Science & Research Grants in Illinois

Top science & research grants in Illinois right now

• Center: NSF Engineering Research Center for Human AugmentatioN via Dexterity (HAND)

  Up to $14MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  The work of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Human AugmentatioN via Dexterity (HAND) will lead to versatile, dexterous robotic arms and hands t...

• Chameleon Phase-IV: A Reconfigurable Experimental Platform for Edge to Cloud Research

  Up to $9.0MDeadline: Sep 30, 2028open

  Chameleon is a deeply reconfigurable experimental edge to cloud testbed supporting Computer Science (CS) systems experimentation, education, and emerg...

• APTO: Collaborative Research: Global Observatory and Virtual Laboratory for Science and Technology Advance

  Up to $8.0MDeadline: Jun 30, 2029open

  Over the past half-century, the global geopolitical balance of scientific, technological, and economic leadership has shifted, with China’s meteoric r...

• Establishing an Advanced Microscopy and Diagnostic Research Facility for the Midwest and Illinois MSI Alliance

  Up to $7.8MDeadline: May 31, 2030open

  /abstract The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) proposes to expand its Microscopy Core Facilities to establish an Advanced Microscopy...

• Partnerships for Enhancing ERI Research (PEER)

  Up to $1.9MDeadline: May 31, 2029open

  Bradley University's Partnerships for Enhancing ERI Research (PEER) is an NSF GRANTED project that will transform the research enterprise at a mid-siz...

• Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Cyberinfrastructure to Catalyze and Sustain the Urban Computing Community

  Up to $1.8MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Cities are loci of resource consumption, economic activity, and innovation. Given the increasing ability to collect, transmit, store, and analyze data...

• Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics

  National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismUp to $1.7MDeadline: May 31, 2030open

  Alcohol use disorder (AUD) can be characterized by a pattern of compulsive alcohol drinking and development of several withdrawal symptoms that promot...

• SCC-IRG Track 2: SCHOLAR: Smart, Connected, and Healthy Outcomes from Leveraging Assets and Research

  Up to $1.5MDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  An effective method for improving health outcomes for high-risk patients in under-resourced communities is the implementation of a Community Health Wo...

• Collaborative Research: DMREF: AI-guided Discovery of Sustainable Ion-Conducting Peptide Electrolytes

  Up to $1.5MDeadline: Sep 30, 2029open

  Non-technical Description: Energy storage technologies such as batteries critically require safe and thermally stable ion-conducting materials. Lithiu...

• ENGAGED: Disability Community Engaged Medical Rehabilitation Research Center

  Up to $1.4MDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  Modified Project Summary/Abstract Section The ENGAGED Medical Rehabilitation Research Center (MRRC) is a bi-institutional collaboration between the U...

• Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Building the Twenty-first Century Citizen Science Framework to Enable Scientific Discovery Across Disciplines

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Sep 30, 2029open

  Twenty-first century research is enabled by the availability of vast amounts of data, collected across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales, of...

• Equipment: MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a GPU Cluster for Accelerating HIPAA-Compliant Data-Driven Research

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making huge strides across a range of areas, including natural language processing, computer vision, reinforcement lea...

• MADRE (Mammograms Available Due to Research and Education)

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  There are populations at risk for late stage breast cancer (BC) diagnoses and worse post-diagnosis quality of life, including Latinas, in part due to ...

• Community-Engaged Research Resource Center (CERRC): An A.C.T.I.O.N. Framework (Assess, Collaborate, Technical assistance, Implement, Optimize, Nurture)

  Up to $1.0MDeadline: May 31, 2030open

  Substance use remains a public health emergency, with drug overdoses claiming a life in the U.S. every five minutes. Despite the existence of proven s...

• CRCNS Research Proposal: Measuring and modeling the biological intelligence advantage

  Up to $1.0MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  As promising as recent artificial intelligence (AI) advances have been, there are still many areas where it falls short. In those areas where it does ...

• TestMiGenes2: Population Genomic Screening in Diverse Primary Care Settings

  National Human Genome Research InstituteUp to $915KDeadline: Jan 31, 2031open

  Nearly 2 million people in the United States are at increased risk for serious health outcomes due to hereditary conditions such as Hereditary Breast ...

• Advantaging the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot: Leveraging the COVID-19 HPC Consortium Experience

  Up to $897KDeadline: Jan 31, 2027open

  This project supports the broader efforts of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot to address how powerful Artificial I...

• Collaborative Research: Ice-Shelf Rumpling and its Influence on Ice-Shelf Buttressing Processes.

  Up to $859KDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  Non-Technical Abstract: This project explores the areas or crash-zones where floating ice shelves in Antarctica compressively flow against obstructio...

• Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: CIRC: ENS: Bridging Science and AI Through Differentiable Program Transformations

  Up to $850KDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open

  Automatic Differentiation has become an important enabling technology for scientific computing and machine learning. Simply put, machine learning is a...

• Collaborative Research: Situated Practice Systems: Supporting Coaches and Students to Develop Regulation Skills for Design, Research and STEM Innovation

  Up to $839KDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

  Learning to innovate is crucial for preparing students to design and implement innovative solutions to social and technical problems upon graduation. ...

What counts as a science & research grant in Illinois

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Where Illinois science & research grants come from

• Federal sources — Grants.gov, NIH RePORTER, and SAM.gov opportunities open to Illinois-based organizations and thematically aligned with science & research.
• Illinois state portal — state-administered science & research programs, including pass-through federal dollars and state-only appropriations.
• Foundations — community foundations and private foundations giving in Illinois for science & research work, drawn from IRS Form 990 filings and curated directories.
• Corporate giving — corporate philanthropy programs that fund science & research work in Illinois.