The RDO provides diverse avenues for researchers to access internal and external funding. This encompasses internal seed grants fueling novel research, streamlined management of limited submissions to funding agencies, and tools like Pivot to pinpoint potential funding sources.
Internal Funding Opportunities
Research Administrators can add their unit's Internal Funding Opportunities into Pivot, allowing users to find both internal funding along with other external funding opportunities, all in the same tool. View the open internal opportunities below. Please email vpr-rdo@uiowa.edu to inquire about posting internal funding.
Upcoming Limited Submission Opportunities
Funding Focus is a weekly email alerting faculty and staff researchers and scholars about limited submission funding opportunities available to the University of Iowa. See the most recent issue of this email, view past issues, or access all current limited submissions via InfoReady below.
Note: for past issues of Funding Focus, limited submission opportunities may have reached their internal submission deadline.
Featured Limited Submission Opportunities
Searle Scholars Program 2024-2025
Description: The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry. The Searle Scholars Program Scientific Advisory Board is primarily interested in the potential of applicants to make innovative and high-impact contributions to research over an extended period of time. Applicants for the 2025 competition are expected to be pursuing independent research careers in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, September 30, 2024
Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics 2024
Description: The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable junior faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. It supports research that goes beyond current work in bioethics to help resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice, and creates a community that enhances future bioethics research by Scholars and Alumni/ae.
Eligibility: Early Career or Emerging in Field
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Sponsor LOI Deadline: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025
NSF: Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program: Instrument Acquisition or Development
Description: The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations.
Limitation: four applications per institution. See InfoReady for more details.
Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, September 9, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Friday, November 15, 2024
UI Information Session: On Friday, July 19 from 11am-12pm, the RDO will host a Zoom information session focused on NSF's MRI Program. During the session, the RDO will give an overview of the program including how to navigate the institutional limited submission process and two successful MRI awardees will discuss their experiences, share their insights, and respond to your questions. To attend, register here.