Archived Funding

NIH Funding Opportunities

Cooperative Agreement (U) Grants

Analytical Validation of a Candidate Biomarker for Neurological or Neuromuscular Disorders

• Suports rigorous analytical validation of method(s) used for measuring biomarkers for neurological and neuromuscular disorders for use in clinical trials or clinical practice.
• Deadline: February 22, 2024 (LOI), March 22, 2024 (Proposal); recurring in February and June through June 2026
• Award: U01, budget must align with the project scope for durations up to four years (U44 opportunity also available: $700K-$1.5M/year (total) for durations up to four years)

Integrating Machine Learning with Computational Fluid Dynamics Models of Orally Inhaled Drug Products

• Supports the development of a methodology to integrate ML with CFD models of OIDPs to promote alternative BE studies to enhance and accelerate the development and approval of generic OIDPs.
• Deadline: February 15, 2024 (LOI); March 31, 2024 (Application)
• Award: U01, $300K/year (total) for durations of two years

Utilizing Real-World Data and Algorithmic Analyses to Assess Post-Market Clinical Outcomes in Patients Switching Amongst Therapeutically Equivalent Complex Generic Drug Products and Reference Listed Drugs

• Supports the development and testing of an AI- or ML-based algorithmic RWD model for post-market surveillance of complex generic drug products.
• Deadline: February 15, 2024 (LOI); March 31, 2024 (Application)
• Award: U01, $1.3M (total) for durations of three years

Improving Predictability of Food-Drug and Drug-Drug Interaction Risks by Utilizing In Vitro Simulated Gastrointestinal Dissolution Model for High-Risk Oral Drug Products

• Supports the examination of the utility of an in vitro simulated gastrointestinal (GI) dissolution model for the assessment of in vitro performance of amorphous solid dispersion (ASD) drug products under different clinically relevant conditions.
• Deadline: February 15, 2024 (LOI); March 31, 2024 (Application)
• Award: U01, $250K/year (total) for durations of three years

Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program: Collaborative and Innovative Acceleration Award (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional)

• Supports design, development, demonstration, implemention, and evaluation of innovative tools and resources that will (1) transform, increase, and improve the recruitment of participants in clinical trials and (2) improve the use of participant-based information that will inform safety and efficacy for improving participants recruitment in clinical trials.
• Deadline: February 15, 2024, recurring on June 18, 2024 and October 17, 2024
• Award: UG3/UH3, UG3 - $650K/year (direct) for durations of 1-3 years, UH3 - $650K/year (direct) for durations of 2-4 years (maximum 5 years total)

HEAL INITIATIVE: Development and validation of remote or patient wearable device derived objective biosignatures or functional assessments to monitor pain for use as endpoints in clinical trials

• Supports the discovery, development, and validation of real-world digital endpoints derived from data generated by existing remote or wearable devices. These endpoints will be used for monitoring the experience of pain, its progression, response to interventions, and impact on quality of life.
• Deadline: December 30, 2023 (LOI), January 30, 2024 (Proposal); recurring on October 4, 2024
• Award: UH3/UG3, UG3 - $500K/year (direct) for durations up to two years, UH3 - $1.5M/year (direct) for durations up to three years

Partnerships With Common Fund Data Ecosystem Resources

• Supports projects that involve collaboration with multiple CF Data Coordinating Centers (DCCs) to combine discovery and/or translational approaches with work that will enhance reusability of Common Fund data and contribute knowledge to the Common Fund Data Ecosystem.
  
• Deadline: December 4, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior if budget is >$500K/year, direct)
• Award: U24, budget must align with the project scope for durations up to three years

Consortium Organization and Data Collaboration Center (CODCC) for the Human Virome Project (HVP)

• Supports the HVP CODCC to serve as an organizational hub to provide support for administrative activities, promotion of research protocols and tool development, and assist data and biospecimen collection and harmonization. The CODCC will create and maintain a program data portal that will be an interactive dashboard and repository with visualization and search capabilities.
• Deadline: November 29, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U24, $1.875M/year (direct) for duration up to five years

Early-Stage Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management

• Supports the development of enabling informatics technologies to improve the acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of data and knowledge across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities.
• Deadline: November 17, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U01, $300K/year (direct) for durations of three years

Network of Genomics-Enabled Learning Health Systems (gLHS) – Coordinating Center

• Supports a network of genomic-enabled learning health systems (gLHS) to identify and improve approaches for clinical integration of genomic information in a virtuous cycle of implementation, assessment, refinement, and reimplementation. Specifically, this initiative would support a coordinating center (CC) for 4-6 established or emerging gLHS clinical sites to share their genomic medicine implementation practices and identify those most suitable for cross-network implementation.
• Deadline: November 7, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U01, $1.6M/year for durations of five years

Network of Genomic-Enabled Learning Health Systems (gLHS) – Clinical Sites

• Supports a network of genomic-enabled learning health systems (gLHS) to identify and improve approaches for clinical integration of genomic information in a virtuous cycle of implementation, assessment, refinement, and reimplementation. Specifically, this initiative would support 4-6 established or emerging gLHS clinical sites to share their genomic medicine implementation practices and identify those most suitable for cross-network implementation.
• Deadline: November 7, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U01, budget must align with the project scope ($750K/year) for durations of five years

Diagnostic Centers of Excellence for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network

• Supports clinical sites that will provide expert diagnostic services for undiagnosed diseases across the nation.
  
• Deadline: November 3, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U01, $500K (direct)

Quantifying the Impact of Environmental Toxicants on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) Risk in Cohort Studies

• Supports research focused on major toxicants observed to be associated with elevated Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) risk, and health disparities in AD/ADRD-related pathologic and clinical outcomes.
• Deadline: October 23, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U01, $1.5M/year (direct) for durations up to five years

Integration of Novel Measures for Improved Classification of Type 2 Diabetes

• Supports a consortium to bring together investigative teams for integration of multiple data types, including markers of organ or tissue function, into analysis approaches for stratifying individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and developing more precise definitions of disease.
• Deadline: October 26, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U01, $500K/year (direct) for durations up to five years

Integration of Novel Measures for Improved Classification of Type 2 Diabetes – Biostatistics Research Center

• Supports a Biostatistics Research Center to participate in a consortium aimed at improving understanding of heterogeneity of type 2 diabetes (T2D).
• Deadline: October 26, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U01, $1M/year (direct) for durations up to five years

Center for ELSI Resources and Analysis

• Supports the renewal of the Center for ELSI Resources and Analysis (CERA), that will: 1) provide ELSI researchers with an online platform to share ELSI research products; 2) curate and synthesize ELSI research; and 3) facilitate new research collaborations and uptake of ELSI research.
• Deadline: October 26, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U01, $1.5M/year (direct) for durations up to five years (max $6M)

Research Coordinating Center on the Exposome and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD): Elucidating the Role of Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health in AD/ADRD Etiology and Disparities

• Supports the establishment of a national coordinating center that will serve as a centralized hub for accessing, harmonizing, linking, and sharing environmental contextual data and individual exposure data with NIA/NIH-funded projects.
• Deadline: October 27, 2023 (LOI due August 27, 2023)
• Award: U24, $5M/year for durations of five years

Informatics Tools for the Pangenome

• Supports the development of informatics tools to facilitate uptake and scientific use of the human pangenome reference being developed and maintained by the NHGRI Human Genome Reference Program (HGRP).
• Deadline: November 1, 2023 or March 3, 2025 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U01, $400L/year (direct) for durations up to three years

Using Secondary Data Analysis to Determine Whether Preventive Interventions Implemented Earlier in Life Reduce Suicide Risk

• Supports research that will integrate and harmonize existing large prevention trial data sets consisting of well-characterized participant-level data for interventions implemented earlier in life to examine whether they reduce risk for later suicide, including suicidal thoughts and behaviors — fatal and nonfatal (STB), and related external injuries (e.g., nonfatal SUD/OUD/accidents, and all-cause mortality (e.g., National Death Index)).
• Deadline: October 10, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U01, budget must align with the project scope ($3M/year), for durations up to four years

Development of Software for Data Science in Infectious and Immune-Mediated Diseases Research

• Supports the development of software to improve the acquisition, management, analysis, visualization, and dissemination of data and knowledge for data science research on infectious and immune-mediated diseases (IID).
• Deadline: October 11, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U01, $300K/year (direct) for durations of three years

Precision Mental Health: Develop Tools to Inform Treatment Selection in Depression

• Supports creation of a pipeline to accelerate the development and early validation of predictive tools and/or biomarkers to inform individual-level treatment selection among two or more existing therapeutics for depression.
• Deadline: October 18, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior); October 18, 2024
• Award: UG3/UH3, $500K/year (direct) for one to two years (UG3), followed by $1.5M/year (direct) for a total duration up to five years

Data Analysis and Coordination Center for the PsychENCODE Consortium

• Supports a Data Analysis and Coordination Center for PsychENCODE, a NIMH consortium for the discovery and characterization of human-specific non-coding functional genomic elements across brain regions, cell types, and developmental time periods and their role(s) in the molecular pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders.
• Deadline: August 24, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U24, budget must align with the project scope, for durations up to four years

Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRCs) for Infectious Diseases

• Supports the Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) Program that will (1) create and manage integrated knowledgebases to accelerate basic and applied human infectious diseases research, (2) develop advanced innovative bioinformatics technologies for software and tools, (3) offer state-of-the-art bioinformatics expertise for investigators and (4) respond with cutting-edge bioinformatics in response to emerging needs, outbreaks, and public health emergencies.
• Deadline: August 25, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U24, $2.5M/year (direct) for one biological domain, $4.8M/year (direct) for two biological domains, for durations up to five years

