External Funding Opportunities
***Limited Submission***
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Program: Distinguished Faculty Award
NOFO #: 31310024K0002
Synopsis: Supports eligible faculty for distinguished faculty advancement grants. Eligible faculty are probationary, untenured assistant / associate professors who are on the tenure track. Recipient institutions will determine that the supported faculty member is committed to an academic career in nuclear-related fields; e.g., nuclear science, engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, environmental science, electrical engineering, fire protection, geotechnical sciences, nuclear technology, structural and material engineering, health physics, nuclear fusion (fusion energy research) and other nuclear-related disciplines. Faculty who are supported under a comparable early career development award funded by other Federal agencies are not eligible
Applications must describe the following: (1) how the institution will select the supported faculty member, (2) the level of support the institution will provide, and (3) how the institution will evaluate the supported faculty member during the grant period.
Award details: Up to $600K (for total direct and indirect costs). Institutions must provide a $100K match. Program is 4 years long.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/u-s-nuclear-regulatory-commission/
Announcement on website: NRC Distinguished Faculty Award
USC Internal due date: August 12, 2024.
Application due date: September 6, 2024.
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***Limited Submission***
(posted last week, now with limited submission info)
NIH / Across Most Institutes and Centers
Program: Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99 / R00) Career Transition Award/Research Transition Award)
NOFO #: PAR-24-225
Synopsis: Supports a cohort of early career, independent investigators from diverse backgrounds (for example, individuals from underrepresented groups) conducting research in NIH mission areas. The program has two components: an individual career transition award for postdoctoral scholars (K99/R00) and a research education cooperative agreement (UE5) awarded to organizations to provide these scholars with additional mentoring, networking and professional development activities to support their transition to and success in independent, tenure-track or equivalent research-intensive faculty careers. The candidate must identify a mentor who will supervise the proposed career development and research experience. The mentor should be an active investigator in the area of the proposed research and be committed to the career development of the candidate, the direct supervision of the candidate’s research and supporting the candidate’s transition to independence
Award details: K99 phase: Salary and fringe benefits may be requested to the level provided by the awarding Institute or Center. The candidate must have a “full-time” appointment at the academic institution. Candidates are required to commit a minimum of 75% of full-time professional effort (i.e., a minimum of 9 person-months) to their program of career development. R00 Phase: may not exceed $249K per year. This amount includes salary, fringe benefits, research costs, and applicable indirect costs. Although candidates are required to devote no less than 75% of their full-time, 12-month professional effort to research (i.e., full-time for 9 person-months), the required 9 person-months of research effort need not be devoted exclusively to the R00-supported research.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/par-24-224/
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-225.html
USC Internal due date: August 16, 2024.
Application due dates: Multiple due dates through 2027. Next due date for new applications is October 12, 2024.
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Andy Warhol Foundation
Program: Curatorial Research Fellowships
Synopsis: Supports expenses incurred during the research and development stage of an exhibition, public-facing project, or other visual arts-based initiative that contributes in an original way to contemporary visual arts discourse. Proposals should present the topic for which research is being undertaken in narrative form. Strong proposals explore topics that are understudied and artists whose practices (or aspects of whose practices) are experimental, hard to categorize, and otherwise less well known to the general public. A letter of support from the director of the sponsoring organization must accompany the proposal.
Award details: $50K. Budget requests should reflect real costs of the research to be undertaken, and cannot include salary replacement or course release for academics.
Announcement on website: https://warholfoundation.org/grants/application-guidelines/curatorial-research-fellowships/
Application due date: September 1, 2024.
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John Simon Guggenheim
Program: 2025 Fellowships
Synopsis: Supports mid-career individuals with a significant professional record and a promising future in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. Applicants must be U.S. or Canadian citizens.
Award details: Grants vary, and the Foundation does not guarantee that a project will be fully funded, although the Foundation strives to allocate its funds equitably. Individuals receiving sabbatical leave on full or part salary are eligible for appointment, as are those holding other fellowships and appointments at research centers.
