Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)
Sponsor: NSF
Keyword(s): Computer Science, Data Analysis, Engineering, Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, Physics
Description: The goal of this meta-program is to identify and capitalize on opportunities for major scientific and engineering breakthroughs through new computational and data-analysis approaches and best practices. The CDS&E meta-program supports projects that harness computation and data to advance knowledge and accelerate discovery above and beyond the goals of the participating individual programs.
Institutional Limit: No limit
PI Eligibility: No restrictions
Award: Not listed
Cost Share: Not required
Deadline(s): Each directorate, division, and program has a different submission window or target date. Please reference the “Due Dates” section of the program website to identify the deadlines for each directorate. Starting with October 15, 2026.
ARPA-H Emerging Health Innovators (EHI) Initiative
Sponsor: ARPA-H
Keyword(s): Biomedical Research, Healthcare, Community Engagement, Dermatology, Internal Medicine, Neuroscience, Life Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Informatics, Infectious Diseases, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal Health, Women’s Health, Biotransport, Tissue Platforms, Manufacturing, Surgery, Oncology
Description: The EHI program initiative is a mentorship program that seeks to identify and engage with early-career individuals so they can learn about ARPA-H’s approach to addressing gaps in health care in the United States while seeding new and innovative research ideas. ARPA-H is soliciting proposals from these researchers and innovators and their organizations to develop cutting-edge biomedical, health, and community-engaged research and innovation. Preliminary results are allowed but not required. See EHI Initiative website for list of 16 Topic Areas (TAs).
Note: The proposed concept must not have already received funding or been selected for award negotiation under another funding opportunity, whether from ARPA-H or another Government agency. National Laboratories are not eligible to receive funding under this program.
A Virtual Proposers’ Day will be held on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 11 am to 2 pm. While attendance at the event is not mandatory for submitting a proposal or being selected for funding, it provides valuable insights and guidance.
Institutional Limit: An organization may have multiple submissions; however, each submission must have a different Project Lead (the individual representative from the proposer’s organization who leads the project’s progress and success). While there is statutory language that suggest ARPA-H is limited in the number of awards it may make to one (1) entity, ARPA-H reserves the right to award to more than one Project Lead affiliated with the same organization, or to the same organization across different funding cycles, provided each award results from a separate, conforming proposal submitted in compliance with Section 2.4's one-proposal-per-entity limit for this ISO. ARPA-H encourages organizations to submit their research ideas notwithstanding this perceived limitation. Selection for award remains at the sole discretion of ARPA-H and is not guaranteed, regardless of the Government’s interest in a given proposal.
PI Eligibility: Project Leads (the individual representative from the proposer’s organization who leads the project’s progress and success) can only submit to one (1) topic area and cannot submit more than (1) solution summary, and one (1) full proposal. Project Leads must meet EHI eligibility criteria as per section 2.6. This ISO solicits single PI proposals; no co-PIs are allowed. Proposal submissions must be led by an early-career principal investigator (academic, nonprofit, industry etc.) within 8 years after completion of their first terminal degree (leaves of absence, post-doctoral, residency, and fellowship periods can be excluded for determination of eligibility). Individuals who have been the project lead (PI) on an award from any ARPA agency are not eligible to apply to EHI. Post-doctoral fellows/trainees and clinical trainees cannot be project leads, but it is highly encouraged to include them as support staff. Non-U.S. individuals (including Permanent Residents and Green Card holders) employed by U.S. institutions may participate to the extent that such participants comply with any necessary nondisclosure agreements, security regulations, export control laws, and other governing statutes as applicable.
Award: Each award consists of the following periods of performance and not to exceed (NTE) values. Total Award Value shall not exceed $1,050,000:
Base Period Year 1 (12 Months): $350,000 (NTE)
Base Period Year 2 (12 Months): $350,000 (NTE)
Option Period Year 3 (12 Months): $350,000 (NTE)
Subawardee and consultant costs cannot exceed 30% of the total value of the OT Agreement.
Cost Share: Not required
Deadline(s): Required two-page Solution Summaries due October 30, 2026; Full Proposals (by invite only) due February 10, 2027. Registration for virtual Proposer’s Day closes October 12, 2026. Virtual Proposer’s Day October 13, 2026.
Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP)
Sponsor: UCLA Library
Keyword(s): Digitization, Archives, History, Society, Culture, Politics
Description: MEAP invites applications for its ninth cohort of projects designed to preserve, document, and digitize collections at risk from environmental conditions, political uncertainty, inherently unsustainable media, inappropriate storage, or communal and social change.
Institutional Limit: No limit
PI Eligibility: Any accredited member of the teaching or research faculty at a university or similar higher education institution, archivists or librarians with responsibilities for special collections in archives, a national or research library, or a similar institution, OR affiliated leaders of not-for-profit organizations or community organizations that hold at-risk cultural heritage materials. MEAP and EAP (Endangered Archives Programme) will not fund overlapping projects in the same funding year and applicants may apply to only one program per funding round. Regional Grants are held by one organizing Host Institution and must be managed by someone with previous experience completing a previous MEAP grant. If the grant applicant is not affiliated with the owning repository of the materials, there must be a letter of support from the owning repository.
Award: Regional Grants - Up to $100,000 for up to 2 years. Project Grants - Up to $70,000 and for up to two years of work. Planning Grants - Up to $20,000 and for up to one year of work. Emergency Grants - Up to $10,000 for up to 6 months of digitization work
Cost Share: Not required
Deadline(s): Preliminary Applications due November 16, 2026. Detailed Applications (for invited applicants) due February 12, 2027
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program
Sponsor: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Keyword(s): Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Cancer, Non-Clinical Biomedical Research, Neuroscience
Description: The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the pool of emerging scientific talent.
Institutional Limit: No limit
PI Eligibility: Early career faculty who currently hold, or will begin by May 1, 2028, a tenured or tenure-track qualifying appointment at an HHMI eligible institution (includes Stony Brook University), with at most 7 years of lab head experience as of December 15, 2026. The 7-year limit includes all experience you have had as a lab head or at any other independent post-training position, irrespective of position type, institution, or country. See solicitation for additional requirements.
Award: Scholars receive full salary and benefits, a generous research budget, tailored professional development, and are eligible to participate in the HHMI capital equipment program, which provides regular opportunities to obtain equipment and instruments that advance the Scholar’s research program. Scholars become HHMI employees while maintaining academic appointments and labs at their host institutions, and receive up to ten years of support contingent on a successful midpoint evaluation.
Cost Share: Not required
Deadline(s): December 15, 2026
Emerging Scholar Pilot Proposals
Sponsor: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Keyword(s): Medicine, Healthcare, Chronic Disease, Aging, Geography, Healthcare Administration
Description: The goal of this funding opportunity is (1) to advance research on health and aging issues across a large community of economists, clinical researchers, and experts from other disciplines and (2) to stimulate research among new investigators and on new topics in health and aging, systematically advancing science toward the most pressing issues and challenges of an ever-changing societal landscape.
Institutional Limit: No limit
PI Eligibility: New or Early-Stage Investigator under NIH criteria. Applicants need not be affiliates of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Award: $30,000 to $50,000 for two-year pilot projects
Cost Share: Not required
Deadline(s): LOIs due January 31, 2027. Full proposal (by invite only) due March 31, 2027.
