| Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of August 24, 2026 | Click here to share this information with department heads and eligible faculty. | | Funding Landscape
ARPA-H announces the Systems for Tracking and Resilience in Efficient Agricultural-input Management (STREAM) program.
This program is seeking experts in agricultural and weed sciences, AI and machine learning, advanced chemistry, drone development, and related fields to form interdisciplinary teams tackling the next generation of weed management. Opportunities span novel herbicides, precision and nonchemical weed control, chemical monitoring, and environmental remediation. Proposals addressing one or more technical areas are due September 14, 2026.
The Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) – Research Collaboration (RC) opportunity is open.
This opportunity supports new DoD research collaborations between a full-time faculty member who has never served as PI on a directly funded DoD award and an experienced DoD-funded investigator who will serve as a mentor. The program is designed to introduce new investigators to DoD research priorities, challenges, and the broader DoD research ecosystem. White papers are due October 12, 2026.
Topic areas:
- Space Biosciences
- Dynamic Data and Information Processing
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Aerodynamic Sciences
- Earth Materials and Processes
- Dynamical Influences on Performance
- Wireless Communications Networks
- Electrochemistry
- Nonlinear Transforms for Dynamical Systems
- Social Cognition in Local Communities
- Fundamental Mechanisms and Materials for Shock Mitigation for Warfighter Protection
- Fundamental Research on Efficient Packaging and Deployment of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
| | | New Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: The National Scleroderma Foundation seeks applications from promising new investigators who hold faculty or equivalent positions and who wish to pursue a career in research related to scleroderma. This grant supports promising research that is likely to lead to individual research project grants.
Eligibility: Early Career or Emerging in Field
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Sponsor Application Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
| | | Reminder Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: Brain Research Foundation’s Annual Seed Grant Program was initiated in 1981. The purpose of our program is to provide start-up monies for new research projects in the field of neuroscience that will likely lead to extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other outside funding sources.
Eligibility: Assistant or Associate Professor
Limitation: one application per institution Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Sponsor LOI Deadline: Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Sponsor Application Deadline: Thursday, March 4, 2027
| Description: The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect the environment, improve food production, and promote public health in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Limitation: one application per institution Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Sponsor LOI Deadline: Tuesday, December 22, 2026
Sponsor Application Deadline: Monday, February 15, 2027
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