American University of Beirut

[Social Sciences; Humanities]
Title: Short-Term Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Funding agency: The Arab Council for The Social Sciences (ACSS) and The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH)
Award amount: Travel expenses and monthly stipend of €1,700
Application deadline: December 4, 2023
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The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences are pleased to announce the seventh call for applications for their joint program titled “Short-Term Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences and Humanities.” The aim of the program is to support postdoctoral fellows from Arab countries and enable them to conduct research or research-related activities in France (including field research, networking, library and archival work, as well as other types of data collection), and to strengthen research networking and collaborations between Europe and the Arab region. The short-term fellowships last for two to three months. 

Eligibility: Applicants must be holders of the nationality of an Arab state, or refugees, and/or stateless individuals from Arab countries, who are currently residing in the Arab region. Applicants can be affiliated with a public or private research institution in the Arab region, but they do not necessarily need to have a permanent position. However, applicants should be engaged in research in addition to teaching. The proposed project could be either ongoing or new. Before submitting their application, applicants must have secured a French research institution willing to host them during the time of their fellowship. All applicants must hold a PhD and be 0-6 years out of their PhD program in the social sciences or humanities (note: Due to French funding restrictions, the program is not open to linguistics, archaeology, literary studies, and arts). In case the PhD was obtained from a university outside the Arab region, the applicant should have been a resident in the Arab region for at least two years prior to the time of application. The program does not have any age restrictions.

[Natural Sciences: Biology, Chemistry]
Title: Discovery of Cell-based Chemical Probes for Novel Brain Targets (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health
Award amount: Up to $275,000
Application deadline: January 7, 2024
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The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support investigators who have interest and capability to join efforts for the discovery of cell-based chemical probes for novel brain targets. It is expected that applicants will have, in hand, the starting compounds (“validated hits”) for chemical optimization and bioassays for testing new analog compounds. 

Through this FOA, NIH wishes to stimulate research in: 1) discovery and development of novel, small molecules for their potential use in understanding biological processes relevant to the missions of NIMH, NIDA, NEI and/or NIA; and 2) discovery and/or validation of novel, biological targets that will inform studies of brain disease mechanisms. Emphasis will be placed on projects that provide new insight into important disease-related biological targets and biological processes. 

The main emphasis of projects submitted under this FOA should be the discovery of cell-based chemical probes. Applicants interested in developing in vivo chemical probes may wish to apply using the companion R01 mechanism, (PAR-21-029). The maximum project period is 2 years. 

Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.

[Natural Sciences: Biology; Social Sciences: Psychology​​]
Title: 2024 Narsad Distinguished Investigator Grant
Funding agency: Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF)
Award amount: Up to $100,000
Application deadline: December 5, 2023
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The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation awards research grants to develop improved treatments, cures, and methods of prevention for mental illness. The Foundation’s Distinguished Investigator Grant Program offers up to $100,000 for a one-year period and is intended for established scientists who maintain peer reviewed competitively funded scientific programs. BBRF funds the most innovative ideas in neuroscience and psychiatry to better understand the causes and develop new ways to effectively treat brain and behavior disorders. These illnesses include addiction, ADHD, anxiety, autism, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression, eating disorders, OCD, PTSD, schizophrenia, as well as research in suicide prevention. BBRF’s Distinguished Investigator Grant program supports basic and/or clinical investigators and is designed to stimulate the development of key personnel and resources, to facilitate the rapid initiation of research in innovative areas, and to enable investigators to create unique scientific opportunities.

Eligibility: Applicants must be a full professor (or equivalent), and maintain peer reviewed competitively funded scientific programs.

[Humanities; Social Sciences​​]
Title: Schlesinger Library Research Support Grants
Funding agency: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Award amount: Up to $3,000
Application deadline: January 28, 2024
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Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies invites applications for the Schlesinger Library research support grants. These support scholars and researchers in carrying out research using the collections of the Schlesinger Library on the history of women, gender and sexuality in America. Grants of up to $3,000 will be given on a competitive basis. Applicants must have a doctoral degree or equivalent research and writing experience, and priority will be given to those who have demonstrated research productivity and whose projects require use of materials available only at the Schlesinger Library. The awards may be used to cover travel and living expenses, photocopies or other reproductions, and other incidental research expenses.

[Natural Sciences: Conservation; Humanities: Archaeology and Arts; Social Sciences​​]
Title: 2024 Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP)
Funding agency: U.S. Embassy in Lebanon
Award amount: Up to $500,000
Application deadline: January 2, 2024 (Round 1); April 25, 2024 (Round 2)
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The U.S. Embassy in Beirut announces the call for proposals for the 2024 Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP). The AFCP Grants Program supports the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings, monuments, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression, such as indigenous languages and crafts. Project proposals should comprise themes and activities primarily intended for the preservation of cultural heritage in Lebanon, including: anastylosis, consolidation, documentation, inventory, preventive conservation, restoration, and stabilization. 

All project activities must take place in Lebanon.

[Natural Sciences: Biology​​]
Title: Medical Research Grants
Funding agency: Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test
Award amount: Up to $40,000
Application deadline: February 1, 2024
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The Friends For An Earlier Breast Cancer Test is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds for research into earlier detection methods for breast cancer. 

The organization is accepting applications for pilot projects that focus on new methods to improve detection of early breast cancer and are especially interested in the development of new techniques in the areas of biological or immunologic methods of early detection. Pilot projects may provide preliminary data that leads to applications for more substantial peer-reviewed funding. The awards are up to $40,000 over a 1-3 year period. 

Eligibility: Applications are accepted from both established investigators who have funding but want to embark on a research in a new area, as well as those less experienced. In either case, the proposal should represent a new approach to the area of interest. Both domestic and international research proposals are welcomed.

[Social Sciences: Psychology]
Title: Walter Katkovsky Research Grants
Funding agency: American Psychological Foundation (APF)
Award amount: Up to $22,500
Application deadline: April 17, 2024
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The American Psychological Foundation is accepting research proposals, which should be directed to questions and hypotheses designed to improve our understanding based on theory or methods of how psychotherapy promotes behavioral, emotional, or cognitive changes. While the ultimate goal of the research should be to inform the psychotherapy process, its specific focus may be limited to an underlying assumption, hypothesis, or questions; and the actual design may be “clinical” or “experimental” in terms of subjects and procedures. That is, the research design may be a simulation of some aspect of the psychotherapy process (e.g., learning or exposure trials) and subjects may or may not be classified as “patients”. 

The proposal must describe in detail the experimental methodology (i.e., hypotheses, subject selection, and measures of independent and dependent variables, including a description of the psychotherapy that must deal with life problems and emotional/behavioral reactions) and result in the collection of new data. Eligibility: Psychologists with up to 12 years of postdoctoral experience are eligible to apply.

