Limited Submission Opportunities

The Foundation is seeking highly innovative and groundbreaking medical research proposals from top-tier institutions in both basic biological and applied research that will have the greatest impact on scientific knowledge and human health. Proposals should be distinctive and novel in their approaches, question the prevailing paradigm, and lead to the advancement of knowledge in the field. A highly qualified scientific advisory committee will review all proposals.

Funding is highly competitive; therefore, the Foundation Directors strive to select projects and programs where funding will have the greatest impact.

Medical areas of interest include the following: Allergy and Immunology, Biochemistry, Cardiology, Dermatology, Dietetics, Embryology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Genetics, Hepatology, Immunology, Infectious Disease, Nephrology, Neurology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Personalized Medicine, Psychiatry, Pulmonology, Rheumatology, Toxicology.

Managing Unit: SoM

The Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence program supports the creation of new interdisciplinary centers that explore the social and cultural dimensions of AI through a humanities lens. Proposed centers must focus on a specific topic related to AI’s societal implications—such as ethics, law, history, or civil rights—and demonstrate how this work can inform the United States’ leadership in AI. Each center should involve sustained collaboration among multiple scholars and pursue at least two scholarly activities, such as research initiatives, educational programming, conferences, or tool development. Projects must include a dissemination plan and are expected to have a long-term vision that outlasts the grant period.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD), Research and Engineering (R&E) Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO), in partnership with Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and the UCAH, is soliciting for Prototype Project Proposals (PPPs) supporting projects that will accelerate hypersonics technology development, develop the nation’s future hypersonics workforce, and facilitate the transition of ready technologies into operational capabilities. The JHTO is seeking solutions that are considered Advanced Technology Development, which surpass the threshold of Basic or Applied Research.

TOPIC 1: Improved Sub-Scale Hypersonic Air-Breathing Propulsion Test Capabilities
TOPIC 2: Digital Twin Architecture for Hypersonic Air-Breathing System and Mission Design Trade Studies
TOPIC 3: Shock Properties of Additively Manufactured Materials (AMM)
TOPIC 4: Experimental & Model Based Endothermic Fuel Properties
TOPIC 5: Ceramic Testing for Hypersonic Vehicles
TOPIC 6: Mitigation Of Thermal Degradation in Hypersonic Windows
TOPIC 7: Networking and Collaborative Communications

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The proposed project/initiative should be built on diversity, equity, and inclusion principles and
support the Interledger Foundation's thrust to foster an empowering ecosystem for digital
financial inclusion.
This grant seeks to collaborate with tertiary institutions to highlight the impact of technology on
financial access and inclusion. Overall, the grant aims to accomplish the following goals:
● Increase student engagement, interaction, and learning about open-payment
technologies, open-source, and digital financial inclusion with a significant focus on the
Interledger Protocol and related technologies.
● Enable faculty to implement effective forward-thinking initiatives to enable digital financial
literacy and inclusion.
● Showcase career pathways in open payments, open-source, sustainable development,
and the multi-disciplinary fintech space.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

Brain Research Foundation’s Annual Seed Grant Program was initiated in 1981. The purpose of our program is to provide start-up monies for new research projects in the field of neuroscience that will likely lead to extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other outside funding sources.
The objective of the BRF Seed Grant Program is to support new and innovative projects, especially those of junior faculty, who are working in new research directions. BRF Seed Grant awards are not intended to supplement existing grants.

Managing Unit: Wu Tsai

Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research is excited to announce the 2026 Rally Career Development Award. Through this grant opportunity, Rally aims to support the development of independent research of highly qualified individuals still early in their careers. Rally Career Development Awards are intended to take an investigator from mentorship to independence by providing the opportunity to develop independent research through protected time.

Managing Unit: SCI (Stanford Cancer Institute)

The goal of the W. M. Keck Foundation Bridge Funding Initiative is to support the career paths of early- to mid-career faculty and their graduate students who are particularly vulnerable to sudden changes in traditional funding sources. Disruptions at this early point in the scientist pipeline could affect research accomplishments for decades to come. Therefore, the foundation aims to fund pairs of PI mentors (Keck Scholars) along with their PhD student mentees (Keck Fellows). This one-time funding is intended to:

Rapidly deploy bridge funds to assist researchers who may be especially vulnerable to sudden shifts in traditional funding mechanisms.
Support retention of early- to mid-career principal investigators (Assistant or Associate Professors as of January 2026) and their PhD students.
Fund projects aligned with the W. M. Keck Foundation's mission to advance high-impact, basic science research

Managing Unit: VPDoR

This program aims to connect Japan scholars from the U.S., Southeast Asia, and Japan to foster collaborative scholarship and strengthen Japanese Studies across these regions.

Through joint research, exchanges, and resource-sharing initiatives, the Japan Foundation (JF) seeks to build vibrant academic networks and promote interdisciplinary and practical collaborations.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The Frontiers Planet Prize is an international competition addressing the planetary crisis by mobilizing researchers engaged in transformational, breakthrough science with the greatest potential to stabilize Earth's ecosystems within the Anthropocene.

Launched in 2022 by the Frontiers Research Foundation, the Frontiers Planet Prize recognizes and awards exceptional scientists for enhancing understanding of planetary health and devising tangible and actionable solutions to bring us back into a safe operating space. The prize focuses on research exploring any one of the 9 planetary boundaries:

Atmospheric aerosol loading
Biogeochemical flows
Biosphere integrity
Climate change
Freshwater change
Land system change
Novel entities
Ocean acidification
Stratospheric ozone depletion

Managing Unit: VPDoR

Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and LUT University recently established the Global Climate Research Prize, a new international, biennial award recognizing outstanding research that deepens our understanding of climate change and its wide-ranging impacts. Open to researchers at any career stage, the prize honors published work of exceptional quality with transformative, cross-disciplinary, and global relevance. Its broad scope spans fields from atmospheric physics to cultural history and literature.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The Research Program seeks to benefit humanity by supporting fundamental projects in two specific areas (1) medical research and (2) science and engineering, that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in their field.
Applicants should have unsuccessfully attempted to secure funding from conventional sources and be able to share formal or informal feedback indicating the project's breakthrough, high-risk nature.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program was established in 2015 to provide philanthropic support for high-caliber research in the humanities and social sciences. During its first eight years, nearly 250 scholars received fellowships of $200,000 to explore a range of important and enduring issues confronting our society.
In June 2023, Carnegie announced a second phase of the program and a new focus on political polarization in the United States. The program asks scholars to help Americans understand how and why our society has become so polarized and what we can do to strengthen the forces of cohesion in our society. Political polarization is characterized by threats to free speech, the decline of civil discourse, disagreement over basic facts, and a lack of mutual understanding and collaboration. The next class of fellows will be announced in spring 2026.

Managing Unit: CFR