UPDATE: If you’re looking for publicly available grants go check out our new Open Grants website at https://www.ogrants.org/. It has way more grants and is searchable so that you can quickly find the grants most useful to you.
Recently a bunch of folks in the biological sciences have started sharing their grant proposals openly. Their reasons for doing so are varied (see the links next to their names below), but part of the common justification is a general interest in opening up science so that all stages of the process can benefit from better interaction and communication, and part of it is to provide examples for younger scientists writing grants. To help accomplish both of these goals I’m going to do what Titus Brown suggested and compile a list of all of the available open proposals in the biological sciences (if you’re looking for math proposals they have a list too). Given the limited number of proposals available at the moment I’m just going to maintain the list here, sorted alphabetically by PI. Another way to find proposals is to look at the ‘grant’ and ‘proposal’ tags on figshare, where several of us have been posting proposals. If you know of more proposals, decide to post some yourself, or have corrections to proposal in the list, just let me know in the comments and I’ll keep the list updated. Enjoy!
B. Arman Aksoy (@armish)
Casey Bergman (@caseybergman)
- 2008 / Tools and Resources Development Fund Application – pubmed2ensembl: a resource for linking biological literature to genome sequences (BBSRC) *funded
- 2008 / New Investigator Grant Application (NERC) *funded
- 2008 / EMBO Young Investigator Programme Application (EMBO)
- 2007 / Responsive Mode Grant Application (BBSRC)
Dave Bridges (@bridges_lab)
- 2014 / Children’s Foundation Research Institute – Prediction of Weight Gain in Inbred Mouse Strains *funded
Titus Brown (@ctitusbrown; read Titus’ thoughts on sharing proposals)
- 2012 / NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure proposal, Materials and Workshops for Cyberinfrastructure Education in Biology supplement to BEACON. *funded
- 2012 / NSF CAREER proposal, Assembling Extremely Large Metagenomes
- 2012 / NSF BIGDATA proposal, Low-memory Streaming Prefilters for Biological Sequencing Data
- 2012 / Moore Foundation proposal on marine metagenomics
- 2011 / NSF CAREER proposal: “Scaling and Improving de Bruijn graph assembly”
- 2010 / Next-gen course (NIH R25) *funded
- 2009 / Web tools for next-gen sequence analysis (USDA) *funded
- 2007 / Cartwheel
Scott Chamberlain (@recology_)
- Kathryn Fuller Doctoral Fellowship application (WWF)
- 2010 / Prairie Biotic Research proposal *funded
- 2009 / Ecological and evolutionary impacts of pollinator sharing between cultivated and wild sunflowers (Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program)
- 2009 / Lewis and Clark grant proposal (American Philosophical Society)
- Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant proposal (NSF)
- Forest Shreeve Award proposal
- Ariel Appleton Research Fellowship Proposal – Ecological Networks
- How do crop-mediated changes in mutualist and antagonist communities affect selection on floral and defense traits?
Endymion D. Cooper (@EndymionCooper)
- 2015 / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship *funded
Karen Cranston (@kcranstn)
- 2011 / “Automated and community synthesis of the tree of life” (NSF AVATOL) *funded
- 2010 / “Towards a comprehensive, community-owned and sustainable repository of reusable phylogenetic knowledge” w/Hilmar Lapp (NSF ABI)
- 2009 / “A network for enabling community-driven standards to link evolution into the global web of data (EvoIO)” w/Hilmar Lapp (NSF INTEROP)
Kelly Dawe
- 2009 / NSF Plant Genome *funded
Morgan Ernest (@skmorgane)
- 2013 / “Reversing long-term experiments to understand regime shifts” (NSF DEB preproposal) *funded
Edmund (Ted) Harte (@DistribEcology)
- 2012 / Understanding range shift model error: The influence of generation time and rate of adaptation on species distribution model predictions. w/Scott Chamberlain (NCEAS proposal).
