A running list of limited submission opportunities distributed and managed by Boston University’s Research Development Office.
Limited Submission Opportunity: National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence 2025
Up to $750k to be part of a coordinated interdisciplinary proposal for a center aimed to get a more holistic understanding of AI. An email expressing interest should be sent by Friday, August 15.
Limited Submission Opportunity: National Endowment for the Humanities Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition 2025
Up to $350k or $750k to support projects that preserve and improve access to primary source materials about the establishment and early history of the United States for individual institutions or a consortium. Apply by Monday, August 11 via InfoReady Review.
Limited Submission Opportunity: Cummings Foundation $30 Million Grant Program 2025
Up to $100k annually for 3 years to support nonprofits operating within Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, and select areas of Norfolk Counties for projects focused on human services, fairness and justice, education, healthcare, and the environment. Apply by Friday, August 8 via InfoReady Review.
Limited Submission Opportunity: The Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics 2026
50% salary and benefits for 3 years to support early-career faculty focusing on innovative bioethics research. Nominators should submit nominees’ information by Monday, August 4 via InfoReady Review.
Limited Submission Opportunity: Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Program 2026
Up to $550k to support early-career biomedical research in the fields of cancer, immunology, and neuroscience. Apply by Wednesday, July 23 via InfoReady Review.
Limited Submission Opportunity: Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship Program 2025
2-year monetary and mentorship support for current doctoral students researching AI and Machine Learning across 12 focus areas. Apply by Sunday, July 27 via InfoReady Review.
Limited Submission Opportunity: Schmidt Science Polymaths 2026
Up to $2.5 million over 5 years to support innovative, recently tenured STEM researchers exploring a substantive disciplinary shift. Apply by Monday, July 14 via InfoReady Review.
Limited Submission Opportunity: Kinship Foundation Searle Scholars Program 2026
$300k to support exceptional young faculty in biomedical sciences and chemistry in their first tenure-track position to pursue high risk, high reward research. Apply by Wednesday, July 9 via InfoReady Review.
Limited Submission Opportunity: Susan G. Komen Career Transition Awards (CTA) & Career Catalyst Research (CCR) Grants 2025
$450k to $650k to support postdoctoral fellows or early-career faculty pursuing cutting-edge breast cancer research. Apply by Monday, June 16 via InfoReady Review.
Limited Submission Opportunity: The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation Research Grant Fall 2025
Up to $700k for 3 years of support for innovative, high-risk high-reward basic science ideally with translational applications across biological and medical sciences. Apply by Monday, July 14 via InfoReady Review.