Grant opportunity
Fast Grants Program: AI and Health
Fast Grants provide lightweight, fast-turnaround support for researchers exploring ambitious ideas at the intersection of artificial intelligence and health.
- Funder
- Biswas Family Foundation
- Deadline
- Jun 15, 2026
- Award
- USD 25,000, USD 50,000, or USD 100,000 for 12 months
- Applicant
- Researchers at academic institutions
- Discipline
- Biomedical Sciences
- Region
- Global
- Posted
- May 26, 2026
Call summary
Overview
The Fast Grants Program supports curiosity-driven pilot projects at the intersection of AI and health, especially work that needs seed funding for compute, model-training credits, dataset access, coding-agent tokens, or similar resources that traditional grants may not cover quickly.
Who can apply
- Researchers at any career stage across academic institutions worldwide may apply, including early-career faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates with faculty sponsorship.
- Applicants must be affiliated with an institution eligible to receive a charitable gift from a U.S. private foundation. Non-U.S. institutions must be able to receive funds through foreign equivalency determination or an eligible U.S.-based fiscal sponsor.
What it supports
- Training, fine-tuning, or evaluating models on biomedical data.
- Exploring or assembling datasets that could unlock new clinical or biological insight.
- Other concise, high-ambition pilot projects where AI methods can advance health, biology, medicine, or global health research.
Funding and duration
Awards are available at USD 25,000, USD 50,000, or USD 100,000 in a single payment for a 12-month project period. Undergraduate applicants are eligible for the USD 25,000 tier only, and indirect costs are capped at 15%.
Application deadline
Jun 15, 2026
How to apply
Use the official Biswas Family Foundation Fast Grants page to review eligibility and submit the concise application. The Cycle 1 deadline is 15 June 2026 at 11:59 pm PT; applications received between deadlines carry over to the next cycle.
Call details
About the opportunity
The Fast Grants Program supports curiosity-driven pilot projects at the intersection of AI and health, especially work that needs seed funding for compute, model-training credits, dataset access, coding-agent tokens, or similar resources that traditional grants may not cover quickly.
Biswas Family Foundation lists this opportunity for Researchers at academic institutions, Biomedical Sciences, Global.
This listing is written for researchers, students, universities, NGOs, research teams, policy professionals and academic institutions searching for Biomedical Sciences grants, fellowships, scholarships, conferences, workshops and funding opportunities in Global contexts.
Eligibility
Researchers at any career stage across academic institutions worldwide may apply, including early-career faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates with faculty sponsorship.
Applicants must be affiliated with an institution eligible to receive a charitable gift from a U.S. private foundation. Non-U.S. institutions must be able to receive funds through foreign equivalency determination or an eligible U.S.-based fiscal sponsor.
Funding and benefits
Awards are available at USD 25,000, USD 50,000, or USD 100,000 in a single payment for a 12-month project period. Undergraduate applicants are eligible for the USD 25,000 tier only, and indirect costs are capped at 15%.
Themes and supported activities
Training, fine-tuning, or evaluating models on biomedical data.
Exploring or assembling datasets that could unlock new clinical or biological insight.
Other concise, high-ambition pilot projects where AI methods can advance health, biology, medicine, or global health research.
Deadline and timeline
Application deadline: Jun 15, 2026.
Applicants should confirm the exact deadline time, time zone, required documents, portal steps and any institutional approvals on the official call page before submitting.
How to apply
Use the official Biswas Family Foundation Fast Grants page to review eligibility and submit the concise application. The Cycle 1 deadline is 15 June 2026 at 11:59 pm PT; applications received between deadlines carry over to the next cycle.
Before applying, check eligibility rules, budgets, attachments, page limits, partner requirements, cost-share conditions and whether the opportunity uses an expression of interest, full proposal, registration or nomination stage.