[Natural Sciences: Biology; Social Sciences]
Title: Developing Novel Theory and Methods for Understanding the Genetic Architecture of Complex Human Traits (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award amount: to be determined
Application deadline: February 5, 2024; June 5, 2024; October 5, 2024; February 5, 2025; June 5, 2025; October 5, 2025; February 5, 2026; June 5, 2026; October 5, 2026
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The goal of this NOFO is to support applications for novel theory and methods development that enable better understanding of how genetic and non-genetic factors contribute to complex trait variation across individuals, families, and populations. Approaches should be interdisciplinary drawing from the natural and social sciences, account for interdependencies across scales of biological, social, and ecological organization, and make extensive use of theory, modeling, and validation with available large-scale datasets. 

Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The scope of the proposed project should determine the reques​ted project period. The maximum project period is 5 years. 

Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with their organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and women are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.

[Natural Sciences: Biology]
Title: Mechanistic Research on Neuromodulation for Substance Use Disorders Treatment (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award amount: to be determined
LOI deadline: 30 days prior to application due date
Application deadline: January 16, 2024; August 14, 2024; January 16, 2025; August 14, 2025; January 16, 2026; August 16, 2026
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The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to encourage clinical research that will identify and validate

• Novel targets for non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) and
  
• Substance use disorder (SUD)-relevant neurobiological, cognitive, and behavioral responses to NIBS that may precede clinical outcomes like reduced craving or substance use

[Natural Sciences: Biology; Social Sciences: Psychology]
Title: Bidirectional Influences Between Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Award amount: to be determined
LOI deadline: February 1, 2024
Application deadline: March 1, 2024
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Adolescents have increasing access to and spend an increasing amount of time engaging in online social interactions and consuming content on social media platforms, yet there is limited knowledge of how online social behavior and experiences interact with adolescent mental illness and risk for psychopathology. The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to encourage applications that focus on understanding bidirectional relationships between social media use and adolescent mental illness, psychiatric symptoms, and risk or resilience for psychopathology. This NOFO uses the R01 grant mechanism, whereas its companion NOFO, RFA-MH-24-181, seeks shorter, higher-risk R21 grant applications. Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The scope of the proposed project should determine the project period. The maximum project period is 5 years. 

Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with their organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and women are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.

[All disciplines]
Title: Wellcome Discovery Awards
Funding agency: Wellcome Trust
Award amount: to be determined
Application deadline: November 21, 2023; April 16, 2024
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This scheme provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health, and wellbeing. A Wellcome Discovery Award provides funding for research expenses. The award usually lasts for 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines, such as humanities and social science. The award may be held on a part-time basis. The organization will extend the duration of the award to reflect this. Applicants should ask for a level and duration of funding that’s appropriate for their proposed research. They will need to justify these costs in their grant application. The research can be in a single discipline or multidisciplinary. An award can be held by an established researcher or a team of researchers led by an established researcher. 

Eligibility: Interested investigators can apply for a Wellcome Discovery Award if they are researchers who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas. They must aim to make a major contribution to their research field by generating significant shifts in understanding, and/or developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research. Lead applicants, whether they are applying as the sole applicant or the lead applicant for a team, must have:

• international standing as a research leader in their field
• experience of leading innovative and creative research
• a track record of managing and training others.

[Humanities; Social Sciences]
Title: Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence
Funding agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Award amount: Up to $750,000
Optional LOI deadline: January 10, 2024
Application deadline: February 14, 2024
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The Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence program aims to support a more holistic understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in the modern world through the creation of new humanities research centers on artificial intelligence at eligible institutions. Centers must focus their scholarly activities on exploring the ethical, legal, or societal implications of AI. 

A Center is a sustained collaboration among scholars focused on exploring a specific topic. Successful applicants will examine the humanities implications of AI through two or more related scholarly activities. Centers must be led by scholars in the humanities or humanistic social sciences, but should include scholars from multiple disciplines. Scholars may come from one or more institutions. NEH welcomes international collaboration, but scholars at U.S. institutions must contribute significantly to the project. This program is for establishing new Centers; existing Centers and Institutes are not eligible in this competition.

In addition to the establishment of a sustainable Center, the proposed project should engage in at least two activities that support research into the ethical, legal, or societal implications of AI. Appropriate activities may include but are not limited to: collaborative research and writing efforts; workshops or lecture series; education and mentoring; and the creation of digital tools to increase or advance scholarly discourse about AI.

[Natural Sciences: Biology, Chemistry]
Title: Bobst International Fellowship for Citizens of Lebanon
Funding agency: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Application deadline: Rolling Call
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Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center offers full scholarships or fellowships for candidates of Lebanese birth and nationality to work in an educational capacity at MSK. These scholarships can be in clinical care and/or research.

An absolute requirement of the fellowship is that each fellow agrees to return and work in Lebanon or on behalf of a Lebanese government agency for a period of four years. Any applicant applying must fulfill all requirements for compe​titive fellowships at MSK such as the USMLE examination for any clinical fellowships. All candidates will be screened for eligibility by the Senior Vice President of the International Center. A specific list of fellowship programs is not available; it is dependent upon the clinical / research slots available.

Please submit complete PDF grant applications along with a Curriculum Vitae, Two Original Letters of Recommendation, and Copy of Passport via email to Krystal Hasan at hasank@mskcc.org and CC tabarv@mskcc.org. Please do not ​​​​send pieces individually.
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[Quantitative Thought: Mathematics]
Title: Individual Travel Research Program
Funding agency: International Mathematical Union-Commission for Developing Countries
Award amount: Up to €5,000
Application deadline: January 15, 2024; April 15, 2024; July 15, 2024; October 1, 2024
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The Individual Travel Research Program supports mathematicians from developing countries to travel to an internationally known mathematical center of excellence (worldwide) for collaborative research (minimum stay of four weeks). The grant is intended to cover travel costs of the grantees for up to €2,500 while host institutions are generally responsible for covering the local living expenses. 

This program does not support travel cost to any conference, summer school or workshops. CDC programs do not cover the cost of accompanying family members. 

Additional information about the deadlines:

• January 15th, 2024 for research visits between May 15th, 2024 and May 15th, 2025 (Decisions will be made by March 15th, 2024) - The call and application form for this deadline will open on October 15th, 2023).
• April 15th, 2024 for research visits starting between August 1st, 2024 and August 1st, 2025 (Decisions will be made by June 15th, 2024)
• July 15th, 2024 for research visits starting between November 1st, 2024 and November 1st, 2025 (Decisions will be made by September 15th, 2024)
• October 1st, 2024 for research visits between January 15th, 2025 and January 15th, 2026 (Decisions will be made by November 15th, 2024) 

Eligibility: Applicants must hold a PhD in Mathematics, and must be based (place of work) in a developing country. They should be employed as a faculty member of a university or an equivalent institution. Moreover, they should have already established contact with a mathematician in the host institution and should have a definite research plan at the time of applying for the grant. The applicant should have been granted appropriate leave of absence from his/her institution for the period of visit. Minimal length of visit should be one month.

