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- Community submitted · NIH Common Fund97 days left
Competition · Targeting RNA in Disease with Novel Technologies (TRDNT) — Phase II Stage I
Prototype-development and use-case demonstration for technologies targeting RNA in disease. Award: Up to $4,800,000 for Phase II Stage I.
Eligible for: 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 · NSF336 days left
Fellowship/position · NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
Two-year independent postdoctoral fellowships from NSF's Biological Sciences Directorate. The current solicitation (NSF 26-504) centers on research at the intersection of AI and biological sciences. Award: $110,000/year for 2 years.
Eligible for: Postdoc
- Community submitted · Microsoft
Competition · 2027 Microsoft Imagine Cup
Global student startup competition with Microsoft AI resources, mentorship and startup prizes. Award: $100,000 Scale World Champion; $50,000 Launch prize.
Eligible for: Undergraduate / Master's student / PhD student
- Community submitted · Activate
Grant · Activate Fellowship
Fellowship for scientists and engineers who want to commercialize their research, with funding, lab access and entrepreneurial support.
Eligible for: PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher
- Community submitted · Amazon Web Services
Grant · AWS Cloud Credit for Research
Cloud computing credits for researchers and institutions who need compute and storage for data-intensive projects.
Eligible for: PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty
- Community submitted · DREAM Challenges / Sage Bionetworks
Competition · DREAM Challenges
A long-running series of crowd-sourced computational challenges in biomedicine, run with open data and rigorous benchmarking.
- Community submitted · EMBO
Fellowship/position · EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships
Fellowships supporting postdoctoral research stays abroad in the life sciences, with funding for the fellow and family-related support.
Eligible for: Postdoc
- 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 · U.S. Fulbright Program
Fellowship/position · Fulbright U.S. Student Program
Grants for U.S. students and recent graduates to study, conduct research or teach abroad for an academic year.
Eligible for: Undergraduate / Master's student / PhD student
- Community submitted · Gates Foundation
Grant · Gates Foundation Grand Challenges
Funding calls for innovative solutions to global health and development problems, including agriculture and livestock-related topics.
Eligible for: Faculty / Postdoc / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · Google Research
Fellowship/position · Google PhD Fellowship
Fellowships for PhD students doing exceptional research in computer science and related fields, with a Google research mentor.
Eligible for: PhD student
- Community submitted · Hertz Foundation
Fellowship/position · Hertz Fellowship
Long-term PhD fellowship for exceptional students in the applied physical, biological and engineering sciences, with a lifelong community of fellows.
Eligible for: Undergraduate / Master's student / PhD student
- Community submitted · Human Frontier Science Program
Fellowship/position · HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowships
International fellowships for postdocs who move to a new country and a new research direction in the life sciences.
Eligible for: Postdoc
- Community submitted · HHMI
Fellowship/position · HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program
Postdoctoral fellowship and early-career support for exceptional life-science researchers aiming to establish independent labs.
Eligible for: Postdoc
- Community submitted · iGEM Foundation
Competition · iGEM Competition
International synthetic-biology competition where student teams design, build and present engineered biological systems.
Eligible for: Undergraduate / Master's student / PhD student
- Community submitted · European Commission
Fellowship/position · Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships
EU-funded fellowships for experienced researchers to work in Europe or abroad, open to all fields and nationalities.
Eligible for: Postdoc
- Community submitted · NSF ACCESS
Grant · NSF ACCESS Computing Allocations
Free allocations of national supercomputing, cloud and storage resources for U.S.-based research and education, with entry-level tiers that can be requested at any time.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty
- Community submitted · National Science Foundation
Grant · NSF I-Corps National Teams
Commercialization training and customer discovery for research technologies; eligible teams can receive up to $50,000. Award: Up to $50,000.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry