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Mathers Grant Awards Program

Award Info:

$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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Test Bed: Toward a Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratories (PCL Test Bed)

Award Info:

$100,000,000

 

Awards will be made as cooperative agreements.

Description:

The test Bed program seeks to establish and facilitate the operation o distributed autonomous laboratory facilities. 

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Multi-Investigator Research Awards

Award Info:

Applicants may request a maximum of $5,000,000 total over a maximum period of 5 years ($1,000,000 annually).Applicants may request a maximum of $5,000,000 total over a maximum period of 5 years ($1,000,000 annually).

Description:

Multi-Investigator Research Awards (MIRAs) support highly integrated programs of collaborative and cross-disciplinary research among multiple Texas investigators. This MIRA Request for Applications (RFA) is focused on 2 Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Academic Research Program’s… 

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Rural Oncology Trials Accelerator Award (ROTAA)

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Grant funds of up to $900,000 (total costs) for the 3-year period may be requested for clinical trials infrastructure expenses, such as salary support for research coordinators and regulatory staff, equipment, eg, -70°C freezers, Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems integration, clinical trials… 

Description:

This award seeks to establish or enhance clinical trial capacity in rural and underserved communities by providing seed funding for essential infrastructure, staffing, and operational support. This RFA enables eligible sites to become trial-ready and participate in industry or cooperative group-sponsored… 

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High-Impact/High-Risk Research Awards - 2025

Award Info:

Applicants may request a total of $250,000 for a period of up to 24 months (2 years), inclusive of both direct and indirect costs. Because of the nature of this funding mechanism, renewal applications will not be accepted.

Description:

Supports applications that explore the feasibility of high-risk projects that, if successful, would contribute major new insights into the etiology, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of cancers.  Using this mechanism, CPRIT intends to support innovative, developmental projects that focus on… 

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2025 Early Clinical Investigator Award

Award Info:

Grant funds of up to $1,000,000 (total costs) may be requested. Funding may be used by the Early Clinical Investigator for salary and fringe support (salary up to the CPRIT maximum of $225,000/FTE);

Description:

To accomplish these objectives, the CPRIT Early Clinical Investigator Award will provide awards of up to $1,000,000 for up to 5 years to physicians within the first 5 years of a faculty appointment as an assistant professor to acquire additional skills and experience in clinical research and to develop… 

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2026 The Lyda Hill Biomedical Innovation Fund (LHF)

Award Info:

The maximum allowable budget for a LHF grant is $120,000.
The duration of an LHF award is 12 months, with a final presentation/report due within 60 days of the close of the project on progress and outcomes.
Anticipated number of awards: 2

Description:

The Lyda Hill Biomedical Innovation Fund is designed to stimulate collaborative bioengineering research and drive high-impact translation by UT Dallas and UT Southwestern researchers and clinicians. Funded by Lyda Hill Philanthropies, this award opportunity aims to accelerate the work of joint-institutional… 

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Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem

Award Info:

Estimated program budget, number of awards and average award size/duration are subject to the availability of funds. 

Description:

The overarching goal of this solicitation is to democratize access to NSF’s advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) ecosystem and ensure fair and equitable access to resources, services, and expertise by strengthening how Cyberinfrastructure Professionals (CIP) function in this ecosystem. It aims… 

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2025 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards

Award Info:

The award amount provided by ORAU is $5,000. The applicant’s institution is required to match the award with at least an additional $5,000. This is a one-year grant (June 1 to May 31).

Description:

Eligibility for the Powe Awards is open to full-time assistant professors at ORAU member institutions within two years of their initial tenure track appointment at the time of application.

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

Award Info:

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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