Biomedical, Clinical & Life Sciences

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This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications from institutions proposing to establish, or renew, an Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC).

NIA-designated ADRCs serve as a national resource for research on the nature of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) and the development of more effective approaches to prevention, diagnosis, care, and therapy. They create shared resources that support dementia-relevant research, and they collaborate and coordinate their research efforts with other NIH-funded programs and investigators.

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The Breast Cancer Alliance will accept a maximum of two LOIs per institution (Exceptional Projects Grant OR Young Investigators Grant)

Exceptional Projects Grant 
K. Fischer (Gurtner Laboratory - COM-T)
C. Lim (Public Health) 

Young Investigators Grant

YOUNG INVESTIGATORS GRANT
To encourage a commitment to breast cancer research, 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 funding for the Young Investigator Grant.  

This grant is intended to help 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. 

The term of the Young Investigator Grant is two years, beginning on March 1, 2026. The grant provides salary support and project costs for a total of a $125,000, distributed over a two-year period. 

Indirect costs, which are included in the $125,000 award, must be limited to 8% of total direct costs. 

Researchers should coordinate with their institutions, as BCA will accept a maximum of ONLY TWO LOIs PER INSTITUTION (YIG or XP.)

Qualifications 

Applicants for the 2026 award:

• Must not have held a tenure track faculty or tenure track research position for more than four years following completion of their training, as of March 1, 2026
• Must not have been or are not a principal investigator on an NIH R01 or equivalent national/international non-mentored award as of March 1, 2026
• Must dedicate at least 50% of their work effort to research
• Must be at an institution located in the contiguous United States.  
• Must not be a for-profit institution. 

EXCEPTIONAL PROJECTS GRANT 

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. 

The term of the Exceptional Project Grant is one year, beginning on March 1,2026. The grant provides salary support and project costs for a total of $100,000, distributed over a one-year period.  

Indirect costs, which are included in the $100,000 award, must be limited to 8% of total direct costs. 

Researchers should coordinate with their institutions, as BCA will accept a maximum of ONLY TWO LOIs PER INSTITUTION (YIG or XP).

Qualifications 

• This grant is open to applicants at institutions in the contiguous United States. 
• No for-profit institutions may apply.  

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J.S. De La Rosa (Comprehensive Ceter for Pain and Addiction) - Continuing Application 

Purpose
The purpose of the BHWET Program for Paraprofessionals is to develop and expand community-based experiential training such as field placements and internships to increase the skills, knowledge and capacity of students preparing to become mental health workers, peer support specialists, and other behavioral health paraprofessionals.

The program has a special focus on developing knowledge and understanding of the needs of children, adolescents, and transitional-age youth who have experienced trauma and are at risk for behavioral health disorders including anxiety, depression, and substance use disorder. The program also emphasizes developmental opportunities and educational support in interprofessional collaboration by using team-based care in integrated behavioral health and primary care settings to improve the distribution of a well-trained behavioral health workforce. The program also aims to recruit a workforce that is interested in serving high need and high demand areas.

For the purpose of this NOFO, all training will be separated into two levels:
• Level 1: Pre-service: Includes didactic and experiential field training.
• Level 2: In-service (optional): Training at a registered Department of Labor apprenticeship site.

All paraprofessional training that does not fall under the definition of a registered apprenticeship will be defined as Level 1: Pre-service training as further explained in
Program Requirements and Expectations. Registered apprenticeships (Level 2) are not a program requirement. You are not required to implement Level 2 in your proposal to be considered eligible for this program. If you are implementing Level 2 in your proposed training project, you can receive an additional 5 points in Criteria 2: Response/Approach.

Application Limits
You may not submit more than one application per Unique Entity Identifier (UEI). If you submit more than one application under the same UEI, we will only accept the last on-time submission.

More than one application may be submitted from the same organization under separate UEIs.

Communication within your organization is encouraged to prevent duplication and to promote collaboration.

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E. Sparks (Cooperative Extension)

The GusNIP Nutrition Incentive Program presents the opportunity to bring together stakeholders from various parts of the food and healthcare systems to foster understanding of how they might improve the health and nutrition status of participating households.  NIFA requests applications for the GusNIP Nutrition Incentive Program to support and evaluate projects intended to increase the purchase of fruits and vegetables by providing incentives at the point of purchase among income eligible consumers participating in the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and the United States Virgin Islands, in addition to income-eligible consumers participating in the USDA Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP) in Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands.

The technical assistance webinar related to this FY 2025 funding opportunity will be scheduled soon. Please visit again for more information.

Eligibility
Duplicate or multiple submissions are not allowed. NIFA will accept the last application received and disqualify previously submitted applications if an applicant submits duplicate or multiple submissions meeting the application deadline. For those new to Federal financial assistance, NIFA’s Grants Overview provides highly recommended information about grants and other resources to help understand the Federal awards process. 

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S. Veres (COM-P - Family/Community and Preventitive Medicine) 

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

The purpose of the Primary Care Training and Enhancement—Residency Training in Street Medicine (PCTE-RTSM) Program is to enhance training in street medicine for residents enrolled in accredited primary care residency programs. Awardees may use funds to support enrolled Graduate Medical Education (GME) residents.

