Hanover is monitoring the evolving landscape of federal and foundation grants in light of the 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.
Quick Links to Opportunities
These links will take you directly to the websites of the grant opportunities.
This program invites multiple PD/PI applications for collaborative research projects using simulation and other modeling techniques for specific cancer types. The proposed research is expected to generate sophisticated, evidence-based tools capable of informing decisions on the most efficient utilization of existing and emerging technologies and strategies for the control of cancer.
This program is designed to support research in understanding how to engineer intrinsic characteristics of stem cell-derived islet cell products that can result in improved cell replacement therapy outcomes. Unlike cadaveric human islets, stem cell-derived islet cell products are generated from well-defined and highly controlled cell bank sources. Their banking, manufacturing, and quality control processes can be used to instill optimized cell characteristics resulting in more resilient and durable graft viability and function. This funding opportunity aims to stimulate studies on targets and pathways amenable to such engineering approaches and to encourage preclinical testing and validation of such strategies.
This BAA seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not being addressed by ongoing I2O programs or other published solicitations. Potential proposers are highly encouraged to visit the I2O technical office page to view current and upcoming I2O programs and solicitations in order to avoid proposing efforts that duplicate existing activities or that are responsive to other published I2O solicitations.
This program seeks to support research on foundational technologies to enable high-rate, energy efficient, decentralized nitric acid manufacturing to protect critical supply chains in the defense industrial base and redefine energetics manufacturing in contested logistics environments. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
Abstracts are due very soon, by December 18, 2025.
This program will advance the Administration’s plans to bolster the U.S. domestic supply chain for rare earth elements, which are critical minerals and materials, thereby reducing reliance on foreign sources, enhancing national security, and creating energy dominance. The objective of this program is to fund the design, construction and operation of one (or more) cost effective, innovative, demonstration processing line(s) at a new or existing facility that will supply 150 to 1000 metric tons per year of rare earth elements for domestic use. Notably, only two grants will be awarded, at roughly $67 million each.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
LOIs are due extremely soon, only a week after the program was announced: December 10, 2025.
The Foundation invites applications for its Bridge to Success for Early Career Investigators grant program, which provides ‘bridge’ funding to promising early career sleep and circadian scientists who plan to resubmit an application for a mentored, federal career development grant that was previously not funded. Projects should address one or more important unanswered scientific questions related to sleep and circadian science, sleep disorders, and/or sleep health.
The Fund invites applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields who might together change the course of how climate change affects human health. Through the program, small, early-stage grants of up to $50,000 will be awarded.
For the AES/Epilepsy Wellness Advocates Early Career Research Award, one-year grants of $70,000 will be awarded in support of early career investigators to undertake a research project with a focus on integrative health and wellness approaches to manage epilepsy and improve patient quality of life.
Eligibility:
Only early-career PIs are eligible to apply (see details in RFP).
This award aims to support innovative research by early career investigators: research should have relevance for understanding the mechanisms underlying neurological and behavioral disorders that may lead to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of these disorders. Priority will be given to candidates who have not yet received substantial funding from private awards.
This program is intended to support a multi-institutional team with PIs from at least one institution in the United States and one in Asia. The focus is on collaborative research in gastric or esophageal cancer, specifically in areas such as resistance, metastasis, innovative treatment strategies (including identifying and characterizing novel targets), and cellular and immunotherapies. Proposals must include plans indicating how the work will be translated into the clinic, including an estimated timeline.
This grant aims to stimulate the development of new research programs in the field of psoriatic disease capable of competing for long-term funding from the National Institutes of Health or similar agencies in the future. Discovery Grants of $75,000 will be awarded to researchers to explore preliminary ideas and conduct proof-of-concept experiments.
This PFA will fund well-designed, methodologically robust retrospective observational patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research studies that will produce timely, impactful, and patient-centered results to inform healthcare decision making and improve health outcomes. The goal is to address efforts to improve health decision making with comparative clinical effectiveness research in cancer, pain, substance use, maternal morbidity and mortality, intellectual and developmental disabilities, sensory health, metabolic and endocrine health, mental and behavioral health, and rare diseases.
The NLN invites applications for the Nursing Education Research Grants program, which awards grants of up to $30,000 for approximately four or five research proposals for high-quality studies that contribute to the development of the science of nursing education.
The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood supports development projects and promising research that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children in the United States, from infancy through age 7. Welfare is broadly defined to support, acculturation, societal integration, and childcare.
These large-scale grants aim to support research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices that reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of people ages 5-25 in the United States, along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status, language minority status, or immigrant origins.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
LOIs are due by January 7, 2026.
Questions?
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