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Hanover Research: Higher Education Research Grant Alerts

Below is a recap of research funding opportunities that were recently announced, nationwide. While these alerts are intended to provide you with a broad-reaching overview of the opportunities available, we certainly want to hear if there are specific opportunities that you would like to pursue. Please let your Content Director know if you have any questions or are interested in learning more.

Our Grant Alerts dashboard profiles relevant previously announced national-level funding opportunities, which can be sorted by type, agency/funder, and date. Also, your dedicated Content Director and Relationship Director are ready to help with custom research solutions to the challenges you are facing.

FEDERAL GRANTS
Grant Name: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research (R03) (NIH)
Summary:  This program aims to support studies of the ethical, legal and social implications of human genetic or genomic research. These applications should be for small, self-contained research projects, such as those that involve single investigators. Of particular interest are projects that propose normative or conceptual analyses, including focused legal, economic, philosophical, anthropological, or historical analyses of new or emerging issues.
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Standard NIH dates through October 2026.
Grant Name: Molecular Mechanisms of Combination Adjuvants (R01) (NIH)
Summary:  This program aims to support research studies of two or more vaccine adjuvants (combination adjuvants) in order to understand the mechanisms by which they work in concert. All adjuvants considered must have previously demonstrated immune modulating activity. The long-term goal of this research program is to improve the rational design of vaccines by predicting the immune profile elicited by combination adjuvants.
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  LOIs are due by May 10, 2025.
Grant Name: Time-Sensitive Evaluation of Policies Affecting Health Behaviors and Chronic Disease Risk (R01) (NIH)
Summary:  This program establishes an accelerated review/award process to support time-sensitive research to evaluate a new policy or program that is likely to influence diet, physical activity, sleep, and/or weight and thus has the potential to lower rates of chronic diseases, particularly in populations at risk for health disparities. This NOFO is intended to support research where opportunities for empirical study are, by their very nature, only available through expedited review and funding. 
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Standard NIH dates through January 2028.
Grant Name: National Cooperative Drug/Device Discovery/Development Groups for the Treatment of Mental Disorders (U01) (NIH)
Summary:  This program aims to accelerate innovative drug and device therapies translation from discovery to early human studies. Studies appropriate for this NOFO will develop pharmacologic and neuromodulatory tools for basic and clinical research on mental health disorders; develop and validate tools (pharmacologic or neurostimulation) in support of experimental therapeutic studies of innovative candidates for mental disorders; and support early-stage human studies to rapidly assess the safety, tolerability, and pharmacodynamics of promising drug candidates/devices. 
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions beyond those mentioned above.
Dates:  Standard NIH dates apply through October 2027.
Grant Name: Aligning Manufacturability & Pre-production Design for Storage Technologies (DOE)
Summary:  This program solicits applications to improve the manufacturability of energy storage technologies through pre-production design innovations, setting the stage for manufacturing scale-up to meet the energy storage needs of American consumers.
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Proposals are due by March 17, 2025.
Grant Name: Stimulate Utilization of Plentiful Energy in Rocks through High-temperature Original Technologies (DOE ARPA-E)
Summary:  This program aims to support research and development of new technologies to enable scalable superhot geothermal by addressing the major technical challenges affecting geothermal well life and the ability to harvest subsurface energy effectively. Consequently, the focus is on robust well construction and transfer of heat from the surrounding geologic formation to the well. 
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Proposals are due by February 17, 2025.
Grant Name: High-Energy-Density Laboratory Plasma Science (DOE)
Summary:  This program aims to support fundamental high-energy-density science within the DOE. Key fundamental questions in HEDS include, but are not limited to: How does matter behave under extreme conditions of temperature, pressure, density, and electromagnetic fields? Can the mechanisms behind the formation of astrophysical jets be simulated in laboratory experiments? How can we enhance our understanding of dense cosmic bodies through laboratory experiments and theoretical frameworks? Is there a fundamental limit to how hot a laser-produced plasma can become, and can we achieve the necessary light intensity to create dense electron-pair plasmas from a vacuum?
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  LOIs are due very soon, by January 30, 2025.
Grant Name: Sustainable Propane and Renewable Chemicals (DOE)
Summary:  This program supports research and development of domestic chemicals and fuels from a variety of biomass and waste resources, with the goal of producing chemicals and propane/liquid petroleum gas from renewable feedstocks helps to safeguard domestic supply chains, secure energy independence, support rural economies, and improve global competitiveness of the industry. 
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Concept papers are due by March 14, 2025.
Grant Name: Research in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering (DOE)
Summary:  This program supports research at the frontiers of basic plasma science (including astrophysical, dusty, and low temperature plasma). GPS topical areas are broad and include but are not limited to: understanding the onset of magnetic reconnection and trigger mechanisms for explosive instabilities in nature (solar flares, geomagnetic storms) and in the laboratory; magnetic dynamo processes by which magnetic fields are generated in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas; mechanisms by which energy is transferred between fields, flows, and particles; how coherent structures are created through the self-fields of the plasma and its interactions with waves; etc.
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Proposals are due by April 4, 2025.
Grant Name: Accelerating CO2 Conversion Technology Development and Deployment: Biological, Catalytic, and Mineralization Pathways (DOE)
Summary:  This program aims to support cost-shared research and development proposals to advance the pilot scale testing of carbon conversion technologies with high technology readiness level capable of achieving significant carbon mitigation via biological, catalytic, or mineralization pathways. This program also supports testing of carbon conversion product performance and characterization needed for market or consumer adoption. 
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Proposals are due by April 11, 2025.
Grant Name: Harnessing Autonomy for Energy Joint Ventures Offshore (DOE ARPA-E)
Summary:  This program envisions the creation of a U.S.-led marine energy hydrocarbon and industrial commodity supply from the deep-water offshore cultivation of seaweed at the gigaton scale. Such an industry would not require fresh water, artificial fertilizer, or any additional land use, and would not preclude any existing industry. To achieve this vision, the goals of HAEJO are to support the development of new technologies to markedly improve the economics of offshore seaweed farms via sensors that enable autonomy, depth cycling infrastructure and vessel-based dewatering systems. HAEJO also seeks to reduce risk and uncertainty in the agricultural biostimulant market and discover new applications that can grow U.S. industry.
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Proposals are due by February 13, 2025.
Grant Name: Grid Reliability with Automatic Damping and Inertia for Electrical Networks and Transmission Systems (DOE ARPA-E)
Summary:  This program will support the development of disruptive grid assets and control solutions enabling renewable energy systems to provide and improve services traditionally supported by large conventional synchronous generators. At present, existing renewable energy systems without ancillary services can deteriorate grid stability. This program aims to use real-time control co-design to transform that problem into a solution, specifically creating intelligent inverter-based resources that improve grid controllability and coordination. 
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Proposals are due by February 14, 2025.
FOUNDATION GRANTS
Grant Name: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Reimagining Land Use and Zoning for Health Equity
Summary:  RWJF and its partners are seeking to address the challenges of U.S. land use policies that were designed to intentionally maintain racial and economic segregation. Such regulations continue to result in the exclusion of families from affordable housing, community assets, and opportunity, creating significant health inequities. This call for proposals will result in project grants that support discrete activities addressing negative impacts of land use policies and that work to achieve health equity for all.
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  LOIs are due quite soon, by February 6, 2025.

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