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Encourages collaborative U.S. –India research proposals to support knowledge, technologies and innovation that advance biotechnology and promote the bioeconomy.

Encourages early-stage collaborations across the biological and engineering sciences and the translation of research findings into use-inspired projects that inform societal impact and future commercialization.

Invites conference proposals to initiate new collaborations that will advance clean energy technologies and increase their use to benefit the economy, to ensure social justice and to serve the public good.

Invites proposals that address critical needs in research and education and develop the workforce for advanced manufacturing. Proposed projects should involve collaboration with Manufacturing USA Institutes and enable innovation in their technical focus areas.

Encourages research and education proposals related to quantum information science and engineering as an emerging industry.

Encourages research and education proposals related to artificial intelligence as an emerging industry.

Encourages research and education proposals related to biotechnology as an emerging industry.

Encourages research and education proposals related to advanced wireless as an emerging industry.

Supports basic research, tool development and applications to advance the field of plant synthetic biology through ongoing programs in the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate for Engineering.

Invites supplemental funding requests from active awardees of the Engineering Directorate to support student-led design projects that prepare them for the engineering workforce.

Encourages proposals from scientists and engineers on the design of complex, synthetic biological components and cells.

Encourages the submission of interdisciplinary proposals to develop novel all-in-one biosensing and actuating technologies for rapidly evolving or emerging biological threats.

Invites submission of Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals on new approaches to refrigeration at less than 1 K; and new processing techniques and materials needed to fabricate ultra-low temperature refrigeration systems.

Invites proposals that use fundamental engineering to mitigate and remediate PFAS in the environment.

Lists opportunities for engineering researchers to submit proposals and supplemental funding requests for AI projects.

Invites proposals for conferences that identify gaps in existing research infrastructure and define the mid-scale research infrastructure needed to address grand challenges for engineering research.