opportunity

The Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants aim to support promising researchers who are applying disruptive concepts and inventive processes to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research for major global diseases.

The committee will be looking for research aimed at tackling the current roadblocks that exist in human vaccine development and expanding our limited understanding of key immune processes that are fundamental to successful vaccine and immunotherapy development. The Michelson Prizes are awarding research that is highly innovative and impactful, with the potential to be applied across many diseases.

While the Michelson Prizes are focused on research in the fields of immunology, vaccine and immunotherapy discovery, applicants from the full spectrum of related disciplines, including clinical research, biochemistry, molecular biology, protein engineering, computer science, artificial intelligence/machine learning, biophysics, nanotechnology, etc., are encouraged to apply.

Applicants born before June 26, 1986 are not eligible to apply.

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JDRF is focused on funding and catalyzing research that will lead to a cure of Type 1 diabetes (T1D), improving the quality of life and relieving the burden for people living with T1D, and preventing the disease. These awards are designed to provide crucial support to investigators who plan to pursue a career in diabetes-related clinical investigation. Awards are made in the later stages of training and include the ability for recipients to transition to independent faculty or research appointments. Clinical researchers who have received their first faculty-level appointment less than 5 years before the submission date are eligible to apply for this award. The successful candidate will have an MD or MD/PhD, hold an appointment or joint appointment in a subspecialty of clinical medicine, and conduct human clinical research. 

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JDRF is focused on funding and catalyzing research that will lead to a cure of Type 1 diabetes (T1D), improving the quality of life and relieving the burden for people living with T1D, and preventing the disease. The Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship program is designed to attract qualified and promising health scientists, to provide an opportunity to receive full time research training, and to assist these promising individuals in transitioning from a fellowship to an independent (faculty-level) position. Generally, the most recent doctoral degree (PhD, MD, DMD, DVM, or equivalent) will have been received no more than 6 years before the application is submitted. 

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The Diagnostics Accelerator aims to accelerate the development of affordable and accessible biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal degeneration, and other related dementias. This RFP solicits projects to develop and validate digital biomarkers (defined as objective, quantifiable physiological and behavioral data that are collected, measured and analyzed by means of digital devices such as portables, wearables, or ambient sensors) for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Proposals addressing a range of potential clinical uses are of interest, especially technologies for early assessment and those aiding in diagnosis and monitoring treatment response or rate of disease progression. 

The Diagnostics Accelerator is accepting applications on a rolling basis.

View the Diagnostics Accelerator: Digital Biomarkers Program opportunity.

The Paralyzed Veterans of America Research Foundation is focused on funding projects grounded in basic laboratory science and the education of scientists working on breakthroughs directed toward a cure for paralysis or the secondary medical conditions, and technologies associated with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D). Funding is available for laboratory research, clinical and functional studies of the effects of SCI/D, design and development of assistive technology, and fellowships for postdoctoral scientists, clinicians, and engineers. 

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The Innovation Award is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with "high-risk/high-reward" ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer. This is a two-year award with the potential to be renewed for an additional two years ($800,000 total over four years).

View the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Awards opportunity

The Cottrell Scholar program develops outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their academic leadership skills. Eligible applicants are tenure-track faculty members whose primary appointment is in a department of astronomy, chemistry or physics. Eligibility is limited to faculty members who started their first tenure-track appointment anytime in calendar year 2019.

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Grants awarded through this request for applications (RFA) are intended to advance our understanding of the genetic basis of ASD and the molecular and cellular consequences of genetic risk, and to provide a foundation for the development of treatments for select genetically defined forms of the condition. Proposals are sought in three broad areas:

• risk gene discovery and systems biology,
• functional analysis of variants associated with ASD risk genes,
• gene-targeted therapies. 

The Foundation encourages applications that focus, at least in part, on a subset of 50 genes from the SPARK gene list that SFARI has selected as strong candidates for the development of translational programs, here.

View the Genomics of ASD: Pathways to Genetic Therapies opportunity

The Simons Foundation invites nominations for Simons Investigators in Mathematics, Physics, Astrophysics and Computer Science. Within the Physics program, the foundation also invites nominations for Theoretical
Physics in Life Sciences Investigators. Simons Investigators are outstanding theoretical scientists who receive long-term research support from the Simons Foundation. 

The Simons Investigators program aims to provide a stable base of support for outstanding theoretical midcareer scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term investigations of fundamental questions in their fields. The intent of the program is to support these scientists in their most productive years, when they are establishing new research directions, providing leadership in the field and effectively mentoring junior scientists.

Internal LOIs are due July 12, 2021. If selected to move forward, the sponsor nomination will be due October 20, 2021.

The Searle Scholars Program awards research grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry who have recently begun their appointment at the assistant professor level and whose appointment is their first tenure-track position at a participating academic or research institution. Candidates should have begun their appointment as an independent investigator at the assistant professor level on or after July 1, 2020. 

Internal LOIs are due July 12, 2021. If selected to move forward, the sponsor deadline is September 30, 2021.

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The Mark Foundation Endeavor Awards support collaborative research projects that bring together investigators with diverse areas of expertise to tackle challenges in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. These grants are awarded to teams of three or more investigators to generate and integrate data from diverse lines of research and transform those insights into advances for cancer patients that could not be achieved by individual efforts.

LOIs are due July 13, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due in December 2022.

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The Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) award supports investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the interplay between human and microbial biology, shedding light on how human and microbial systems are affected by their encounters.

Pre-proposals are due July 14, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due November 15, 2022.

View the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease opportunity

The mission of the Leakey Foundation is to increase scientific knowledge, education, and public understanding of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival. Current funding priorities include 1) paleoanthropology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene; and 2) primates (old and new world), including evolution, behavior, morphology, ecology, endocrinology, genetics, isotope studies, and modern hunter-gatherer groups.

Most grants range between $3,000-$15,000. Proposals of up to $25,000 will be considered.

Applications are accepted on January 10 and July 15 annually.

View the Research Grants on Human Origins opportunity

Art Seeking Understanding (ASU) is a program strategy concerned with Aesthetic Cognitivism and improving the methods of inquiry into the existence and nature of spiritual reality, including things like love, compassion, purpose, creativity, time, mind, infinity, complexity, and understanding.

Projects in this area would bring together artists and arts researchers, philosophers and theologians alongside scientists from a variety of sub-disciplines within the psychological, cognitive, and social sciences, including developmental psychology, cognitive science of religion, cognitive neuroscience, sociology, social psychology, personality psychology, psychometrics, and clinical psychology to conceive and design empirical and statistical studies of the cognitive significance of the arts with respect to spiritual realities and the discovery of new spiritual information.

View the Art Seeking Understanding opportunity.

Grants will be made under the following programs: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Social, Political and Economic Inequality

In addition, RSF will also accept LOIs relevant to any of its core programs that address at least one of the following issues:

• Research on the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession in the U.S. Specifically, research that assesses the social, political, economic, and psychological causes and consequences of the pandemic, especially its effects on marginalized individuals and groups and on trust in government and other institutions. The priorities do not include analyses of health outcomes or health behavior.
• Research focused on systemic racial inequality and/or the recent mass protests in the U.S. Specifically, research that investigates the prevalence of racial disparities in policing and criminal justice and their social, political, economic, and psychological causes and consequences; the effects of the current social protest movement and mass mobilization against systemic discrimination; the nature of public attitudes and public policies regarding policing, criminal justice, and social welfare; and the effects of those attitudes in the current political environment.

LOIs are due July 27, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due November 15, 2022.

View the Regular Programs opportunity

BrightFocus provides research funds for researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of age-related macular degeneration. Three grant types are available:

• Innovative Research Grant: Supports high-risk/high-gain age-related macular degeneration research. The Foundation hopes to attract established investigators to apply for this support, but the aims of the application must contain outside-the-box ideas that are novel in the field. Applicants who are experts in another field are encouraged to apply their talents to proposing innovative research in the macular degeneration field. Award amount: $600,000
• New Investigator Program: Ssupports investigators during their early years as an independent investigator involved in studies that have an impact on the causes and/or treatment of macular degeneration. Award amount: $450,000
• Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: Supports  young postdoctoral researchers during their final stages of mentored training. The award provides salary support for a young scientist to conduct postdoctoral studies in an established laboratory focused on research contributing to understanding the biological causes and/or new clinical treatment of macular degeneration and should also serve as the basis for the applicant's own independent research career. Award amount: $200,000

LOIs are due July 28, 2022. 

View the Macular Degeneration Research Grant opportunity

CZI seeks to support up to 15 Imaging Scientists who will work at the interface of biology, microscopy hardware, and imaging software at imaging core facilities around the world. “Imaging Scientists” might be engineers, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, or biologists who have focused on technology development in either light or electron microscopy, medical imaging, or data analysis fields. The primary goal of the program is to increase interactions between biologists and technology experts. The Imaging Scientists will have expertise in microscopy hardware and/or imaging software.

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In partnership with the McKnight Brain Research Foundation, AFAR will make up to two awards to support studies focusing on clinical translational research and another award toward understanding basic biological mechanisms underlying cognitive aging and age-related memory loss. The major goal of the program is to build a cadre of outstanding research scientists across the United States to lead transformative research in the field of cognitive aging.

Research studies at the intersection of age-associated cognitive changes and disease-related cognitive impairment may be considered if a strong case can be made for their relevance to cognitive aging and age-related memory loss. However, research that is primarily focused on neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease) will not be supported.

Eligibility criteria include:

• Completed training prior to the beginning of this award (October 1, 2022):
  • PhD candidates: no more than 7 years from the completion of formal post-doctoral research training post-PhD,
  • MD or combined degree candidates: no more than 12 years from the date when finished residency.
• Independent investigator at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor (appointed no earlier than October 1, 2019), who has received R01 funding (or equivalent)
• Be tenure-track faculty or equivalent in an academic or non-profit institution with evidence of long-term institutional support as indicated by commitment of resources including independent laboratory space, start-up research funds and personnel. Candidates not in a tenure-track position are also eligible and should demonstrate similar evidence of long-term institutional support and not be in a time-limited appointment
• Have a proven track record of research accomplishments in cognitive aging as indicated by their publications in high-impact journals, awards, and other metrics of peer recognition
• Provide evidence of institutional matching funds as described in a form completed by the Dean or Department Chair
• Be in full time employment at an academic or non-profit research institution in the United States.

Please review the RFP for additional eligibility criteria.

View the McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss opportunity

Engaged Research Grants support research partnerships that empower those who have historically been among those researched in anthropology, rather than researchers themselves.  These partnerships bring together scholars and their interlocutors in the mutual production of anthropological knowledge aimed at combatting inequality and promoting the flourishing of human and more than human worlds.  The program supports projects that promise to make a significant contribution to anthropological conversations through collaborations in which engagement is a central feature of a project from the very start.  

View the Engaged Research Grant - Anthropology opportunity

The Foundation seeks to support projects to develop and test the feasibility of new programs for promoting positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children (birth through 18 years) from underserved groups and/or low-resourced communities (minority ethnic groups, low-income families), as well as projects that evaluate the effectiveness of such programs.

Grants have ranged from $25,000 to $790,000.

LOIs are due August 1, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due December 1, 2022.

View the Brady Education Foundation opportunity.

The Beckman Young Investigator Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.

The BYI program funds scientists early in their careers who have not yet received a major award from another organization and are pursuing projects that are truly innovative, high-risk, and show promise for contributing to significant advances in chemistry and the life sciences. 

To be eligible, candidates must have achieved a tenure track appointment after 1/1/2018 and before 8/1/2022.

LOIs are due August 1, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due January 16, 2023.

View the Young Investigator Program opportunity

The goal of the Luce Initiative on Southeast Asia (LuceSEA) is to strengthen the study of Southeast Asia in American higher education by providing resources for the creation of models, strategies and partnerships that not only bolster existing program structures but also take them in new directions.

LuceSEA aims to encourage innovation in the study of Southeast Asia through support for:

• work in new and emerging areas of inquiry and the expansion of direct engagement with scholars and institutions in Southeast Asia;
• the enhancement of scholarly infrastructure for teaching and research relevant to Southeast Asia; and
• collaborations and networks that link academic centers to each other and with partners outside academia.

Internal LOIs are due August 2, 2021. If selected to move forward, the sponsor proposal will be due September 24, 2021.

View the Luce Initiative on Southeast Asia opportunity 

The Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program supports basic biomedical research in the fields of cancer, immunology and neuroscience. Scholars are nominated by premier research institutions and then selected by the Rita Allen Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee. 

Northwestern's internal deadline is August 3, 2021. If selected to move forward, the sponsor proposal will be due October 20, 2021.

The W. T. Grant Foundation funds research that increases our understanding of the programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes, and strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.

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The Foundation provides support to emerging investigators to promote scientifically based and clinically relevant research related to the effectiveness of physical therapy practice. Research projects in any specialty may be supported. The Foundation supports only those intervention studies in which the interventions are provided by physical therapists, or selected components of the interventions are provided by physical therapist assistants under the direction and supervision of physical therapists.

Opportunities in 2022:

Education Research Grant - Awarded to an emerging investigator for education research related to methods for promoting the uptake of research findings into education. ($40,000)

Foundation Research Grant - Awarded to an Emerging Investigator who seeks to conduct research with any area consistent with the APTA’s Research Agenda. ($40,000)

Geriatric Research Grant - Awarded to an Emerging Investigator for research that addresses an area of high impact and priority for improving the practice of physical therapy for the treatment of aging adults. ($40,000)

Snyder Research Grant - Awarded to support relevant clinical research projects aimed to investigate: a) those services delivered by physical therapists; and b) the development of new interventions that offer reasonable assurance that they will be clinically relevant and therapeutically effective. ($40,000)

View the Physical Therapy Research Grants opportunity.

The goal of CZI’s Imaging program is to visualize and measure them across biological scales and in their biological context. This RFA aims to drive development of imaging technology focused on obtaining cellular resolution readouts anywhere in complex living organisms. Visible light does not penetrate through most tissues. To overcome this barrier, this grant program will advance the field of deep tissue imaging, which aims to obtain cellular resolution in complex tissue and through skin and bone.

Pilot awards will be $1M over a 2.5 year period. Successful pilot projects will be eligible to apply for an additional $10M over a four-year period.

LOIs are due August 6, 2020. Invited full applications will be due September 22, 2020.

View the Deep Tissue Imaging opportunity

This award supports research projects directed towards the molecular biology of pain and/or basic science topics related to the development of new analgesics for the management of pain due to terminal illness. Eligible candidates will have completed their training and provided persuasive evidence of distinguished achievement or extraordinary promise in basic science research in pain. Candidates should be within the first three years of their appointment at the faculty level.

