Challenge-led funding opportunities

Pre-announcement: UKRI cross research council responsive mode pilot scheme: round 2

Opens on 02 September.

Apply for up to £1.2, for two years for breakthrough or disruptive interdisciplinary ideas that transcend, combine or significantly span disciplines that are not routinely funded through existing UKRI responsive mode schemes. Awards will be potentially transformative for the participating disciplines or lead to the creation of new disciplines. Co-creation, integration and reciprocity between disciplines must be evident.

• Two duplicate webinars have been announced to give an overview of the cross-council pilot scheme, application and assessment processes and a live Q&A. Webinars will be recorded. Please use the following links to register: 10am, 05 September / 2pm, 11 September. 
• UKRI-supported facilities and services webinar 9.30am, 04 July. This event (which will be recorded) is aimed at applicants to round two of the UKRI cross research council responsive mode scheme but is open to all interested UKRI applicants and research organisations. It aims to inform the research community about UKRI-supported facilities and to support applicants in understanding how to access them. Register

Up to £1.2m over 2 years is available for projects demonstrating breakthrough interdisciplinary ideas that would not routinely be funded through existing UKRI responsive mode schemes. Awards will be potentially transformative for the participating disciplines or lead to the creation of new disciplines.

Deadline (outline) 19 November 2024 

Pre-announcement: Sustainable Industrial Futures

Apply for up to £21m to establish a virtual centre of excellence in sustainable industrial futures to advance the UK’s transition to net zero. Opening 13 June 2024. Facilitated workshop 18 September 2024. If interested, please complete the internal Expression of Interest form

Deadline 01 August 2024 (EoI); 19 November 2024 (full proposal)

Pre-announcement: Value of Marine Artificial Structures (ValMAS) 

Apply for funding to enhance understanding of the ecological, economic, and social value of marine artificial structures’ natural capital to inform decision making and policy solutions for management for all life stages. You must be based at a UK research organisation in a role that meets the individual requirements.

Deadline 05 September 2024  

Ocean Community Empowerment and Nature (OCEAN)

Defra are currently in the process of mobilising Ocean Community Empowerment and Nature (OCEAN) a new competitive grants programme under the UK’s £500 million Blue Planet Fund. OCEAN aims to attract proposals from local organisations working closely with coastal communities most affected by declining ocean health across all Official Development Assistance (ODA) eligible countries. Defra will be launching the first call for grant proposals in 2024. Find out more at OCEAN Expert Committee recruitment pack. 

MRC Understanding public involvement in non-clinical research

Proposals should address gaps in public involvement, build on existing good practice and deliver generalisable learning to be used by others. Multi-disciplinary approaches are welcomed. Webinar, 1pm, 21 February.

Deadline 12 June 2024 

MRC Develop guidance for better research methods

Develop new guidance on biomedical and health research methods with the aim of catalysing uptake of improved research methods. Value: £60,000(up to 18 months).

Deadline 12 June 2024

Responsible AI UK: skills programme

Apply for up to £100k for 6 to 12 months to develop open educational resources for the training of AI developers, users, managers, the public and other stakeholders. Proposals may include research into the creation of resources, responding to responsible AI skills critical challenges, including issues related to upskilling, reskilling, pedagogy, or educational delivery. Webinar 01 May.

Deadline 14 June 2024 

Wellcome Accelerator Awards

This scheme will support researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK to undertake activities that put them in a stronger position to reach their next career stage. The funding can be used for research or research-adjacent activities, such as training, secondments, and networking. Awards up to £200k over two years.

Deadline 18 June 2024 **complete internal expression of interest** 

Cancer Research UK 

CRUK Early Detection and Diagnosis Project Awards Researchers at any career stage are eligible to apply up to £50k. Deadline 20 June 2024

AHRC Cultural heritage research translated into climate change policy 

Apply for DCMS funding to maximise the impact of UK arts and humanities research, and ensure it supports cultural heritage and cultural voices to play an essential role in climate planning for the future.

Deadline 20 June 2024 

DAERA Directed AFBI Research Work Programme

Aims to engage researchers in addressing identified thematic evidence needs across 5 thematic areas; Climate, Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems, One Health, Natural Environment, Rural Affairs.