- 2008 / Evolution under simulated climate change in response to trophic shifts. (NSF DDIG) *funded
Tanja Pyhäjärvi
Jan Jensen (@janhjensen; read Jan’s thoughts on sharing proposals)
- 2010 / Protein Design Using Quantum Mechanics (Danish Center for Supercomputing) *funded
- 2008 / Computational Design of Stable Enzymes (Danish National Science Foundation, DSF-NABIIT) *funded
- 2006 / Modeling pH-Dependence in Drug Design (EU Marie Curie Program) *funded
- 2006 / Computational Prediction and Validation of Protein Structure and Function in Protein Engineering and Rational Drug Design (Danish National Science Foundation, FNU) *funded
- 2006 / Prediction and Interpretation of Protein pKa’s Using QM/MM (US National Science Foundation – MCB; rescinded when I moved to Denmark) *funded
- 2002 / The Prediction and Interpretation of Protein pKa’s Using QM/MM (US National Science Foundation – MCB) *funded
Paula Mabee
- 2010 / Ontology-enabled reasoning across phenotypes from evolution and model organisms w/Todd Vision (NSF) *funded
Rod Page (@rdmpage; read Rod’s thoughts on sharing proposals)
David Pappano (@djpappano)
- 2013 / NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology
- 2010 / Leakey Foundation General Research Grant
- 2009 / US Student Fulbright
- 2009 / NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
Heather Piwowar (@researchremix) & Jason Priem (@jasonpriem) (read their thoughts on sharing proposals)
- 2011 / Total-impact development proposal, Original submission (Sloan Foundation) *funded
Rosie Redfield (@RosieRedfield)
- Uptake proposal (CIHR)
- 2007 / Sxy proposal (CIHR) *funded
- 2001 / CIHR proposal *funded
- 1999 / NIH proposal *funded
Andrey Revyakin
Jeff Ross-Ibarra
- 2009 / USDA/NIFA: “Scanning for yield: high-throughput discovery of candidate agronomic loci for marker-assisted selection in maize” *funded
- 2015 / NSF Plant Genome Research Program: “The genetics of highland adaptation in maize” *funded
Menno Schilthuizen (@schilthuizen)
- Netherlands organization for scientific research postdoc fellowship
- Netherlands organization for scientific research PhD fellowship
- Netherlands organization for scientific research PhD fellowship
- Netherlands organization for scientific research PhD fellowship *funded
- Netherlands organization for scientific research postdoc fellowship *funded
Delia S. Shelton
- 2010 / NSF Graduate Research Fellowship *funded
- 2016 / NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship *funded (associated reviews)
Andrew Su (@andrewsu)
- 2014 / Gene Wiki: Expanding the ecosystem of community intelligence resources (R01 GM089820)
- 2017 / Gene Wiki renewal
Sarah Supp (@srsupp)
- 2014 / Dynamic macroecology: Globally assessing body size diversity response to environmental change (NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship) *funded
Tracy Teal (@tracykteal)
- 2012 / Data Management and Computational Skills Training for LTER Scientists w/Ethan White & Greg Wilson (LTER Training Working Groups Proposal)
Andrew Tredennick (@ATredennick)
- 2011 / Fuelwood, Savannas, and Climate Change: Integrating Modeling, Field Experimentation, and Optical and Radar Remote Sensing (NASA Predoctoral Graduate Fellowship) *funded
- 2014 / NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship – Diversity-stability relationships and coexistence: new theory and empirical tests *funded
Heroen Verbruggen
- 2012 / Genomic tools to study coral reef resilience (University of Melbourne)
- 2012 / Plastid endosymbiosis: a detailed study of genome dynamics (Australian Research Council)
- 2012 / Evolutionary dynamics of the algae: Understanding adaptive potential under environmental change (Australian Research Council) *funded
- Probing key innovations with next generation sequencing
- 2009 / Macroevolutionary dynamics of marine algae
Todd Vision (@tjvision)
- 2012 / Sustainable and Scalable Infrastructure for the Publication of Data (NSF) *funded
- 2008 / A Digital Repository for Preservation and Sharing of Data Underlying Published Works in Evolutionary Biology (NSF) *funded
Detlef Weigel (@PlantEvolution)
- 2013 / ERC AdG IMMUNENESIS *funded
Ethan White (@ethanwhite; read Ethan’s thoughts on sharing proposals)
- 2014 / Moore Investigator in Data Driven Discovery proposal *funded
- 2010 / CAREER: Advancing Macroecology Using Informatics and Entropy Maximization (NSF CAREER Award) *funded
- 2005 / Broad-scale patterns of the distribution of body sizes of individuals in ecological communities (NSF Postdoc Fellowship) *funded
- 2008 / Understanding multimodality in animal size distributions (NSF Research Starter Grant) *funded
UPDATE: Apparently I got distracted by my toddler last night before adding in all of the twitter handles for folks who have made grants available. That has now been corrected.
It’s also worth noting that because this is a list I’ll keep updating the post and to make things easier I’ll just note updates in the comments rather than attempting to keep a change log in the post itself.