[Natural Sciences: Biology]
Title: Small Research Grants
Funding agency: Fisheries Society of the British Isles
Award amount: Up to £7,500
Application deadline: January 7, 2024; June 1, 2024; October 1, 2024
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The Fisheries Society of the British Isles invites applications for its small research grant scheme. These support small research projects into any aspect of fish biology and fisheries science that is relevant to the society’s objectives​. 

Eligibility: Applicants based anywhere in the world may apply. They must be members of the society.

[Social Sciences: Anthropology]
Title: JI Staley prize
Funding agency: School for Advanced Research
Award amount: Up to $7,500
Application deadline: October 1, 2024
Full announcement ​​ h​e​re

The School for Advanced Research invites nominations for the JI Staley prize. This recognizes a book that has had a significant impact on the field of anthropology. Nominations can be made by individuals or academic departments. To be eligible for the prize, a book must currently be in print. It must have been in publication for at least two years before it is nominated and for no longer than eight years. Co-authored books are eligible for the prize, but edited volumes and textbooks are not. Second or subsequent editions are not eligible for consideration. A panel of scholars evaluates books nominated for the J. I. Staley prize by the following criteria: 

• Innovative and rigorous thinking in terms of theory, research methods, and/or application of findings
• Superior integration of sub-disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary perspectives
• Significant contribution to our understanding of humankind
• Exemplary writing and clarity of expression; and
• Demonstrated or anticipated impact on the field of anthropology

[Social Sciences: Sociology]
Title: C. Wright Mills Award
Funding agency: Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
Award amount: $1,000
Application deadline: December 15, 2023
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SSSP annually gives its prestigious C. Wright Mills Award to the author of what the committee considers to be the most outstanding book written in the tradition of C. Wright Mills and his dedication to a search for a sophisticated understanding of the individual and society. Edited volumes, textbooks, fiction and self-published works are not eligible. 

Eligible books must be first edition (not a reprint or later edition) and bear a 2023 copyright date. Exceptions may be made for a book bearing a 2022 copyright, but that was not released until 2023 for the first time. Self-nominations are acceptable. Authors and/or nominators do not need to be current members of SSSP. ​

[Social Sciences: Education]
Title: Small Research Grants on Education
Funding agency: Spencer Foundation
Award amount: Up to $50,000
Application deadline: December 6, 2023
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The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. Applications are accepted three times per year.

This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. The goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.

Eligibility: Proposals to the Research Grants on Education program must be for academic research projects that aim to study education. Proposals for activities other than research are not eligible (e.g., program evaluations, professional development, curriculum development, scholarships, capital projects). Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs applying for a Small Research Grant on Education must have an earned doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field, or appropriate experience in an education research-related profession. Proposals are accepted from the U.S. and internationally, however, all proposals must be submitted in English and budgets must be proposed in U.S. Dollars.

[Natural Sciences: Biology]
Title: Identifying Host Cell Death Pathway Targets for Host-Directed Therapies for Treatment of Mtb and Mtb/HIV Co-Infection (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application deadline: December 7, 2023; December 7, 2024
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The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support mechanistic studies on host cell death pathways and their effect on immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and Mtb/HIV co-infection to identify immune targets for development of host-directed therapies. Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. 

Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.

[Natural Sciences: Biology]
Title: Modular R01s in Cancer Control and Population Sciences (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award amount: Up to $250,000
Application deadline: November 5, 2023; March 7, 2024
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This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages applications for research in cancer control and population sciences. The overarching goal is to provide support to promote research efforts on novel scientific ideas that have the potential to substantially advance cancer research in statistical and analytic methods, epidemiology, cancer survivorship, cancer-related behaviors and behavioral interventions, health care delivery, and implementation science.

Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.

[Humanities; Social Sciences]
Title: Themis Programme - Impeded Research
Funding agency: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
Award amount: A monthly allowance of €1,800 for transport and living expenses, for a period 2 to 3 months
Application deadline: December 15, 2023
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The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme invites applications for its Themis programme - impeded research. This offers mobility grants for stays in France of two to three months to researchers of all nationalities facing obstacles to academic freedom in their countries. This mobility grant is intended for research work in France in the humanities and social sciences, and covers fieldwork, library and archive work. 

Eligibility:
Context: working in difficult conditions and being hindered in their research. Impediments to academic freedom may be of various kinds.
Status and degree: applicants must be attached to a private or public higher education research institution / research institute and hold a research doctorate, and must be under 65 years of age at the time of their stay.
Discipline: candidates must be engaged in research in the humanities and social sciences. 

Projects will be evaluated based on the following elements:

•  ​The scientific quality of the project and the method developed;
• The need to come to France in view of the project and the obstacles mentioned;
• The feasibility of the project during the stay in France. ​

[Natural Sciences: Biology]
Title: Global Brain and Nervous System Disorders Research Across the Lifespan (R01 Clinical Trials Optional)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health
Award amount: Up to $500,000
Application deadline: November 15, 2023
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This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications for the conduct of innovative, collaborative research projects with low- and middle-income country (LMIC) institutions/ scientists on brain and other nervous system function and disorders throughout life, relevant to LMICs. Research on neuro-health and neurological, neuromuscular, sensory, neuropsychiatric, cognitive, behavioral and neurodevelopmental function and disorders may span the full range of science from basic to clinical to translation and implementation research. Scientists in the United States (U.S.) or upper middle-income countries (UMICs) are eligible to partner with LMIC institutions. Scientists in UMICs may partner directly with scientists at other LMIC institutions with or without a US partner. 

Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support. This FOA provides an avenue for investigators in LMICs and the U.S., with shared interests in brain and other nervous system disorders, to establish collaborative research and research capacity strengthening activities. Therefore, one or more investigators from an institution(s) in an LMIC and one or more from another LMIC and/or the U.S. must collaborate on the application. ​

[Natural Sciences]
Title: The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation-Grants
Funding agency: The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation
Award amount: Up to $50,000
Application deadline: January 1, 2024
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The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect the environment, improve food production, and promote public health in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East. The Foundation supports projects and applied research that: 

• Generate local or regional solutions to problems affecting the quality of the environment and human life;
• Advance local leadership and promote professional development in the conservation, agricultural, and health sciences;
• Develop the capacity of local organizations and coalitions; and
• Address challenges in the field. 

The Foundation prefers to support projects that address under-funded issues and geographic areas. The foundation supports special projects and programs of non-governmental organizations in three areas: conservation, food, and health. 

Examples of areas of interest within these fields follow, but are not meant to be exclusive.

