CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The Office of Research invites proposals for three internal funding opportunities designed to support KU faculty establishing their research programs, pivoting existing research to align with new funding agency priorities, or developing collaborative research projects that span the Lawrence and Medical Center campuses.

The New Faculty Research Development Awards are designed to begin building a sustainable program of research, scholarship and/or creative activity for applicants. Potential outcomes could include publications, conference papers, presentations, websites, technologies or techniques, databases or datasets, physical collections, audio or video products, or educational aids or curricula with the potential for proposal to an external funding opportunity. Applicants are encouraged to indicate the specific external funding opportunity or potential sponsor(s) in the proposal.

Eligibility: Applicants must be in their first 60 months on the Lawrence or Edwards campus as either an untenured, tenure-track faculty member or as a faculty-equivalent unclassified academic staff (UAS) member.

Amount: Up to $25K  |  Deadline: March 23, 2026

The One KU Collaborative Research Awards provide seed funding to launch or strengthen innovative, interdisciplinary research partnerships between KU Lawrence and KU Medical Center. These awards support projects in key research growth areas with strong potential for external funding. Funded teams are expected to generate preliminary data that establishes the feasibility of their overarching research question or hypothesis, positioning them to pursue competitive extramural grant opportunities at the conclusion of the internal funding period.

Eligibility: Any tenured or non-tenured faculty member in the KU Lawrence or KU Medical Center research community. Proposals must include at least one investigator from each campus. 

Amount: $25K to $100K  |  Deadline: April 1, 2026

The One KU Research Pivot Awards are designed to help KU researchers explore and align novel ideas with new opportunities and build internal capacity to maintain research momentum when their usual sources of external funding in a given topic area have become unavailable.

The proposed research is expected to generate preliminary data or investigations to support competitive proposals for extramural research grant opportunities. Recipients are expected to apply for at least one extramural opportunity within one year of the Pivot Award’s expiration date.

Eligibility: Any tenured or non-tenured faculty member in the KU Lawrence or KU Medical Center research community.

Amount: $25K to $100K  |  Deadline: April 1, 2026

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