Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences

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Only one application per institution (normally identified by having a unique DUNS number or NIH IPF number) is allowed, provided that each application is scientifically distinct.

Purpose
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications from institutions/organizations that propose to establish core centers that are part of an integrated and existing program of nutrition and/or obesity research. The Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (NORC) program is designed to support and enhance the national research effort in nutrition and obesity. NORCs support three primary research-related activities: Research Core services, a Pilot and Feasibility (P and F) program, and a Scientific Catalyst program. All activities pursued by Nutrition Obesity Research Centers are designed to enhance the efficiency, productivity, effectiveness, and multidisciplinary nature of research in nutrition and obesity.

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J. Parlin (Pima County Extension)

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The HFFI FARE Fund will only accept one Funding Inquiry per entity per RFA.

Program Description
This Request for Applications (RFA) is for the 2026 HFFI Food Access and Retail Expansion Fund (HFFI FARE Fund) Grant and Technical Assistance funding for the predevelopment, planning, and implementation of eligible projects aiming to increase food access, and strengthen, expand, and innovate within the food retail supply chain. For the 2026 funding cycle, at least $5,250,000 is available for planning and implementation Grants and at least $1,000,000 is available for Technical Assistance. 

The HFFI FARE Fund supports innovative fresh Food Retail and Food Enterprise business models that seek to improve consumer access to healthy food in underserved areas through food retail. Funding can be used for project development, renovation, and/or expansion. Funding is designed to be one-time investments of capital into projects creating a food retail or food supply chain enterprise business model in order to address higher costs and initial barriers to entry in underserved rural and urban areas. Planning and implementation Grants should unlock additional sources of capital, catalyze project sustainability, meet financing gaps, and/or enable deeper impact or project reach. Grants are available for both early-stage planning and predevelopment projects and implementation shovel-ready projects that have a site identified and/or established site control, have completed feasibility tasks, and present a reasonable timeline for opening.  Technical Assistance (TA) will be available to support specific contractual soft costs for early-stage planning, predevelopment, and business assistance needs where resources would help build local capacity to develop a Food Retail Outlet or Food Enterprise and would clarify or advance an eligible project.

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Organizations may submit only one Letter of Inquiry per deadline. Common exceptions include LOIs submitted by separate departments of large universities. Per clarification with RRF, the University of Arizona may submit one LOI per college per deadline. 

Overview
RRF Foundation for Aging focuses on improving the quality of life for older people. In an effort to strengthen the Foundation’s impact, RRF has established Priority Areas. These Priority Areas are specific topics in aging that will be given higher priority within the Foundation’s grantmaking program.

Types of Grants

1. Advocacy: Achieve enduring social change around issues that affect older Americans
2. (Ineligible - for applicants in Illinois only) Direct Service: Improve availability and quality of community-based services and supports in seven states
3. Research: Seek causes and solutions to significant problems for older persons
4. Knowledge Sharing and Awareness Raising: Knowledge sharing and awareness-raising projects that convey meaningful information, shape narratives, and drive positive change. 
5. (Ineligible - for applicants in Illinois only) Organizational Capacity Building: Improve management and governance of non-profit organizations

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Only one application per institution (normally identified by having a unique UEI number or NIH IPF number) is allowed.

Purpose
In response to a longstanding congressional mandate (P.L. 98-619, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1985), NIMHD invites applications from eligible institutions to establish a national coordinating center (CC) for the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMIs) initiative. The RCMI CC will coordinate activities across funded RCMI U54 Centers, prospectively evaluate the overall RCMI program, and serve as a national resource to help these centers achieve their primary goals. The RCMI CC will be responsive to requests generated by RCMI site key personnel, NIMHD, NIH, the scientific community, and the general public. 
 

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One nominated candidate per eligible institution is accepted per year

Program Overview
The Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program funds basic biomedical research in the fields of cancer, immunology, and neuroscience, as well as pain, through the Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain. The Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program has supported more than 200 scientists since 1976. The program embraces innovative research with above-average risk and groundbreaking possibilities. Scholars have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize in Medicine and the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

Full sponsor guidelines are linked here. 

