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2026 Catalyst Grants

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Budgets can include equipment (up to $500,000 total), faculty salary & benefits (up to $200,000 annually), scientific personnel expenses, supplies, travel, and publication costs.

Description:

Catalyst for Discovery Program Grants are intended to support fundamental chemical research at institutions in Texas aimed at solving significant problems for the benefit of humankind. The level of support is calibrated to reduce barriers to discovery and provide flexibility in the manner of experimentation… 

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2026 Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE)

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Each award will be for 24 months. The budget for Year 1 should be up to a maximum of $500,000 and the budget for Year 2 should be up to a maximum of $1,000,000, for a total budget of up to $1,500,000 per award.

Description:

The goal of the Safe-OSE program is to catalyze meaningful improvements in the safety, security, and privacy of the targeted OSE that the OSE does not currently have the resources to undertake. Funds from this program should be directed toward efforts to enhance the safety, security, and privacy characteristics… 

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The Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI

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Expected dollar amount of individual awards
Phase I: $500,000 to $750,000 Phase II: Envisioned as 3 to 5 times the Phase I award.
Expected award project period
Phase I: 9 months; Phase II: 3 years.

Description:

The DOE Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI is soliciting new FY26 Phase I small team and Phase II large team applications in the following topic areas: advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, quantum information science, semiconductors… 

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Mallinckrodt Grant-2026

Award Info:

The grant provides $75,000 annually for a period of up to three years. Grants are not renewable.

Description:

The mission of the Foundation is to support early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis or treatment of disease.


The funds are designed to provide to tenure track faculty members in their first… 

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Pathway to Stop DiabetesĀ® (2026):

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For Accelerator awards, applicants may request up to five (5) years of funding support. The proposed project budget should not exceed $325,000 USD per year (including 30% indirect costs) for a maximum total budget up to $1,625,000 USD over five (5) years.

Initiator awards will provide two… 

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The Pathway to Stop Diabetes® Accelerator award is intended to provide flexible, long-term salary and research support to early career researchers who are proposing innovative and ambitious diabetes-related research programs, and who have distinguished themselves as exceptionally talented and… 

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National Science Foundation Fostering Interdisciplinary Networks to Develop Emergent and Responsive Solutions Foundry (NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY)

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An estimated 50 Planning awards of up to $50,000 each for up to 2 months.
An estimated 20 Development awards of up to $300,000 each for 1 year.

Description:

he NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY program supports collaboration among K-12 educators, technologists, parents or guardians, and researchers, to develop innovative solutions to persistent challenges in learning and workforce development. These challenges are identified by K-12 students, families, and educators.… 

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TechAccess: AI-Ready America

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Up to 56 awards; one for every state, the District of Columbia, or territory in the U.S. Coordination Hubs will be selected over three rounds: 10 Coordination Hubs in round one, 20 in round two, and the remainder in round three. Each Coordination Hub Award will receive support of $1M/year for three… 

Description:

TechAccess: AI-Ready America is a national-scale initiative to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) readiness and adoption across the U.S. by strengthening coordination, leveraging partnerships and resources, filling gaps, and scaling what works — so local and state priorities can lead in… 

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Research Program -Spring 2026

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During 2024, the Board of Directors awarded 14 grants in Medical Research totaling $18.1 million and 13 grants in Science & Engineering Research totaling $16.2 million. Grant awards typically range between $500,000 and $1.5 million. If selected, applicants will work with the UT Dallas Foundation… 

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The W. M. Keck Research Program seeks to benefit humanity by supporting Medical Research and Science & Engineering projects that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in their field. The foundation prioritizes… 

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Integrated Data Systems & Services 2026

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Estimated Number of Awards: 3 to 9

The estimated number of awards in each Category is as follows: 1 to 2 (Category I), 1 to 2 (Category II), 1 to 5 (Category III).Ā 

The type of award in each category is as follows: Cooperative Agreement (Category I and II), Standard Grant (Category… 

Description:

 The primary goal of the IDSS program is to support national-scale foundational data cyberinfrastructure that broadly enables data- and artificial intelligence-driven research for many communities. The IDSS program supports foundational transdisciplinary and demonstrably multi-disciplinary projects… 

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Mathers Grant Awards Program - Spring 2026

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$600,000-700,000 over three years, including 10% indirect costs

Description:

The Mathers Foundation welcomes research in immunology, microbiome, genomics, structural biology, cellular physiology, neuroscience and more. Plant biology research and oceanography-related research, space exploration, global warming, Covid-19, medical imaging technology, electrical engineering technology… 

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