Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences

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Invited institutions throughout the US may nominate 1 faculty member to submit for seed grant funding.

Eligibility
To be eligible, PI must be a full-time Assistant or Associate Professor at an invited US academic institution, working in the area of studies of brain function.  This includes molecular and clinical neuroscience as well as studies of neural, sensory, motor, cognitive, behavioral and emotional functioning in health and disease. The grant proposal must detail a new research project that is not funded by other sources. This grant is not to be used as bridge funding.  

Investigators at institutions that are affiliated with a medical school or university are eligible to apply only through the institution where they hold a full-time faculty position. 

Scientists that have previously received a BRF Seed Grant may not receive the award for a second time unless all grant requirements from all previous awards are met.  Only one PI may apply per application. 

Program Overview
To be eligible for this $100,000 two-year grant program, your institution must receive an email invitation from Brain Research Foundation, to nominate one faculty member (assistant or associate professor) to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the BRF Seed Grant Program.  

Brain Research Foundation’s Annual Seed Grant Program was initiated in 1981. The purpose of our program is to provide start-up monies for new research projects in the field of neuroscience that will likely lead to extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other outside funding sources.   

Brain Research Foundation’s Scientific Review Committee will review the seed grant proposals and make recommendations for funding to the Foundation. The Committee consists of senior scientists broadly representing the various neuroscience-related programs. A representative of Brain Research Foundation is also present when the Committee meets. 

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J. Thanga (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering) 

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Only one application per organization will be considered.

Required Cost Share
Applicants must contribute matching funds equal to at least 20% of the Forest Service requested funds. For example, if the requested Federal amount is $100,000, the applicant match must be at least $20,000 or more. Applications that do not include this match will be deemed ineligible.

Executive Summary
The Forest Service’s International Programs and Trade (IPT) Invasive Species program protects U.S. forests, grasslands, and agricultural lands by supporting projects that improve prevention and management of invasive species impacting U.S. lands. The goal of the program is to improve management of invasive pests and to prevent or minimize new infestations in the U.S. Addressing invasive species requires international cooperation, and most projects the program supports include international collaborators, such as from the native range of invasive species currently impacting the U.S., from countries also trying to manage the same invasive pests we have in the U.S., and/or countries with whom we can share information on emerging pests and prevention strategies. 

Invasive pests introduced through trade cost the United States $26 billion annually, threatening ecosystem health, biodiversity, and economic stability. Maintaining healthy, resilient forests across the U.S. is essential for the Forest Service to deliver on the President’s Executive Order (EO) 14225 “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production” and on USDA Secretary’s Memo (SM) 1078-006 “Increasing Timber Production and Designating an Emergency Situation on National Forest System Lands”. This work also supports the Forest Service’s efforts to deliver on EO 14223 “Addressing the Threat to National Security from Imports of Timber” by limiting the spread of invasive species that might impact expanding timber harvests. It is also crucial to carrying out the President’s and USDA Secretary’s National Farm Security Action Plan, specifically to minimize biosecurity threats, safeguard plant health, and improve the resilience of America’s agriculture. USDA Secretary Brook Rollins is also prioritizing invasive species research, naming “Protecting the Integrity of American Agriculture from Invasive Species” as one of the agency’s top research priorities for 2026. 

Through this NOFO, IPT’s Invasive Species program aims to support projects that advance tangible improvements in invasive species prevention by utilizing existing research knowledge on invasive species risks and pathways to produce actionable outcomes that protect American agriculture from invasive species. For example, past and current research has built important pre-invasion knowledge of problematic pests, such as through horizon scanning and monitoring ex-patria sentinel trees. We invite proposals that build upon and directly link this type of invasive species scientific knowledge to make improvements in regulatory frameworks, policies, and actions that will decrease new arrivals and establishment of invasive pests. Projects should bridge the gap between current research knowledge and concrete actions that will improve how the U.S. prevents the introduction and establishment of new invasive species.

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You must follow these limits on the number of applications your organization can submit.

You may submit only one application per institution. Each institution must have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number.

Executive Summary
The NOFO supports CDC’s efforts to protect U.S. residents traveling internationally. The goal is to help U.S. travelers with pre-travel preparation, access to timely health information while traveling, and timely research on health conditions.

The project will:

• Improve access to high quality travel preparation information for both healthcare providers and travelers.
• Collect health information before, during, and after travel through innovative electronic medical record (EMR), web, and mobile phone applications.
• Build on this platform to conduct timely research on emerging health threats, including:
  • Enrollment of prospective cohorts.
  • Developing and evaluating advanced diagnostics.
  • Cost-effectiveness and optimization evaluations.

This NOFO will support research and surveillance activities in a network of clinics that provide pre-travel health services to people with travel destinations outside of the United States, focusing on travelers at high risk for illness or injury while travelling.

During pre-travel visits, this system will anonymously collect specific data on travelers visiting international destinations. This NOFO will encourage high-risk travelers to seek pre-travel health consultations from a clinician to prepare them for a healthy return.

