Funding Opportunities Newsletter
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Spotlight Opportunities
SPONSOR
PROGRAM
FUNDING
DEADLINE
NOTES
DOE
Quantum Information Science Research for Fusion Energy Sciences
$50,000 – $1,000,000 per year for 1 or 3 years
Required Letter of Intent: 5/15/2020
ONR
Global Research Opportunity: Global-X Challenge
$750,000
Required White Paper: 5/25/2020
NIH
BRAIN Initiative: Integration and Analysis of BRAIN Initiative Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Required Letter of Intent: 8/27/2020
Dept. of the Army
High Reduction-Ratio Transmission (HRT)
$12,774,000
7/6/2020
NASA
ROSES 2020: Advanced Component Technology
$400,000 – $600,000
7/21/2020
DoD
Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: 5/26/2020
ACS GCI
2020 Pharmaceutical Roundtable Research Grants
$25,000 – $50,000
Deadline: 6/1/2020; 5:00 pm ET
Facebook
Economic Impact of Digital Technologies
$50,000 – $100,000
Deadline: 5/20/2020
Facebook
Explorations of Trust in AR, VR, and Smart Devices
$75,000
Deadline: 6/12/2020
DARPA
DARPA Biological Technologies Office BAA
Deadline: 4/22/2021
DOE
Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement No. DE-FOA-0002252 FY20 Advanced Manufacturing Multi-topic FOA
Deadline: 7/1/2020
USDA
Equipment Grant Program (EGP)
Deadline: 6/23/2020
Moore Foundation
CALL FOR IDEAS: Moore Foundation EPiQS Flexible Funding
Deadline: 5/31/2020
Supports experimental investigators in quantum materials and theoretical research groups at leading universities. Contact Katherine Kornfeld for assistance.
Army Research Lab BAA: Low Cost Chip-Scale Atomic Clock
BAA: Low Cost Chip-Scale Atomic Clock
Deadline for White Papers: 5/25/2020
EPA
Assessment Tools for Biotechnology Products
Solicitation Closing Date: 7/15/2020
NASA
Early Stage Innovations
$650,000
Notice of Intent (strongly encouraged): 5/20/2020; Deadline: 6/17/2020 (5 pm ET)
The Appendix exclusively seeks proposals that are responsive to one of the six topics:
(1) Advanced High-Capacity Cryogenic Refrigeration Components
(2) Modeling of Lunar Dust Behavior and Mitigation Techniques
(3) Micromachining of Optical Structures for Remote Sensing Applications
(4) Modeling and Model Validation of Parachute Dynamics During Inflation and Descent
(5) Methodologies for Assessing Space Technology Portfolio Investments
(6) Advancement of Additive Manufacturing Techniques for High Temperature Materials
DoD
RFP – Soldier Borne Sensor OTA RWP
Deadline: 5/26/2020
Nature
Inspiring Science Award
Nominations deadline: 6/14/2020
Annual award for early-career female researchers or academics who have made an exceptional contribution to scientific discovery and the literature
COVID-19 Opportunities
SPONSOR
PROGRAM
FUNDING
DEADLINE
NOTES
American Lung Association
COVID-19 and Emerging Respiratory Viruses Research Award
$200,000
Deadline: 5/30/2020
X Prize Foundation
2020 COVID-19 Call for Code Global Challenge
$200,000
Deadline: 7/31/2020
United States-India Science and Technology Endowment Fund (USISTEF)
United States-India Science and Technology Endowment Fund COVID-19 Ignition Grants
Stage I: $66,000 Stage II: $133,000
Deadline: 5/15/2020
The Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF)
Call for Proposals for COVID-19 Indo-U.S. Virtual Networks
$66,000
Deadline: 5/15/2020
U.S. Dept of State
ND-NOFO-20-111: COVID-19 Small Grants Program
$100,000
Deadline: 9/30/2020
Potential grantees should be able to implement a small-grants program to promote innovation in addressing COVID-19, encourage partnerships between U.S. and Indian institutions and organizations in combating COVID-19, and facilitate joint action that makes a difference against the disease.
