Limited Submission Opportunities

The Cancer League's mission is to raise funds for accredited Bay Area research facilities in support of the fight against cancer in such areas as early detection, education, patient care services, and research for various types of cancer, no age or gender restrictions.

Managing Unit: SCI (Stanford Cancer Institute)

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award (NIA) program is designed to support the next generation of exceptionally talented and creative early-career faculty members who are pursuing critical and innovative research that advances food availability. Research funded through this program aims to strengthen agricultural productivity in the context of a growing global population.

The New Innovator Award is intended to accelerate the careers of highly creative scientists who are committed to long-term research in food and agriculture. The program emphasizes bold, ground-breaking ideas that address pressing challenges in the field. Investigators typically have the flexibility to pursue promising new directions that emerge during the course of their work. As a result, FFAR focuses on the broader research program and its potential impact rather than a prescriptive set of aims.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The Covenant Foundation invites applications for innovative programs in Jewish schools, community organizations, and other institutional settings. These grants will provide funding to help creative Jewish educators develop and implement significant and financially responsible approaches to Jewish education that are potentially adaptable in other settings. Covenant Grants may also be awarded for projects whose purpose is to disseminate particularly effective existing programs.
Ignition Grants are designed to explore new, untested ideas or to determine how established practices can become even more effective. An Ignition Grant is appropriate for an exciting idea that is not yet ready for a multi-year Signature Grant, perhaps because the organization needs time to develop necessary capacity and expertise.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

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. Recognizing that financial aid alone cannot increase retention and graduation in STEM, the program provides awards to institutions of higher education (IHEs) not only to fund scholarships, but also to adapt, implement, and study evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities that have been shown to be effective in supporting recruitment, retention, transfer (if appropriate), student success, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The Prize is awarded by the University of Zurich and rotates annually between the following four areas of research: Translational/Clinical Research in Medicine; Basic Research in Medicine; Chemistry; and Physics. In 2026, the prize will be awarded exclusively in chemistry.

Both individual scientists and groups of collaborating scientists (up to three researchers) may be nominated.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

There is no unified national data infrastructure that can support retrospective and prospective research, no standardized quality improvement framework, and no coordinated research agenda to address heart transplant challenges. In short, we are crawling in one of the most high-stakes areas of healthcare.
The American Heart Association is launching a bold, multi-phase initiative to transform heart transplantation care across the United States, a transformation in treatment built on three pillars:
-A Global Heart Transplant Data Infrastructure
-A Research Network for Breakthrough Science
-A Quality Improvement Infrastructure

Managing Unit: SoM

The ART program seeks proposals that have a blend of: (1) activities that will help build and/or strengthen the institutional infrastructure to sustainably grow the institutional capacity for research translation in the short and long terms; (2) educational/training opportunities, especially in engaged scholarship and experiential opportunities for students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty, to become entrepreneurial leads (EL) and/or seek use-inspired- and/or technology transfer- and research translation-oriented careers in the public and/or private sectors; and (3) specific, research translation and technology transfer activities that offer immediate opportunities for transition to practice to create sustained economic and collective impacts. Importantly, NSF’s definitions of research translation and technology transfer go beyond a traditional focus on lab-to-market pathways leading to new startups and small businesses; rather, NSF aims to grow capacity at IHEs to achieve the full range of translational impacts emanating from research discoveries and innovations by including civic entrepreneurship; informing standards-setting, policy, and regulatory bodies; scaling rigorous and engaging curricula, instructional material, and pedagogies; and more.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The NEA Research Labs program funds long-term research agendas that include multiple empirical studies and the dissemination of various products or services for promoting public knowledge about the arts and their contributions to American life. Each Lab must include an interdisciplinary team of researchers and requires a confirmed partnership at the time of application between the lead applicant organization and at least one “arts partner” external to the applicant organization. Products or services developed under the award are expected to be of value to arts researchers, arts practitioners, and professionals in sectors such as healthcare, education, and business or management. Funded projects should have national, regional, or field-wide significance.

Projects supported examine the impacts of the arts on health and wellbeing, economic and workforce development, and educational outcomes.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

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 Exceptional Project Grant recognizes creative, unique and innovative research related to breast cancer. The Young Investigator Grant helps advance the careers of young researchers who do not yet have their own major grant support, but who design and conduct their own independent research projects.

Managing Unit: SCI (Stanford Cancer Institute)

Limited submission funding opportunity for extraordinary researchers offering the best hope for a cure to childhood cancer. The foundation has launched three institutional priorities: Powering Research, Equitable Care, and Survivorship & Mental Health. For the 2026 grant cycle, PCRF will open funding exclusively for Emerging Investigator Grants, reflecting our commitment to supporting the next generation of pediatric cancer researchers and strengthening the future research pipeline. PCRF plans to reopen the full grant cycle in 2027, including Translational Research Grants, Legacy Researcher Grants, and additional funding opportunities.

Managing Unit: SCI (Stanford Cancer Institute)

The EFRC program brings together world-class teams of scientists from universities, DOE national laboratories, and other institutions to perform energy-relevant basic research with a scope and complexity beyond what is possible in single-investigator or small-group awards. These multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary centers accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences. EFRCs integrate experiments, theory, computation, and AI/ML; develop innovative experimental and theoretical tools that illuminate fundamental processes in unprecedented detail; and create an enthusiastic, interdisciplinary, workforce of energy-focused scientists.

BES is soliciting applications in two general categories: BES Report Topics and Special Topics.

Managing Unit: VPDoR