| Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of August 31, 2026 | Click here to share this information with department heads and eligible faculty. | | Funding Landscape
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is accepting applications for the Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences.
This competition includes two programs: Early Career Development and Mentoring, which supports early-career researchers through an integrated research and career development plan and Methods Training for Education Research, which supports training opportunities that strengthen the methodological skills of education researchers. Letters of intent are strongly encouraged and are due September 3, 2026. Full applications due: October 1, 2026.
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) is open.
This program supports early-career scientists and engineers at academic and nonprofit institutions whose research has the potential to advance the Department of the Navy’s science and technology priorities. Awardees pursue innovative, potentially transformative research addressing challenging naval and warfighter needs while building long-term connections with the Naval Research Enterprise.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the appropriate Program Officer for their specific technical area to discuss their research ideas before submitting a proposal. Application inquiries and questions due: October 16, 2026, and Proposal due: October 30, 2026. | | | New Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: The CCEH Program is designed to increase access to critical research resources and expertise unique to nonmalignant hematology research. By providing innovative technology, resources, and expertise to the greater hematology research community, the program will serve as a national hub, aimed at recruiting and retaining both junior scientists just beginning their careers in the field as well as established investigators from other domains.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Friday, September 4, 2026 at 12pm
Sponsor Application Deadline: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
| Description: Through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) solicits applications for research on novel therapies for adult glioblastoma (GBM). The goal is to improve the treatment of adult GBM by developing novel effective agents that can cross the blood brain barrier (BBB) and testing them clinically. Successful early-stage trials of new drugs from this NOFO would transition seamlessly to later stage trials using well-established NCI clinical trial mechanisms.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Friday, September 4, 2026 at 12pm
Sponsor Application Deadline: Thursday, October 1, 2026 | | Description: This initiative aims to ensure long-term follow-up to improve health outcomes for people living with spina bifida. This NOFO has two funding components: Component A: National Spina Bifida Patient Registry (NSBPR); Component B: Urologic Management to Preserve Initial Renal Function Protocol for Young Children with Spina Bifida (UMPIRE).
Limitation: two applications per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Sponsor LOI Deadline: Saturday, September 26, 2026
Sponsor Application Deadline: Monday, October 26, 2026
| | | First-Come, First-Served Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: The Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award supports independent young physician-scientists conducting disease-oriented research that demonstrates a high level of innovation and creativity. The goal is to support the best young physician-scientists doing work aimed at improving the practice of cancer medicine.
Eligibility: Assistant Professors
Limitation: three applications per institution
Sponsor Application Deadline: Tuesday, January 19, 2027
Note: The internal deadline has passed, and the number of applications received is below our institutional limit. Applicants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Please contact RDO to apply. | Description: The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this National Institute on Aging (NIA) R25 program is to support educational activities that compliment and/or enhance training opportunities to ensure a workforce that is well prepared to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs, help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences and foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications.
Limitation: two applications per institution
Sponsor Application Deadline: Wednesday, May 26, 2027
Note: The internal deadline has passed, and the number of applications received is below our institutional limit. Applicants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Please contact RDO to apply. | | | |
