Featured Opportunities

October 1, 2025

• The Science History Institute, Othmer Library offers Library Travel Grants for periods of up to two weeks for research and scholarly exploration of our primary materials which include rare and modern books, manuscripts, archival collections, oral histories, fine art, artifacts, and instruments. Travel grants are $1,000 per week and are intended to help defray the costs of travel and accommodation. Applicants must currently reside more than 75 miles from Philadelphia to be eligible. Applications and research visits are accepted and approved on a rolling basis.
• The University of Texas, Austin, Ransom Center will award up to 50 Research Fellowships for its 2026–2027 program. Please view the individual residency types within the application instructions to determine the qualifications for each. We offer funding to graduate students, current and former academic faculty at any level of career, and independent researchers such as journalists and artists, who require archival research at the Center for their projects. Research conducted by humanities scholars contributes to a dynamic body of knowledge that has the potential to reshape our understanding of archival collections—what is preserved and valued in our communities. The Ransom Center fosters a supportive environment so that researchers may explore, examine, critique, and better understand the cultural works in its collections. Fellowships of varying lengths (from one week to two months) are offered for research projects that require substantial on-site use of collections that span a variety of disciplines.
• The National Endowment for Humanities Collaborative Research program aims to advance humanistic knowledge by supporting teams of scholars working on a joint project leading to a tangible interpretive product. Teams may propose research in a single field of study or interdisciplinary work. NEH encourages projects that incorporate multiple points of view and pursue new avenues of inquiry. Collaborators may come from one or more institutions. NEH encourages partnerships with researchers in the natural and social sciences, but projects must focus on humanistic content and employ humanistic methods. International collaboration is welcome, but scholars at U.S. institutions must contribute significantly to the project. Proposed projects must aim to result in tangible and sustainable outputs, such as a co-authored or multi-authored book, an edited volume, a themed issue of a peer-reviewed journal, or a series of peer-reviewed articles. All project outputs must incorporate collaboration and interpretation to address significant humanities research questions.
• Wellcome’s Genomics in Context Awards: Collaborative Research at the Intersection of Genomics, Humanities, Social Sciences and Bioethics program supports transdisciplinary teams to catalyze research discoveries at the intersection of genomics, humanities, social sciences and bioethics. Funded projects will be given the time and resources to create new research agendas and explore innovative ways of working. The importance of social, ethical and legal work for guiding ethical, inclusive genomics research and related practices is widely acknowledged. Less recognized is the underexplored potential for the intersection between genomics, humanities and social sciences, and wider societal partners (including industry, policymakers and communities) to yield new research and discoveries. To date such collaborations have tended to be limited and late. This call is aimed at supporting novel and transdisciplinary teams to explore this intersection at the earliest stages of research ideation, design and partnership building. Collaborations could take many different forms and centre on a variety of areas of focus. Research collaborations could potentially fall across three broad areas: 1) Exploring new or emerging areas in genomics and its contexts or the application of novel technologies; 2) Opening up existing areas of genomics and its contexts or taking them in new directions through the integration of novel approaches and perspectives; and 3) Exploring how research is done in genomics, which could be applicable across different fields, practices, sectors and geographies
• Infrastructure systems comprise complex connections between physical components, organizational structures and operational methods that support the needs of people and communities at the local, regional, national, and global scales. Such systems form the backbone of society, providing essential services as well as ensuring public health and welfare, economic prosperity and national security, and are expected to function under all operational conditions. The National Science Foundation’s Infrastructure Systems and People (ISP) program encourages interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary exploration that will open new research frontiers and significantly expand and transform relevant research communities. The program welcomes research that addresses novel system integration, user-inspired system and service design, data analytics, and socio-technical studies focused on engineering and system innovation during normal and extreme conditions. The program also values innovative research efforts focused on collecting, standardizing, and sharing large-scale databases of real-world infrastructure systems and people-infrastructure interactions during normal and extreme operating conditions, which can be instrumental in providing benchmarks for model verification and validation and for advancing future research innovation in ISP.
• The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), ARPA-H’s Genetic Medicines and Individualized Manufacturing for Everyone (GIVE) program aims to enable a multi-site, multi-product, and multi-scale biomanufacturing network. The goal of the program is to develop reliable, simple to use, distributed manufacturing and quality control platforms for genetic medicines. GIVE’s two focus areas include advanced technologies for automated manufacturing and integrated quality control platforms. By bolstering U.S. biomanufacturing technology, GIVE seeks to first-shore P/I genetic medicine manufacturing and improve patient access to cancer therapies, cell therapies, and gene editing technologies. Through its health innovation network, ARPA-H can bring together biomanufacturing experts, equipment vendors, researchers, and small and large businesses in the industry to achieve the vision of the GIVE program.
• HHS, National Cancer Institutes’ (NCI) Innovative Research in Cancer Nanotechnology (IRCN, R01) NOFO encourages applications promoting transformative discoveries in cancer biology and/or oncology through the use of nanotechnology. Proposed projects should address overcoming major barriers in cancer biology and/or oncology using nanotechnology and should focus on mechanistic studies to expand the fundamental understanding of nanomaterial and/or nano-device interactions with biological systems. These studies are expected to be relevant to the delivery of nanoparticles and/or nano-devices to desired and intended cancer targets in vivo and/or characterization of detection and diagnostic devices and sensors in vitro. IRCN awards are expected to produce fundamental knowledge to aid future and more informed development of nanotechnology-based cancer interventions. The clinical translation of these interventions is outside of scope of this NOFO.
• The HHS, National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the award of contracts for launching the Standardized Organoid Modeling (SOM) Center, a national resource that will be dedicated to using cutting-edge technologies to develop standardized organoid-based new approach methodologies (NAMs) that deliver robust, reproducible, and patient-centered research findings. With contracts totaling $87 million for the first three years, the center will be housed at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR), a facility supported by NIH’s National Cancer Institute (NCI). The center’s goal will be to leverage the latest technologies to enable real-time optimization of organoid protocols. The NIH SOM Center is designed to support a wide array of users, including scientists and researchers from academic institutions, industry, and government; clinicians in need of patient-specific models; and the broader scientific community, including industry partners and educators. It will provide open access to protocols, data, and organoids, promoting global collaboration. The center will also work with regulatory bodies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to develop models that meet preclinical testing standards, accelerating development of new disease treatments and safety assessments. The center will initially focus on organoid models of the liver, lung, heart, and intestine, with plans to expand to additional organ systems and disease-specific models.
• The AKC Canine Health Foundation (CHF) invites pre-proposals for their Winter2025 grant cycle. Funding is available across all areas of canine health research. This two-stage process requires all applicants to first submit a pre-proposal; selected applicants will then be invited to submit a full proposal. This process allows evaluation of funding priorities and an opportunity for early feedback while optimizing time and resources before developing a full proposal. Proposals must demonstrate relevance to canine health and scientific rigor appropriate to the scale of the project.
• The National Archives and Records Administration (NHPRC) seeks Archival Projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. We welcome projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day. The Commission encourages projects focused on collections of America’s early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation’s legal history. Projects may preserve and process historical records to: Arrange or re-house and describe collections; Convert existing description for online access; Create new online Finding Aids to collections; or Digitize historical records collections and make them freely available online. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio and moving images.