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Funding Opportunity Databases:

SURF Database
UC San Diego's central repository for funding announcements. Has information on local, regional, and intramural programs that may not exist in national databases like COS, IRIS or GrantsSelect

Check here to see if UCSD has established an earlier campus deadline for a program, find out if there are specific application procedures to follow, and learn whom to contact with your questions

National Science Foundation (NSF) Limited Submissions
A list of NSF programs that limit the number of proposals an organization can submit

Cal-IT Research Intelligence Portal
This portal is a "living" experiment of how data mining, visualization, and Web 2.0 technologies can be used to support research. Provides visualization tools for recent Federal funding opportunities, automated daily email digests of Grants.Gov funding opportunities, and affiliated researcher profiles.

Community of Science (COS)
Search 400,000+ funding opportunities, create and publish an electronic curriculum vitae, search for research collaborators, find an expert, and create custom e-mail funding alerts

Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
Over 8,600 federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Also contains fellowships and scholarships for grad students and undergrads.

GrantsSelect
Over 10,000 records including many opportunities in the Arts & Humanities, and Social Sciences

Grants.gov
Competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies.

National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI)
The Children’s Hospital Grants Opportunities Project is designed to provide pediatric researchers with one-stop shopping for federal, private and pediatric research grants information. 

Other funding databases...

Other resources and tools

Grant Writer's Toolbox - grant writing guides, articles and links for fine tuning your proposals

Science - Next Wave - the career development resource for scientists

Available Postdoctoral Positions at UCSD

Subventions for faculty publications

 

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