The CSBS supports innovative research by assisting faculty and research staff in advancing new ideas, completing important preliminary studies to attract external support, and supplementing resources available from other sources. Many of the funding opportunities listed below have revolving or differing deadlines. Please check individual websites for specific requirements and application criteria.
NIH Funding: Standard Deadlines
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| Addressing Caregiver Symptoms through Technological Tools The purpose of the Funding Opportunity announcement is to encourage grant applications from the scientific community that develop and test tools to address symptoms in caregivers. The key to this announcement is the focus on the caregiver, regardless of patient symptoms or conditions. Research is needed to enhance symptom recognition and assessment in caregivers, and to promote technological strategies to alleviate distress in caregiver symptoms. These studies are needed to advance the science related to caregiver experience of symptoms, caregiving contexts that promote these symptoms, and viable tools to address the symptoms experienced by caregivers. Deadline: June 5, 2021, October 5, 2021 (R01); June 16, 2021, October 16, 2021 (R21) Expires: January 8, 2022 R01 Announcement R21 Announcement |
| Applying a Biopsychosocial Perspective to Self-Management of Chronic Pain The purpose of the Funding Opportunity announcement is to encourage grant applications from the scientific community on applying a biopsychosocial perspective to self-management of chronic pain. Deadline: June 5, 2021, October 5, 2021 (R01); June 16, 2021, October 16, 2021 (R21) Expires: January 8, 2022 R01 Announcement R21 Announcement |
| Development and Optimization of Tasks and Measures for Functional Domains of Behavior The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support the development and optimization of tasks and/or measures for constructs pertaining to functional aspects of behavior or cognitive/affective processes, for use in laboratory or population-based studies, clinical trials outcomes, or related research. This FOA encourages research that will result in the availability of tasks and measures that demonstrate: (1) good validity as a measure of a specific construct; (2) robust measurement properties; and (3) suitability for use across diverse participants. LOI due: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 5, 2021, October 5, 2021 Expires: January 8, 2022 Full Announcement |
| Diet and Physical Activity Assessment Methodology This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages innovative research to enhance the quality of measurements of dietary intake and physical activity. Applications submitted to this FOA may include development of: novel assessment approaches; better methods to evaluate instruments; assessment tools for culturally diverse populations or various age groups, including children and older adults; improved technology or applications of existing technology; statistical methods/modeling to improve assessment and/or to correct for measurement errors or biases; methods to investigate the multidimensionality of diet and physical activity behavior through pattern analysis; or integrated measurement of diet and physical activity along with the environmental context of such behaviors. Deadline: June 5, 2021 (R01); June 16, 2021 (R21) Expires: September 08, 2021 R01 Announcement R21 Announcement |
| Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages investigators to submit research grant applications that will identify, develop, test, evaluate and/or refine strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices (e.g. behavioral interventions; prevention, early detection, diagnostic, treatment and disease management interventions; quality improvement programs) into public health, clinical practice, and community settings. In addition, studies to advance dissemination and implementation research methods and measures are encouraged. LOI due: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021; February 5, 2022 (R01); June 16, 2021; October 16, 2021; February 16, 2022 (R03 & R21) Expires: May 8, 2022 R01 Announcement R21 Announcement R03 Announcement |
| Fundamental Mechanisms of Affective and Decisional Processes in Cancer Control The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage projects to generate fundamental knowledge of effective processes. Basic effective science projects should have key consequences for single (e.g., cancer screening) and multiple (e.g., adherence to oral chemotherapy regimen) event decisions and behaviors across the cancer prevention and control continuum. The FOA is expected to encourage collaboration among cancer control researchers and those from scientific disciplines not traditionally connected to cancer control applications (e.g., affective and cognitive neuroscience, decision science, consumer science) to elucidate perplexing and understudied problems in affective and decision sciences with downstream implications for cancer prevention and control. Deadline: June 5, 2021, October 5, 2021, February 5, 2022, June 5, 2022, October 5, 2022 Expires: January 08, 2023 Full Announcement |
| Increasing Uptake of Evidence-Based Screening in Diverse Adult Populations This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications that seek to understand strategies to reduce disparities in the uptake of evidence-based screening (e.g. screening recommendations proven to be effective based on rigorous systematic review of scientific evidence by authoritative committees) across the adult lifespan. In this program announcement, screening is defined as a preventive service focused on detection of an undiagnosed disease in asymptomatic populations. Research supported by this initiative should enhance the screening process related to use: (1) in diverse populations, (2) in diverse clinical and community settings, and/or (3) with traditional, non-traditional and/or allied health care providers. Deadline: June 5, 2021, October 5, 2021 Expires: January 8, 2022 Full Announcement |
| Intervening with Cancer Caregivers to Improve Patient Health Outcomes and Optimize Health Care Utilization This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for intervention research designed to support caregivers of adult cancer patients. Interventions supported by this FOA are intended to provide caregivers with care training, promote coping skills, and ultimately help them manage care. Outcomes of such interventions are expected to (1) optimize patient health care utilization, (2) improve caregiver well-being, and (3) improve patient physical health and psychosocial outcomes. LOI due: 30 days before application due date Deadline: June 5, 2021, October 5, 2021, February 5, 2022, June 5, 2022 (R01); June 16, 2021, October 16, 2021, February 16, 2022, June 16, 2022 (R21) Expires: September 08, 2022 R01 Announcement R21 Announcement |
| Medical Simulators for Practicing Patient Care Providers Skill Acquisition, Outcomes Assessment and Technology Development The purpose of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to promote the assessment and further development of simulation technologies intended to improve patient safety and healthcare outcomes provided by practicing patient care providers and experienced (not trainee) physicians. The FOA seeks applications directed toward three areas of research: 1) Skill Acquisition: to evaluate strategies and protocols for simulation-based methods for skill acquisition and maintenance by experienced clinicians; 2) Outcomes Assessment: to assess the relationship of simulation-based assessments of skills demonstrated by experienced clinicians with the quality of clinical care delivered by those clinicians, and to identify strategies to increase the quality of simulation-based assessments of skills; and 3) Technology Development: to develop “virtual coaches” by incorporating intelligent technologies into existing simulators to provide adaptive, cognitive assistance to coach experienced practitioners in retaining, retraining and improving performance levels in the context of the user environment (and physiological system as appropriate). LOI due: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 5, 2021, October 5, 2021 Expires: January 8, 2022 Full Announcement |
| NIA Program Project Applications The National Institute on Aging invites the submission of investigator-initiated program project (P01) applications. The applications should address scientific areas relevant to the NIA mission. Each application submitted to this FOA must include at least three related research projects that share a common central theme, focus, and/overall objective and an administrative core to lead the project. Deadline: May 25, 2021, September 25, 2021, January 25, 2022, May 25, 2022 Expires: May 26, 2022 Full Announcement |
| NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science The National Library of Medicine (NLM) supports innovative research and development in biomedical informatics and data science. The scope of NLM's interest in these research domains is broad, with emphasis on new methods and approaches to foster data driven discovery in the biomedical and clinical health sciences as well as domain-independent, reusable approaches to discovery, curation, analysis, organization and management of health-related digital objects. Biomedical informatics and data science draw upon many fields, including mathematics, statistics, information science, computer science and engineering, and social/behavioral sciences. Application domains include health care delivery, basic biomedical research, clinical and translational research, precision medicine, public health, biosurveillance, health information management in disasters, and similar areas. NLM defines biomedical informatics as the science of optimal representation, organization, management, integration and presentation of information relevant to human health and biology. NIH defines data science as the interdisciplinary field of inquiry in which quantitative and analytical approaches, processes, and systems are developed and used to extract knowledge and insights from increasingly large and/or complex sets of data. Deadline: June 5, 2021 Expires: September 08, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Perception and Cognition Research to Inform Cancer Image Interpretation The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to facilitate research on the perceptual and cognitive processes underlying the performance of cancer image observers in radiology and pathology, in order to improve the accuracy of cancer detection and diagnosis. Deadline: June 5, 2021, October 5, 2021, February 5, 2022, June 5, 2022, October 5, 2022 (R01); June 16, 2021, October 16, 2021, February 16, 2022, June 16, 2022, October 16, 2022 (R21) Expires: January 08, 2023 R01 Announcement R21 Announcement |
| Physical Activity and Weight Control Interventions Among Cancer Survivors: Effects on Biomarkers of Prognosis and Survival This FOA invites applications that propose to develop novel research infrastructure that will advance the science of aging in specific areas requiring interdisciplinary partnerships or collaborations. This FOA will use the NIH Phased Innovation Award (R21/R33) mechanism to provide up to 2 years of R21 support for initial developmental activities and up to 3 years of R33 support for expanded activities. Through this award, investigators will develop a sustainable research infrastructure to support projects that address key interdisciplinary aging research questions. Deadlines: June 5, 2021 (R01); June 16, 2021 (R21) Expires: September 8, 2021 R21/R33 Announcement R33 Announcement |
| Prevention Research in Mid-Life Adults This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks to stimulate research on mid-life adults (those 50 to 64 years of age) that can inform efforts to optimize health and wellness as individuals age, and prevent illness and disability in later years. Deadlines: June 5, 2021 (R01); June 16, 2021 (R21) Expires: November 17, 2022 R01 Announcement R21 Announcement |
| Research Infrastructure Development for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies This FOA invites applications that propose to develop novel research infrastructure that will advance the science of aging in specific areas requiring interdisciplinary partnerships or collaborations. This FOA will use the NIH Phased Innovation Award (R21/R33) mechanism to provide up to 2 years of R21 support for initial developmental activities and up to 3 years of R33 support for expanded activities. Through this award, investigators will develop a sustainable research infrastructure to support projects that address key interdisciplinary aging research questions. Deadlines: July 16, 2021, November 16, 2021; March 16, 2022, July 16, 2022, November 16, 2022 Expires: November 17, 2022 R21/R33 Announcement R33 Announcement |