Announcement on website: https://www.gf.org/
Application due date: The competition portal opens to applicants in mid-August and closes in mid-September every year.
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International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL)
Program: International Research Society for Children’s Literature
Synopsis: Supports early career scholars in children’s literature, historical, cultural, sociological, empirical and pedagogical research. 2025 themes are migration, borders and liminality in children’s literature. One of the aims of IRSCL is to provide an exchange of professional thought on theories of children’s literature and their application to texts of all kinds. Applicants must be members of IRSCL.
Award details: Canadian $1K (~$722 USD) with the possibility of a higher amount to be assessed on a biannual basis. Applicants are required to provide a 2-page report by the next IRSCL.
(IESCL)https://www.irscl.org/grants
Application due date: Application due by the 2025 Congress, to take place June 21-25, 2025, University of Salamanca, Spain.
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Mellon Foundation
Program: Presidential Initiatives — Imagining Freedom
Synopsis: Supports artistic, cultural, and humanistic work that centers the voices and knowledge of people directly affected by the US criminal legal system—recognizing their full humanity, ensuring a broad public history and primary source record of mass incarceration, deepening our shared understanding of the system and its impacts, catalyzing us to address the damage it causes, and helping us to challenge and re-envision the structures now in place, so we can all forge new paths toward justice. Goals of this initiative include (partial)
- Support the creation and public circulation of new bodies of scholarly, archival, artistic, and other cultural work that examines carceral structures and their effect on human dignity and helps us imagine and begin to build just communities;
- Advance the participation of system-impacted artists, writers, storytellers, and scholars in intellectual and imaginative communities within and beyond carceral spaces;
- Broaden access to the liberatory power of literature, knowledge, and humanities-based higher learning in order to foster a sense of possibility for currently or formerly incarcerated people.
Award details: Budget requests should summarize the costs included in each expenditure category. If it is helpful to provide supporting calculations in a spreadsheet format, a supplementary file may be uploaded with the proposal documents.
Announcement on website: https://www.mellon.org/article/proposal-guidelines-presidential-initiatives?grantMakingAreas=Presidential%20Initiatives
Letter of Inquiry due date: Anytime. https://mellon.fluxx.io/apply/registration
Response to Inquiry: 8 weeks.
Proposal due date: Proposals are by invitation only.
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Environmental Justice Fund
Program: Request for Proposals
Synopsis: Supports historically underserved frontline communities impacted by climate change. Academic or research institutions that center the perspectives of frontline underserved communities are eligible for funding. The Fund supports (1) projects for research planning, scenario planning, data collection, data analysis, and /or data visualization; and (2) will use data work to mitigate past environmental harm and promote climate resilience, particularly mitigating environmental issues related to air and water quality.
Award details: Funding is two-tiered: Anticipate making 2-4 grants from $500K for first tier. Anticipate 6 to 8 awards from the second tier, $250K. For academic institutions, up to 15% may be used for indirect costs.
Announcement on website: https://www.environmentaljusticedatafund.com/
Application due date: August 30, 2024.
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University of Michigan — Institute for Research on Women & Gender
Program: Visiting Scholars Program
Synopsis: Supports Faculty members, postdoctoral scholars, and researchers from other institutions around the nation and the world, whose work focuses on women or gender. Visiting scholars are generally on sabbatical from their home institutions. Appointments may be requested for fall or winter terms, or for an entire academic year.
Award details: Private office, email account, University library privileges. No salary, stipend, research funding, health insurance, or travel or moving reimbursement is included.
Announcement on website: https://irwg.umich.edu/funding/visiting-scholars-program
Application due date: Rolling.
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International Center for Responsible Gaming (ICRG)
Program: RFP for Research On The Language and Messaging of Prevention and Responsible Gambling Problems
Synopsis: Supports researchers for study of the impact of safer gambling messaging including its impact on gambling behavior and use of responsible gambling tools. The field of addictions has long recognized the power of language in treatment, public discourse and public health policy and has advocated for removal of negative, stigmatizing messaging to people struggling with addiction. At the same time, it is important that messages promoting safer gambling have the intended impact at reducing gambling-related harm. Applicants for this funding mechanism should consider incorporating the work of communications specialists and public health messaging experts as well as scientists experienced in research on gambling-related harms and responsible gambling.
Award details: Up to $350K for direct cost over 3 years, with an additional up 25% indirect cost.
Announcement on website: https://www.icrg.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/RFA-ON-RG-LANGUAGE-AND-MESSAGING-Deadline-10-15-2024_FINAL.pdf
Application due date: October 15, 2024. Use the Large Application Grant to apply.
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The Society for Nautical Research
Program: Grants (1) Individual Research (2) Conferences and Seminars
Synopsis: Supports Individual Researchers for investigations for any purpose related to research into any aspect of maritime history. Past research grants have covered a wide range of projects, and research reports derived from them are published in Topmasts. Conferences and seminar funding supports education in historical maritime affairs by funding the annual New Researchers in Maritime History Conference, supporting the activities of Maritime History North, and contributing to the costs of the maritime seminars at King’s College London and the University of Exeter. The fund can also be used, for example, to meet exceptional costs of a special event supported by the Society, such as for essential foreign travel by speakers to conferences or seminars. Please note that while Society for Nautical Research is a UK-based organization, opportunities are open to the international research community as evidenced by at least one recent award recipient.
Award details: Grants are awarded for travel and accommodation (individual research) and supports foreign travel by speakers to conferences and seminars. Important to note that the awards do not include substance assistance, or publication costs.
Announcement on website: https://snr.org.uk/grants/
Application due date: Application window is September 1 of current year to January 15 of the following year.
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American Psychological Foundation
Program: David H. and Beverly A. Barlow Grant
Synopsis: Supports innovative basic and clinical research on anxiety and anxiety-related disorders conducted by graduate students and early career researchers. Seeks applications from early career investigators (< 10 years postdoctoral) from diverse backgrounds in terms of age, race, color, nationality, creed, gender orientation etc. Applicants must have demonstrated knowledge of anxiety research, either basic or clinical.
Award details: $8K
Announcement on website: https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/barlow-grant/
Application due date: September 18, 2024.
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Simons Foundation / Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)
Program: Linking Early Neurodevelopment to Neural Circuit Outcomes RFA
Synopsis: Supports research that will advance our understanding of whether and how developmental phenotypes caused by autism risk gene mutation lead to altered circuit formation and function. Especially sought are proposals that demonstrate close collaboration between investigators of diverse expertise, such as developmental neurobiologists and circuit neuroscientists, in order to convincingly demonstrate causal links between disparate phenotypes in the chosen model(s). Eligible applicants are faculty.
Award details: Annual budget of $300K, inclusive of up to 20% indirect costs, for a project period of 3 years.
Announcement on website: https://www.sfari.org/grant/linking-early-neurodevelopment-to-neural-circuit-outcomes-rfa?tab=rfa
Application due date: September 12, 2024. Earliest project start date is June 1, 2024.
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Amyloidosis Foundation
Program: Grants
Synopsis: Supports investigators who are within 10 years of completion of post-doctoral degree for basic biomedical and clinical research on systemic amyloidosis. The review committee seeks proposals that provide evidence of an applicant’s research initiative and creativity. The committee will also consider the feasibility of meaningful results from the proposed research, and the likely contribution to the advancement of knowledge of Amyloidosis etiology, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention.
Award details: $75K over two years for direct costs. $37.500 will be disbursed each year. By July 1, 2025, a brief update report must be submitted to the Foundation. This report is required prior to the release of the remaining funds
Announcement on website: https://amyloidosis.org/sites/default/files/2025%20Grant%20instructions.pdf
Application due date: September 13, 2024. Award starts January 1, 2025.
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Mass General Hospital
Program Stroke Research Fellowship for Postdocs
Synopsis: Supports new investigators who wish to pursue active research careers in acute ischemic stroke, stroke genetics, intracerebral hemorrhage, stroke biomarkers and related topics. Eligible applicants are postdocs with biomedical training.
Award details: Fellowship is 1-2 years. Salary is commensurate with level of post graduate training.
Announcement on website: https://www.massgeneral.org/neurology/education-and-training/stroke-research-fellowship
Application due date: Rolling. See announcement on how to apply.
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National Scleroderma Foundation
Program: New and Established Investigator Grants
Synopsis: New Investigator grants: Supports promising new investigators who hold faculty or equivalent positions and who wish to pursue a career in research related to scleroderma. Eligible applicants must have completed a postdoctoral fellowship by the grant award date. Applicants who have been a principal investigator on grants from the National Scleroderma Foundation or other national, private or government agencies other than fellowship grants are not eligible for this award.
Established Investigator grants: Supports established investigators inside and outside the field of scleroderma who wish to propose pilot studies to obtain preliminary data dealing with a highly innovative and/or highly relevant theme related to the disease. This grant will support pilot research that is likely to lead to more substantial unlimited research project grants from federal or non-federal sources.
Award details: New Investigator awards: Total award is $200K for 3 years, with no single year’s funding exceeding $66,667, including indirect costs. Established Investigator awards: Total award is $200K over 2 years, with no single year funding exceeding $100K, including indirect costs.
Announcement on website: https://scleroderma.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Research-Grant-Application-Instructions_2024.pdf
Application due date: September 16, 2024.
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Program: Scholarly Editions and Translations
Funding Opportunity #: 20241127-RQ
Synopsis: Supports collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to scholarship but are currently inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations. At least two scholars must work collaboratively on the project. The text are expected to be significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but works in other humanities fields may also be the subject of an edition. The program also encourages applications for up to two-year projects at a planning stage that are determining the scope of the corpus, collecting documents, establishing the editorial and translation policies, evaluating the target audiences and determining their needs, selecting collaborators, and planning for dissemination and digital sustainability.
Award details: $300K in outright funds; up to $450,000 may be available if requesting at least $150,000 in matching funds.
Announcement on website: https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/scholarly-editions-and-translations-grants
Application window (anticipated): August 27, 2024 to November 27, 2024.
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Environmental Protection Agency
Program: Models to predict the removal of emerging micropollutants from water by novel adsorbents in fixed-bed column processes
Funding Opportunity #: EPA-G204-ORD-F1
Synopsis: Supports research to develop, test and deploy predictive models for novel “next generation” adsorbents for removal of emerging micropollutants from water and to estimate how well the adsorbents will work for specific classes of micropollutants in full-scale, fixed-bed, flow-through unit operations. These models are needed to predict and understand the effectiveness of novel sorbents for removing micropollutants from both wastewater and drinking water. Applicants ought to address 2 research areas, both broadly noted here (details in the solicitation)
- Provide a rationale for selecting the adsorbents and the modeling approaches; and
- Develop, test and deploy a novel model (or models) to predict how well the selected novel adsorbents work for selected micropollutants under a variety of environmentally relevant conditions for flow-through, fixed-bed processes.
Award details: Maximum total award is $1M over 4 years. A minimum non-federal cost share/match of 35% of the total project costs that is equivalent at a minimum to 53.846% of the federal funds awarded, and which may include in-kind contributions is required. One award will be issued.
Announcement on website: Micropollutants Removal
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Notice of Intent
Department of Energy (DoE) / The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
Program: Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office FOA to Advance the National Clean Hydrogen Strategy.
