Hanover is monitoring the evolving landscape of federal and foundation grants in light of the government shutdown and presidential administration's priorities. Before applying to any federal program, be sure to check with your institution's grants office as well as the relevant program officer.
Below is a recap of research funding opportunitiesthat 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 thereare 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.
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This program aims to support projects to design, implement, test and validate three compelling Topic Areas for strategic refurbishment/retrofit of existing coal power plants, providing a path for rapid and cost-effective restoration of stability to the nation’s bulk power system while supporting the nation’s industrial and energy security priorities by enabling coal powered systems to provide reliable, secure, and affordable electricity delivered in the near term at scale. Successful projects will lead to the implementation of transformational technologies that will significantly improve the efficiency, effectiveness, costs, emissions reductions, and environmental performance of coal and natural gas use.
Through the program, early-career investigators will be awarded $150,000 over three years in support of innovative research that focuses on basic science mechanisms of pain. Proposed research projects should be directed toward investigating the molecular biology of pain and/or basic science topics related to developing new analgesics for managing pain.
The foundation invites applications for the PSF Directed Research Grant–Breast Surgery (reconstruction or aesthetic), which aims to support studies designed to research a meaningful topic that advances understanding and patient outcomes in reconstructive or aesthetic breast surgery, including, but not limited to topics on breast implant safety. The Foundation seeks proposals that generate evidence that contributes to improved clinical outcomes, patient safety, or surgical innovation in breast surgery. Basic, translational, and clinical research studies are all within scope.
The Foundation invites applications for research grants. The program awards $50,000 stipends to physician-scientists in support of career development and training dedicated to the study of myocarditis. Grants are intended to offer seed funding to support the early stages of long-term research, from the investigation of an initial hypothesis to the collection of preliminary data.
The Foundation invites applications for the Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders, which aims to expand the global base of movement disorder specialists (neurologists with additional training in Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders) by training movement disorder clinician-researchers who can provide expert care and lead scientific advances.
The Fund invites proposals to encourage exploratory and developmental Alzheimer’s disease research projects within the United States by providing support for the early and conceptual plans of projects that may not yet be supported by extensive preliminary data but have the potential to substantially advance biomedical research.
The Foundation invites applications from investigators at nonprofit institutions in the United States who are working to identify new treatments or cures for cancer. The foundation funds projects for a one-year period to foster the establishment of capabilities of new cancer researchers or new cancer approaches by established cancer researchers. It is anticipated that this early-stage funding by the foundation may lead to subsequent and expanded support using government agency funding. Project relevance to cancer detection, treatment, or cure should be clearly identified.
This program provides support for independent, self-directed researchers. Grant proposals are investigator-initiated and may pursue questions across the cancer research continuum, as long as they fit within an ACS priority research area, which includes etiology (causes of cancer), obesity/healthy eating and active living, screening and diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and health equity across the cancer continuum.
Eligibility:
The applicant's first faculty position must have started less than ten years ago.
The Foundation aims to prevent and cure hearing loss and tinnitus through groundbreaking research and to promote hearing health. The foundation invites applications for its Emerging Research grants program, which has a variety of award types for investigators at different career stages.
The foundation solicits applications for academic investigators conducting research to demonstrate the benefits of novel ways to access or deliver mental health care or prevention approaches that can be implemented at scale. The program is focused on improving access to high-quality mental health care for children and adolescents, especially those from low-income families and under-resourced communities.
CRI invites applications for its Technology Impact Award, which is designed to support early-stage, pre-development concepts—innovations that have not yet been built or tested, but that hold the potential to transform the landscape of cancer immunotherapy. The award aims to bridge the gap between conceptual technological innovation and real-world clinical application. By encouraging collaboration between technology developers and clinical cancer immunologists, CRI hopes to accelerate the creation of technologies that can generate proof-of-principle data and unlock novel biological insights.