| Center of Excellence for Research on Complementary and Integrative Health This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages the submission of applications that requires multi-project, synergistic collaboration between outstanding scientists that blends multiple research approaches by multi-disciplinary research teams. This Center of Excellence for Research on Complementary and Integrative Health (CERCIH) program is designed to support three or more highly meritorious projects that can offer significant scientific advantages and "synergy" that could not be achieved by supporting the same projects as individual research grants. Each CERCIH must be focused on questions of high relevance to the mission of NCCIH. Applications in response to this FOA may propose to involve human participants in mechanistic studies, but this FOA will not support clinical trials of efficacy or effectiveness. (P01 Clinical Trial Optional) LOI due: 30 days before application due date Deadline: May 25, 2021; September 25, 2021; January 25, 2022; May 25, 2022; September 25, 2022; January 25, 2023; May 25, 2023 Expires: May 25, 2023 Full Announcement |
| National Cancer Institute Program Project Applications (P01 Clinical Trial Optional) With this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites applications for investigator-initiated Program Project (P01) applications. The proposed Program may address any of the broad areas of cancer research, including (but not limited to) cancer biology, cancer prevention, cancer diagnosis, cancer treatment, and cancer control. Basic, translational, clinical, and/or population-based studies in all of these research areas are appropriate. Each application submitted in response to this FOA must consist of at least three research projects and an Administrative Core. The projects must share a common central theme, focus, and/or overall objective. LOI due: 30 days before application due date Deadline: May 25, 2021; September 25, 2021; January 25, 2022; May 25, 2022; September 25, 2022; January 25, 2023 Expires: May 8, 2023 Full Announcement |
| LIMITED SUBMISSION: Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers (EHSCC) (P30 Clinical Trial Optional) This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites grant applications for Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers (EHS CC). As intellectual hubs for environmental health science research, the EHS CC is expected to be the thought leaders for the field and advance the goals of the NIEHS Strategic Plan (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/about/strategicplan/). The Core Centers provide critical research infrastructure, shared facilities, services and/or resources, to groups of investigators conducting environmental health sciences research. An EHS CC enables researchers to conduct their independently-funded individual and/or collaborative research projects more efficiently and/or more effectively. The overall goal of an EHS CC is to identify and capitalize on emerging issues that advance improving the understanding of the relationships among environmental exposures, human biology, and disease. The EHS CC supports community engagement and translational research as key approaches to improving public health. LOI: March 14, 2022 Deadline: April 14, 2022 Expires: April 15, 2022 Full Announcement |
| Identifying Innovative Mechanisms or Interventions that Target Multimorbidity and Its Consequences (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications that seek to support the identification of shared mechanisms and development of innovative interventions to address multimorbidity or multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) and its consequences. Intervention research supported by this initiative should be designed to study: (1) mechanisms or pathways that prevent MCCs, including the identification of early biomarkers, behavioral pathways, and individual and contextual risk factors and interactions that contribute to the development of common MCCs; (2) targeted therapies and management, including self-management, of MCCs to delay progression and prevent onset of new diseases; and (3) innovative health care partnership models for managing or treating MCCs. Studies may include shared mechanisms, and assessments of interactions between risk factors and interventions that address MCCs at different periods of the lifespan in diverse populations. Use of innovative technologies to assess and intervene on risk factors and pathways are encouraged. Studies may also include those that make use of existing data and/or data linkages to explore new research questions that may be helpful in understanding the impact of mechanisms in isolation or in combination. Of particular interest are interventions that target prevention and treatment of multiple chronic health conditions, including study designs that address therapeutic targets for preventing co-occurring MCCs. Prospective applicants whose research interests relate to developing improved measures and methods for understanding multimorbidity, including but not limited to measures/tools to support basic mechanistic discovery of shared MCC pathways and identification and initial evaluation of MCC shared signatures, should see PAR-20-179. Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021; February 5, 2022; June 5, 2022; October 5, 2022; February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023 Expires: September 8, 2023 Full Announcement |
| Exploratory Grants in Cancer Epidemiology (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages the submission of exploratory/developmental research grant (R21) applications for cancer epidemiologic research. The overarching goal is to provide support to promote the early and conceptual stages of research efforts on novel scientific ideas that have the potential to substantially advance population-based cancer research, such as improving data collection methods, developing and validating methods of exposures and biological effects, such as epigenetics and metabolomics, and their application in population-based research, functional assessment of genetic variants, and assessing recruitment methods for understudied populations. Deadline: June 8, 2021; October 8, 2021 Expires: October 9, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Research to Reduce Morbidity and Improve Care for Pediatric, and Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Survivors (R01/R21 Clinical Trial Optional) Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites applications describing research focused on improving care and health-related quality of life for childhood, and adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors. Specifically, this FOA solicits mechanistic, observational, and intervention applications that focus on six key domains: (1) disparities in survivor outcomes; (2) barriers to follow-up care (e.g. access, adherence); (3) impact of familial, socioeconomic, and other environmental factors on survivor outcomes; (4) indicators for long-term follow-up needs related to risk for late effects, recurrence, and subsequent cancers; (5) risk factors and predictors of late/long-term effects of cancer treatment; and (6) development of targeted interventions to reduce the burden of cancer for pediatric/AYA survivors. LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: July 30, 2021 Expires: July 31, 2021 RO1 Full Announcement R21 Full Announcement |
| Social Epigenomics Research Focused on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support and accelerate human epigenomic investigations focused on identifying and characterizing the mechanisms by which social experiences at various stages in life, both positive and negative, affect gene function and thereby influence health trajectories or modify disease risk in racial/ethnic minority and other health disparity populations. LOI Deadline: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: November 8, 2021 Expires: November 9, 2022 Full Announcement |
| The Intersection of Sex and Gender Influences on Health and Disease (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite R01 applications on the influence and intersection of sex and gender in health and disease including: (1) research applications that examine sex and gender factors and their intersection in understanding health and disease; and (2) research that addresses one of the five objectives from Strategic Goal 1 of the new 2019-2023 Trans-NIH Strategic Plan for Women's Health Research "Advancing Science for the Health of Women." The awards under this FOA will be administered by NIH ICs using funds that have been made available through the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) and the scientific partnering Institutes and Centers across NIH. LOI Deadline: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: November 26, 2021 Expires: November 27, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) Research (R01, R21, & R03 Clinical Trial Optional) This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites grant applications for research to examine 1) the impact of HAI on typical and atypical child development and health; 2) the evaluation of animal-assisted intervention for children and adults with disabilities or in need of rehabilitative services; 3) the effects of animals on public health, including cost effectiveness of involving animals in reducing and preventing disease. LOI Deadline: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: November 30, 2021 (R01, R21, & R03) Expires: December 21, 2021 R01 Announcement R21 Announcement R03 Announcement |
| Harnessing Big Data to Halt HIV (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to promote research that transforms understanding of HIV transmission, the HIV care continuum, and HIV comorbidities using Big Data Science (BDS). This FOA will support projects to assemble diverse big data sources, conduct robust and reproducible analyses, and create meaningful visualizations of big data, as well as, engage ethical experts where appropriate to ensure the development of this scientific area is guided by ethical principles. Deadline: May 7, 2021 Expires: May 8, 2021 Full Announcement |
| NIA Program Project Applications (P01 Clinical Trial Optional) The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites the submission of investigator-initiated program project (P01) applications addressing scientific areas relevant to the NIA mission. Each application submitted to this FOA must include at least three related research projects that share a common central theme, focus, and/overall objective and an administrative core to lead the project. Revision applications should include expansion of an existing, or proposal of a new, project or projects within a program project. Revision applications may not request support beyond the end date of the parent P01 award. LOI Deadline: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: May 25, 2021; September 25, 2021; January 25, 2022; May 25, 2022 Expires: May 26, 2022 Full Announcement |
| Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) This FOA seeks to support programs that include innovative approaches to enhance biomedical engineering design education to ensure a future workforce that can meet the nation’s needs in biomedical research and healthcare technologies. Applications are encouraged from institutions that propose to establish new or to enhance existing team-based design courses or programs in undergraduate biomedical engineering departments or other degree-granting programs with biomedical engineering tracks/minors. This FOA targets the education of undergraduate biomedical engineering/bioengineering students in a team-based environment. While current best practices such as multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary education, introduction to the regulatory pathway and other issues related to the commercialization of medical devices, and clinical immersion remain encouraged components of a strong BME program, this FOA also challenges institutions to propose other novel, innovative and/or ground-breaking activities that can form the basis of the next generation of biomedical engineering design education. LOI Deadline: April 26, 2021 Deadline: May 28, 2021 Expires: May 29, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Time-Sensitive Obesity Policy and Program Evaluation (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) establishes an accelerated review/award process to support time-sensitive research to evaluate a new policy or program that is likely to influence obesity-related behaviors (e.g., dietary intake, physical activity, or sedentary behavior) and/or weight outcomes in an effort to prevent or reduce obesity. This FOA is intended to support research where opportunities for empirical study are, by their very nature, only available through expedited review and funding. All applications submitted to this FOA must demonstrate that the evaluation of an obesity-related policy and /or program offers an uncommon and scientifically compelling research opportunity that will only be available if the research is initiated with minimum delay. For these reasons, applications submitted to this time-sensitive FOA are not eligible for re-submission. It is intended that eligible applications selected for funding will be awarded within 4 months of the application due date. However, administrative requirements and other unforeseen circumstances may delay issuance dates beyond that timeline. Deadline: April 9, 2021; May 10, 2021; June 11, 2021; July 9, 2021; August 10, 2021; September 10, 2021 Expires: September 11, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Mechanisms of Disparities in Chronic Liver Diseases and Cancer (R01 & R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) The purpose of the initiative is to support multidisciplinary research to understand the underlying etiologic factors and mechanisms that contribute to population-level disparities in chronic liver diseases and liver cancer in the U.S. LOI Deadline: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: April 1, 2021, April 1, 2022 Expires: April 2, 2022 R01 R21 |
