Current Limited Submissions

American Roentgen Ray Society Scholarship

Slots: Only one candidate per department per institution is eligible to be nominated each year.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, September 5th, 2025, 5pm PT

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: October 7, 2025

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Anticipated Award Amount: $180,000 (15% indirects) for 2 years

Who May Serve as PI: Candidates must meet the following qualifications at the time of application:

Support from their Department Chair indicated in a letter of nomination with a commitment of an additional 20% protected time to complete the proposal submitted for the two-year program.

ARRS member at the time the application is submitted and for the duration of the award

Earned MD or DO (or equivalent) from an accredited institution

Completion of all required residency and fellowship training

Hold a full-time faculty appointment as a lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, or equivalent for no more than five years beyond initial faculty appointment. The appointment must be in a department of radiology, nuclear medicine, or an associated department in the radiologic sciences of a medical school teaching hospital in the United States or Canada.

Eligible for Certification by the American Board of Radiology or equivalent by the time of application

Link to Award: https://www.arrs.org/ARRSLIVE/ARRSLIVE/Scholarships/ARRS_Scholarship.aspx

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here: RII Limited Submission Applicant Template

Materials to submit include:

(1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
(2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The ARRS Scholarship supports early-career faculty members in study/research in the radiologic sciences that has the possibility of changing the way radiology is practiced. The recognition and financial support aim to advance the early-career scholar professionally and to help prepare them for positions of leadership. The Scholarship is funded through The Roentgen Fund^® of the ARRS.

Medical schools, affiliated hospitals, and clinical research institutions with interests in training and research in diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine, the basic sciences, or professions fundamental to imaging techniques are invited to submit one nomination annually.

The ARRS Roentgen Fund Board of Trustees may select up to two awards annually. The Scholarship is a two-year program, $180,000 total over two years, requiring a minimum 20 percent time commitment for each year. The funds may be used for salary support; for scholarship-related travel costs (including travel to the ARRS Annual Meeting for selection and presentation years); and, in support of the Scholar’s study related to the project plan, including for study outside the parent institution (training/tuition expenses may not exceed 20% of the total scholarship funding).

The scholarship funds will be paid to the Scholar’s department for funding to the recipient. In this way, the ARRS shares the responsibility with the medical institution for the Scholar’s development.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program

Slots: University presidents may nominate one junior and one senior scholar. A senior scholar is defined as any holder of a tenured post. (You may not nominate two junior or two senior scholars.)

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, September 5, 2025, 5pm PT

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: November 7, 2025, 5pm E.T.

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Estimated Number of Awards: around 30

Anticipated Award Amount: $200,000

Who May Serve as PI: The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program is open only to citizens or permanent residents of the United States who have been nominated by the head of an institution designated by Carnegie Corporation of New York. Candidates must have a Ph.D., hold a terminal degree, or be a high-level professional working outside of academia. Nominators include heads of independent research institutes and learned societies, university presidents, leaders of some of the nation’s preeminent think tanks, and directors of major publishers, as well as editors of leading newspapers and magazines. Individuals may not apply for the Fellows Program via self-nomination.

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program prohibits a fellowship winner from accepting a fellowship of equal caliber or at a comparable level of funding that overlaps the same timeline as the Carnegie fellowship, especially awards that have specific time requirements. However, smaller grants and project support are acceptable on a case-by-case basis.

Please note that candidates who have been nominated in the past two years are not eligible for candidacy, regardless of who nominated them.

Link to Award: https://www.carnegie.org/awards/award/andrew-carnegie-fellows/

Process:

Please use the Andrew Carnegie Fellows workspace titled “Limited Submission – Andrew Carnegie Fellows” on our RII Portal here: https://provost.sma.usc.edu/prog/foundations/. You can find the red button also at this link: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/.

Materials to submit include:

(1) One-Page Project Description (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the limit will be excluded from review. Please see the nomination criteria and topic criteria below for more information on what to include in your project description.
(2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Purpose

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program was established in 2015 to provide philanthropic support for high-caliber research in the humanities and social sciences. During its first eight years, nearly 250 scholars received fellowships of $200,000 to explore a range of important and enduring issues confronting our society.

In June 2023, the Corporation announced a second phase of the program and a new focus on political polarization in the United States. The program asks scholars to help Americans understand how and why our society has become so polarized and what we can do to strengthen the forces of cohesion in our society. Political polarization is characterized by threats to free speech, the decline of civil discourse, disagreement over basic facts, and a lack of mutual understanding and collaboration. The next class of fellows will be announced in spring 2025.

Fellowships of $200,000 are awarded annually to about 30 exceptional scholars, authors, journalists, and public intellectuals. The funding is for a period of one or two years with the anticipated result of a book or major study. The criteria prioritize the originality and promise of the research, its potential impact on the field, and the scholar’s plans for communicating the findings to a broad audience.

The Corporation anticipates that the work of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program will explore the many ways political polarization in the United States manifests itself in society and suggest ways that it may be mitigated. Studies of polarization in other countries will be welcomed providing they offer lessons that can be applied to the United States. Projects based in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences are welcomed.

Nominations will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

Originality and promise of the idea
Quality of the proposal
Record of the nominee
Plans to communicate findings to a broad audience
Promise to offer solutions to harmful polarization or to enhance social cohesion

TOPIC

Carnegie anticipates that the work of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program will explore the many ways political polarization in the United States manifests itself in society and suggest ways that it may be mitigated. Studies of polarization in other countries are welcome, provided they offer lessons that can be applied to the United States. Projects based in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences are welcome.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

NSF 25-541: Test Bed: Toward a Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratories (PCL Test Bed)

Slots: 1. An institution may submit only a single proposal in response to this solicitation, as the lead institution. An institution may serve as a non-lead institution on more than one proposal.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, September 12th, 2025, 5pm PT

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: November 20, 2025

Award Information

Award Type: Cooperative Agreement

Estimated Number of Awards: 4-6

Anticipated Award Amount: $100,000,000

Who May Serve as PI: No restrictions or limits.

Link to Award: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pcl-test-bed-test-bed-toward-network-programmable-cloud-laboratories/nsf25-541/solicitation#elig

Process for Limited Submissions

Materials to submit include:

(1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
(2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Purpose

Autonomous experimentation is poised to accelerate research and unlock critical scientific advances that bolster U.S. competitiveness and address pressing societal needs. Programmable Cloud Laboratories are able to execute automated workstreams, including self-driving lab workflows, to efficiently move research goals through artificial intelligence (AI) enabled experiment design, laboratory preparations, data collection, data analysis and interpretation. While limited-scale efforts have shown promise, versatile programmable and self-driving labs capable of addressing complex research questions with trustworthy results will require coordinated technological advances and an engaged research community. Additional challenges include the availability of automated laboratory infrastructure, standardized approaches to data collection for interoperability, advances in AI for data interpretation and experimental design, and more. This solicitation aims to address such gaps and realize the potential of autonomous experimentation.

The Test Bed: Toward a Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratories (PCL Test Bed) program seeks to establish and facilitate the operation of distributed autonomous laboratory facilities. These laboratories will combine technological and human capacity to enable integration, testing, evaluation, validation, and translation of cutting-edge technology solutions in automated science and engineering. The PCL Test Bed will consist of a set of Programmable Cloud Laboratory Nodes (PCL Nodes) that can be remotely accessed to run custom workflows specified and programmed by users, that are linked together via computational networking, shared science questions, and data and artificial intelligence (AI) standards.

The PCL Test Bed will facilitate access to advanced scientific equipment, accelerate translation and scaling of basic research into industry applications, enhance reproducibility and the exchange of experimental data, and assist in training the next generation of scientists and engineers in state-of-the art methodologies. It will help develop community norms, best practices, and formal standards for automated laboratory procedures, workflows, and instrument testing and validation. It will also advance consistent practices for the collection, sharing, and use of metadata and training data and the use and exploitation of AI methods. This program will also support the development of automated laboratory methods, including self-driving autonomous experiment workflows.

Proposals must have a set of well-defined science drivers poised to derive significant benefit from targeted use of the PCL Test Bed capabilities, including but not limited to synthesis, optimization, and/or characterization experiments, in specific sub-disciplines within materials science, biotechnology, chemistry or other areas of science and engineering. These science drivers will guide the protocols and standards necessary for each node and facilitate collaboration across the Test Bed. For example, science drivers could include but are not limited to:

Materials science, materials synthesis and characterization efforts that advance U.S. competitiveness.
Biotechnology experiments in scalable, high-throughput engineering and characterization services for proteins or microbes with novel applications in the U.S. bioeconomy.
High-throughput experimentation for the accelerated development of catalysts to support more efficient chemical synthesis to address urgent national needs.

User Recruitment and On-Boarding Workshops will be a key component of the PCL Test Bed program and will serve to recruit users to individual PCL Nodes and the Test Bed to help make progress on the proposed science drivers, provide access to technology, test the limits of the experimental set-up of the nodes, and explore new research opportunities between the PCL Nodes and institutions including, but not limited to, R2 Universities, PUI (Primarily Undergraduate Institutions), and two-year institutions.

The PCL Test Bed will be available to researchers in academia as well as industry, including current and former awardees from the Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) programs. The portfolio of projects is available here, https://seedfund.nsf.gov/portfolio.

PCL Nodes are expected to develop and implement plans for continued operation after the period of this award.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

PAS-JOR-FY25-006: American Prosperity: Foreign Investment Readiness Program

Slots: 1

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: ~~Wednesday, August 13th, 2025, 5pm PT~~ Contact RII.

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: September 1, 2025

Award Information

Award Type: Collaboration/Cooperative Agreement

Estimated Number of Awards: 1

Anticipated Award Amount: $200,000 – $500,000

Link to Award: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/360185

Process for Limited Submissions

Materials to submit include:

(1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
(2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Purpose

Jordan’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has witnessed substantial growth, driven by local public and private investment, notable U.S. business deals, innovation accelerators, and a growing number of entrepreneurs. Yet the majority of promising ventures remain concentrated in local or regional markets, without meaningful benefit to the U.S. market. Jordanian entrepreneurs face challenges in building the relevant networks, regulatory understanding, and investment readiness needed to compete successfully in the United States and partner with U.S. businesses. Programs such as SelectUSA Tech – a U.S. Department of Commerce-led initiative which offers Jordanian startups a critical pathway to engage with the American market – can be leveraged to expand Jordanian investment in the United States.

This initiative will help enable Jordanian entrepreneurial ventures with the capacity potential to transform into high-growth startups, by studying U.S. business models and programs to become investment ready in the United States. By equipping Jordanian entrepreneurs with the awareness, preparation, and advisory services to be accessible to the U.S. market, this initiative will enable them to scale, attract U.S. business partnerships, and drive innovation, while embracing America’s example of business growth. Promoting U.S. excellence and prominence in business will strengthen ties and highlight the United States as Jordan’s preferred economic partner in entrepreneurship and innovation. The initiative will create new trade and investment opportunities that advance American prosperity and feature U.S. values of enterprise, innovation, and rule of law. The initiative’s aim is to promote private-sector growth and bolster America’s commercial influence through partnerships with Jordanian startups.

Applications are accepted via email only to AmmanGrants@state.gov. applications submitted via Grants.gov will not be accepted.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative

Slots: OVW will consider only one application per organization (as the lead applicant) in response to each purpose area in this NOFO.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: ~~Friday, August 1st, 2025, 5pm PT~~ Contact RII.

LOI: August 20, 2025, 5pm PT

External Deadline: September 9, 2025

Award Information

Award Type: Collaboration/Cooperative Agreement

Estimated Number of Awards: 50

Anticipated Award Amount: $150,000 to $1,500,000

Link to Award: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/360088

Process for Limited Submissions

Materials to submit include:

(1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
(2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Purpose

The purpose of the OVW Training and Technical Assistance Initiative (TA Initiative) is to provide direct training and technical assistance (TTA) to current and potential OVW recipients and subrecipients to enhance their efforts to successfully implement projects supported by OVW grant funds. OVW’s TA Initiative is designed to strengthen and build the capacity of civil and criminal justice system professionals and victim service providers across the nation to respond effectively to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (i.e., the four VAWA crimes) and foster partnerships and collaboration among organizations to address these crimes.

FY 2025 Competitive Targeted Technical Assistance Purpose Areas
1. Training and Technical Assistance for Judges on Elder Abuse

$500,000 24 months

2. Campus Online Clearinghouse

$300,000 36 months

3. Campus Victim Services and Advocacy

$500,000 36 months

4. Engaging Men on Campus

$500,000 36 months

5. Training and Technical Assistance on Working with College Student Populations

$400,000 24 months

6. Core Sexual Assault Response Training for Community-based Organizations

$550,000 24 months

7. Probation and Parole

$500,000 24 months

8. Trauma-Informed, Victim-Centered Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking Training for Law

Enforcement (The Abby Honold Program)
$400,000 24 months

9. Training and Technical Assistance for Co-located Service Centers

$450,000 24 months

10. Serving Military Connected Victims

$425,000 24 months

11. Mentor Court Enhancement Project

$300,000 24 months

12. Custody and Visitation Determinations: The SAFeR Approach

$400,000 24 months

13. Civil Protection Order Guide for Improving Practice Training and Technical Assistance Project

$300,000 24 months

14. Interstate Civil Legal Assistance

$800,000 36 months

15. Economic Self-Sufficiency for Victims

$600,000 36 months

16. Building Collaboration with Faith-Based Organizations

$500,000 24 months

17. TTA on Addressing Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in the Jewish Community

$300,000 24 months

18. Training and Technical Assistance for Sexual Assault Response Teams

$900,000 36 months

19. SAFE Program Training and Resources

$800,000 24 months

20. Sexual Assault Victims in Correctional Facilities

$450,000 24 months

21. Training and Technical Assistance on National Forensic Medical Examination Protocols

$800,000 24 months

22. Human Trafficking Collaboration in Domestic Violence, Dating violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Cases

$450,000 24 months

23. Training and Technical Assistance on Preventing and Responding to Sexual Abuse of Athletes

$300,000 24 months

24. VAWA Housing Provisions

$400,000 36 months

25. Training and Technical Assistance Project on the Impact of Nuisance Ordinances on Victims

$250,000 24 months

26. Training and Technical Assistance for Transitional Housing Sexual Assault Victim Service Providers

$400,000 24 months

27. Restorative Practices in Tribal Communities

$1,000,000 36 months

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

PAR-25-124: NCMRR Early Career Research Award (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)

Slots: Only one NCMRR ECR Award (R03) application may be submitted as a single PD/PI or one of Multiple PDs/PIs per due date.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: ~~Friday, August 15th, 2025, 5pm PT~~ Contact RII.

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: October 16, 2025

Recurring Deadlines: February 16, 2026; June 16, 2026; October 16, 2026; February 16, 2027; June 16, 2027; October 16, 2027

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Estimated Number of Awards and Award Amount: The number of awards is contingent upon NIH appropriations and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications

Who May Serve as PI: This NOFO targets Early Career Investigators interested in rehabilitation research. The PD/PI must be an independent investigator, not a postdoctoral fellow, at the time of submission. The PD/PI must be no more than 8 years beyond the date that the first professional, advanced professional, or terminal academic degree was awarded, whichever is most recent. The 8-year eligibility period will be calculated based on the MM/DD/YYYY the degree was awarded and the published application receipt date, regardless of whether it is a new or resubmission application. Attainment of an additional Master’s degree after receipt of a doctoral level degree does not extend the timeline. Formal years of clinical training (Internship, Residency, and Fellowship) are not counted as part of the 8-year limit. The exemption of years for clinical training is not limited to physicians.

Recipients of the Federally-funded National Research Service Award fellowships and traineeships (i.e. F- and T- series awards) or mentored career development awards (i.e. K awards) are eligible for the NCMRR ECR Award grant program, provided there is no overlap in professional commitment or budget.

