Science & Research Grants in Minnesota

Top science & research grants in Minnesota right now

• Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: Breaking Low: DRIVE-SAFE: Remote and Cooperative Autonomous Driving in Dynamic Environments using 5G/NextG Technology

  Up to $2.5MDeadline: Jul 31, 2027open

  This project aims to break the low latency performance barrier in today’s fifth generation (5G) networks that hinders progress and adoption of remote ...

• Enhancing multidisciplinary research at Mayo with a state-of-the-art 7T preclinical MRI

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Mar 31, 2027open

  /ABSTRACT The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN seeks funding to acquire the Bruker BioSpec 70/20 magnetic resonance (MR) imaging scanner, featuring a 7.0 ...

• NSF R2I2: National Research Office

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  Communities across the United States are increasingly experiencing the severe consequences of shifting weather patterns, increased impacts from drough...

• GRANTED: Building capacity in research: An administrative model for predominantly undergraduate research institutions

  Up to $1.7MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  As primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) expand externally funded research activities, there is often a period during which numbers of external ...

• Promoting weight-related health in the next generation of adolescents and young adults:A comprehensive program of research

  Up to $1.1MDeadline: Mar 31, 2032open

  Promoting weight-related health is vital to cardiovascular health and a public health priority. The Project EAT (Eating and Activity over Time) resear...

• BCSER: Expanding STEM Education Researchers' Generative AI Capacities

  Up to $1000KDeadline: Sep 30, 2028open

  While generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools and methods could help researchers discover new insights about STEM teaching and learning, rese...

• Next Generation KUH Researchers (GENERATOR) Training Core

  Up to $882KDeadline: Jun 30, 2030open

  The GENERATOR (“Next Generation of KUH Researchers”) is a research and career building program focused on predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars in KUH...

• Collaborative Research: Frameworks: ML4GW, a machine learning ecosystem for gravitational wave data analysis

  National Science FoundationUp to $881KDeadline: Sep 30, 2029open

  Since the first direct observation of gravitational waves in 2015, a new field of astronomy has fundamentally changed how the universe can be explored...

• Collaborative Research: RUI:The role of Polo Kinases in maintaining chiral asymmetry in the ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila.

  Up to $682KDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  This project investigates how ‘simple’ single-cell protozoa express organizational complexity rivaling that seen in higher organisms. Protozoa are rar...

• Collaborative Research: REU Site: Sustainable Land and Water Resources - A Community Based Research Experience for Undergraduates

  Up to $669KDeadline: Apr 30, 2029open

  The Sustainable Land and Water Resources Research Experience for Undergraduates (SLAWR REU) introduces undergraduate students to Earth systems science...

• MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Ecology, Paleolimnology, and Biogeochemical Research at the Large Lakes Observatory

  Up to $657KDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  Understanding how Earth functions and how it has changed over time requires precise measurements of chemical signatures found in natural materials lik...

• RET Site: Research Experience for Teachers in Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

  Up to $600KDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  The RET site at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN will be centered on promoting AI fluency in healthcare, particularly among school districts in rural ...

• Collaborative Research: HNDS-I: Building Long-term, National-scale Spatiotemporal Data Collections from Historical Map Archives

  Up to $500KDeadline: Dec 31, 2027open

  The Imola (Intelligent Map recOgnition LAb) project develops advanced computational methods and scientific approaches to extract historical geographic...

• Collaborative Research: ULTRA-Data: Developing global riverine solute regime and synchrony frameworks for understanding watershed-scale controls on river biogeochemical signals

  Up to $460KDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

  Rivers are vital to life, providing drinking water and supporting agriculture, recreation, transportation, and fisheries. However, changes on land can...

• Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 2 in transcription regulation

  National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial ResearchUp to $450KDeadline: May 31, 2030open

  Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) remains a significant burden to global health. This orally transmitted virus is associated with a spectrum of diseases, inclu...

• GOALI: Technologies to Support the New Era of Liquid Chromatography Research

  Up to $443KDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

  With support from the Chemical Measurement and Imaging Program in the Division of Chemistry, and in collaboration with Agilent Technologies, Professor...

• Clinically-calibrated Accelerated Fatigue Test for Predicting the Clinical Performance of Dental Restorative Materials

  National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial ResearchUp to $441KDeadline: Apr 30, 2028open

  /Abstract There is now an urgent need to develop more clinically relevant tests, or medical device development tools (MDDT), that are alternatives to ...

• Collaborative Research: RUI: Integration of temporal, positional, and sex-specifying cues in neuronal development

  Up to $419KDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  Reproductive behaviors depend on specific neuronal circuits that emerge during development. This investigation will discover the molecules that regula...

• Nanodroplet Infused Analgesic-Wafer for Transmucosal Opioid-free Treatment of Subacute Oral Pain

  National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial ResearchUp to $413KDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  SUMMARY Over 2 million patients visit hospital emergency departments (EDs) each year for non-traumatic dental conditions, accounting for 2.5% of ED vi...

• Heritage Partnership Program

  Minnesota Historical SocietyUp to $400Kopen

  Heritage Partnership Program is sponsored by Minnesota Historical Society. Funds capacity building and program development of history-based partnershi...

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What counts as a science & research grant in Minnesota

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Where Minnesota science & research grants come from

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