Learn more about funding opportunities and requests for proposals, and find links to application portals for the Dean's Innovation Award Programs, Additional Award Programs Administered by the Office for Research Initiatives and Global Programs and by other Harvard Offices, and the Distinguished Awards and Prizes.

Dean's Innovation Award Programs

List of All Dean's Innovation Award Programs

Dean's Innovation Awards for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Research, and Administration
Dean's Innovation Grants in Health Care Delivery: a collaboration with the Ariadne Spark Grant Progam
Dean's Innovation Seed Awards in Epigenetics and Gene Dynamics Funding Opportunity
Dean's Innovation Awards in Administrative Efficiencies
Dean's Innovation Awards in Diversity and Inclusion
Dean's Innovation Awards in Education
Dean's Innovation Grants in Healthy Aging
Dean's Innovation Grants in the Basic and Social Sciences

Dean's Gift Award Programs Administered by the 
Office for Research Initiatives and Global Programs

Programs with an Active RFP

Emergency Q-FASTR Awards

Proposal Deadline: November 20, 2025
Project Start Date: January 12, 2026

List of Additional Award Programs Administered by the 
Office for Research Initiatives and Global Programs

Bertarelli Rare Cancers Fund
Blavatnik Institute Early Career Investigator Awards
Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards
Fairbairn Family Lyme Research Initiative
Foundry Award Program | Foundry Award Program
HMS-SNUH-SNUCM Collaborative Research Programs
Kalaniyot Awards
Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness Awards

Distinguished Awards and Prizes

Nominating procedures and award details