View the Award in Pain opportunity

The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method. The Foundation's goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research. This program supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their career.

View the Research Grants on Education - Small opportunity

The Wallace Foundation seeks a research team or collaborating team of researchers with a deep understanding of arts organizations of color and their relationships with the communities they serve, across the diversity of communities and arts disciplines that constitute this part of the arts ecosystem.
 
The research team will support and study over five years a cohort of 10-12 arts organizations of color, selected by the Foundation, that are in their second decade or more of existence and are grappling with strategic challenges to their founding organizational model or context. The study’s key questions include:

• Relationship of Community Orientation to Relevance and Resilience
• Contextual Factors Specific and Not Specific to Arts Organizations of Color
• Documenting and/or Measuring Impacts and Contributions

LOIs are due August 13, 2021. Upon receipt of the LOI, the applicant will receive additional relevant information. Full proposals are due October 4, 2021.

View the Arts Organizations Centering Communities of Color, Community Orientation Study opportunity

Discovery Grants support studies that investigate various aspects of hearing and balance disorders related to the inner ear. Priority is given to investigators early in their careers who need seed funds to generate results and data that can be used to support applications for larger grants (i.e., NIH grants) in the future. Both basic and clinical studies may be proposed that investigate aspects of the auditory and vestibular systems including but not limited to genetics, neurotology, anatomy, auditory processing, molecular and cellular biology, therapeutic studies, and investigations of current or experimental devices (i.e., cochlear implants).

The Discovery Grant now encompasses the Foundation’s special interests of Causes of Sudden Hearing Loss and Meniere’s Disease. 

View the Discovery Grants - Hearing and Balance Disorders opportunity

Fellowships are available for theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention. Applicants must have completed at least an MD, PhD, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, or equivalent. Level 1 applicants (basic and physician scientists) must have received their degrees no more than 21 months prior to the deadline. Level 2 applicants (physician scientists-Mc, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, or equivalent) must have completed their residencies and clinical training, be board eligible, and able to donate at least 80% of their time to these activities.

View the Damon Runyon Fellowship Award opportunity.

This opportunity will bring new researchers into CIFAR's global research community; funding will develop based upon the selected team and planned activities. CIFAR seeks bold proposals from researchers at universities or research institutions that ask new questions about our complex emerging world. Proposals to this program should explore the long term intersection of humans, science and technology, social and cultural systems, and our environment. 

Webinars will be held on June 23 and June 28. Sign up here.

The registration deadline is August 17, 2021. LOIs are due January 26, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due fall 2022.

View the Global Call for Ideas - The Future of Being Human opportunity

The Templeton Foundation is focused on 12 strategic priorities for 2019-2023:

• Dynamics of Religious Change
• Intellectual Humility
• Mathematics & Physical Sciences
• Religious Cognition
• Health, Religion & Spirituality
• Cultural Evolution
• Science of Character Virtue
• Science of Purpose
• Public Engagement
• Science-Engaged Theology
• Programs in Islam
• Programs in Latin America

The Foundation is also open to receiving inquiries through its Open Funding Track, in inquiries do not align with the aforementioned priorities.

View the Research Grants opportunity

The John Templeton Foundation invites Online Funding Inquiry (OFI) submissions for proposals aimed at giving theologians, philosophers of religion, and scholars in religious studies who work in Christian theology (broadly construed) the opportunity to cross-train in psychological sciences (broadly defined to include cognitive, social, personality, moral, developmental, evolutionary, and cultural psychology; cognitive anthropology; behavioral economics; cognitive science; and cognitive and social neuroscience). 

In the near term, the Foundation is keen to focus its support of science-engaged theological research on questions about human nature in relation to divine realities, how humans conceive of and think about divine realities, the cultivation of intellectual and moral character virtues, and the relationship between religion and human flourishing, with engagement of the psychological sciences being a key focus.

By “cross-training”, the Foundation refers to any activities that aim at helping theologians, philosophers of religion, and scholars in religious studies:

• Increase their fluency in responsibly and critically engaging primary scientific literature
• Foster a sense of scholarly identity that reflexively values and seeks out the potential relevance of science to theological inquiry
• Equip them with accessible, theologically sensitive scholarly resources that allow them to learn about the latest research in psychological science
• Build cross-disciplinary scholarly relationships with psychological scientists, in hopes of seeding future research collaborations.

View the Psychological Science Cross-Training for Christian Theology opportunity

This program aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who might together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis through 8/30/23 with reviews conducted quarterly. Each early-stage grant will be awarded at $2,500-$50,000.

View the Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants opportunity

The Templeton Foundation's Ideas Challenge is aimed at exploring novel theoretical, philosophical, or scientific ideas useful for advancing the study of goal-directed, goal-seeking, or goal-suited phenomena in nature. The Foundation invites bold thinking that asks how such exploration might open new avenues for inquiry. A range of topics and disciplines are of interest to the Foundation, including Agency, Life, Mechanisms, Commonalities, Macroevolution, Models, Development, Matter, and Organization. Please see the Challenge call for details on each of these interest areas. The Foundation will also accept ideas outside of these specific interests.

The Foundation may invite winners or entrants to future events and/or to apply for additional grant funding.

View the Ideas Challenge opportunity

The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer.  The average award is $150,000.

Applications are accepted December 31, April 30, and August 31 annually.

View the Cancer Research Grants opportunity

These grants are intended to foster the early career development of researchers who have transitioned from graduate work in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences or engineering into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences, and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. Candidates must have completed at least 12 months but not more than 60 months of postdoctoral research by the date of the full invited application deadline. 
 
Proposals that include deep or machine learning applications of artificial intelligence are particularly encouraged. Special consideration will also be given to proposals that investigate the connection between climate change and human health. In addition to seeking participants from historically underrepresented groups, BWF is interested in increasing geographic diversity among candidates from the Central, Mountain and Southern States.

Pre-proposals are due September 1, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due January 7, 2022.

View the CASI opportunity

Furthermore grants assist nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. The organization looks for work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production, and promises a reasonable shelf life.

Applications are accepted on March 1 and September 1 annually.

View the Grants in Publishing opportunity

The Digital Art History Grants program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support may also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially essential art history photographic archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history. 

LOIs are due annually on September 1. Invited full proposals will be due October 1.

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The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era.

LOIs are due September 1. Invited full proposals will be due October 1.

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The History of Art program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture.

LOIs are due September 1. Invited full proposals will be due October 1.

The HHMI Investigator Program supports approximately 300 Investigators at more than 60 research institutions across the United States. Investigators are recognized for pushing the bounds of knowledge in biomedical research. HHMI selects people, not projects, who ask tough questions in science and develop new tools and methods that make it possible to ask previously unapproachable questions.

Applicants must hold an MD or PhD, have a substantial commitment from their institution (such as a tenure-track faculty position), have a track record of peer-reviewed funding, among other requirements. Please see the full program announcement for additional information about the competition and eligibility requirements.

View the HHMI Investigator Program opportunity.

*Note: The 2020 deadline has been extended from March 18 to September 2.