The following are NOT Eligible:

Individuals who, at the time of submission, have served as PD/PI on a peer-reviewed NIH research award (R series) over $100,000 direct costs per year or non-NIH research grants over $150,000 total costs per year,
Project Leaders on sub-projects of NIH program project (P01) or center (P50) grants or the equivalent
Recipients of the NIH K99/R00 award

For Multi-PI applications, all of the PDs/PIs must meet the above eligibility criteria.

Questions regarding eligibility should be addressed prior to beginning to prepare the application by contacting the Scientific/Research contact listed in Section VII. Agency Contacts.

Link to Award: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-124.html

Process for Limited Submissions

Materials to submit include:

(1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
(2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Purpose

The NCMRR Early Career Research (ECR) Award is different from other NIH R03 programs, including the Parent R03 Announcement (PA-20-200) . It is restricted to clinical and basic scientists who are in the early stages of their independent career in rehabilitation research. For projects supported by an ECR R03 Award, successful results should provide a solid foundation for further research under the R01 funding mechanism.

Given that the goal is to collect preliminary data, R03 projects may be less immediately impactful or significant compared to the typical R01 or other NIH-funded projects. It is not an expectation that this R03 project will likely “move the field forward” at this stage.

The research must be focused on one or more of the areas within the biomedical and behavioral mission of NCMRR: pathophysiology and management of chronically injured nervous and musculoskeletal systems (including stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and orthopedic conditions); repair and recovery of motor function; functional plasticity, adaptation, and windows of opportunity for rehabilitative interventions; rehabilitative strategies involving pharmaceutical, stimulation, and neuroengineering approaches, exercise, motor training, and behavioral modifications; pediatric rehabilitation; secondary conditions associated with chronic disabilities; improved diagnosis, assessment, and outcome measures; and development of orthotics, prosthetics, and other assistive technologies and devices.

The proposed project may be technology design-directed, discovery-driven, or hypothesis-driven with the goal of collecting the necessary preliminary data sufficient to apply for an R01 grant. The project may aid in the formulation of hypotheses and may be milestone-driven or descriptive in scope.

Preliminary data are not required or expected. However, if available, preliminary data are allowed.

A 1-page attachment titled “Plan for Inclusion of People with Lived Experience” must be included with the application or the application will be withdrawn prior to review. (see Section IV; further below). The Plan will be assessed as part of the scientific and technical peer review evaluation, as well as at the programmatic level with respect to funding decisions.

Investigators proposing clinical research are encouraged to use the common data elements (CDEs) (https://cde.nlm.nih.gov/home) or justify not using CDEs for rehabilitation if they are not included.

For those applications that generate clinical data, investigators are encouraged to share data via the NICHD DASH (data and specimen hub) Center (https://dash.nichd.nih.gov/).

Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the Scientific/Research contact for this NOFO for guidance in advance of submitting an application to ensure their proposed project is in compliance with new NIH human subjects research and clinical trials policies (https://grants.nih.gov/policy/clinical-trials.htm) and consistent with the types of clinical trial projects that NCMRR supports.

Non-Responsive Applications:

The following topics are non-responsive and will be withdrawn prior to review:

Projects focusing on cognitive rehabilitation without a physical rehabilitation component
Sports medicine rehabilitation for people without physical disabilities (i.e. Projects targeting indications for sports or athletic performance by able-bodied athletes; treatment, recovery and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise by people without physical disabilities.)
Development of animal models for specific diseases or injury conditions

For applications submitted to this NOFO that propose clinical trials, NCMRR will only support applications proposing early stage clinical trials through Phase I, first-in-human, safety, feasibility, or other small clinical trials that inform the early stage technology development in the submitted application. NCMRR will not support applications proposing Phase II, III, IV or pivotal clinical trials, or trials in which the primary outcome is efficacy, effectiveness, or a post-market concern.

Applicants to this NOFO are encouraged to reach to program staff when planning a submission.

See Section VIII. Other Information for award authorities and regulations.

Investigators proposing NIH-defined clinical trials may refer to the Research Methods Resources website for information about developing statistical methods and study designs.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.