Deadline 21 June 2024 

Enhancing equality, diversity and inclusion in BBSRC funded networks

Established BBSRC-funded networks (funded until at least Mar 2025) can apply for up to £100k to provide peer support, networking and related activities for network members who identify as being part of a group currently under-represented within your network. Collaboration and partnership between networks, communities and other organisations, such as the learned societies, is encouraged. Webinar 18 April.

Deadline 25 June 2024 

Wellcome Infectious Disease Award: Understanding dengue and Zika spread, immunity and clinical outcomes

This funding call will support multidisciplinary teams to generate evidence on where dengue and Zika viruses co-circulate and investigate the implications this has on host immune responses and clinical outcomes. Webinar 16 May 2024.

Deadline (preliminary application) 25 June 2024; (full application) 08 October 2024 

EPSRC programme grant outline stage January 2024

Up to six years funding to bring together the expertise of a team of internationally recognised scientists or engineers to focus on one strategic research theme.

Deadline 25 June 2024 

EPSRC Manufacturing research hubs for a sustainable future three: outline

Apply for funding to establish a large-scale, multidisciplinary research hub in support of manufacturing, environmental sustainability and net zero. Projects should address major, long-term challenges facing manufacturing industries. Up to three projects will be funded, each up to a value of £13.75m over 7 years.

Deadline (outline) 27 June 2024 **Please complete internal EoI by 16 May** ​​​​​​​

UKRI Digital Research Technical Professional Skills NetworkPlus

Apply for up to £2m over 48 months, to bring together disciplines, sectors, and domains to address cross-cutting challenges related to digital RTP skills and careers. Webinar 2-3pm, 23 May 2024.

Deadline 27 June 2024 ​​​​​​​

DASA Themed Competition: Delivering operational advantage via improved self-sufficiency and operational energy innovation

Apply for up to £50k for innovations to enable deployed forces to move away from logistics resupply, towards self-sufficiency and enhanced operational energy. There are seven challenge areas to be addressed through this competition including Food; Water; Material; and, Waste. Webinar 21 May.

Deadline 02 July 2024 ​​​​​​​

Medical Research Scotland Early Career Researcher Grants

PIs within 2 years of their first tenured/tenure-track appointment can apply for up to £20k to further develop their own independent programme of research (please check the detailed eligibility requirements).

Deadline 04 July 2024 ​​​​​​​

Small molecule High Throughput Screen using AstraZeneca facilities

Apply for funding to run a High Throughput Screen using AstraZeneca’s compound library and screening robots. Funding priority in this round will be given to applications related to fibrosis or extracellular matrix targets. There will be two opportunities to apply to this call per year, with a new thematic focus each round. See link for details.

Deadline 04 July 2024 ​​​​​​​

MRC Funding for early stage development of new healthcare interventions

Apply to the Developmental Pathway Gap Fund (DPGF) for £50k-£300k to generate critical preliminary data and de-risk your development strategy for a new medicine, medical device, diagnostic test, or other medical intervention.

Deadline 10 July 2024 ​​​​​​​

UKRI Metascience research grants

• The Programme will support projects using scientific methods to deepen our understanding of how different structures, incentives, and funding practices within the Research and Development (R&D) system shape scientific research outputs and career outcomes. Projects must have potential to inform science policy, R&D funding practices, or practice within research-performing organisations. Apply for up to £300k over 6-24 months.

Deadline 16 July 2024

Wellcome Mental Health Award: applying neuroscience to understand symptoms in anxiety, depression and psychosis

To fund innovative projects that combine computational and experimental neuroscience approaches to improve understanding of symptoms of anxiety, depression and psychosis. Webinar 14 May.

Deadline 23 July 2024 ​​​​​​​

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), 24/26 Climate change and health

The Public Health Research Programme (PHR) is accepting Stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for climate change and health. Although central governments have a key role to play in developing policies that allow us to decarbonise our economies and adapt to climate change, many of these policies need to be implemented at local level.  This call looks at the whole remit of local government, such as: transport, planning, housing, green and blue space management and local food systems. 