The Racial Justice and Equity Fund RFP will support organizations and efforts working to eradicate systemic racism and that have a meaningful connection to higher education. Among other non-profit organizations, centers within higher education institutions are eligible to apply as long as they have an explicit focus on racial equity and justice and exist specifically for that purpose. The work should be outward facing, i.e., not on-campus DEI initiatives for the university’s own students. Funding can be requested for three areas and should reflect efforts already underway and/or that can be sustained following the grant period:

• Program support, intended to support specific initiatives within organizations.
• Operating support, intended to support core organizational functions.
• Capacity-building support, intended to help organizations expand reach and ability to do new work or to improve upon existing efforts.

Initial applications are due September 2, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due October 21, 2021.

View the Racial Justice and Equity Fund opportunity

The Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation Award Program supports advanced research by postdoctoral scholars within the core areas of fundamental chemistry or the development and build of chemical instrumentation. There are two tracks for fellowships:

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences will allow chemists to pursue advanced research within the core areas of fundamental chemistry, such as chemical physics, chemical engineering, and chemistry of materials research. The fellowship is not intended to fund proposals that are supported by traditional NIH mechanisms in the fields of chemistry, chemical biology, biochemistry.  
• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation will allow researchers in chemistry to conceptualize, develop and build instrumentation suitable to advanced research in chemistry, chemical physics, chemical engineering, and chemistry of materials science. 

The award amount is $180,000 over two years for salary, fringe benefits and research expenditures; instrumentation fellowships will receive an additional one-time amount of up to $200,000. Fellows receiving the year 3 renewal award will receive an additional $90,000.

To be eligible, applicants must be 1) a current graduate student anticipated to complete a PhD in the chemical sciences by May 1, 2022 or 2) a current postdoctoral researcher with a granted/conferred PhD in the chemical sciences with no more than 18 months cumulative postdoctoral research experience (at time of application due date).

View the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences/Chemical Instrumentation opportunity

The purpose of this program is to encourage the development of medical research in child health by awarding small grants to new researchers. The Fund is open to a wide variety of research topics. They do not focus on a particular disease, but all funded projects deal directly with children's health. Those eligible to apply include physicians who are in a residency/fellowship training program; physicians who completed their residency program no more than one year before the date of submission of the Concept Paper; or postdoctoral researchers who received the doctoral level degree no more than three years prior to the date of submission of the Concept Paper. 

Concept papers are due September 13, 2022. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due November 4, 2022.

View the Early Career Awards for Children's Health opportunity

The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages university-based research institutes, schools, and centers to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Applications are welcome from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, child welfare, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. 

The online application will open on May 18, 2022.

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The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation seeks proposals for research that can inform near-term interventions that mitigate the impacts of disinformation and targeted online manipulation of communities of color. Activities may include:

• Publication development, including special journal issues or volumes
• Course relief to enable research
• Research assistance
• Targeted investigative reporting projects
• Symposia, workshops or other convenings that advance practical, actionable insights
• Data or technology acquisition

View the Combatting Disinformation in Communities of Color opportunity

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, or a related field. Candidates must be tenure-track, though untenured, as of September 15, 2021.

Note: In order to be considered for a Sloan Research Fellowship, a candidate must be officially nominated by a department head or other senior researcher. No more than three candidates may be nominated from any one department.

Please contact Chloe Taft Kang in OFR if you are interested in applying to this funding opportunity.

If you are a Feinberg faculty member, please contact Michelle Melin-Rogovin.

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The David H. and Beverly A. Barlow Grant supports innovative basic and clinical research on anxiety and anxiety related disorders conducted by graduate students and early career researchers. To be eligible, applicants must be a graduate student or early career researcher (no more than 10 years postdoctoral).

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The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable junior faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. It supports research that goes beyond current work in bioethics to help resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical care, biomedical research, and public policy, and creates a community that enhances future bioethics research by Scholars and Alumni/ae.  The goal of the program is to develop the next generation of bioethics leaders.

The award provides 50 percent salary support for three years, as well as $5,000 per year for limited project support and travel.

View the Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics opportunity

This is a limited submission opportunity managed by the Office of Research Development. Please see the ORD website for more information. 

Research grants support new and innovative studies that are relevant to the cause, pathogenesis, or treatment of the hereditary or sporadic ataxias. Grants are offered primarily as “seed monies” to assist investigators in the early or pilot phase of their studies and as additional support for ongoing investigations on demonstration of need.

LOIs are due September 21, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due October 19, 2021.

View the Seed Money Research Grant opportunity

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is focused on funding and catalyzing research that will lead to a cure of Type 1 diabetes (T1D), improving the quality of life and relieving the burden for people living with T1D, and preventing the disease. Career Development Awards are designed to attract qualified and promising scientists early in their faculty careers and given them the opportunity to establish themselves in areas that reflect the JDRF research emphasis areas. The Career Development Award is intended for individuals at an early stage of their independent academic career. Researchers who have received their first faculty-level appointment less than 3 years before the submission date are eligible to apply for this award. The applicant must hold an academic faculty-level position (including assistant professor or equivalent) at the time of submission of the proposal. 

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The Targeted Grants to Institutes program is intended to support established institutes or centers in mathematics and physical sciences through funding to help strengthen contacts within the international science community. The aim is to enable institutes to extend and enhance their missions; this program will not provide primary support for operating or establishing an institute.

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The Career Development Award provides research funding to clinical investigators, who have received their initial faculty appointment, as they work to establish an independent clinical cancer research program.

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The Moore Inventor Fellowship supports scientist-inventors who create new tools and technologies with a high potential to accelerate progress in the foundation’s areas of interest: scientific discovery, environmental conservation and patient care. The Foundation's goal is to partner with fellows' host institutions to invest in these young inventor scientists and their inventions, to allow awardees to focus on their inventions, creating the scientific and technological revolutions of the future.

Internal LOIs are due September 28, 2021. If selected, the sponsor application will be due December 13, 2021.

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The Simons Fellows program is intended to make research leaves more productive by enabling their extension from one academic term to a full academic year.

Fellowships will be awarded for up to 50% (max of $100,000) of the Fellow's current academic year salary.

View the Fellows Program in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics opportunity

This award was created to encourage young clinical and scientific investigators to pursue a career in the field of ataxia research.

LOIs are due September 28, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due October 26, 2021.

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The ACLS Fellowship program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. The fellowship is open to untenured scholars who have earned a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences on or after September 30, 2013. 

ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing. 

View the Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences opportunity

The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood supports promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. Welfare is broadly defined to include physical and mental health, safety, nutrition, education, play, familial support, acculturation, societal integration and childcare.

Grants are only made if a successful project outcome will likely be of significant interest to other professionals, within the grantee’s field of endeavor, and would have a direct benefit and potential national application. The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale. 

Grants are made in the areas of:

• early childhood welfare
• early childhood education and play
• parenting education

Grants typically range between $25,000 and $50,000. LOIs are due September 30, 2021. 

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The ADDF offers funding to researchers for Alzheimer's drug discovery, clinical trials, and biomarker development research. Core request for proposals include:

• Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials (PACT), award amount: up to $3,000,000
• Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Development, award amount: up to $600,000
• Prevention Pipeline, award amount: up to $3,000,000
• Drug Development, award amount: up to $600,000 

LOIs are due September 30, 2022. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due December 2, 2022.

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This initiative intends to increase the research efforts in Phase I and Phase II (Proof of Concept) clinical trials directed toward Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias internationally. This new grant mechanism aims to fill the gap in Alzheimer’s disease drug development by providing support for early phase studies of potential Alzheimer’s therapeutics; this can include validation of biological markers of disease progression in the context of evaluating a potential therapy.