NIH
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Availability of Emergency Competitive Revisions for Research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Budgets should not exceed the annual amount of the current parent award
Deadline: 4/15/2020 (applications accepted through 6/19/2020)
NIH (NLM)
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Data Driven Research on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (R21)
$275,000
Deadline: 6/16/2020
Booz Allen Foundation Innovation Grant
$100,000
Deadline: 6/5/2020
Army
MTEC — Wearable Diagnostic for Detection of COVID-19 Infection
White Paper Deadline: 5/13/2020
Gates Foundation
COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
Contact Katherine Kornfeld if interested
Tracelink
COVID-19 Grants
$1,000,000
Deadline: 5/15/2020
Internet Society Foundation
Emergency Response Grant Programme: COVID-19
$500,000
Deadline: 5/17/2020
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
COVID-19 vaccine development and production
Deadline: 6/30/2020
NIBIB
NIH Tech Accelerator Challenge 2020
$500,000
Deadline: 6/2/2020
NINDS
Supplements For Research on Biological Effects of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus on the Nervous System
$200,000
Deadline: 4/14/2021
NIAID
Emergency Awards: Rapid Investigation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
$275,000
Deadline: 4/30/2021
NIAID
Emergency Awards: Rapid Investigation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: 4/30/2021
NIH
Emergency Awards: Rapid Investigation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
$275,000
Deadline: 4/29/2021
NIH
Emergency Awards: Rapid Investigation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Deadline: 4/29/2021
Indo-US Science & Technology Forum
COVID-19 Ignition Grants
$100,000
Deadline: 5/15/2020
Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology
SPONSOR
PROGRAM
FUNDING
DEADLINE
ARPA-E
Ultrahigh Temperature Impervious Materials Advancing Turbine Efficiency SBIR/STTR (ULTIMATE SBIR/STTR)
$250,000 – $10,000,000
Concept Paper Submission Deadline: 6/5/2020; 9:30 am ET
ARPA-E
Ultrahigh Temperature Impervious Materials Advancing Turbine Efficiency (ULTIMATE)
$250,000 – $10,000,001
Concept Paper Submission Deadline: 6/5/2020; 9:30 am ET
Biological & Medical Engineering
SPONSOR
PROGRAM
FUNDING
DEADLINE
Dept. of the Army
Melanoma Research Program – Technology Development Partnership Award
$700,000
Required Pre-Application Deadline: 6/22/2020
NIH
BRAIN Initiative: Targeted BRAIN Circuits Planning Projects – TargetedBCPP (R34 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
$450,000
Letter of Intent Deadline: 6/1/2020
Dept. of the Army
Melanoma Research Program – Idea Award
$300,000
Required Pre-Application Deadline: 6/22/2020
Dept. of the Army
Neurofibromatosis Research Program Synergistic Idea Award
$3,200,000
Required Pre-Application Deadline: 6/25/2020
Dept. of the Army
Neurofibromatosis Research Program – Investigator Initiated Research Award
$525,000 – $625,000
Required Pre-Application Deadline: 6/25/2021
Dept. of the Army
Multiple Sclerosis Research Program – Investigator-Initiated Research Award
$600,000
Required Pre-Applications Deadline: 6/17/2021
Dept. of the Army
Multiple Sclerosis Research Program – Exploration-Hypothesis Development Award
$150,000
Required Pre-Applications Deadline: 6/17/2022
Lewin Fund to Fight Women’s Cancers
Research Award
DOD
RFI: Noninvasive mTBI Tool
Deadline: 7/27/2020
DOD
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) — Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) — Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award
Pre-Application Deadline: 6/24/2020
Multidisciplinary Studies to Improve Understanding of Influenza Transmission (U19 Clinical Trial Optional)
New Date 9/10/2020
NIH
Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
R01 Deadlines: Feb. 5, Jun. 5, Oct. 5.
