Opportunities

The David Koch Jr. Foundation Kidney Health Innovation Seed Grant awards mechanism aims to accelerate transformative discoveries in pediatric kidney disease, glomerular disease, and the adolescent to adult transition for individuals with kidney disease

The Stanford Clinical & Translational Science (CTS) Pilot Grants Program supports early-stage projects that advance the science of translation, emphasizing collaborative, transdisciplinary work and generalizable translational outcomes.

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

IAJS is accepting funding proposals up to $25,000 to support innovative research projects directly related to its mission. Funding will be given for early-stage research focusing on solutions to challenges related to racial and ethnic categorization, broadly defined.

artsCatalyst Grants foster interdisciplinary arts experiences that enhance classroom experiences for undergraduate students. 

artsCatalyst Grants foster interdisciplinary arts experiences that enhance classroom experiences for undergraduate students. 

The Stanford Synthetic Biology Postdoctoral Support program is supported by the Dean of the School of Medicine. This opportunity funds research projects that aim to apply synthetic biology in the context of clinical or basic science seed projects or translation.

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

C-ShaRP (Community for Shared Research Platforms) invites new PIs to apply for Vouchers to be used in Stanford Shared Facilities.  Vouchers will enable new PIs to navigate the facilities and to engage the staff of shared facilities.

Apply by October 20
Turn discovery into impact. The Neuroscience:Translate Award Program funds interdisciplinary teams advancing novel neuroscience solutions with real potential to reach patients through licensing and translation.

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

SCI offers Innovation Awards to support collaborative projects focused on acceleration of basic, translational, clinical and population-based cancer research, focused on cancer care, such as breast, colon, lung, pancreatic, prostate, melanoma, sarcoma and gynecologic cancers.

The Transdisciplinary Seed Grant Program is designed to catalyze novel research collaborations in fields outside of medicine (e.g., computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics, chemistry, design, or the social sciences).

Stage 2: Test Solutions offers $350,000 to $650,000 per lab over a maximum of 36 months to support partnership-based work that involves the design and testing of a concrete solution to a well-defined social problem.

Stage 1: Seed Partnerships offers up to $350,000 to better understand the drivers of a social problem or co-design solutions. This funding is intended to deepen partnerships in a way that creates a clear path to testing solutions and putting those solutions to use at scale.

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.

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.

The Stanford King Center on Global Development invites proposals from Stanford faculty for ambitious new initiatives harnessing and developing the university’s distinctive strengths in research on global development and poverty.

artsCatalyst Grants foster interdisciplinary arts experiences that enhance classroom experiences for undergraduate students. 

To support biomedical research in diabetes, the Stanford Diabetes Research Center (SDRC) invites applications for the 2025-26 Pilot and Feasibility (P&F). Program led by Drs. Anna Gloyn and Sun H Kim.