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Texas A&M researchers can pursue external research funding from a variety of sources—state and federal government agencies, non-profit organizations, and corporations.
Texas A&M provides internal grants to inspire interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaborations on groundbreaking research. The university also uses funding to encourage partnerships with clinical affiliates.
Federal Programs
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Fulbright Program
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Institutes of Health
- NIH Parent Announcements
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Individual NOAA Offices
- National Science Foundation
- Office of Naval Research
- U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- U.S. Army Research Office
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Energy
- DOE - Office of Science
- DOE - National Energy Technology Lab
- DOE - Office of Nuclear Energy
- DOE - Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
- DOE - Advanced Research Projects Agency
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Funding Databases
Private Foundations
- American Cancer Society
- American Heart Association
- Howard G. Buffet Foundation
- Institute of International Education
- McKnight Foundation
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Norman Borlaug Foundation
- Qatar Foundation
- Research Valley Partnership, Inc.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch
- Texas Rice Research Foundation
- Welch Foundation
- Prevent Cancer Foundation
External Funding Newsletters
Limited Submission
The Limited Submission Program (LSP) is open to all Texas A&M University faculty and principal investigators who meet the eligibility requirements.
Multidisciplinary Funding Opportunities
This Bi-Weekly Funding Opportunities Newsletter highlights a selection of multi-investigator external funding opportunities.
Internal Funding
Texas A&M is committed to helping faculty advance their research portfolio across all disciplines. These programs are designed to support the generation of preliminary data, pursue new directions or collaborations, or boost an existing collaboration toward a major proposal submission.
Advancing Discovery to Market (ADM)
ADM provides resources to support the development or demonstrate the commercial potential of recent discoveries within the Texas A&M research enterprise. This $5 million program is open to researchers, faculty, staff, and students of Texas A&M University and three state agencies.
Arts & Humanities Fellows
The Arts & Humanities Fellows Program was created to stimulate interactions among scholarly and artistic faculty at Texas A&M as well as nationally and internationally.
Panther RISE Grant Program (PRISE)
The Panther RISE Grant Program (PRISE) is an agreement between Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University to establish productive research and scholarly collaborations to better position themselves to pursue multidisciplinary research and innovation projects. The PRISE program is open to tenured/tenure-track faculty members from all disciplines.
Research Development Fund
The Research Development Fund (RDF) is utilized for strategic investments that support the total Texas A&M research enterprise and catalyze new ventures. This fund will support research across those administrative units participating in the fund.
Research Leadership Fellowship (RLF)
The intent of the RLF program is to foster the next generation of research leaders and encourage the submission of interdisciplinary grant proposals. Fellows participate in leadership training, fellowship events and proposal development.
Targeted Proposal Teams (TPT)
The TPT program aims to enhance Texas A&M University's research enterprise by fostering interdisciplinary research. TPT seeks to leverage extramural funding and promote collaborative and interdisciplinary research of national and global significance.