A list of publicly available grant proposals in the biological sciences

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)

• 2014 / Postdoctoral fellowships (several) – Making sense of cancer data: Implications for personalized therapy and cancer biology

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)

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)

• 2011 / Dark taxa: Preparing for a post-taxonomic future

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

• Case for support: Single molecule dynamics of human transcription regulation *funded

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