Conservation: Conservation grants promote environmental conservation through field research, projects, and advocacy that:
• Protect biodiversity and preserve natural resources.
• Help mitigate the adverse effects of climate change.
• Build the scientific and technical capacity of local conservation organizations and promote local, regional, and international partnerships.
• Increase engagement between scientists, local communities and organizations, and decision-makers.
• Partner with indigenous communities and local people. 

Food: Grants in the food and agriculture program area focus on research-based projects that build capacity for self-sufficiency and resilience to climate change, strengthen local food systems, and support healthy nutrition through projects that:
• Enhance food security.
• Develop and promote sustainable agricultural practices
• Build the capacity of small-scale farmers.
• Advance farmer research and research partnerships.
• Develop environmentally sound and affordable approaches to control pests and diseases affecting important local food crops.
• Promote indigenous food sovereignty and knowledge systems.
• Address challenges of uptake and scalability through new methods of extension, education, and technology transfer. 

Health: The Foundation supports efforts that test new ideas and approaches that promote public health, with a special emphasis on reproductive health and family planning and their integration with other health promotion activities. It favors community-level disease prevention and health promotion projects and efforts that help strengthen regional and country public health systems over disease diagnosis, treatment, and care provided by clinics, hospitals, and humanitarian aid programs. Activities that help increase capacity include applied research, program development, technical assistance, and training projects that:
• Promote reproductive health and family planning.
• Address issues related to mental and behavioral health.
• Address issues relating to pollution and environmental health.
• Increase the understanding of zoonotic and neglected tropical diseases.
• Address issues relating to nutrition and health. ​

[Natural Sciences: Biology]
Title: NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research: Tools and Technologies to Explore Nervous System Biomolecular Condensates (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award amount: Up to $275,000
LOI Deadline: October 14, 2023
Application deadline: November 14, 2023
Full announcement ​​ h​e​re

The NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research is a collaborative framework through which 12 NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices jointly support neuroscience related research, with the aim of accelerating discoveries and reducing the burden of nervous system disorders. The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support the development of innovative tools and/or technologies to monitor or manipulate biomolecular condensates (BMCs) in vivo and enable investigators to adopt these tools to answer outstanding questions in basic neuroscience. This research will transform our understanding of the mechanistic role of BMCs in human nervous system health and disease and may serve as the foundation for the development of novel BMC-based therapeutics. The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000. No more than $200,000 may be requested in any single year. The project period may not exceed two years. 

Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with their organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and women are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.

[Social Sciences: Education]
Title: Research-Practice Partnerships: Collaborative Research for Educational Change
Funding agency: Spencer Foundation
Award amount: Up to $400,000
Intent to Apply form submission ​deadline: October 17, 2023
Application deadline: November 7, 2023 12:00 pm Central Time
Full announcement ​​ h​e​re

The Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) Grants Program is intended to support education research projects that engage in collaborative and participatory partnerships with project budgets up to $400,000 and durations of up to three years. Intent to Apply forms are accepted once a year in this program. The funders view partnerships as an important approach to knowledge generation and the improvement of education, broadly construed. Over the long term, the funders anticipate that research conducted by RPPs will result in new insights into the processes, practices, and policies that improve education for learners, educators, families, communities, and institutions where learning and teaching happen (e.g., schools, universities, community centers, parks, museums, other workplaces). 

Eligibility: Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs applying for a Research-Practice Partnership Grant are expected to have an earned doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field, or demonstrated professional experience appropriate for this program. The PI must be affiliated with a non-profit organization or public/governmental institution that is willing to serve as the administering organization if the grant is awarded.

[Natural Sciences]
Title: Exploratory Grants for Climate Change and Health Research Center Development (P20 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award amount: Up to $850,000
LOI Deadline: October 7, 2023
Application deadline: November 7, 2023
Full announcement ​​ h​e​re

The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to solicit P20 planning grant applications for Climate Change and Health Research Centers (CCHRCs). This program will support 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. This opportunity will allow development of new research teams collaborating with communities and other partners to develop projects that generate data that will build or expand research capacity across a range of thematic scientific areas in support of the four core elements of the NIH’s Initiative in climate heath research: health effects research, health equity, intervention research, and training and capacity building.  

Application budgets are limited to $850,000 direct costs per year and need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is 3 years. 

Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and women are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.

[Natural Sciences; Social Sciences: Psychology, Sociology]
Title: Standard Research Innovation Grants
Funding agency: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention​
Award amount: Up to $125,000
Application deadline: November 15, 2023
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The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention invites applications for its distinguished investigator innovation grants. These support research that has the potential to contribute to the understanding and ultimate prevention of suicide or to the treatment of suicidal individuals. Applications are accepted from a variety of disciplines including psychiatry, medicine, psychology, genetics, epidemiology, neurobiology, sociology, nursing, social work and health services administration. 

Eligibility: Investigators from all academic disciplines are eligible to apply, and both basic science and applied research projects will be considered, provided that the proposed study has an essential focus on suicide or suicide prevention. The grants are awarded to individual investigators at any level.

[Natural Sciences; Social Sciences: Psychology, Sociology]
Title: Distinguished Investigator Innovation Grants
Funding agency: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Award amount: Up to $150,000
Application deadline: November 15, 2023
Full announcement ​​ h​e​re

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention invites applications for its distinguished investigator innovation grants. These support research that has the potential to contribute to the understanding and ultimate prevention of suicide or to the treatment of suicidal individuals. Applications are accepted from a variety of disciplines including psychiatry, medicine, psychology, genetics, epidemiology, neurobiology, sociology, nursing, social work and health services administration. 

Eligibility: Investigators from all academic disciplines are eligible to apply, and both basic science and applied research projects will be considered, provided that the proposed study has an essential focus on suicide or suicide prevention. The grants are awarded to investigators at the level of associate professor or higher with an established record of research and publications.

[Natural Sciences: Biology]
Title: Building in vivo Preclinical Assays of Circuit Engagement for Application in Therapeutic Development
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award amount: Up to 250,000$
Application deadline: October 5, 2023; February 5, 2024; June 5, 2024; October 5, 2024; February 5, 2025, June 5, 2025
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The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to identify, in animals, in vivo neurophysiological and behavioral measures for use as assays in the early screening phase of treatment development. This FOA will support efforts to optimize and evaluate measures of neurophysiological and behavioral processes that may serve as pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) markers of neural processes of clinical interest based on available knowledge of the neurobiology of mental illnesses. The screening assays developed from this FOA are expected to build upon systems neurobiology and clinical neuroscience to enhance the scientific value of preclinical animal data contributing to a therapeutic development pipeline in which treatment candidates and therapeutic targets can be evaluated for their ability to impact neurobiological mechanisms of potential clinical relevance to mental illnesses. 

Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. It is expected that budgets of $250,000 direct costs per year or less will be adequate for most projects proposing to optimize just one measure. 

Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and women are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.

[Social Sciences; Humanities]
Title: Associate Research Directors: DEA Programme
Funding agency: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
Award amount: Up to €3,400 per month
Application deadline: November 30, 2023
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Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH) invites applications for its associate research directors (DEA) programme. This enables foreign scientific professionals from all continents to be invited for a period of four to six weeks to support their work in the humanities and social sciences in France, as well as to promote the creation of international research networks and contact with researchers on site. Priority is given to projects requiring fieldwork (surveys, work in libraries or archives, etc.) in France. A monthly allowance of €3,400 is awarded for transport and living expenses. In addition, FMSH provides support for visa applications and logistics (accommodation and access to libraries). 

Eligibility: Applicants must hold a professorship or equivalent position in higher education and research institutions. They must be under 65 years of age at the time of their stay.

[Humanities]
Title: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
Funding agency: National Endowment for the Humanities; Institute of Museum and Library Services
Award amount: Up to $350,000, with an additional $50,000 in matching funds
Application deadline: January 11, 2024; June 13, 2024
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The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. 

DHAG applicants must respond to one or more of these programmatic priorities:

• research and refinement of innovative, experimental, or computationally challenging methods and techniques;
• enhancement, design, or maintenance of digital infrastructure that contributes to and supports the humanities, such as open-source code, tools, or platforms;
• evaluative studies that investigate the practices and the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement 

Further information on the funding opportunity can be found here.

[All disciplines]
Title: Wellcome Career Development Awards
Funding agency: Wellcome Trust
Application deadline: November 16, 2023
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This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programs of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing.

Interested applicants can apply for a Wellcome Career Development Award if they are a mid-career researcher, and are ready to lead a substantial and innovative research program. They must aim to make a key contribution to their field by generating significant shifts in understanding, and/or developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research. During the award, successful applicants are expected to:
• develop their research capabilities and leadership skills
• support others to undertake research responsibly and promote a positive and inclusive culture
• start training the next generation of researchers and develop their research skills and careers. 

Applicants’ research can be in any discipline – including science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), experimental medicine, humanities and social science, clinical/allied health sciences, and public health – as long as it has the potential to improve human life, health and wellbeing, and aligns with the organization’s funding remit. They should ask for their salary (if required) and the resources they need for their research program. Further details on funding can be found here​. 

Successful applicants must be able to contribute at least 80% of their research time to the award. The award usually lasts for 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines, such as hu​manities and social science. The award may be held on a part-time basis. The organization will extend the duration of the award to reflect this.

[Social Sciences: Psychology]
Title: Marian R. Stuart Grant
Funding agency: American Psychological Foundation
Award amount: Up to $20,000
Application deadline: July 10, 2024
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The Marian R. Stuart Grant will further the research, practice, or education of an early career psychologist on the connection between mental and physical health, particularly for work that contributes to public health. Examples include but are not limited to research-based programs that teach medical doctors counseling skills; research-based programs on the effect of behavior on health; and research-based programs on psychologists’ role in medical settings for the benefit of patients.

Eligibility: APF encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography. Applicants must be an early career researcher (no more than 10 years postdoctoral), be affiliated with a nonprofit charitable, educational, or scientific institution, or governmental entity operating exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, and have demonstrated competence and capacity to execute the proposed work.

[All disciplines]
Title: Research Group Grants
Funding agency: Bielefeld University
Award amount: Up to €50,000 for visiting groups; up to €400,000 for resident groups, and up to €200,000 for long-term groups
Application deadline: November 28, 2023
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Bielefeld University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) invites proposals for its research group grants. ZiF offers time, space, and funding for outstanding interdisciplinary research as well as ideal conditions for intensive collaboration. Scholars from all fields and countries with a completed doctorate can propose an interdisciplinary research project to be conducted at ZiF with a curated group of (preferably) international colleagues. The following three different grant schemes are available: 

• Visiting Groups: 1 to 3 months - Funding Amount: up to €50,000 to cover the costs for travel and accommodation as well as workshops and conferences; personnel expenses (buy-outs) cannot be covered. Visiting Groups can, for example, explore new research topics and partnerships, finalize interdisciplinary publications or conduct small research projects. 
• Resident Groups: 4 to 6 months - Funding Amount: up to €400,000 to cover the costs for travel and accommodation as well as workshops, conferences, and personnel expenses (e.g., in the form of buy-outs). Resident Groups may conduct more extensive research projects, which require intensive collaboration over an extended period. 
• Long-Term Groups Duration: several visits to ZiF over a period of up to three years; these recurring visits may add up to a total of ten months. Funding Amount: up to €200,000 to cover the costs for travel and accommodation as well as workshops and conferences; personnel expenses (buy-outs) cannot be covered. Long-Term Groups offer great organisational freedom and flexibility to meet the needs of long-term projects; the set-up of the group work is based on the needs of the individual project idea. 

Eligibility: ZiF is open to scholars from all disciplines post-PhD, based in Germany and abroad. Interdisciplinary teams consisting of two to three scholars of any nationality may apply. Research projects should include international and interdisciplinary cooperation. There is no recommended or required group size other than that the application has to be submitted by at least a pair of applicants. Further details can be found here​.

[Social Sciences: Economics, Psychology, Sociology; Political Studies and Public Administration]
Title: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context
Funding agency: Russell Sage Foundation
Award amount: Up to $200,000
Application deadline(Letter of Inquiry): November 7, 2023
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This Russell Sage Foundation’s (RSF) core program on Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context merges its long-standing program on Behavioral Economics and its special initiative on Decision Making and Human Behavior in Context. This program encourages perspectives from multiple disciplines, including economics, psychology, political science, sociology, law, public policy, and other social sciences, to further our understanding of economic, social, political, and psychological 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. 

​​​​The kinds of topics and questions that are of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Biases and Misperceptions; Institutions; Policies, Social Structures and Networks; Motivations; Incentives and Choice Architecture; Habits, Time Preferences, Mental Bandwidth and Behavior Change; Affect and Emotions.

Eligibility: All nationalities are eligible to apply and applicants do not have to reside in the U.S., but the focus of the proposed research project must be on the U.S. All applicants (both PIs and Co-PIs) must have a doctorate. More detailed information on eligibility and policies here​​.

[Social Sciences: Economics, Social and Behavioral Sciences]
Title: Future of Work
Funding agency: Russell Sage Foundation
Award amount: Up to $200,000
Application deadline(Letter of Inquiry): November 7, 2023
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The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on the 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. They seek investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden their understanding of the role of changes in employer practices, the nature of the labor market and public policies on employment, earnings, and job quality. They are especially interested in proposals that address questions about the interplay of market and non-market forces in shaping the wellbeing of workers. 