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) Real-World Data Platform

• Supports the transformation of the AD/ADRD research enterprise by serving as a central hub of research access that seeks to: 1) improve applicability and generalizability of findings through larger datasets that include more diverse populations; 2) capture more complete information through linking a variety of data sources; 3) increase the speed at which scientific questions can be answered; and 4) improve researchers’ ability to answer questions that cannot be feasibly or readily answered via clinical trial.
• Deadline: July 31, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U54, $52M/year for durations up to six years

BRAIN Initiative: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization – Data Coordination and Artificial Intelligence Center

• Data Coordination and Artificial Intelligence Center (DCAIC) for the Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization (BBQS) Consortium of the BRAIN Initiative. The DCAIC will serve as the organizational hub for BBQS data management and sharing.
• Deadline: June 14, 2023
• Award: U24, $2M/year for durations up to five years

Integration and Coordination Center for the Common Fund Data Ecosystem

• Supports an Integration and Coordination Center (ICC) for the Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) that will help to build internal cohesion within the program
• Deadline: June 28, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U54, budget must align with the project scope, for durations up to five years

Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation in Mental Health (IMPACT-MH)

• Supports research that will use behavioral measures and computational methods to define novel clinical signatures that can be used for individual-level prediction and clinical decision making in mental disorders.
• Deadline: June 14, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U01, $2.5M/year (direct) for durations up to five years

Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation in Mental Health (IMPACT-MH): Data Coordinating Center

• Supports the work of U01 research projects funded under the Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation in Mental Health (IMPACT-MH) initiative described in the companion announcement RFA-MH-23-105.
• Deadline: June 14, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: U24, $1M/year (direct) for durations up to five years

Program and Center (P) Grants

Exploratory Grants for Climate Change and Health Research Center Development

• Supports the development of a transdisciplinary research environment to sustain a program of fundamental and applied research to examine the impacts of climate change on health and to develop action-oriented solutions to protect the health of individuals, communities, and nations from the hazards posed by climate change.
• Deadline: November 7, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: P20, $850K/year (direct) for durations up to three years
• Webinar on August 17 at 11:00 am MT

Developmental AIDS Research Centers on Mental Health and HIV/AIDS

• Supports Developmental HIV/AIDS Research Centers (D-ARC) intended to provide infrastructure support that facilitates the development of high impact science in HIV/AIDS and mental health that is relevant to the NIMH mission.
• Pursuit of innovative data science approaches to promote HIV treatment and prevention delivery advances. This may include methods such as artificial intelligence and predictive analytics applied to large data sets that include electronic medical records, pharmacy claims data, and medical insurance data, as well as the integration of digital technology data (e.g., cellphones or other sensors) with other datasets to improve service delivery and impact.
• Deadline: August 25, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: P30, $750K/year for durations up to four years

NIMH AIDS Research Center on Mental Health and HIV/AIDS

• Supports HIV/AIDS Research Centers (ARC) intended to provide infrastructure support that facilitates the development of high impact science in HIV/AIDS and mental health that is relevant to the NIMH mission.
• Pursuit of innovative data science approaches to promote HIV treatment and prevention delivery advances. This may include methods such as artificial intelligence and predictive analytics applied to large data sets that include electronic medical records, pharmacy claims data, and medical insurance data, as well as the integration of digital technology data (e.g., cellphones or other sensors) with other datasets to improve service delivery and impact.
• Deadline: August 25, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: P30, $1.5M/year for durations up to five years

Career Development (F/K) Grants

Maximizing the Scientific Value of Data Generated by the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Supports advanced research and training in high-priority areas of child health by stimulating the use of Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort data by postdoctoral fellows from relevant scientific communities.
• Deadline: November 1, 2023
• Award: F32, three years of support

NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Fellowship

• Supports the career advancement and/or transition of participants to the next steps in their scientific careers and to develop a cadre of diverse scientists capable of leading genomic data science research in the areas relevant to heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.
• Deadline: July 31, 2023
• Award: Salary and travel support for one year

INCLUDE (INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE) Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award

• Supports exceptional graduate students from a broad variety of research fields to pursue postdoctoral training focused on Down syndrome related research.
• Deadline: July 1, 2023
• Award: F99/K00, covers stipends, tuition, fees, and institutional allowance for durations up to six years (F99 for two years, K00 for four years).

Research Grants - R01 Activities

Promote Workforce Diversity in Genomics, Bioinformatics, or Bioengineering and Biomedical Imaging Research

• Supports Early Stage Investigators and New Investigators from diverse backgrounds doing research within specific mission areas of NHGRI, NIBIB, and All of Us Research Program.
• Deadline: February 22, 2024
• Award: R01, $500K per year for durations up to five years

Supporting Talented Early Career Researchers in Genomics

• Supports research projects by exceptionally promising Early Stage Investigators with a long-term career interest in pursuing innovative research in genomics.
• Deadline: January 27, 2024 (LOI), February 27, 2024 (Proposal)
• Award: R01, budget must align with the project scope, for durations up to five years

Short Courses to Promote the Broad and Rigorous Use of Common Fund Data

• Supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
• Deadline: January 14, 2024 (LOI), February 14, 2024 (Proposal)
• Award: R25, $350K/year (direct) for durations of three years

Computational Approaches to Curation at Scale for Biomedical Research Assets

• Supports the availability of and access to secure, complete data sets and computational models that can serve as the basis of transformative biomedical discoveries by improving the speed and scope of the curation processes.
• Deadline: January 6, 2024 (LOI), February 5, 2024 (Proposal)
• Award: R01, $250K/year (direct) for durations up to four years

Accelerating the Pace of Drug Abuse Research Using Existing Data

• Supports the analysis of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) dataset to increase knowledge of adolescent health and development.
• Deadline: November 15, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior), annually in March, August, November through 2024
• Award: R01, approximately $400-650K/year for durations up to five years (R21 also available)

Computational Approaches for Validating Dimensional Constructs of Relevance to Psychopathology

• Supports research projects that will use computational approaches to test the validity of dimensional constructs in the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) matrix (or similar constructs based on comparable criteria).
• Deadline: November 1, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: R01, $500K/year (direct) for durations up to five years

Translational Bioinformatics Approaches to Advance Drug Repositioning and Combination Therapy Development for Alzheimer’s Disease

• Supports data-driven drug repositioning and combination therapy for Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD) by developing computational methods and data resources and/or integrating computational approaches with proof-of-concept efficacy studies in cell-based models, animal models, and/or humans.
• Deadline: September 8, 2023
• Award: R01, budget must align with the project scope, for durations of up to five years

Enhancing Use of Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol Data

• Supports analyses of HCAP data from the U.S. or from another country where HCAP data is available, or cross-national analyses of HCAP data. This research will help further our understanding of how different behavioral, social, cultural, environmental, and institutional factors affect the trajectory of cognitive aging and AD/ADRD and the experience of living with or managing AD/ADRD in different national or regional contexts.
• Deadline: October 2, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: R01, $500K/year (direct) for durations up to five years

Leveraging Big Data Science to Elucidate the Mechanisms of HIV Activity and Interaction with Substance Use Disorder

• Supports research using data science and computational approaches to generate new insights into mechanisms and consequences of the interaction of HIV and addictive drugs.
• Deadline: August 10, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: R01, $350K (direct) for durations up to five years (R21 also available)

Strategies for Responsibly Reporting Back Environmental Health and Non-Genomic Research Results

• Supports projects that will identify, develop and/or adapt, as well as test strategies for responsibly reporting back environmental health, non-genomic research, and gene-environment interaction (GxE) results to research participants and/or key partners (for example, health care professionals, IRBs, and policy makers)
• Deadline: June 15, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: R01, $250K/year for durations up to four years

Research Grants - Other Activities

Data Harmonization, Curation and Secondary Analysis of Existing Clinical Datasets

• Supports multidisciplinary teams to perform secondary data analysis, using existing datasets from two or more multi-site clinical research projects, including clinical trials, natural history studies, and/or comparative effectiveness research.
• Deadline: February 14, 2024 (LOI), March 14, 2024 (Proposal)
• Award: R61/R33, budget must align with the project scope, for durations up to five years (2 years for R61, 3 years for R33)

Education Activities for Responsible Analyses of Complex, Large-Scale Data

• Supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this NIDA R25 program is to support training and educational activities for responsible analyses of complex large-scale data involving brain, behavioral, genomic, and socioenvironmental data that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs.
• Deadline: January 8, 2024 (LOI), February 8, 2024 (Full Proposal)
• Award: R25, $300K/year (direct) for durations up to three years

Precision HIV Health: Integrating Data and Implementation Science to Accelerate HIV Prevention and Treatment

• Supports participatory data science and implementation science research to accelerate the implementation of more targeted and sustainable HIV interventions with the goals of (1) using data science methods to model complex systems, including social and structural determinants of health, to identify more targeted HIV prevention, treatment, and care interventions and implementation strategies; (2) using novel measurement approaches and modern statistical methods to evaluate the implementation of data-driven discoveries; (3) integrating meaningful engagement of community and implementing partners at every stage of the research.
• Deadline: November 22, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: R21/R33, $275K (direct) for durations up to two years for R21, $375K (direct) for durations up to three years for R33

Development of Innovative Informatics Methods and Algorithms for Cancer Research and Management

• Supports exploratory/developmental research grant applications (R21) for innovative informatics methods and algorithms to improve the acquisition, analysis, visualization, or interpretation of data across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities.
• Deadline: November 17, 2023
• Award: R21, $275K (direct) for durations up to two years