LOIs are due October 1, 2021. Second-level review and funding decisions are anticipated to be made in January 2022.

View the Part the Cloud: Translational Research Funding for Alzheimer's Disease opportunity

The Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides awards for physician-scientists who are committed to an academic career, to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service. Candidates must hold an MD, DDS, DVM, or DO degree and must be no more than 13 years past their clinical doctoral degree. Candidates with tenure-track appointments are not eligible.

Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented, or translational research. BWF is also interested in AI and machine learning. Proposals in health services research or involving large-scale clinical trials are not eligible. BWF anticipates making up to 10 awards including two awards to clinically trained psychiatrists whose research focuses on the interface between psychiatry and neuroscience. In addition to seeking women and underrepresented minorities, BWF is interested in increasing geographic diversity and encourages applications from candidates in the Central, Mountain and Southern States.

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The Life Sciences Research Foundation aims to identify and fund exceptional young scientists at a critical juncture of their training in all areas of basic life sciences.

Note: Individuals who have held a PhD or MD degree for more than 5 years at time of application are not eligible.

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The Foundation supports scholarly research in the life sciences. The program is designed for researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. 

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The Whitehall Foundation assists scholarly research in the life sciences. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology. The Foundation does not support research focused primarily on disease(s) unless it will also provide insights into normal functioning.

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The Biota Awards funds early-career researchers based in the Chicago region who seek to restore, protect and conserve biodiversity locally and around the world. Walder Foundation promotes the long-term sustainability of the natural environment by addressing socio-environmental challenges such as climate, water, food, and health. Through the Biota Awards, the Foundation will fund creative thinkers to explore new solutions to restore and preserve our ecosystems.

Up to five awards will be given for research based in the Chicago region that seeks to restore, protect and conserve biodiversity locally and around the world. The Foundation encourages collaborations between Chicago-area institutions and collaborations that help build conservation capacity in historically-marginalized communities in the Chicago region and low and middle-income countries.

View the Biota Awards in Biodiversity Science opportunity

Post-doctoral fellowship awards are to serve as a bridge from post-doctoral positions to junior faculty positions. Applicants should have completed at least one year of post-doctoral training, but not more than two at the time of application, and should have shown a commitment to research in the field of Ataxia.

LOIs are due October 5, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due November 2, 2021. 

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The Joyce Foundation invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region. The Foundation accepts applications in the following program areas:

• Culture
• Democracy
• Education & Economic Mobility
• Environment
• Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform

LOIs are to be submitted at least 6-8 weeks in advance of the full proposal deadline (December 1, 2021).

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The Defending Basic Freedoms program helps safeguard the basic freedoms guaranteed in our Bill of Rights, to help eliminate all forms of prejudice and discrimination, and to assist government agencies to be more accountable to the public. The Herb Block Foundation will also consider contemporary societal issues that may arise. 

LOIs are due October 6, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due December 15, 2021.

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The aim of the Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences (MPS) program is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. The questions addressed by the collaboration may be concrete or conceptual, but there should be little doubt that answering them would constitute a major scientific milestone. 

LOIs are due October 6, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due February 15, 2022.

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The Alzheimer's Association offers the following competitions within their International Research Grant Program. 

• Clinician Scientist Fellowship (AACSF), award amount: up to $175,000
• Clinician Scientist Fellowship to Promote Diversity (AACSF-D), award amount: up to $175,000
• Research Fellowship (AARF), award amount: up to $175,000
• Research Fellowship to Promote Diversity (AARF-D), award amount: up to $175,000
• Research Grant (AARG), award amount: up to $150,000
• Research Grant to Promote Diversity (AARG-D), award amount: up to $150,000
• Research Grant--New to the Field (AARG-NTF), award amount: up to $150,000
• Research Grant to Promote Diversity--New to the Field (AARG-D-NTF), award amount: up to $150,000

LOIs are due October 8, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due November 19, 2021.

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The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained within the first five years of their appointment as independent researchers, and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise of continuing outstanding contributions to both research and teaching. 

Internal LOIs are due October 11, 2021. If selected, the sponsor proposal will be due February 2, 2022.

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This program provides start-up monies for new research projects in the field of neuroscience that will likely lead to extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other outside funding sources. The objective is to support new and innovative projectts, especially those of junior faculty, who are working in new research directions on studies of brain function. This includes molecular and clinical neuroscience as well as studies of neural, sensory, motor, cognitive, behavioral and emotional functioning in health and disease.

Funding is to be directed at pilot research projects that are both innovative and will likely lead to other successful grant applications. Assistant and associate professors are eligible to apply. See program announcement for specific requirements.

Internal LOIs are due October 25, 2021. If selected to move forward, the Sponsor LOI will be due January 4, 2022. 

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Grants will be awarded to researchers for innovative investigator-initiated glaucoma-related research projects.

The standard award provides significant funding for researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data, but are often required to demonstrate additional, significant progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies. $200,000/2 yrs

Postdoctoral fellowship awards are intended for young researchers in their final stages of mentored training. This fellowship is available to researchers within four years of degree conferral or end of residency or fellowship. $150,000/2 yrs

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The program provides unrestricted research support of $100,000 CAD to exceptional early-career researchers in the first five years of a full-time research position to collaborate with colleagues from diverse disciplines. Program components include participating in an interdisciplinary network of fellows, strengthening leadership and communication skills, and increasing impact within and outside of academia.

Scholars’ research interests must complement or contribute to the themes and goals of an eligible CIFAR research program. Programs accepting applications include:

• Bio-inspired Solar Energy
• Child & Brain Development
• Gravity & the Extreme Universe
• Learning in Machines & Brains
• Quantum Information Science
• Quantum Materials

View the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars opportunity

These fellowships are intended to support an academic year of research and/or writing by early career scholars from around the world for a project that will make a substantial and original contribution to the understanding of art and its history. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.

Applicants must have a PhD that was conferred between September 1, 2016 and December 31, 2020.

View the Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art opportunity

The purpose of these awards is to help launch the careers of outstanding investigators in the field of marine microbial ecology and evolution who will advance our understanding through experiments, modeling or theory. Investigators must be currently active in research on microbial ecology and/or evolution, excluding research focusing on the microbiomes of animals or plants. Investigators with backgrounds in different fields are encouraged to apply.

Applicants must have held a tenure-track or equivalent independent position in a U.S. or Canadian institution for at least one year and no more than eight years.

Reference letters must be received by October 29, 2021. Letters of intent are due November 5, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due February 18, 2022.

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The Translational Research Program (TRP) puts recipients on the bench-to-bedside fast track when it comes to finding better treatment and cures for leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society funds new and innovative research that shows high promise for translating basic biomedical knowledge to clinical application.

LOIs are due October 29, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due January 21, 2022.

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Through the Science of Purpose funding initiative, the Foundation seeks to identify and fund the development of novel theoretical, philosophical, or scientific concepts useful for advancing the study of goal-directed, goal-seeking, or goal-suited phenomena in nature. Each funding priority (list below) includes a set of questions illustrative of the kinds of concepts or phenomena the Foundation seeks to support.

• Agency
• Commonalities
• Development
• Life
• Macroevolution
• Matter
• Mechanisms
• Models
• Organization

Researchers with proposed topics not in the list above can submit their proposed projects here.