The kinds of topics and questions of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Emerging Technologies and the Future of Work and Workers; “The Big Shift”? Changes in Labor Force Participation and Increased Turnover During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic; Labor Market Power and Institutions; Workforce Development, Training, and the 21st Century American Workplace; Changes in Employer Practices and Alternative Work Arrangements; Changing Economies, Changing Families and Policy Responses. 

Funding can be used for research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time for conducting research and writing up results. Trustee Grants are capped at $200,000, including 15% indirect costs, over a two-year period. Presidential Awards are capped at $50,000 (no indirect costs) over a two-year period. However, when research projects have special needs for gathering data (e.g., qualitative research or survey experiments), gaining access to proprietary or restricted-use data, or when the proposal budget includes salary support for multiple assistant professor PIs, applicants may request up to $75,000 (no indirect costs).

Eligibility: All nationalities are eligible to apply and applicants do not have to reside in the U.S., but the focus of the proposed research project must be on the U.S. All applicants (both PIs and Co-PIs) must have a doctorate. More detailed information on eligibility and policies here​​.

[Social Sciences; Political Studies and Public Administration]
Title: Immigration and Immigrant Integration
Funding agency: Russell Sage Foundation
Award amount: Up to $200,000
Application deadline(Letter of Inquiry): November 7, 2023
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The Russell Sage Foundation/Carnegie Corporation Initiative on Immigration and Immigrant Integration seeks to support innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations. This initiative falls under RSF’s Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Program and represents a special area of interest within the core program, which continues to encourage proposals on a broader set of issues. RSF and the Carnegie Corporation invite proposals that will strengthen the theory, methods, and empirical knowledge about the effects of race, citizenship, legal status, and the interplay of politics and policy on immigrant outcomes. Because of limitations in government statistics, researchers are curating and analyzing data from both public and private sources (e.g., specialized surveys, administrative sources from tax, social security and citizenship and immigration services, and social media data), and collecting their own data to measure the integration of the foreign-born and their children. 

Examples of the kinds of topics, and questions that are of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Legal Status; Naturalization and Citizenship; Mixed-Ancestry, Ethnic Identity, and Integration; Race, Religion, Legacies of Exclusion, and Inequality; Politics, Political Culture, and Public Policy.  

The Foundation encourages methodological variety, and inter-disciplinary collaboration. All proposed projects must have well-developed conceptual frameworks, and research designs. Analytical models must be specified, and research questions, and hypotheses (where applicable) must be clearly stated. 

Funds can support research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time. Trustee Grants are capped at $200,000, including 15 percent indirect costs, over a two-year period. Presidential Awards are capped at $50,000 (no indirect costs), but at $75,000 (no indirect costs) when the proposed project has special data gathering (e.g., qualitative research) or gaining access to restricted-use data. 

Eligibility: All nationalities are eligible to apply and applicants do not have to reside in the U.S., but the focus of the proposed research project must be on the U.S. All applicants (both PIs and Co-PIs) must have a doctorate. More detailed information on eligibility and policies here​.

[Social Sciences; Political Studies and Public Administration]
Title: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Program
Funding agency: Russell Sage Foundation
Award amount: Up to $200,000
Application deadline(Letter of Inquiry): November 7, 2023
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The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration supports innovative investigator-initiated research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, legal status —and their interactions with each other and other social categories—in the social, economic, and political outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites. RSF encourages multi-disciplinary perspectives and methods that both strengthen the data, theory, and methods of social science research and improve our understanding of how to foster the ideals of a pluralist society. Proposals may focus on any one or more of the issues—race, and/or ethnicity, and/or immigration. RSF prioritizes analyses that make use of newly available data or demonstrate novel uses of existing data. They support original data collection when a project is focused on important program priorities, projects that conduct survey or field experiments and qualitative studies. RSF encourages methodological variety and inter-disciplinary collaboration. Proposed projects must have well-developed conceptual frameworks and rigorous research designs. Analytical models must be well-specified and research methods must be appropriate. 

The kinds of questions that are of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Intergroup Relations, and Social Inclusion; Immigration Policy and Immigrant Integration Policies; The Role of Legal Status in Immigrant Outcomes; Social Movements and Responses to Diversity; The Politics of Racial and Ethnic Competition and Coalition Building; Criminal and Civil Justice in Law Enforcement; History, Race, Immigration, and the Law. 

Funding can be used for research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time for conducting research and writing up results. Trustee Grants are capped at $200,000, including 15% indirect costs, over a two-year period. Presidential Awards are capped at $50,000 (no indirect costs) over a two-year period. However, when research projects have special needs for gathering data (e.g., qualitative research or survey experiments), gaining access to proprietary or restricted-use data, or when the proposal budget includes salary support for multiple assistant professor PIs, applicants may request up to $75,000 (no indirect costs). 

Eligibility: All nationalities are eligible to apply and applicants do not have to reside in the U.S., but the focus of the proposed research project must be on the U.S. All applicants (both PIs and Co-PIs) must have a doctorate. More detailed information on eligibility and policies here.

[Social Sciences: Economics, Education, Political Studies and Public Administration]
Title: Social, Political, and Economic Inequality
Funding agency: Russell Sage Foundation
Award amount: Up to $200,000
Application deadline(Letter of Inquiry): November 7​, 2023
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The Russell Sage Foundation invites letters of inquiry for its social, political, and economic inequality program. It supports research on the factors that contribute to inequality in the US, and the extent to which social, political, and economic inequalities affect social, psychological, political, and economic outcomes, including equality of access and opportunity, social mobility, civic p​​articipation and representation, and the intergenerational transmission of advantage and disadvantage. RSF is particularly interested in analyses that make use of newly available data or demonstrate novel uses of existing data. They also support original data collection when a project is focused on important program priorities. Proposals to conduct field experiments, in-depth qualitative interviews, and ethnographies are also encouraged. 

The kinds of questions that are of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Economic Wellbeing, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility; Inequality and Policymaking; Political Institutions and the Democratic Process; Neighborhoods and Communities; Criminal Justice and the Legal System; Psychological and/or Cultural Changes; Educational Attainment.

Funding can be used for research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time for conducting research and writing up results. Trustee Grants are capped at $200,000, including 15% indirect costs, over a two-year period. Presidential Awards are capped at $50,000 (no indirect costs) over a two-year period. However, when research projects have special needs for gathering data (e.g., qualitative research or survey experiments), gaining access to proprietary or restricted-use data, or when the proposal budget includes salary support for multiple assistant profess​or PIs, applicants may request up to $75,000 (no indirect costs). 

Eligibility: All nationalities are eligible to apply and applicants do not have to reside in the U.S., but the focus of the proposed research project must be on the U.S. All applicants (both PIs and Co-PIs) must have a doctorate. More detailed information on eligibility and policies here​​.

