The Grants.gov Program Management Office (PMO) schedules system-wide software releases to bring its users new features and fixes. During these releases, downtime will be scheduled to deploy new enhancements. The PMO also performs scheduled maintenance on its databases and Websites in order to provide enhanced IT security and increased network reliability. The Grants.gov Calendar lists anticipated dates for both system-wide enhancements and scheduled downtimes for system maintenance.

Learn when and how to submit a reference letter, cover letter, letter of intent, letter of support and other documents. Each key letter has a distinct purpose in informing peer reviewers, NIH staff, or both. Certain letters may be necessary while others are optional or should be left out, depending on your research plans and the type of your application. The subpages contain instructions on how to use each type of letter and what is required.

SBIR/STTR Omnibus Solicitations are intended to support small business innovation research across a broad spectrum of topic areas. For the full program description and research topics, please read the 2023 Omnibus Solicitation Program Description.

11/14/23: The purpose of this Notice is to provide clarification regarding findings of foreign involvement with countries of concern related to grants and cooperative agreements. The specific changes implemented in NOT-OD-23-139 and clarified in the current Notice apply to all competing applications for funding under the NIH, CDC, and FDA SBIR and STTR programs submitted for due dates on or after September 5, 2023.

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Prior approval requests for revisions to an approved data management and sharing (DMS) plan must be submitted timely to the funding NIH Institute, Center, or Office (ICO). This functionality for NIH grants is effective from October 12, 2023, and will be used exclusively for submitting requests for updating the DMS Plan. Emails and other communications are not acceptable.

NIH has received feedback from the community in response to their request for information on the proposed changes to the peer review of Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) fellowship applications. The blog summarizes the feedback on restructuring the review criteria and modifying some sections of the PHS Fellowship Supplemental Form that are specific to NRSAs.

Although FY24 funds have not been appropriated, CDMRP is providing information

to allow investigators time to plan and develop ideas for submission to the anticipated FY24 funding opportunities.

The Peer Reviewed Epilepsy Research Program (ERP) released a pre-announcement for the following funding opportunities: 

• Leveraging Research Award
• Virtual Post-Traumatic Epilepsy Research Center (P-TERC) – Faulty Award

o  Early-career investigators and investigators new to the PTE field may be named as principal investigator on applications to this funding opportunity

• Idea Development Award

o  Early-career investigators ranging from the post-doctoral level (e.g., research associate, fellows, residents, or equivalent) to within 3 years of their first independent faculty position may be named as PI on applications to funding level one within this funding opportunity

• Research Partnership Award

Evidence for Action (E4A) prioritizes research to evaluate specific interventions to counteract the harms of structural and system racism and improve health, well-being, and equity outcomes. The foundation is also interested in direct impacts of structural racism on health plus ways in which racism intersects with other forms of marginalization, such as having low income, being an immigrant, having a disability, or identifying as LGBTQ+ or a gender minority. This funding is geared toward studies about “upstream” causes of health inequities, such as the systems, structures, laws, policies, norms, and practices that determine the distribution of resources and opportunities, which in turn influence individuals’ options and behaviors. Priority is given to studies of interventions that are designed to reduce race-based disparities. we prioritize studies of interventions that are designed to reduce race-based disparities. As an investigator-initiated program, E4A does not pose a specific set of research questions, topics, or categories for funding. In general, research funded by E4A should apply a racial equity “lens” in both its topic and approach. This means that research topics center the health priorities of people or communities that have been impacted by structural racism; that problems and solutions being studied are motivated and/or validated by people who are directly impacted; and that the research process engages stakeholders at appropriate stages of the project.

Eligibility: Anyone may be designated as the PI. The PI does not need to hold an advanced degree nor need to be considered a "researcher" for the project. Lead PI must be based in US. Expertise of academic researchers, practitioners, and individuals or groups with issue-specific knowledge and experiences are integrated at appropriate stages of the project; community members, advocates, policymakers, and/or other stakeholders are engaged equitably and meaningfully

Deadline: December 22 @ 3pm (also accepting applications on a rolling basis)

Amount: Varies: Generally, $500k-$600k/3 years

Link: E4A RFP

Contact: Audrey McInerney (amcinerney@montefiore.org) for more information or assistance.

The NYSCF Druckenmiller Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship is designed to encourage candidates at later stages of their postdoctoral training before transitioning to an independent faculty position, and will be awarded for 1 year. (Candidates in earlier stages are invited to consider the Early Postdoctoral Fellowship.) The fellowship provides an annual stipend of $62,400 plus $2,500 for computer and travel expenses. Learn more and find out how to apply at: nyscf.org/fellowshipaward

All applications must be submitted through the online portal before 5:00 PM EST on January 10, 2024 to be put forward for review. Please refer to the RFA and our website for additional details.

NYSCF invites applications from postdoctoral fellows at institutions within New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut for awards to support translational stem cell research. Designed to attract promising candidates who are generally within the first four years of postdoctoral experience and looking for up to three years of postdoctoral support.The fellowship provides an annual stipend of $62,400 plus $2,500 for computer and travel expenses. Learn more and find out how to apply at: nyscf.org/fellowshipaward

All applications must be submitted through the online portal before 5:00 PM EST on January 10, 2024 to be put forward for review. Please refer to the RFA and our website for additional details.

