The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation: Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program 2026
$100k in unrestricted funds to support the research and teaching careers of talented early career faculty in the chemical sciences. Apply by Thursday, December 4 via InfoReady Review. More
NSF Artificial Intelligence Research Resource: the NAIRR Operations Center (NAIRR-OC) 2026
$35 million grant to establish an operations center responsible for the foundational coordination, operations, and development activities supporting an integrated national infrastructure for AI research and education. Express interest via InfoReady Review by Sunday, October 19. More
Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship 2025
Up to $300k to support mid-career faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences pursue systematic training in an alternate field of study to advance their research. Apply by Monday, October 20 via InfoReady Review. More
Limited Submission Opportunity: St. Baldrick’s Foundation Research Grant Awards 2026
Up to $100,000 to support research projects focused on childhood cancers that are either laboratory, clinical, or epidemiological in nature. Apply by Sunday, October 26 via InfoReady Review. More
Limited Submission Opportunity: St. Baldrick’s Foundation Scholar Awards 2026
Up to $110,000 per year for 3 years to help develop the independent research of early-career faculty studying childhood cancers. Apply by Tuesday, October 28 via InfoReady Review. More
Limited Submission Opportunity: W.M. Keck Foundation Research Program – December Cycle 2025
Up to $1.3 million for 3 years to support distinctive and novel projects in Medical Research and Science & Engineering. Apply by Friday, October 24 via InfoReady Review. More
Limited Submission Opportunity: NIH Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers Program (P30 Clinical Trial Optional) 2025
Up to $925,000 annually to establish centers of excellence that can advance increased independence for substantial populations of older persons and offer opportunities for education in aging research. Apply by Wednesday, October 1 via InfoReady Review. More
Limited Submission Opportunity: NIH Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory (P30 Clinical Trial Optional) 2025
Up to $4 million per year to support collaborative research using AI to address advanced aging and AD/ADRD to improve the health and well-being of older adults. Apply by Monday, September 29 via InfoReady Review. More
Limited Submission Opportunity: NSF Integrated Data Systems & Services (IDSS) 2025
Up to $30 million for proposals to build operations-level national-scale cyberinfrastructure systems and services that advance AI-driven science and engineering research. Apply by Sunday, October 5 via InfoReady Review. More
Frontiers Research Foundation Planet Prize 2025
$1 million prize to accelerate and scale research for research across all disciplines addressing Earth's planetary boundaries. Apply by Monday, October 6 via InfoReady Review. More
Call for Proposals: Cisco Research
Cisco Research is accepting applications for its funding programs to support a wide variety of research areas, such as AI/ML, computer vision, cybersecurity, NLP, quantum information processing, networking and distributed systems. Rolling submissions are now open for: Distributed Systems Security for Gen AI Embodied AI Enhancing Factuality and Reasoning in... More
Call for Proposals: Jewish Cultural Endowment
On behalf of the Jewish Cultural Endowment (JCE) at Boston University, the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce an October 24 deadline for the 2025-2026 grant application cycle. The JCE supports Jewish cultural programs across the University, sponsoring lectures, conferences, literary events, curricular enhancement, and artistic... More
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center 2026 Capital & Other Funding Programs
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) is now accepting applications for its 2026 Funding Programs to support innovation, research, and health equity in the life sciences ecosystem. Biobank ($1M): Designed to break barriers by establishing Alzheimer’s Disease and Colorectal Cancer, accessible biobanks sourced from diverse patient populations across Massachusetts. Bits... More
Funding Announcements: August 2025
This monthly round-up features funding opportunities compiled by the Research Development team in the Office of Research. For a more comprehensive listing of opportunities, we encourage researchers to use the Pivot-RP database. Questions or feedback? Email research@bu.edu. Grant Spotlight National Science Foundation Translation to Practice Programs (9/16) The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for... More
Funding Opportunity: BU Campus Climate Lab: Sustainability Research Funding for Student-Mentor Teams
Apply by Friday, September 19 Help advance sustainability and climate solutions using the BU campuses as your living lab! Teams made up of students and their faculty, staff, or graduate student mentors are invited to submit research proposals for the fall 2025 round of Campus Climate Lab (CCL) funding by September 19 at... More