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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.

FEDERAL GRANTS

Grant Name: NHLBI Single-Site Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials (R61/R33)
Summary:  This RFP supports applications to develop and conduct investigator-initiated single site clinical trials including efficacy, comparative effectiveness, pragmatic and/or dissemination and implementation science clinical trials. Trials using innovative designs such as platform trials, adaptive, and Bayesian designs are encouraged. These trials may include ones that test different therapeutic, behavioral, dissemination and implementation science clinical trials and/or prevention strategies. Trials for which this NOFO applies must be relevant to the research mission of the NHLBI.
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Standard NIH dates through October 2028.
Grant Name: Make America Healthy Again: Enhancing Lifestyle and Evaluating Value-based Approaches Through Evidence (CMS)
Summary:  This voluntary, three-year service delivery model is designed to test evidence-based, whole-person functional or lifestyle medicine (“whole-person FLM”) approaches to care. Rather than treating diseases separately after they develop, this program takes a proactive, comprehensive approach that combines psychological, nutritional, and physical interventions with personalized, lifestyle-based strategies for prevention and early treatment. 
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Proposals are due by May 15, 2026.
Grant Name: FINDERS FOUNDRY (NSF)
Summary:  The Fostering Interdisciplinary Networks to Develop Emergent and Responsive Solutions Foundry program supports collaboration among K-12 educators, technologists, and researchers to develop innovative solutions to persistent challenges in learning and workforce development. These challenges are identified by K-12 students, families, and educators. The program aims to create and scale evidence-based practices, tools, and technologies that improve learning outcomes and prepare students for a digital, AI-driven future.
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Proposals are due by May 27, 2026.
Grant Name: NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women (DOJ)
Summary:  This NOFO seeks applications for grant funding to conduct research and evaluation projects examining a broad range of topics to reduce violence against women, along with the trauma that results from these crimes and the associated criminal justice system response, procedures, and policies. NIJ also seeks to invest in high-quality evaluations focused on testing programs, practices, models, or interventions for these populations.
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Proposals are due by May 11, 2026.
FOUNDATION GRANTS
 
Grant Name: One Mind: Rising Star Award for Mental Health
Summary:  One Mind launched the Rising Star Awards in 2005 with the fundamental belief that investing in world-class early-career investigators pursuing innovative, high-risk/high-reward research would accelerate breakthroughs in mental health conditions and psychiatric disorders. Since its inception, One Mind has awarded 54 Rising Star Awards to researchers pushing the frontiers of mental health science through their research and leadership. This year One Mind will award up to four Rising Star Awards, each providing a $300,000 research grant ($100,000 per year for three years).
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Proposals are due by April 27, 2026.
Grant Name: BioInnovation Institute and Lundbeck Foundation: Brain Health Challenge
Summary:  BioInnovation seeks entrepreneurial PIs developing technologies with platform potential and a clear therapeutic application, for drug delivery platforms or new therapeutic solutions stemming from clear causal biology, which are clinically translatable into real-world, commercially viable treatments, with a special focus on, but not restricted to, neuro-rare indications (often with clearer causal biology), for example: repeat expansion disorders, neuroendocrine diseases, or neurodevelopmental disorders.
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  LOIs are due by May 4, 2026.
Grant Name: ALS Network: Innovative Research
Summary:  This RFP seeks to fund unique projects designed to solve critical problems in ALS using innovative technology or methods. The projects should be bold, imaginative, and lead to advances in the field. If successful following a one-year review, there may be the opportunity for a second year of funding.
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  Proposals are due by April 20, 2026.
Grant Name: Sloan Foundation: Economic Research on the Returns to R&D Investment
Summary:  A consortium of funders, led by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Coefficient Giving, is seeking to support primary research that can help develop consensus estimates of the return on investments in research and development. This coordinated call aims to spur rigorous, empirical studies that can narrow the range of existing estimates and inform public and private R&D investment decisions.
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:  LOIs are due by April 30, 2026.

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About Hanover Research: Founded in 2003, Hanover Research is a global research and grant development firm. The Hanover Grants practice provides research development, grant writing, and strategic advising support to a wide range of institutions and organizations. Our professionals deliver customized proposal review, revision, and production support, while also helping to align strategic priorities to funding trends and opportunities at all levels. To learn more about Hanover Research, visit www.hanoverresearch.com.