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Programs: Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)

This is a list of all the programs within the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO).

    Key:  Crosscutting |  NSF-wide

Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)
Research Resources Cluster
Human Resources Cluster
Competition for the Management of Operations and Maintenance of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Center for Advancement and Synthesis of Open Environmental Data and Sciences
BIO Centers, Facilities, and Additional Research Infrastructure Cluster
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - DBI
Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) (DEB)
DEB Cluster Descriptions
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DEB Community
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - DEB
Long Term Ecological Research (LTER-NCO)
Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER):
Signals in the Soil Crosscutting
Division of Emerging Frontiers (EF)
EF Active Solicitations
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - EF
Understanding the Rules of Life: Microbiome Interactions and Mechanisms (URoL:MIM) NSF-wide
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems Core Programs
IOS Cluster Descriptions
Plant Biotic Interactions
Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the IOS Community
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - IOS
Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) Crosscutting
Reproducible Cells and Organoids via Directed-Differentiation Encoding (RECODE)
Signals in the Soil Crosscutting
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences: Investigator-initiated research projects (MCB)
MCB Cluster Descriptions
Transitions to Excellence in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Research (Transitions)
Designing Synthetic Cells Beyond the Bounds of Evolution (Designer Cells)
Semiconductor Synthetic Biology for Information Storage and Retrieval (SemiSynBio-II) Crosscutting
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - MCB
Reproducible Cells and Organoids via Directed-Differentiation Encoding (RECODE)
Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) NSF-wide
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DEB Community
Additional Funding Opportunities for the IOS Community
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions (ADVANCE) NSF-wide
Bio/computational Evolution in Action CONsortium (BEACON)
Capacity: Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML) Crosscutting
Center for Cellular Construction (CCC)
Coastlines and People (CoPe)
Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI): Crosscutting
DEB Cluster Descriptions
Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2)
Facilitating Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: NSF-wide
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) NSF-wide
Future Manufacturing (FM)
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) NSF-wide
GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) NSF-wide
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Data Science Corps (DSC) NSF-wide
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering NSF-wide Crosscutting
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering - Ideas Labs (I-DIRSE-IL) NSF-wide
Harnessing the Data Revolution: Coordination Hub (HDR Central) NSF-wide
Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU - EiR) NSF-wide
Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) NSF-wide
Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) (NSF INCLUDES) NSF-wide
Innovations in Biological Imaging and Visualization (IBIV)
Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS)
IOS Cluster Descriptions
Long Term Ecological Research (LTER-NCO)
National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes NSF-wide
National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) NSF-wide
National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program NSF-wide
NSF Innovation Corps Hubs Program (I-CorpsTM Hubs) NSF-wide
NSF Participation in the ERA-Net in Synthetic Biology (ERASynBio)
Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education (PULSE)
Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET)
Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) NSF-wide
Protein Data Bank (PDB)
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) NSF-wide
Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships NSF-wide
Semiconductor Synthetic Biology for Information Storage and Retrieval (SemiSynBio-II) Crosscutting
Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks (SRS RNs) NSF-wide
Understanding the Rules of Life: Building a Synthetic Cell NSF-wide
Understanding the Rules of Life: Epigenetics NSF-wide