Opportunities with deadlines
for faculty
Scholar Awards
Award Info:
Each year, up to ten scholars are selected to receive three years’ support. Currently, awards are $75,000 per year for three years ($225,000 total). Funds may be used in any way that will facilitate development of the Scholar’s research program, but not for indirect costs.
Description:
The Scholar Awards have been given annually since 1977. They were the McKnight Foundation’s earliest means of supporting neuroscience research. In 1999, in revising the awards program, the Endowment Fund board continued the Scholar Awards but with the new goal of addressing problems with imminent…
Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams (ASCENT)
Award Info:
6 to 9 each from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 for a period of four years. Total estimated funding amount is $9,000,000
Description:
The intent of the ASCENT program is to stimulate collaborations among different ECCS sub-communities and to enable synergistic effort addressing large-scale cross-disciplinary problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of individual or divided efforts. ASCENT projects are expected to capitalize…
URA Visiting Scholars Program (VSP)
Award Info:
Applications are judged on the scientific merit of the proposed activity and on the cost-effectiveness of the proposal. As all URA institutions contribute to this program, over time, some consideration is given to the balance among URA institutions, both by region and type. Consideration is also given…
Description:
The URA Visiting Scholars Program (VSP) supports the work of faculty and students from the Universities Research Association, Inc. (URA) institutions to work at Fermilab for periods of up to one year. The URA Visiting Scholars Program is supported by contributions from the URA-member universities.
Proposals…
Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)
Award Info:
Applicants must be a) at the Associate Professor rank and b) at that rank for at least 3 years by the proposal submission date.
- Estimated number of awards: 35 - 45
- Anticipated Funding Amount: $14,000,000 - $18,000,000
- Estimated program budget, number of awards…
Description:
An academic career often does not provide the uninterrupted stretches of time necessary for acquiring and building new skills to enhance and advance one's research program. Mid-career scientists in particular are at a critical career stage where they need to advance their research programs to ensure…
Investigator Program
Award Info:
-Investigators are employees of HHMI and receive salary and benefits from the Institute.
-Investigators are provided generous financial support for research as well as access to capital equipment funds.
-Investigators belong to a community of nearly 300 investigators as well as other HHMI-funded…
Description:
The HHMI investigator appointment has a seven-year renewable term. Renewal decisions are made by HHMI scientific leadership, based on assessment by a panel of distinguished scientists, including members of HHMI advisory boards.
-Hold a PhD and/or MD (or the equivalent).
-Have a tenured…
Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant
Award Info:
Deadlines: January 26, 2021; May 26, 2021; September 28, 2021; January 26, 2022; May 26, 2022; September 27, 2022; January 26, 2023; May 26, 2023; September 26, 2023
The maximum project period is 5 years.
Description:
The Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant supports an innovative project that represents a change in research direction for an early stage investigator (ESI) and for which no preliminary data exist. Applications submitted to this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) must…
High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (HEI)
Award Info:
Applications will be accepted that request a single, commercially available instrument or integrated system. The minimum award is $600,001. There is no upper limit on the cost of the instrument, but the maximum award is $2,000,000. Since the cost of the various instruments will vary, it is anticipated…
Description:
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to continue the High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program administered by ORIP. The objective of the Program is to make available to institutions high-end research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported…