The Research Development Office has posted these funding opportunities. To view previously announced funding opportunities, visit the RDO website. If you have any questions about any of these opportunities, please contact the College's Research Office
Limited Submission Announcements
These programs are those that limit the number of applications that the university can submit. If you are interested in applying to one of these programs, please click the "Notification of Interest" link and fill out the form. Only those who fill out the form by the deadline will be eligible to participate in internal reviews. For more information about the limited submission process and the limited submission calendar, go here.
The IPG is an initiative designed to promote collaboration among UNC institutions (particularly between larger and smaller institutions) and across disciplinary boundaries. The intention of this award program is to incentivize stronger collaborative relationships within the UNC system to increase the system’s competitiveness in attracting external funds. This is a one-time award to initiate a collaborative team effort, with the expectation that the team will use the funding period to position itself to obtain external funding in support of future activities related to the project.
Limit - 2 per institution
Sponsor deadline - Pre-proposal submission: 8/30/2019
The Simons Investigators program aims to provide a stable base of support for outstanding midcareer scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term investigations of fundamental questions in their fields. The intent of the program is to support these scientists in their most productive years, when they are establishing new research directions, providing leadership in the field and effectively mentoring junior scientists.
Internal deadline - Nomination deadline: 9/2/19 by 5:00 p.m. Please submit your nominations through the Internal Nomination Submission Form (Simons Foundation)
Limit - 2 per institution in each category of Mathematics, Physics, Astrophysics and Theoretical Computer Science. 1 additional nomination in Theoretical Physics in Life Sciences.
Sponsor deadline - 10/31/2019
The Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) track seeks to achieve the same goals as the PFI-TT track by supporting instead complex, multi-faceted technology development projects that are typically beyond the scope of a single researcher or institution and require a multi-organizational, interdisciplinary, synergistic collaboration. A PFI-RP project requires the creation of partnerships between academic researchers and third-party organizations such as industry, non-academic research organizations, federal laboratories, public or non-profit technology transfer organizations or other universities. Such partnerships are needed to conduct applied research on a stand-alone larger project toward commercialization and societal impact. In the absence of such synergistic partnership, the project’s likelihood for success would be minimal.
Limit - 1 per institution
Sponsor deadline - 1/8/2020
The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative models for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduate education training. The 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. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas, through the use of a comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.
Limit - 2 per institution
Sponsor deadline - Letter of Intent (required): 12/6/2019; Full Proposal: 2/6/2020
Scholar Award Opportunities
The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable junior faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. It supports research that goes beyond current work in bioethics to help resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice, and creates a community that enhances future bioethics research by Scholars and Alumni. Applicants must hold a faculty appointment (or other long-term research position outside a university) that allows at least 50 percent of their effort to perform research.
Limit - 1 per institution
Letter of Intent Due Date: 9/23/2019
Application Due Date: Invited Full Proposal due 1/8/2020
Application Due Date: Invited Full Proposal due 1/8/2020
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Sloan Research Fellowships
The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. While Fellows are expected to be at an early stage of their research careers, there should be strong evidence of independent research accomplishments. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, computational or evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics, or a related field
Limit: 3 per department. Contact your department office if interested.
Sponsor deadline: All nomination materials, including support letters: 9/16/2019
Internal Funding Opportunities
The NSRP is a program designed to support scholarship/research needs in disciplines not driven by instrument-dependent and lab-based research. Such disciplines may include but are not limited to social sciences, humanities, education, design, management, and libraries. These fields require other types of resources such as database access, survey panels, and travel to field sites and archives. In an effort to encourage interdisciplinary research and scholarship, priority will be given to proposals that will support multiple NC State scholars/researchers pursuing interdisciplinary scholarship/research.
Upcoming Internal Funding Deadlines
Laboratory Research Equipment Program (LREP) - October 10, 2019
METRIC Pilot Project Program - October 17, 2019
Non-limited Funding Opportunities
*New* NIH: Circadian Patterns of Gene Expression Associated with Disease (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to identify abnormalities in circadian-ordered gene expression to improve our understanding of disease phenotypes, etiology, risk stratification, resilience, and therapeutic management in diseases. This FOA is supported by NIDA and NHLBI, so project scopes should be relevant to drug addiction, substance use disorders (including opioids), sleep disorders, or diseases of the heart, lungs, and blood. Application budgets are limited to $400,000 direct costs per year, for a total of four years.
Application due date: 10/7/2019
*New* NIH: Regenerative Medicine Innovation Project (RMIP) Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials (UG3/UH3 – Clinical Trial Required)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) participating Institutes and Centers, in coordination with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), seek highly meritorious clinical trial applications proposing to explore and enable the development of safe and effective regenerative medicine (RM) interventions using adult stem cells. Applications submitted in response to this bi-phasic, milestone-driven cooperative agreement FOA are expected to propose highly innovative projects with a focus on solutions to widely-recognized issues in the development of safe and effective RM therapies. Of particular interest are projects using RM products that have undergone appropriate product development and pre-clinical studies and have demonstrated readiness to advance into clinical trials. Before the time of award and if applicable, successful applicants must obtain an Investigational New Drug (IND) authorization or Investigational New Device Exemption (IDE) approval to administer the product to humans. Applications should consist of a UG3 phase (1 year) for clinical trial preparation, and a UH3 phase (up to 4 years) of clinical trial administration. Application budgets may not exceed $405,000 direct costs/year and require a 1:1 matching of non-Federal funds for every federal dollar requested.