Deadline 09 August 2024 ​​​​​​​

NatureScot Nature Restoration Fund

The primary focus of this fund is to increase the biodiversity value of land and sea with a focus on nature-based solutions to address the impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change. Deadline (EoI) 12 August 2024 

• Helping Nature Fund – available for grants of £25k-£250k for up to 24 months 
• Transforming Nature Development Grants – up to £250k over 6 to 12 months to support preparatory activity that will enable emerging projects to submit fully developed delivery funding applications.  
• Transforming Nature Delivery Grants – grants over £250k for activity up to the end of March 2026. 

Future Woodlands Scotland Research and Innovation Grants 

Research and Innovation Grants (RIG) are aimed at environmental organisations, academic institutions, individuals and policy makers to support research and innovative thinking in the development and understanding of native woodlands and their impact on climate change and biodiversity. 

Deadline 16 August 2024 ​​​​​​​

Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience

The Foundation provides research grants to outstanding proposals for basic and applied studies on glycoconjugate in the fields of organic chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, molecular biology, cellular biology and medical sciences.

Deadline 01 September 2024  ​​​​​​​

EPSRC Health Technologies Connectivity Awards

Pilot scheme to support researchers to develop new skills and collaborations to progress their research in health technologies by spending time in a different research or user environment to build new connections within health technologies. Novel engineering and physical sciences (EPS) research contributing to the delivery of the health technologies strategy must comprise a proportion of the placement. Max award £500k.

Deadline 03 September 2024 ​​​​​​​

EPSRC/NIHR Technologies to enable independence for people living with dementia

Apply for up to £2m over 3 years to develop a multidisciplinary, multi-sector NetworkPlus focused on the use and development of novel tools and technologies to enable people to live independently with dementia. Webinar 26 June.

Deadline 10 September 2024 ​​​​​​​

Design Exchange Partnerships: design the green transition round three AHRC 

Apply for funding to develop design-led solutions in, but not exclusive to, the following areas:  materials, urban environments, technology and artificial intelligence (AI).

Deadline 12 September 2024 ​​​​​​​

DFG Priority Programme “Productive Biofilm Systems”

This supports fundamental research to understand biofilms in a productive technical context, to harness their full potential by metabolic and genetic engineering and to apply them in reactor environments that allow competitive space-time yields in future applications. Overseas applicants are allowed, but advised to contact the programme coordinator in the first instance and for details of the online information session on 21 June 2024.

Deadline 17 September 2024 (register with submission service); 01 October 2024 (proposal submission). ​​​​​​​

NC3Rs Partnership and Impact awards

Funding of up to £200k over 24 months designed to accelerate the adoption of existing 3Rs models, tools and technologies into routine practice. Joint awards are available with CRUK and BHF for grants seeking to achieve 3Rs impact within cancer or cardiovascular research fields. Webinar 06 June.

Deadline 19 September 2024  ​​​​​​​

EPSRC Accelerating research outcomes to deliver a prosperous net zero

Pilot EPSRC follow-on funding. Apply for up to £800k to build on prior EPSRC-funded research outputs to accelerate economic, societal, policy and environmental benefits and impact. The proposed benefits must contribute to delivering EPSRC’s Engineering Net Zero priority. Call opens 21 March, webinar 1pm, 25 March.

Deadline

• Invited full stage) 24 September 2024  

LifeArc Gene Therapy Innovation Fund

Supports the advance of promising gene therapies for people living with rare conditions by providing funding for academics to use the manufacturing capabilities of the Innovation Hubs for Gene Therapies, and closely associated work. Projects must have a credible technical and financial path to significant patient benefit.

Deadline 20 September 2024 ​​​​​​​

LifeArc Philanthropic Fund

Awards grants to academics who have promising projects focused on research into therapeutics, devices or diagnostics that could support people who are living with a rare disease.

No deadline – contact the LifeArc team for more info.  ​​​​​​​

 Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grants

For innovative and original research projects in any area except for areas that have substantial or alternative funding from other sources. Project funds up to £500l for five years.

Rolling deadline for outline stage.  

BHF New Horizon Grants

These encourage scientists from outside traditional cardiovascular biology to engage in cardiovascular research and bring novel expertise to the field to develop new technologies, models or methodologies and explore novel concepts. Grants are worth up to £300,000 each for up to three years

No closing date

MRC Researching motor neurone disease: highlight notice

Apply for funding to research motor neurone disease (MND) through any grants from MRC research boards or panels or MRC fellowships.