For postdoctoral fellows from diverse and/or historically underrepresented backgrounds to pursue research in cognitive aging and facilitates their transition into independent faculty positions at research institutions within or outside the United States. A previous background in aging research is not required; candidates with a background in fields including neuroscience, molecular biology, genetics, immunology, cell biology, and the physical and information sciences are encouraged to apply. Applicants must focus their scientific proposal on their future lab and independent research program plans, not the remainder of their postdoctoral position. Fellows will receive up to two years of postdoctoral fellowship support during their job search, with an annual salary of $85,000, fringe benefits, an annual resource and professional development allowance of $10,000, and indirect costs followed by a commitment of $600,000 over three years, including indirect costs, activated upon assumption of a tenure-track research professorship.

Eligibility: The program is aimed at PhD and/or MD-holding scientists from diverse and/or historically underrepresented groups in science who are currently in a non-independent, mentored training position at an institution within or outside the U.S. and who will be actively seeking and applying to tenure-track faculty positions between September 2024 and May 2025. 

Deadline: January 10, 2024

Link: SCPAB Transition to Independence Award

Contact: Audrey McInerney (amcinerney@montefiore.org) for more information and/or assistance.

The purpose of this award is to enable current AHA awardees to identify and serve as mentors for pre and Postdoctoral fellows from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in science and medicine. A maximum of two years of AHA support will be provided per trainee. The annual Stipend will match the NIH scale for pre and postdoctoral fellows. AHA does not pay indirect costs for fellowships. The proposal deadline is January 17, 2024 (3 pm CT). For eligibility criteria, budget, restrictions, required application documents, peer review criteria and other details, please click here.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Postdoc and Career Development Funding Opportunities BWF is accepting applications for its Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program. Due Jan. 18, 2024 (3 pm ET), the awards “provides a total of $60,000 over three years to support the career development activities for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows in a degree-granting institution whose training and professional development are guided by mentors committed to helping them advance to stellar careers in biomedical or medical research.” Eligibility requirements are here. Please note that there is a US citizenship requirement for this award.

The purpose of this award is to support highly innovative, high-impact projects leading to critical discoveries or major advancements in the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular research. The annual award amount is $100,000, including 10 percent indirect cost. Duration of this award will be three years with a total award amount of $300,000. The proposal deadline is February 15, 2024 (3 pm CT). For eligibility criteria, restrictions, peer review criteria and other details, please click here.

The Young Investigator Award (YIA) provides funding to promising investigators to encourage and promote quality research in clinical oncology. The purpose of this grant is to fund physicians during the transition from a fellowship program to a faculty appointment. This is a mentored award and the research project is conducted under the guidance of a scientific mentor. Applications in all areas of cancer research are accepted from U.S. and international applicants. The YIA is a one-year grant totaling $50,000 that supports personnel and/or research expenses, and travel to attend the Conquer Cancer Grants & Awards Ceremony at the ASCO Annual Meeting. Applicants who are selected to receive a YIA are allowed to receive other grants from other funding agencies. The details of eligibility, application instructions and applicable due dates (January 31 and March 14, 2024) can be found here.

The Sontag Foundation, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, is one of the largest private funders of brain cancer research in North America. The Foundation is soliciting applications for its Distinguished Scientist Award. $750,000 in funding over 5 years is open to early career investigators throughout the United States. The goal of this funding initiative is to change the paradigm of brain cancer research by building a community of outstanding scientists whose pioneering approaches have the potential to make significant advances in the field of brain cancer/brain tumors. The applications are due on March 13, 2024 at 11:59pm ET. Please click here to find the grant guidelines.

Eligibility - Applicants must hold a doctoral degree in a discipline with applicability to brain cancer research. Applicants must have received their first independent faculty appointment no earlier than March 1, 2019 and no later than January 1, 2024 at a tax-exempt academic, research, or medical institution within the United States or an equivalent institution in Canada. If the institution grants tenure, the qualifying appointment must be on tenure track. More than one individual from the same institution may apply for this award. This grant does not support clinical trials research. For further inquiries, please contact Shandra Koler, Senior Program Officer, Email: skoler@sontagfoundation.org and phone: 904-274-8557.

The Career Development Award (CDA) provides research funding to clinical investigators who have received their initial faculty appointment, as they work to establish an independent clinical cancer research program. This is a mentored award and the research project is conducted under the guidance of a scientific mentor. The research must have a patient-oriented focus, including a clinical research study and/or translational research involving human subjects. Proposals with a predominant focus on in vitro or animal studies (even if clinically relevant) are not allowed. Applications in all areas of cancer research are accepted from U.S. and international applicants.The CDA is a three-year grant totaling $200,000 that supports personnel and/or research expenses, and travel to attend the Conquer Cancer Grants and Awards Ceremony at the ASCO Annual Meeting. The details of eligibility, application instructions and applicable due date (March 14, 2024) can be found here.