NIH
CREATE Bio Development Track: Nonclinical and Early-Phase Clinical Development for Biologics (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)
$7,500,000
Deadline: July 20, 2020
NIH
CREATE Bio Development Track: Nonclinical and Early-Phase Clinical Development for Biologics (U44 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Deadline: July 21, 2020
Dept. of the Army
Breast Cancer Research Program – Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award
$20,000,000
Required Pre-Application: June 24, 2020 (5 pm ET)
Dept. of the Army
Breast Cancer Research Program – Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and 2
$450,000 – $1,500,000
Required Pre-Application: September 8, 2020 (5 pm ET)
Computing
SPONSOR
PROGRAM
FUNDING
DEADLINE
DOE
Notice of Intent to Issue a Funding Opportunity from U.S. Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) Program
$300,000
NSF
Dear Colleague Letter: Enabling Quantum Computing Platform Access for National Science Foundation Researchers with Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Microsoft Quantum
$50,000
6/18/2020
Dept. of the Air Force
AMENDMENT – Robust and Efficient Computing Architectures, Algorithms and Applications for Embedded Deep Learning
$1,000,000 – $3,000,000
9/30/2023
NGIatlantic.eu
First Open Call
є25,000 – є150,000
Deadline: 5/29/2020
DOE
Neuromorphic Computing for Accelerating Scientific Discovery
Pre-Application Deadline: 6/3/2020
DOE
High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation
Deadline: 6/9/2020
DOE
Neuromorphic Computing for Accelerating Scientific Discovery
$2,000,000
Required Pre-Application: 6/3/2020
Engineering Education
SPONSOR
PROGRAM
FUNDING
DEADLINE
ONR
FY20 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the Department of Navy (DoN) Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM), Education and Workforce Program administered by the Office of Naval Research (ONR)
White Paper Deadline: 6/12/2020
Entrepreneurship
SPONSOR
PROGRAM
FUNDING
DEADLINE
NIBIB and VentureWell
DEBUT
Prizes range from $1,000 to $20,000
Deadline: 6/1/2020
Environmental Engineering & Sustainable Technologies
SPONSOR
PROGRAM or LINK
FUNDING
DEADLINE
DOE
Carbon Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal – and Natural Gas – Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources
up to $13,000,000
6/5/2020
NSF/DOE
NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering
$750,000
Deadline: 11/16/2020
NASA
New (Early Career) Investigator Program in Earth Science (ROSES 2020)
NOI Deadline: 8/18/2020
DOE
American-Made Challenges: Solar Desalination Prize
Innovation Phase: 7/16/2020
DOE
RFI: DOE Hydropower Program Research and Development Strategy and HydroWIRES Research Roadmap
Deadline: 6/24/2020
DOE
Energy Storage for Fossil Power Generation
Concept Paper Deadline: 6/16/2020
HUD
Lead and Healthy Homes Technical Studies Grant Program Pre and Full Application
$1,000,000
Deadline: 6/15/2020
DOE
RFI – Identifications and Quantification of Electronic Waste (e-waste) in Municipal Solid Waste Systems
Deadline: 6/5/2020
Dept of Interior
Desalination and Water Purification Research Program Pitch to Pilot for Fiscal Year 2020
Application due date for Phase I: 6/17/2020
NETL/DOE
Energy Storage for Fossil Power Generation
$5,900,000
Preapplication: 6/16/2020
USDA/NRCS
Soil Science Collaborative Research
$500,000
Deadline: 6/11/2020
Students & Postdocs
SPONSOR
PROGRAM
FUNDING
DEADLINE
NETL
Postgraduate Research Program (PGRP)
Application is always open
NIH
NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award (F99/K00 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: 12/15/2020
Recycling Research Foundation
National Scholarships
Deadline: 7/15/2020
National Academies
ARL Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: 5/31/2020
NIH
Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Program (BD-STEP)
Deadline: 7/19/2020
Upcoming Research Events:
Research Ethics Training: Data Management – May 13, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Questions? Contact us:
McKelvey School of Engineering
Research Development & Administration
engineeringresearch@wustl.edu