| NIA MSTEM: Advancing Diversity in Aging Research through Undergraduate Education (R25 - Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed) The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on: • Research Experiences • Curriculum or Methods Development LOI Deadline: April 25, 2021; April 25, 2022; April 25, 2023 Deadline: May 25, 2021; May 25, 2022; May 25, 2023 Expires: May 26, 2023 Full Announcement |
| Harnessing Big Data to Halt HIV (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to promote research that transforms understanding of HIV transmission, the HIV care continuum, and HIV comorbidities using Big Data Science (BDS). This FOA will support projects to assemble diverse big data sources, conduct robust and reproducible analyses, and create meaningful visualizations of big data, as well as, engage ethical experts where appropriate to ensure the development of this scientific area is guided by ethical principles. Deadline: May 7, 2021 Expires: May 8, 2021 Full Announcement |
| NIA Program Project Applications (P01 Clinical Trial Optional) The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites the submission of investigator-initiated program project (P01) applications addressing scientific areas relevant to the NIA mission. Each application submitted to this FOA must include at least three related research projects that share a common central theme, focus, and/overall objective and an administrative core to lead the project. Revision applications should include expansion of an existing, or proposal of a new, project or projects within a program project. Revision applications may not request support beyond the end date of the parent P01 award. LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: May 25, 2021; September 25, 2021; January 25, 2022; May 25, 2022 Expires: May 22, 2022 Full Announcement |
| National Cancer Institute Program Project Applications (P01 Clinical Trial Optional) With this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites applications for investigator-initiated Program Project (P01) applications. The proposed Program may address any of the broad areas of cancer research, including (but not limited to) cancer biology, cancer prevention, cancer diagnosis, cancer treatment, and cancer control. Basic, translational, clinical, and/or population-based studies in all of these research areas are appropriate. Each application submitted in response to this FOA must consist of at least three research projects and an Administrative Core. The projects must share a common central theme, focus, and/or overall objective. LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: May 25, 2021; September 25, 2021; January 25, 2022; May 25, 2022; September 25, 2022; January 25, 2023 Expires: May 8, 2023 Full Announcement |
| Center of Excellence for Research on Complementary and Integrative Health (P01 Clinical Trial Optional) This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages the submission of applications requiring multi-project, synergistic collaborations blending multiple research approaches from outstanding multidisciplinary research teams. This Center of Excellence for Research on Complementary and Integrative Health (CERCIH) program is designed to support three or more highly meritorious projects that can offer significant scientific advantages and "synergy" that could not be achieved by supporting the same projects as individual research grants. Each CERCIH must be focused on questions of high relevance to the mission of NCCIH and high research priority based on the current Strategic Plan. Applications in response to this FOA may propose to involve human participants in mechanistic studies, but this FOA will not support clinical trials of efficacy or effectiveness. LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: May 25, 2021; September 25, 2021; January 25, 2022; May 25, 2022; September 25, 2022; January 25, 2023; May 25, 2023 Expires: May 26, 2023 Full Announcement |
| Diet and Physical Activity Assessment Methodology (R01 & R21- Clinical Trial Not Allowed) This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages innovative research to enhance the quality of measurements of dietary intake and physical activity. Applications submitted to this FOA may include development of novel assessment approaches; better methods to evaluate instruments; assessment tools for culturally diverse populations or various age groups, including children and older adults; improved technology or applications of existing technology; statistical methods/modeling to improve assessment and/or to correct for measurement errors or biases; methods to investigate the multidimensionality of diet and physical activity behavior through pattern analysis; or integrated measurement of diet and physical activity along with the environmental context of such behaviors. Deadline: June 5, 2021 (R01); June 16, 2021 (R21) Expires: September 8, 2021 R01 R21 |
| Accelerating the Pace of Drug Abuse Research Using Existing Data (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications proposing an innovative analysis of existing social science, behavioral, administrative, and neuroimaging data to study the etiology and epidemiology of substance-using behaviors (defined as alcohol, tobacco, prescription and other substances) and related disorders, prevention of substance use and HIV, and health service utilization. This FOA encourages the analyses of public use and other extant community-based or clinical datasets to their full potential in order to increase our knowledge of etiology, trajectories of substance-using behaviors and their consequences including morbidity and mortality, risk and resilience in the development of psychopathology, strategies to guide the development, testing, implementation, and delivery of high quality, effective and efficient services for the prevention and treatment of substance use disorder and HIV. Deadline: June 5, 2021 Expires: September 8, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Medical Simulators for Practicing Patient Care Providers Skill Acquisition, Outcomes Assessment and Technology Development (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) The purpose of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to promote the assessment and further development of simulation technologies intended to improve patient safety and healthcare outcomes provided by practicing patient care providers and experienced (not trainee) physicians. The FOA seeks applications directed toward three areas of research: 1) Skill Acquisition: to evaluate strategies and protocols for simulation-based methods for skill acquisition and maintenance by experienced clinicians; 2) Outcomes Assessment: to assess the relationship of simulation-based assessments of skills demonstrated by experienced clinicians with the quality of clinical care delivered by those clinicians, and to identify strategies to increase the quality of simulation-based assessments of skills; and 3) Technology Development: to develop “virtual coaches” by incorporating intelligent technologies into existing simulators to provide adaptive, cognitive assistance to coach experienced practitioners in retaining, retraining and improving performance levels in the context of the user environment (and the physiological system as appropriate). LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2022 Expires:January 8, 2022 Full Announcement |
| Development and Optimization of Tasks and Measures for Functional Domains of Behavior (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support the development and optimization of tasks and/or measures for constructs pertaining to functional aspects of behavior or cognitive/affective processes, for use in laboratory or population-based studies, clinical trials outcomes, or related research. This FOA encourages research that will result in the availability of tasks and measures that demonstrate: (1) good validity as a measure of a specific construct; (2) robust measurement properties; and (3) suitability for use across diverse participants. LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2022 Expires:January 8, 2022 Full Announcement |
| Addressing Caregiver Symptoms through Technological Tools (R01 & R21- Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of the Funding Opportunity announcement is to encourage grant applications from the scientific community that develop and test tools to address symptoms in caregivers. The key to this announcement is the focus on the caregiver, regardless of patient symptoms or conditions. Research is needed to enhance symptom recognition and assessment in caregivers, and to promote technological strategies to alleviate distress in caregiver symptoms. These studies are needed to advance the science related to caregiver experience of symptoms, caregiving contexts that promote these symptoms, and viable tools to address the symptoms experienced by caregivers. LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021 (R01); June 16, 2021; October 16, 2021 (R21) Expires:January 8, 2022 R01 R21 |
| Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01, R21, R03- Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support innovative approaches to identifying, understanding, and developing strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up and sustainability of evidence-based interventions, tools, policies, and guidelines. Conversely, there is a benefit in understanding circumstances that create a need to stop or reduce (“de-implement”) the use of interventions that are ineffective, unproven, low-value, or harmful. In addition, studies to advance dissemination and implementation research methods and measures are encouraged. LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021; February 5, 2022 (R01); June 16, 2021; October 16, 2021; February 16, 2022 (R21/R03) Expires:May 8, 2022 R01 R21 R03 |
| Intervening with Cancer Caregivers to Improve Patient Health Outcomes and Optimize Health Care Utilization (R01& R21- Clinical Trial Optional) This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for intervention research designed to support caregivers of adult cancer patients. Interventions supported by this FOA are intended to provide caregivers with care training, promote coping skills, and ultimately help them manage care. Outcomes of such interventions are expected to (1) optimize patient health care utilization, (2) improve caregiver well-being, and (3) improve patient physical health and psychosocial outcomes. LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021; February 5, 2022; June 5, 2022 (R01); June 16, 2021; October 16, 2021; February 16, 2022; June 16, 2022 Expires: September 8, 2022 R01 R21 |
| Innovative Approaches to Studying Cancer Communication in the New Information Ecosystem (R01& R21- Clinical Trial Optional) Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announces its interest in supporting meritorious research projects in three distinct domains related to cancer communication: 1) the utility and application of new cancer communication surveillance approaches; 2) the development and testing of rapid cancer communication interventions using innovative methods and designs; and 3) the development and testing of multilevel cancer communication models emphasizing bidirectional influence between levels. For such projects, applicants should apply communication science approaches to the investigation of behavioral targets and health outcomes related to cancer prevention and control. Applications should utilize one or more innovative communication research methodologies. LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 9, 2021; October 13, 2021; June 8, 2022 Expires: June 9, 2022 R01 R21 |
| Fundamental Mechanisms of Affective and Decisional Processes in Cancer Control (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage projects to generate fundamental knowledge of affective processes. Basic affective science projects should have key consequences for single (e.g., cancer screening) and multiple (e.g., adherence to oral chemotherapy regimen) event decisions and behaviors across the cancer prevention and control continuum. The FOA is expected to encourage collaboration among cancer control researchers and those from scientific disciplines not traditionally connected to cancer control applications (e.g., affective and cognitive neuroscience, decision science, consumer science) to elucidate perplexing and understudied problems in affective and decision sciences with downstream implications for cancer prevention and control. LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021; February 5, 2022; June 5, 2022; October 5, 2022 Expires: January 8, 2023 Full Announcement |
| Leveraging Cognitive Neuroscience to Improve Assessment of Cancer Treatment-Related Cognitive Impairment (R01 & R21- Clinical Trial Optional) This FOA encourages the integration of cognitive neuroscience approaches to improve traditional assessment of acute and chronic cognitive changes following cancer treatment for non-central nervous system malignancies. LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 9, 2021; October 13, 2021; June 8, 2022 Funding amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project Expires: January 9, 2022 Full Announcement |