This will also contribute to the travel medicine scientific evidence base.

Examples of contributions may include:

• Prospective traveler cohort studies.
• Use of novel diagnostic techniques to estimate risks to travelers.

Many international travelers see a primary care clinician or another medical specialist for pre-travel consultations instead of a clinician who specializes intravel medicine.

This NOFO will also increase the awareness of travel medicine among primary care providers and provide them with appropriate tools in advising international travelers with up-to-date recommendations.

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Applicants are only allowed to submit one proposal per organization. If more than one proposal is submitted from an organization, only the first time-stamped application submission will be review for technical eligibility.

Executive Summary 
The U.S. Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna advances U.S. foreign policy through multilateral diplomacy with the major international organizations headquartered in Vienna, including the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). As the U.S. Mission accredited to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) and other Vienna-based international organizations, UNVIE is uniquely positioned to promote implementation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, the three other core space treaties, non- binding guidelines and best practices adopted by COPUOS, and other measures to strengthen international cooperation that advances the peaceful, responsible, and commercially beneficial uses of outer space. 

The global space economy is undergoing unprecedented growth as governments, private industry, universities, entrepreneurs, and investors expand commercial space capabilities and develop innovative technologies. Participation in this rapidly evolving sector offers countries new opportunities to promote economic growth, strengthen innovation ecosystems, develop highly skilled workforces, improve public services, and increase international competitiveness. 

While established spacefaring nations continue to lead many aspects of the sector, an increasing number of emerging space nations are developing national space policies, institutions, and commercial capabilities to support their participation in the global space economy. Many of these countries are seeking trusted international partners that can help strengthen institutional capacity, foster entrepreneurship, expand commercial opportunities, and develop the next generation of scientists, engineers, business leaders, and policymakers. Although numerous bilateral partnerships already exist among governments, universities, research institutions, and private companies, these relationships are often developed separately from international legal and policy debates on civil and commercial space at the UN, limiting the cross-pollination of technical standards, best practices, and policy approaches between global forums like COPUOS and regional or bilateral initiatives. 

The United States possesses one of the world's most dynamic and integrated space ecosystems, combining government leadership, world-class universities, research institutions, innovative startups, established commercial companies, investors, nonprofit organizations, and international partnerships. By connecting partner countries with this broad ecosystem, the United States can improve alignment between U.S. and foreign partners’ policy approaches to UN forums like COPUOS, while strengthening national space ecosystems and promoting innovation, entrepreneurship, commercial engagement, workforce development, and mutually beneficial economic partnerships. 

As the home of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), Vienna provides a uniquemultilateral platform for fostering these partnerships. Building upon the successful inaugural U.S. Space Forum in 2025, the U.S. Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna (UNVIE) is launching Project Constellation: Building a Constellation of Outer Space Partners at the United Nations as a long-term international partnership platform that strengthens collaboration among governments, industry, academia, entrepreneurs, and international organizations while supporting capacity building in emerging space economies that advances practical implementation of international obligations and non-binding guidelines and best practices adopted through COPUOS. 

Consistent with the objectives of Economic Support Funds (ESF), Project Constellation seeks to strengthen innovation ecosystems, promote entrepreneurship and commercial engagement, build institutional and workforce capacity, and expand economic opportunities through sustainable international partnerships. 

The U.S. Department of State, U.S Mission to International Organizations in Vienna (UNVIE) announces an open competition for organizations (see eligibility information in C.1) interested in submitting an application to implement a project aimed at.

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You must follow these limits on the number of applications your organization can submit.

You may submit only one application per institution. Each institution must have their own Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number.

Summary
The focus of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to produce insights into disease detection and prevention strategies, burden, severity, diagnostics, treatment, and outcomes of infectious diseases in international travelers. Timely surveillance and sentinel detection are essential for collecting actionable data.

The research should:

• Address public health questions that improve the speed of outbreak detection.
• Help develop guidelines and recommendations to improve patient care.
• Enhance understanding of the natural history of disease.
• Optimize genomic surveillance as well as diagnostic and treatment strategies.
• Advance the global health security of the United States.
• This NOFO will have two components:
  • Component A – Clinic-based sentinel network.
  • Component B – Sentinel detection in international transportation hubs.

You may apply for Component A, B, or both. If your application for both Component A and B is ranked top, Component B will be awarded.

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Under this NOFO, you may submit only one application under your organization’s UEI.

Summary 
This funding opportunity will help strengthen sustainable systems that countries use to identify and control fungal disease threats. Activities supported may include: 

• Strengthening laboratory and diagnostic capacity. 
• Enhancing surveillance systems. 
• Supporting workforce development. 
• Improving data collection, analysis, and use to guide public health action. 

Projects are expected to: 

• Build on existing national and regional public health structures. 
• Promote practical approaches that countries can sustain and integrate into broader communicable disease and public health programs. 

