MURI Funding Opportunity
The Department of Defense has released a funding opportunity on various topics for their MURI initiative.
Vehicle Technology Office
$88 million in Department of Energy funding available for advanced vehicle research and development.
From the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Current limited submission opportunities
UW Distinguished Research Fellows
| Amount | Limited | Due | Length | Sponsor | Program Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 750,000 | Yes | 04/24/2025 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10) 2025 (Limited Submission) | Applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-priced, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated instrumentation system. | |
| 2,000,000 | Yes | 04/24/2025 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | NIH High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10) 2025 (Limited Submission) | Applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. | |
| 1 | No | 04/30/2025 | 04/25/2026 | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) | Toxic Substances and Areas of Concern; Invasive Species; Nonpoint Source Pollution Impacts to Nearshore Health; Habitats and Species; Foundations for Future Restoration Actions |
| 125,000 | No | 04/30/2025 | 04/25/2026 | National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) | Morpho Initiative | Convenes scientific working groups across government agencies, NGOs, tribes, academia, and the private sector to develop and accelerate management-relevant “science in-service-of solutions". |
| 250,000 | No | 04/30/2025 | 04/25/2027 | UW-Madison OVCR | UW Distinguished Research Fellows Program | Support emerging scholars in collaborative research spanning schools, colleges, centers at UW–Madison, and that synergizes distinct disciplinary approaches in areas related to RISE-AI, RISE-THRIVE, and RISE-EARTH. |
| 1,000,000 | Yes | 04/30/2025 | 04/25/2030 | W.M. Keck Foundation | Keck Foundation Science and Engineering Research Program (Limited Submission) | Funds endeavors that are distinctive and novel in their approach and encourages projects that are high-risk with the potential for transformative impact. |
| 1,000,000 | Yes | 04/30/2025 | 04/25/2030 | W.M. Keck Foundation | Keck Foundation Medical Research Program (Limited Submission) | Funds endeavors that are distinctive and novel in their approach and encourages projects that are high-risk with the potential for transformative impact. |
| 1,500,000 | No | 04/30/2025 | 04/25/2028 | Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust | Understanding and Targeting Innate Immunity in Type 1 Diabetes Pathogenesis | Support the discovery and development of new therapies to prevent or delay T1D and the identification and validation of biomarkers to predict disease initiation and progression. |
| 50,000 | No | 05/01/2025 | 04/25/2026 | Blooming Prairie Foundation | 2025 Blooming Prairie Foundation Grant Cycle | Developmental, research and education efforts in the organic industry and the cooperative community; development of organic and natural products or services; cooperative development in the natural products or organic industry. |
| 1 | No | 05/01/2025 | 04/25/2027 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Use-Inspired Creativity Extension for the Bioeconomy (UICREX-Bioeconomy) | To extend current NSF use-inspired research projects that are adventurous, high-risk, and have the potential for commercial translation or widespread adoption. |
| 300,000 | No | 05/01/2025 | 04/25/2028 | Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) | Research Grants | Innovative solutions and a deeper understanding of Climate Change Impacts/Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Emerging Contaminants, & Advancing Materials Circularity & Recycling |
| 3,000,000 | Yes | 05/05/2025 | 04/25/2030 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program 2026 (Limited Submission) | Effective training of STEM graduate students in interdisciplinary or convergent research areas, through a comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 05/06/2025 | National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) | National Coastal Resilience Fund 2025 Request for Proposals | Planning, design, and implementation of nature-based solutions to enhance protection for coastal communities while improving habitats for fish and wildlife. | |
| 1,000,000 | No | 05/07/2025 | 04/25/2029 | William T. Grant Foundation | Research Grants | Advance theory and build empirical knowledge on ways to improve the use of research evidence that shape youth-serving systems by various stakeholdesr (policymakers, agencies, and others). |
| 500,000 | No | 05/13/2025 | 04/25/2027 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Discovery and Development of Natural Products for Cancer Interception and Prevention (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Support the discovery and development of novel natural products that are safe, nontoxic, and efficacious for cancer interception and prevention. |
| 3,500,000 | No | 05/15/2025 | 04/25/2028 | Department of Energy (DOE) | Maximizing Algal System Yield (MASY) | Relieving ‘pinch points’ in algal system cultivation and preprocessing to improve process economics for biofuels/bioproducts. |
| 1,500,000 | No | 05/15/2025 | 04/25/2030 | The Simons Foundation | Pivot Fellowship | Support researchers with a strong track record of success and achievement in their current field, and a deep interest, curiosity and drive to make contributions to a new discipline. |
| 2,000,000 | No | 05/19/2025 | 04/25/2028 | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) | HPAI Poultry Innovation Grand Challenge | Projects that explore vaccines, therapeutics, research, and other strategies to combat avian influenza, lower egg prices, and protect the U.S. poultry industry. |
| 1,400,000 | No | 05/23/2025 | 04/25/2028 | Department of Commerce (DOC-NOAA-ERA) | FY2025 Sea Grant Contaminants of Emerging Concern | Develop a future competition to fund projects that research and monitor CECs, including PFAS, that may cause ecological or human health impacts in coastal and estuarine waters. |
| 2,500,000 | No | 05/30/2025 | 04/25/2027 | Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE-EERE) | Sustainable Propane and Renewable Chemicals (SPARC) | Supports research and development of domestic chemicals and fuels from a variety of biomass and waste resources. |
| 35,000 | No | 05/31/2025 | 04/25/2026 | Horticultural Research Institute, Inc. | Strategic Grantmaking | HRI-supported projects focus on significant problems, regulatory issues, and emerging opportunities in the nursery, greenhouse, retail, and landscape industry. |
| 2,000,000 | No | 06/02/2025 | 04/25/2026 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, leading-edge, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. |
| 350,000 | No | 06/02/2025 | 04/25/2030 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Enhancing Mechanistic Research on Precision Probiotic Therapies (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional) | To support highly innovative mechanistic research to accelerate the development of effective precision probiotic interventions using a milestone-driven, biphasic award mechanism. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 06/03/2025 | 04/25/2028 | Health Resources in Action | Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust | Supports medical research to improve treatments of the past and eventually find cures for diseases for which no definite cure is known. |
| 30,000 | No | 06/06/2025 | 04/25/2026 | Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health | 2025 Request for Proposals for GPCAH Pilot/Feasibility Projects | Pilot projects addressing work-related stress and mental health; the prevention of slips, trips and falls; equipment and tool safety; and chemical safety. |
| 500,000 | No | 06/06/2025 | 04/25/2030 | Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS) | 2026 Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops | Projects that seek to remove, resolve, or mitigate existing or potential sanitary, phytosanitary, or technical barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of U.S. specialty crops. |
| 500,000 | No | 06/06/2025 | 04/25/2028 | Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS) | Emerging Markets Program | Develop, maintain, or expand markets for exports of United States agricultural commodities and to promote cooperation and exchange of information between agricultural institutions and agribusinesses in the United States and emerging markets. |
| 1 | No | 06/12/2025 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education (FIRE) | Multidisciplinary and multisector investigations focused on convergent research and education activities in wildland fire. | |
| 229,500 | Yes | 06/15/2025 | 04/25/2028 | Helen Hay Whitney Foundation | Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (Limited Submission) | The Foundation grants financial support of sufficient duration to help further the careers of young men and women engaged in biological or medical research. |
| 150,000 | No | 06/22/2025 | Michelson Medical Research Foundation | Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants | Research that aims to tackle the current roadblocks to human vaccine development and expand our limited understanding of key immune processes that are fundamental to successful vaccine and immunotherapy development. | |
| 250,000 | No | 06/30/2025 | 04/25/2030 | Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) | Letters of Inquiry (LOI) | Six to eight new grants per racial justice, economic justice, and environmental justice area with a focus on initiatives in the U.S. South. |
| 2,500,000 | No | 07/02/2025 | 04/25/2030 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Advanced-Stage Development and Utilization of Research Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R33 Clinical Trial Optional) | Advanced-stage development and utilization of novel research infrastructure to advance the science of aging in specific areas requiring interdisciplinary partnerships or collaborations. |
| 350,000 | No | 09/04/2025 | 04/25/2030 | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (USDA-NIFA-AFRI) | US-Ireland research and development partnership call in agriculture - Agricultural Microbiomes in Plant Systems and Natural Resources; and Inter-Disciplinary Engagement in Animal Systems (IDEAS) | Supports tri-partite research projects on agricultural microbiomes in plant systems and natural resources, and interdisciplinary engagement in animal systems, between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the US. |
| 150,000 | No | 09/04/2025 | 04/25/2028 | National Endowment for the Humanities | Humanities Connections | Projects should plan or implement a curriculum connecting the humanities to one or more non-humanities fields (physical, natural sciences; law & business; computer & data science). |
| 150,000 | No | 09/04/2025 | 04/25/2027 | National Endowment for the Humanities | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities | NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine the role of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues. |
| 7,500,000 | No | 09/05/2025 | 04/25/2030 | Office of Naval Research (DoD-ONR) | Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) | Basic research in science and engineering at U.S. institutions of higher education focused on multidisciplinary research efforts where more than one traditional discipline interacts to provide rapid advances in scientific areas of interest to the DoD. |
| 150,000 | No | 09/15/2025 | 04/25/2028 | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WI-DNR) | Wisconsin DNR Surface Water Grant Program | Supports surface water management from start to finish, including: outreach, assessments and surveys, planning, project design, or management. |
| 5,000,000 | No | 09/30/2025 | 04/25/2030 | Department of Energy (DOE) | DOE Office of Science Financial Assistance Program | Supports work in the following program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Isotope R&D and Production, and Accelerator R&D and Production. |
| 500,000 | No | 10/15/2025 | 04/25/2028 | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) | Exploring Equitable Futures | Projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come. |
| 750,000 | No | 10/27/2025 | 04/25/2030 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) | IRES focuses on the development of a world-class U.S. STEM workforce through international research experiences for cohorts of U.S. students. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 11/01/2025 | 04/25/2027 | Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) | Annual Request for Proposals | Funds expert teams to deliver rapid solutions to the most critical challenges facing humans and our planet (no IDC allowed). |
| 1 | No | 11/01/2025 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Applied Mathematics | Supports mathematics research motivated by or having an effect on problems arising in science and engineering. | |
| 2,000,000 | No | 02/19/2026 | 04/25/2029 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) | Development of innovative tools, technologies, resources, and infrastructure that advance biological research focused on the identification of the causal mechanisms connecting genes and phenotypes. |
| 500,000 | No | 06/05/2025 | 04/25/2030 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Research to Action: Assessing and Addressing Community Exposures to Environmental Contaminants (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) | Multidisciplinary projects to investigate the potential health risks of environmental exposures of concern to a community and to develop and implement an environmental public health action plan based on research findings. |
| Amount | Limited | Due | Length | Sponsor | Program Title | Description |