Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences

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Only one application per institution (identified by NIH IPF number) is allowed.

Purpose
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) solicits applications to develop shared-use research facilities or research-supporting facilities that enable collaborative research and benefit broad research communities at large. The NOFO supports two existing construction programs: the Biomedical Research Facilities (BRF) program and the HIV/AIDS Research Facilities (HRF) program.

The BRF program supports the construction or modernization of biomedical research facilities that advance basic, translational, clinical, or behavioral science research in all areas. Intended facilities include shared research spaces, core facilities, biorepositories, or other shared-use resource facilities that serve a broad scientific community with a significant, long-term impact on biomedical research.

The HRF program funds the development of HIV/AIDS research or research-supporting resources that the empowered research activities must align with the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) priorities, as outlined at OAR HIV/AIDS Research Priorities, including research focusing on the long-term health consequences of HIV infection.

NIH encourages applications from institutions across all geographic regions of the country, including Institutions of Emerging Excellence (IEE) in biomedical research, to strengthen the nation’s research capacity.

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General Funding - Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 0
N. Pier (Cooperative Extension - Maricopa County)

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An organization is allowed to submit one application for General funding, and one application for Youth funding. General applications can include funding requests for multiple categories, so long as the applicant is an eligible entity for the project described and so long as a separate narrative of the project and a separate budget and budget justification are included for each component of the project is included in the application. 

There is one category in the 2026 RFA for General and Youth. You may apply for categories as you are eligible but can only submit one project budget for each category. 

Introduction and Background
Welcome to the Native American Agriculture Fund’s (NAAF) grant application process for 2026. The information below describes projects and ideas for which NAAF seeks applications and provides details about submission requirements and clarification of expectations applying to all applicants seeking funding.

NAAF was created from cy pres funds attributable to the settlement of the Keepseagle v. Vilsack litigation. A history of the litigation leading to the creation of NAAF can be found on the NAAF website at NativeAmericanAgricultureFund.org/about/. The final Court approval of the amended settlement in the case occurred in 2018, and in late July 2018, the Trustees of NAAF executed the NAAF Trust Agreement. A copy of the Trust Agreement that launched NAAF into existence can also be found on the NAAF website at NativeAmericanAgricultureFund.org/trustagreement/. We strongly recommend reading the Trust Agreement before starting an application for funding.  

NAAF seeks applications that align with a variety of programmatic areas. These areas are informed by strategic planning activities, grantmaking outcomes and online survey responses. For the 2026 funding cycle, applications are sought across a wide variety of projects across several topical areas.  

NAAF is directed to fund grant projects for a total of twenty (20) years until the year 2038, and in so doing, hopes to make a significant impact across as many Native communities as possible. This 2026 RFA represents the eigth (8th) funding cycle for NAAF. Ongoing input about the needs of Native farmers and ranchers from eligible entities is extremely valuable. We encourage all applicants and stakeholders to start a dialogue with NAAF via the NAAF survey instrument to achieve the promise provided by the creation of NAAF. 

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Institutions may submit one proposal per session. Interested candidates should work through their sponsored projects office.

Grant Guidelines
The mission of the Foundation is to support early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis or treatment of disease.

The funds are designed to provide to tenure track faculty members in their first to fourth year, at American Institutions, who hold M.D. and/or Ph.D. degrees, start-up support to move the project forward to the point where R01 or other independent funding can be obtained.  Applicants with current R01 or similar funding should not apply.  

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Z. Guido (Arizona Institute for Resilience)

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Applicants may submit up to two (2) applications as the Management Entity (ME).

Note: Coordination with other eligible applicants and use of a consortia approach is acceptable. In addition to applying as a Management Entity, an organization may partner as a sub awardee under other eligible applications.

Executive Summary
America First investments in agricultural research through the FtF Innovation Labs benefit the world’s poorest regions while also providing major benefits to the United States. The Department of State invites eligible applicants to advance global food security in alignment with U.S. policy through targeted research that meets one or both of the following core objectives:

1. Advances agricultural science and research to increase productivity, mitigate threats to production systems, and support food systems to reduce hunger and malnutrition through enhanced supply of nutritious and safe foods; and/or
2. Increases demand for individual and household consumption of nutritious, safe foods as part of healthy diets, and improves market pathways and opportunities for government and private sector actors to promote consumption of nutritious and safe foods.

The Management Entity of each respective FtF Innovation Lab is expected to help implement and communicate impact pathways from research to development outcomes via partnerships with other USG programs, national partners, private companies, community-based organizations, such as faith-based organizations, and other donors and their programs. Programs must ensure U.S. investments directly benefit American safety, strength, and prosperity. Proposals should clearly address how the research activities will support both global food security and U.S. national security and economic interests, reduce the need for repeated humanitarian assistance, expand market access for U.S. companies, and protect the U.S agriculture industry.

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The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) is coordinating this limited submission. For more information please contact: UACC-PreAward.

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The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) can nominate one proposal for the Breast Cancer Alliance Research Awards - either for the Young Investigator Grant (YIG) OR Exceptional Project Grant (XP) 2026.