Notice of Intent #: DE-FOA-0003213
Synopsis: Supports Research, Development, Demonstration &
Deployment (RDD&D) topics critical to enabling increased adoption of clean hydrogen across sectors, particularly in heavy-duty (HD) vehicles and other heavy-duty transportation applications, which support the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization, including the buildout of fueling corridors. Increased adoption of hydrogen technologies will help achieve economies of scale and drive down costs, directly supporting DoE’s Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs (H2Hubs) Program, an $8 billion federal investment to create networks of hydrogen producers, consumers, and local connective infrastructure to accelerate the use of hydrogen as a clean energy carrier. Improvements in clean hydrogen technologies will also contribute to the long-term viability of the H2Hubs and other commercial-scale deployments. Activities funded under this FOA will also align with the H2@Scale Initiative, which aims to advance affordable hydrogen production, transport, storage, and utilization to enable decarbonization and revenue opportunities across multiple sectors. The FOA’s objectives support DoE’s Hydrogen Shot goal, which targets affordable clean hydrogen production at $1/kg within a decade. In addition to RD&D topics, this FOA will focus on enabling hydrogen. This is a Notice of Intent (NOI) only. EERE may issue a FOA as described here, may issue a FOA that is significantly different than the FOA described here, or EERE may not issue a FOA at all.
Full announcement: Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Notice of Intent
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Department of Defense (DoD) / Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Program: 2025 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF)
Funding Opportunity #: N0001424SF007
Synopsis: Supports innovative basic research within academia, as well as opportunities intended to develop the next generation of scientists and engineers for the defense workforce. Specific areas of interest are (1) Applied mathematics and computational science; (2) Networks and artificial intelligence; (3) Neuroscience and fundamentals of cognition and intelligence; material science; soft materials and multiscale structures; electronics, photonics, and quantum materials; quantum information science; fundamentals of bioengineering; and soft materials and multiscale structures. As a single investigator funding opportunity, the objectives of the program are to
- Support unclassified basic scientific and engineering research that could be the foundation
for future revolutionary new capabilities for DoD
- Educate and train student and post-doctoral researchers for the defense workforce;
- Foster long-term relationships between university researchers and the DoD;
- Familiarize university researchers and their students with DoD’s current and projected future
challenges; and
- Increase the number of talented technical experts that DoD can call upon.
Award details: Up to $3M over five years, with the actual amount contingent upon availability of funds.
Announcement on website: 2025 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF)
White paper due date: September 27, 2024.
Full proposal due date (invited): February 14, 2025.
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Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Program: Predictions for Real-time Optimization of MICRObiomes of Built Environments (PRO-MICROBE)
Module Announcement #: ARPA-H-MAI-24-01-06
Synopsis: Supports projects that radically reimagine how indoor spaces can promote health by fostering health-promoting microbial communities. This funding opportunity seeks projects that will lay the foundation for this novel capability by first identifying the attributes of microbiome of the built environment (MoBE) that are consistently associated with beneficial health outcomes. PRO-MICROBE exploration topic (ET) will aim to achieve this goal by integrating innovative microbial sampling tools with advanced analytical methods to identify microbial data (e.g., taxa, genes, etc.) that are “indicators” of how the microbiome of a given indoor space will impact the health outcomes of the occupants. These indicators will be used as a basis for the creation of a composite MoBE health index that quantitatively scores the “health impact” of an indoor microbiome. While sampling and analyzing microbial communities is necessary to build an initial health index score, scaling this approach is resource-intensive using conventional methods. To overcome this challenge, PRO-MICROBE ET will collect multi-modal, non-biological data (e.g., humidity, ventilation specifications, street view images) associated with a MoBE signature, which will be analyzed by advanced computational tools to inform models capable of predicting MoBE health indices of specific indoor environments.
Award details: Multiple awards are anticipated under this announcement; however, the number will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds.
Announcement on website: PRO-MICROBE ET
Questions and Answers due date: September 6, 2024
Final Questions and Answers release date: September 16, 2024
Proposal due date: October 4, 2024.