Ideally, this work will strengthen national and regional capacity to detect, characterize, and respond to fungal diseases and improve coordination across sectors and borders. 

Strengthened systems will help countries better understand fungal disease patterns, identify emerging threats earlier, and carry out public health interventions quickly and effectively. 

Over time, these efforts are intended to: 

• Improve how quickly countries detect and respond to fungal threats. 
• Reduce the global burden of fungal diseases. 
• Strengthen global health security. 
• Reduce the risk of spreading diseases internationally, including to the United States

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An individual applicant may not submit more than one application in response to this NOFO, and may not be offered more than one award.

Summary
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) announces this notice of funding opportunity to support the Technical Agricultural Assistance Program by issuing a new award. 

This opportunity is available to State cooperative institutions, - colleges and universities in the United States, as defined at 7 U.S.C. § 3103 and public and private nonprofit institutions/organizations and is intended to help achieve the objectives of “Enhancing Biotechnology Market Opportunities for U.S. Exporters and American Farmers” in key markets to include Africa, Asia, Western Hemisphere/Latin America/Americas as well as other relevant economic bodies and organizations such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the African Union and European Union. Specifically, this new award aims to support activities that promote the America First policy agenda to help expand market access for U.S. agricultural products and to address current and potential trade barriers to U.S. products derived from agricultural biotechnologies.

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D. Alharthi (College of Information Science) 

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Only one applicant from a university or non-profit research institute will be considered in each application cycle. Institutions are expected to conduct an internal review and selection process, as the Foundation will not consider multiple letters of intent from a single institution. For purposes of this policy, the Foundation considers the parent university to be the relevant institution. Accordingly, a university with a law school, medical school, several teaching hospitals, and a faculty of arts and sciences may only submit one letter of intent in total. If a university system, such as a state-wide university system, comprises several universities, each university within the system may nominate one applicant.

Program Overview
The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable early-career faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. The program is designed to support projects that address a significant bioethics problem and extend beyond current work in bioethics, while fostering a community of Scholars and Alums committed to advancing the field.

Each year, the Foundation selects approximately three Greenwall Faculty Scholars to receive 50 percent salary support for three years to pursue a defined research project and further develop their research program.

Scholars and Alums attend twice-yearly meetings, where they present their works in progress, receive feedback and mentoring from the Faculty Scholars Program Committee and other Scholars and Alums, and have an opportunity to cultivate collaborative relationships across institutions and disciplines. Third-year Scholars are expected to help plan these meetings. Program Alums remain actively engaged, providing mentorship to newer Scholars and creating a sustained network for professional development, collaboration, and scholarly exchange. In addition, all first-year Scholars participate in a philosophical bioethics seminar series, and other professional development opportunities may be offered through the Program.

The Program Committee oversees the Faculty Scholars Program, selects Scholars and recommends them for funding, and plays an active role in mentorship and professional development activities.

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Under this NOFO, you may submit only one application under your organization’s UEI.

Summary 
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) supports strengthening country systems to detect, notify, and respond to outbreaks by applying time-bound, evidence-based frameworks, such as the 7-1-7 target, which aims to detect outbreaks within 7 days, notify within 1 day, and respond within 7 days. This target was selected to promote rapid containment and minimize health and economic impacts. 

Activities under this award will be conducted outside the United States and its territories. Building on previous outbreak experience and other international health emergencies, this NOFO advances American interests by reinforcing systems that protect both the United States and recipient nations. 

Activities focus on improving early detection of biological threats, timely notification across sectors and borders, and effective response to contain outbreaks before they spread, consistent with the Detect, Notify, Respond (D- N-R) framework. Efforts include strengthening surveillance, expanding laboratory readiness, enhancing information flows, and improving response operations to reduce economic effects and improve health. These activities emphasize burden sharing, accountability, and efficiency to ensure benefits to Americans at home and abroad, while helping recipient nations achieve long-term self-reliance and stability.

Please see NOFO for required delivery locations. 

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Under this NOFO, you may submit only one application under your organization’s UEI.

Summary 
This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) will enhance capacity to contain outbreaks through partnerships with Ministries of Health (MOHs), external stakeholders, and other governmental institutions. This NOFO prioritizes durable Global Health Security (GHS) programs to keep Americans safer, stronger, and more prosperous by improving public health globally. It applies lessons learned from recent significant public health events, including outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF), highly pathogenic strains of influenza, and the COVID-19 pandemic. 

As global leaders in strengthening GHS systems, the U.S. government (USG) will use updated frameworks to advance disease detection, notification, and response strategies. This NOFO’s main outcomes are:

• Use time-bound evidence based frameworks, such as the 7-1-7 framework, to detect and respond to outbreaks more quickly for diseases that threaten global health security and the health of Americans at home and abroad. 
• Support regional and country public health institutions to independently lead preparedness efforts and create resilient, durable, and locally owned health systems. 
• Enhance data systems, lab capacity, and local field epidemiology workforce to effectively combat disease threats of international significance.