Limited Submission Competitions
Some sponsors limit the number of nominations or proposals that Cornell (including Weill Medical College) may submit to a particular program. These special limited submission competitions are coordinated by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and are announced via the CU-RES-ADMIN-L listserv. The Faculty Senate's Local Advisory Council reviews the nominations/proposals received and then selects the submissions to go forward based on how closely the proposed research matches the sponsor's interests and thus has the best opportunity for success.
Sponsor deadlines occur throughout the year and rarely have the same annual deadline; also, some invitations are not issued annually. Therefore the deadline date for submitting materials to the internal review process is not included on following list. This is by no means an exhaustive list: investigators considering applying to a limited submission program that is not listed below should contact Elaine LaRocque.
This list is updated as necessary; currently the Council reviews nominations and proposals for the following programs:
| Sponsor | Program | Submission Limit | Beckman Foundation | Young Investigators Program | 2 | Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Career Awards in the Biomedical Sciences | 6 |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Career Awards at the Scientific Interface: Bridging Support for Physical/Computational Scientists Entering Biology | 2-4 |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research | 2 |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease | 3 |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Interfaces in Science | 2 per area |
| Carnegie Corporation | Fellowship Program | 2 |
| Chicago Community Trust | Searle Scholars Program | 2 |
| Dreyfus Foundation | New Faculty Award (program suspended in 10/08) | 1 |
| Dreyfus Foundation | Teacher-Scholar Award | 1 |
| Ellison Medical Foundation | New Scholars Program in Aging | 1 | William T. Grant Foundation | Scholars Program | 1 | Hartwell Foundation | Individual Biomedical Research Awards | 4 |
| Howard Foundation | Fellowship Program (revolving categories) | 1 per category |
| Hughes Medical Institute | Assistant Investigator Competition | 2 |
| Hughes Medical Institute | Professors Program | 2 |
| KAUST | Centers/Centers in Development Investigators Research Fellows |
1 2 3 |
Keck Foundation | Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research | 1 |
| Merck Fund | Scholars Program in the Biology of Developmental Disabilities in Children (2 categories) | 1 per category |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Summer Stipends | 2 | National Science Foundation | Graduate Teaching Fellowships in K-12 Education | 2 |
| National Science Foundation | Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeships |
Limit of 4 preproposals |
| National Science Foundation | Active Nanostructures and Nanosystems | Three categories; limit based on category |
| National Science Foundation | Major Research Instrumentation | 3 |
| National Science Foundation | Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education | 1 |
| National Science Foundation | Program on Gender Equity in SMET (2 categories) |
1 per category | National Science Foundation | Partnerships for Innovation | 1-2 |
| National Science Foundation | Partnerships for International Research and Education | 3 |
| New York State Council on the Arts | Annual Grants Program | 4 |
| Packard Foundation | Fellowship Program | 2 |
| Pew | Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences | 1 |
| USDA | International Science and Education | 2 |