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The Howard Foundation supports fellowships in selected fields for early mid-career individuals (applicants should have completed their formal studies in the past 5 to 15 years) who have achieved recognition for at least one major project. Support is particularly intended to augment paid sabbatical leaves. 

The 2022-2023 program will support Photography and Film Studies

Subsequent selected fields are as follows:

• 2023-2024: Music Performance and Musicology/Ethnomusicology
• 2024-2025: Emerging Arts and Science and Technology Studies 

View the Arts and Humanities Fellowships opportunity

The Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies has traditionally sought to maintain the vitality of China Studies in North America through fellowships and grants designed primarily for scholars early in their careers. The organizations recently launched a three-year bridging initiative to reassess and reconfigure the program to reimagines and transform the program to meet the needs of China studies in the 21st century. 2021-22 fellowships will support research, writing, and curriculum development, and are offered on two tracks:

• Short-term research fellowships (up to $15,000) will enable recent PhDs (awarded in the last eight years) with heavy teaching responsibilities to carry out projects in research and writing (3 months' work over a period of 12 months). Funds may be used for access to online archives, travel conference participation, alleviating familial responsibilities, etc. 
• Long-term research fellowships (up to $40,000) will enable recent PhDs (awarded in the last eight years) to take leaves from university responsibilities to carry out projects in research and writing. The fellowship tenure must consist of consecutive semesters or quarters. Fellows must be on leave from teaching and service.

An additional $5,000 allowance is slated for attendance a the 2022 summer retreat for both trackers. The purpose of the retreat will be to build teacher-scholar cohorts in China studies. Applicants must hold a PhD degree conferred between January 1, 2013 and November 1, 2021.

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Post-Ph.D. Research Grants are awarded to individuals holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree to support individual research projects. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas.

Applications are accepted May 1 and November 1 annually.

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The Anna Lalor Burdick Program seeks to empower young women through education about healthy reproduction in order to broaden and enhance their options in life. The program focuses particularly on young women who have inadequate access to information regarding sexual and reproductive health.

Concept papers are due May 1 and November 1 annually.

View the Anna Lalor Burdick Program opportunity

Grants support studies to develop, refine, evaluate, or disseminate innovative interventions designed to prevent or ameliorate major social, psychological, behavioral, or public health problems affecting children, adults, couples, families, or communities.

Applications are accepted in April and November of each year.

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The goal of the program is to accelerate advances in fundamental and translational research on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias to understand the mechanisms underlying the etiology and pathogenesis as well as innovative approaches to better diagnose, prevent or delay the progress of the disease. Preference is made for exciting pilot projects that would not, at their present stage, be competitive for large government or industry awards. Typically, these awards are made to early stage investigators, or to more established investigators who are proposing particularly innovative research.

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The GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program awards grants to organizations and individuals to support research on the impact of music on the human condition.

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The GRAMMY Foundation awards grants to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas for future generations.

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The Career Development Program offers the opportunity to take part in basic, clinical, or translational research to help understand and treat hematologic malignancies and relevant premalignant conditions.

Eligibility forms due November 1, 2021. Abstracts are due November 15, 2021.

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is working to build a Culture of Health where everyone in America has a fair and just opportunity to live the healthiest life possible. Park equity is a key component of this vision. This call for proposals seeks especially small and mid-sized urban communities most impacted by park and green space inequities to participate in People, Parks, and Power: A National Initiative for Green Space, Health Equity, and Racial Justice (P3). The geographic focus of the P3 initiative is urban areas—with a particular interest in small and midsized cities (under 500,000 population).

RWJF is interested in funding a spectrum of eligible organizations across the United States that either are in later or early stages of policy advocacy and systems change efforts to advance park equity.

View the People, Parks, and Power: A National Initiative for Green Space, Health Equity, and Racial Justice opportunity

The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF), in partnership with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Gates Foundation, is interested in research focused on structural barriers to economic mobility and how individuals, communities and state entities understand, navigate and challenge systemic inequalities in the United States. RSF is interested in novel uses of new or under-utilized data, and creative uses of administrative data. Proposals might also include exploratory fieldwork, a pilot study, field experiments, in-depth qualitative interviews, or ethnographies. 

This opportunity is designed to support early career tenure-track assistant professors and associate professors. Applications from underrepresented (including racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity) scholars in the social sciences will be prioritized. Assistant professors can apply for grants up to $30,000; associate professors can apply for grants up to $50,000. Only faculty who have not previously received a research grant or visiting fellowship from RSF are eligible to apply. 

Note: Applicants can either apply to the Pipeline Grants competition or the regular research grant program (deadline 11/10/21), but not both.

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Templeton World Charity Foundation seeks projects that aim to:

1. Empirically investigate and evaluate the impact of specific religious and spiritual exercises or practices on wellbeing and flourishing;
2. Identify and test potential mechanisms and mediators that link practices to their outcomes, as well as moderators that might influence those outcomes.

The Foundation hopes to broaden and deepen our scientific understanding of these exercises with a view to informing more innovative adaptations and applications of religious and spiritual exercises that can promote human flourishing for different people in diverse contexts.

This funding competition aims to expand the evidence base of a repertoire of religious and spiritual exercises that have been neglected by empirical research. Candidate spiritual exercises can include, but are not limited to:

• Close study of and reflection on sacred texts (i.e., lectio divina)
• Shabbat or keeping Sabbath
• The practice of sobriety
• Self-examination and self-reflection
• Confession
• Spiritual direction
• The practice of hospitality
• Tithing Fasting or other forms of asceticism
• Iconography
• Stewardship
• Pilgrimage Spiritual journaling
• Religion-specific forms of contemplative practices
• Different forms of prayer practices
• Synchronised singing of sacred/spiritual music

Applicants may request up to $234,000 for a Project Grant, or up to $500,000 for a Program Grant.

View the The Science of Religious and Spiritual Exercises opportunity 

The RWJF Health Policy Fellows program provides the nation’s most comprehensive learning experience at the
nexus of health, science, and policy in Washington, D.C. It is an  opportunity for exceptional midcareer
health professionals and behavioral/social scientists with an interest in health and health care policy. Fellows
participate in the policy process at the federal level and use that leadership experience to improve health, health care, and health policy.

The fellowship requires a full-time commitment with a minimum 12-month residence in Washington, D.C., which
prepares individuals to influence the future of health and health care in the nation.

Three reference letters are due November 9, 2021. Preliminary applications are due November 12, 2021. Invited full applications will be due February 11, 2022.

View the Health Policy Fellows opportunity

RSF will continue to accept letters of inquiry relevant to any of RSF’s core programs that address at least one of the following issues:

• Research on the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession in the U.S. Specifically, research that assesses the social, political, economic, and psychological causes and consequences of the pandemic, especially its effects on marginalized individuals and groups and on trust in government and other institutions. Our priorities do not include analyses of health outcomes or health behavior.
• Research focused on systemic racial inequality and/or the recent mass protests in the U.S. Specifically, research that investigates the prevalence of racial disparities in policing and criminal justice and their social, political, economic, and psychological causes and consequences; the effects of the current social protest movement and mass mobilization against systemic discrimination; the nature of public attitudes and public policies regarding policing, criminal justice, and social welfare; and the effects of those attitudes in the current political environment.

LOIs are due November 9, 2022. 

