Michigan Building Healthy Communities: Reducing Health Disparities in Elementary Schools
Technical assistance for schools in Michigan to establish a healthy school environment that encourages healthy eating and physical activity while supporting higher levels of academic achievement. The program is focused on schools, teachers, students, and families in areas that are experiencing health disparities. Geographic coverage: Michigan -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - May 18, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Learn More About UNITE ’s Progress Towards Ensuring Equity and Opportunity in Biomedical Research
The UNITE E Committee recently updated the research community on their progress towards creating a “multipronged strategy to advance racial equity and create the most inclusive biomedical research environment possible.” We wanted to briefly share a few of their efforts here.
As a reminder, NIH launched the UNITE initiative in March 2021 to end structural racism in biomedical research. Their inaugural progress report was released last October. One of five committees, UNITE E continues to focus attention on promoting and sustaining diversity, equity, and inclusion in the NIH extramural research ecosystem.
In the re...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - May 18, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Biomedical Workforce Diversity Source Type: funding
NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (G13 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity PAR-23-183 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) solicits grant applications for the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other works of academic and/or public health importance to U.S. health professionals, public health officials, biomedical researchers and historians of the health sciences. (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 17, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Update on Simplifying Review Criteria: Analysis of Comments from the Request for Information
This blog has been co-authored with Noni Byrnes, Director, Center for Scientific Review, NIH. Originally posted on the Review Matters blog.
Mike Lauer, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, NIH
Noni Byrnes, Ph.D., Director of NIH Center for Scientific Review
As discussed in the blog, “Update on Simplifying Review Criteria: A Request for Information (RFI),” NIH issued an RFI—from December 8, 2022, through March 10, 2023—seeking feedback on its proposed plan to revise and simplify the framework for the first level of the peer review of research project grant (RPG) applications.
NIH received more than 800...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - May 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Center for Scientific Review CSR Request For Information (RFI) RPG Source Type: funding
HEAL Initiative Partnerships to Advance INterdisciplinary (PAIN) Training in Clinical Pain Research: The HEAL PAIN Cohort Program (T90/R90 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-24-015 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This concept would support the development of pain clinical trainees as a means of enhancing the clinical pain workforce. It would fund 4 clinical pain T90/R90s that would provide robust post-doctoral fellowship research training in areas of clinical pain management that would benefit from further research. The T90/R90 mechanism is a NRSA program that supports comprehensive interdisciplinary research training programs at the undergraduate, predoctoral, and/or post-doctoral levels by capitalizing on the infrastructure of existing multidiscipl...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 9, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding
AHRQ Health Services Research Dissertation Program (R36)
Funding Opportunity PA-23-196 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This announcement represents the continuation of an AHRQ program that provides support to individuals who are conducting research undertaken as part of an accredited academic program to qualify for a research doctorate degree. (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 3, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding
NINDS Sustainable Transformation of Institutional Research Rigor (STIRR) Program (RC2 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-24-020 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) aims to support the establishment of programs to enhance research rigor and transparency practices within academic and research institutions to promote a culture of high-quality neuroscience research. Attention to principles of rigorous study design and transparent reporting are essential to enable the neuroscientific community, as well as the biomedical community at large, to design and perform valid experiments and to assess the value of scientific findings. Awards are intended to support the implem...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 2, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Notice of NIDCR Withdrawal of Participation from PA-21-277 Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) Institutionally-Focused Research Education Award to Promote Diversity (UE5 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Notice NOT-DE-23-010 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 27, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Program Part A
Funding for eligible institutions of higher education to improve and expand capacity to serve Native Hawaiian students. One of the program priorities is expanding capacity to provide mental
health services and other services that help support students' social, emotional, and academic needs. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- U.S. Department of Education (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - April 25, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Alaska Native-Serving Institutions Program, Part A
Funding for eligible institutions of higher education to improve and expand capacity to serve Alaska Native students. One of the program priorities is expanding capacity to provide mental
health services and other services that help support students' social, emotional, and academic needs. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- U.S. Department of Education (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - April 25, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions Program
Funding for eligible institutions of higher education to improve and expand capacity to serve native Americans and low-income individuals. One of the program priorities is expanding capacity to provide mental
health services and other services that help support students' social, emotional, and academic needs. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- U.S. Department of Education (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - April 25, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Researchers in AD/ADRD Research (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity PAR-23-179 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Small Research Grant (R03) will support meritorious projects to provide needed scientific insight to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and/or care for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD). Specifically, this NOFO will support projects covering a wide range of topics related to AD/ADRD. The overall goal of this NOFO is (i) to encourage the next generation of researchers to pursue research and academic careers in AD/ADRD research; and (ii) to stimulate established researchers who...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 24, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Accelerating Research Translation (ART)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 23, 2023 Program Guidelines: NSF 23-558The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to increase the scale and pace of advancing discoveries made while conducting academic research into tangible solutions that benefit the public. This is the primary aim of the “Accelerating Research Translation” (ART) program. Specifically, the primary goals of this program are to build capacity and infrastructure for translational research at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) and to enhance their role in regional innovation ...More at https://beta.nsf.gov/programid/506143This is an NSF...
Source: NSF Upcoming Due Dates - April 23, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: funding
Small Business Transition Grant For Early Career Scientists (R42 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-23-035 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) intends to support early-career academic scientists interested in transitioning to entrepreneurship while also supporting the transfer of technology from academic laboratories into small businesses. Both small businesses and universities are drivers of technological innovation in the United States (U.S.), often working together to advance innovative ideas into products that can benefit the U.S. population. While most NIH funding supports basic research in...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 21, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Mentored Career Transition Award for Intramural Fellows (K22 Clinical Trials Required)
Funding Opportunity PAR-23-150 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The Mentored Career Transition Award for NIMH Intramural Fellows (K22) is a two-phase, mentored career development award program that is intended to facilitate a timely transition of qualified postdoctoral fellows in the NIMH Division of Intramural Programs (DIRP) from intramural postdoctoral research positions to extramural, academic tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions at eligible U.S. institutions. Both the intramural and extramural phases will be mentored, and the award will provide research support during the extramural phase to hel...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 20, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding
