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Illinois Researcher Information Service

Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS) is a unit of the University of Illinois Library. IRIS is free of charge to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign community. Currently IRIS contains over 9,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. You can search IRIS by sponsor, deadline date, keyword, and other criteria. You can also view upcoming deadlines in 25 subject areas.

Other options in IRIS include:

IRIS Alert Service: Sign up to receive automatic email notifications of new grant opportunities in your field.
Expertise Service: Create detailed electronic CVs ("biosketches") and search for colleagues in your field.

Grants.gov

Grants.gov is a one-stop location the single location to find and apply for grants programs offered by the 26 U.S. Federal grant-making agencies.

GrantsNet

GrantsNet is a free resource to find funding opportunities in biomedical research and undergraduate science education. Coordinated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Awarded Grants

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funding

Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (CRISP) is a biomedical database system containing information on research projects and programs supported by the Department of Health and Human Services during 1972-current. Tip: to find research grants awarded to local researchers, search for institution = University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Use this tool to search for grants awarded by:

National Institutes of Health (NIH): Most of the research programs in CRISP are funded by NIH.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ)

National Science Foundation (NSF) Funding

The National Science Foundation (NSF) provides several ways to search its past (since 1989) and current awards:

Award Abstract Search: Research projects funded by NSF since 1989.
Recent Awards: Weekly list of NSF awards.
Budget Internet Information System: Summaries of award amounts by state, awardee institution, and NSF Directorate.
To see how the U of Illinois ranks against other universities, and the grants our researchers have been awarded, follow this link.
Major Infrastructure Awards and Centers
Presidential and Honorary Awards

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Funding

Current Research Information System (CRIS) is the USDA's documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research and education projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry.

Department of Energy (DOE)

Department of Energy's (DOE) The overarching mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States.

The Procurement and Financial Assistance Data System (PADS) is the Department of Energy's central repository of contractual information for all unclassified procurement and financial assistance awards. Funded biological research includes biofuels, genomics, biomedicine, pollution, etc.
PADS Online Search

U.S. Department of Energy Procurement and

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