Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of May 15, 2023 | Please share this information with department heads and eligible faculty. | | Funding Landscape
Craig H. Neilsen Foundation announces a call for Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum grants. The Neilsen Foundation partners with scientific, charitable, and educational organizations conducting spinal cord injury research, training in spinal cord medicine, and supports grassroots organizations providing services to assist individuals affected by spinal cord injury. This call awards opportunities under three mechanisms: Postdoctoral Fellowships, Pilot Research Grants, and Senior Research Grants. Details
The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors an annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition. The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to enable the recipients to research and write a book. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing. Within the think tank community, the program supports members of the rising generation of policy thinkers who are focused on U.S. strategic and foreign policy issues. Details | | Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: The objective of IFE-STAR is to provide an IFE framework that leverages expertise and capabilities across national laboratories, academia, and industry to advance foundational IFE S&T using integrated and self-consistent solutions as outlined in the BRN report, “Different IFE approaches impose a wide range of nontrivial requirements on the target physics solutions, and there are many complex cross-dependencies between individual subsystems. Limitation: one application per institution Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, May 23, 2023 Sponsor Deadline: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 | Description: BioFoundries is an infrastructure program from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that is designed to accelerate advances in the biological sciences, chemical biology, biotechnology, and bioengineering via access to modern infrastructure, technology, and capacity. Limitation: one application per institution Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 Sponsor LOI Deadline: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 | | Description: The Foundation has enjoyed special recognition in the research community in supporting “basic” scientific research, realizing that true transformative breakthroughs usually occur after a thorough understanding of the fundamental mechanisms underlying natural phenomena. Immunology, microbiome, genomics, structural biology, cellular physiology, neuroscience, etc., are some noteworthy examples of current research support Limitation: four applications per institution Internal Submission Deadline: Thursday, June 29, 2023 Sponsor Deadline: Friday, September 29, 2023 | Description: The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program seeks proposals that explore ways for graduate students in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. Limitation: two applications per institution Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Sponsor Deadline: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 | | Description: The NIH Director's Early Independence Award supports rigorous and promising junior investigators who wish to pursue independent research soon after completion of their terminal doctoral degree or post-graduate clinical training, thereby forgoing the traditional post-doctoral training period and accelerating their entry into an independent research career. Limitation: two applications per institution Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 Sponsor Deadline: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 | | | |