New Innovator Award (limited) -anticipated

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research

Limited Submission

Please follow the Mizzou process for limited submission funding opportunities.

Internal Deadline: 12/01/2025

Eligibility

  • Within three years of first tenure-track position.
  • Preference given to those within 8 years of Ph.D.
  • Nominees may not have another substantial research grant, defined ass 3-5 years of support totaling more than $1 million, either within a tenure position or through a comparable career development award.

Description

This limited submission is running on an anticipated funder deadline. The New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award promote career advancement of highly creative and promising new scientists who intend to make a long-term career commitment to research in food and agriculture and bring innovative, ground-breaking research initiatives and thinking to bear on
problems facing food and agriculture.

Learn more about this program

Keywords:
early career, agriculture, agriculture and food sciences, crop science, food science, food security, irrigation, livestock and animal science, nutrition or dietetics, soil sciences, sustainable agriculture, urban farming, water resources engineering, water resources management or planning

Application due:
02/13/26

Award amount:
$450,000