CRI invites applications for its CRI Clinical Innovator, which supports pioneering immunotherapy clinical trials designed and led by academic researchers. These investigator-initiated studies are vital to improving patient outcomes, addressing areas of high unmet need, and generating critical mechanistic insights that can guide the future of cancer treatment.
The mission of the American Lung Association is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease through education, advocacy, and research. The association invites applications for its Public Health and Public Policy Research Award, where grants of up to $50,000 per year for up to two years will be awarded to stimulate and inform public policy debates about healthy air and lung disease. The intent is to support research on and evaluation of existing public policy and public health programs, as well as pilot new ideas in these areas.
The Rheumatology Research Foundation has committed $1 million in emergency funding to safeguard critical research after sweeping federal budget cuts in 2025 slashed support for health, science, and medical research. The Foundation’s board of directors unanimously approved to expand funding for the K and R Bridge awards to support early and mid-career investigators and independent investigators conducting innovative research.
CTF invites applications for its YIA program, which provides funding to early-career neurofibromatosis researchers to help them get established as independent NF investigators. The program provides seed funding to attract researchers to the field and enable them to generate data to secure larger grants, such as from the NIH and congressionally directed medical research programs. Grantees will receive as much as $200,000 for up to two years.
Voloridge Health has issued a request for proposals for its clinical research awards program, which supports researchers and innovators with in-kind research awards (up to $50,000 in services) to advance preventive health science. Selected applicants receive predictive risk model analyses, consultation with the Voloridge Health data science team, and opportunities to co-publish in peer-reviewed journals. The program offers up to $50,000 worth of data science services to enhance applicants’ clinical dataset with risk scores across multiple chronic diseases.
Through this RFP, the Foundation is not seeking incremental improvements. This call is for transformative, bold solutions that can reduce costs by at least 50 percent compared to current baselines, while maintaining or improving safety, efficacy, and user acceptability. The foundation wants to support the development and validation of scalable, sustainable strategies that make high-quality nutrient ingredients and products affordable for LMIC health systems and ensure equitable access for every mother and child.
This is AACR’s flagship funding initiative to stimulate highly innovative research from young investigators, and is intended to promote and support creative, paradigm-shifting cancer research that may not be funded through conventional channels. It is expected that these grants will catalyze significant scientific discoveries and help talented young investigators gain scientific independence. The proposed project may be basic, translational, clinical, or population-based research in nature and must have direct applicability and relevance to breast cancer. The grant provides $450,000 over three years for expenses related to the research project. AACR has also announced two related tracks for breast cancer research (see here and here).
FFAR invites applications for the Packaging Innovation Program to develop packaging and packaging alternatives for specialty crops compliant with emerging regulations in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and other key markets. This program is seeking research applications for novel sustainable packaging or packaging alternatives that can replace single-use packaging and single-use plastic packaging that offer at least some of the same functions economically.
ACLS invites applications for its Digital Justice Development Grants program, which is designed to address inequities in access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the program promotes inclusion and sustainability by extending the opportunity to participate in the digital transformation of humanistic inquiry to a greater number of humanities scholars and projects at the beginning stages of development.
Eligibility:
To be eligible, at least one of the project’s principal investigators must be a scholar in the humanities and/or the interpretative social sciences.
Dates:
Proposals are due quite soon, by November 20, 2025.
The Foundation invites applications for its Small Research Grants Program, which will support education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets of $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. The program supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their careers and anticipates that proposals will span a wide range of topics and disciplines that investigate questions central to education.
This program aims to support research and/or curricular projects focused on the broad topics of AI and normalcy. Applications must be demonstrably grounded in the humanities and led by humanities scholars. Experimental methodologies, interdisciplinary and community collaboration, and pathways to informing campus and/or wider policies and practices are welcome.
IPA invites proposals from researchers and organizations focused on exploring interventions to reduce human trafficking or respond to the needs of human trafficking victims but need some additional time and support to push the research project to the next stage. HTRI will award grants ranging from $10,000 to $75,000 for concrete early-stage activities.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
Proposals are due by December 4, 2025.
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