Award Amount
Scholars can receive up to $110,000 per year for a maximum of five years. Recipients of the Award in Pain can be granted $50,000 per year for up to three years.

Eligibility
To be eligible for a Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award, candidates must either apply through the Scholars Award in Pain or be nominated by an eligible institution and have completed their training and provided persuasive evidence of distinguished achievement or extraordinary promise in research in one of the relevant fields (cancer, immunology, neuroscience. or pain). United States citizenship is not a requirement; however, awardees must be legally employed at the time of application at a U.S. degree-granting or research institution that is an invited participant in the Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Program. Awards are made to the 501(c)(3) organization; awards are not made to an individual. Scholars must perform research at a non-profit institution in the U.S. during the entire period of Rita Allen Foundation support.

Institutions should consider the following when considering whom to nominate for the Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program: 

• Candidates should be independent investigators in the early stages of their careers and research. 
• The caliber of early-stage investigators suggests nominees would be appointed to tenure-track positions at their respective institutions. 
• It is preferable that candidates be in the first three years of their tenure track. (This is taken into consideration in the rating of applications by the Scientific Advisory Committee.) 
• A senior postdoc should not be a candidate; wait until s/he is in a tenure-track position, as described. 
• Associate professors should not be candidates. 
• Candidates must have received committed startup funds from their respective institutions. 
• Candidates must have lab space from their institutions. 

Rita Allen Foundation Scholars may not accept an award from the Beckman Young Investigator Program, Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences, Searle Scholars Program, or Vallee Scholars Program that would take effect beginning in year one of the RAF award. Rita Allen Scholars may apply for awards from these organizations that would take effect beginning in year two of the RAF award. Other sources of funding also may influence selection. 

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You may not submit more than one application. If you submit more than one application, we will only accept the last on-time submission.

Purpose
The purpose of the Medical Student Education (MSE) Program is to provide support to public medical schools in states ranked in the top quartile for projected primary care provider shortages. to expand or enhance education for medical students preparing to become physicians. This expansion can include funding for direct student supports which help students be successful in medical school, as well as for infrastructure development, maintenance, equipment, and minor renovations or alterations. The program is designed to prepare and encourage medical students to choose residencies and careers in primary care and serve Tribal, rural and other areas with primary care provider shortages in those states after they complete their residency.

• Increase the number of primary care physicians practicing in states with a projected primary care physician shortage, particularly in rural Tribal and other areas with primary care provider shortages.

Full sponsor guidelines are linked here. 
 

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Only one application per institution (normally identified by having a unique UEI or NIH IPF number) is allowed.

Purpose
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications from clinical centers to participate in a consortium to test anti-obesity medication (AOM) treatment strategies for youth with obesity that maximize benefits and minimize risks of AOM use. Such intervention strategies should support the promotion of healthy growth and development; adequate nutritional status/intake, healthy eating and physical activity behaviors; mental health and well-being (e.g., body image, self-esteem, mood, etc.), and quality of life and be feasible to implement in clinical care settings. Priority areas include testing strategies to determine optimal developmental stage for AOM initiation, rate and amount of weight loss, AOM class, dose, frequency, and duration, and content and intensity of adjunct lifestyle therapies that may be imperative to ensure normal psychological and physical development and to potentially avoid lifelong dependence on AOMs.  Investigators should also evaluate potential predictors of response/ nonresponse to various treatment strategies under evaluation. The clinical centers may conduct independent or multicenter trials but will collaborate on the development of protocols, use of common measures and data elements, use of a central laboratory and standardized procedures to collect data and biospecimens, and data analyses and manuscripts. 

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If an organization submits multiple applications for this or other Harwood funding opportunities, OSHA will review the last viable application package submitted.

Grant Types

• Targeted Topic Training 
  Supports educational programs that identify and prevent workplace hazards and requires applicants to conduct training on OSHA-designated workplace safety and health hazards
• Training and Educational Materials Development
  Supports the.development of quality, classroom-ready training and educational materials that identify and prevent workplace hazards.