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T. Vanderah (Pharmacology) - Competitive Resubmission 

The overall goal of the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) program is to help ensure that a diverse pool of highly trained scientists is available in appropriate scientific disciplines to address the nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. More information about NRSA programs may be found at the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award website. The NRSA program has been the primary means of supporting predoctoral and postdoctoral research training programs since enactment of the NRSA legislation in 1974.

Each NIGMS-funded MSTP award is expected to provide a rigorous, well-designed research training program that includes mentored research experiences, courses, seminars, and additional training opportunities that equip clinician scientists with the following skills required for careers in the biomedical research workforce:

• Technical (for example, appropriate methods, technologies, and quantitative/computational approaches).
• Operational (for example, independent knowledge acquisition, rigorous experimental design, interpretation of data, and conducting research in the safest manner possible).
• Professional (for example, management, leadership, communication, and teamwork).
   

Eligibility
NIGMS will accept only one MSTP application per institution. 

Each application must be submitted by an eligible organization with a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) and a unique NIH eRA Institutional Profile File (IPF) number. For organizations with multiple campuses, eligibility can be considered for an individual campus (for example, main, satellite, etc.) as the applicant organization only if a UEI and a unique NIH eRA IPF number are established for the individual campus. For organizations that use one UEI or NIH IPF number for multiple campuses, eligibility as the applicant organization is determined for the campuses together.

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G. Coronado (Public Health)

In addition to the responsiveness criteria, under this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), you may submit only one application under your organization’s UEI.

This NOFO will build on the program’s successes by:
• Encouraging recipients to expand partnerships with clinics to extend the
impact and number of patients reached.
• Encouraging recipients to support high-quality TA to partner clinics and
engage supporting partners when needed.
• Requiring recipients to complete activities shown to be effective through
evaluation.

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K. Huntoon (Neurosurgery)

UACC Limited Submission Information:

The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) can nominate one applicant for the V Foundation Women Scientists Innovation Award for Cancer Research 2025.

Purpose of Award:

The UACC is seeking nominations for the Women Scientists Innovation Award for Cancer Research which supports women cancer researchers and is restricted to adult cancer research.

Sustaining the careers of women in research and preventing the loss of women from academic careers focused on cancer is paramount to accomplishing the V Foundation’s mission. Women are underrepresented in many STEM fields and this disparity becomes more pronounced further along the career continuum. To make significant progress towards Victory Over Cancer®, we need all voices at the table. The V Foundation’s Women Scientists Innovation Award for Cancer Research helps promote inclusion for women in cancer research while supporting the most cutting-edge proposals.

Applicant Eligibility

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

• Self-identify as a woman
• Nominated by their Cancer Center Director or similar high ranking research official.
• Employed at a non-profit research institution (e.g., 501c3, Section 170).
• See additional criteria for Translational and V Scholar mechanisms listed in corresponding RFA and Supporting Documents.

The UACC Required Documents:

• NIH Biosketch using attached template
• LOI/Research Strategy (maximum 2 pages, Arial font, 11 point, 0.5” margins)
  • Specific Aims
  • Research Design
  • Potential Outcomes/Impact and Next Steps (plans and timeline for future grant applications based on results from this project)
  • References Cited (not included in page count)
• If applying under V Scholar mechanism, V Foundation's V Scholar Financial Worksheet using provided Excel template

UACC Selection Process and Next Steps:

The selected investigator will be notified they are the nominee and will work with UACC to complete the nomination form, a letter of recommendation, and finalize the financial worksheet (only if applicable). The V Foundation will then invite the nominee via email to complete the online application.

Due Dates

UACC's selection announcement will occur by January 29, 2025.

The sponsor nomination due date is January 30, 2025 by 5pm EST.

The sponsor full application due date is February 28, 2025 by 5pm EST.

Questions:

Please review more detailed information for this opportunity in the supporting documents. Please review the eligibility guide and request for applications carefully.

If you have any question concerning eligibility and details regarding the opportunity, please contact the Grants Team at Grants@v.org in advance of applying.

For any other questions, please contact UACC-PreAward@arizona.edu.

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D. Axon (College of Pharmacy) - Competitive Resubmission
 

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Y. Bai (Optical Sciences)
S. Kong (Astronomy) 
 

Eligibility: 

Must be a faculty members in the first three years of their faculty careers, that is, whose initial faculty appointments began no earlier than May 31, 2022, and no later than May 31, 2025.
 

The  Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering Program invests in future leaders who have the freedom to take risks, explore new frontiers in their fields of study, and follow uncharted paths that may lead to groundbreaking discoveries.

Candidates must be faculty members who are eligible to serve as principal investigators engaged in research in the natural and physical sciences or engineering and must be within the first three years of their faculty careers. Disciplines that will be considered include physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering. Candidates engaged in research in the social sciences will not be considered. 

The Fellowship Program provides support for highly creative researchers early in their careers; faculty members who are well-established and well-funded are less likely to receive the award.  Packard Fellows are inquisitive, passionate scientists and engineers who take a creative approach to their research, dare to think big, and follow new ideas wherever they lead.  

The Foundation emphasizes support for innovative individual research that involves the Fellows, their students, and junior colleagues, rather than extensions or components of large-scale, ongoing research programs.