To view previously announced funding opportunities, visit the NC State Research Development Office (RDO) website. Announcements of particular interest to our college are highlighted in yellow.
NIH @ NC State Grantsmanship Series
The Research Development Office’s (RDO) Proposal Development Unit (PDU) invites everyone in the NC State community to participate in the NIH @ NC State Grantsmanship Series. These monthly seminars will acquaint you with the basics of NIH. Registration is not required, but please fill out the interest form so that the team can let you know about any event updates.
Next up: NIH Opportunities for New Investigators
Topics include: An introduction to NIH training and career development mechanisms, NIH’s Next Generation of Researchers Initiative, and some Institute-specific opportunities.
Date: 1/22/2020 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Location: 4280 Talley Student Center
NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding & Grants Administration
If you are new to working with the NIH grants process as a research administrator, investigator, or a grant writer, you are invited to attend this seminar!
This NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration provides a unique opportunity to bring new investigators and research administrators from around the globe together with over 100 NIH & HHS experts in one location.
Event dates: 4/20/2020 - 4/22/2020
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Limited Submission Funding Opportunities
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 Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award is intended to identify the most talented Early Stage Investigators (ESIs) who intend to make a long-term commitment to research in the Environmental Health Sciences and assist them in launching an innovative research program focused on the understanding of environmental exposure effects on people’s health. Please note, this opportunity is limited by college and not at the university level. Interested faculty should contact their department head as well as their Associate Dean for Research (ADR) to understand how the college will select its nominee. Colleges should report their nominees to the RDO by emailing limited-submission@ncsu.edu
Internal deadline - Contact your college research office for information
Limit - Only 1 application per college
Sponsor deadline - 2/28/2020, by 5:00 p.m.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program addresses the need for a high quality STEM workforce in STEM disciplines and for the increased success of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who are pursuing associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Recognizing that financial aid alone cannot increase retention and graduation in STEM, the program provides awards to Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) to fund scholarships and to advance the adaptation, implementation, and study of effective evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities that support recruitment, retention, transfer (if appropriate), student success, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM. The S-STEM program encourages collaborations among different types of partners: Partnerships among different types of institutions; collaborations of STEM faculty and institutional, educational, and social science researchers; and partnerships among institutions of higher education and local business and industry, if appropriate.
Internal deadline - Contact your college research office for information
Limit - Only 1 application per college awarding STEM degrees
Sponsor deadline - 3/25/2020, by 5:00 p.m.
*New USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) - Education and Workforce Development Program
The AFRI Education and Workforce Development (EWD) focuses on developing the next generation of research, education, and extension professionals in the food and agricultural sciences. In FY 2020, the program invites applications in five areas: professional development for agricultural literacy; agricultural workforce training; research and extension experiences for undergraduates (REEU); predoctoral fellowships; postdoctoral fellowships. Three of these programs are institutionally limited: Professional Development for Agricultural Literacy, Agricultural Workforce Training, and Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates (REEU). Please see the RFA for additional information on each program.
Limit - For each program, three applications may be submitted, with only one award per lead institution.
- Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates (REEU) - Please complete the notification of interest (NOI) by 1/23/2020; Sponsor full application deadline: 4/7/2020
- Professional Development for Agricultural Literacy - Please complete the notification of interest (NOI) by 1/30/2020; Sponsor full application deadline: 4/28/2020
- Agricultural Workforce Training Grants - Please complete the notification of interest (NOI) by 2/27/2020; Sponsor Full application deadline: 5/26/2020
NIH Jointly Sponsored Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Institutional Predoctoral Training Program in the Neurosciences (T32 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
This jointly sponsored Predoctoral Training Program in the Neurosciences (JSPTPN) is an institutional program that supports broad and fundamental research training in the neurosciences. In addition to a broad education in the neurosciences, a key component will be a curriculum that provides a strong foundation in experimental design, statistical methodology and quantitative reasoning. The primary objective is to prepare students to be outstanding scientists equipped to pursue careers in neuroscience.The JSPTPN supports a program of broad-based education and research experience during the first two years of graduate training. As such, training programs supported by a JSPTPN training grant must have a comprehensive, two-year training plan.
Limit - 1 per institution
Sponsor deadline - 5/26/2020
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. To accomplish the stated overarching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on Courses for Skills Development. This FOA encourages applications from institutions that propose to establish new or to enhance existing team-based design courses or programs in undergraduate Biomedical Engineering departments or other degree-granting programs with Biomedical Engineering tracks/minors. Courses and programs that address innovative and/or ground-breaking development, multidisciplinary/
Limit: 1 per institution
Sponsor deadline: 5/28/2020, 5:00 p.m.
Scholar Award Opportunities
The Marshall Space Flight Center is offering Aerospace Fellowships for qualified researchers and graduate students at U.S. colleges and universities to conduct research with NASA colleagues during a ten-week residential program in Huntsville, Alabama. The fellowship is open to any full-time teaching or research faculty at any accredited U.S. university or college.
Application deadline: 2/7/2020
Internal Funding Opportunities
Stay tuned for upcoming opportunities!
Visit RDO’s Internal Funding Programs website for information regarding NC State sponsored opportunities.
Inter-Institutional Funding Opportunities
The aim of the Internationalization Seed Grant program is to provide grants that improve the range of international partnerships at NC State and foster meaningful, collaborative, global scholarship and engagement. Proposals are reviewed by the Committee on International Programs (CIP). Strategic and deliberate collaborations that lead to the development of joint research proposals, student mobility programs, adjunct appointments and scholarly activities are encouraged. The maximum award, not including cost sharing funds from domestic and international partners, is $5000.
Proposal deadline: 1/9/2020
Since 2014, the RTI University Scholars Program has provided partial support for distinguished academic researchers to spend scholarly leave time at RTI, actively collaborating with our experts. The ideal Scholar is a tenured or research-track faculty member at the Associate Professor level or higher with a commitment to collaboration and a strong research record in a field that aligns with RTI’s practice areas and services and capabilities. The program’s goal is to foster collaboration and catalyze opportunities for externally funded, joint projects in the future.
For the 2020-2021 Academic Year cycle, the RTI University Scholars Program is open to faculty from Duke University and the University of North Carolina’s 16 university campuses. For additional information as well as a complete list of NC State’s previous RTI University Scholars, please see the Research Development Office’s website.
The Academic Consortium for the 21st Century (AC21) was established on June 24, 2002 at the International Forum hosted by Nagoya University, Japan, as an international network comprised of educational, research and industrial organizations throughout the world. Consisting of 18 institutions, the AC21 seeks to promote cooperation in education and research bridging between different societies in the world to share wisdom and knowledge on different cultures necessary for co-existence beyond national and regional boundaries. The AC21 Special Project Fund was created in order to promote the development of research and educational exchange between AC21 members by providing seed funding for a variety of collaborative research projects and activities. Up to $10,000 per project will be awarded.
Application due date: 1/31/2020
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s NC TraCS Institute partners with NC State’s Office of Research and Innovation and the Comparative Medicine Institute (CMI) to promote interdisciplinary inter-institutional collaborative research teams. This pilot program is designed to encourage and facilitate novel clinical and translational research that applies or accelerates discovery into testing in clinical or population settings. Cross-disciplinary translational research addressing the development of therapies, diagnostics or devices applicable to human disease and clinical research/trials are areas of interest for these awards.
Application deadlines: 3/24/2020, 7/28/2020, 11/17/2020
Non-limited Funding Opportunities
The Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) provides undergraduate students entering their junior or senior years, and first year graduate students, with professional experience in space life science disciplines. This challenging ten-week summer program is held at NASA’s Ames Research Center in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley. The primary goal of the program is to train the next generation of scientists and engineers, enabling NASA to meet future research and development challenges in the space life sciences
Application deadline: 1/21/2020
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites submission of investigator-initiated Program Project (P01) applications. The proposed programs may address scientific areas relevant to the NIAID mission including the biology, pathogenesis, and host response to microbes, including HIV; the mechanisms of healthy immune system development and function across the lifespan; and immune dysfunction resulting in autoimmunity, immunodeficiency, allergy, asthma, and transplant rejection; and translational research to develop vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics to prevent and treat infectious and immune-mediated diseases. Each P01 application submitted to this FOA must include at least two related, synergistic research projects that share a common central theme, focus, and/or overall objective; and an administrative core. A P01 may include scientific cores, if needed for proposed research. The budget is not limited, but prior approval to submit applications if the total direct cost for any year is $500,000 or more. To help you assess if this opportunity is right for you, NIAID has additional online guidance: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/
Application due dates: 1/24/2020, 6/11/2020; 1/11/2021, 6/11/2021, 1/11/2022, 6/10/ 2022
Redesign Dialysis is part of a series of KidneyX prize competitions to catalyze the development of innovative solutions that can prevent, diagnose, and treat kidney diseases. Phase 2 is open to new solvers as well as phase 1 participants. The competition calls on experts in nephrology, biotechnology, bioengineering, medical devices, mechanical engineering, and more. The proposed prototype can be the first iteration, as long as it’s a testable device. Up to three winners will each be awarded $500,000.
