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The Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences is a federal research grant opportunity aimed at advancing work that sits squarely between the mathematical sciences and the life sciences. It is jointly backed by two major agencies: the National Science Foundation (NSF), specifically its Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) within the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), specifically the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). The central idea is to fund projects where mathematics and statistics are not just supporting tools, but key drivers for answering important biological and biomedical research questions.
The opportunity is framed around the growing need for stronger, more sustained connections between mathematicians, statisticians, and researchers working in biology and biomedicine. NSF and NIH are signaling that many modern challenges in areas like biological complexity, biomedical data, and mechanistic understanding increasingly depend on rigorous mathematical modeling, statistical inference, computational methods, and theory development. In practical terms, the program is meant to stimulate high-quality interdisciplinary research that pushes both sides forward: enabling new biological or biomedical insight while also advancing mathematical or statistical methods motivated by those real scientific problems.
A notable emphasis of the initiative is collaboration. The solicitation explicitly states that it is intended to encourage new partnerships as well as strengthen existing interdisciplinary teams. That means the program is structured to welcome investigators who are forming cross-disciplinary collaborations for the first time, along with groups that already have a track record of working across fields and want to take the next step. The goal is to build bridges between communities that often operate in separate research cultures, funding structures, and publication ecosystems, and to make those bridges durable enough to support long-term innovation.
From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary grant opportunity categorized under Science and Technology and other Research and Development. It was released under Funding Opportunity Number 17-569 and was created on June 21, 2017, with an original closing date of September 18, 2017. The maximum award size listed is an award ceiling of $2,000,000, and the opportunity anticipated making about 20 awards. Those figures suggest the program was designed to support a meaningful portfolio of projects while still allowing for substantial budgets on individual awards, consistent with the realities of interdisciplinary work that may involve multiple investigators, complex data, and significant analytical or computational effort.
Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning it is broadly open to applicants across entity types, with the standard caveat that any specific limitations would be spelled out in the detailed eligibility section of the full announcement. The listing includes CFDA numbers 47.049 and 93.859, reflecting the joint NSF and NIH/NIGMS involvement and signaling that the program spans both the mathematical sciences funding ecosystem and the biomedical research funding ecosystem.
Overall, this initiative is best understood as a targeted investment in research where mathematical and statistical thinking is essential to progress in biological and biomedical science. It supports the kind of work where new models, new inferential approaches, or new theoretical frameworks are developed in direct response to life-science questions, and where the biological application is substantive enough to inform and challenge the underlying mathematics and statistics. The program’s structure and messaging make clear that NSF and NIH were not only looking for interdisciplinary participation in name, but for genuinely integrated projects that advance the interface itself.Apply for 17 569
- The National Science Foundation in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 47.049, 93.859.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 21, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 18, 2017. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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