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ACED: Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (ACED) | NSF 24-541

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Supports interdisciplinary collaborative research to explore new computational technologies and accelerate scientific discovery.

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January 14, 2025
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Organismal Response to Climate Change (ORCC) | NSF 25-504

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Supports integrative, cross-disciplinary research that explores the mechanistic and eco-evolutionary responses of organisms to climate change, aiming to improve predictions, develop solutions for mitigating impacts and support the bioeconomy.

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January 23, 2025
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Building Synthetic Microbial Communities for Biology, Mitigating Climate Change, Sustainability and Biotechnology (Synthetic Communities) | NSF 25-501

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Supports research into synthetic microbial communities, including how they form and evolve, how to use them to address biological questions and/or how to build them for biotechnology or bioengineering applications.

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February 3, 2025
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Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB) | NSF 25-509

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The Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB) program seeks to stimulate the development of innovative mathematical theories, techniques, and approaches to investigate challenging questions of great interest to biologists and public health policymakers. It supports truly integrative research projects in mathematical...
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March 3, 2025
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Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) | NSF 22-603

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Supports opportunities for scientists and engineers at the associate professor rank (or equivalent) to substantively enhance and advance their research program through synergistic partnerships.

Posted January 28, 2005
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March 3, 2025
Proposal window February 1, 2025 - March 3, 2025
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Biodiversity on a Changing Planet (BoCP) | NSF 24-574

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Supports projects studying functional biodiversity in the context of environmental change. Projects should consider ecological and evolutionary approaches in response to the continual gain, loss and reorganization of biodiversity on a changing planet.

Posted January 28, 2005
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September 4, 2025
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Emerging Mathematical Tools applied to Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease | NSF 24-067

Encourages proposals that enhance our knowledge of pathogen transmission dynamics through novel technologies, such as remote sensing, precision treatment and mathematical or computational models, including artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Plant Synthetic Biology | NSF 20-045

Supports basic research, tool development and applications to advance the field of plant synthetic biology through ongoing programs in the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate for Engineering.

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Supporting Research at the Intersection of Agricultural Science, Big Data, Informatics, and Smart Communities, a joint effort between NSF and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA/NIFA) | NSF 19-051

Encourages proposals that combine methods in agricultural, biological, and computer and information science and engineering to address pressing challenges in digital agriculture.

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NSF-Simons Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems (MathBioSys) | NSF 17-560

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Supports the establishment of collaborative research centers focused on mathematical sciences at the interface of molecular, cellular and organismal biology. Each center will support education and training, visitor programs, workshops and outreach.

Posted January 19, 2012
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Neural Systems | PD 11-7714

Supports mechanistic studies in neuroscience, from structure to function in natural context, that span multiple levels of analysis, from molecular and cellular to complex behavioral aspects of organisms.

Posted January 18, 2023
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UKRI/BBSRC - NSF/BIO Lead Agency Opportunity in Biological Informatics, Systems Understanding of Host-Microbe Interactions, Synthetic Cells and Cellular Systems, and Synthetic Microbial Communities | NSF 23-143

Invites transatlantic collaborative research proposals that address the priorities of both UK Research and Innovation Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and participating Divisions in NSF’s Directorate for Biological Sciences.

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Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS): Funding to Broaden Participation in the Biological Sciences | NSF 23-145

Encourages proposals or supplemental funding requests from current NSF awardees for projects that foster interest in the biological sciences and broaden participation of high school students.

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Microorganism-Mediated Organismal Resilience to Climate Change (MMORCC) | NSF 25-014

Encourages proposals that advance our understanding of microorganisms and their role in climate change through a public-private partnership.

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Organismal Systems and Infection Biology (OSIB) | NSF 22-016

Encourages new, integrative approaches to understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics and nature of host-infectious agent interactions in different contexts, across different scales, with alternative outcomes, and in non-model or under-studied systems.

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Advancing Plant Transformation | NSF 23-019

Invites proposals focused on plant genetic transformation to certain existing programs at NSF and USDA. Proposals can involve basic research, long-term studies, tool development, or applications emphasizing potential outcomes with societal benefit.

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Research Experience for Teachers (RET): Funding Opportunity in the Biological Sciences | NSF 23-146

Encourages proposals or supplemental funding requests from current awardees of the Directorate for Biological Sciences to include participation of K-12 science educators in their projects.

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Planning for Midscale Infrastructure for the Biological Sciences | NSF 20-116

Invites workshop and planning proposals that address national research infrastructure gaps relevant to the biological sciences community.

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Reproducible Cells and Organoids via Directed- Differentiation Encoding (RECODE) | NSF 21-608

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) Divisions of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET), Integrative and Organismal Systems (IOS), Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB), and Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) seek proposals that elucidate mechanisms of, and develop strategies...
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Behavioral Systems | PD 11-7659

Supports integrative research on the behavior of individuals and groups of animals. Supports species-specific and comparative studies, as well as modeling and theoretical approaches.

Posted January 18, 2023
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Developmental Systems | PD 11-1119

Supports research on how the properties of organisms emerge from the interactions of developmental processes. Focus areas include plant, fungal and microbial development; animal development; and the evolution of developmental mechanisms

Posted January 18, 2023
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Physiological and Structural Systems (PSS) | PD 11-7658

Supports research on whole-organism physiology and functional morphology, including mechanisms underlying interactions among viruses, prokaryotes and eukaryotes; organismal structural features; and organismal responses to abiotic/biotic environments.

Posted January 18, 2023
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Leveraging Innovations From Evolution (LIFE) | NSF 24-049

Encourages research proposals using comparative approaches to identify evolutionary convergent adaptations to life’s challenges and the mechanisms that underlie them.

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NSF-Simons Collaboration on a National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB) | NSF 21-607

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Supports the establishment of an institute to facilitate research, education and training between mathematicians and biologists, with a goal of developing new mathematical methodologies inspired by biological problems.

Posted May 9, 2014
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Advancing Plant Transformation | NSF 24-120

Invites proposals focused on plant genetic transformation to certain existing programs at NSF and USDA. Proposals can involve basic research, long-term studies, tool development or applications emphasizing potential outcomes with societal benefit.

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