Funding Resources
Below you'll find a list of available funding opportunities within the U.S. We also invite you to view these international funding opportunities.
Please send comments or suggestions for inclusion of other opportunities to Gopal Rao, Web Science Editor.
- NASA NRA NNH10ZTT001N: Research Opportunities in Materials Science
(NASA)
Proposals are solicited by the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) Advanced Capabilities Division for hypothesis-driven materials science research investigations in the following areas: thermophysical data, microstructural development and morphological evolution. This is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Research Announcement (NRA) which solicits proposals to conduct ground-based research in materials science. This call is for ground-based research that may eventually lead to research on the International Space Station (ISS). Because some of the selections may be considered for a future flight experiment, the proposers must show a clear path from the proposed ground-based research to an experiment that can feasibly be conducted in the Low Gradient Furnace (LGF) or the Solidification and Quenching Furnace (SQF) on the ISS.
Applications Due: April 30, 2010
(April 21, 2010)
- Recovery Act Funding for Early Career Scientists Research
(U.S. Department of Energy)
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that up to $85 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be awarded in early 2010 to support at least 50 early career researchers for five years at U.S. academic institutions and DOE national laboratories. To be eligible for the competition, a researcher must be an untenured, tenure-track assistant professor at a U.S. academic institution or a full-time employee at a DOE national laboratory. The applicant must also have received a Ph.D. within the past ten years.
(July 17, 2009)
- NSF Seeks Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics Proposals
(Applications Due: September 15, 2009)
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking proposals for its Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics program, which supports fundamental research in engineering areas related to interfacial phenomena, mass transport phenomena, and solution phase equilibrium thermodynamic. Current emphasis is on molecular engineering approaches at interfaces, especially as applied to the processing of soft materials. The average annual award size for the program is $80,000, and small equipment proposals up to $70,000 will also be considered. The current closing date for applications is Sep 15, 2009, and on September 15 annually thereafter.
(April 28, 2009)
- NIST Announces Availability of Funds
(Applications Due: June 1, 2009)
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that the following programs are soliciting applications for financial assistance for FY 2009: (1) The Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory Grants Program; (2) the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory Grants Program; (3) the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory Grants Program; (4) the Physics Laboratory Grants Program; (5) the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory Grants Program; (6) the Building Research Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program; (7) the Fire Research Grants Program; (8) the Information Technology Laboratory Grants Program; (9) the NIST Center for Neutron Research Grants Program; and (10) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Grants Program. Applications received after June 1, 2009, may be considered for funding in the next fiscal year.
(April 28, 2009)
- NSF: Division of Materials Research
Division of Materials Research, U.S. National Science Foundation, Funding Opportunities as of March 9, 2007
- NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award will support research by new investigators who propose highly innovative projects with the potential for exceptionally great impact on biomedical or behavioral science. NIH expects to make at least 14 awards in September 2007. Each grant will be for 5 years and up to a total of $1.5 million in direct costs plus applicable facilities and administrative costs.
(Posted March 9, 2007)
- NSF: Ceramics
Supports basic research and education in ceramics (e.g., oxides, carbides, nitrides and borides) as well as diamond and inorganic carbon-based materials. The objective of the program is to increase fundamental understanding and develop predictive capabilities for relating synthesis, processing, and microstructure of these materials to their properties and ultimate performance in various environments and applications.
- NSF: Biomaterials
The focus of the Biomaterials Program is the study of biologically related materials and phenomena, including biological pathways to new materials. The materials and systems of interest include biomolecules, biomolecular assemblies (systems of strongly interacting biomolecules), biomolecular systems (vesicles, membranes, and various other assemblies and networks of biomolecules), and biomimetic, bioinspired, or biocompatible materials.
- NIH: Environmental Sensors for Personal Exposure Assessment
his FOA is intended to support research projects focused on the development of field-deployable or wearable sensors for monitoring individual exposures to a broad range of airborne chemical and biological agents. A central element is that the sensors produce quantitative, near real-time measurement of multiple analytes at the point of contact with the body (e.g., nose, mouth, skin). It is anticipated that any devices developed through this FOA will be available for applicable to population studies at the end of the funding period.
- NIH: Enabling Technologies for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
solicit design or hypothesis - driven research applications to promote the development of innovative technologies, tools, methods, and devices that will enable tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The overall goal is to engineer functional tissues in vitro for implantation in vivo or to foster tissue regeneration directly in vivo, with the purpose of replacing, repairing, preserving, or enhancing organ function lost due to disease, injury, or aging, or for use as 3D tissue model system for drug development. The intent of this FOA is to encourage applications whose primary focus is on developing enabling technologies for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, with the ultimate goal of improving human quality of life.
- NIH: Bioengineering Research Grants
These grants support multi-disciplinary research performed in a single laboratory or by a small number of investigators that applies an integrative, systems approach to develop knowledge and/or methods to prevent, detect, diagnose, or treat disease or to understand health and behavior.
- NIH: Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants
Participating Institutes and Centers of the NIH invite applications for Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants to support innovative, high risk/high impact bioengineering research in new areas that may have minimal or lack preliminary testing or development.
- NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer Awards
As part of their mission to accelerate the application of nanotechnology to the major challenges in clinical oncology and basic cancer research, the National Cancer Institute Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer is dedicating $144.3 million as part of a 5-year initiative for nanotechnology in cancer research.
- GrantsNet
Resource to find funds for training in the sciences and undergraduate science education.
- Materials World Network: Cooperative Activity in Materials Research between US Investigators and their Counterparts Abroad (MWN)
This solicitation describes an activity to foster opportunities for collaborations between US investigators and their colleagues abroad. It includes joint activities between NSF and funding organizations in Europe, Africa, Asia and other regions.
- NASA GSFC Solicitation: Future Collaborative Research and Education Opportunities
NASA at Marshall Space Flight Center, on behalf of The National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC), is soliciting expressions of interest to complement our existing resources in order to strengthen the proposals to be submitted for future research.
- Exploratory Grants (P20) for NIBIB Quantum Projects
This announcement is for the support of exploratory research and feasibility studies that employ collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to address a targeted health problem using innovative biomedical technologies. The long-term goal of the Quantum Program is to make a profound (quantum level) advance in healthcare by funding research on targeted projects that will develop new technologies and modalities for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.
- Funding Guide Database - Canada
Funding Guide for International Science and Technology Cooperation. A resource for Canadian researchers and scientists.
- Inventions and Innovation Program (I I)
U.S. Department of Energy
- Interagency Opportunities in Metabolic Engineering
National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Interaction in Chemistry, Materials Research, Molecular Biosciences, Bioengineering, and Chemical Engineering
NSF-NIST