Purpose of Award:

Breast Cancer Alliance provides seed money – scientific venture capital – to fund innovative breast cancer research with emphases on programs that have not yet qualified for federal grants. To secure federal funding, a researcher must prove a theory works. Breast Cancer Alliance creates the critical bridge between novel research and the opportunity to generate preliminary results with grants like our Exceptional Projects.

BCA encourages careers in breast cancer research and in clinical medicine. We award two year Young Investigator Grants to doctors and scientists in the early stages of their careers, often overlooked by the funding world until they have longer tenure. 

• YIG:
  • Breast Cancer Alliance invites clinical doctors and research scientists who are in the early stages of their careers, including post docs, whose current proposal is focused on breast cancer, to apply for a Young Investigator Grant. 
  • This award helps advance the careers of young researchers who do not yet have their own major grant support, but who design and conduct their own independent research projects.
• XP:
  • Breast Cancer Alliance invites clinical doctors and research scientists at any stage of their careers, including post docs, whose current proposal is focused on breast cancer, to apply for an Exceptional Project Grant. 
  • This award recognizes creative, unique and innovative research related to breast cancer.

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The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) is coordinating this limited submission. For more information please contact: UACC-PreAward.

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The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) can nominate can nominate up to two proposals: one Translational OR V Scholar nominee and one All-Star nominee (if eligible) for the V Foundation Pediatric Cancer Research Grant 2026.

Purpose of Award
The UACC is seeking nominations for the Pediatric Cancer Research Grant which is restricted to pediatric cancer research. Research on ANY pediatric cancer type can be funded. Research areas not included in this scope are epidemiology, behavioral science, and health services research.

Applicant Eligibility
Nominee must meet all of the following criteria by the nomination due date:

• Nominated by their Cancer Center Director or similar high ranking research official.
• Employed at a non-profit research institution (e.g., 501c3, Section 170).
• Either a US Citizen or a permanent legal resident in the US
• See additional criteria for each mechanism listed in corresponding RFA within the Supporting Documents section above.

Funding Information per mechanism

• V Scholar: A four-year grant totaling $800,000 (paid in annual installments of $200,000). No indirect costs allowed.
• Translational: A four-year grant totaling $800,000 (paid in annual installments of $200,000). This amount includes both direct and indirect costs. Indirect costs are allowed up to 10% of total grant amount.
• All Star: A five-year grant totaling, $1,000,000 (paid in annual installments of $200,000). This amount includes both direct and indirect costs. Indirect costs are allowed up to 10% of total grant amount.

The V Foundation follows NIH salary cap guidelines. Institutions may supplement a grant recipient’s salary with institutional funds, if desired.

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Y. Shirai (Family and Community Medicine // College of Medicine - Tucson) 

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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. 

Program Description

Full sponsor guidelines are linked here. 

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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You may only submit one application under this NOFO.

Purpose
CMS, through its Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ), is accepting applications for cooperative agreements to entities to administer financial incentives, such as loan repayment and stipends, to RNs and LPNs to work in a qualifying nursing home or in an oversight role with a state agency for three years.

CMS will enter into cooperative agreements with organizations, which will become Financial Incentive Administrators (FIAs). These FIAs will identify and accept applications from individuals, who would then receive funds contingent on their working in a qualifying nursing home or state survey agency for three years (with an average of 30 or more hours per week).

In addition, FIAs will coordinate closely with individual states, which will provide additional funding directly to the FIA to increase the number of financial incentives available to recruit nurses in their state, and to gain a deeper understanding of each state’s specific staffing needs. FIAs will also work with other stakeholders, such as nursing homes, associations, or private organizations, which may contribute additional funds to the campaign or identify other ways to enhance the program.

Institutionally Coordinated - The University of Arizona may submit more than one proposal provided that each application is scientifically distinct. This is an Institutionally Coordinated Submission. Only proposals selected through U of A  Competition Space will be authorized for submission.

T. Tomasiak (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

ORIP's S10 Instrumentation Grant Programs support purchases of state-of-the-art commercially available instruments to enhance research of NIH-funded investigators. Instruments that are awarded are typically too expensive to be obtained by an individual investigator with a research project grant. Every instrument awarded by an S10 grant is to be used on a shared basis, which makes the programs cost-efficient and beneficial to thousands of investigators in hundreds of institutions nationwide.

To be eligible for an S10 award, an institution must identify three or more principal investigators with active NIH research awards who demonstrate a substantial need for the requested instrument. Matching funds are not required. Types of instruments supported by S10 funding include, but are not limited to, X-ray diffraction systems, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and confocal microscopes, cell-analyzers, and biomedical imagers.

Active RFPs are: 

• Basic Instrumentation Grant Program (BIG) – University of Arizona is not eligible
• Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (SIG) – The SIG Program funds grant awards in the $50,000 to $600,000 range.
• High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (HEI) – The HEI Program funds grant awards in the $600,001 to $2,000,000 range.

There is no restriction on the number of applications an institution can submit to the SIG and/or High-End HEI Grant Programs. However, institutional internal coordination is required for concurrent SIG or HEI applications to verify each proposal is requesting different types of equipment.

The number of allowed institutional submissions is no longer limited by the Beckman Foundation. Per the funding opportunity webpage: Institutions are not limited in the number of applicants who apply at the Letter of Intent stage.

If you are interest in applying, please contact Marie Teemant at marieteemant@arizona.edu