Non-Federal Limited Deadlines
Below is a list of upcoming programs with proposal submission restrictions. Please make sure to check each individual opportunity announcement for eligibility, specific deadline and submission information. This is not a comprehensive list of all limited submission proposals, and while this page will be updated regularly, it should be used in conjunction with other grant information resources available from individual funding agency websites. *Important: If a program has a limited submission requirement and you do not see it on the list below, please notify limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu and follow the procedure outlined here.
Faculty Scholars Program
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
For early-career faculty in medicine and nursing. Should be assistant professor with roughly 3-8 years of full-time faculty experience. Each Scholar is assigned one mentor from the funder's National Advisory Committee and one peer mentor from the family of alumni Scholars. Funder pays tuition costs for one Harvard Macy Institute course.
Particular interest in faculty who represent diverse backgrounds and come from institutions
that are diverse in terms of their geography, populations served, and community-based
vs. research-intensive.
Geisel dean may nominate one candidate. Internal application required. To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: One-page summary of your research proposal; current CV.
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Key Deadlines:
May 26, 2025 internal application deadline
August 1, 2025: external application deadline
Infrastructure Grants
St. Baldrick's Foundation
Support for clinical research associates so institutions can treat more children on cancer clinical trials.
Dartmouth may submit one proposal per year. To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: one-page description of your project; total amount of your funding request; current CV. Use "St. Baldrick's - Infrastructure" as the email subject line.
Important Dates:
June 1 - internal application deadline
July 8 - deadline for letter of inquiry
August 28 - deadline for invited full proposal
St. Baldrick's Fellows
St. Baldrick’s Foundation
For third and fourth or fourth and fifth years of pediatric oncology fellowship training.
Dartmouth may submit one proposal per year. A second Fellow application will be accepted only if focused on one of the following:
Brain tumors – all types, including rare forms, especially atypical teratoid/rhabdoid
tumor (AT/RT), diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)/diffuse midline glioma (DMG),
and glioblastoma (GBM)
Burkitt lymphoma – all types, especially sporadic
Ewing sarcoma
Rhabdoid tumors - Extrarenal
To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: one-page description of your project; total amount of your funding request; current CV. Use "St. Baldrick's Fellows" as the email subject line.
Important Dates:
June 1 - internal application deadline
July 8 - deadline for letter of inquiry
August 28 - deadline for invited full proposal
Sloan Research Fellowships
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
For early-career scientists and scholars in these or related fields:
chemistry
computer science
Earth system science
economics
mathematics
neuroscience
physics
Must be tenure-track but untenured as of the application deadline. Faculty position
must carry a regular teaching obligation. Application requires two representative
articles from your independent research. While not yet announced, the external sponsor
deadline is anticipated to be September 15. For questions about this opportunity and
anticipated application materials, please contact corporate.and.foundation.relations@dartmouth.edu.
Dartmouth may nominate up to three candidates in each area.
To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: one-page description of your project idea and current CV. Use "Sloan Fellowships" as the email subject line.
Important Dates:
June 20, 2025 - internal application deadline
September 15, 2025- deadline for invited full proposal
Searle Scholars Program
Kinship Foundation
$100,000 per year over three years for first- or second-year assistant professors in:
- biochemistry
- cell biology
- genetics
- immunology
- neuroscience
- pharmacology
- related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences
Not ordinarily for purely clinical research but has supported research programs that
include both clinical and basic components. See "Current Scholars" for funded examples.
Applicants should have begun their appointment as an independent investigator at the
assistant professor level on or after May 1, 2024. The appointment must be their first
tenure-track position (or its nearest equivalent).
Dartmouth may nominate one candidate. To apply for this opportunity, email the following
to LimitedFunding@Dartmouth.Edu:
one-page document addressing the primary Searle criterion: your potential to make
innovative and high-impact contributions to research over an extended period of time
current CV.
Use “Searle Scholars” as the email subject line.
Important Dates:
July 7, 2025 - internal application deadline
September 30, 2025- external application deadline
Endeavor Awards
Mark Foundation for Cancer Research
For collaborative research projects that bring together investigators with diverse
areas of expertise to tackle challenges in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
of cancer. These grants are awarded to teams of three or more investigators to generate
and integrate data from diverse lines of research and transform those insights into
advances for cancer patients that could not be achieved by individual efforts. Proposed
projects must not be supported by other sources of funding.
The Dartmouth Cancer Center may submit one application addressing any cancer type.
A second submission is allowable for a translational or clinical stage project that
primarily focuses on the following cancer types:
- upper GI
- glioblastoma
- triple-negative breast cancer
- pancreatic cancer
The PI must be faculty at Dartmouth College or Dartmouth Health. There are no restrictions
on institutional affiliation of co-principal investigators nor the number of submissions
in which they participate.
To apply for this opportunity, send a one-page Request for Consideration to DCC.Institutional.Applications@Dartmouth.edu by Monday, July 7, addressing the following:
- proposal title
- specific aims
- relevance to cancer type
- pre-clinical or translational/clinical stage project
- PI and co-PIs
- commitment to meet September 3 LOI deadline if nominated
Important Dates:
July 7, 2025 - internal application deadline
Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics
Greenwall Foundation
Release-time funding for bioethics research by early-career faculty. Eligible projects include historical, theological, psychological, sociological, normative, legal, comparative, and policy research--provided they are tightly tied to bioethics.
Requires at least 50 percent of time to be devoted to bioethics research. Award consists
of 50 percent of salary plus benefits for three years, up to the NIH salary cap, with
10 percent institutional costs for the salary and benefits. $5,000 per year for project
support and travel.
Priority for applicants who have not yet been considered for tenure and whose work
will have an impact on public policy, biomedical research, or clinical practice.
Dartmouth may submit one application.
To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu by July 21:
1. one-page research proposal, including:
a. how your project idea is innovative and/or addresses emerging topics
b. the potential impact on clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making,
policy, and practice
c. your past involvement in and future prospects for bioethics research
2. current CV
Use "Greenwall Faculty Scholars" as the email subject line.
Important Dates:
July 21, 2025 - internal application deadline
September 15, 2025- external application deadline
Frontiers Planet Prize
Frontiers Research Foundation
Awarded to the author of a peer-reviewed publication reporting a breakthrough with the potential for global deployment to address one or more of these threats to the sustainability of Earth systems:
Stratospheric ozone depletion
Biosphere integrity (e.g., loss of biodiversity)
Novel entities (man-made chemicals entering the environment)
Climate change
Ocean acidification
Fresh-water change
Land-system change
Biogeochemical flows (e.g., nitrogen and phosphorus)
Atmospheric aerosol loading
Eligibility: scientists conducting planetary boundary and earth system research whose
papers were accepted for publication between Nov. 1, 2023 and October 31, 2025.
Translation note: the "National Nominating Body (NNB)" referred to throughout the guidelines means Dartmouth College.
Dartmouth may nominate three candidates.
To apply internally for this opportunity, download and complete this brief application form describing your research paper, and email the form to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu by October 13. Use "Frontiers Planet Prize" as the email subject line.
Important Dates:
October 1, 2025 - internal application deadline
November 1, 2025- deadline for invited full proposal