Pilot Projects Enhancing Utility and Usage of Common Fund Data Sets

• Supports the demonstration and enhancement of the utility of selected Common Fund data sets, including generating hypotheses and catalyzing discoveries.
• Deadline: November 17, 2023
• Award: R03, $200K (direct) for one year

Analysis of data in the COVID-19 Neuro Databank-Biobank

• Supports applications that aggregate and analyze existing data in the COVID-19 Neuro Databank-Biobank (NeuroCOVID Project).
• Deadline: November 8, 2023 (LOI due 30 days prior)
• Award: R03, $50K/year (direct) for durations up to two years

Leveraging Social Networks to Promote Widespread Individual Behavior Change

• Supports the planning activities necessary to develop social network interventions to promote health across the lifespan, especially in populations in which they are currently largely underdeveloped and untested (such as populations in mid- and late-life).
• Deadline: November 3, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: R34, $450K (direct) for durations up to three years

HEAL Initiative: Toward Developing Quantitative Imaging and Other Relevant Biomarkers of Myofascial Tissues for Clinical Pain Management

• Supports the development of innovative methods for quantitative evaluation of myofascial tissues for pain management involving research participants using a two-phase grant funding mechanism.
• Deadline: October 18, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: R61/R33, $500K/year (direct) for durations up to two years for R61, $700K/year (direct) for durations up to three years for R33

Research Resource for Systematic Reviews of Complementary and Integrative Health

• Supports a research resource that will continue to build, grow and maintain a database of clinical trials of complementary and integrative health interventions, that can be used to conduct systematic reviews to inform the public, practitioners, and policy makers. The research team will need to describe the features of the database, and whether it is building upon or converting an existing database, and how it will be maintained and kept current during the award period.
• Deadline: August 31, 2023
• Award: R24, $400K/year (direct) for durations up to five years

Team Science Approaches Integrating Experimental and Computational Brain Aging Models

• Supports establishing new, or significantly expanding existing, interdisciplinary collaborations involving both experimental and computational researchers to simultaneously address a targeted research question in brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), including AD-related dementias (ADRD).
• Deadline: September 22, 2023 (LOI due 1 month prior)
• Award: R21/R33, $275K/year (direct) for R21 and $500K/year (direct) for R33 for durations up to five years (two years for R21, three years for R33)

Emergency Award: Novel Insights through Cross-Site Analyses of Existing RADx-UP Data

• Supports analyses of existing RADx-UP data by proposing novel questions related to SARS-CoV-2 testing and health disparities. These projects will explore important questions focused on COVID-19 testing access and uptake, factors affecting testing and related COVID-19 outcomes, and meta-fanalyses of specific COVID-19 response and intervention approaches within and across populations.
• Deadline: July 3, 2023 (LOI due one month prior)
• Award: R21, $275K/year (direct) for durations of two years.

Other Activities

Discovery of the Genetic Basis of Childhood Cancers and of Structural Birth Defects: Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program

• Supports applications to submit samples from pediatric cohorts for whole genome sequencing at a Kids First Program supported sequencing centers.
• Deadline: February 13, 2024 (LOI), March 13, 2024 (Proposal)
• Award: X01, whole genome sequencing of pediatric cohorts within one year
• Pre-application webinar on February 2 at 12pm MT - register today!

NIDA REI: Training a Diverse Data Science Workforce for Addiction Research

• Supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
• Deadline: December 24, 2023 (LOI), January 24, 2024 (Proposal)
• Award: R25, $125K/year (direct) for durations up to five years (R15 Opportunity also available.)

Data and Technology Advancement (DATA) National Service Scholar Program: Data Scientists Advancing Biomedical Research

• The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) Data and Technology Advancement (DATA) National Service Scholar Program is seeking experienced data and computer scientists and engineers to tackle challenging biomedical data problems with the potential for substantial public health impact
• Application Deadline: EXTENDED to May 31, 2023
• Award: Remote position for one to two years

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD)

• Consortium Development Projects to Advance Health Equity
  • Supports multidisciplinary research projects that use AI/ML and develop novel algorithms and approaches that address health disparities and inequities and have the potential to significantly impact healthcare access and health outcomes for populations that experience health disparities.
  • Deadline: June 20, 2023 (LOI due May 10, 2023)
  • Award: $500K-1M for durations up to two years

Notices of Special Interest and Requests for Information

• Notice of The Common Fund’s Participation in the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent F32) Program applications due April 8, 2024 and future deadlines per the F32 RFA.
• Administrative Supplements to Enhance Institutional Data Science Capacity in institutions serving medically underserved communities and underrepresented students due June 19, 2023 or April 1, 2024; expires April 2, 2024.
• Administrative Supplements to Support the Development of Digital Twins in Radiation Oncology (DTRO) expires March 22, 2024.
• Request for Information Inviting Comments on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Strategic Plan for Data Science 2023-2028 due by March 15, 2024. The updated Strategic Plan will accomplish five overarching goals:
  • Goal 1: Improve Capabilities to Sustain the NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing
  • Goal 2: Develop Programs to Enhance Human Derived Data for Research
  • Goal 3: Provide New Opportunities in Software, Computational Methods, and Artificial Intelligence
  • Goal 4: Support for a Federated Biomedical Research Data Infrastructure
  • Goal 5: Strengthen a Broad Community in Data Science
• Administrative Supplements for R25 Data Science Training for Infectious and Immune-mediated Disease Research expires February 14, 2024.
• Request for Information Increasing the usability of Common Fund data resources by researchers from underrepresented groups expires February 29, 2024.
• Request for Information Current Capabilities in Automated Data Entry & Extraction from Electronic Health Records expires February 29, 2024.
• Request for Information Best Practices for Sharing NIH Supported Research Software expires February 1, 2024.
• Request for Information NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) Artificial Intelligence (AI) use cases to inform an assessment of data readiness due by December 31, 2023.
• Request for Information Opportunities and Challenges for the Collection, Use, and Sharing of Real-World Data (RWD) including Electronic Health Records, for NIH Supported Biomedical and Behavioral Research due by December 14, 2023.
• Request for Information Exploring the role of Generative AI in enhancing the use of Big Data in Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep (HLBS) research due by December 5, 2023.
• Request for Information NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) Artificial Intelligence (AI) use cases to inform an assessment of data readiness expires November 30, 2023.
• Request for Information National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) Strategic Planning of Infrastructure and Resources for Data Science Research and Research Training due by September 25, 2023.
• NIDCR: Supporting Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research Using Bioinformatic, Computational, and Data Science Approaches expires August 08, 2023.
• Request for Information NIH Common Fund is Soliciting Ideas for NIH-wide Challenges and Opportunities due by August 11, 2023.
• Request for Information Catalyzing the Development and Use of Novel Alternative Methods to Advance Biomedical Research due by August 16, 2023.
• Request for Input National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information Data Submission Survey expires July 31, 2023.
• Administrative Supplements to Support Collaborations to Improve Data Interoperability/Re-use for Existing Type 2 Diabetes Relevant Data Sets expires July 12,2023.
• Administrative Supplements to Support Collaborations to Improve the AI/ML-Readiness of NIH-Supported Data expires May 17, 2023.

NSF Funding Opportunities

Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT)

• Supports multidisciplinary, multi-sector teams that examine and demonstrate the principles, methodologies, implementations, and impacts associated with responsible design, development, and deployment of technologies in practice, focusing especially on the key technologies specified in Section 10387 of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. There are three priority areas: artificial intelligence, biotechnology, or natural and anthropogenic disaster prevention or mitigation.
• Deadline: April 8, 2024 (Phase 1: Planning Grants, Translational Research Coordination Networks, Workshops); April 22, 2024 (Phase 2: Project Proposals)
• Award: $300K for durations up to 2 years for Planning Grants; $500K for durations of 3-4 years for Translational Research Coordination Networks; $75K for Workshops; $750K-$1.5M for durations of 3 years for Project Proposals

NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) Quantum Science and Technology Demonstrations (QSTD): I. Pilot Phase

• Supports the demonstration of practical quantum advantage, the actual application of the tools of Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) to problems that will enable solutions that classical approaches can only solve much less efficiently or not at all.
• Deadline: April 9, 2024 (LOI), June 11, 2024 (Proposal)
• Award: $1M for durations of one year

Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC)

• Supports use-inspired research that addresses communities’ social, economic and environmental challenges. Projects must work with community stakeholders on pilots that integrate intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments.
  • S&CC Planning Grants (SCC-PG) $150K for durations of one year
  • S&CC Integrative Research Grants (SCC-IRG) Track 1 $2.5M for durations up to four years
  • S&CC Integrative Research Grants (SCC-IRG) Track 2 $1.5M for durations up to three years
• Expires: April 1, 2024

Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG)

• Supports geoscience research, education and fellowships to advance the development and adoption of AI.
• Deadline: March 15, 2024
• Award: $250K-$1M for durations up to three years

Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB)

• Supports research in mathematical biology that addresses significant biological questions by applying nontrivial mathematics or developing new theories — particularly from foundational mathematics, including artificial intelligence or machine learning.
• Deadline: March 11, 2024
• Award: $500-750K for durations up to three years

Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD)

• Supports research on new ways to use spatiotemporal data to model human dynamics, with an emphasis on identifying and forecasting unusual events and future threats. There are two areas of interest:
  • Develop mathematical, statistical and computational algorithms for analysis of massive spatiotemporal datasets, at scale; and
  • Develop mathematical theory to guide the application of advanced artificial intelligence to processing massive spatiotemporal data.
• Deadline: February 21, 2024; recurring annually on the third Wednesday in February
• Award: Unspecified

Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)