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NIH / National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Program: Materials to Enhance Training in Experimental Rigor (METER) (UE5 — Education Projects
NOFO #: RFA-NS-25-002
Synopsis: Supports subject-matter experts who compile and refine scholarly material pertaining to one or more practice(s) or principle(s) of rigorous experimental research and provide these materials to the center for Creating an Educational Nexus for Training in Experimental Rigor (CENTER) for incorporation into educational units as part of a cutting-edge online educational resource that aims to transform training and education in the practice of biomedical research. Principles of rigorous biomedical research are cross-cutting concepts, processes, and practices that promote rigorous, transparent, and robust scientific experiments. These principles (e.g., randomizing subjects or samples to treatment groups, properly handling outliers, creating standard operating procedures for laboratory workflows) apply across a wide variety of scientific disciplines, techniques, and approaches and tend to fall within broad categories of research practice that include, but are not limited to, understanding the philosophical foundations of science, evaluating existing scientific evidence, designing rigorous experiments with validated methods and materials, reducing the effects of a broad range of cognitive biases, planning and executing appropriate analyses, conducting experiments and collecting data, understanding and measuring uncertainty, managing data and project workflows, and reporting methodology and results transparently.
Award details: Application budgets may not exceed direct costs of $250,000 over the course of the 3-year project period
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-25-002.html
Letter of Intent due date: September 10, 2024.
Application due date: October 10, 2024.
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NIH / National Institute on Aging
Program: Deciphering the Impact of RNA Modifications on Brain Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease / Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (AD / ADRD) (R21—Exploratory Developmental Research Grant); (R01 — Research Grant)
NOFO #: RFA-AG-25-023
Synopsis: Supports and catalyzes research to elucidate the molecular landscape and functional implications of RNA modifications in brain aging and AD / ADRD, including Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, vascular cognitive impairment / dementia and mixed dementias. All data and analytical outputs will be shared rapidly and broadly via the NIA-supported AD Knowledge Portal.
Examples of research interests include (partial):
- Dissect the cellular and molecular mechanisms of RNA modifications associated with the onset, progression, and severity of AD / ADRD and in brain aging. Examine the relationships between RNA modifications and AD vulnerability. Identify potential therapeutic targets.
- Identify functionally relevant RNA modification sites and genes linked to AD onset and severity across multiple brain regions and cell types. Dissect tissue- and cell-specific epitranscriptome-induced biological changes.
- Investigate temporal and spatial dynamics of RNA modifications driving brain aging and AD / ADRD. Elucidate the role of these modifications in signaling pathways and pathophysiological processes.
Award details: R21: $275K for direct costs over 2 years, with no more than $200K for any single year. R01: $500K for direct costs over a maximum project period of 5 years.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-25-023.html; https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-25-022.html
Letter of Intent: October 1, 2024.
Application due date: November 1, 2024.
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NIH / National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Program: Dissemination and Implementation Research in Communication Disorders Conference (U13 — Scientific Conferences)
NOFO #: RFA-DC-24-009
Synopsis: Supports organization and execution of an annual conference on dissemination and implementation (D&I) research skills applicable to all NIDCD mission areas, specifically hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language. A conference or scientific meeting is defined as a gathering, symposium, seminar, workshop or any other organized and formal meeting where persons assemble in person or meet virtually to coordinate, exchange, and disseminate information or to explore or clarify a defined subject, problem, or area of knowledge. Some objectives of this NOFO include (partial):
- D&I theories, models and frameworks (e.g., theories or frameworks that guide understanding of the multi-level contextual factors that influence dissemination and implementation);
- D&I strategies (i.e., methods or techniques used to enhance the dissemination, adoption, implementation, and sustainability of a clinical program or practice);
- Qualitative mixed methods, including methods appropriate for data from individuals with communication disorders.
Award details: Up to $100K for an individual conference; An applicant may request up to a 5-year project period when a series of annual conferences are proposed by a permanently sponsoring organization.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DC-24-009.html
Application due date: November 25, 2024.
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