Application due date: 10/18/2019
NCBiotech’s Flash Grant program aims to identify and energize the most creative ideas that exhibit early indications of commercial potential. Like a flash of inspiration, Flash Grants infuse funding at a critical early point when a small, targeted influx of funds can be crucial to shaping innovative research ideas into high potential life science technologies, particularly in emerging and converging life science sectors.
Application Due Dates: Cycle 1 - 8/28/19, Cycle 2 - 12/11/19, Cycle 3 - 4/22/20
This CALL is focused on fundamental research that can lead to the development of new novel pedagogical approaches to AI/AS education. Research areas should fall within autonomy and AI to include algorithms and techniques for such, as well as researching educational best practices, techniques and pedagogical approaches. USAFA is interested in data that could potentially lead to the external development of lesson plans, exercises, and classroom activities that embody those techniques/approaches, which could be used as the basis for new AI/AS curricula at USAFA and for public educational institutions. Research should be conducted utilizing hands-on mentoring with cadets in support of senior capstone projects addressing AI/AS system concepts and rapid deployment of newly developed concepts in an effort to answer critical research questions in real time.
Application Due Dates: White Paper due 8/30/2019
The International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) program supports international research and research-related activities for U.S. science and engineering students. The IRES program contributes to development of a diverse, globally-engaged workforce with world-class skills. IRES focuses on active research participation by undergraduate or graduate students in high quality international research, education and professional development experiences in NSF-funded research areas.
All PIs, co-PIs and Senior Personnel on IRES proposals must be from U.S. based institutions.
- IRES - Track I: IRES Sites (IS) projects engage a group of undergraduate and/or graduate students in active high-quality collaborative research at an international site with mentorship from researchers at a host lab. IRES Sites must be organized around a coherent intellectual theme that may involve a single discipline or multiple disciplines funded by NSF.
- IRES - Track II: Advanced Studies Institutes (ASI) are intensive short courses with related activities that engage advanced graduate students in active learning and research at the frontiers of knowledge. ASIs typically range in length from ten to twenty-one days and must be held outside the United States. ASIs must have a compelling rationale for their international location and should involve distinguished active researchers in the target field from the U.S. and abroad. ASIs should enable students to develop skills and broaden professional networks, leveraging international participation and complementary resources (expertise, facilities, data, field site, etc.) for mutual benefit.
- IRES - Track III: New Concepts in International Graduate Experience (IGE) The IGE IRES track invites teams of PIs to propose, implement, evaluate and disseminate innovative large-scale programs (models) for providing high-quality international research and research-related professional development experiences to U.S. graduate students. The PIs should explain how their innovative program (model) could potentially be adaptable beyond the immediate disciplinary fields involved in their proposal. The proposals should be designed from the viewpoint of graduate-level STEM research/training, and globally engaged STEM workforce development. The proposals should be grounded in relevant literature on graduate STEM research/training, education, and graduate level international experiences.
Deadlines: Full proposal - 9/10/2019
This Research Award Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research and helps build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers. With awards up to $150,000 per year for each accepted proposal, both the Faculty Innovation Award and Focused Research Award create new opportunities for university faculties to engage in pioneering research that could drive new technologies, industries and the future.
Application Due Date: Full proposal - 9/15/2019
In awarding these grants, the Institute of Education Sciences (Institute) intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for a disability, (2) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (3) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education). The Institute’s research grant programs are designed to provide interested individuals and the general public with reliable and valid information about education practices that support learning and improve academic achievement and access to education opportunities for all learners. These interested individuals include parents, educators, learners, researchers, and policymakers. In carrying out its grant programs, the Institute provides support for programs of research in areas of demonstrated national need.
Application Due Dates: All but 84.305C due 8/29/19, 84.305C due 9/26/19
*New* NIH: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Decoding and Modulating Neural Circuit Activity Linked to Behavior (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications in the area of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) applied to neuroscientific questions of encoding, decoding, and modulation of neural circuits linked to behavior. This FOA encourages collaborations between computationally and experimentally-focused investigators. This FOA seeks the development of machine learning algorithms that are able to mechanistically explain how experimental manipulations affect cognitive, affective, or social processing in humans or animals. Proof-of-concept applications aimed at improving the current state of the technology that uses XAI to provide unbiased, hierarchical explanations of causal relationships between complex neural and behavioral data are also appropriate. There is no budget limit provided, but projects are limited to 5 years in duration.
Application due dates: March 10, 2020; March 10, 2021; March 10, 2022
