Limited Submission Competitions
Some sponsors limit the number of nominations or proposals that Cornell (including Weill Medical College) may submit to a particular program. Announcement of these special limited submission competitions is made via the CU-RES-ADMIN-L listserv. Internal nominations or proposals are coordinated by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and reviewed by the Faculty Senate's Local Advisory Council. Nominations/proposals are selected to go forward based on how closely they match the sponsor's interests and thus have the best opportunity for success.
Deadline dates occur throughout the year, and programs do not always have the same annual deadline; also, some invitations are not issued annually. Thus, deadline dates are not included on following list. This list is updated as necessary; currently the Council reviews nominations and proposals for the following programs:
| Sponsor | Program | Submission Limit | 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 |
| 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 | 1 |
| Dreyfus Foundation | Teacher-Scholar Award | 1 |
| Ellison Medical Foundation | New Scholars Program in Aging | 1 |
| Greenwall Foundation | Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics | 1 | William T. Grant Foundation | Scholars Program | 1 |
| Howard Foundation | Fellowship Program (revolving categories) | 1 per category |
| Hughes Medical Institute | Assistant Investigator Competition | 2 |
| Hughes Medical Institute | Professors Program | 2 |
| 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 Institutes of Health | Extramural Research Facilities Construction | 1 |
| National Science Foundation | Combined Research Curriculum Development | 3 |
| National Science Foundation | Graduate Teaching Fellowships in K-12 Education | 2 |
| National Science Foundation | Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeships |
No preproposal limit; of invited full proposals an institution may submit 3 |
| National Science Foundation | Active Nanostructures and Nanosystems | Three categories; limit based on category |
| National Science Foundation | Major Research Instrumentation | 3 |
| National Science Foundation | Program on Gender Equity in SMET (2 categories) |
1 per category |
| New York State Council on the Arts | Annual Grants Program | 4 |
| Packard Foundation | Fellowship Program | 2 |
| Pew | Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences | 1 |