Sparking Discovery, Creativity, Knowledge and Impact

The Stanford Visiting Artist Fund, established in honor of Roberta Bowman Denning, brings internationally renowned artists to the university to engage with faculty and students in departments and programs across the campus.

The SDGC offers a Seed Grant to support research that leverages advanced computational methods, artificial intelligence, and machine learning approaches to address sustainability-related challenges worldwide.

CTL offers quarterly teaching advancement grants of up to $2500 to Stanford instructors to support projects that directly enhance learning for Stanford students, with a particular emphasis on IDEAL goals.

Sanofi is awarding $150,000 funding for 1 year for innovative research projects focused on cutting-edge technologies for R&D applications. Please fill in the Pre-Proposal Submission Word Template before December 3rd, 2024. 

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning invites proposals for research or design projects that explore the mechanisms and impact of joyful learning.

These grants award up to $50K to support innovative and public-oriented faculty research in the humanities—including work by scholars in allied fields like the qualitative social sciences, education, and law. 

The Bits & Watts Initiative brings together multidisciplinary research teams to develop innovations for the 21st century electric grid. 

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is requesting Letters of Intent for its third round of Big Ideas in Neuroscience. Successful Big Ideas projects promote health, new technologies and basic discoveries.

For LPCH Staff: The Interprofessional Clinician Program (ICP) Award provides non-faculty staff at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health the opportunity to design, develop, and implement a research study that advances and improves patient care outcomes.

The MCHRI TIP provides up to 2 years of support for new and innovative maternal and child health research programs that could best (or only) be performed by faculty from different disciplines.

2025 Human and Planetary Health Early-Career Research Awards - Call for Proposals

The School of Medicine K12 Mentored Career Development Program is a two-year research program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Stanford Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program.

The King Center invites proposals from Stanford faculty and postdoctoral scholars for small projects or for seed funding of projects that have the potential to help the investigators to write competitive research proposals.

Propel Grants support final-stage proposal development for large, complex external funding opportunities.

The King Center on Global Development invites proposals from Stanford faculty for capacity-building and policy-engagement activities that support academics, government officials, or other policymakers in low- and middle-income countries.

The King Center recognizes that conducting research in low- and middle-income countries is increasingly complex and that in extraordinary cases, faculty may have emergency funding needs for ongoing projects.  

The King Center invites proposals from Stanford faculty, postdocs, and graduate students for conferences, lectures, workshops, or other events on topics relevant to global development and poverty. 

The PCCOE Catalyst Grant Program fosters innovation, collaboration, and education to improve care for those with serious illness. Aligned with PCCOE’s mission, it broadens the impact of palliative and serious illness care across Stanford Healthcare.

This grant supports instructors to incorporate community engaged learning projects into their courses to address social or environmental challenges.

Grants of up to $10,000 to support new mass spectrometry projects and methodologies in emerging proteomics technology areas in support of early phase investigations and pilot studies.