No deadline 

NERC Undertake activities related to scientific ocean drilling

Apply for funding to undertake small-scale activities related to scientific ocean drilling. Activities could include workshops or events, training, outreach.

Award: £2,000 and £10,000. No closing date

MRC Experimental medicine grants

These support experimental research investigating the causes, progression and treatment of human disease. There are no pre-set limits to the amount of funding or the length of the project. Projects are funded at 80 per cent of the full project costs.

Closing date: Recurring (typically September and April)

NERC: Urgency Grants 

Projects may last for up to one year and are expected to focus on the urgent data collection and essential initial analysis only. Funding does not cover studentships or equipment. Up to £65k available. Proposals must fall within NERC’s scientific remit and they will need to be sensitive to social distancing and other restrictions being brought in as a result of the current situation.

Deadline: Open, no closing date

British Ecological Society

Funding may be provided for new and innovative ecological research, pump priming projects or to help early-career ecologists establish an independent research career in ecology. Projects must have a clear ecological science focus and other aspects such as sociology or economics must be clearly integrated into the ecology and scientific goals of the project.  Small research grants, worth up to £5,000 for up to one year; and large research grants worth between £5,000 and £20,000 over up to two years. 

Deadline: Currently closed but recurring (typically Sept)

Plant science small grants programme     

Gatsby Charitable Foundation, GB    

This supports research projects that are unlikely to attract funding from research councils or other agencies and that require pump priming, bridging funds, equipment or funds for developing community resources. Grants are worth up to £35,000. All independent researchers are eligible, but ECRs are particularly welcomed.  **Please discuss your idea with Prof Steven Spoel- IMPS before submission** 

Deadline: None, decisions typically made 4 times a year    

Tropical Agriculture Association Standard Award

This enables young British nationals or long-term residents of the UK to gain experience and understanding of international rural development. Awards are worth up to £2,000 each.

No deadline 

Scotland Europa

You can benefit from UoE’s Scotland Europa membership through their updates and analysis of EU policy, EU funding and project support, and access to EU contacts and networks. This includes the European Regions Research & Innovation Network (ERRIN) and its project development tool for building collaborations.

Partnering with New Zealand

New Zealand has recently joined the Horizon Europe framework programme and is eligible alongside the UK as an associate country for pillar 2 collaborative grants. The International Engagement Team in ERO recently met representatives from University of Auckland, University of Otago at Christchurch and Auckland Institute of Technology and can provide connection for developing collaborative grants. Of particular interest: development issues related to agriculture studies where the different season can be useful for research.   

Masts engagement in European research (MEER) 

MEER funds may be used for a wide range of engagement with the Horizon Europe framework process. You can apply for up to £5k and applications can be submitted at any time whilst funds remain available. You must be a member of a MASTS partner institution to apply. 

Research and Infrastructure Work Programme 2023-24

has been formally published online.

IHI Draft call 8 Drafts published 

The topics are on tackling heart disease in cities, osteoarthritis and big data, regulatory sandboxes for breakthrough innovation, and clinical study endpoints from digital health technologies. Two-stage calls which will be launched in the coming months. 

Horizon Europe Missions calls:

EU Missions A new way to bring concrete solutions to some of our greatest challenges. They have ambitious goals and will deliver concrete results by 2030. Read more about the five Missions. At this point in the Framework Programme, Missions offer the best opportunities to apply for collaborative grant funding from the EU, ahead of the next Work Programme launch in 2025.

Climate: 

• HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-04 Research the complex interplay between the climate and biodiversity crises towards more systemic approaches and solutions. 2 projects around €4m. Deadline 18 September 2024 
• HORIZON-MISS- 2024-CLIMA-01- 05 Improve design for transformative approaches and build local capacity for implementation of available solutions focused on climate adaptation.  Deadline 18 September 2024 
• HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-09 Systemic and cross-sectoral solutions for climate resilience, tailored to the local needs of regions and local authorities. 3 projects around €9m. Deadline 18 September 2024 

Cancer:

• HORIZON-MISS-2024-CANCER-01-03. Accessible and affordable tests to advance early detection of heritable cancers in European regions. Up to 3 projects to be funded, 10-12 million each. Deadline 18 September 2024 

