Funding Opportunities
Funding is available via limited submissions, early career or external opportunities. Visit GrantForward for more information.
Limited Submissions
Limited submissions are funding opportunities from sponsors that restrict the number of proposals that an institution can submit. If more proposals from the institution are submitted than the sponsor has listed, all of the institution's submissions may be in eligible.
With these types of funding opportunities, UND manages an internal selection process through the Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development (VPRED) to choose a proposal to send to the sponsor.
The Vice President for Research & Economic Development (VPRED) Division of Research & Economic Development circulates internal application information to all UND faculty and research staff via email and posts it to the VPRED website. If a member of the UND community wants to apply for a limited submission grant that is not listed by the VPRED office, the VPRED office should be notified in a timely manner so that a call can be sent out to the entire UND community.
After identifying a limited submission, please submit a pre-proposal white paper to the VPRED’s office at vpr.proposals@UND.edu.
The pre-proposal white papers will vary to some extent depending on the requirements of each limited submission. Specific instructions on content, length, and formatting will be provided in the VPRED’s call that is sent out to the UND community. If the VPRED does not send out a call for a particular limited submission, please contact the VPRED office for instructions on how to apply for it.
For limited submission grant opportunities, the associate deans for research (ADRs) serve as the standing committee for review of internal submissions, under the director of the deans and the VPRED. Typically, a subcommittee of the ADRs is selected depending on the applicant pool and the areas for which the funding is most relevant. If necessary or beneficial, ADRs will appoint or request additional relevant faculty members from their college or school to review applications in an internal competition.
In addition, the Grand Challenge Champion, or a member of his or her team, may be consulted about the applications for all internal competitions. This step provides both subject matter expertise and strategic perspective.
Once these steps have been executed, a recommendation is given to the VPRED for final decision.
- NSF Partnerships in Innovation
- NSF ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM
- NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program
- NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program (RII Track-2 FEC)
- NIH Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1)
- NIGMS Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) phase 1
- NSF Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships
- NSF National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research
- NSF Physics Frontiers Centers
- NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program
- Henry Luce Foundation: Advancing Public Scholarship on Religion and Theology
- NSF Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM
- NSF Scholarships in STEM
- NIH Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (RISE) (T32)
- NIH Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (NORCs) (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)
- NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science
- NSF Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)
Early Career Opportunities
These awards are funding opportunities that target new scholars, who are sometimes considered to be pre-tenure and other times considered to be faculty members who have not worked more than 10 years at an institution of higher education.
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: Young Faculty Award
- NASA: Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowships for Early Career Researchers
- NIH: Early Independence Award
- NIH: New Innovator Award
- NIH: Early Research Career Development Awards
- NSF: Faculty Early Career Development Program
- NSF: Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative
- Office of Naval Research: Young Investigator Program
- U.S. Air Force: Young Investigator Program
- U.S. Department of Defense: Parkinson's Early Investigator Research Award
- U.S. Department of Energy: Early Career Research Program
- U.S. Department of Agriculture: Early Career
- Academic Pediatric Association: Young Investigator Awards
AGU100: Basu U.S. Early Career Award for Research Excellence in Sun-Earth Systems Science - Rita Allen Foundation: Rita Allen Scholars Program
- Alzheimer’s Association: Research Grants
- American Association for Cancer Research: AACR Funding Opportunities
- American Cancer Society: Research Scholar Grants
- American Chemical Society: Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Grants
- American Council of Learned Societies: Fellowships
- American Diabetes Association: Core Program: Junior Faculty Development
- American Federation for Aging Research: Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: Young Investigator Innovation Grants
- American Heart Association: Career Development Award
- American Liver Foundation: Liver Scholar Award
- American Mathematical Association: Centennial Fellowships
- American Society for Mass Spectrometry: Research Awards
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation: New Investigators Research Grant
- ARVO Foundation for Eye Research: Genentech Age-related Macular Degeneration Research Fellowships
- Bay Area Lyme Foundation: Emerging Leader Award
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation: Beckman Young Investigators Program
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation: NARSAD Young Investigator Grants
- Breast Cancer Alliance: Young Investigator Grants
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease
- Children’s Tumor Foundation: Young Investigator Awards
- CURE: Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy: Grant Opportunities
Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation: Research Grants - New Investigators - Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation: Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards
- Foundation Fighting Blindness: Career Development Award
- Foundation for Child Development: Young Scholars Program
- Global Probiotics Council: Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research
- Greenwall Foundation: Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics
- Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program: Postdoctoral and Early Career Awards
- Health Effects Institute: Rosenblith New Investigator Award
Human Frontier Science Program: Young Investigators’ Research Grants - Human Vaccine Projects: Michelson Prizes
- Infectious Diseases Society of America: IDSA Foundation Young Investigator Awards
- International Life Sciences Institute North America: Future Leader Award
- International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation - Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation: Trainee Expansion 51
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: Career Development Awards
- The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund: Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences
- Leukemia Research Foundation: Hollis Brownstein Research Grants Program
- LUNGevity: Career Development Awards
- Lymphoma Research Foundation: Young Investigator Grants
- March of Dimes: Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Awards
- Marfan Foundation: Early Investigator Grant Program
- McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience: Scholar Awards
- Melanoma Research Alliance: Young Investigator Awards
- MQ: Transforming Mental Health Through Research: MQ Fellows Award
- National Ataxia Foundation: Young Investigator Awards
- National Hemophilia Foundation: Career Development Award
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society: Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar Awards
- Craig H. Neilsen Foundation: Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation: Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering
- Pew Charitable Trusts: Pew Biomedical Scholars
- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation: Research Starter Grants
- Prostate Cancer Foundation: Young Investigator Awards
- Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: I.M. Rosenzweig Junior Investigator Awards
- Research Corporation for Science Advancement: Cottrell Scholars
- Research Corporation for Science Advancement: Scialog
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation: Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award
- Russell Sage Foundation: Small Grants in Behavioral Economics
- Russell Sage Foundation: Small Grants in Computational Social Science
- Scleroderma Foundation: New Investigator Grant
- Scoliosis Research Society: New Investigator Research Grant
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Sloan Research Fellowships
- Smith Richardson Foundation: Strategy and Policy Fellows Program
- Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging: Pilot Research Grant
- Sontag Foundation: Distinguished Scientist Award
- Stanford Humanities Center: External Faculty Fellowships
- Thrasher Research Fund: Early Career Awards
- S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation: Start-Up Research Grants
- Whitehall Foundation: Grants-in-Aid