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A list of publicly available grant proposals in the biological sciences

UPDATE: If you’re looking for publicly available grants go check out our new Open Grants website at https://www.ogrants.org/. It has way more grants and is searchable so that you can quickly find the grants most useful to you. Recently a bunch of folks in the biological sciences have started sharing their grant proposals openly. Their…

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UPDATE: If you’re looking for publicly available grants go check out our new Open Grants website at https://www.ogrants.org/. It has way more grants and is searchable so that you can quickly find the grants most useful to you.

Recently a bunch of folks in the biological sciences have started sharing their grant proposals openly. Their reasons for doing so are varied (see the links next to their names below), but part of the common justification is a general interest in opening up science so that all stages of the process can benefit from better interaction and communication, and part of it is to provide examples for younger scientists writing grants. To help accomplish both of these goals I’m going to do what Titus Brown suggested and compile a list of all of the available open proposals in the biological sciences (if you’re looking for math proposals they have a list too). Given the limited number of proposals available at the moment I’m just going to maintain the list here, sorted alphabetically by PI. Another way to find proposals is to look at the ‘grant’ and ‘proposal’ tags on figshare, where several of us have been posting proposals. If you know of more proposals, decide to post some yourself, or have corrections to proposal in the list, just let me know in the comments and I’ll keep the list updated. Enjoy!

B. Arman Aksoy (@armish)

Casey Bergman (@caseybergman)

Dave Bridges (

Titus Brown (@ctitusbrown; read Titus’ thoughts on sharing proposals)

Scott Chamberlain (@recology_)

Endymion D. Cooper (@EndymionCooper)

Karen Cranston (@kcranstn)

Kelly Dawe

Morgan Ernest (@skmorgane)

Edmund (Ted) Harte (@DistribEcology)

Jan Jensen (@janhjensen; read Jan’s thoughts on sharing proposals)

Paula Mabee

Rod Page (@rdmpage; read Rod’s thoughts on sharing proposals)

David Pappano (@djpappano)

Heather Piwowar (@researchremix) & Jason Priem (@jasonpriem) (read their thoughts on sharing proposals)

Rosie Redfield (@RosieRedfield)

Andrey Revyakin

Jeff Ross-Ibarra

Menno Schilthuizen (@schilthuizen)

Delia S. Shelton

Andrew Su (@andrewsu)

Sarah Supp (@srsupp)

Tracy Teal (@tracykteal)

Andrew Tredennick (@ATredennick)

Heroen Verbruggen

Todd Vision (@tjvision)

Detlef Weigel (@PlantEvolution)

Ethan White (@ethanwhite; read Ethan’s thoughts on sharing proposals)

49 responses to “A list of publicly available grant proposals in the biological sciences”

  1. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    UPDATE: Apparently I got distracted by my toddler last night before adding in all of the twitter handles for folks who have made grants available. That has now been corrected.

    It’s also worth noting that because this is a list I’ll keep updating the post and to make things easier I’ll just note updates in the comments rather than attempting to keep a change log in the post itself.

  2. Scott Chamberlain Avatar
    Scott Chamberlain

    Thanks for putting this together Ethan! And for inspiring me to join in.

  3. Karen Cranston Avatar
    Karen Cranston

    Here are three of mine (Karen Cranston, @kcranstn)
    * NSF AVATOL 2011, “Automated and community synthesis of the tree of life”, http://opentree.wikispaces.com/Grant+Proposal
    * NAF ABI 2010, “Towards a comprehensive, community-owned and sustainable repository of reusable phylogenetic knowledge”, http://www.evoio.org/wiki/ABI_2011_proposal
    * NSF INTEROP 2009, “A network for enabling community-driven standards to link evolution into the global web of data (EvoIO)”, http://www.evoio.org/wiki/NSF_INTEROP_2009

  4. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Thanks Karen! I justed added them to the main post.

  5. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    UPDATE: More proposals by Scott Chamberlain added.

  6. Hilmar Lapp (@hlapp) Avatar
    Hilmar Lapp (@hlapp)

    BTW @kcranstn’s AVAToL proposal is funded. (The other two are not – oddly those are the ones I’m co-PI on…)

    The Dryad proposals (PI: @tjvision) have been available (and both were/are funded):
    http://wiki.datadryad.org/NSF_grant_2008-2012
    http://wiki.datadryad.org/NSF_grant_2012-2016

    The current Phenoscape grant (PIs: P. Mabee and @tjvision) has been, too:
    http://phenoscape.org/wiki/File:Phenoscape_Project_description_refs.pdf

    I thought the first one had been too, but I can’t find it posted now.

  7. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Thanks Hilmar! I just added all of that information to the main post.

  8. heroen Avatar
    heroen

    Ethan, very useful list. I posted some of my proposals here: http://phycoweb.net/projects/projects.html

  9. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Thanks Heroen! I’ve just updated the list with your grants.

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  12. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Added Ted Harte’s funded NSF DDIG.

  13. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    UPDATE: Just added Tracy Teal’s LTER Training Workshop proposal (with Greg Wilson and myself).

  14. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    UPDATE: Added Andrew Tredennick’s funded NASA predoc proposal.
    UPDATE to comment: correctly indicated both here and in the page that is was a predoc proposal.

  15. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    UPDATE: Added Ted Hart and Scott Chamberlain’s NCEAS proposal. Thanks guys!

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  17. Jack C. Schultz Avatar
    Jack C. Schultz

    Don’t know if any of you have considered this, but you need a signed FERPA release to post the names of any students (including grad) and/or postdocs publicly, as in these grant proposals.

  18. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    UPDATE: Added David Pappano’s grants.

  19. Andrey Avatar
    Andrey

    Hi Ethan,

    Please find attached link to my Case of Support. It got funded by the BBSRC.

    http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/biochemistry/staff/Andrey%20Revyakin/research/papers/6_Case_Of_Support_Main_Text_Only.pdf

  20. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Thanks Andrey – done!

    UPDATE: Added Andrey Revyakin’s grant.

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  23. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    UPDATE: Added Morgan Ernest’s preproposal.

  24. Andrew Su Avatar
    Andrew Su

    Just posted one of mine… http://figshare.com/articles/Gene_Wiki_Expanding_the_ecosystem_of_community_intelligence_resources_R01_GM089820_/1242817

  25. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Thanks @andrewsu. It’s been added.

    UPDATE: Added Andrew Su’s Gene Wiki proposal and Ethan White’ Moore Investigator in Data Driven Discovery proposal.

  26. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    UPDATE: Added proposals by Dave Bridges and Arman Aksoy.

  27. schilthuizen Avatar
    schilthuizen

    Good ide; I’ve just posted five of my grant proposals on Figshare: http://figshare.com/authors/Menno_Schilthuizen/662106

  28. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Thanks for sharing @schilthuizen! I’ve added your grants to the list.

  29. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Added Sarah Supp’s funded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal.

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  31. uqkdhanj Avatar
    uqkdhanj

    Reblogged this on It's not easy to be a PhD and commented:
    Useful stuff…

  32. Anne Carpenter (@DrAnneCarpenter) Avatar
    Anne Carpenter (@DrAnneCarpenter)

    The NIH posted several helpful example proposals here: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/researchfunding/grant/pages/appsamples.aspx

  33. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Thanks Anne!

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  35. Endymion D. Cooper Avatar
    Endymion D. Cooper

    My successful Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Proposal is here: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1456169

  36. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Thanks Endymion! I’ve added it to the list.

    UPDATE: Added Endymion Cooper’s fellowship to the list.

  37. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Update: Added Delia Shelton NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Thanks Delia!

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  42. rossibarra Avatar
    rossibarra

    Grants here: https://github.com/RILAB/statements

  43. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Ross – thanks for the contribution and sorry for the delay in getting it up. I’ve posted all of the grants at that link that I had enough metadata about.

  44. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Update: Added Delia Sehlton’s NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal and associated reviews.

  45. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Update: Added Andrew Tredenick’s funded NSF postdoc proposal.

  46. annecarpenter1 Avatar
    annecarpenter1

    Hi there, check out the many proposals, CVs, etc at the Broad/MIT CommKit; plus nice guidance on writing: http://mitcommlab.mit.edu/broad/use-the-commkit/

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  48. B.C. Avatar
    B.C.

    Hello, I was trying to access David Pappano’s Leakey Foundation grant but seems like the link is broken. Is there any other place I could access it by chance? Thank you so much for creating this wonderful website! It is really helpful for early career researchers such as myself.

  49. Ethan White Avatar
    Ethan White

    Thanks for your patience. All of the open grants work has moved to https://www.ogrants.org/ which has all of the most up to date information. Unfortunately it looks like that proposal isn’t there, probably because the link broke at some point and we couldn’t reach the original poster to get it put back on the web.

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