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- Community submitted · NIH / NCI17 days left
Competition · Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Data Innovation Challenge
Innovative uses of Childhood Cancer Data Initiative resources to advance biological insights and technology. Award: Up to $17,000,000 across phases.
Eligible for: Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · NIH80 days left
Competition · It's About Time: Temporal Reasoning in Biomedical Knowledge Graphs Challenge
Develop temporal embeddings and reasoning systems for biomedical knowledge graphs. Award: Up to $1,000,000 total purse.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · NIH / NLM96 days left
Competition · SPARK PubMed/PMC Challenge
Build AI systems that generate citation-backed biomedical literature synthesis and support complex literature exploration. Award: $250,000 total prizes.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · NIH / NLM96 days left
Competition · SPARK dbGaP Challenge
AI-powered genomic/phenotypic study discovery, including semantic variable normalization and conversational cohort-feasibility analysis. Award: $250,000 total prizes.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · NIH111 days left
Competition · Smart Devices and Sensing Technologies to Mitigate Chronic Disease Disparities Challenge
Scalable sensing, AI, synthetic-data, digital-twin and analytics technologies for chronic disease disparities. Award: $1,000,000 total prizes.
Eligible for: Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · NIH / NIDDK184 days left
Competition · Kidney Artificial Intelligence Discovery Challenge: From Nebulae to Nephrons
Apply AI/computer vision to kidney images, multi-omics, spatial data and clinical information. Award: $100,000 total cash prizes.
Eligible for: Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Master's student / PhD student / Industry
- Community submitted · Entrepreneur First
Grant · Entrepreneur First (co-founder matching)
Program for talented individuals to find co-founders and build a company from scratch, with funding and structured support.
Eligible for: Independent researcher / Industry / Postdoc / Faculty
- Community submitted · NVIDIA
Grant · NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
Compute grants (GPU time or hardware) for academic researchers working on AI and accelerated-computing projects.
Eligible for: Faculty / Postdoc
- Community submitted · NIH / HHSClosed
Competition · TOPx HHS Tech Sprint for AI and Invisible Illness
Use U.S. open data and AI to build real-world tools for urgent health challenges involving invisible illness. Award: Up to $2,000,000 total cash prizes.
Eligible for: Independent researcher / Industry / Postdoc / Faculty
- Community submitted · U.S. Department of Homeland SecurityClosed
Competition · Ready, Set...ID the Biothreat Challenge
AI-assisted algorithms to detect known, novel, and unknown biological threats in environmental metagenomic datasets. Award: $999,990 total cash prizes.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · Kaggle / AI4S Open InnovationClosed
Competition · AI4S Open Innovation: AI for Life Science
AI applications in life science, especially organ-on-a-chip, microscopy, drug response and research workflows. Award: $22,200.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry