Explore curated funding opportunities for UMass Amherst researchers.
Linked Standard Research Innovation Grants
Funder Deadline: 09/18/2026 (LOI)
Amount: Up to $450,000
Focus: Multi-site suicide prevention research that brings together investigators with complementary expertise and involves collaborative data collection across two or more research sites.
Strategic Research Grant
Funder Deadline: 10/19/2026 (LOI); 03/08/2027 (Full application)
Amount: Up to $250,000
Focus: Optimal, patient-centered, cost-effective diagnosis and care for people with sleep disorders.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Innovation Grants
Funder Deadline: 11/15/2026
Amount: Up to $140,000
Focus: Research that advances the understanding of suicide, suicide risk, or suicide prevention.
American Short-Term Research Publication Grants
Funder Deadline: 09/30/2026
Amount: $8,000
Focus: Funding to support women in preparing research manuscripts for publication
Note: Applicants must identify as a woman.
Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Fellowship Program
Funder Deadline: 11/20 (Annual deadline)
Amount: $100,000
Focus: The causes, prevention, and treatment of children and adolescents with ADHD or depression.
Note: Department Chairs may nominate only one investigator per fellowship area (ADHD and depression). Please coordinate with Foundation Relations as soon as possible if you intend to apply.
Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences
Funder Deadline: 10/29/2026 (LOI); 02/24/2027 (Full application)
Amount: Up to $2 million
Focus: Fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science.
Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellowship Award
Funder Deadline: 12/01/2026
Amount: Up to $240,000 (about $74 per person in the US)
Focus: Computational scientists with an interest in the intersection between quantitative biology, data science and cancer research.
Note: Applicants must have completed one or more of the following degrees or its equivalent: PhD, MD, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, DO.
AMS Centennial Fellowship
Funder Deadline: 09/30/2026
Amount: $75,000
Simons Symposia
Funder Deadline: 09/30/2026
Amount: Travel and conference-related costs
Focus: Supports symposia in mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer science.
Franklin Research Grants
Funder Deadline: 10/01/2026; 12/01/2026
Amount: Up to $7,000
Focus: Designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.
Note: Grants are payable to the individual applicant as taxable income.