Ocean:

• HORIZON-MISS- 2024-OCEAN-01-01. European Blue Parks – Offshore marine protected areas. Deadline 18 September 2024 
• HORIZON-MISS- 2024-OCEAN- 01-04 Science for Community – Building the marine Citizen Science data network of the future to valorise data coming from the ocean and increase engagement. Deadline 18 September 2024 
• HORIZON-MISS- 2024-OCEAN- 02-01. Community-led actions to restore our ocean, seas and waters. Deadline 18 September 2024 

Soil:

• HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-01 Co-creating solutions for soil health in Living Labs. Deadline 18 September 2024 
• HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01- 06 Harnessing the multifunctional potential of soil biodiversity for healthy cropping systems. Deadline 08 October 2024 
• HORIZON-MISS- 2024-SOIL-01- 08. Managing forest peatsoils. Deadline 08 October 2024 

Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking has published its 2024 call for project proposals. €213m is committed across 18 topics. Deadline 18 September 2024. There are five Research and Innovation topics: 

• Valorisation of polluted/contaminated wood from industrial and post-consumer waste streams - €7 million 
• Biotech routes to obtain bio-based chemicals/materials replacing animal-derived ones - €7 million 
• Sustainable, bio-based alternatives for crop protection - €10 million 
• SSbD bio-based coating materials for applications under demanding and/or extreme conditions - €7 million 
• Innovative bio-based food/feed ingredients - €7 million 

Forthcoming: Expanding Academia-Enterprise Collaborations (HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-02-01)

The proposals should leverage best practices of the private and public sector in the EU's well performing innovation hubs and enhance collaborations between businesses with R&I actors in educational and research institutions.

Deadline 19 September 2024 

Forthcoming: European Partnership: One Health Anti-Microbial Resistance (HORIZON-HLTH-2024-DISEASE-09-01) 

The partnership should contribute to the priorities set in the European One Health Action plan to fight AMR; including research and innovation; developing solutions and contributing to pharmaceutical strategy for Europe.

Deadline 25 September 2024 

ERC Starting

These support researchers who are starting their own independent research team or programme.

Deadline Currently closed

ERC Synergy

These grants enable groups of two to four principal investigators and their teams to bring together complementary skills, knowledge, and resources in new ways, in order to jointly address research problems. 

Deadline Currently closed

ERC-2023-PoC proof-of-concept grants

These aim to maximise the value of ERC-funded research by funding further work to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC-funded projects.

Deadline 17 September 2024

ERC Consolidator Grant

The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

Deadline Currently closed

ERC Advanced Grant 2024

Provide support for established, leading principal investigators who want long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, ambitious project.  The budget is €555 million to fund approximately 223 grants. Each grant is worth up to €2.5m over five years and an additional €1m may be requested.

The UK National Contact Point is holding two webinars in June for participants to the call: 

• Webinar 1: 10am-12pm, 10 June. Funder and scheme overview; eligibility; proposal development 
• Webinar 2: 10am-12pm, 12 June. Submission process and evaluation. 

Deadline 29 August 2024

MSCA postdoctoral fellowships 2024

These aim to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility.

Deadline 11 September 2024 

MSCA Doctoral Networks 

The objective of Doctoral Networks is to implement doctoral programmes by partnerships of organisations from different sectors across Europe and beyond to train highly skilled doctoral candidates, stimulate their creativity, enhance their innovation capacities and boost their employability in the long-term.

Deadline Opens 29 May 2024, deadline 27 November 2024 

European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)

A COST Action is an interdisciplinary research network that brings researchers and innovators together to investigate a topic of their choice for 4 years.

Deadline 23 October 2024

Dissemination/ Exploitation booster

This enables already supported projects under Framework Programme 7 and Horizon 2020 to receive guidance on dissemination and exploitation.

No deadline. 

MJFF Parkinson's Disease Therapeutics Pipeline Program

Industry-Academia partnerships can apply to advance therapeutic development through pre-clinical and/or clinical testing of approaches addressing unmet needs of people with Parkinson’s disease (PD).

Pre-proposals can be submitted at any time.  