Thanks for putting this together Ethan! And for inspiring me to join in.
Here are three of mine (Karen Cranston, @kcranstn)
* NSF AVATOL 2011, “Automated and community synthesis of the tree of life”, http://opentree.wikispaces.com/Grant+Proposal
* NAF ABI 2010, “Towards a comprehensive, community-owned and sustainable repository of reusable phylogenetic knowledge”, http://www.evoio.org/wiki/ABI_2011_proposal
* NSF INTEROP 2009, “A network for enabling community-driven standards to link evolution into the global web of data (EvoIO)”, http://www.evoio.org/wiki/NSF_INTEROP_2009
Thanks Karen! I justed added them to the main post.
UPDATE: More proposals by Scott Chamberlain added.
BTW @kcranstn’s AVAToL proposal is funded. (The other two are not – oddly those are the ones I’m co-PI on…)
The Dryad proposals (PI: @tjvision) have been available (and both were/are funded):
http://wiki.datadryad.org/NSF_grant_2008-2012
http://wiki.datadryad.org/NSF_grant_2012-2016
The current Phenoscape grant (PIs: P. Mabee and @tjvision) has been, too:
Click to access File:Phenoscape_Project_description_refs.pdf
I thought the first one had been too, but I can’t find it posted now.
Thanks Hilmar! I just added all of that information to the main post.
Ethan, very useful list. I posted some of my proposals here: http://phycoweb.net/projects/projects.html
Thanks Heroen! I’ve just updated the list with your grants.
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Added Ted Harte’s funded NSF DDIG.
UPDATE: Just added Tracy Teal’s LTER Training Workshop proposal (with Greg Wilson and myself).
UPDATE: Added Andrew Tredennick’s funded NASA predoc proposal.
UPDATE to comment: correctly indicated both here and in the page that is was a predoc proposal.
UPDATE: Added Ted Hart and Scott Chamberlain’s NCEAS proposal. Thanks guys!
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Don’t know if any of you have considered this, but you need a signed FERPA release to post the names of any students (including grad) and/or postdocs publicly, as in these grant proposals.
UPDATE: Added David Pappano’s grants.
Hi Ethan,
Please find attached link to my Case of Support. It got funded by the BBSRC.
Click to access 6_Case_Of_Support_Main_Text_Only.pdf
Thanks Andrey – done!
UPDATE: Added Andrey Revyakin’s grant.
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UPDATE: Added Morgan Ernest’s preproposal.
Just posted one of mine… http://figshare.com/articles/Gene_Wiki_Expanding_the_ecosystem_of_community_intelligence_resources_R01_GM089820_/1242817
Thanks @andrewsu. It’s been added.
UPDATE: Added Andrew Su’s Gene Wiki proposal and Ethan White’ Moore Investigator in Data Driven Discovery proposal.
UPDATE: Added proposals by Dave Bridges and Arman Aksoy.
Good ide; I’ve just posted five of my grant proposals on Figshare: http://figshare.com/authors/Menno_Schilthuizen/662106
Thanks for sharing @schilthuizen! I’ve added your grants to the list.
Added Sarah Supp’s funded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal.
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Useful stuff…
The NIH posted several helpful example proposals here: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/researchfunding/grant/pages/appsamples.aspx
Thanks Anne!
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My successful Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Proposal is here: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1456169
Thanks Endymion! I’ve added it to the list.
UPDATE: Added Endymion Cooper’s fellowship to the list.
Update: Added Delia Shelton NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Thanks Delia!
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Grants here: https://github.com/RILAB/statements
Ross – thanks for the contribution and sorry for the delay in getting it up. I’ve posted all of the grants at that link that I had enough metadata about.
Update: Added Delia Sehlton’s NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal and associated reviews.
Update: Added Andrew Tredenick’s funded NSF postdoc proposal.
Hi there, check out the many proposals, CVs, etc at the Broad/MIT CommKit; plus nice guidance on writing: http://mitcommlab.mit.edu/broad/use-the-commkit/
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Hello, I was trying to access David Pappano’s Leakey Foundation grant but seems like the link is broken. Is there any other place I could access it by chance? Thank you so much for creating this wonderful website! It is really helpful for early career researchers such as myself.
Thanks for your patience. All of the open grants work has moved to https://www.ogrants.org/ which has all of the most up to date information. Unfortunately it looks like that proposal isn’t there, probably because the link broke at some point and we couldn’t reach the original poster to get it put back on the web.