Current Solicitations

NNI Agencies funding opportunities

Note: Not all federal agencies have specific web pages for nanotechnology funding opportunities. In addition, solicitations often are worded generally and the technological tools to be employed, whether micro-, nano- or macro-scale, are not specified. Looking broadly into areas of interest—for instance, toxin removal or semi-conducting materials— is often the best approach.

New Solicitations

April 5, August 5, December 5 annual deadline—National Institues of Health, Bioengineering Nanotechnology Initiative (STTR [R41/R42]). The purpose of this trans-NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to stimulate Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant applications that employ nanotechnology to enable the development of diagnostics and interventions for treating diseases.
April 5, August 5, December 5 annual deadline—National Institues of Health, Bioengineering Nanotechnology Initiative (STTR [R43/R44]). The purpose of this trans-NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to stimulate Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant applications that employ nanotechnology to enable the development of diagnostics and interventions for treating diseases.
September 15, 2010 deadline—NASA has two program solicitations with separate research areas under which small business concerns (SBCs) are invited to submit proposals: the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. The purposes of the SBIR/STTR programs, as established by law, are to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector; to strengthen the role of SBCs in meeting Federal research and development needs; to increase the commercial application of these research results; and to encourage participation of socially and economically disadvantaged persons and women-owned small businesses. Technological innovation is vital to the performance of the NASA mission and to the Nation's prosperity and security. To be eligible for selection, a proposal must present an innovation that meets the technology needs of existing NASA programs and projects as described herein and has significant potential for successful commercialization. Commercialization encompasses the transition of technology into products and services for NASA mission programs, other Government agencies and non-Government markets.
September 15, 2010 deadline—The Air Force, Navy, MDA, and OSD hereafter referred to as Department of Defense (DoD) Components, invite small business firms and research institutions to jointly submit proposals under this solicitation for the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program. The STTR Program is a program under which awards are made to small business concerns for cooperative research and development, conducted jointly by a small business and a research institution, through a uniform process having three phases. STTR, although modeled substantially on the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, is a separate program and is separately financed. Subject to availability of funds, DoD Components will support high quality cooperative research and development proposals of innovative concepts to solve the listed defense-related scientific or engineering problems, especially those concepts that also have high potential for commercialization in the private sector.
September 30, 2010 deadline—The MURI program supports basic science and/or engineering research at U.S. institutions of higher education (hereafter referred to as "universities") that is of potential interest to DoD. The program is focused on multidisciplinary research efforts that intersect more than one traditional science and engineering discipline to address scientific issues of interest to the DoD. As defined by the DoD, “basic research is systematic study directed toward greater knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of observable facts without specific applications towards processes or products in mind. It includes all scientific study and experimentation directed toward increasing fundamental knowledge and understanding in those fields of the physical, engineering, environmental, and life sciences related to long-term national security needs. It is farsighted high payoff research that provides the basis for technological progress.” (http://comptroller.defense.gov/fmr/02b/02b_05.pdf). The DoD’s basic research program invests broadly in many specific fields to ensure that it has early cognizance of new scientific knowledge.

October 1, 2010 deadline—The National Science Foundation's NanoManufacturing (NM) Program supports research and education on manufacturing at the nanoscale, and the transfer of research results in nanoscience and nanotechnology to industrial applications. The program emphasizes a systems approach to scale-up of nanotechnology for high rate production, reliability, robustness, yield and cost, and promotes integration of nanostructures to functional micro devices and meso/macroscale systems. Special emphases are on environmental, health, and societal aspects of nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing.
October 1, 2010 deadline—The National Science Foundation's Nano and Bio Mechanics (NBM) Program supports fundamental research in biomechanics and nanomechanics. Research on biomechanics focuses on the mechanical properties and behavior of biological materials and structures, including cells, tissue, muscles, bones, and prosthetic implants. Research on nanomechanics focuses on the unique properties of nano-scale particles and microstructural features and their effects on the macroscopic mechanics and properties of materials, surfaces, and structures that contain them.
February 5, June 5, October 5 annual deadline— (A) National Institutes of Health, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine "(R01 - Basic Research Grant)." The purpose of this funding opportunity is to stimulate nanoscience and nanotechnology research approaches that have the potential to make valuable contributions to biology and medicine.

February 16, June 16, October 16 annual deadline— (B) National Institutes of Health, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine "(R21 - Exploratory/Developmental Grant)." The purpose of this funding opportunity is to stimulate nanoscience and nanotechnology research approaches that have the potential to make valuable contributions to biology and medicine.
October 9, 2010 annual deadline—The National Insitutes of Health have this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit applications for the development of: Cancer Nanotechnology Training Centers (CNTCs) as a component of the NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer (The Alliance) (http://nano.cancer.gov). In addition to the CNTCs, the Alliance will consist of the Centers for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNEs, as the core of the program infrastructure), platform projects (CNPPs), and a K99/00 career transition program. The CNTCs are designed to establish innovative research education programs supporting the development of a multi-disciplinary nanotechnology workforce capable of pursuing cancer research.
October 20, 2010 annual deadline—The Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) is seeking proposals for "Radiation Protection Utilizing Nanotechnology" within two PRCRP Fiscal Year 2010 award mechanisms - Idea Award and Translational New Investigator Award. The Program Announcements for these two award mechanisms can be found on the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) website at: http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/prcrp.shtml. Full applications submitted through www.grants.gov are due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, October 20, 2010.

October 31, 2010 deadline—The National Science Foundation's Metals and Metallic Nanostructures grant supports the use of combined tools of experiment, theory and computer simulations. The goals of this program are to enable the advancement of fundamental understanding of metallic materials from the atomic to nano-structural to bulk length scales via imaginative and, especially, transformational research. A primary objective is to foster the expansion of the activities of synthesis, processing and characterization so that advanced metallic materials and nanostructures with superior physical, mechanical, and/or chemical properties can be predicted and designed, leading to enhanced knowledge of nano- and micro-structure/composition/property relationships at all the relevant length scales.

January 7, 2011 deadline—This National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding opportunity (FOA) is aimed at enhancing nanoscience and nanotechnology research focused on problems in biology and medicine. Nanoscience and nanotechnology refer to research and development on the understanding and control of matter at a length scale of approximately 1 - 100 nanometers, where novel properties and functions occur because of the size. -A major challenge facing medicine is to develop novel and more sophisticated approaches for the diagnosis, treatment and management of an array of diseases and traumatic injuries. Nanotechnology and nanoscience have the capacity to drive a new wave of medical innovation through the engineering of bioactive nanoscale structures, processes and systems based on the advancement of our understanding of biology at the nanoscale.

Department of Commerce
Commerce Department Grant Opportunities

Department of Defense

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Standards & Technology

NIST Funding Opportunities

National Science Foundation

NSF Activities, Solicitations and Their Outcomes

MURI08 - Nanomembranes

MURI06 - Silicon Laser and Nanophotonics

http://web.mac.com/jose.menendez/iWeb/Physics/Blog/39F8FEDD-849F-4F89-A5

MUR04 - Plasmonics

http://brongersma.stanford.edu/plasmonmuri/
http://www.plasmonmuri.caltech.edu/index.html

MURI03 - Nanoprobes

http://vdw.ece.wisc.edu/ntools/
http://www.optics.rochester.edu/workgroups/novotny/muri03/

DURINT01 (Concluded) Surface Modification for Advanced Hybrid Nanosystems

http://nanostructure.usc.edu/projects/durint.shtml

Current Solicitations

New Solicitations

Department of Commerce

Department of Defense

Department of Energy

Department of Homeland Security

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Health and Human Services

National Aeronautics and Space Administration