Explore curated funding opportunities for UMass Amherst researchers.
Grant Opportunities
Funder Deadline: 08/31/2026 (Pre-application)
Amount: Up to $100,000
Focus: Bold, innovative ideas that advance the understanding and mitigation of risks of catastrophic sea-level rise driven by ice-sheet instability.
Autism Research Initiative - New Ideas Award
Funder Deadline: Rolling (LOI)
Amount: Up to $600,000
Focus: Autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders.
Grant Opportunities
Funder Deadline: Rolling
Amount: Unspecified
Focus: Maritime and Ocean Affairs, Nikkei Communities, and Japanese Studies.
Basic Needs Initiative
Funder Deadline: Rolling
Amount: Varies (past initiatives)
Focus: Support students' basic needs to promote education and long-term success.
Rural Impact Initiative
Funder Deadline: Rolling
Amount: Varies (past initiatives)
Focus: Expand educational and career pathways for learners in rural communities.
MicroMAX Collaborative Research Grants 2027
Funder Deadline: 09/15/2026
Amount: Up to DKK 7 million ($1,090,597)
Focus: Train early career researchers within advanced synchrotron crystallography methods that benefit the life science ecosystem.
Note: Main applicant must be affiliated with Danish institutions.
Bridge to Success Grant for Mid-Careers/Senior Investigators
Funder Deadline: 01/04/2027
Amount: Up to $100,000
Focus: sleep and circadian science, sleep disorders, and/or sleep health.
Open Call: Strep A/Rheumatic Heart Disease Vaccine Development
Funder Deadline: Rolling
Amount: Unspecified (past grants)
EMD Research Grants Program
Funder Deadline: 08/31/2026
Amount: Varies
Focus: In-vitro models and assays to identify novel therapies for neuroinflammatory diseases, AI in cell culture media and process development, economical remediation of contaminated high volume materials, condensate-based high-sensitivity cell-free screening assays for the modulation of protein-protein interactions, and advancing molecule synthesis and discovery.
Grants Program for Scientific Research
Funder Deadline: 08/31/2026
Amount: Up to €60,000 ($69,760)
Focus: Psychophysiology and Parapsychology