Foundations of Life (FL) supports individual researchers, teams, and consortia studying natural and synthetic living systems to explain biological structure, function, and regulation from molecules to organisms.
Life Sciences supports researchers studying biological mechanisms, genetics, and intelligence in living and synthetic systems to deepen fundamental understanding and advance crop resilience and sustainability.
Living Systems (LS) supports individual researchers and teams studying organisms, their evolution, and their interactions to advance basic understanding of how they shape natural and managed systems.
Bioinnovation and Infrastructure (BI) supports researchers developing foundational biological knowledge and shared tools, data, and technologies to advance discovery across levels of biological organization.
The Sloan Foundation's Matter-to-Life program funds research on the physical principles and mechanisms that distinguish living systems from non-living matter, focusing on building, understanding, and detecting life.
NSF BIO Core funds foundational and interdisciplinary research in all areas of biology, supporting projects of various sizes and durations, from molecules to ecosystems.