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A grant number provides unique identification for the grant. This page provides a comprehensive explanation of all the components of a complete NIH grant number.

A reference letter and a letter of support are not the same. Referees are required to submit reference letters for certain programs, such as fellowships and career development awards. In order to be considered for the application, referees must submit these letters before the application deadline. Applications with less than the required number of reference letters will not be considered for review.

This notice provides information about the salary limitation for NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards, as well as extramural research and development contract awards. The salary levels of the Executive Pay Scale have been updated recently by the Office of Personnel Management. Effective January 1, 2025, the salary cap for Executive Level II has been set at $225,700.

In line with recent security directives, NIH is implementing a technical update to enhance security measures that are specifically designed to protect data provided by NIH Controlled-Access Data Repositories.

This Notice alerts the extramural research community of a new Civil Rights term and condition that modifies the current terms and conditions for all NIH grants, cooperative agreements, and other transaction (OT) awards. This term applies prospectively to new, renewal, supplement, or continuation awards issued on or after the date of this Notice.

NIH grants and funding policies and processes are evolving as NIH aligns with new agency priorities. Keep on top of the latest status of changes impacting NIH grants administration and funding. NIH's adoption of the Common Form for Biographical Sketch and a new Biographical Sketch Supplement originally scheduled for May 25, 2025 is postponed.

The Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) released program announcements for the following funding opportunities:

·        Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and 2

·        Breakthrough Award Level 3

·        Clinical Research Extension Award

·        Era of Hope Scholar Award

To view the program announcements and submit a pre-application visit: 

https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ProgramFY.htm?programFYId=663101

The Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) released program announcements for the following funding opportunities:

·        Investigator-Initiated Research Award

·        Ovarian Cancer Academy - Early-Career Investigator Award

·        Pilot Award

To view the program announcements and submit a pre-application visit: 

https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ProgramFY.htm?programFYId=663103

The Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program (ALSRP) released program announcements for the following funding opportunities:

·        Pilot Clinical Trial Award 

·        Clinical Outcomes and Biomarkers Award

·        Therapeutic Development Award

·        Therapeutic Idea Award

To view the program announcements and submit a pre-application visit: 

https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ProgramFY.htm?programFYId=663102

The Alzheimer’s Research Program (AZRP) released program announcements for the following funding opportunities:

·        Transforming Care Award

·        Transforming Diagnosis Award

·        Transforming Research Award

To view the program announcements and submit a pre-application visit:  

https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ProgramFY.htm?programFYId=663104

A. The Melanoma Research Program (MRP) re-released a pre-announcement for the following anticipated funding opportunities:

·        Survivorship Research Award

·        Focused Program Award – Rare Melanomas

·        Melanoma Academy Leadership Award **Returning for FY25**

·        Idea Award

·        Melanoma Academy Scholar Award

·        Team Science Award

To view the MRP pre-announcement, visit https://cdmrp.health.mil/pubs/press/2025/25mrppreann

B. The Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) released a pre-announcement for the following funding opportunities:

·        Clinical Consortium Award **Returning for FY25**

·        Idea Development Award

To view the pre-announcement, visit https://cdmrp.health.mil/pubs/press/2025/25pcrppreann

C. The Rare Cancers Research Program (RCRP) re-released a pre-announcement for the following funding opportunities:

·        Concept Award 

·        Idea Development Award

·        Resource and Community Development Award

To view the pre-announcement, visit https://cdmrp.health.mil/pubs/press/2025/25rcrppreann

D. The Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) released a pre-announcement for the following anticipated funding opportunities:

·        Career Development Award- Fellow and Resident Option

·        Career Development Award- Scholar Option

·        Idea Award

·        Impact Award- Partnering PI Option

·        Patient Well-Being and Survivorship Award

·        Clinical Trial Award

To view the pre-announcement, visit https://cdmrp.health.mil/pubs/press/2025/25prcrppreann

Due: April 30, 2025

Amount: Flexible/1 year. Usually between $100k-$200k

The foundation funds innovative approaches to identifying new treatments or cures for cancer. Projects are for a one-year period to allow the establishment of capabilities of new cancer researchers or new cancer approaches by established cancer researchers. It is anticipated that this early-stage funding may lead to subsequent and expanded support using government agency funding. Project relevance to cancer detection, treatment, or cure should be clearly identified. Grant amount requested must be reasonable and clearly supported by the scope of the project outlined in the application. The Foundation particularly welcomes innovative, small-scale, short-term projects which may be difficult to fund elsewhere until some

interesting results are obtained. Eligibility: Post-docs who are on the tenure track and have a tenured mentor are eligible. Priority is given to researchers who are new to the field of cancer research, or to established research investigators examining new approaches to cancer.

Link: How to Apply

Please contact the Institutional Giving team at institutionalgiving@montefiore.org for further details.

Due: May 5, 2025

Amount: $750,000 over three years

These grants are awarded to outstanding early career investigators to support high-impact, high-risk projects that are distinct from their current research portfolio. This award is not intended to be the main source of funding for the applicant’s lab. Applicants must demonstrate multi-year independent funding that sustains the central activities of the lab.

Projects must be centered on evidence-based laboratory, data, and/or medical science.

Eligibility: MD, PhD or equivalent is required.

Must be 3 to 8 years from the start of an independent faculty research appointment as of 12/31/2025 (i.e., the official start date of the appointment must fall within the calendar years 2017-2022). 

Due: May 5, 2025, 3 pm ET

Amount: Up to $1,000,000 per team/2 years

The grant support large-scale research projects concerning metastatic, lethal prostate cancer. Clinical trial costs are not allowed; however, correlative research to support high impact clinical trials for advanced prostate cancer is encouraged. All studies involving patients must include diverse participant populations with appropriate representation of ethnic and racial minority groups. Comprehensive statistical plans and power calculations are required. The following topics are solicited: theranostics; drugging currently undruggable oncology targets; first-in-field immunotherapies for prostate cancer; AI/machine learning to better inform patient

outcomes, host microbiome and tumor metabolism. Eligibility: Investigators representing non-profit academic research centers are eligible to apply. Teams should be at least 3 investigators to provide unique scientific expertise to metastatic, lethal prostate cancer. At least one young investigator (within 6 years of degree and no more than $2M in funding) must be on the team.

Applicants with VA appointments highly encouraged to apply.

Link: PCF RFP

Please contact the Institutional Giving team at institutionalgiving@montefiore.org for further details.

Due: May 14, 2025 (pre-application)

Amount: $600,000 over 5 years

To foster the development and productivity of young scientists who have potential to make significant contributions to MS research and help ensure the future and stability of MS research. The award provides approximately $600,000 over five years to support a two-year period of advanced postdoctoral training in MS research and the first three years of research support in a new faculty appointment. Applicants must have more than two years of postdoctoral research experience and no more than five years of postdoctoral research experience at the time of application.

Link: Career Transition Fellowships | National MS Society

Due: May 15, 2025 (LOI)

Amount: $250,000 over 2 years is salary support

Proposed research “must be translational in nature and relate to the field of maternal fetal health – with a focus on prematurity, maternal and infant morbidity and mortality and health equity.” PI Must be seeking a career in academic obstetrics and gynecology research. Applicants must be near completion of their residency in obstetrics and gynecology or in their subspecialty fellowship. Any individual with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research is invited to work with their institution to develop an application for support. Prior laboratory experience is not required.

Link: Reproductive Scientist Development Program | March of Dimes

Researchers, supported by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, have made tremendous advances to improve the health and quality of life of people with CF. The CF Foundation is dedicated to providing the tools and resources that researchers need to continuously expand on this work. The following RFAs are now accepting applications with a full application deadline of May 15, 2025:



• Research Grant
• Pilot and Feasibility Award
• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award
• Path to a Cure (PTAC) Research Grant
• Path to a Cure (PTAC) Pilot and Feasibility Award
• Path to a Cure (PTAC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award

• Screening Improvement Program Award Deadline: July 15, 2025

LOI Due: May 19, 2025

Amount: $5M - $10M/3 to 5 years

The award is for teams of academic scientists’ high-risk, currently unfunded projects in metastatic, lethal prostate cancer. Clinical trial costs are not allowed; however, correlative research to support high impact clinical trials for advanced prostate cancer is encouraged.

