Research Grants

Supports small businesses engaged in innovative research. Phase I grants up to $275,000 for 6-12 months of concept development.

Supports research projects aiming to solve critical health challenges affecting disadvantaged populations worldwide.

Provides funding to promising early-career faculty to develop innovative research ideas in science and engineering fields relevant to national security.

Funds international teams for collaborative, innovative research in life sciences, with a focus on complex mechanisms of living organisms.

Supports graduate student research in space technology development, with a focus on innovation that enables future NASA missions.

Supports ambitious experimental physics research with potential for significant advances in scientific understanding.

Supports innovative autism research to improve diagnosis and treatment through better understanding of the condition's biological mechanisms.

Provides supplemental funds for graduate students to conduct part of their thesis research at a DOE laboratory or facility.