Investigator Initiated Research in Computational Genomics and Data Science (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Supports fundamental genomics research that develops innovative analytical methodologies and approaches, early-stage development of tools and software, and refinement or hardening of software and tools of high value to the biomedical genomics community.

Deadline 16 June 2024  

CJD Foundation (US) 2024-2025 CJD Foundation Call for Grant Applications

Projects may be focused on pathophysiology, molecular mechanisms, cell and animal disease models, diagnostics, clinical and translational research, studies identifying treatment targets or biomarkers, genetics, bioinformatics, or other areas related to human prion diseases. Funding may be requested for one or two years, max USD50k per year.

Deadline (EoI) 18 July 2024

MacArthur Foundation 100&Change

An international competition for a single US$100m grant to help solve one of the world's most critical social challenges. Competitive proposals will address a significant problem and provide a solution that is impactful, evidence-based, feasible, durable, and just. Note: does not fund basic or early-stage research.

Deadline (register) 15 August 2024; (application) 05 September 2024 

Simons Foundation (US) Linking Early Neurodevelopment to Neural Circuit Outcomes RFA

Apply for up to $300k per year per collaborating lab (up to an annual budget limit of $900k) over 3-4 years. The aim is to bridge the gap in understanding of whether and how developmental phenotypes caused by autism risk gene mutation lead to altered circuit formation and function. Information session, 25 June.

Deadline 12 September 2024 

NIH- Notice of special interest – genetic underpinnings of endosomal trafficking as a pathological hub in Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias

This supports basic and translational research focused on the molecular, cellular, and physiological processes associated with the endosomal compartment in AD and ADRD.  This notice applies to due dates on or after March 11, 2022 and subsequent receipt dates through November 13, 2024.

Deadline: 13 November 2024

NIH Notice of special interest – climate change and health

This supports research and training that reduces health threats from climate change across the life span and builds health resilience in individuals, communities, and nations around the world, especially among those at highest risk. Applications follow parent opportunity due dates between 8 July 2022 and 5pm local of time of applicant organisation, 8 May 2025.

Deadline 08 May 2025 

NSF: Enabling discovery through genomic tools.

The National Science Foundation invites applications for its enabling discovery through genomic tools funding opportunity. This supports genomic research that addresses the mechanistic basis of complex traits in diverse organisms within the context in which they function. Foreign organisations may apply provided they do so in consortium with US organisations. The proposer must explain why local support is not feasible and why the foreign organisation can carry out the activity more effectively. The total budget is USD 10 million in fiscal year 2020 to fund between 10 and 15 grants, each worth up to 2m for up to four years.

Deadline: Apply anytime

Work with US-based researchers on environmental science: NERC-NSF lead agency

This funding opportunity allows UK and US-based researchers to submit a collaborative application to either NSF or NERC under existing funding programmes. Applications will go through a single review process. Collaborative work must adhere to the remits of both NERC and NSF GEO or BIO-DEB schemes.

No closing date. 

FAPESP Pump-Priming Awards (FAPPA)

To pump-prime collaborations between the UK and Sao Paulo, promote the exchange of scientists and access to facilities and materials in areas of enhanced food security and bioenergy and industrial biotechnology Budget: £35,000 over two years 

Deadline: Apply anytime

NIH: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Notice of special interest – synthetic biology for biomedical applications

This supports research projects relevant to synthetic biology. A wide range of applications are included. UK is eligible but they recommend having an early conversation with the funding manager to discuss.

Deadline: rolling calls

NSF Plant Genome Research Program

Proposals can be accepted at any time. Two funding tracks are available: 

• RESEARCH-PGR TRACK: Genome-scale plant research to address fundamental questions in biology, including processes of economic and/or societal importance. 
• TRTech-PGR TRACK: Tools, resources and technology breakthroughs that further enable functional plant genomics.

No deadline

NSF Biosensing

This supports fundamental research on the monitoring, identification and quantification of biological phenomena, with the potential to advance both engineering and the life sciences.  Note US collaborators are essential.

No deadline

NSF Environmental sustainability

This supports engineering research that balances ecological protection and stable economic conditions under five research areas: industrial ecology, green engineering, ecological engineering, Earth systems engineering, and circular bioeconomy engineering.   Note US collaborators are essential.

No deadline