Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of February 17, 2025

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Funding Landscape

AFRL and AFOSR invites researchers to the Advancing Space Biotechnology Workshop.

The intent of this workshop is to develop advanced, predictable whole-cell models of both existing and emerging biomanufacturing microorganisms that can forecast the effects on viability and yields in the space environment. Register by March 5, 2025.

HRSA issues the Autism Research Consortium (Autism RC) Program to fund up to five centers.

The Autism RC supports both research infrastructure and research studies that will create, adapt, and share evidence-based strategies and interventions to increase the impact and efficiency of MCHB’s research investments. We anticipate that the studies will promote health and reduce health disparities. Note more than one application per institution is permitted given they are distinct projects.

Limited Submission Opportunities

NEA: Research Labs

Description: This program funds projects that support transdisciplinary research teams to build public knowledge about the arts and their contributions to individuals, communities, and society at large. Recipients will develop a multiyear research agenda, conduct multiple research studies, and develop a suite of products or services (e.g., a website, research papers, workshops, or evidence-based tools) of value not only to arts researchers, but also to practitioners in the arts and other sectors such as healthcare, education, and business or management. 
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, March 3, 2025
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, March 24, 2025

NSF: EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows (NSF Track Only)

Description: The EPSCoR Research Fellows provides awards to build research capacity in institutions and transform the career trajectories of investigators and further develop their individual research potential through collaborations with investigators from the nation's premier private, governmental, or academic research institutions and/or centers. The fellowship provides opportunities to establish strong collaborations through extended or periodic collaborative visits to a selected host site. 
Eligibility: Early-Mid Career Faculty
Limitation: four applications per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, March 3, 2025
Sponsor Deadline: Tuesday, April 8, 2025

NSF: EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: EPSCoR Collaborations for Optimizing Research Ecosystems (E-CORE)

Description: A jurisdiction’s research ecosystem is the interconnected network of organizations, researchers, trainees, community stakeholders, and resources that contribute to the process of research and innovation that advances fundamental knowledge, generates use-inspired products, and ultimately cultivates beneficial impacts for a jurisdiction. E-CORE supports jurisdictions in building significant and sustainable research capacity and research infrastructure for targeted areas of focus, hereinafter referred to as “cores,” that underlie a jurisdiction's research ecosystem.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Sponsor Deadline: Tuesday, July 15, 2025

NSF: EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement: EPSCoR Research Incubators for STEM Excellence (E-RISE)

Description: The E-RISE supports hypothesis-driven or problem-driven research and fosters the development of research teams and products in a scientific topical area that aligns with a jurisdiction’s research ecosystem and priorities, as detailed in the jurisdiction’s Science and Technology (S&T) Plan or drawn from other jurisdiction plans, reports, or publications prepared by appropriate authorities or bodies. E-RISE invites innovative proposals within the chosen research area that will lead to development and implementation of sustainable broad networks of individuals, institutions, and organizations, and that will transform the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research capacity and competitiveness in a jurisdiction.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Sponsor Deadline: Tuesday, August 12, 2025