Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
Overview
What you need to judge this in 30 seconds
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Biological Research has the potential to pave the way for breakthroughs in biotechnology and bio-system design that will create innovations, new industries, and jobs. To capitalize on this promise, the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) will make awards for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) to recent doctoral degree recip
- Category
- R&D
- Industry
- AI & Data, Bio & Healthcare, Other
- Technology
- AI / ML
- Target stage
- Needs verification
- Project duration
- Needs verification
- Estimated preparation
- Needs verification
Funding
Award size and how it is paid
- Award range
- $220K+
- Currency
- USD
- Total programme budget
- $16.5M
- Support type
- Cash
- Co-funding
- None (fully funded)
- Matching fund
- Needs verification
- Disbursement
- Needs verification
- Note
- -
Eligibility
Can we actually apply?
*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: - Proposals must be submitted by the individual, not the host institution, and awards are made directly to Fellows. Each postdoctoral Fellow must identify a sponsoring scientist(s) and must affiliate with an appropriate U.S. or international host institution at the time of proposal submission. Appropriate U.S. organizations include institutions of higher education, private nonprofit institutes and museums, government agencies and laboratories, and, under special conditions that require prior approval from a Program Officer, for-profit organizations. Appropriate international institutions include institutions of higher education and many government or non-profit research organizations. *Who May Serve as PI: The PRFB awards are intended primarily for graduate students who are seeking independent support for their first postdoctoral position, or postdoctoral Fellows early in their careers. An individual is eligible to submit a proposal if all the following criteria are met: <ul> <li>Must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or U.S. permanent resident, i.e., have a "green card," at the time of submission.</li> <li>Must present a research plan that falls within the purview of BIO and that focuses on the research area described in this solicitation.</li> <li>Must earn the doctoral degree in an appropriate field prior to beginning the fellowship.</li> <li>Must select sponsoring scientists, departments, and institutions that offer a significant opportunity to broaden the proposer's research focus and training.</li> <li>Must not have submitted the same research to another NSF postdoctoral fellowship program.</li> <li>Must not have worked in any position that requires a doctoral degree for a combined total of more than 15 full-time months prior to the deadline.</li> <li>Must not have submitte…
- Company age
- Needs verification
- Employees
- Needs verification
- Revenue limits
- Needs verification
- Consortium
- Needs verification
Location Requirements
Geography and legal-entity conditions
- Primary country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Also eligible
- None
- Foreign companies
- Needs verification
- Local entity
- Needs verification
- Location condition
- A US federal programme: the applicant must be an eligible entity based in the United States.
Required Documents
Required/optional · issuer · difficulty · validity · cautions
Document requirements were not captured (needs verification). Check the official announcement.
Application Process
How you apply
Application process not captured.
Evaluation
Review process and criteria
Evaluation process not captured.
Timeline
Announcement → intake → review → agreement → execution
Process steps were not captured.
Equity & Financial Terms
Equity, loans and contract conditions
- Equity required
- Needs verification
- Loan
- Non-dilutive grant
- Duplicate funding
- Needs verification
- IP ownership
- Needs verification
- Deliverable ownership
- Needs verification
- Exclusivity
- Needs verification
- Right of first refusal
- Needs verification
- Audit & settlement
- Needs verification
- Bayh-Dole government licence
US federal R&D funding commonly carries a government licence clause.
Source: Standard across grants.gov federal programmes — check the individual announcement.
Risk Intelligence
Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)
Chance of failing eligibility, location or legal-entity rules
Co-funding, matching funds, reimbursement and loan exposure
Paperwork load, timeline pressure, reporting and audit duties
Exclusivity, right of first refusal, duplicate-funding limits
How much technical detail you must hand over, and who owns it
- 10Required documents not collected· evidence needs verification
The list of required documents was not collected.
- 9Deadline approaching
The deadline is not far away.
- 8Local-entity requirement not stated· evidence needs verification
The announcement does not say whether a local entity is required.
- 8Payment timing not stated· evidence needs verification
Advance versus reimbursement makes a large difference to cash flow.
- 7Overseas eligibility not stated· evidence needs verification
Whether an overseas company may take part has to be confirmed.
- 7Exclusivity not stated· evidence needs verification
Any exclusivity clause has to be checked.
- 6Award size not stated· evidence needs verification
The announcement does not state how much is available.
- 6Right of first refusal not stated· evidence needs verification
Any right-of-first-refusal clause has to be checked.
- · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
- · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
- · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
- · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
- · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
- · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether a local entity is required is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether an overseas company may apply is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether a matching fund is required is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether payment is in advance or in arrears is not stated (needs verification).
- · The level of settlement and audit obligation is not stated (needs verification).
- · The award size is not stated (needs verification).
- · The duplicate-support rule is not stated (needs verification).
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IP / Idea Protection
How much of your technology and idea you must disclose
The announcement does not say what has to be submitted, so the disclosure exposure cannot be judged. the scope of the material requested is not stated. The awarding body is U.S. National Science Foundation. 8 fields could not be read and must be checked in the announcement and the grant agreement.
- NDA
- Needs verification
- IP ownership
- Needs verification
- Deliverable ownership
- Needs verification
- Data rights
- Needs verification
- Disclosure depth
- Needs verification
- File patent first?
- Not applicable
- Reuse of submissions
- Needs verification
- Publicity obligation
- Needs verification
- Exposure score
- Needs verification
- · The problem your product solves, and the market definition
- · Your value proposition and quantified results (improvement rates, throughput)
- · Anything already public: granted patents, papers, press coverage
- · Team composition, capabilities and a summary of past delivery
- · Architecture-level diagrams at module granularity, without internal implementation
- · Core algorithms: formulae, hyper-parameters and pre-processing rules
- · Raw training data and the details of your collection pipeline
- · Full source code and build or deployment scripts
- · Cost structure and unit-price formulae
- · Named customers, contract terms and pricing
- · How an unfiled invention is actually implemented
- MEDIUMRequest an NDA
Ask in writing for a mutual NDA before submitting detailed technical material; if it is refused, keep what you submit at summary level.
5 evidence item(s) from the source
- UNKNOWN
No document list was collected, so the exposure of technical material cannot be judged.
Source link - UNKNOWN
No NDA clause could be found.
Source link - UNKNOWN
IP ownership terms could not be found.
Source link - UNKNOWN
Ownership of the deliverables terms could not be found.
Source link - HIGH
Bayh-Dole 정부 실시권: 미국 연방 R&D 자금 특성상 정부 실시권 조항이 적용될 수 있습니다.
Quote: “grants.gov 연방 지원사업 공통 조항 — 개별 공고 확인 필요”
Source link
- · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
- · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
- · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
- · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
- · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
- · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).
This assessment is derived from the stored announcement, document and contract fields. Anything the source does not state is marked "needs verification" — it never asserts that your idea will be taken. Generated by local:rules-v1 · 18d ago
AI Analysis
Pros · cons · difficulty · competition · attractiveness
From paperwork and review stages
Heuristic from award size and type
Amount, terms and IP combined
Weighted average of five dimensions
- + 자부담 없이 전액 지원됩니다.
- Needs verification
- ! 해외기업 지원 가능 여부가 공고에서 확인되지 않았습니다 (확인 필요).
- ! IP 귀속 조항이 확인되지 않았습니다 (확인 필요).
- ! 중복 수혜 제한 규정을 사전에 확인하십시오.
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Source & Provenance
Every value carries its source URL and fetch time
- Application URL
- https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/361249
- Last fetched
- 2026.09.26
- Human review
- Not reviewed — check the official announcement
- First seen
- 2026.08.20
- Data status
- Auto-collected, not reviewed
- AI enrichment
- local:rules-v1 · 2026.08.20
- PRIMARYGrants.gov 26-504
Fetched 1h ago
- OFFICIAL_APIGrants.gov Search2 API
Fetched 1h ago
- · 2026.08.20 — 최초 수집 (749f006b)