• Supports work that enables scientists and scientific discovery by improving the security, robustness, and trustworthiness of cyberinfrastructure.
  • Usable and Collaborative Security for Science (UCSS): Projects in this program area should support novel and/or applied security and usability research that facilitates scientific collaboration, encourages the adoption of security into the scientific workflow, and helps create a holistic, integrated security environment that spans the entire scientific cyberinfrastructure ecosystem.
  • Reference Scientific Security Datasets (RSSD): Projects in this program area should leverage instrumented cyberinfrastructure to capture metadata from scientific workflows and workloads as reference data artifacts that can help support reproducible security research, testing and evaluation.
  • Transition to Cyberinfrastructure Resilience (TCR): Projects in this program area should improve the robustness, trustworthiness, integrity, and/or resilience of scientific cyberinfrastructure through testing, evaluation, hardening, validation, and technology transition of novel cybersecurity research. The TCR area further encourages transition activities that advance the deployment and use of reproducibility in CI, workflows, and data.
• Deadline: February 1, 2024
• Award: $600K (UCSS and RSSD) - $1.2M (TCR) for durations up to three years

Safe Learning-Enabled Systems

• Supports foundational research that leads to the design and implementation of learning-enabled systems in which safety is ensured with high levels of confidence.
  • Foundation Projects
  • Synergy Projects
• Deadline: January 16, 2024
• Award: Foundation $800K for durations up to three years; Synergy $1.5M for durations up to four years

Synthesis Center for Understanding Organismal Resilience

• Supports the establishment of a new Synthesis Center focused on organismal resilience and plasticity as well as training new generations of researchers in data-intensive, open, cross-disciplinary and collaborative science.
• Deadline: January 12, 2024 (Preliminary); July 15, 2024 (Full Proposal)
• Award: $20M over five years

Ideas Lab: Personalized Engineering Learning (PEL)

• The goal of the Personalized Engineering Learning Ideas Lab is to extend engineering education research to enable advanced personalization in pedagogy and assessment in a K-12 or higher education context. The following broad areas have been identified as possible avenues to advance knowledge: personalized engineering education, multimodal sensing for personalized learning systems and team-based personalized learning.
• Deadline: November 29, 2023 (Preliminary Proposal); May 8, 2024 (Full Proposal)
• Award: Selected individuals will participate in an Ideas Lab and may be selected to submit a full proposal

Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award

• Supports individual engineers and scientists who propose novel research projects with the potential to innovatively and creatively address major societal challenges, advance US leadership, and catalyze the convergence of engineering and science domains.
• Deadline: Concept Outline due November 9, 2023; Full Proposal due February 15, 2024
• Award: $3M for durations up to three years

Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*)

• Supports coordinated campus-level networking and cyberinfrastructure improvements for science applications and distributed research projects.
  • Area (1) Data-Driven Networking Infrastructure for the Campus and Researcher;
  • Area (2) Regional Connectivity for Small Institutions of Higher Education;
  • Area (3) Network Integration and Applied Innovation;
  • Area (4) Campus Computing and the Computing Continuum;
  • Area (5) Regional Computing;
  • Area (6) Data Storage; and
  • Area (7) Planning Grants and CI-Research Alignment.
• Deadline: September 11, 2023
• Award: $100K - $1.2M depending on area for durations up to two years

Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase II (PIPP Phase II Centers Program)

• Supports interdisciplinary team-based approaches to accelerate research and development activities in emerging infectious diseases and pandemics. The overall goal of the PIPP Phase II Centers program is to support research and development activities needed to transform society’s ability to forecast the likelihood of pandemic-scale events, detect outbreaks early, and respond efficiently.
  • Theme 1: Pre-emergence – Predicting and detecting rare events in complex, dynamical systems
  • Theme 2: Data, AI/ML and Design - Computing, manufacturing and technology innovation for pandemics
  • Theme 3: The Host as the Universe - Identifying host-pathogen tipping points that dictate control or spread of an infection
  • Theme 4: Human Systems – The role of human behavior, activities and environments in disease emergence, transmission, and response or mitigation
• Deadline: December 8, 2023 (LOI due August 25, 2023)
• Award: $15-18M for durations up to seven years

Cyberinfrastructure Technology Acceleration Pathway (CITAP)

• Supports the translation of innovative research CI software, such as system software, libraries, application codes, and software enabling data services.
• Deadline: September 6, 2023
• Award: $10M for durations up to five years with opportunity for renewal

Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI)

• Supports developing centers (Phase I) and large, multi-institutional research centers (Phase II) focused on major, long-term chemical research challenges.
• Deadline: August 10, 2023 (Preliminary Proposal)
• Award: $1.8M for durations up to three years, eligible for Phase II ($4M/year for durations up to five years)

Assessing and Predicting Technology Outcomes (APTO)

• Supports the assessment of how investments in science and technology research and development will contribute to specific 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.
• Deadline: August 21, 2023 (Preliminary)
• Award: $500K to $4M per year for durations of one to five years

BioFoundries to Enable Access to Infrastructure and Resources for Advancing Modern Biology and Biotechnology (BioFoundries)

• Supports grand challenge questions requiring a deeper understanding of biological systems and technologies are as diverse as life itself. Understanding the complexity of living systems and their interactions with human-derived products and processes, ensuring the safe, ethical and equitable access to and co-generation of knowledge and products, requires the sustained development of technologies, sophisticated instrumentation, workflow pipelines and their automation, and advanced computing that are beyond the capabilities found in the laboratories of individual investigators.
• Deadline: October 2, 2023 (LOI due August 1, 2023)
• Award: $15-24M for durations of six years
• This is a limited submission opportunity due July 11, 2023.

NSF Convergence Accelerator Phases 1 and 2 for the 2023 Cohort - Tracks K, L, M

• Supports the transition of basic research and discovery into practice—to solve high-impact societal challenges aligned with specific research themes (tracks).
  • Track K: Equitable Water Solutions
  • Track L: Real-World Chemical Sensing Applications
  • Track M: Bio-Inspired Design Innovations
• Deadline: August 22, 2023 (LOI due July 11, 2023)
• Award: $750K for Phase 1 for durations of one year (supports application to Phase 2 for $5M total for durations of two years)

Building the Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN)

• Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.
• Deadline: June 20, 2023; (Internal LSO due April 25)
• Award: $1.5M for durations up to three years

NSF Engines Builder Platform

• Supports an organization that can help develop, launch, and run a “Builder Platform” to support its NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) awardees, a signature initiative of NSF’s Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) directorate.
• Deadline: June 12, 2023
• Award: $9.5M (total) for durations of three years

Spectrum and Wireless Innovation enabled by Future Technologies - Satellite-Terrestrial Coexistence (SWIFT-SAT)

• Supports research on techniques to overcome radio interference and light pollution conflicts between satellite users (communications, earth sensing) and terrestrial users (communications, astronomy) enabling usage growth to benefit society.
• Deadline: June 5, 2023
• Award: $750K for durations up to three years

Dear Colleague Letters

• Request for Information Researcher and Educator Use Cases for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) expires March 8, 2024. Individuals and groups of individuals in all research and education domains are invited to submit responses using the online submission form.
• Workshop to Inform Development of the NSF Research on Research Security Program (RRSP) proposals due by September 25, 2023. Webinars on creating a Research on Research Security Program will be held July 13 and July 26. Register now!
• Joint NSF-JST Proposals to Advance Human-Centered Data for Disaster Resilience Research (HCDDRR) due August 18, 2023 to programs: Smart and Connected Communities (CISE), CPS-CISE, HDBE-ENG, or DRMS-SBE. <–! April 14, 2023 –>
• Request for Information on the Capacity of Institutions of Higher Education to Produce Graduates with Degrees, Certifications, and Relevant Skills Related to Artificial Intelligence response due June 21, 2023.
• Request for Information on Future Topics for Workforce Development in Emerging Technology Career Pathways response due June 21, 2023.
• Request for Input on the Development of the U.S. Research Security and Integrity Information Sharing Analysis Organization response due June 30, 2023.
• Supporting Cybersecurity & Privacy Education and Workforce Development due by May 23, 2023.
• Seeking US Industry and US Federal Agency Partners to Support Research Projects in Advanced Networking Systems response due May 15, 2023.

Internal Funding Opportunities

Digital Health Innovations Seed Grant Program

• Supports new collaborations and innovative research in digital health that will lead to federal extramural grant applications.
• Deadline: EXTENDED February 9, 2024
• Award: $75K (+$25K in SD2C support) for one year

One Utah Data Science Hub Seed Grant Program - FY24

• Supports the initiation of new collaborations and innovative research in data science and data-enabled science that will lead to federal extramural grant applications.
• Deadline: December 15, 2023
• Award: Up to $50K for one year

FY24 Distinguished Research Awards

• The Distinguished Research Award (DRA) is a prestigious faculty award designed to recognize outstanding achievements in research by three University of Utah faculty each year.
• Deadline: December 13, 2023
• Award: $10,000 grant to pursue research and/or creative pursuits and recognition at the UofU Commencement.

