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ACED: Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (ACED)

Supports interdisciplinary collaborative research to explore new computational technologies and accelerate scientific discovery.

Full Proposal Deadline:
May 13, 2024
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Building Synthetic Microbial Communities for Biology, Mitigating Climate Change, Sustainability and Biotechnology (Synthetic Communities)

Supports research into synthetic microbial communities, including how they form and evolve, how to use them to address biological questions, and/or how to build them for biotechnology or bioengineering applications.

Full Proposal Deadline:
August 1, 2024
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Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)

Supports opportunities for scientists and engineers at the associate professor rank (or equivalent) to substantively enhance and advance their research program through synergistic partnerships.

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March 3, 2025
Proposal window February 1, 2025 - March 3, 2025
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Bioinspired Design Collaborations to Accelerate the Discovery-Translation Process (BioDesign)

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.

Posted February 15, 2023
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Conference Proposals on Clean Energy Topics

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.

Posted May 16, 2023
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NSF-French National Research Agency (ANR) Quantum Information Science and Engineering Lead Agency Opportunity

Invites collaborative proposals between U.S. and French researchers in quantum information science and engineering.

Posted September 26, 2023
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Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals under U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of India Collaborative Research Opportunities

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

Posted February 8, 2024
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ANR - NSF/Physics/MCB Lead Agency Opportunity at the Physics - Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Interface

Dear Colleagues: Scope The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) have signed an agreement on Research Cooperation. The agreement provides an overarching framework to encourage collaboration between US and French research communities...
Posted August 31, 2020
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Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals under National Science Foundation (NSF) and US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) Collaborative Research Opportunities

Dear Colleagues: SCOPE The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Research Cooperation. The MOU provides an overarching framework to encourage collaboration between U.S. and Israeli research...
Posted June 9, 2020
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Conferences for Building Computational Literacy in Biological Sciences

Dear Colleagues: The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) seeks to highlight the importance of computational thinking in biology and STEM education. This activity is a part of NSF's contribution to the Office of Science and Technology...
Posted April 24, 2020
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Semiconductor Synthetic Biology Circuits and Communications for Information Storage ( SemiSynBio-III)

Supports high-risk, high-reward research that addresses scientific and technological challenges associated with the integration of synthetic biology with semiconductor technology.

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NSF-NIST Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research

Introduction The National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shared interests in a variety of basic and applied scientific and engineering fields. This program is designed to facilitate collaborative research and educational activities among...
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Plant Synthetic Biology

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.

Posted February 18, 2020
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Sentinel Systems that Detect, Recognize, Actuate, and Mitigate Emergent Biological Threats (DREAM Sentinels)

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

Posted April 26, 2022
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ANR - NSF/MCB/PHY Lead Agency Opportunity at the Molecular and Cellular Biosciences - Physics Interface

Invites U.S.–France collaborative research proposals addressing the priorities of each of the following: the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche, NSF’s Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, and NSF’s Division of Physics.

Posted October 3, 2022
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NSF-Swiss NSF Lead Agency Opportunity

Invites U.S.-Swiss collaborations at the intersection of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s three research divisions and participating NSF programs.

Posted January 27, 2023
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UKRI/BBSRC - NSF/BIO Lead Agency Opportunity in Biological Informatics, Systems Understanding of Host-Microbe Interactions, Synthetic Cells and Cellular Systems, and Synthetic Microbial Communities

Invites transatlantic collaborative research proposals that address the priorities of both UK Research and Innovation Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and participating Divisions in NSF’s Directorate for Biological Sciences.

Posted August 28, 2023
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Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS): Funding to Broaden Participation in the Biological Sciences

Encourages proposals or supplemental funding requests from current NSF awardees for projects that foster interest in the biological sciences and broaden participation of high school students.

Posted August 29, 2023
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Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS): Funding to Broaden Participation in the Biological Sciences

Encourages proposals or supplemental funding requests from current NSF awardees for projects that foster interest in the biological sciences and broaden participation of underrepresented high school students.

Posted July 11, 2018
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Reproducible Cells and Organoids via Directed- Differentiation Encoding (RECODE)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Divisions of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET), Integrative and Organismal Systems (IOS), Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB), and Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) seek proposals that elucidate mechanisms of, and develop strategies...
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Genetic Mechanisms

Supports research on the fundamental mechanisms involved in the organization, dynamics, processing, expression, regulation and evolution of genetic and epigenetic information.

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UKRI/BBSRC - NSF/BIO Lead Agency Opportunity in Biological informatics, Microbes and the Host Immune System, Quantum Biology, and Synthetic Cell

Invites U.S.–U.K. collaborative research proposals in the following priority areas: biological informatics, microbes and the host immune system, quantum biology, and synthetic cells.

Posted July 2, 2021
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Molecular Foundations for Biotechnology (MFB)

This initiative supports fundamentally new approaches in molecular sciences to drive new directions in biotechnology, a critical and emerging technology of the 21st century. This is the third year of a campaign targeting broad themes to be pursued through collaborative...
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Clean Energy Technology RAISE or EAGER Proposals

Invites Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (RAISE) and EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals to all NSF Directorates in the area of clean energy technologies.

Posted May 17, 2023
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NSF-DFG Lead Agency Opportunity in Molecular and Cellular Biology

Invites U.S.–Germany collaborative proposals for biological research at molecular, subcellular or cellular scales.

Posted November 15, 2021
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