[All disciplines]
Title: Interdisciplinary Research Group Grants
Funding agency: Bielefeld University
Award amount: Up to €50,000 for visiting groups; up to €400,000 for resident groups, and up to €200,000 for long-term groups
Application deadline: November 28, 2023
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Bielefeld University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) invites proposals for its research group grants. These support the establishment of interdisciplinary research groups. Projects must have an interdisciplinary approach, academic quality, and originality on an international level. The following three different grant schemes are available: 

• Visiting Groups: 1 to 3 months
Funding Amount: up to €50,000 to cover the costs for travel and accommodation as well as workshops and conferences; personnel expenses (buy-outs) cannot be covered. Visiting Groups can, for example, explore new research topics and partnerships, finalize interdisciplinary publications or conduct small research projects. 

• Resident Groups: 4 to 6 months
Funding Amount: up to €400,000 to cover the costs for travel and accommodation as well as workshops, conferences, and personnel expenses (e.g., in the form of buy-outs). Resident Groups may conduct more extensive research projects, which require intensive collaboration over an extended period. 

• Long-Term Groups Duration: several visits to ZiF over a period of up to three years; these recurring visits may add up to a total of ten months
Funding Amount: up to € 200,000 to cover the costs for travel and accommodation as well as workshops and conferences; personnel expenses (buy-outs) cannot be covered. 

Eligibility: ZiF is open to scholars from all disciplines post-PhD, based in Germany and abroad. They can propose a research project to be conducted with a curated group of (preferably) international colleagues. If their collaborative application is successful, ZiF will host the group on its campus, offering ideal working conditions. Further details can be found here.

[Natural Sciences; Social Sciences: Psychology, Sociology]
Title: Distinguished Investigator Innovation Grants
Funding agency: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Award amount: Up to $150,000
Application deadline: November 15, 2023
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The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention invites applications for its distinguished investigator innovation grants. These support research that has the potential to contribute to the understanding and ultimate prevention of suicide or to the treatment of suicidal individuals. Applications are accepted from a variety of disciplines including psychiatry, medicine, psychology, genetics, epidemiology, neurobiology, sociology, nursing, social work and health services administration. 

Eligibility: Grants are awarded to investigators at the level of associate professor or higher with an established record of research and publications. Investigators from all academic disciplines are eligible to apply, and both basic science and applied research projects will be considered, provided that the proposed study has an essential focus on suicide or suicide prevention.

[Social Sciences: Psychology]
Title: Visionary Grants
Funding agency: American Psychological Foundation
Award amount: Up to $20,000
Application deadline: April 1, 2024
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The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas: 

• applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations (e.g., serious mental illness, returning military, those who are incarcerated or economically disadvantaged);
• preventing violence;
• understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity);
• ​understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, and socioeconomic status); 

One-year grants are available in amounts of up to $20,000.

[Social Sciences: Psychology]
Title: Wayne F. Placek Grants
Funding agency: American Psychological Foundation
Award amount: Up to $15,000
Application deadline: June 12, 2024
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The Wayne F. Placek Grant encourages research to increase the general public’s understanding of homosexuality and sexual orientation, and to alleviate the stress that lesbian women, gay men, bisexual women, bisexual men, and transgender individuals experience in this and future civilizations. The Wayne F. Placek Grant encourages research that addresses the following topics: 

•  heterosexuals’ attitudes and behaviors toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQIA+) people, including prejudice, discrimination, and violence
•  family and workplace issues relevant to LGBTQIA+ people
•  special concerns of sectors of the LGBTQIA+ population that have historically been underrepresented in scientific research 

Eligibility: APF encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography. Applicants must be either a doctoral-level researcher or graduate student affiliated with an educational institution or a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research organization.

[Natural Sciences: Biology]
Title: NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research: Tools and Technologies to Explore Nervous System Biomolecular Condensates (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award amount: Up to $275,000
Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline: October 14, 2023
Application deadline: November 15, 2023
Full announcement ​ he​re

The NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research is a collaborative framework through which 12 NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices jointly support neuroscience related research, with the aim of accelerating discoveries and reducing the burden of nervous system disorders (for further information, see http://neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov​/). The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support the development of innovative tools and/or technologies to monitor or manipulate biomolecular condensates (BMCs) in vivo and enable investigators to adopt these tools to answer outstanding questions in basic neuroscience. This research will transform our understanding of the mechanistic role of BMCs in human nervous system health and disease and may serve as the foundation for the development of novel BMC-based therapeutics. 

Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with their organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and women are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.

[Natural Sciences: Biology]
Title: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Assembling the Addiction Organelle Interactome
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application deadline: September 8, 2026
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This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) encourages innovative studies on the role of organelle interactions and communications, and how organelle dynamics affect cellular homeostasis in the context of addiction.

Research Objectives

• Characterize organelles and molecules involved in protein trafficking
• Develop tools and functional probes to interrogate inter-organelle communications
• Develop organelle targeted agents for selective delivery to the site of action in the cells 

This notice applies to due dates on or after June 5, 2023 and subsequent receipt dates through September 8, 2026 ​.

[Natural Sciences: Biology; Social Sciences: Psychology]
Title: Computational Approaches for Validating Dimensional Constructs of Relevance to Psychopathology (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Award am​ount: Up to $500,000
Letter of Intent deadline: October 1, 2023
Application deadline: November 1, 2023
Full announcement ​ he​re

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications for 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). Some elements of the RDoC matrix have been updated since its first release, but a thorough data-driven validation that broadly explores, compares, and validates the constructs within the matrix has not been performed. 

This FOA seeks research that addresses the following questions: Do the different domains of behavior segregate from each other? How much do they rely on distinct versus overlapping neural circuits? What are the relationships between domains, constructs, and subordinate sub-constructs, both in terms of their correlational structure and their underlying neural circuitry? By answering these questions, proposed research projects will test integrative models of functioning and identify dysregulation in psychopathology-related mechanisms that may cut across traditional diagnostic categories and may change over time. This FOA seeks to promote projects where the computational and the experimental components are well integrated. To ensure ecological validity of these studies, models derived from lab-based behavioral tasks will need to be tested for generalizability to behavioral data collected in a real-world setting. The ultimate goal is to advance translational research that will identify novel classification approaches and/or treatment targets, and lead to more effective and timely interventions for serious mental illnesses.​

Eligiblity: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and women are always encouraged to apply for NIH support. ​

[Natural Sciences: Biology]
Title: Building in vivo Preclinical Assays of Circuit Engagement for Application in Therapeutic Development (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award am​ount: Up to $250,000
Application deadline: June 5, 2023; October 5, 2023; February 5, 2024; June 5, 2024; October 5, 2024; February 5, 2025; June 5, 2025
Full announcement ​ he​re

