Three New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of May 15, 2023
Three New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of May 15, 2023

Research Development Office

Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of May 15, 2023

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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.
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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.
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Limited Submission Opportunities

DOE: Inertial Fusion Energy Science & Technology Accelerated Research (IFE-STAR)

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

NSF: BioFoundries to Enable Access to Infrastructure and Resources for Advancing Modern Biology and Biotechnology (BioFoundries)

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

G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation

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

Reminder NSF: Research Traineeship Program (NRT)

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 

Reminder NIH: Director’s Early Independence Awards (DP5 Clinical Trial Optional)

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

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