| Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of June 30, 2025 | Please share this information with department heads and eligible faculty. | | | Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable early-career faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. It supports research that goes beyond current work in bioethics to help resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice, and creates a community that enhances future bioethics research by Scholars and Alums.
Eligibility: Early Career Faculty
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Thursday, July 17, 2025
Sponsor LOI Deadline: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: Tuesday, January 13, 2026 (by invitation only)
| Description: NIOSH is seeking applications from qualified organizations for a National Center for Construction Safety and Health Research and Translation (also known as the NIOSH National Construction Center). Applicants are expected to propose multi-disciplinary approaches for impactful applied and intervention research and hazard identification and controls, to develop partnerships for implementing prevention and intervention activities, and to serve as leaders in research translation and research-to-practice for the protection of construction workers in the United States.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Sponsor LOI Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: Friday, October 31, 2025 | | Description: The Mark Foundation Endeavor Awards support collaborative research projects that bring together investigators with diverse areas of expertise to tackle challenges in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. These grants are awarded to teams of three or more investigators to generate and integrate data from diverse lines of research and transform those insights into advances for cancer patients that could not be achieved by individual efforts.
Limitation: two applications per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Sponsor LOI Deadline: Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: Monday, January 26, 2026 (by invitation only) | Description: The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry. Applicants for the 2026 competition (awards which will be activated on July 1, 2026) are expected to be pursuing independent research careers in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences.
Eligibility: Assistant Professors
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Thursday, July 31, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 | | The internal competition is being withdrawn. According to new guidance from the NSF, this opportunity is now classified as "waiting for new publication" and will not be accepting applications.
| The internal competition is being withdrawn. According to new guidance from the NSF, this program will not be accepting applications for the 2025 cycle.
The NSF MRI program will be hosting a short webinar on Thursday, July 10 at 3pm EDT/2pm CT to present its plans for FY26. Register here to attend. | | | |
