Explore curated funding opportunities for UMass Amherst researchers.
AACR-Debbie's Dream Foundation Gastric Cancer Innovation and Discovery Grant
Funder Deadline: 07/22/2026
Amount: $100,000
Grants Program
Funder Deadline: 09/15/2026
Amount: Unspecified
Focus: Architecture and related fields.
Society for the Humanities Fellowships
Funder Deadline: 09/01/2026
Amount: $68,000
Focus: Interdisciplinary
Request for Proposals: Global Health and Wellbeing in an Era of Transformative AI
Funder Deadline: 08/21/2026
Amount: Up to $10,000,000
Focus: Research, policy development, implementation, and field-building projects that help ensure AI improves human health and wellbeing, with particular attention to risks and benefits to the global poor.
Technology Proposals
Funder Deadline: 07/31/2026
Amount: Up to $400,000
Focus: Projects that develop novel technologies to solve ocean problems. Funding focus areas include: sustaining fisheries, habitat health, ocean observing, and network support.
Implementation Awards
Funder Deadline: 09/09/2026 (LOI); 01/12/2027 (Full application)
Amount: Up to $1.8 Million
Focus: Projects that aim to implement patient-centered CER results obtained from PCORI-funded research in real-world practice settings, and in selected cases, projects that focus on planning for implementation of these findings or on the dissemination of these findings.
Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program
Funder Deadline: 10/1/2026 (LOI); 01/11/2027 (Full application)
Amount: Varies
Focus: Projects that build communities equipped to engage in patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) and disseminate PCORI-funded research results to those who need them.
Open Competition: Implementation of Findings From PCORI's Research Investments
Funder Deadline: 09/09/2026 (LOI); 01/12/2027 (Full application)
Amount: Up to $1.8 Million
Focus: (1) Screening and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adolescents; (2) Direct hospital admissions program for children; (3) Early palliative care for patients with advanced cancer; and (4) Caries arrest and prevention in children.
Human Services Program
Funder Deadline: 07/15/2026
Amount: Unspecified
Focus: The needs of women in crisis.
Targeted Grants to Institutes
Funder Deadline: 09/30/2026
Amount: Up to $750,000
Focus: Mathematics and theoretical basic physical sciences.