Funding Fridays | A Research Newsletter 
Funding Fridays is the title of a bi-monthly newsletter aimed at amplifying and consolidating external funding opportunities shared with the faculty through various channels. This newsletter will highlight and foster funding opportunities that offer cross-unit, multidisciplinary, or unique collaborative opportunities. It will also highlight all limited-institution submissions or opportunities that are high risk / high reward. Below you will find links to standard funding search engines for those interested in exploring more available opportunities.
Special Notice: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Summary of Notice for Additional Funding for New Proposals or Additional Supplemental Funding for Existing Awards:
Multiple Deadlines
National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) released a letter with the intent of helping people with all types of disabilities to improve our nation's current and future STEM workforce - so that we can give all Americans the privilege to learn, work, and contribute to U.S. leadership in the field of science & engineering discovery and innovation, despite their disabilities.

The letter issued encourages individuals to submit new proposals or make requests for supplemental funding to existing awards that will support existing or new access to and engagement in STEM for participants with disabilities (not research subjects) so they have an opportunity to have access and engage in STEM learning.

Featured Opportunity
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs - Collaborative Research:
LOI Deadline: December 1, 2021
The Collaborative Research program aims to advance humanistic knowledge through collaboration between two or more scholars. The program encourages projects that propose diverse approaches to topics, incorporate multiple points of view, explore new avenues of inquiry in the humanities, and lead to manuscripts for print publications or scholarly digital grant products. Projects that include partnerships with researchers from the natural and social sciences are encouraged but must propose a humanistic research agenda.

New Funding Opportunities
Burroughs Wellcome Fund: 2022 Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI)  
Application Due Date: September 1, 2021

Recognizing the vital role cross-trained scientists will play in furthering biomedical science, BWF developed the Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI). These grants are intended to foster the early career development of researchers who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. The specific target group are researchers who have transitioned from graduate work in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences or engineering into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences.
 
  • The award provides $500,000 over five years to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty service. 
  • Candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree in one of the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, statistics, or engineering. This includes related areas of physical, mathematical, computational, theoretical, and engineering science. 
  • Candidates must have completed at least 12 months but not more than 60 months of postdoctoral research by the date of the full invited application deadline.
  • Candidates must have at least one first-author publication in a peer-reviewed journal, including papers on which “first authorship” is shared.
  • Award recipients are required to devote at least 75 percent of their time to research-related activities.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund: 2022 Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI)  
Application Due Date: September 1, 2021

Recognizing the vital role cross-trained scientists will play in furthering biomedical science, BWF developed the Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI). These grants are intended to foster the early career development of researchers who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. The specific target group are researchers who have transitioned from graduate work in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences or engineering into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences.
 
  • The award provides $500,000 over five years to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty service. 
  • Candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree in one of the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, statistics, or engineering. This includes related areas of physical, mathematical, computational, theoretical, and engineering science. 
  • Candidates must have completed at least 12 months but not more than 60 months of postdoctoral research by the date of the full invited application deadline.
  • Candidates must have at least one first-author publication in a peer-reviewed journal, including papers on which “first authorship” is shared.
  • Award recipients are required to devote at least 75 percent of their time to research-related activities.

Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory (IPRCE):
September 3, 2021, at 5pm EST
The Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory (IPRCE) seeks to reduce the burden of injury in Georgia and the Southeast. To realize this goal, the IPRCE Research Core’s Pilot Research Program (PReP) seeks to fund pilot grants led by Emory faculty that will catalyze and advance IPRCE priorities and priorities of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) in falls, traumatic brain injury (TBI), opioid and other drug safety/overdose prevention, violence prevention, and transportation injury prevention.

Community Impact Grant Program
Application Due Date: August 27, 2021

Throughout our nation, we are faced with many health inequities. Health outcomes for people living in vulnerable communities, and already disproportionately impacted by social determinants of health (SDOH), are at an even greater health risk. SDOH are the economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status. Medline is committed to social determinants of health and through the Community Impact Grant Program we can promote good health for all people.­ ­

Medline is investing resources to help non-profit organizations address prevalent health challenges, stimulate health equity and improve population health in under-resourced areas. We will award results-focused grants that offer community-centered solutions and immediate impact. Through collaboration with community experts, we can provide essential resources, re-direct adverse outcomes, and improve the well-being of people. This is, and always will be, our ongoing commitment to communities.

Individual grants are capped at $25,000. Grant Recipients will be announced in October 2021.

Halle Institute for Global Research - Emory Fulbright Distinguished Chair Programs
Application Deadline: September 30, 2021

The Halle Institute has established four Emory Fulbright Distinguished Chair programs in collaboration with Fulbright offices and commissions in Brazil, India, Korea, and South Africa. Distinguished Chairs are innovative and dynamic scholars who spend a semester at Emory to conduct research, teach courses or workshops, and engage with Emory’s academic community. Hosted by appropriate schools, departments, and programs in any discipline, Distinguished Chairs offer rich engagement with faculty and students. Their contributions strengthen international cooperation between their home institution and Emory, and they support Emory as a global academic community of choice for researchers across a wide array of disciplines.

  • Fulbright Korea Distinguished Chair

The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the U.S. (R01 Clinical Trials Optional)
Earliest Submission Date: September 5, 2021

The main objective of this initiative is to determine the extent and mechanisms by which work as a social determinant of health (SDOH) both contributes to, and helps ameliorate, health and health care disparities. A recent workshop on September 28-29, 2020 organized by NIMHD highlighted key ideas for furthering research on work as a SDOH that include conceptualizing work as a social class marker, as a source of “exposures and risk factors,” and as a source of beneficial social and economic resources such as income and wealth, neighborhood conditions, health care access, education, and social networks. Some key questions include: What are the specific and modifiable mechanisms by which work explains health disparities? To what extent does work as a social class marker, source of “exposures and risk factors” and/or source of beneficial social and economic resources explain health disparities? Which health disparities does work as a SDOH explain?

Of particular interest are projects designed to examine pathways and mechanisms using conceptual model(s) grounded in minority health and health disparities theories that recognize that health disparities arise by multiple and overlapping contributing factors acting at multiple levels of influence (See the NIMHD Research Framework)

Gilead Foundation: HIV Research
Application Due Date: September 10, 2021

The program provides financial support to the institutions of 4 junior faculty researchers for a 2-year period. Each award is funded up to USD130,000 (inclusive of any indirect costs), to be paid in annual installments of up to USD65,000 per year for 2 years. Funding for the second year is contingent upon submission of a progress report by each junior faculty researcher and approval by the Co-Chairs of the Scientific Review Committee which oversees the program.

2022 Sloan Research Fellowships 
Application Due Date: September 15, 2021

The Sloan Research Fellowship Program recognizes and rewards outstanding early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study. Successful candidates for a Fellowship generally have a strong record of significant independent research accomplishments that demonstrate creativity and the potential to become future leaders in the scientific community.

  • Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, or a related field.
  • Candidates must be tenure-track, though untenured, as of September 15 of the nomination year.
  • Candidate’s faculty position must carry a regular teaching obligation.
  • The award provides $75,000 to be used over a two-year period.

Contact: Office of Foundation Relations, Tiffany Worboy, tworboy@emory.edu

March of Dimes: 2022 Research Grants
Application Due Date: September 10, 2021

March of Dimes is committed to advancing the health of all moms and babies, and that involves seeking answers through a diverse research portfolio. They are actively seeking applications for research grant funding that involve translational and actionable science that will lead directly to interventions or preventions. The proposed research should focus on one of these priority areas: Pregnancy-Related Disorders, Developmental Origins of Infant Health, Maternal Morbidity & Mortality

They anticipate making at least two awards in each category, with each ranging from $200,000 - $300,000. Grants will be distributed for 24 months to 36 months, with a set of deliverables to be met for each year, before the next year’s support can be distributed.

Contact: Office of Foundation Relations, Nicole Dancz, nicole.dancz@emory.edu

Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase I: Development Grants: LOI Deadline: October 1, 2021
This initiative focuses on fundamental research and capabilities needed to tackle grand challenges in infectious disease pandemics through prediction and prevention.

The PIPP Phase I initiative intends to support planning activities encompassing (1) articulation of a grand challenge centered around a critical and broad question in pandemic predictive intelligence; (2) proposals of novel conceptual research and technology developments that aim to advance state-of-the-art forecasting, real-time monitoring, mitigation, and prevention of the spread of pathogens; and (3) multidisciplinary team formation. Successful Phase I proposals must identify an innovative interdisciplinary grand challenge that engages integrated computational, biological, engineering, and social/behavioral approaches to formulate and solve critical problems relating to predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention. PIs of Phase I Development Grants are strongly encouraged to develop research and technical approaches that start to address critical aspects of the identified grand challenge.

Limited-Institution Submission Opportunities
Finding Funding
Search Tool for Corporate and Foundation Funding Opportunities
The Office of Corporate Relations and the Office of Foundation Relations have teamed up to create this resource site to provide a curated list of current funding opportunities and other resources. This site will help promote connections between Emory colleagues and corporate/foundation partners.
GrantForward
Free access available with Emory Email address. Formally IRIS. Provides access to the University Community to conduct funding searches. The database is provides funding opportunities for the physical and life sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Link for More Information
Grants.gov
Grants.gov is a central storehouse for information on over 1,000 grant programs from over 27 federal agencies. Interested applicants can search for relevant funding opportunities by Keyword or Category or browse opportunities by agency. The portal is also a central source to apply for federal grants. Information on the processes for proposal submission through Grants.gov can be found in Proposal Submission.
Foundation Directory
Free access available through Databases@Emory. This database, produced by the nation's leading authority on philanthropy, includes extensive program details for thousands of leading foundations; detailed application guidelines for more than 7,000 grants; and a searchable file of approximately half a million grants.