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DOE Fiscal Year 2024 Distinguished Early Career Program DE-FOA-0003043 

DOE seeks to provide stable support to those faculty to form the impactful research groups, innovative lines of inquiry, educational approaches, and critical new research directions that will drive the next generation of nuclear energy innovation, NE encourages all eligible applicants, especially women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities, to apply. This FOA is soliciting distinguished early career applications that provide a clear research and education plan that highlights the applicant’s research and educational strengths, the research and education vision to support the development of the faculty member, research infrastructure, curriculum, and research outcomes that will advance the applicant’s research focus while training the next generation of nuclear energy professionals. Applications should focus on NE mission areas. [Link]

Applications due September 7, 2023    Click link to learn more

 

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Microgrid Solutions for Underserved and Indigenous Communities  

To bring microgrid solutions to underserved and indigenous communities in remote, rural, and islanded regions, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) today released a $14.7 million funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for multi-year research, development, and demonstration of microgrid-related technologies.

DOE’s Office of Electricity’s research partners will develop and demonstrate advanced microgrid-enabling technologies through this FOA, including renewable generation and storage systems, multi-nodal small-scale high-voltage direct current, advanced demand-side management strategies, and microgrid control systems.  

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Fiscal Year 2024 Distinguished Early Career Program 

Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.

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National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Supporting Talented Early Career Researchers in Genomics (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) 

This FOA is intended to identify and support research projects by exceptionally promising Early Stage Investigators with a long-term career interest in pursuing innovative research in genomics. This opportunity is open to research in all areas relevant to the mission of NHGRI, including genomic sciences, genomic medicine, genomic data science, and ethical, legal, and social implications of genomics.

Applications due February 27, 2024.  Click link to learn more

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs. NSF 23-601

Proposals due September 27, 2023.  Click link to learn more

Assessing and Predicting Technology Outcomes (APTO) 

This new program aims to assess how investments in science and technology research and development will contribute to specific outcomes for the Nation. The APTO program will support a cohort of projects that will work together to complement each other’s research and development (R&D) efforts on technology outcome models to accurately describe three types of technology outcomes: technology capabilities, technology production, and technology use. These models should be able to predict future as well as past states of technology outcomes. NSF 23-600

 Preliminary proposals due August 21, 2023.  Clink link to learn more

Bright Focus Foundation invites applications for Alzheimer’s disease research

Grants of up to $300,000 over three years will be awarded to support researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. [Link to RFP]

Deadline August 25, 2023 (LOI)  Click link to learn more

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invites applications for Health Data for Action Data Access Award

The HD4A program will support innovative research that uses the available data to answer important research questions and inform health policy. [Link to RFP] 

 Deadline August 18, 2023 at 3:00 PM.  Click link to learn more

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invites applications to investigate the effects of state preemption policies on racial justice and health equity

RWJF’s approach is to challenge and improve conventional methods and assumptions and source new ideas to generate evidence to advance equity and justice for communities of color. Along with RWJF’s other signature research programs, Policies for Action (P4A) funds research to move policy toward dismantling structural racism and injustice and promoting health equity and well-being. [Link to RFP]

Deadline August 10, 2023 at 3:00 PM.  Click link to learn more

WITH Foundation issues RFP to support healthcare equity for older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Grants of up to $100,000 will be awarded to collaborative proposals that support projects fostering health and healthcare systems transformation for older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in communities of color, centering the goals, perspectives, and needs of this population.  [Link to RFP]

Deadline August 15, 2023.  Click link to learn more

NIH Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) 

Designed to pursue research programs that integrate engineering and the physical sciences with the life and/or biomedical sciences. A Trailblazer project may be exploratory, developmental, proof of concept, or high risk-high impact, and may be technology design-directed, discovery-driven, or hypothesis-driven. Importantly, applicants must propose research approaches for which there are minimal or no preliminary data.

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National Science Foundation (NSF)

Faculty Early Career Development Program 

Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.

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Additional Funding Opportunities

American Association of University Women (AAUW)

AAUW Fellowships and Grants.   Click link to learn more

American Association for Cancer Research invites applications for clinical oncology research fellowships

Future academic clinicians $100,000 and an effective industry-academic clinical practicum in drug development. 

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American Hearing Research Foundation invites applications for research in hearing and balance disorders of the inner ear

Awards up to $50,000 will be awarded to support studies investigating various aspects of hearing and balance disorders related to the inner ear. 

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Burroughs Wellcome Fund invites applications for Career Awards at the Scientific Interface. 

Grants of $560,000 over 5 years to foster the early career development of researchers dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. 

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation invites LOIs for scholarly European art projects

Grants will support projects that enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture from antiquity to the dawn of the modern era.

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Wild Animal Initiative invites applications for seed grants

Grants of up to $30,000 over two years will be awarded to facilitate projects that will test promising new techniques or approaches, incorporate welfare assessments into ecological research and management, or adapt animal welfare science approaches for wild contexts.

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