MSA Climate Change Research Award
Funds innovative research using fungi to develop new scientific solutions for combating human-driven climate change.
Funder: Mycological Society of America
Due Dates (Anticipated): February 2027 (application deadline, projected)
Funding Amounts: $10,000 (one-year award, no indirect costs allowed)
Summary: Supports innovative research leveraging fungi to develop solutions mitigating human-driven climate change.
Key Information: Applicants must be (or become) MSA members; undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs at US institutions eligible.
Description
The MSA Climate Change Research Award funds fundamental or translational research in which fungi and their diverse functions are central to addressing the causes of global climate change resulting from human activity. The award encourages creative, unexplored, or underexplored research directions, with the aim of generating practical and viable climate solutions. Funded research is expected to produce results that are made freely available to the global scientific community.