The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to identify, in animals, in vivo neurophysiological and behavioral measures for use as assays in the early screening phase of treatment development. This FOA will support efforts to optimize and evaluate measures of neurophysiological and behavioral processes that may serve as pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) markers of neural processes of clinical interest based on available knowledge of the neurobiology of mental illnesses. The screening assays developed from this FOA are expected to build upon systems neurobiology and clinical neuroscience to enhance the scientific value of preclinical animal data contributing to a therapeutic development pipeline in which treatment candidates and therapeutic targets can be evaluated for their ability to impact neurobiological mechanisms of potential clinical relevance to mental illnesses.
Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. It is expected that budgets of $250,000 direct costs per year or less will be adequate for most projects proposing to optimize just one measure.​

Eligiblity: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and women are always encouraged to apply for NIH support. ​

[Natural Sciences]
Title: Supporting Excellence & Innovation in Anti-doping Science
Funding agency: Partnership for Clean Competition
Award am​ount: Up to $200,000
Pre-Application deadline: July 1, 2023; November 1, 2023
Application deadline: August 1, 2023; December 1, 2023
Full announcement ​ he​re

With an emphasis on original work that focuses on improving existing analytical methods for detecting particular drugs, developing new analytical methods to test for substances not currently detectable, and discovering cost-effective approaches for testing widely abused substances across all levels of sport, the following areas of investigation reflect the PCC’s current research priorities:

• Developing methods of cost-effective testing to detect and deter the use of banned and illegal substances.
• Developing testing protocols to detect designer substances used for doping purposes.
• Improving existing analytical methods to detect particular drugs, ex. GH, IGF-1, EPO, hCG.
• Developing analytical methods to detect performance enhancing drugs not currently detectable.
• Longitudinal urinary excretion patterns, metabolism and dose-concentration.
• Critical reviews to support interpretation of laboratory data.
• Alternative specimens, (ex. oral fluid, dried blood/plasma spots) for testing.

[Quantitative Thought]
Title: Allen Newell Award
Funding agency: Association for Computing Machinery
Award am​ount: $10,000
Application deadline: December 15, 2023
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The Association for Computing Machinery, with funding from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, invites nominations for the Allen Newell award. This recognizes an individual for career contributions in computer science, or work that bridges computer science and other disciplines. Key factors in evaluating nominations thus include both the quality of the contributions and their breadth across computer science – with contributions to artificial intelligence being of particular note – plus the significance of the bridges created to other disciplines.​

[Humanities]
Title: Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations
Funding agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Award am​ount: Up to $300,000
Application deadline: November 29, 2023
Application available: August 11, 2023
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The Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations program provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to learning and research but are currently inaccessible or are available only in inadequate editions or translations. Typically, the texts are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but other types of work, such as musical notation, may also be the subject of an edition.​

[Humanities]
Title: Research and Development / Long-term Research Grants
Funding agency: Henry Moore Foundation
Award am​ount: Up to £20,000
Application deadline: March 1, 2023; May 26, 2023; August 29, 2023; November 29, 2023
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Henry Moore Grants continue Moore's legacy by supporting sculpture across historical, modern, and contemporary registers, and seeking to fund research that expands the appreciation of sculpture. Available to organizations only, these grants support extended research projects requiring funding for more than one year, e.g. a permanent collection catalogue. Grants can be awarded up to £20,000. 

The foundation welcomes applications four times per year, at the following times: 

1 February, 9:00 – 1 March, 23:00
1 May, 9:00 – 26 May, 23:00
1 August, 9:00 – 29 August, 23:00
1 November, 9:00 – 29 November, 23:00

*All times GMT

[Natural Sciences]
Title: Computationally-Defined Behaviors in Psychiatry (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award am​ount: Up to $275,000
LOI deadline: October 1, 2023​
Application deadline: November 1, 2023
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This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications for research projects that will apply computational approaches to develop parametrically detailed behavioral assays across mental-health relevant domains of function. These projects should focus on behavior in humans and test computational models in healthy, trans-diagnostic, unselected, or community samples. NIMH is particularly interested in the study of behavioral measures, models, and parameters that have the potential for back-translation from humans to animals, especially for pre-clinical therapeutics development, and in models that have the potential to be extended to clinical populations. To maximize prospects of back-translation and to provide a neurobiological foundation for future research, studies will need to consider behavioral models and parameters that are linked to the underlying neural processes that may be involved in their computation. Finally, in order to ensure ecological validity of behavioral assays, models derived from lab-based behavioral tasks will need to be tested for generalizability to behavioral data collected in a real-world setting. 

Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over a two-year project period, with no more than $200,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year. The maximum project period is 2 years. 

Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support. ​​

[Natural Sciences: Biology]
Title: Accelerating the Pace of Child Health Research Using Existing Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (R01-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award am​ount: Up to $250,000 per year
LOI deadline: 30 days prior to the application due date
Application deadline: February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023; October 5, 2023; February 5, 2024; June 5, 2024; October 5, 2024; February 5, 2025
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The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is collecting data on health and mental health, cognitive function, substance use, cultural and environmental factors, and brain structure and function from youth starting when they are 9-10 years-old and following them longitudinally to early adulthood. These data will be made available to the scientific community through the NIMH Data Archive. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage applications proposing the analysis of this public use dataset to increase knowledge of adolescent health and development.

Eligibility:
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.

[Natural Sciences: Biology]
Title: Academic-Industrial Partnerships for Translation of Technologies for Diagnosis and Treatment (R01 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award am​ount: Up to $499,000
Application deadline: February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023; October 5, 2023; February 5, 2024
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The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to stimulate efforts to translate scientific discoveries and engineering developments into methods or tools that address problems in basic research to understand disease, or in applied research to assess risk, detect, prevent, diagnose, treat, and/or manage disease. The rationale is to deliver new capabilities to meet evolving requirements for technologies and methods relevant to the advance of research and delivery of care in pre-clinical, clinical and non-clinical settings, domestic or foreign, for conditions and diseases within the missions of participating institutes.

This FOA specifies a partnership structure that is expected to help bridge gaps in knowledge and experience by engaging the strengths of academic, industrial, and other investigators. The partners on each application should establish an inter-disciplinary, multi-institutional research team to work in strategic alliance to implement a coherent strategy to develop and translate a solution to their chosen problem. They are expected to plan, design, and validate that the solution will be suitable for end users. Each partnership should include at least one academic and one industrial organization. Each partnership should plan to transition a technology, method, assay, device, and/or system from a demonstration of possibility to a status useful in the chosen setting. Funding may be requested to enhance, adapt, optimize, validate, and otherwise translate technologies that address problems in biology, pathology, risk assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and/or monitoring of disease status.

Eligibility:
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.