External Funding Opportunities

Use the Community of Science (COS) Pivot™ to search for funding opportunities, especially from non-federal sources. Email address ending with umaryland.edu is required. For more information, visit https://www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu/hslupdates/?p=1525

The COS Pivot™ database answers the growing demands on research developers to quickly discover the right funding opportunities and effectively collaborate with their colleagues. Pivot combines a comprehensive, editorially maintained database of funding opportunities worth an estimated $33 billion with a unique database of 3 million pre-populated scholar profiles, drawn from Community of Scholars and Community of Science profiles. Its algorithm compiles pre-populated researcher profiles unique to an organization and matches them to current funding opportunities in the COS database. This allows users to search for a funding opportunity and instantly view matching faculty from inside or outside an institution. Conversely, a search for a scholar will link to matching funding opportunities.

Grants.gov lists grants offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies.

Limited submission funding opportunities are programs for which the sponsor limits the number of proposals that the University of Maryland, Baltimore may submit or which the sponsor limits the number of proposals the University of Maryland, Baltimore may submit. Examples of foundations and institutes that provide limited submission funding include:

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Nation Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention
• Greenwall Foundation
• Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards (IRACDA) (K12)
• Mallinckrodt Grants for Early Stage Researchers
• National Institutes of Health
• Pew Biomedical Scholars
• Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA)

If you become aware of a funding opportunity with limited-submission requirements, immediately contact the School of Medicine Dean's Office, which is coordinating this process on behalf of UMB, so an internal review process can be coordinated in a timely manner.

NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts, the official publication for NIH medical and behavioral research grant policies, guidelines, and funding opportunities.  

The UMSOM Center for Advanced Research Training and Innovation (CARTI) maintains databases that identify internal and external funding opportunities. All faculty from across the UMB campus are invited to review these lists of opportunities.

Visit CARTI Resources for Research Faculty, Funding Database for additional links to funding opportunities.

UM School of Dentistry site for Research Funding Information