Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research
Supporting novel research tools and methods for biological sciences, the Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research Program advances Bioinformatics, Instrumentation, and Research Methods to enhance researchers' abilities in manipulating, controlling, analyzing, and measuring biological systems.
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
Due Dates: October 5, 2076 (Application deadline) | Rolling (Full proposals)
Funding Amounts: $300,000–$800,000 per award; $18 million total program funding
Summary: Supports novel or substantially improved research infrastructure in bioinformatics, instrumentation, and research methods for fundamental biology.
Key Information: Infrastructure must have potential use beyond a single research team.
Description
NSF’s Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research program supports the design of novel or greatly improved tools and methods that advance research within the Directorate for Biological Sciences. Administered by the Division of Biological Infrastructure, it funds new infrastructure, significant redesigns, and novel adaptations of existing infrastructure. Projects should improve researchers’ ability to manipulate, control, analyze, or measure biological systems and address important fundamental biological questions.
The program covers bioinformatics, instrumentation, and laboratory- or field-based research methods with broad applicability in biology. Proposals must emphasize innovation, and high-risk, high-reward projects are welcome. The program focuses on the innovation stage of infrastructure development, rather than scaling or continued operation, and encourages researchers to leverage existing NSF-supported databases, networks, computational resources, software, and centers.
