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The W. M. Keck Foundation Research Program supports pioneering, high-risk basic science research that challenges existing paradigms and has the potential to transform fields of study. Projects should pursue fundamental discoveries in the physical, life, or biomedical sciences, including novel technologies, instrumentation, or methodologies that advance basic scientific understanding.

Funding

• Typical awards range from $1.0 million to $1.3 million over three years.
• No indirect costs are permitted; institutions are expected to provide in-kind support through the waiver of facilities and administrative costs.

Eligibility

• Principal Investigators must be tenure-track faculty or equivalent and eligible to serve as PI under institutional policies.
• Proposed projects must focus on high-impact research in the basic physical, life, or biomedical sciences, including instrumentation and engineering approaches that address fundamental scientific questions.
• Projects should be innovative, distinctive, and field-expanding, with the potential to challenge existing paradigms or create new areas of inquiry.
• High-risk, high-reward research is encouraged.
• The program does not support clinical trials, therapies or procedures, drug discovery or delivery, disease biomarker screening, medical devices, user facilities or shared-facility equipment, supplements, renewals, follow-on funding, resubmissions of declined proposals, conferences, or science policy.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: September 28, 20206 at noon

External Deadline: December 7, 2026

Limited Submission Restriction

淫妻社 may submit up to three applications per funding cycle (December & June)

What to Submit for Internal Consideration

Faculty interested in being considered for 淫妻社鈥檚 limited submission should email the following materials as a single PDF to limitedsubmits@utoledo.edu by the internal deadline:

1. Letter of Intent

• Name and academic title of PI;
• Contact information: telephone number and email address;
• Project title;
• Brief description of the fundamental scientific question being addressed;
• Explanation of how the proposed research is transformative, challenges a prevailing paradigm, or opens a new area of investigation;
• Identification of key personnel and major collaborators;
• Statement describing why the project is especially well suited for W. M. Keck Foundation support rather than traditional federal funding mechanisms.

2. Brief Project Summary (2 pages maximum)

• Research aims or goals and significance;
• Innovation and transformational potential;
• Knowledge gap to be addressed and expected scientific impact;
• High-risk, high-reward elements of the project;
• Preliminary data or proof-of-concept information, if available;
• Novel technologies, methodologies, or instrumentation to be developed or used;
• Expected outcomes and potential to create new scientific directions or enable discoveries not previously possible.