| Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of November 24, 2025 | Click here to share this information with department heads and eligible faculty. | | Funding Landscape
ARPA-H announced the Making Obstetrics Care Smart (MOCS) program.
MOCS aims to create innovative technologies that help families and care teams plan for and achieve safe deliveries. Leveraging advanced diagnostics and smart technology, the program aims to make childbirth safer and more predictable. Its goal is to develop tools that can assess both chronic and acute fetal conditions and provide evidence-based recommendations for timely interventions, assess placental health, and design noninvasive real-time monitoring. Pre-proposal discussions are required between December 15-19.
The Sun Grant Program North Central Region (SGP-NCR) is seeking to fund graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.
The SGP-NCR, funded by USDA-NIFA, invites proposals that will further its mission of developing viable alternative biobased energy sources and products while enhancing economic opportunities in rural areas. They seek to support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars studying biofuel, bioenergy, and biobased product related research under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Proposals may be submitted by a faculty mentor and are due January 7, 2026. | | | New Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: The Basic Instrumentation Grant (BIG) Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase a single piece of new, costly, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. The minimum award is $25,000. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $350,000. Instruments supported include, but are not limited to, basic cell sorters, confocal microscopes, ultramicrotomes, gel imagers, or computer systems.
Limitation: one application per institution
| | | Reminder Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: The main goal of the S-STEM program is to enable academically talented, low-income students to pursue successful careers in promising STEM fields. Ultimately, the S-STEM program seeks to increase the number of academically promising low-income students who graduate with an S-STEM eligible degree and contribute to the American innovation economy with their STEM knowledge.
Limitation: two applications per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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Eligibility: early-stage postdoctoral scholars
Limitation: four applications per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, December 15, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
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