Utah CTSI Community & Academic Partnership Pilot (CAPP) Program

• Supports collaborations between community organizations located in Utah and adjacent states, and CTSI-affiliated academic partners that address at least one of the following focal areas:
  • Address barriers to conducting clinical & translational research
  • Advance human health
  • Understand and reduce health disparities
• Deadline: LOI due September 15, 2023, invited full proposal due December 18, 2023
• Award: $60K for one year

Foundation Funding Opportunities

Pew Biomedical Scholars

• Supports young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. Strong proposals will incorporate particularly creative and pioneering approaches to basic, translational, and applied biomedical research. Candidates whose work is based on biomedical principles but who bring in concepts and theories from more diverse fields are encouraged to apply.
• Deadline: April 14, 2024 (Internal LOI), September 5, 2024 (Full Application)
• Award: $300K over four years

2024 Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Awards

• Supports high-risk projects investigating metastatic, lethal prostate cancer. Research proposals in the following topic areas are preferred:
  • new systemic precision treatments for metastatic, lethal prostate cancer;
  • determinants of survivorship;
  • developing or validating biomarkers that guide therapy in patients or further our understanding of the mechanisms by which therapies work;
  • new data science technologies for analysis of genomic information to advance precision medicine
• Deadline: April 8, 2024 (LOI/white paper); June 17, 2024 (proposal)
• Award: Up to $1M

Predictors of Vaccine Efficacy: Identifying Correlates of Protection

• Supports research teams to establish or validate correlates of protection across 11 diseases with the potential to cause substantial outbreaks or which have significant burden, and have no licenced vaccines.
• Deadline: February 6, 2024 (Preliminary Application), May 21, 2024 (Full Invited Proposal)
• Award: £5M for durations up to three years

Motorola Solutions Foundation Grants

• Technology & engineering education - From engaging students through hands-on engineering activities like design, coding and robotics to providing scholarship and workforce placement for underrepresented groups, we’re committed to creating opportunities for future innovators.
• Deadline: February 1, 2024
• Award: $50,000
• Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

AVDF/ACLS Fellowships for Research on the Liberal Arts

• Supports scholarly projects that draw upon the newly available College and Beyond II (CBII) database.
• Deadline: December 15, 2023
• Award: $45K, participation in a 2-day data training, and subsequent symposium

Simons Foundation: Scientific Software Research Faculty Award

• Supports new research professor positions in existing academic departments to be filled by scientific software-focused researchers with an overall aim to stimulate the development and maintenance of core scientific software infrastructure in academic environments through creating a new, long-term, faculty-level career path.
• Deadline: December 8, 2023 (LOI), February 28, 2024 (Full Proposal)
• Award: 50% salary and $50K allowable expenses for durations up to five years

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Data Insights (Cycle 3)

• Supports the advancement of tools and resources that make it possible to gain greater insights into health and disease from single-cell biology datasets.
• Deadline: December 5, 2023
• Award: $400,000 total costs for Expanded Projects and $200,000 total costs for Focused Projects for durations of 18-months

W. M. Keck Foundation

• Supports interdisciplinary and transformative project concepts for the W. M. Keck Foundation. Keck seeks to benefit humanity by supporting projects in two specific areas (1) medical research and (2) science and engineering.
• Deadline: December 4, 2023 (Internal LSO)
• Award: up to $1.4M over three years

Russel Sage Foundation: Future of Work

• Supports innovative research on the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of jobs for low- and moderately paid workers and their families in the U.S.
• Deadline: November 7, 2023 (Letter of Inquiry), Invited Proposals due February 21, 2024
• Award: Up to $200K over two years

Russel Sage Foundation: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context

• Supports perspectives from multiple disciplines, including economics, psychology, political science, sociology, law, public policy, and other social sciences, to further our understanding of economic, social, and political decision-making processes, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional practices in public and private contexts such as policing/criminal legal systems, employment, housing, politics, racial/ethnic relations, and immigration.
• Deadline: November 7, 2023 (Letter of Inquiry), Invited Proposals due February 21, 2024
• Award: Up to $200K over two years

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars

• CIFAR invites outstanding early-career researchers from across the natural, biomedical, life and social sciences and the humanities to join one of our interdisciplinary research programs that address some of the most important questions facing science and humanity.
• Deadline: October 30, 2023
• Award: $100K CAD, mentorship, seed funding, and leadership development

Rose Foundation: Consumer Privacy Rights Fund

• Supports privacy protection and privacy education efforts, specifically individual consumer’s internet privacy rights.
• Deadline: October 13, 2023
• Award: $150K

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), The Kavli Foundation, and The Wellcome Trust: Essential Open Source Software for Science

• Supports open source software projects essential for biomedical research. The goal of the program is to support software maintenance, growth, development, and community engagement for these critical tools.
• Deadline: October 17, 2023 (LOI); December 5, 2023 for invited full proposals
• Award: $50-200K/year for durations of two years

Ford Foundation: 2023 Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund

• The D//F (Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund) is a multi-funder initiative by Ford Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures and Open Collective sustaining a platform for researchers and practitioners to better understand how open digital infrastructure is built and deployed.
• Deadline: September 30, 2023
• Award: $50-125K for durations of six to twelve months

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Foundation Research Grant

• The PKD Foundation’s principal mission is to support basic, translational, and clinical research that will benefit patients with autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD and ARPKD).
  • Epidemiology/data analysis research — to conduct secondary data analyses utilizing existing database resources, or to develop new statistical methodologies or test hypotheses using existing data.
• Deadline: August 14, 2023
• Award: $80K per year for durations up to three years

Health Data for Action (HD4A, Data Access Award)

• Supports free access to selected data sets, while limited funding is available for a small number of projects from First-Time Investigators who will receive both funds and access to conduct studies using selected data sets.
• Deadline: August 18, 2023 (brief proposal)
• Award: data access for durations one to two years with up to $100K for first-time investigators
• Optional informational webinar on July 18 at 11 am (registration required)

Mozilla Data Futures Lab Infrastructure Fund

• Supports the development of open source software needed to foster a more fair and just data ecosystem.
• Deadline: Letter of Intent August 31, 2023
• Award: Idea phase $10K; Development/testing phase $25K; Launched, in-use project (milestone deliverable) $50K

Digital Assessment Tools for FTD and ALS

• Supports the development of digital tools with broad applicability across the FTD-ALS spectrum beyond the discovery stage toward validation with two types of projects:
  • Advancing Tool Development
  • Creating a Conceptual Model as a Guide for Digital Outcome Assessment Development
• Deadline: July 14, 2023
• Award: $150-400K for durations up to two years

PhRMA Foundation: Faculty Starter Grant in Drug Discovery Targets and Pathways

• Supports individuals beginning independent careers in drug discovery research at the faculty level at an accredited U.S. university.
• Deadline: July 1, 2023 (LOI due May 15, 2023)
• Award: $100K for one year

RWJF: Data Visualization of Structural Racism and Place

• Supports the creation of data visualizations as tools to provide an understanding of structural racism’s impact on place, health, and wellbeing.
• Deadline: June 2, 2023 (Internal LSO due May 12)
• Award: Typically $100-250K for one year

Industry Funding Opportunities

OpenAI Superalignment Fast Grants

• Supports technical research towards ensuring superhuman AI systems are aligned and safe, through partnership with Eric Schmidt
• Deadline: February 18, 2024
• Award: $100K–$2M grants for academic labs, nonprofits, and individual researchers; $150K OpenAI Superalignment Fellowship ($75K in stipend and $75K in compute and research funding) for graduate students

Google Research Scholar Program

• Supports professors globally who are teaching at universities and meet the eligibility requirements. It is our hope that this program will help develop collaborations with new professors and encourage the formation of long-term relationships. Supports cutting-edge research in the fields of algorithms and optimization, health research, machine learning and data mining, natural language processing, quamtum computing, software engineering and programming languages, fundamental and applied science, human-computer interaction, machine perception, privacy, security, and systems and networking systems.
• Deadline: November 30, 2023
• Award: $60K

Amazon Research Awards

• Supports research programs in the following themes:
  • AI for Information Security
  • Automated Reasoning
  • AWS AI
  • AWS Cryptography and Privacy
  • AWS Database Services
  • Sustainability
• Deadline: November 1, 2023
• Award: Varies; up to $100K unrestricted funds, $50K AWS credits, and training resources

Microsoft Accelerate Foundation Models Research

• Supports leading foundation models hosted by Microsoft Azure more accessible to the academic research community via Microsoft Azure AI services. By driving deeper collaboration across disciplines, institutions, and sectors, we aim to unlock the full potential of AI across greater breadth of research pursuits, application domains, and societal contexts.
  • Align AI systems with human goals and preferences
  • Advance beneficial applications of AI
  • Accelerate scientific discovery in the natural and life sciences
• Deadline: September 12, 2023
• Award: Up to $20K Azure Credits, access to Azure OpenAI Service and open-source models

LTC Data Cooperative: Real World Data Scholars Program

• Supports the development of advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career faculty who are interested in developing their expertise and experience in working with electronic health record (EHR) data.
• Deadline: August 4, 2023
• Award: $50K (direct) for one year

Permanente Medical Group: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare Grants

• Supports research that evaluates the implementation of existing Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning algorithms that enhance diagnostic decision making to achieve the following objective: to advance research methods, identify best practices for scalability, and build capacity for effectively implementing and rigorously evaluating the use of AI/ML algorithms for diagnostic decision-making in real-world settings.
• Deadline: October 13, 2023 (LOI due June 30, 2023)
• Award: $750K
• Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying for this opportunity.

