Submit Your Proposal
BGRI-GWHA Seed Grants
Choose your grant track below and upload your completed proposal by the application deadline.

Before you submit

There are two BGRI-GWHA Seed Grant opportunities. Choose the grant that best fits your proposed project. You may submit one application to one grant track.

Focused Seed Grant
Up to $10,000
For focused, student-led research projects.

Translational Team Grant
Up to $20,000
For projects of greater scope conducted in formal partnership with a NARS or CIMMYT program.

Deadline: September 30, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. ET.
Prepare your application as a single PDF. Review the Full Call for Proposals before submitting.

Questions?
Questions can be directed to Dr. Maricelis Acevedo (Director for Science, Borlaug Global Rust Initiative; Research Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University) at ma934@cornell.edu

About the Global Wheat Health Alliance
The Global Wheat Health Alliance is co-led by CIMMYT and Cornell University / BGRI, with the John Innes Centre, the University of Maryland, the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, the Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute, and the Instituto Nacional de Innovacion Agropecuaria y Forestal of Bolivia.

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