Research proposals in the following topic areas are solicited: Theranostics, Drugging currently undruggable oncology targets: preventing progression to lethal disease, Improved biotechnologies for precision medicine, First-in-field immunotherapies for prostate cancer, Artificial intelligence/machine learning to better inform patient outcomes, and Host microbiome and tumor metabolism.Teams must be composed of at 5 investigators, including 2 young investigators. Teams with a young investigator as part of senior leadership will be favored. Team members must represent a minimum of four (4) non-profit academic research institutions.

Eligibility: Young investigators may be Postdoctoral Fellow, Instructor, Research

Associate, Assistant Professor, or equivalent and must be within six- years following

completion of a professional degree (MD, DO, PhD, MD-PhD, DSc, ScD, DDM, DDS, DMD, MBBS, or equivalent) or subsequent mentored academic or clinical training program, such as a postdoctoral or clinical fellowship. They should each not have been granted commitments for more than $2,000,000 in direct research funding from all sources including institutional funds at the time of this application.

• Link: View and Download RFA

Please contact the Institutional Giving team at institutionalgiving@montefiore.org for further details.

Due: June 4, 2025, @ 3pm

Amount: $200,000/1 year

To pave a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right, RWJF is focusing on dismantling structural racism, one of the biggest barriers to health in America. Effective solutions require medical care organizations working with public health and social services systems. This grant will provide funding for a new cohort of community-led pilot studies to produce new, actionable evidence about how to help medical, social, and public health systems work together to address forms of systemic racism. The focus is specifically on systems alignment (SA) interventions that have the potential to dismantle or disrupt the health effects of systemic racism and to positively affect the health and wellbeing of communities that experience systemic racism. S4A prioritizes SA interventions that, if successful, can be rapidly replicated and spread to many communities and contexts across the U.S. in order to achieve broad national impact.

Link: Systems 4 Action RFP

Please contact the Institutional Giving team at institutionalgiving@montefiore.org for further details.

Due: June 4, 2025

Amount: $100,000/2 years

Opportunity to compete for acceleration funds up to $300,000. The Scholar Award

recognizes outstanding physician-scientists whose work has the potential to advance the standard of care. The selection committee seeks breakthrough discoveries defined by innovation, creativity and potential for clinical impact, including deemed to address unmet medical needs; modulators of novel targets; potential to be developed into a commercial program; strong intellectual property (IP) or protection strategy; may be a small molecule, biologic, or other therapeutic modality; or diagnostics or devices only acceptable as part of a therapeutic development project.

Eligibility: MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent.

Link: Scholar-Innovator Award

Please contact the Institutional Giving team at institutionalgiving@montefiore.org for further details.

Due: July 1, 2025, 4pm

Amount: $400,000/2 years

The Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with “high-risk/high-reward” ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer. The Innovation Award is specifically designed to provide funding to extraordinary early career researchers who have an innovative new idea but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding. It is not designed to fund incremental advances. Applications will be accepted from all scientific disciplines provided that the proposed research meets the selection criteria.

Eligibility: The applicant must have received an MD, DO, PhD, or MD/PhD degree. Tenure-track Assistant Professors within the first five (5) years of obtaining their initial Assistant Professor position (Cut-off date: July 1, 2020). Clinical Instructors

and Senior Clinical Fellows (in the final year of sub-specialty training) holding an MD, MD/PhD, DO who are pursuing a period of independent research before taking a tenure-track faculty position. Such individuals must have an exceptional record of research accomplishment, dedicated laboratory space and the support of their institution. Applicants with a background in multiple disciplines are especially encouraged to apply.

Link: Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award

Please contact the Institutional Giving team at institutionalgiving@montefiore.org for further details.

This program has been established to promote, nurture and amplify scientific discovery and innovation in Western New York and the region. The WNYBC Discovery and Innovation Award will support basic, translational, and/or clinical research projects that will improve health outcomes, health equity, and/or preventing complications of hemophilia and/or hemostatic or thrombotic disorders.

We invite proposals from higher education institutions and non-profit organizations that have a history and track record of serving the community of bleeding and clotting disorders. There is no age requirement, however, applicant must have an MD, PhD or equivalent; clearly state they have both independent research projects and independent resources; and have preliminary results/and or publications from their independent laboratory.

Budget must not exceed $150,000/year, for up to three years. Up to two grants will be awarded annually.

APPLICATION DUE DATE July 1, 2025

GRANT START DATE  January 1, 2026

Attached please find the 2025 Grant RFP. 

QUESTIONS? Check the attached FAQs first.  

More Questions?

Contact the Grant and Award Administrator at mwiseman@wnybloodcare.org

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine has been invited to submit four student applications for consideration for the Google PhD Fellowship Program 2025. The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields. Fellowships support promising PhD candidates of all backgrounds who seek to influence the future of technology.

The Google PhD Fellowship includes:

• Up to 2-year Fellowship
• $85K per year: $70K Cost of Education allowance towards tuition and fees and $15K stipend to be used for living expenses, travel and personal equipment (effective from 2025 for new recipients)
• A Google Research Mentor

To implement the application process for this competition, eligible students are invited to submit preliminary applications for review. We will then select up to four candidates, who will be invited to submit the full proposal to Google.

The deadline for submission of preliminary applications is Friday, May 2nd. Please complete the attached pre-application form and send with your updated CV as a single email to: jomaris.sciarrone@einsteinmed.edu. Please put Google in the subject line for this email.

For further details of the program, application process, and eligibility requirements, please visit this FAQ page on the Google PhD Fellowship website.

The W.M. Keck Foundation is offering research grants up to $1.3M over three years. The first step is for Einstein to submit to the foundation up to four concept papers each in Medical Research and Science & Engineering.

If you are interested in applying, please email your c.v., including bibliography; other support(on a separate page); plus a one-page concept paper following the *outline below to Audrey McInerney (amcinerney@montefiore.org) by May 30 at 5:00 pm.

Please indicate whether your concept paper will compete in the Medical Research or Science & Engineering pool.

From among the internal concept papers, the Einstein awards committee will select up to four candidates in each of the two categories, for a total of up to eight concept candidates. Einstein’s institutional liaison will then submit the nominated concept papers to the Foundation for a preliminary review on June 23, 2025. Following this review, one selected applicant in each category will be invited to submit a Phase I application by November 1, 2025.



The Keck Foundation funds high-risk/high-impact projects that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in their field. They prioritize grants that pioneer biological and physical science research and engineering, including the development of promising new technologies, instrumentation, or methodologies. Future clinical applications are seen as a plus, but translational research is not their focus. Please note: The Keck Foundation defines medical research as “a focus on the human body and mammalian experimentation” and they seek a basic science impact in both medical research and science & engineering applications.

Eligibility: Senior, mid-career, and early-stage faculty (assistant professors and above) can apply.  If you are unsure about your eligibility, please contact your department administrator or Audrey McInerney (amcinerney@montefiore.org) for assistance.

Important: Please review the Keck Foundation’s Funding Guidelines to see what kinds of projects the foundation will and will not fund (scroll down).

*Outline for one-page concept paper submissions to Einstein Awards Committee

12-point font with 1-inch margins and MUST include: 

• Organization Name 
• Project Title 
• Full name of Principal Investigator 
• An overview of the proposed project emphasizing any unique aspects and pilot studies (indicate area of emphasis for project – Medical Research or Science & Engineering Research) 
• A description of the methodologies and key personnel 
• A brief justification of the need for Keck Foundation support. (Applicants need to demonstrate why private philanthropy generally, and the Keck Foundation in particular, is essential to the project’s success. The foundation advises applicants to insert quotes received from public funding agencies feedback as to why their project did not get funded, e.g., “high-quality but too risky”). 
• An estimated budget broken down, if possible, by major areas, e.g., personnel, equipment, consumable supplies, etc. 
• With any remaining space within the 1-page limit, authors may add other details 
• If a reference is necessary, abbreviate it as (Science, 323, 45, ‘11). DO NOT USE (Jones et al., 2011). Please avoid any illustrations.   

Please find additional information about the Keck Foundation’s Research Program here. And visit the Foundation's Grant Abstracts Webpage to view recently funded research projects and award amounts. Please note: If your project is similar to a recent award, the Keck board will not be interested.

If you have any questions, please contact amcinerney@montefiore.org (Institutional Liaison).