Funding support for frontier science

Through funding from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group enables cutting-edge bioscience around the world. Calls for proposals are targeted to high-risk, high-impact opportunities and seek innovative, ambitious project ideas that:

• Open a new field of research
• Upend current scientific dogma
• Change our fundamental understanding of an aspect of biology
• Are catalytic for a research community
• Are unlikely to be supported by traditional funders or by industry

The Frontiers Group solicits proposals through open calls or by invitation. We do not accept unsolicited proposals.

U.S. National Science Foundation – Microorganism-mediated Organismal Resilience to Climate Change

In partnership with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO), the Frontiers Group seeks to address significant knowledge gaps in our understanding of the molecular drivers and dynamics of microorganism resilience to climate change. This solicitation seeks proposals that integrate organismal mechanisms of response to climate change with eco-evolutionary approaches to better predict and mitigate climate impacts on living systems. Emphasis is on cross-disciplinary research that examines adaptive and maladaptive responses, fitness impacts, and eco-evolutionary processes.

Closed for submissions

Call Details

Allen Distinguished Investigators

The Allen Distinguished Investigator program provides three-year grants between $1M and $1.5M to individuals and teams at the early stages of research that have the potential to shift scientific paradigms in their respective fields.

Learn more

Allen Discovery Centers

Allen Discovery Centers are leadership- and purpose-driven research centers.

LEARN MORE