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The Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) Grants Program is intended to support education research projects that engage in collaborative and participatory partnerships with project budgets up to $400,000 and durations of up to three years. The Foundation is open to applications from design-based research teams, network improvement communities, and placed-based research alliances. In addition to pre k-12 school systems, the Foundation especially encourages applications from partnerships that include scholars and institutions of higher education, rural geographic locations, and partnerships that deeply engage community-based organizations and families. 

Applicants must complete the Intent to Apply form by November 10, 2021. Full proposals are due December 8, 2021.

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Templeton World Charity Foundation has launched a new strategy to support new scientific research on human flourishing and to translate related discoveries into practical tools. Over the next five years, the Foundation will support a range of projects across three distinct stages: discovery, development, and launch. It is hoped that this commitment will lead to the development of innovative solutions and the launch of new practices that make a lasting impact on human flourishing. 

This Request for Ideas seeks to gather broad input to shape the FOundation's priorities for scientific discovery, which may lead to several new portfolios of grants.

Approximately $40M will be invested through the Grand Challenges for Human Flourishing program. Priority will go to interdisciplinary scientific research on humanity's cognitive, affective, social, and spiritual well-being.

View the Grand Challenges for Human Flourishing opportunity

The mission of the Foundation is to support early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of disease. Mallinckrodt Foundation Scholar award applicants should be in the fifth to eighth year of a tenure-track faculty position. The funds are designed to provide faculty members who hold MD and/or PhD degrees with support to move the project forward to the point where other independent funding can be obtained. Candidates may have an R01. 

Internal LOIs are due November 11, 2021. If selected to move forward, the sponsor proposal will be due January 14, 2022.

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The Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award provides grants to early career physician scientists to facilitate their transition to independent clinical research careers.

Pre-proposal applications are due November 12, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due March 11, 2022.

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The program aims to deepen public understanding of religion by advancing innovative scholarship on religion in international contexts and equipping individual scholars and institutions of higher education with the capacities to connect their work to journalism and the media and to engage audiences beyond the academy.

Proposals are sought for collaborative projects hosted at US-based accredited institutions of higher education with research and curricular strengths in journalism and communication and in the humanistic and social science fields concerned with the study of global religions (including, but not limited to, anthropology, area studies, history, languages and literature, political science, religious studies, and sociology). Applicants must propose activities that connect humanities and social science programs within their institution with journalism schools, departments, or initiatives, or with external media organizations. 

View the Collaborative Programming Grants - Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs opportunity

The Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs aims to deepen public understanding of religion by advancing innovative scholarship on religion in international contexts and equipping individual scholars and institutions of higher education with the capacities to connect their work to journalism and the media and to engage audiences beyond the academy. 

Proposals are sought for collaborative projects hosted at US-based accredited institutions of higher education with research and curricular strengths in journalism and communication and in the humanistic and social science fields concerned with the study of global religions (including, but not limited to, anthropology, area studies, history, languages and literature, political science, religious studies, and sociology). Applicants must propose activities that connect humanities and social science programs within their institution with journalism schools, departments, or initiatives, or with external media organizations.

View the Programming Grants - Religion, Journalism & International Affairs Collaborative opportunity

Research fellowships offer support for research and writing in Buddhist studies for scholars who hold a PhD degree, with priority given to those teaching full-time. These fellowships provide scholars time free from teaching and other responsibilities to devote full-time to research and writing on the project proposed. There are no restrictions as to the location of the work conducted. Applicants must identify a significant scholarly product (monograph, series of journal articles, etc.) that will result from the fellowship.

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Grant-making interests are focused on nutrition and/or health-related research having a significant impact on issues facing infants and young children from the first year before birth to age 3.

Concept papers are due May 15 and November 15 annually.

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• Advocacy: Achieving enduring social change around issues that affect older Americans
• Direct Service: Improve availability and quality of community-based and residential long-term services and supports
• Professional Education and Training: Increase the competency of professionals and paraprofessionals who serve older adults
• Research: Seek causes and solutions to significant problems for older adults

LOIs (optional) are due November 15 annually for the February 1 full proposal deadline.

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• focus on important and emerging areas of research
• have the potential to develop breakthrough technologies, instrumentation or methodologies
• are innovative, distinctive and interdisciplinary
• demonstrate a high level of risk due to unconventional approaches, or by challenging the prevailing paradigm
• have the potential for transformative impact, such as the foundation of a new field of research, the enabling of observations not previously possible, or the altered perception of a previously intractable problem
• do not focus on clinical or translational research, treatment trials, or research for the sole purpose of drug development
• fall outside the mission of public funding agencies (PIs must already have applied / provide proof from a program officer that project is outside program focus)
• demonstrate that private philanthropy generally, and the W. M. Keck Foundation in particular, is essential to the project’s success.

One-page concept papers are due November 16, 2021. If selected as the nominee, the Phase I application will be due May 1, 2022.

Please contact Sarah Fodor if you are interested in applying for this opportunity. 

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The Parkinson’s Foundation seeks clinical, pre-clinical or basic research proposals that will directly impact the understanding of Parkinson’s or its treatment from promising early career scientists. Successful projects should include novel PD research hypotheses and be inventive in methodology or approach. The award acts as a bridge to ensure promising early career scientists stay in the Parkinson’s research field, helping to solve, treat, and end the disease.

LOIs are due November 16, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due March 7, 2022.

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Healthy Eating Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation housed at Duke University, seeks research proposals on how COVID-19-related relief and recovery policies and programs impact child health and well-being. 

HER is interested in understanding how social and economic programs and policies related to poverty reduction—such as financial payments to families, income assistance programs, housing assistance or housing security programs, and increased access to social services—impact child obesity, diet quality, food security, and other relevant child and family health outcomes among lower-income and families of color.

Studies must focus on children and families in the United States, with high priority on those who are at highest risk for poor nutrition and obesity, specifically lower-income families and racially and ethnically diverse populations.

Note: Funded proposals will be awarded as subawards from Duke University, which manages this national program.

View the Healthy Eating Research: COVID-19 and Socioeconomic Recovery Efforts opportunity

Applications to this program are made jointly by a U.S. and an Israeli researcher(s) who would like to work together. Prior cooperation between the PIs is not a prerequisite, and the establishment of new research teams is welcomed by the BSF. The following areas are eligible for submission:

• Biomedical Engineering
• Life Sciences
• Medicine
• Psychobiology

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NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports early career faculty working in critical areas of education research. This non-residential postdoctoral fellowship funds proposals that make significant scholarly contributions to the field of education.

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The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method. The Foundation's goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research. This program supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their career.

View the Research Grants on Education - Small opportunity

Growing evidence suggests the interrelatedness of the duration of pregnancy, fetal growth, and adverse
pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth, preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, stillbirth, and maternal medical complications including maternal mortality. Other areas of interest are climate change and environmental impact on pregnancy, complications associated with ART, and epigenome-wide association studies. BWF seeks to expand the scope of this award mechanism to capture these and other pregnancy outcomes as the Foundation believes they will be mutually informative and accelerate discovery.

The initiative is designed to stimulate both creative individual scientists and multi-investigator teams to approach healthy and adverse pregnancy outcomes using creative basic and translation science methods.

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The Foundation established a program designed to recruit outstanding U.S. Specialty Board-eligible physicians into cancer research careers by providing them with the opportunity for a protected research training experience under the mentorship of a highly qualified and gifted mentor after they have completed all of their clinical training.

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The goal of the Coins for Alzheimer's Research Trust (CART) fund is to encourage exploratory and development Alzheimer's Disease research projects within the United States. This is accomplished by providing financial support for the early and conceptual plans of those projects that may not yet be supported by extensive preliminary data but have the potential to substantially advance biomedical research. These projects should be distinct from those designed to increase knowledge in a well established area unless they intend to extend previous discoveries toward new directions or applications.

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LLS’s Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) grant program is intended to bring together established investigators from one or several institutions to develop a focused research program, foster new interactions and cooperation, and enhance interdisciplinary research among the participants. The overall goal of this mechanism is to enhance the development of innovative strategies for the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of blood cancers. Strategies that move discoveries from the bench to the clinic are of high importance as are integrated translational projects.

LOIs are due December 1, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due March 28, 2022.

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View the Hannah H. Gray Fellows Program opportunity

Priority for conference and workshop grants will be given to events that foster the creation of an international community of research scholars in anthropology and advance significant and innovative anthropological research. Workshops, defined as working meetings that focus on developing and debating topical issues in theoretical anthropology, will involve a small group of scholars meeting for a sufficient period of time to deal intensely with the project. It is expected that workshops will result in a publication.

Applications are accepted on June 1 and December 1 annually.

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The Foundation seeks to support projects to develop and test the feasibility of new programs for promoting positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children (birth through 18 years) from underserved groups and/or low-resourced communities (minority ethnic groups, low-income families), as well as projects that evaluate the effectiveness of such programs.

Grants have ranged from $25,000 to $790,000.

LOIs are due December 1, 2022. Invited full proposals will be due April 1, 2023.

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This program supports research projects related to sustainable solid waste management practices. EREF's long-term strategic plan is to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increases sustainable solid waste management practices.

Pre-proposals are due on May 1 and December 1 annually. 

View the Solid Waste Management Research Grants opportunity

Academic program funding is available for in-person exchanges such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia that advance scholarship in the field of American art (circa 1500–1980) that take place:

• In Chicago or outside the United States, or
• In the United States, with at least one-third of the participants coming from outside the United States.

Additionally, the foundation welcomes applications for international research groups that involve 2 to 4 faculty members from two or more academic institutions, at least one of which must be located outside the United States. Groups should pursue specific research questions that will advance scholarship and meet in person two or more times. This opportunity excludes projects on architecture and commercial film/animation.

This application cycle is for programs taking place after September 1, 2022. LOIs are due December 3, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due February 15, 2022.

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The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience supports innovative research designed to bring science closer to the day when diseases of the brain can be accurately diagnosed, prevented, and treated. These awards encourage and support scientists working on the development of novel and creative approaches to understanding brain function. The Endowment Fund is interested in how a new technology may be used to monitor, manipulate, analyze, or model brain function at any level, from the molecular to the entire organism. 

LOIs are due December 6, 2021. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due April 25, 2022.

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The strongest proposals will demonstrate that their projects have:

• an established track record of successful public engagement on issues related to this program’s core thematic areas;
• sustained involvement by members of the campus community;
• the capacity to use grant funds to sustain staffing and programming that have been reduced due to the pandemic;
• prioritized programmatic work with extra-mural communities. While program capacity building (curricular development, salary support for students, staff, and faculty) can be key components of proposals, projects that do not support direct community engagement would be considered less relevant.
• a demonstrated commitment to fairly and equitably supporting project participants facing special precarity due to the pandemic, including adjunct and other non-tenure track faculty, students and faculty from historically underrepresented backgrounds in higher education, and community partners (for example, through fair compensation, equitable participation, and recognition of participant involvement, among other means).

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) seeks applications for projects that aim to use and gain insights into health and disease from existing single-cell datasets to help accelerate progress toward challenges associated with the compilation and exploration of large atlas-scale data. Applications are encouraged from computational experts outside the field of single-cell biology but with expertise relevant to overcoming current bottlenecks. Projects may include dedicated efforts to refine existing computational tools, benchmark classes of tools, improve standards, integrate available data that enables greater biological insight, develop new features that support interoperability of data or tools, and other major challenges brought forward. 

Grants will be awarded at two levels:

• $200,000 USD total costs (inclusive of up to 15 percent indirect costs) for grants that primarily support the effort of one to two full-time employees (FTEs) working on a given project.
• $400,000 USD total costs (inclusive of up to 15 percent indirect costs) for networked grants that will require the participation of two to four FTEs. 

View the Single-Cell Biology Data Insights opportunity

Only one application per institution is permitted for the following program. Please contact Chloe Kang if you are interested in applying for this opportunity. 

Recordings at Risk supports the preservation of rare and unique audio and audiovisual content of high scholarly value through digital reformatting. Awards may cover costs of preservation reformatting for audio and/or audiovisual content by qualified external service providers.

The program encourages professionals who may be constrained by limited resources and/or technical expertise to take action against the threats of degradation and obsolescence. The program aims to help institutions identify priorities and develop practical strategies for digital reformatting, build relationships with partners, and raise awareness of best practices.

View the Recordings at Risk opportunity

AFAR provides awards to junior faculty (M.D. and Ph.D.) to conduct research that will serve as the basis for longer term research efforts.

LOIs are due December 15, 2021. Invited full proposals will be due in late April 2022.

View the Junior Faculty Grants - Aging Research opportunity 

The History of Art program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture.

LOIs are due December 15th; if selected to move forward, the full proposal will be due on January 15th.

View the History of Art Grants Program opportunity

The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era.

LOIs are due December 15th; if selected to move forward, full proposals will be due January 15th.

View the Conservation Grants Program opportunity

The Henry Luce Foundation’s Theology Program invites new inquiries for projects seeking to advance public knowledge on the topic of race, justice, and religion in America.

The Luce Foundation aims to support collaborative, experimental, and field-shaping initiatives that enliven the practice of public scholarship on—and promote public understanding of—race, justice, and religion in America. We invite inquiries for projects that seek to rethink received understandings of religion and race in America, to imagine alternative possibilities, and to alter the terms of public discourse.

The Foundation especially encourages the submission of inquiries for projects that will:

• Revisit and interrogate accepted histories of race and American religion
• Critically examine connections between religion, racism, and white supremacy
• Strengthen understanding of the role of religion in movements for racial justice
• Work across religious, racial, cultural, disciplinary, and/or institutional boundaries
• Draw on diverse knowledge communities and amplify underrepresented voices
• Attend to transnational movements, flows, engagements, and influences
• Deepen and extend efforts to build a more just, equitable, and democratic future

Grants may fund a wide range of possible activities, including (but not limited to):

• Public-facing humanities and social science scholarship
• Media initiatives and other forms of public and community engagement
• Support for early career scholars and emerging public thinkers
• Creative uses of digital technologies and new publication platforms
• Multi-institutional collaborations and partnerships of various kinds

Internal LOIs are due December 21, 2020. If selected to move forward, the sponsor LOI will be due February 15, 2021.

View the Advancing Public Knowledge on Race, Justice, and Religion in America opportunity

Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals from scientists, anthropologists, artists, urban planners, community leaders—anyone, anywhere who has a new or unconventional idea that could alter the trajectory of health, and improve health equity and well-being for generations to come. 

RWJF is particularly interested in breakthrough or unconventional ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, it welcomes ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health.

Average grants in this program in 2019 were about $315,000 over one to three years.

View the Pioneering Ideas Brief Proposal opportunity.