Funding opportunities FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH (FFAR)Pre-announcement: Genotype-Independent Regeneration of Fertile Plants  (link) – FFAR’s Crops of the Future Collaborative will be accepting applications for the new Genotype-Independent Regeneration of Fertile Plants program starting May 27, 2020. We’re seeking innovative research focused on ensuring that under-appreciated crops also benefit from recent advances and…

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)Assessment Tools for Biotechnology Products (link) – Research solicited in this RFA will support the development of improved science-based human health and environmental risk assessments of novel biotechnology products. Recent advances in synthetic biology methods can be used to create substances and life forms not found in nature, which may in turn…

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE)ARPA-E Systems for Monitoring and Analytics for Renewable Transportation Fuels from Agricultural Resources and Management (SMARTFARM) (link) – ARPA-E recently modified a funding opportunity, Systems for Monitoring and Analytics for Renewable Transportation Fuels from Agricultural Resources and Management (SMARTFARM), to develop innovative new technologies for measuring emissions from agricultural feedstock production. ARPA-E…

Funding Opportunities: National Institutes of Health (NIH):Pilot Projects Investigating Understudied G Protein-Coupled Receptors, Ion Channels, and Protein Kinases (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) The goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for the Common Fund Program “Illuminating the Druggable Genome” (IDG; https://commonfund.nih.gov/idg/index) is to solicit applications for pilot projects on IDG-eligible understudied proteins (non-olfactory GPCRs, protein…