Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology

Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology (Faseb Division), a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, operates as a prime recipient of federal research conference grants, organizing and hosting scientific meetings funded across the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies. Faseb does not hold federal contracts or competitive subcontracts; its federal footprint consists entirely of project grants awarded to support the organization and delivery of scientific research conferences.

Faseb's federal work centers on convening scientists across biological and biomedical disciplines through its Science Research Conference (SRC) series. Recent representative examples include a $112 thousand grant from the National Cancer Institute (award date Jul 15, 2025) to support the 2025 FASEB Conference on "Mobile DNA: Mechanisms and Health Impact," addressing transposon elements and aging-related diseases; a project grant from the National Institute on Aging (Aug 1, 2026) for a conference on "B Vitamins and One-Carbon Metabolism in Health and Disease"; and a cooperative agreement with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (Aug 15, 2023) to gather information on research facility contingency-plan implementation. The combined potential value across all 567 awards is $131 thousand, with $32.8 million in obligated funding, reflecting the project-grant structure where most value is realized through the delivered service rather than uncommitted ceiling authority.

Faseb's customer base is heavily concentrated in the National Institutes of Health ecosystem. The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health accounts for 203 awards (36% of all awards), with the National Cancer Institute (48 awards), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (35 awards), and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (29 awards) as primary funders. The National Science Foundation placed 32 awards. These five entities collectively represent 61% of Faseb's recent award count. The top customer by potential value—the USDA Agricultural Research Service—carries only $23 thousand in combined potential value, underscoring the small average grant size and the even distribution of awards across a broad customer base of 40 distinct federal agencies.

Activity has grown modestly across the last five years, from 15 awards in 2023 to 43 in 2024, then declining to 15 in 2025 before recovering to 28 in 2026 year-to-date. Thirty awards are scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months, creating a recompete window for renewal of the SRC series that Faseb has cultivated. Faseb competes in full-and-open processes; no set-aside posture is evident in the source data. Faseb's award portfolio is categorized primarily under NAICS codes for periodical publishers and professional organizations, reflecting its role as a membership federation operating conferences rather than as a service contractor. The organization holds no parent contract vehicles, GWACs, or IDIQs; each conference award is standalone.