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/NIFA Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields Program (WAMS)
The purpose of this program is to support research, education/teaching, and extension projects that increase participation by women and underrepresented minorities from rural areas in STEM. NIFA intends this program to address educational needs within broadly defined areas of food, agriculture, natural resources, and human (FANH) sciences. Applications recommended for funding must highlight and emphasize the development of a competent and qualified workforce in the FAHN sciences. WAMS-funded projects improve the economic health and viability of rural communities by developing research and extension initiatives that focus on new and emerging employment opportunities in STEM occupations. Projects that contribute to the economic viability of rural communities are also encouraged.
Limit - 1 per institution
Sponsor deadline - 2/24/2020
The New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award is designed to provide the early investment needed to launch new faculty members into successful scientific careers in food and agriculture. Investing a substantial amount in faculty members within the first three years of their careers will allow them to pursue innovative and transformational ideas uninhibited by the pressure of identifying their next grant. The New Innovator Award seeks to promote career advancement of highly creative and promising new scientists who intend to make a long-term career commitment to research in food and agriculture and bring innovative, ground-breaking research initiatives and thinking to bear on problems facing food and agriculture. The nominated faculty member must have been hired on or after August 1, 2016 for a tenure-track or equivalent position.
Limit - 1 per institution
Sponsor deadline for nominations - 3/4/2020
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, EWD 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
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 over-arching 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 over-arching 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
Agency 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 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 due dates: 3/24/2020, 7/28/2020, 11/17/2020
Department of Energy (DOE) Upcoming Opportunities
The DOE recently released notices of intent (NOIs) to publish two key funding opportunities. The NOIs for each are attached to this message:
The Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) supports a broad portfolio of advanced vehicle technologies that can strengthen national security, enable future economic growth, support American energy dominance, and increase transportation affordability for all Americans. This portfolio includes advanced batteries, electric drive systems; smart charging technologies; energy efficient mobility technologies and systems; advanced combustion engines and fuels; materials for vehicle light-weighting; technology integration, which includes work with the national network of Clean Cities coalitions; and transportation and energy analysis. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) anticipates the forthcoming FOA may be published in January or February of 2020 via the EERE Exchange website.
The Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) develops technologies that convert domestic biomass and waste resources into fuels, products, and power to enable affordable energy, economic growth, and innovation in renewable energy and chemicals production. The activities funded through this opportunity will be a component of the comprehensive U.S. energy strategy to enhance energy supply, create domestic jobs, secure the nation’s global leadership in bioenergy technologies and improve U.S. energy security. The forthcoming FOA will support high-impact technology research and development (R&D) to enable growth and innovation of the Bioeconomy. The topic areas will focus on BETO's objectives to reduce the minimum fuel selling price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. EERE plans to issue the FOA in January 2020 via the EERE Exchange website.
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 due date: 1/21/2020
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 due date: 1/31/2020, by 5:00 p.m.
The STS program supports research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical (STEM) disciplines. It encompasses a broad spectrum of topics including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance, and policy issues that are closely related to STEM disciplines.
Application due date: 2/3/2020 and 8/3/2020; 2/2 and 8/3 annually thereafter
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
Pre-application response date: 2/21/2020
Full application due date: 3/31/2020
*New NIH: NIBIB Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
This Trailblazer Award is an opportunity for NIH-defined New and Early Stage Investigators to pursue research programs of high interest to the NIBIB that integrate engineering and the physical sciences with the life and/or biomedical sciences. A Trailblazer project may be exploratory, developmental, proof of concept, or high risk-high impact, and may be technology design-directed, discovery-driven, or hypothesis-driven. Importantly, applicants must propose research approaches for which there are minimal or no preliminary data. Application budgets may not exceed $400,000 direct costs over a maximum three-year funding period. No more than $200,000 direct costs may be requested in any single year.
Application due dates: 2/16, 6/16, and 10/16 (through 1/8/2023)
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
This FOA encourages grant applications for national Animal and Biological Material Resource Centers. These Centers provide support for special colonies of laboratory animals, as well as other resources such as informatics tools, reagents, cultures (cells, tissues, and organs) and genetic stocks that serve the biomedical research community in a variety of research areas on a local, regional, and national basis. The important mission of the projects described by this FOA is to provide research resources, which are facilitating the optimization and enhancement of scientific rigor, transparency and experimental reproducibility of biomedical research. Proposed Animal and Biological Material Resource Centers must have broad application to multiple NIH Institutes or Centers (ICs) to align with the ORIP’s trans-NIH mission (https://orip.nih.gov/about-
Application due dates: 2/20/2020, 5/27/2020, 9/28/2020, 1/26/2021, 5/26/2021, 9/28/2021, 1/26/2022, 5/26/2022, 9/27/2022
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 due date: 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 due date: 3/6/2020
DARPA’s Atmospheric Water Extraction (AWE) program aims to provide deployed units the technology to capture potable water on the spot from the air in quantities sufficient to meet daily needs, particularly in extremely dry areas of the world. AWE seeks to (1) develop next-generation, scalable sorbents that can rapidly extract water from ambient air, and (2) leverage modeling, innovative engineering, and additive manufacturing methods to achieve a substantial reduction in SWaP parameters for an atmospheric water extraction device needed to make this technology fieldable for military applications. The program will have two tracks, with target deliverables capable of providing the daily potable water requirement for either an individual (expeditionary track) or a company of 150 people (stabilization track).
Application due date: 3/12/2020
HEC is a NIFA-administered competitive grants program focused on improving formal, baccalaureate, or master’s degree level food, agricultural, natural resources, and human (FANH) science education, and first professional degree level education in veterinary medicine (DVM). HEC supports social and behavioral science disciplines. Projects that integrate social and biological sciences are encouraged. Incorporation of social and behavioral sciences is important for addressing many of the challenges facing agriculture and rural communities, such as increasing global demand for food production in the face of limited natural resources; improving health and reducing obesity by engaging in heathy diets; and alleviating poverty by fostering economic opportunity.
Application due dates: 3/23/2020, 3/24/2021
The goal of the Centers is to support collaborative research projects that link current personalized medicine efforts in human subjects with advances in animal genomics and technologies for genetic manipulation and creation of interspecies somatic hybrids. Functionally linking these areas of research will produce programs to enhance the predictive value of preclinical studies based on the use of precision animal models. Centers will create a process by which the research community can nominate unique human genomic variants for a cost effective high-throughput testing in an animal model pipeline. After validation of the expected gene editing, the Centers will establish assays to conduct comprehensive functional and phenotyping analysis to evaluate disease-causing variants. An important mission of the Centers will be the creation and distribution of precision animal model resources and related services to the biomedical community. Therefore, Centers will establish pipelines for preclinical scientific discovery, disease modeling, and development of interventions based on innovative animal models. Direct costs are limited to $1.25 million / year, with project periods up to 5 years.
Application due date: 3/24/2020