Application deadline: 1/31/2020, by 5:00 p.m.
The Algorithms for Modern Power Systems (AMPS) program will support research projects to develop the next generation of mathematical and statistical algorithms for improvement of the security, reliability, and efficiency of the modern power grid. The program is a partnership between the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability (OE) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Because the complicated nature of the power grid itself presents a major barrier to its modeling and simulation, the AMPS program aims to catalyze fruitful collaborative research projects to develop mathematical and statistical tools needed to address operational and planning issues for the power grid. The program encourages interdisciplinary efforts, with the involvement of experts in a variety of disciplines such as power system engineering, mathematics, statistics, and financial mathematics.
Application due date: 2/10/2020
The NIMH Instrumentation Program encourages applications from NIH funded investigators to purchase or upgrade a single commercially available instrument or a group of components to create an instrument that is not commercially available. Examples of instruments that might be submitted under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) include light microscopes, electron microscopes, spectrophotometers, and biomedical imagers. The equipment must be for mental health research purposes (teaching or clinical applications will be considered out of scope). Applications should be for direct costs between $300,000 and $600,000 (indirect costs cannot be requested for equipment.)
Application due dates: 2/10/2020, 10/9/2020, 10/8/2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking applications to better understand the potential impacts of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on water quality and availability in rural communities and agricultural operations across the United States. Please see the RFA for further information. Approximately three awards are anticipated, up to a total of $1,610,752 per award. There are two distinct areas of research covered by this solicitation, and applicants should address one of these areas: Better understanding of PFAS occurrence, fate, and transport in water sources used by rural communities and agricultural operations; Novel or improved PFAS treatment methods appropriate for small drinking water and wastewater systems including influents, effluents, and biosolids/residuals.
Application due date: 2/11/2020
The ECO-CBET solicitation will support activities that substantially advance our capabilities to address environmental and sustainability grand challenges by integrating the expertise and fundamental advancements of chemical processes, transport phenomena, and bioengineering. The proposed research is expected to be compelling and broad reaching, going well beyond that typically supported by any single CBET core program. This solicitation is an opportunity to build and sustain collaborative bridges with research communities across the programmatic clusters of CBET, which include - Chemical Process Systems, Engineering Biology and Health, Environmental Engineering and Sustainability, and Transport Phenomena. Teams are expected to work cooperatively over the life of the project to understand and address the proposed challenge. Teams are also encouraged to apply, and further develop, advanced research tools required to address problems of the magnitude represented by global environmental and sustainability challenges. Training the future workforce to step outside the bounds of their discipline to solve a pressing engineering problem is also integral to the objectives of the solicitation.
Preliminary proposal due date (required): 2/12/2020
Full proposal due date: 4/30/2020
The DOE SC program in Biological and Environmental Research (BER) announces its interest in receiving research applications for Earth and Environmental Systems Modeling (EESM). The goal of the EESM portfolio within the BER program is to develop and demonstrate advanced modeling and simulation capabilities, in order to enhance the predictability of the Earth system over multiple temporal and spatial scales. The EESM vision is to provide the best possible information about the Earth’s evolving system: In addition to promoting understanding of the natural world, this knowledge could be used to inform planning for energy assets and infrastructures.
Pre-application due date (required): 2/14/2020
Full application deadline (by invitation): 3/31/2020
NIH: Pilot Projects Enhancing Utility and Usage of Common Fund Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The NIH Common Fund is looking for researchers to utilize Common Fund Data resources and provide feedback on the utility of the data. Data sets that will be made available include: 4D Nucleome, Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx), Illuminating the Druggable Genome (PHAROS), Integrated Human Microbiome Project, Kids First cohort (KF DRC), Knockout Mouse Phenotying Program (KOMP2), Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS), and the Metabolomics Workbench. Pilot projects are limited to $200,000 for 1 year of support.
Application due date: 2/19/2020
NIH Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Molecular and Cellular Analysis Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research (R33 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
The National Cancer Institute solicits grant applications proposing exploratory research projects focused on further development and validation of emerging technologies offering novel capabilities for targeting, probing, or assessing molecular and cellular features of cancer biology for basic or clinical cancer research. This FOA solicits R33 applications where major feasibility gaps for the technology or methodology have been overcome, as demonstrated with supportive preliminary data, but still requires further development and rigorous validation to encourage adoption by the research community. Well-suited applications must offer the potential to accelerate and/or enhance research in the areas of cancer biology, early detection and screening, clinical diagnosis, treatment, control, epidemiology, and/or address issues associated with cancer health disparities. For projects that are earlier in design/feasibility testing, there are two companion R21 announcements (RFA-CA-20-017 and RFA-CA-20-019), and for projects specifically looking a biospecimen viability, there is a companion R33 (RFA-CA-20-020). Direct costs are limited to $300,000/year for up to 3 years.
Application due dates: 2/21/2020; 5/28/2020; 9/29/2020
Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS) is a two-track program. It supports research and infrastructure that uses data science to advance understanding of a full range of human networks. HNDS research will identify ways in which dynamic, distributed, and heterogeneous data can provide novel answers to fundamental questions about individual and group behavior. HNDS is especially interested in proposals that leverage data-rich insights about human networks to support improved health, prosperity, and security. The Infrastructure track focuses on the development of data resources and relevant analytic techniques that support fundamental Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) research in the context of human networks.
Application due date: 2/24/2020
The TRG program funds projects that explore potential commercial applications or initiate the early commercial development of university-held life science inventions. The technology must have the potential to solve a real world problem as a commercial product in the life sciences sector. Up to $100,000 may be requested for the technical and business development activities; an additional $10,000 supplement is available to support a project manager if one is not available through the applicant institution.The goals of the TRG program are to: transform basic research discoveries into product-focused translational research development, generate data that addresses important product development milestones, addresses the concerns of potential licensees or investors, or otherwise de-risks technology for a specific commercial application, enable strategic “go/no-go” decision-making regarding further technology development and/or pursuit of intellectual property protection, enable technology licensing efforts by the university, and establish goal-oriented partnerships between university scientists, product development professionals, and key stakeholders.
Application deadline: 2/26/2020 at noon
NIH Transformative Technology Development for the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit transformative technologies that will significantly expand throughput, multiplexing and discrimination of biomolecules in human tissues for comprehensive mapping of individual cells and their context in human tissues. This FOA supports the accelerated proof-of-principle demonstration and validation of promising tools, techniques and systems that can be integrated, scaled and applied to multiple human tissues, particularly for characterizing functional modifications, lipids and the extracellular environment. The initial two-year UG3 phase will support accelerated development and demonstration of feasibility of these emerging, high impact technologies. The subsequent two-year UH3 phase will support validation in human tissues, optimization, scale-up, and generation of data. Funded projects will be expected to work closely as part of the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program to catalyze development of a framework for 3D mapping the human body with high resolution. Budgets are limited to $250,000 direct cost/year during the UG3 phase, and $400,000 direct cost/year during the UH3 phase.
Application due date: 3/3/2020
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation is requesting proposals for a new program in Advanced Light-Sheet Microscopy. Advanced microscopy, enabled by recent advances in physics, chemistry, engineering, computer science, and biology, is opening new windows into the anatomy and behavior of cells and tissues. Emerging light-sheet microscopy tools are enabling rapid three-dimensional (3D) imaging of single molecules, living cells, organs, and even whole animals over time with minimal toxicity. The impact of technological breakthroughs using advanced light-sheet microscopy instrumentation and accompanying methods have the potential to create an unprecedented understanding of the intricate dynamics of cells and their components within living specimens. Institutions that have made investments in advanced light sheet microscopy have observed that the size and complexity of the data obtained with these new 3D imaging capabilities have created a bottleneck to the advancement and wide-scale adoption of these technologies. There is a critical need for new strategies to address data collection, storage, image registration and organization, and subsequent image quantification and interpretation. The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation’s mission is to provide funding for promising technologies, particularly in cutting edge instrumentation and interfaces between disciplines.The Foundation will provide support of up to $1.2 million per site, which can be used for instrumentation acquisition, development, and maintenance; support for data science collaborations within the research teams; and costs for the proposed research programs.
Pre-proposal deadline: 3/6/2020
NIH: National Centers for Translational Research in Reproduction and Infertility (P50 Clinical Trial Optional)
NICHD seeks center applicants to address poorly understood areas of infertility and other related reproductive disorders. The research activities included in these center grants must comprise, by definition, a multidisciplinary approach to biomedical problems addressing the specific research topic areas discussed in this FOA. Furthermore, the objectives of this Program require that at least one of the research projects be entirely or predominantly clinical, and that all basic science projects be linked to the clinical project (s) of the center. The use of 'omic methodologies, particularly multiomic approaches that combine and synthesize data from multiple 'omic datasets, are strongly encouraged to apply. Centers will consist of 2-4 Research Projects, an Administrative Core, an Education/Outreach Core, and up to two optional Technical Service Cores. Budgets are limited to $1.0 million/year direct costs for up to 5 years.
Application due date: 3/31/2020
