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Wellcome’s mental health strategic aim is to drive a transformative change in our ability to intervene as early as possible in the course of anxiety, depression and psychosis, in ways that reflect the priorities and needs of people who experience these problems.
This call will fund research that advances scientific understanding of the causal mechanisms through which brain, body and environment interact over time in the development, persistence and resolution of anxiety- and trauma-related disorders.
- Award Amount: Up to £4 million ($5.2M USD)
- Deadline: Applications are due November 14, 2023
- Interested applicants should work with Aaron Diaz
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Shout out to the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) for receiving $2.2M from Google to expand the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics! The Google Cybersecurity Clinics Fund aims to help improve the cyber defenses of critical public infrastructure while growing a diverse cybersecurity workforce trained in real-world cyber defense strategies.
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Note: Funding opportunities are listed by deadline. New Requests for Proposals (RFPs) since our last digest are highlighted in orange text.
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The foundation will award small, early-stage grants to promote growth of new connections between scholars, practitioners, educators, and/or communicators working to understand, spread the word about, and mitigate the impacts of climate change on human health.
- Award Amount: Up to $50K
- Deadline: Applications due August 30, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Sylvia Bierhuis
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The program 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 encouraged to apply.
- Award Amount: $375K (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due August 31, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Aaron Diaz
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The program supports developmental projects, instructional projects, and training programs in engineering education and research that fit our fields of interest. These currently include the availability and use of published information, women in engineering, and information access in developing countries.
- Award Amount: Up to $25K
- Deadline: Applications due August 31, 2023
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Grants will be awarded to support open-ended projects, with a focus on high-risk, high-reward aging science. Impetus Grants is looking to enable the following types of research: (1) proposals that stress-test popular theories of aging, (2) proposals that stress-test popular protocols for extending the lifespan, (3) category openers or proposals that test novel mechanisms and (4) approaches to reversing aging, and translation of preclinical findings.
- Award Amount: Up to $500K
- Deadline: Applications due August 31, 2023
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The Korea Foundation’s Support for Policy-oriented Research Program provides grant support for research projects or programs in the U.S. that provide in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on diplomatic security, political, social, and economic issues on Korea.
- Award Amount: Unrestricted
- Deadline: Applications due August 31, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Sylvia Bierhuis
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The Korea Foundation’s Support for Policy-oriented Research Program provides grant support for research projects or programs in the U.S. that provide in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on diplomatic security, political, social, and economic issues on Korea.
- Award Amount: Unrestricted
- Deadline: Applications due August 31, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Sylvia Bierhuis
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The program is intended to foster the early career development of researchers who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. The specific target group are researchers who have transitioned from graduate work in the physical/ mathematical/ computational sciences or engineering into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences.
- Award Amount: $560K (over 5 years)
- Deadline: Applications due September 1, 2023
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The program will fund research that supports EndoFound’s mission to develop new diagnostic tools and treatments, and ultimately find a cure for endometriosis. EndoFound grants provide researchers with seed funding to initiate promising projects which then have an exponential effect. EndoFound grants are also critical to supporting young researchers, who continue on to find solutions for patients for years to come.
- Award Amount: Up to $50K (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications due September 1, 2023
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The program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century.
- Award Amount: Unrestricted
- Deadline: Applications due September 1, 2023
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BARD projects, conducted cooperatively by American and Israeli scientists, cover all phases of agricultural research and development, including integrated projects and strategic or applied research.
Areas of priority for the coming years include: Improved Efficiency of Agricultural Production; Plant, animal, and agricultural environment defense; Agricultural production challenges in increased marginal conditions; Food quality, safety, and security; Soil & water, quality, and quantity; Agricultural Engineering/Precision Agriculture; Sustainable Agri-environmental management.
- Award Amount: $310K - $600K (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications due September 13, 2023
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The opportunity supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.
The foundation welcomes applications from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, prevention of child abuse and neglect, foster care, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. The partnership leadership team includes the principal investigator from the research institution and the lead from the public agency or nonprofit organization.
- Award Amount: $650K (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due September 13, 2023
- Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to partner with David Siegfried
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The goal is to provide early support for exploratory ideas considered higher risk but with the potential for transformative results, particularly those with novel hypotheses for autism. This funding mechanism is particularly suitable for investigators new to the autism field, though applicants are encouraged to consult with experts in autism research to ensure their projects are relevant to the human condition. Priority will be given to 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.
- Award Amount: $300K (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due September 14, 2023
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Proposals are sought that increase knowledge in chemistry, physics, and biology through study, research, and publication. Areas of interest include innovative medical investigations, climate change, whole ecosystem studies, as well as research on single species if they are of particular significance in their environments, in the U.S. and abroad. It is important to the Foundation that the work proposed be novel in its insights and unlikely to be underway elsewhere.
- Award Amount: Up to $30K
- Deadline: Applications are due September 15, 2023
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The Research Award Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research and helps build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers. For Faculty Innovation Awards, Sony supports faculty pioneering research in a variety of research areas. For Focused Research Awards, Sony provides an opportunity for university faculty to conduct collaborative, focused research in a few topic areas. See website for further details.
- Award Amount: $100K - $150K
- Deadline: Applications are due September 15, 2023
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ACLS invites research proposals from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant, which can take the form of a monograph, articles, publicly-engaged humanities project, digital research project, critical edition, or other scholarly resources.
- Award Amount: $60K
- Deadline: Applications are due September 28, 2023
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Early Career Faculty?
Funding opportunities for late postdoctoral investigators & new faculty members.
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Ongoing Opportunities
Funding opportunities that are continually accepting applications, and annual calls for proposals.
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