OpenAI, Inc.: Pilot Grants for Democratic Inputs to Artificial Intelligence

• Supports experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow within the bounds defined by the law.
• Deadline: June 24, 2023
• Award: $100K
• Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

AWS AI: Generative AI call for proposals — Spring 2023

• Supports proposals that focus on innovation related to supporting annotators with machine learning and artificial intelligence.
• Deadline: April 26, 2023
• Award: $70K unrestricted funds, $50K AWS promotional credits

AWS IMAGINE: The Go Further, Faster Award

• Support for highly innovative projects that leverage the cloud. These projects will have the potential to produce scaled, repeatable solutions and may impact an entire industry or field.
• Deadline: June 1, 2023
• Award: $150K unrestricted funds, $100K AWS promotional credits

AWS IMAGINE: The Momentum to Modernize Award

• Supports nonprofit organizations seeking to transform and enhance their core mission operations with technology, many organizations need funding for foundational technology projects, such as migrating servers to the cloud and modernizing new and existing applications.
• Deadline: June 1, 2023
• Award: $50K unrestricted funds, $20K AWS promotional credits

International Funding Opportunities

Critical and Emerging Technology: Quantum Technologies and Artificial Intelligence for Transforming Lives

• India and the United States are building a comprehensive roadmap for partnership in crucial areas of mutual interest while emphasizing the importance of leveraging complementary strengths and addressing critical challenges. In alignment with the recent U.S.-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (CET), to strengthen links and enhance technology cooperation between the innovation ecosystems of both nations, the United States–India Science & Technology Endowment Fund (USISTEF) announces this special call.
  • Quantum Technologies: The joint proposals focus on innovation pertinent to the scaling-up and application of emerging quantum technologies.
  • Artificial Intelligence: The joint proposals to support a team deploy and commercialize a laboratory-validated prototype that ensures and demonstrates advanced innovation and societal impact.
• Deadline: August 31, 2023
• Award: $120K (10M INR) for durations of two years

Generative AI Skills Challenge

• A global grant for organizations training and upskilling teams on generative AI to drive social impact. With a particular focus on fair and community-led integration in low- and middle-income countries and contexts (LMICs), the Challenge aims to accelerate digital inclusion, socioeconomic mobility, and skills advancement and acquisition for workers from historically marginalized populations around the world.
• Deadline: August 15, 2023
• Award: $250K for durations of 7-8 months
• Q&A Session on August 2, 2023 at 7am MT

Governmental Funding Opportunities

Department of Homeland Security: Synthetic Data Generator

• Supports synthetic generation capabilities for both structured and unstructured data that currently have or can be adapted to clearly separate the way the solution seeks to understand the shape and patterns of real data from the mechanism it uses to generate the synthetic data.
• Deadline: April 10, 2024
• Award: $200K for Phase 1

CDC: Epidemiologic and Economic Modeling for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB

• Support modeling of disease dynamics and advanced data analytics to inform and improve HIV, viral hepatitis, STC, TB, and adolescent health interventions and programs.
• Deadline: March 29, 2024 (White Paper), April 8, 2024 (Proposal)
• Award: $5M

DOE Office of Science: Data Reduction for Science

• Supports exploration of potentially high-impact approaches in the development and use of data reduction techniques and algorithms to facilitate more efficient analysis and use of massive data sets produced by observations, experiments and simulation.
• Deadline: March 19, 2024 (pre-application); May 7, 2024 (proposal)
• Award: $400K/year
• This is a Limited Submission Opportunity with an internal deadline of February 20, 2024.

DOE: Advancements in Artificial Intelligence for Science

• Supports basic computer science and applied mathematics research in the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for science.
  • Foundation models for computational science;
  • Automated scientific workflows and laboratories;
  • Scientific programming and scientific-knowledge-management systems;
  • Federated and privacy-preserving training for foundation and other AI models for science; and
  • Energy-efficient AI algorithms and hardware for science.
• Deadline: March 19, 2024
• Award: $250K-$2M

ARPA-H: Open-Office Broad Agency Announcement

• Supports research aiming to improve health outcomes across patient populations, communities, diseases, and health conditions. The BAA calls for proposals to outline breakthrough research and technological advancements.
  • Health Science Futures - Expanding what’s technically possible
  • Scalable Solutions - Reaching everyone quickly
  • Proactive Health - Keeping people from being patients
  • Resilient Systems - Building integrated healthcare systems
• Deadline: Rolling, expires March 14, 2024
• Award: Unspecified, budget must be align with the project scope

DOD Measurement & Signature Intelligence Research and Development Initiative

• Supports the next generation of capabilities and platforms to advance the Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) enterprise. Research Areas of Interest include:
  • Data-Enabling Technologies
  • Automation and Machine Learning Technologies
  • Modeling and Simulation Technologies
  • Technologies that Increase Analytics, and
  • Technologies that Advance Collection.
• Deadline: March 1, 2024 (White paper opens), March 29, 2024
• Award: 4-10 awards expected

Office of Naval Research: Fundamental Research Towards Expeditionary Air Warfare & Weapons

• Supports research relevant to the Expeditionary Forces, specifically Theoretical Foundations and Limitations of Predicting, Deceiving, and Disrupting Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Perception/Action Loops.
• Deadline: March 1, 2024
• Award: Up to $4.2M over five years ($330K for the first year, $910K/year for the next one to two years, $1M/year for another one to two years)

U.S. DOT Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Pre-Solicitation - Complete Streets Artificial Intelligence Initiative

• Supports development of a suite of decision-support tools for transportation agencies that assists in the siting, design, and deployment of Complete Streets. Complete Streets are streets and networks that prioritize safety, comfort, and connectivity to destinations for all people who use the street network.
• Deadline: March 1, 2024 (Pre-solicitation)
• An informational webinar about the solicitation is tentatively scheduled for March 21, 2024, at 1:00 pm ET, more information will be available on the solicitation.

DOE Office of Science: Exploratory Research for Extreme Scale Science

• Supports basic research to explore potentially high-impact approaches in scientific computing and extreme-scale science in one of five research topics:
  • Harnessing Technology Innovations to Accelerate Science through Visualization
  • Scalable Space-Time Memories for Large Discrete/Agent-Based Models
  • Neuromorphic Computing extre
  • Advanced Wireless
  • Quantum Hardware Emulation
• Deadline: February 29, 2024 (pre-application); May 2, 2024 (proposal) Internal LSO deadline is February 14!
• Award: $300K-$1.1M

Establishing Qualification Processes for Agile Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (EQUIP-A-Pharma)

• Supports development of an informatics-based models to create a real-time digital regulatory approval framework for qualification of pharmaceuticals produced in an agile pharmaceutical manufacturing platform.
• Deadline: February 28, 2024
• Award: $500K

ARPA-H: Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed & InteGrated Medical care (PARADIGM)

• Supports development of a distributed care delivery model that can be easily adopted by health systems. This new model will deliver services typically associated with brick-and-mortar health care facilities; establish real-world settings for demonstrating and evaluating Care Delivery Platform (CDP)-based care; and demonstrate the financial sustainability of this care model. Projects should address one of the five technical areas:
  • Decentralized Approach to Hospital-Level Care
  • CDP Integration
  • Medical Internet of Things (IoT) Platform
  • Rugged & Miniaturized CT Scanner
  • Intelligent Task Guidance
• Deadline: February 27, 2024 (Abstract), April 26, 2024 (Proposal)
• Award: Unspecified, budget must be align with the project scope
• Proposer’s Day will be held (virtually and in-person) on February 15, 2024 in Phoenix Arizona. Register here!

DARPA: Building an Adaptive & Competitive Workforce

• Supports adult learners in developing critical skills necessary for the current and future national security workforce. Proposed solutions should leverage artificial intelligence and advanced computational methods to help adults upskill and reskill in the complex subjects required for the continuously advancing 21st-century economy.
• Deadline: February 26, 2024 (abstract)
• Award: $50K (Catalyst), $150K (Growth), $300K (Transform)
• Information Session on January 29, 2024 at 11am MT (Registration required.)

ARPA-H: SBIR Research and Development

• Supports mall business concerns that possess the research and development (R&D) expertise to conduct innovative research that will contribute toward ARPA-H mission needs and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program objectives. Research topics:
  • Inexpensive Plant-based Manufacturing of Viruses
  • LymphoLab ProDiscover Kit
  • Continuous Monitoring of Vascular Health Using Smart Biomimetic Implantables
  • Personalized Medicine Platform for Predicting Response to Immunotherapy
  • Saving Baby Hearts: Fully Autonomous Neonatal Echocardiography for the Diagnosis of Critical Congenital Heart Disease
  • Improving Identity and Access Management with Clinical Context
• Deadline: February 22, 2024 (anticipated, Solicitation 75N91024R00006 is anticipated to be made available on or about January 23, 2024)
• Award: Unspecified, budget must be align with the project scope

NEH: Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence

• Supports humanities research centers on artificial intelligence (AI) focused on better understanding the ethical, legal, or societal implications of AI. Avery Holton will be the PI for the University of Utah Proposal.
• Deadline: February 14, 2024
• Award: $500K

Boosting Innovative GEOINT - Topic 1: Geospatial-Intelligence Foundational Model (GFM)

• Supports innovative concepts to address hard GEOINT problems that align to one or more of the following technical domains: (1) Foundational GEOINT, (2) Advanced Phenomenologies, and (3) Analytic Technologies.
• Deadline: January 23, 2024 (Abstracts); March 4, 2024 (Proposal); Additional topics added through 2026
• Award: $3M for one year

I-ARPA Securing Our Underlying Resources in Cyber Environments (SoURCE CODE) Program

• Supports novel technologies to assist forensic experts in making determinations of the most likely attackers, based on coding styles. The program will explore full feature spaces in binary code and source code files to measure the similarity between files and provide information to forensic experts to the likely origins (country, groups, individuals, etc.).
• Deadline: January 22, 2024

NASA ROSES: Heliophysics Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Ready Data

• Supports the advancement of the goals and objectives of NASA Heliophysics by developing new tools and methods for the generation of AI/ML-ready datasets from existing research and mission data.
• Deadline: January 18, 2024 (Step 1, preliminary proposal); April 18, 2024 (Step 2, full proposal); repeated annually
• Award: Dependent on scope of project

I-ARPA Bias Effects and Notable Generative AI Limitations (BENGAL) Targeted Super Seedling Research Topics

• Supports new capabilities to enable the safe adoption and use of generative AI technologies to greatly enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the Intelligence Community (IC). The goal of the BENGAL targeted super seedling is to understand LLM threat modes, quantify them and to find novel methods to correct threats and vulnerabilities or to work resiliently with imperfect models.
• Deadline: January 19, 2024 (ENCOURAGED: white papers due December 5, 2023)

ARPA-H: Biomedical Data Fabric Toolbox

• Supports innovative proposals for research and development (R&D) in data integration and usability technologies. Proposed R&D should investigate innovative software approaches that enable revolutionary advances in the collection and usability of biomedical datasets that originate from thousands of different research labs, clinical care centers, and other sources of data in order to accelerate technical innovation across the health ecosystem.
• Deadline: November 28, 2023
• Award: Varies based on the project scope (BIT, BYTE and KILO scales solicited)

NOAA, DOC: FY2024 Weather Program Office Research Programs

• Supports new weather, water, and earth system observing and forecasting applications.
  • Climate Testbed (CTB) - for proposals to advance NOAA’s operational subseasonal-to-seasonal (two weeks to two years) prediction capabilities via the NOAA CTB. The portfolio will prioritize capabilities that enhance operational prediction systems, products, or research that aims to transition to operations, with a preference toward activities that enhance or improve precipitation outlooks and service delivery. One to two awards are expected of up to $300,000 per year.
  • Fire Weather - for research and development proposals to improve fire weather forecast information and delivery. This opportunity will support new research into the coupled Unified Forecast System for the short-term fire-atmosphere modeling systems. Two to three awards are expected of up to $350,000.
• Deadline: November 16, 2023
• Award: $300K per year

DOT: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Microsimulation Model Development and Validation

• Supports development of models that describe how Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Automated Driving Systems (ADS)—with or without connectivity—operate in traffic. The models proposed in response to this proposal request should seek to fill gaps in current traffic operations modeling capabilities.
• Deadline: October 6, 2023
• Award: Unspecified.

NEH: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities

• Supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology.
  • A special encouragement for research projects that seek to understand and address the ethical, legal, and societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI).
• Deadline: October 11, 2023
• Award: Up to $150K for durations of two years
• Q&A Session on August 15 at 12pm MT

DARPA: Adversarial Resilient Cyber Effects for Decision Dominance Collaborative Research Program

• Supports expansion of theoretical and scientific understanding of cyberspace windows of superiority (CWoS), such that one can rapidly and reliably identify, predict, and create these windows to provide military and civil leadership with multiple courses of action. Including research thrusts:
  • Explore and define CWoS: Identify and Predict CWoS, Create CWoS
  • Adversarial Resilient Cyber: Multidomain Cyber Deception in Contested Environments, Machine Learning for Security and Security for Machine Learning
• Deadline: October 13, 2023
• Award: Unspecified, budget must be align with the project scope

Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Fund for The Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE): Postsecondary Student Success Grant

• Supports equitable improvement for postsecondary student outcomes, including retention, transfer (including successful transfer of completed credits), credit accumulation, and completion, by leveraging data and implementing, scaling, and rigorously evaluating evidence-based activities to support data-driven decisions and actions by institutional leaders committed to inclusive student success.
• Deadline: September 25, 2023
• Award: $1.75M

NIH NPH: AIMINGS AI for Precision Nutrition Pilot Program Round Two

• Supports research projects that develop and utilize artificial intelligence (AI) and other computer-aided approaches to facilitate precision nutrition.
• Deadline: October 2, 2023
• Award: $125K (total) for one year
• Informational Webinar: July 20, 2023 at 1:30pm, register here.

ARPA-H: Scaling Health Applications Research for Everyone (SHARE)

• Supports proven technologies developed for national security and apply them to civilian health systems, clinical care facilities, and personal health devices.
• DIGIHEALS Project to protect the U.S. healthcare system’s electronic infrastructure
• Deadline: September 7, 2023
• Award: Unspecified, budget must be align with the project scope

NEH: Humanities Connections

• Supports the planning or implementation of curricular projects connecting the humanities to the physical and natural sciences; pre-service or professional programs, including law and business; computer science, data science, and other technology-driven fields; or other non-humanities departments or schools.
• Deadline: September 7, 2023 (Optional draft due July 21, 2023)
• Award: $50K for planning for 1 year, $150K for implementation for 1.5 to 3 years

DoD: Prostate Cancer, Data Science Award

• Supports research where quantitative and analytical approaches, processes, and/or systems are developed and/or used to obtain knowledge and insight from large and/or complex sets of prostate cancer data.
• Deadline: August 24, 2023
• Award: $1M direct

US Economic Development Administration: Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs) Phase 1

• Supports consortia through an economic development initiative designed to drive regional technology- and innovation-centric growth by strengthening a region’s capacity to manufacture, commercialize, and deploy critical technologies.
• Deadline: August 15, 2023
• Award: $500K, ability to apply for Phase 2

Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy: Responsible State Behavior in Cyberspace Capacity Building

• Supports partnership with a capable organization(s) to develop curriculum and provide capacity building for two complementary, yet distinct, focal areas that seek to improve international stability in cyberspace.
• Deadline: August 4, 2023
• Award: $500K-$1M

Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy: AI Connect II

• Supports partnership with a capable organization to build the Promoting American Leadership, Democratic Values, and Economic Prosperity in Artificial Intelligence project by engaging with the AI Connect multi-stakeholder community and encouraging the responsible stewardship of AI technologies in line with the OECD AI Principles that empowers low- and middle-income countries to participate in the global, multi-stakeholder conversations more effectively on AI policy.
• Deadline: August 4, 2023
• Award: $1M

Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy: Global Cyber and Digital Policy Training

• Supports partnership with a capable organization to develop curriculum and provide training to international entities and personnel for the development of responsible cybersecurity and digital policy.The training is intended to provide specialized and technical in-person capacity building training to primarily but not limited to government officials, from developing countries that are key stakeholders in cyber and digital policy in their respective countries, regional or multilateral institutions.
• Deadline: August 4, 2023
• Award: $2.6M

NIST: Regional Alliances and Multistakeholder Partnerships to Stimulate (RAMPS) Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development

• Supports activities to establish community-based partnerships to develop cybersecurity career pathways that address local workforce needs.
• Deadline: August 7, 2023
• Award: $200K for durations up to two years

National Center for Health Statistics: National Vital Statistics System Modernization—New Opportunities for Interoperable Data

• Supports opportunities for the use of interoperable health data to support timely research and public health surveillance. Insights from this project will help to modernize health data interoperability that can inform best practices for a possible, future National Secure Data Service (NSDS) and the broader data and evidence ecosystem.
• Deadline: July 6, 2023
• Award: $300K

Expanding Equitable Access to Restricted-Use Data through Federal Statistical Research Data Centers

• Supports assessment of future capabilities of a National Secure Data Service (NSDS) by strategically examining user demand/needs of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) network and by establishing a targeted pilot program to make funding supports available among underserved communities and institutions.
• Deadline: July 6, 2023
• Award: $500K

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Boosting Innovative GEOINT - Research, Broad Agency Announcement (NGA BIG-R BAA)

• Topic 10: Advanced 3D Analytic Tool Development, Enhancement, and Integration
• Deadline: July 28, 2023 (Abstract due June 26, 2023)
• Award: Up to $8M in total awards for several technical elements

Utah System of Higher Education: Computer Science Targeted Workforce Initiative Grant

• Supports the creation and/or expansion of capacity in computer science workforce education programs to include: Information Security Analysts, Software Developers and QA Analysts, Digital Interface Designers, Computer and Information Research Scientists, Database Administrators, and Architects.
• Deadline: EXTENDED June 29, 2023, recurring quarterly if funds remain
• Award: Unspecified, $4.5M available

Utah System of Higher Education: Healthcare Targeted Workforce Initiative Grant Request for Proposals

• Supports the creation and/or expansion of capacity in healthcare workforce education programs to include: Respiratory Therapists, Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Radiology Technologists, Surgical Technologists, Diagnostic Medical Sonographers, Behavioral Health, Psychiatric Technicians, and/or Behavioral Management Specialists.
• Deadline: EXTENDED June 29, 2023, recurring quarterly if funds remain
• Award: Unspecified, $4.5M available

HHS: Career Pathways Secondary Data Analysis Grants

• Supports secondary analysis of data collected to rigorously evaluate a collection of career pathways programs. The purpose of these awards is to better understand the effectiveness of services funded by Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs that aim to address the employment and self-sufficiency needs of TANF recipients and those eligible for or at risk of TANF receipt.
• Deadline: June 29, 2023
• Award: $100K

Institute of Education Sciences Applications (IES): Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS)

• Supports state educational agency to design, develop, and implement statewide longitudinal data systems to efficiently and accurately manage, analyze, disaggregate, and use individual student data.
• Deadline: June 29, 2023 (LOI due May 19, 2023)
• Award: $4M

CDC: Centers for Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling

• Supports the development of a network of innovators to design, prototype, test, and scale innovative capabilities for improving analytics, modeling and forecasting to support decision makers during outbreaks of infectious diseases (both known and newly emerging) in the United States.
  • Mandatory Component 1 (Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling Public Health Response): 13 awards of $500,000 each.
    
  • Optional Component 2 (Innovations in Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling): 5 awards of $3 million each.
  • Optional Component 3 (Integration of Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling into Practice): 5 awards of $3 million each.
  • Optional Component 4 (Centers for Implementation in Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling): 3 awards of $5 million each.
  • Optional Component 5 (Coordinator for the Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling Network): 1 award of $1 million.
• Deadline: June 13, 2023
• Award: Varies, see above.

US Army: xTechPrime Competition - Concept White Paper

• Supports small businesses and technology integrators, in the areas of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Autonomy, Climate and Clean Technologies, Immersive/Wearables, and Sensors, to engage with the DoD, earn prize money, participate in the accelerator program and submit for a Direct to Phase II SBIR award.
• Deadline: June 7, 2023
• Award: Participation in the accelerator program and submit for a Direct to Phase II SBIR award

IARPA: Rapid Explanation, Analysis and Sourcing Online (REASON)

• Supports novel technologies that will enable intelligence analysts to substantially improve the evidence and reasoning in draft analytic reports.
  • Task Area 1 (TA1) – Identify Additional Evidence
  • Task Area 2 (TA2) – Identify Reasoning Strengths and Weaknesses
  • Task Area 3 (TA3) – Produce Comments to Increase Quality of Argumentation
• Deadline: May 8, 2023

Challenges, Awards, and Other Opportunities

• ARPA-H Investor Catalyst Hub: Medical Imaging Data Marketplace (MIDM) Network Survey aims to collect feedback about specific needs and challenges that medical imaging software and product developers, users of AI and ML medical imaging products, and private and public organizations face with utilizing, managing, and producing data for product development and evaluation. Responses due April 16, 2024. Next information scheduled for Monday, April 1 at 11am MT. Register to attend.

• AAMAS Maritime Capture the Flag Competition invites submissions of AI agents that can autonomously play a multi-player Capture-the-Flag game within a maritime, multi-agent, real-time game environment. Phase 1 due April 5, 2024.

• Advanced Computing Allocations to Advance AI Research and Education As part of the launch of the NAIRR Pilot, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE) are collaborating to create an early opportunity for the research community to request access to a set of advanced computing resources for projects related to the focus of this call, which will be open from January 24 to March 1, 2024.

• NIH AI Data Readiness Challenge for the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) Assess the CRDC AI Data Readiness for a use case and build an AI/ML model and win up to $20K:

  1. Select AI/ML use cases
     
  2. Preprocess CRDC data to an AI-ready format
     
  3. apply your AI/ML model to solve use case
     
  4. provide feedback
     Phase 1 submissions due March 1, 2024.

• Digitizing Utilities Prize Round 2 aims to help utilities tackle data and cybersecurity challenges that advance grid resiliency. This prize connects utilities with interdisciplinary teams of software developers and data experts to transform digital systems and data analytics for utilities in the energy sector. Phase 1 open until February 29, 2024, $1.85M in total prizes.

• NIH Pioneering Research for Early Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementias (PREPARE) Challenge seeks to advance solutions for accurate, innovative, and representative early prediction of AD/ADRD through three challenge phases that successively build on each other. Phase 1 open until January 31, 2024, $650K in total prizes.

• Cyber Defensive Capability Performance Measurement Development Challenge seeks undergraduate and graduate students to develop algorithms to measure a system’s ability to maintain critical functionality during a cyberspace attack from Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors. The developed algorithms are to: (a) measure the effectiveness of a system’s cyber defensive capabilities against full spectrum cyber threats, and (b) calculate the cyber resiliency of the system based on given system architecture, critical functions, and the defined cyber APTs. Phase 1 open until January 26, 2024, $125K in total prizes.

• The FTC Voice Cloning Challenge supports the development of multidisciplinary approaches—from products to policies to procedures—aimed at protecting consumers from AI-enabled voice cloning harms, such as fraud and the broader misuse of biometric data and creative content. The goal of the Challenge is to foster breakthrough ideas on preventing, monitoring, and evaluating malicious voice cloning. Abstracts and detailed explanations due January 12, 2024.

• Open AI Preparedness Challenge responses will be accepted on a rolling basis through December 31, 2023. We will offer $25,000 each in API credits to up to 10 top submissions, publish novel ideas and entries, and look for candidates for Preparedness from among the top contenders in this challenge.

• Two Traineeship Opportunities with AIM-AHEAD, applications due date EXTENDED to December 11, 2023.

  • Traineeship in Advanced Data Analysis using the All of Us Clinical Database
  • Traineeship in Advanced Data Analysis using the NCATS data and the N3C enclave

• Request for Information Consultations on Sustaining Biodata Infrastructure and on Open Data Strategies from the Global Biodata Coalition is seeking feedback and inputs from our communities on how research funders could extend partnerships and work together in new ways to secure and sustain the global biodata resource infrastructure and maximize the long-term value of open research data in the life and biomedical sciences. Responses due December 4, 2023.

• Berkeley Computing, Data Science, & Society Spring 2024 Discovert Project Program is seeking Partners to design projects so that a team of students can be engaged over the course of a single or multiple semesters (a semester is about 12 weeks of work). Application deadline in November 30, 2023.

• Microsoft Research AI & Society Fellows supports research collaboration between Microsoft Research and eminent scholars and experts across a range of disciplines core to discussions at the intersection of AI and its impact on society. Applications due November 29, 2023.

  • AI in Organizational Settings
  • AI in the Production of Culture, Media, and the Arts
  • AI Powered Community Micro-Grid for Resiliency and Equitability
  • Copyright Protection for User Data in the Era of LLMs
  • Generative AI and Plural Governance: Mitigating Challenges and Surfacing Opportunities
  • Multimodal Knowledge Understanding and Representation for Population-scale Copilots
  • Reducing the Digital Divide of Generative AI in the Global South
  • Regulating AI in Light of the Challenges of Doing Responsible AI in Practice
  • Regulatory Innovation to Enable Use of Generative AI in Drug Development
  • Sociotechnical Approaches to Measuring Harms Caused by AI Systems
  • Storytelling and Futurism
  • Supporting the Responsible AI Red-Teaming Human Infrastructure
  • Towards Creative-Centered AI: Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of Creatives, AI, and Society

• The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Open Science Recognition Challenge invites researchers, community scientists, educators, innovators, and members of the broader public to share stories of how they’ve advanced equitable open science. Submissions due November 22, 2023.

• NIH Build UP Trust Challenge seeks solutions that increase research participation and the adoption of medical care by building trust and improving engagement with historically underserved communities. Register by November 14, 2023, submission by December 5, 2023, awards up to $45K.

• Instructional System Design (ISD) Analysis Using AI Large Language Models Automate ISD Analysis and Requirements Development for Ready Relevant Learning (RRL) hopes to identify solutions that address a critical barrier in effectively implementing Instructional Systems Design (ISD) Analysis for training for military readiness and human performance. Registration required by October 30 with applications due November 13, 2023.

• BII & Science Prize for Innovation encourages more scientists to translate their research and recognizes bold researchers who are asking fundamental questions at the intersection of the life sciences and entrepreneurship. 1000-word essay applications due November 1, 2023.

• Learning Engineering Tools Competition - Preparing for the 21st Century Worldis a multi-million dollar competition for edtech innovation that leverages digital technology, big data, and learning science to meet the urgent needs of learners worldwide. Abstracts due November 10, 2023

• NIDDK Central Repository Data-Centric Challenge - Enhancing NIDDK datasets for future Artificial Intelligence (AI) applicationsis aimed at augmenting existing Repository data for future secondary research including data-driven discovery by artificial intelligence (AI) researchers. Registration due October 20, 2023.

• HHS, CDC, and NASA: Unsupervised Wisdom: Explore Medical Narratives on Older Adult Falls. The goal in this challenge is to identify effective methods of using unsupervised machine learning to extract insights about older adult falls from Emergency Department narratives. Analysis and executive summary due October 6, 2023 for cash prizes up to $20K.

• Research Rovers: AI Research Assistants for NASA is seeking innovative approaches to help assess emerging capabilities in AI-based research assistants. Solutions are due October 2, 2023.

• ReachU Challenge calls on university and college students, researchers, faculty, and staff: where do you find funding or share your ideas for the chance to win cash prizes? Help Challenge.Gov reach YOU! What are the best digital channels, forums, databases, or platforms to reach academic audiences about federally sponsored prize competitions, challenges, and crowdsourcing campaigns? Ideas due by September 8, 2023.

• 2023 DataWorks! Prize Deadline Extended will recognize and reward exceptional data practices in biological and biomedical research labs during the active phase of research which enable robust data sharing and reuse, and create a library of best practice methods that can be used by the broader research community. Submit your data sharing/reuse best practice recipes in a form that can be used by an audience of your peers, such as a teaching resource or tool for active data management, by August 15, 2023 for a chance to win up to $100k.

• Health Equity Data Access Program (HEDAP) assists researchers in gaining access to CMS restricted data to conduct health services research focusing on, but not limited to, racial and ethnic minority groups; people with disabilities; members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community; individuals with limited English proficiency; individuals residing in rural areas; and individuals adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality. Applications due August 15, 2023. Access will be funded for three years.

• Samsung AI Researcher of 2023 recognizes promising researchers who have made outstanding research or contributions to the field of AI. Applications are due by July 29, 2023 and the awardee will receive $30K and plaque.

• The Veterans Cardiac Health and AI Model Predictions (V-CHAMPS) Challenge calls on the scientific and data analytics community to develop and evaluate Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) models to predict cardiovascular health related outcomes in Veterans. Challenge open through July 26, 2023.

Policy and Engagement

• Request for Information on Developing a Roadmap for the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships at the National Science Foundation response due July 27, 2023.
• Request for Information National Priorities for Artificial Intelligence due by July 7, 2023.
• Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Proposed Rule public comment period ends June 20, 2023.