| Applying a Biopsychosocial Perspective to Self-Management of Chronic Pain (R01 & R21- Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of the Funding Opportunity announcement is to encourage grant applications from the scientific community on applying a biopsychosocial perspective to self-management of chronic pain. Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021 (R01); June 16, 2021; October 16, 2021 (R21) Expires: January 8, 2022 L01 L21 |
| Perception and Cognition Research to Inform Cancer Image Interpretation (R01 & R21- Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to facilitate research on the perceptual and cognitive processes underlying the performance of cancer image observers in radiology and pathology, in order to improve the accuracy of cancer detection and diagnosis. Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021; February 5, 2022; June 5, 2022; October 5, 2022 (R01); June 16, 2021; October 16, 2021; February 16, 2022; June 16, 2022; October 16, 2022 Expires: January 8, 2023 L01 L21 |
| Diversity (ESTEEMED) Research Education Experiences (R25) The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on: • Courses for Skills Development • Research Experiences For undergraduate freshmen and sophomores from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in bioengineering or STEM fields relevant to bioengineering, such as engineering or the physical/computational sciences, which play key roles in biomedical technologies and innovation. The ESTEEMED program is intended to expose students to bioengineering research early in their college careers and interest them in potentially pursuing advanced studies in bioengineering or a related field. It will prepare students to join, in their junior and senior years, an honors program, supported by federal or institutional funds, that promotes STEM and entrance into a Ph.D. program. The ultimate goal is for the participants to pursue a Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. degree and a subsequent research career integrating engineering and the physical sciences with medicine and biology in academia or industry. LOI May 24, 2021; May 24, 2022 Deadline: June 24, 2021; June 24, 2022 Expires: June 25, 2022 Full Announcement |
| NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) The National Library of Medicine (NLM) supports innovative research and development in biomedical informatics and data science. The scope of NLM's interest in these research domains is broad, with emphasis on new methods and approaches to foster data driven discovery in the biomedical and clinical health sciences as well as domain-independent, reusable approaches to discovery, curation, analysis, organization and management of health-related digital objects. Biomedical informatics and data science draw upon many fields, including mathematics, statistics, information science, computer science and engineering, and social/behavioral sciences. Application domains include health care delivery, basic biomedical research, clinical and translational research, precision medicine, public health, biosurveillance, health information management in disasters, and similar areas. NLM defines biomedical informatics as the science of optimal representation, organization, management, integration and presentation of information relevant to human health and biology. NIH defines data science as the interdisciplinary field of inquiry in which quantitative and analytical approaches, processes, and systems are developed and used to extract knowledge and insights from increasingly large and/or complex sets of data. Deadline: June 5, 2021 Expires: September 8, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Novel Mechanism Research on Neuropsychiatric Symptoms (NPS) in Alzheimer's Dementia (R01 & R21- Clinical Trial Optional) The National Library of Medicine (NLM) supports innovative research and development in biomedical informatics and data science. The scope of NLM's interest in these research domains is broad, with emphasis on new methods and approaches to foster data driven discovery in the biomedical and clinical health sciences as well as domain-independent, reusable approaches to discovery, curation, analysis, organization and management of health-related digital objects. Biomedical informatics and data science draw upon many fields, including mathematics, statistics, information science, computer science and engineering, and social/behavioral sciences. Application domains include health care delivery, basic biomedical research, clinical and translational research, precision medicine, public health, biosurveillance, health information management in disasters, and similar areas. NLM defines biomedical informatics as the science of optimal representation, organization, management, integration and presentation of information relevant to human health and biology. NIH defines data science as the interdisciplinary field of inquiry in which quantitative and analytical approaches, processes, and systems are developed and used to extract knowledge and insights from increasingly large and/or complex sets of data. Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021; February 5, 2022; June 5, 2022; October 5, 2022; February 5, 2023 (R01); June 16, 2021; October 16, 2021; February 16, 2022; June 16, 2022; October 16, 2022; February 16, 2023 (R21) Expires: May 8, 2023 R01 R01 |
| Research on Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions (R01 & R21 Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage epidemiological, clinical and translational research that will increase our understanding of the natural history, prevalence, biological mechanisms, psychological variables, and clinical risk factors responsible for the presence of multiple chronic pain conditions in people with pain. Recent clinical findings suggest that substantial overlap may exist between chronic pain conditions. Individuals diagnosed with one disorder often exhibit characteristics of additional chronic painful conditions or transition to other diagnostic categories. A better understanding is needed of the prevalence of overlapping pain conditions, the underlying etiologies, the progression of these conditions, the evolution of these overlaps, and the therapeutic approaches best suited for treating subjects with these conditions. The main objective of this FOA is the formation of research groups with interests bridging expertise in pain mechanisms with translational and clinical expertise to address important unresolved questions about overlapping pain conditions. Applicants are encouraged to leverage existing and develop new resources pertinent to the study of these conditions. Applicants are encouraged to include researchers with complementary expertise from outside the pain field in their research teams who will enhance the breadth of research and understanding of comorbid chronic pain conditions. Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021 (R01); June 16, 2021; October 16, 2021 (R21) Expires: January 8, 2022 R01 R21 |
| Practice-Based Suicide Prevention Research Centers (P50 Clinical Trial Optional) This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for research centers to support integrated programs of high-impact, practice-based research with near-term potential to address NIMH suicide prevention priorities and help achieve the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention goals of reducing the rate of suicide in the US. The Centers are intended to support transdisciplinary teams of clinical and mental health services researchers, behavioral/social scientists, health information and communications technologists, health systems engineers, decision scientists, and mental health stakeholders (e.g., service users, family members, clinicians, payers) engaged in transdisciplinary programs of research that could not be achieved using standard research project grant mechanisms. Research Centers will support the rapid development, refinement, and testing of effective and scalable approaches for intervening at key intercepts in the chain of care: for identifying high-risk individuals, for promoting continuity across key care transitions (e.g., following identification in the emergency department or discharge from inpatient care), and for intervening (including prevention strategies and treatment for acute risk). Support will be provided for individual research projects and for cores that are critical for the integration across Center components. The Centers are expected to provide plans for rapid, widespread sharing of relevant data, methods, and resources that will promote near-term improvements in clinical practice, and to accelerate research in suicide prevention. A strong vision of how the Center will advance the field beyond the goals of the individual projects is essential for successful applications. Recognizing that advancing suicide prevention depends on a diversity of scientific perspectives and contributions from a diverse research workforce, these Centers are also expected to provide opportunities for new transdisciplinary collaborations and for research education and training for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and investigators in early stages of independent careers, to help ensure a well-trained, diverse research workforce. Applicants interested in submitting applications to support transdisciplinary programs of research focused on other topics consistent with the priorities of NIMH are directed to ALACRITY ("Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY)") Research Centers FOA (see NOT-MH-20-070). LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 18, 2021; February 18, 2022 Expires: February 19, 2022 Full Announcement |
| Analyses of Adherence Strategies and Data Sets from CALERIE to Explore Behavioral and Psychosocial Aspects of Sustained Caloric Restriction in Humans (R01 & R21- Clinical Trial Not Allowed) The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for research projects (R01) involving secondary analyses of data in the Computerized Tracking System (CTS) database from the CALERIE (Comprehensive Assessment of Long-term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy) trial to explore behavioral and psychosocial aspects of sustained caloric restriction (CR) in humans, including the translation of the CR adherence strategies used in the trial to promote healthy behaviors, especially for the prevention of weight gain with age. CALERIE was the first trial in humans to specifically focus on the effects of sustained CR. It demonstrated the feasibility of sustained human CR (for at least two years) and favorable effects on predictors of longevity, as well as on cardiometabolic risk factors. The sustained weight loss in CALERIE has not been previously attained in any clinical study in non-obese individuals Deadline: June 5, 2021 (R01); June 16, 2021 (R21) Expires: September 8, 2021 R01 R21 |
| Early Stage Clinical Trials for the Spectrum of Alzheimer's Disease and Age-related Cognitive Decline (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is 1) to invite applications that propose to develop and implement early stage (Phase I or II) clinical trials of promising pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions in individuals with age-related cognitive decline and in individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) across the spectrum from pre-symptomatic to more severe stages of disease, and 2) to stimulate studies to enhance trial design and methods. Deadline: June 5, 2021 Expires: September 8, 2021 Full Announcement |
| NIH: Exploratory Grants in Cancer Epidemiology (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages the submission of exploratory/developmental research grant (R21) applications for cancer epidemiologic research. The overarching goal is to provide support to promote the early and conceptual stages of research efforts on novel scientific ideas that have the potential to substantially advance population-based cancer research, such as improving data collection methods, developing and validating methods of exposures and biological effects, such as epigenetics and metabolomics, and their application in population-based research, functional assessment of genetic variants, and assessing recruitment methods for understudied populations. Deadline: June 8, 2021; October 8, 2021 Expires: October 9, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Emotion Regulation, Aging and Mental Disorder (R01 & R21- Clinical Trial Not Allowed) This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications for mechanistic research on age-related changes in emotion regulation and how they may contribute to mental disorders in middle-aged and older adults. In particular, research is sought that will advance understanding of irregularities in the integrative neural-behavioral mechanisms of emotion regulation in adult mood and anxiety disorders, and that will examine whether the irregularities are associated with typical or atypical maturational trajectories of emotion processing. Currently, it is not known whether older adults who suffer episodes of affective dysregulation share the same patterns of improved emotional function with age as have been found to be typical of the older adult population in general. Research that helps to clarify whether they do or do not manifest typical emotion processing trajectories may lead to very different understandings of the irregularities involved in their dysregulation. It is anticipated that such studies may identify novel targets for mental health interventions or prevention efforts, or provide clues as to which available intervention strategies might be optimally applied to normalize emotion dysregulation or to strengthen emotional resilience at particular stages of the adult life cycle. Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021 (R01); June 16, 2021; October 16, 2021 (R21) Expires: January 8, 2022 R01 R21 |
| Tobacco Control Policies to Promote Health Equity (R01 & R21- Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support observational or intervention research focused on reducing disparities in tobacco use and secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in the U.S. Specifically, this FOA aims to stimulate scientific inquiry focused on innovative state and local level tobacco prevention and control policies. The long-term goal of this FOA is to reduce disparities in tobacco-related cancers, and in doing so, to promote health equity among all populations. Applicants submitting applications related to health economics are encouraged to consult NOT-OD-16-025 to ensure that the research projects align with NIH mission priorities in health economics research. LOI: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021; February 5, 2022; June 5, 2022; October 5, 2022; February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023 (R01); June 16, 2021; October 16, 2021; February 16, 2022; June 16, 2022; October 16, 2022; February 16, 2023; June 16, 2023 (R21) Expires: September 8, 2023 R01 R21 |
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| Harnessing Big Data to Halt HIV The purpose of the FOA is to promote innovative research using Big Data Science (BDS) to understand the complex and substantially interrelated factors that place persons at risk of HIV infection and that influence their HIV treatment course. BDS approaches have the potential to bring together data on populations such that the epidemiology of risk and care can take into account the complexity of contextual factors in individual’s lives. Further, because this field is able to reveal unexpected correlations through analysis of diverse data, BDS approaches may reveal events that are rare, unseen in traditional datasets, and transient. Discovery and epidemiologic analysis of these events will considerably advance research on HIV networks of transmission and the care continuum. Deadline: May 7, 2021 Expires: May 8, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Innovative Approaches to Studying Cancer Communication in the New Information Ecosystem Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announces its interest in supporting meritorious research projects in three distinct domains related to cancer communication: 1) the utility and application of new cancer communication surveillance approaches; 2) the development and testing of rapid cancer communication interventions using innovative methods and designs; and 3) the development and testing of multilevel cancer communication models emphasizing bidirectional influence between levels. For such projects, applicants should apply communication science approaches to the investigation of behavioral targets and health outcomes related to cancer prevention and control. Applications should utilize one or more innovative communication research methodologies. Deadline: June 9, 2021; October 13, 2021; June 8, 2022 Expires: June 09, 2022 Full Announcement |
| Leveraging Cognitive Neuroscience to Improve Assessment of Cancer Treatment-Related Cognitive Impairment This FOA encourages the integration of cognitive neuroscience approaches to improve traditional assessment of acute and chronic cognitive changes following cancer treatment for non-central nervous system malignancies. LOI due: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: June 9, 2021; October 13, 2021; June 8, 2022 Expires: June 09, 2022 R01 Announcement R21 Announcement |
| Behavioral & Integrative Treatment Development Program The purpose of this FOA is to encourage investigators to propose discrete well-defined projects that can be completed within three years. Projects of interest fall within the research domain of behavioral or integrated (e.g., behavioral and pharmacological) interventions targeting: (a) substance abuse; (b) prevention of acquisition or transmission of HIV infection among individuals in substance abuse treatment; (c) promotion of adherence to substance abuse treatment, HIV and addiction medications; and (d) chronic pain. Specific examples include, but are not limited to studies focusing on: 1) Stage I intervention generation; 2) Stage I pilot or feasibility – and both should include the development of putative targets/ moderators, mediators, and change mechanisms; (3) Stage I studies to generate or refine substance abuse treatment or adherence interventions for use in primary care; (4) Stage I research to boost effects and increase implementability of interventions with creative use of technology or other means. LOI due: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: July 23, 2021, March 23, 2022 Expires: March 24, 2022 R01 Announcement R34 Announcement |
| Social Epigenomics Research Focused on Minority Health and Health Disparities The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support and accelerate human epigenomic investigations focused on identifying and characterizing the mechanisms by which social experiences at various stages in life, both positive and negative, affect gene function and thereby influence health trajectories or modify disease risk in racial/ethnic minority and other health disparity populations. Deadline: November 8, 2021 Expires: November 09, 2022 Full Announcement |
| Leveraging Health Information Technology (Health IT) to Address Minority Health and Health Disparities This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) seeks to support research that examines how health information technology adoption impacts minority health and health disparity populations in access to care, quality of care, patient engagement, and health outcomes. Full Announcement |
| Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Decoding and Modulating Neural Circuit Activity Linked to Behavior Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) aims to provide strong predictive value along with mechanistic understanding of AI by combining machine learning techniques with effective explanatory techniques. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications in the area of XAI applied to neuroscientific questions of encoding, decoding, and modulation of neural circuits linked to behavior. This FOA encourages collaborations between computationally and experimentally-focused investigators. This FOA seeks the development of machine learning algorithms that are able to mechanistically explain how experimental manipulations affect cognitive, affective, or social processing in humans or animals. Proof-of-concept applications aimed at improving the current state of the technology that uses XAI to provide unbiased, hierarchical explanations of causal relationships between complex neural and behavioral data are also appropriate. Deadline: March 10, 2022 Expires: March 11, 2022 Full Announcement |
| Mechanisms of Disparities in Chronic Liver Diseases and Cancer The purpose of the initiative is to support multidisciplinary research to understand the underlying etiologic factors and mechanisms that contribute to population-level disparities in chronic liver diseases and liver cancer in the U.S. LOI due: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: April 1, 2021, April 1, 2022 Expires: April 2, 2022 R01Announcement R21 Announcement |
| Cutting-Edge Basic Research Awards (CEBRA) (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Cutting-Edge Basic Research Award (CEBRA) is designed to foster highly innovative or conceptually creative research related to drug abuse and addiction and how to prevent and treat them. It supports research that is high-risk and potentially high-impact that is underrepresented or not included in NIDA's current portfolio. The proposed research should: (1) test a highly novel and significant hypothesis for which there are scant precedent or preliminary data and which, if confirmed, would have a substantial impact on current thinking; and/or (2) develop or adapt innovative techniques or methods for addiction research, or that have promising future applicability to drug abuse research. LOI due: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: April 20, 2021, February 10, 2021 strong> Expires: February 22, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Harnessing Big Data to Halt HIV (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of the FOA is to promote innovative research using Big Data Science (BDS) to understand the complex and substantially interrelated factors that place persons at risk of HIV infection and that influence their HIV treatment course. BDS approaches have the potential to bring together data on populations such that the epidemiology of risk and care can take into account the complexity of contextual factors in individual’s lives. Further, because this field is able to reveal unexpected correlations through analysis of diverse data, BDS approaches may reveal events that are rare, unseen in traditional datasets, and transient. Discovery and epidemiologic analysis of these events will considerably advance research on HIV networks of transmission and the care continuum. Deadline: May 7, 2021 strong> Expires: May 8, 2021 Full Announcement |
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| Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB) The Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB) Program supports basic scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of issues broadly related to attitudes, behavior, and institutions connected to public policy and the provision of public services. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include (but are not limited to) the study of individual and group decision-making, political institutions (appointed or elected), attitude and preference formation and expression, electoral processes and voting, public administration, and public policy. This work can focus on a single case or can be done in a comparative context, either over time or cross-sectionally. The Program does not fund applied research. The Program also supports research experiences for undergraduate students and infrastructural activities, including methodological innovations. In addition, we encourage you to examine the websites for the National Science Foundation’s Law and Science (LS) and Security and Preparedness (SAP) programs. Deadline: August 16, 2021, August 15, Annually Thereafter; January 17, 2022, January 15, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Dear Colleague Letter: Stimulating Integrative Research in Computational Cognition This Dear Colleague Letter is intended to enhance the scientific and societal impact of the field by encouraging active dialogue across the cognitive and computational communities, facilitating bidirectional cross-fertilization of ideas, and nurturing emerging areas of transdisciplinary research. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is interested in receiving proposals to existing programs, listed below, that explore computational models of human cognition, perception and communication and that integrate considerations and finding across disciplines. Proposals submitted to programs in SBE should include a rigorous computational context, and proposals submitted to programs in CISE should include a rigorous cognitive context. For example, proposals that explore human cognition, perception, action, communication or learning should integrate and exploit what has been learned in the fields of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, computational neuroscience, computer vision, robotics, machine learning, or other related areas. Similarly, proposals that explore artificial systems, cyber-human or co-robotics designs should leverage and integrate our understanding of human cognition, perception, action control, linguistics, or developmental science. This is not a special competition or new program. Proposals in response to this Dear Colleague Letter must meet the requirements and deadlines of the program to which they are submitted, but should start the proposal title with “CompCog:”. Primary and secondary units of consideration on the cover sheet should indicate which participating SBE and CISE programs are most relevant. These proposals may, at the discretion of the cognizant program director, be reviewed in a special cross-directorate Computational Cognition panel which will occur sometime during the spring. Participating programs in SBE include: Cognitive Neuroscience Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Developmental Sciences Linguistics Perception, Action, and Cognition Deadline: Continuous submission Full Announcement |
| Developmental Sciences Developmental Sciences supports research that addresses developmental processes within the domains of cognitive, social, emotional, and motor development across the lifespan by working with any appropriate populations for the topics of interest including infants, children, adolescents, adults, and non-human animals. The program also supports research investigating factors that affect developmental change including family, peers, school, community, culture, media, physical, genetic, and epigenetic influences. Additional priorities include research that: incorporates multi-disciplinary, multi-method, microgenetic, and longitudinal approaches; develops new methods, models, and theories for studying development; includes participants from a range of ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and cultures; and integrates different processes (e.g., memory, emotion, perception, cognition), levels of analysis (e.g., behavioral, social, neural), and time scales. Deadline: July 15, 2021, July 15, Annually Thereafter; January 17, 2022, January 15, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) funds research projects that identify (1) factors that are effective in the formation of ethical STEM researchers and (2) approaches to developing those factors in all STEM fields that NSF supports. ER2 solicits proposals for research that explores the following: "What constitutes responsible conduct for research (RCR), and which cultural and institutional contexts promote ethical STEM research and practice and why?" Do certain labs have a "culture of academic integrity?" What practices contribute to the establishment and maintenance of ethical cultures and how can these practices be transferred, extended to, and integrated into other research and learning settings?" Factors one might consider include: honor codes, professional ethics codes and licensing requirements, an ethic of service and/or service learning, life-long learning requirements, curricula or memberships in organizations (e.g. Engineers without Borders) that stress responsible conduct for research, institutions that serve under-represented groups, institutions where academic and research integrity are cultivated at multiple levels, institutions that cultivate ethics across the curriculum, or programs that promote group work, or do not grade. Successful proposals typically have a comparative dimension, either between or within institutional settings that differ along these or among other factors, and they specify plans for developing interventions that promote the effectiveness of identified factors. ER2 research projects will use basic research to produce knowledge about what constitutes or promotes responsible or irresponsible conduct of research, and how to best instill this knowledge into researchers and educators at all career stages. In some cases, projects will include the development of interventions to ensure ethical and responsible research conduct. Deadline: February 22, 2021; February 22, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Law & Science (LS) The Law & Science Program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, as well as studies of how science and technology are applied in legal contexts. The Program is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-methodological. Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between human behavior and law, legal institutions, or legal processes; or the interactions of law and basic sciences, including biology, computer and information sciences, STEM education, engineering, geosciences, and math and physical sciences. Scientific studies of law often approach law as dynamic, interacting with multiple arenas, and with the participation of multiple actors. Fields of study include many disciplines, and often address problems including, though not limited, to: Crime, Violence, and Policing Cyberspace Economic Issues Environmental Science Evidentiary Issues Forensic Science Governance and Courts Human Rights and Comparative Law Information Technology Legal and Ethical Issues related to Science Legal Decision Making Legal Mobilization and Conceptions of Justice Litigation and the Legal Profession Punishment and Corrections Regulation and Facilitation of Biotechnology (e.g., Gene Editing, Gene Testing, Synthetic Biology) and Other Emerging Sciences and Technologies Use of Science in the Legal Processes Deadline: August 03, 2020, August 1, Annually Thereafter (Standard and Collaborative Research and Conference Proposals); January 15, 2021FF, January 15, Annually Thereafter (Standard and Collaborative Research, Conference and DDRIG Proposals) Full Announcement |
| Linguistics The Linguistics Program supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics, and phonology. The program encourages projects that are interdisciplinary in methodological or theoretical perspective, and that address questions that cross disciplinary boundaries, such as (but not limited to): * What are the psychological processes involved in the production, perception, and comprehension of language? * What are the computational properties of language and/or the language processor that make fluent production, incremental comprehension or rapid learning possible? * How do the acoustic and physiological properties of speech inform our theories of natural language and/or language processing? * What role does human neurobiology play in shaping the various grammatical properties of language? * How does language develop in natural learning contexts across the life-span? * What social and cultural factors underlie language variation and change? Because NSF's mandate is to support basic research, the Linguistics Program does not fund research that takes as its primary goal improved clinical practice or applied policy, nor does it support work to develop or assess pedagogical methods or tools for language instruction. Deadline: July 15, 2021, July 15, Annually Thereafter; January 17, 2021, January 15, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Deadline: August 27, 2021; Last Thursday in August, Annually thereafter; January 27, 2022, Last Thursday in January, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Perception, Action & Cognition The PAC program funds theoretically motivated research on a wide-range of topic areas focused on typical human behavior. The aim is to enhance the fundamental understanding of perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. Central research topics for consideration by the program include (but are not limited to) vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken language, motor control, categorization, and spatial cognition. Of particular interest are emerging areas, such as the interaction of sleep or emotion with cognitive or perceptual processes and the epigenetics of cognition. The program welcomes a wide range of perspectives, such as individual differences, symbolic computation, connectionism, ecological, genetics and epigenetics, nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, and a variety of methodologies including both experimental studies and modeling. Deadline: May 15, 2021 - June 15, 2021; May 15 - June 15, Annually Thereafter; July 15, 2021 - August 2, 2021; January 15 – February 1, July 15 - August 1, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Statistics and Surveys - R&D, U.S. S&T Competitiveness, STEM Education, S&T Workforce The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is one of the thirteen principal federal statistical agencies within the United States. It is responsible for the collection, acquisition, analysis, reporting and dissemination of objective, statistical data related to the science and engineering enterprise in the United States and other nations that is relevant and useful to practitioners, researchers, policymakers and the public. NCSES uses this information to prepare a number of statistical data reports as well as analytical reports including the National Science Board's biennial report, Science and Engineering (S&E) Indicators, and Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering. The Center would like to enhance its efforts to support analytic and methodological research in support of its surveys, and to engage in the education and training of researchers in the use of large-scale nationally representative datasets. NCSES welcomes efforts by the research community to use NCSES data for research on the science and technology enterprise, to develop improved survey methodologies for NCSES surveys, to create and improve indicators of S&T activities and resources, and strengthen methodologies to analyze and disseminate S&T statistical data. To that end, NCSES invites proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, workshops, experimental research, survey research and data collection and dissemination projects under its program for Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Statistics and Surveys. Deadline: January 15, 2022, January 15, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Science and Technology Studies (STS) The Science and Technology Studies (STS) program supports research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical (STEM) disciplines. It encompasses a broad spectrum of topics including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance, and policy issues that are closely related to STEM disciplines. The Program encourages potential investigators with questions about the program to contact one of the Cognizant Program Directors. Potential investigators who have concerns about whether their proposal fits the goals of the program are encouraged to send a one-page prospectus of their proposal idea to the Cognizant Program Directors. Guidelines for developing one-page prospectuses are provided under Guidelines for Developing Effective STS Proposals. Deadline: February 03, 2020, February 2, Annually Thereafter (Standard and Collaborative Research, Scholars, Professional Development, Research Community Development, and Conference Proposals), August 03, 2021, August 3, Annually Thereafter (Standard and Collaborative Research, Scholars, Professional Development, Research Community Development, Conference and DDRIG Proposals) Full Announcement |
| Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence Program (SL) The Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence Program (SL) supports potentially transformative research that develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning, and about augmented intelligence - how human cognitive function can be augmented through interactions with others, contextual variations, and technological advances. The program supports research addressing learning in individuals and in groups, across a wide range of domains at one or more levels of analysis including: molecular/cellular mechanisms; brain systems; cognitive, affective, and behavioral processes; and social/cultural influences. The program also supports research on augmented intelligence that clearly articulates principled ways in which human approaches to learning and related processes, such as in design, complex decision-making and problem-solving, can be improved through interactions with others, and/or the use of artificial intelligence in technology. These could include ways of using knowledge about human functioning to improve the design of collaborative technologies that have capabilities to learn to adapt to humans. For both aspects of the program, there is special interest in collaborative and collective models of learning and/or intelligence that are supported by the unprecedented speed and scale of technological connectivity. This includes emphasis on how people and technology working together in new ways and at scale can achieve more than either can attain alone. The program also seeks explanations for how the emergent intelligence of groups, organizations, and networks intersects with processes of learning, behavior and cognition in individuals. Projects that are convergent and/or interdisciplinary may be especially valuable in advancing basic understanding of these areas, but research within a single discipline or methodology is also appropriate. Connections between proposed research and specific technological, educational, and workforce applications will be considered as valuable broader impacts but are not necessarily central to the intellectual merit of proposed research. The program supports a variety of approaches including: experiments, field studies, surveys, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence/machine learning methods. Examples of general research questions within scope of the Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence program include: • What are the underlying mechanisms that support transfer of learning from one context to another or from one domain to another? How is learning generalized from a small set of specific experiences? What is the basis for robust learning that is resilient against potential interference from new experiences? How is learning consolidated and reconsolidated from transient experience to stable memory? • How do human interactions with technologies, imbued with artificial intelligence, provide improved human task performance? What models best describe the interplay of the individual and collaborative processes that lead to co-creation of knowledge and collective intelligence? In what ways do the capacities and constraints of human cognition inform improved methods of human-artificial intelligence collaboration? • How can we integrate research findings and insights across levels of analysis, relating understanding of cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning in the neurons to circuit and systems-level computations of learning in the brain, to cognitive, affective, social, and behavioral processes of learning? What is the relationship between assembly of new networks (development) and learning new knowledge in a maturing/mature brain? What concepts, tools (including Big Data, machine learning, and other computational models), or questions will provide the most productive linkages across levels of analysis? • How can insights from biological learners contribute and derive new theoretic perspectives to artificial intelligence, neuromorphic engineering, materials science, and nanotechnology? How can the ability of biological systems to learn from relatively few examples improve efficiency of artificial systems? How do learning systems (biological and artificial) address complex issues of causal reasoning? How can knowledge about the ways in which humans learn help in the design of human-machine interfaces? Deadline:July 14, 2021, Second Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter; January 19, 2022, Third Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| A Science of Science Policy Approach to Analyzing and Innovating the Biomedical Research Enterprise (SCISIPBIO) The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are interested in proposals that will propel our understanding of the biomedical research enterprise by drawing from the scientific expertise of the science of science policy research community. NSF promotes the progress of science by maintaining the general health of research and education across all fields of science and engineering. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate within the NSF supports basic research on people and society. The SBE sciences focus on human behavior and social organizations and how social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental forces affect the lives of people from birth to old age and how people in turn shape those forces. SBE's Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. The NIH is the U.S. Federal agency charged with supporting biomedical research in the U.S. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) within the NIH supports basic biomedical research that increases understanding of biological processes and lays the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Both the NSF and NIH believe that there are opportunities and needs in building and supporting research projects with a focus on the scientific research enterprise. The two agencies also recognize that when programmatic goals are compatible, coordinated management and funding of a research program can have a positive synergistic effect on the level and scope of research and can leverage the investments of both agencies. Therefore, NIGMS and SBE are partnering to enable collaboration in research between the SciSIP program and NIGMS. This partnership will result in a portfolio of high quality research to provide scientific analysis of important aspects of the biomedical research enterprise and efforts to foster a diverse, innovative, productive and efficient scientific workforce, from which future scientific leaders will emerge. Prospective investigators are strongly encouraged to discuss their proposals with the cognizant Program Officers before submission to determine project relevance to the priorities of both SBE and NIGMS. Specific questions pertaining to this solicitation can also be directed to the cognizant Program Officers. Deadline: September 09, 2021, September 9, Annually Thereafter; February 9, 2022, February 9, Annually Thereafter; Full Announcement |
| Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) In today’s increasingly networked, distributed, and asynchronous world, cybersecurity involves hardware, software, networks, data, people, and integration with the physical world. Society’s overwhelming reliance on this complex cyberspace, however, has exposed its fragility and vulnerabilities that defy existing cyber-defense measures; corporations, agencies, national infrastructure and individuals continue to suffer cyber-attacks. Achieving a truly secure cyberspace requires addressing both challenging scientific and engineering problems involving many components of a system, and vulnerabilities that stem from human behaviors and choices. Examining the fundamentals of security and privacy as a multidisciplinary subject can lead to fundamentally new ways to design, build and operate cyber systems, protect existing infrastructure, and motivate and educate individuals about cybersecurity. Deadline: Continuous submission Full Announcement |
| Security and Preparedness (SAP) The Security and Preparedness (SAP) Program supports basic scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of issues broadly related to global and national security. Research proposals are evaluated on the criteria of intellectual merit and broader impacts; the proposed projects are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include (but are not limited to) international relations, global and national security, human security, political violence, state stability, conflict processes, regime transition, international and comparative political economy, and peace science. Moreover, the Program supports research experiences for undergraduate students and infrastructural activities, including methodological innovations. The Program does not fund applied research. In addition, we encourage you to examine the websites for the National Science Foundation's Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB) and Law and Science (LS) programs. Deadline: August 16, 2021, August 15, Annually Thereafter; January 17, 2022, January 15, Annually Thereafter; Full Announcement |
| Smart and Connected Health The purpose of this interagency program solicitation is to support the development of technologies, analytics and models supporting next generation health and medical research through high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering and technology, behavior and cognition. Collaborations between academic, industry, and other organizations are strongly encouraged to establish better linkages between fundamental science, medicine and healthcare practice and technology development, deployment and use. Deadline: November 10, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Social Psychology The Social Psychology Program at NSF supports basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the life span. Among the many research topics supported are: attitude formation and change, social cognition, personality processes, interpersonal relations and group processes, the self, emotion, social comparison and social influence, and the psychophysiological and neurophysiological bases of social behavior. Deadline: July 15, 2021, July 15, Annually Thereafter; January 17, 2022, January 15, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| NSF: EHR Core Research The EHR Core Research (ECR) program of fundamental research in STEM education provides funding in critical research areas that are essential, broad and enduring. EHR seeks proposals that will help synthesize, build and/or expand research foundations in the following focal areas: STEM learning, STEM learning environments, STEM workforce development, and broadening participation in STEM. Deadline: Deadline: October 7, First Thursday in October, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| NSF: Science of Science: Discovery, Communication, and Impact (SoS:DCI) The Science of Science: Discovery, Communication, and Impact (SoS:DCI) program is designed to increase the public value of scientific activity. The program pursues this goal by supporting basic research in three fundamental areas: • How to increase the rate of socially beneficial discovery; • How to improve science communication outcomes; and • How to expand the societal benefits of scientific activity. • The SoS:DCI program, which builds upon the former Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program, funds research that builds theoretical and empirical understandings of these three areas. With this goal in mind, proposals should: Develop data, models, indicators, and associated analytical tools that constitute and enable transformative advances rather than incremental change. Identify ethical challenges and mitigate potential risks to people and institutions. Provide credible metrics and rigorous assessments of their proposed project’s impact. Include robust data management plans with the goal to increase the usability, validity, and reliability of scientific materials. See PAPPG Chapter II.C.2.j and Data Management for NSF SBE Directorate Proposals and Awards for additional information (https://www.nsf.gov/sbe/DMP/SBE_DataMgmtPlanPolicy_RevisedApril2018.pdf) Deadline: Deadline: September 9, 2021; September 9, Annually Thereafter; February 10, 2022; February 10, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program is an alliance-based program. The program's theory is based on the Tinto model for student retention referenced in the 2005 LSAMP program evaluation1. The overall goal of the program is to assist universities and colleges in diversifying the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce by increasing the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to populations historically underrepresented in these disciplines: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. LSAMP's efforts to increase diversity in STEM are aligned with the goals of the Federal Government's five-year strategic plan for STEM education, Charting a Course for Success: America's Strategy for STEM Education. The LSAMP program takes a comprehensive approach to student development and retention. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming undergraduate STEM education through innovative, evidence-based recruitment and retention strategies, and relevant educational experiences in support of racial and ethnic groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines. The LSAMP program also supports knowledge generation, knowledge utilization, assessment of program impacts and dissemination activities. The program seeks new learning and immediate diffusion of scholarly research into the field. Under this program, funding for STEM educational and broadening participation research activities could include research to develop new models in STEM engagement, recruitment and retention practices for all critical pathways to STEM careers or research on interventions such as mentoring, successful learning practices and environments, STEM efficacy studies, and use of technology to improve learning or student engagement. Overall, the LSAMP program provides funding to alliances that implement comprehensive, evidence-based, innovative, and sustained strategies that ultimately result in the graduation of well-prepared, highly-qualified students from underrepresented minority groups who pursue graduate studies or careers in STEM. Deadline: June 1, 2021 (Regional Foundational and Forward-Thinking Educational Research Conferences (may be submitted by the target date or at any time during the year); November 5, 2021, First Friday in November, Every Other Year Thereafter (Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity Proposals); November 19, 2021, Third Friday in November, Annually Thereafter (STEM Pathways Implementation-Only (SPIO), STEM Pathways and Research (SPRA) and Bridge to the Baccalaureate (B2B) Proposals) Full Announcement |
| Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (CNH2) The DISES Program supports research projects that advance basic scientific understanding of integrated socio-environmental systems and the complex interactions (dynamics, processes, and feedbacks) within and among the environmental (biological, physical and chemical) and human ("socio") (economic, social, political, or behavioral) components of such a system. The program seeks proposals that emphasize the truly integrated nature of a socio-environmental system versus two discrete systems (a natural one and a human one) that are coupled. DISES projects must explore a connected and integrated socio-environmental system that includes explicit analysis of the processes and dynamics between the environmental and human components of the system. PIs are encouraged to develop proposals that push conceptual boundaries and build new theoretical framing of the understanding of socio-environmental systems. Additionally, we encourage the exploration of multi-scalar dynamics, processes and feedbacks between and within the socio-environmental system. Deadline: November 16, 2020; November 15, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources The National Science Foundation (NSF) plays a leadership role in developing and implementing efforts to enhance and improve STEM education in the United States. Through the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative, the agency continues to make a substantial commitment to the highest caliber undergraduate STEM education through a Foundation-wide framework of investments. The IUSE: EHR is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program is open to application from all institutions of higher education and associated organizations. NSF places high value on educating students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly changing STEM fields as well as educating a scientifically literate public. In pursuit of this goal, IUSE: EHR supports projects that seek to bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, that adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices into STEM teaching and learning, and that lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. In addition to innovative work at the frontier of STEM education, this program also encourages replication of research studies at different types of institutions and with different student bodies to produce deeper knowledge about the effectiveness and transferability of findings. IUSE: EHR also seeks to support projects that have high potential for broader societal impacts, including improved diversity of students and instructors participating in STEM education, professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques that meet the changing needs of students, and projects that promote institutional partnerships for collaborative research and development. IUSE: EHR especially welcomes proposals that will pair well with the efforts of NSF INCLUDES (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsfincludes/index.jsp) to develop STEM talent from all sectors and groups in our society. For all the above objectives, the National Science Foundation invests primarily in evidence-based and knowledge-generating approaches to understand and improve STEM learning and learning environments, improve the diversity of STEM students and majors, and prepare STEM majors for the workforce. In addition to contributing to STEM education in the host institution(s), proposals should have the promise of adding more broadly to our understanding of effective teaching and learning practices. Deadline: December 7, 2021; First Tuesday in December, Annually Thereafter (Engaged Student Learning and Institutional and Community Transformation Level 2 & 3) Full Announcement |
| Cyberlearning for Work at the Human-Technology Frontier The purpose of the Cyberlearning for Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program is to fund exploratory and synergistic research in learning technologies to prepare learners to excel in work at the human-technology frontier. This program responds to the pressing societal need to educate and re-educate learners of all ages (students, teachers and workers) in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) content areas to ultimately function in highly technological environments, including in collaboration with intelligent systems. Innovative technologies can reshape learning processes, which in turn can influence new technology design. Learning technology research in this program should be informed by the convergence of multiple disciplines: education and learning sciences, computer and information science and engineering, and cognitive, behavioral and social sciences. This program funds learning technology research in STEM and other foundational areas that enable STEM learning. Deadline:October 18, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB) The Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB) Program supports basic scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of issues broadly related to attitudes, behavior, and institutions connected to public policy and the provision of public services. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include (but are not limited to) the study of individual and group decision-making, political institutions (appointed or elected), attitude and preference formation and expression, electoral processes and voting, public administration, and public policy. This work can focus on a single case or can be done in a comparative context, either over time or cross-sectionally. The Program does not fund applied research. The Program also supports research experiences for undergraduate students and infrastructural activities, including methodological innovations. In addition, we encourage you to examine the websites for the National Science Foundation’s Law and Science (LS) and Security and Preparedness (SAP) programs. Deadline: August 16, 2021, August 15, Annually Thereafter; January 17, 2022; January 15, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Law & Social Sciences (LS) The Law & Science Program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, as well as studies of how science and technology are applied in legal contexts. The Program is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-methodological. Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between human behavior and law, legal institutions, or legal processes; or the interactions of law and basic sciences, including biology, computer and information sciences, STEM education, engineering, geosciences, and math and physical sciences. Scientific studies of law often approach law as dynamic, interacting with multiple arenas, and with the participation of multiple actors. Fields of study include many disciplines, and often address problems including, though not limited, to: - Crime, Violence, and Policing - Cyberspace - Economic Issues - Environmental Science - Evidentiary Issues - Forensic Science - Governance and Courts - Human Rights and Comparative Law - Information Technology - Legal and Ethical Issues related to Science - Legal Decision Making - Legal Mobilization and Conceptions of Justice - Litigation and the Legal Profession - Punishment and Corrections - Regulation and Facilitation of Biotechnology (e.g., Gene Editing, Gene Testing, Synthetic Biology) and Other Emerging Sciences and Technologies - Use of Science in the Legal Processes LS supports the following types of proposals: - Standard Research Grants and Grants for Collaborative Research - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants - Conference Awards LS also participates in a number of specialized funding opportunities through NSF’s cross-cutting and cross-directorate activities, including, for example: - Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program - Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) - Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) - Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) - Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) For information about these and other programs, please visit the Cross-cutting and NSF-wide Active Funding Opportunities homepage. Deadline: January 15, Annually Thereafter; August 1, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Perception, Action & Cognition (PAC) The PAC program funds theoretically motivated research on a wide-range of topic areas related to typical human behavior with particular focus on perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. Central research topics for consideration by the program include (but are not limited to) vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, written and spoken language, spatial cognition, motor control, categorization, reasoning, and concept formation. Of particular interest are emerging areas, such as the interaction of sleep or emotion with cognitive or perceptual processes, epigenetics of cognition, computational models of cognition, and cross-modal and multimodal processing. The program welcomes a wide range of perspectives, such as individual differences, symbolic and neural-inspired computation, ecological approaches, genetics and epigenetics, nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, and a variety of methodologies spanning the range of experimentation and modeling. The PAC program is open to co-review of proposals submitted to other programs both within the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate and across other directorates. Note: Proposals may be returned without review if the major focus is 1) the organization of neural activity or brain networks; 2) understanding clinical populations; or 3) non-human animals without a clear and direct impact on our understanding of human perception, action, or cognition. Investigators are encouraged to send the program director a one-page summary of the proposed research before submitting a proposal, in order to determine its appropriateness for the PAC program. Deadline: May 15, 2021 - June 15, 2021 (This proposal window is only for conference proposals, not for research proposals. Proposals for conferences that will be held less than one year after submission may be returned without review); July 15, 2021 - August 2, 2021 (The above proposal window is for research proposals only. Conference proposals should not be submitted during this submission window); January 15, 2022 - February 1, 2022 (The above proposal window is for research proposals only. Conference proposals should not be submitted during this submission window.) Full Announcement |
| Social Psychology The Social Psychology Program at NSF supports research and research infrastructure to advance basic knowledge in social psychology. Projects funded by the Social Psychology Program support the NSF mission to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to secure the national defense. Proposals considered by the Social Psychology Program must communicate both the intellectual merit of the science and its broader societal impacts. Proposed research should carry strong potential for creating transformative advances in the basic understanding of human social behavior. Among the many research topics supported are: social cognition, attitudes, social and cultural influence, stereotypes, motivation, decision making, group dynamics, aggression, close relationships, social and affective neuroscience, social psychophysiology, emotions, prosocial behavior, health-related behavior, and personality and individual differences. Proposals that develop new theories or methods for understanding social behavior are highly encouraged. Research samples should represent substantial ranges of ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, cultures, and other dimensions of human populations. Interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and convergent research approaches are encouraged. Proposals involving non-human animals are considered only if the research offers clear and direct contributions to understanding human social behavior. The program does not fund research that seeks to improve clinical practice as its primary outcome, nor does it consider proposals with disease-related goals, including work on the etiology, diagnosis or treatment of physical or mental disease, abnormality, or malfunction in human beings or animals. In assessing intellectual merit, the Social Psychology Program places highest priority on research that is theoretically grounded, based on empirical observation and validation, and with designs appropriate to the questions asked. In assessing broader impacts, the Social Psychology Program places highest priority on proposals that offer strong potential to benefit society, strengthen our national security interests, improve the quality of life, broaden participation in science, enhance infrastructure for research and education, and include a plan for sharing the results with a wide variety of audiences. Deadline: July 15, 2021; July 15, Annually Thereafter; January 17, 2022; January 15, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Linguistics The Linguistics Program supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics, and phonology. The program encourages projects that are interdisciplinary in methodological or theoretical perspective, and that address questions that cross disciplinary boundaries, such as (but not limited to): - What are the psychological processes involved in the production, perception, and comprehension of language? - What are the computational properties of language and/or the language processor that make fluent production, incremental comprehension or rapid learning possible? - How do the acoustic and physiological properties of speech inform our theories of natural language and/or language processing? - What role does human neurobiology play in shaping the various grammatical properties of language? - How does language develop in natural learning contexts across the life-span? - What social and cultural factors underlie language variation and change? Because NSF's mandate is to support basic research, the Linguistics Program does not fund research that takes as its primary goal improved clinical practice or applied policy, nor does it support work to develop or assess pedagogical methods or tools for language instruction. Deadline: July 15, 2021; July 15, Annually Thereafter; January 17, 2022; January 15, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Developmental Sciences DS supports basic research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan. Research supported by this program will add to our knowledge of the underlying developmental processes that support social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, thereby illuminating ways for individuals to live productive lives as members of society. DS supports research that addresses developmental processes within the domains of cognitive, social, emotional, and motor development across the lifespan by working with any appropriate populations for the topics of interest including infants, children, adolescents, adults, and non-human animals. The program also supports research investigating factors that affect developmental change including family, peers, school, community, culture, media, physical, genetic, and epigenetic influences. Additional priorities include research that: incorporates multidisciplinary, multi-method, microgenetic, and longitudinal approaches; develops new methods, models, and theories for studying development; includes participants from a range of ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and cultures; and integrates different processes (e.g., memory, emotion, perception, cognition), levels of analysis (e.g., behavioral, social, neural), and time scales. Deadline: July 15, 2021; July 15, Annually Thereafter; January 17, 2022; January 15, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Statistics and Surveys - R&D, U.S. S&T Competitiveness, STEM Education, S&T Workforce The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is one of the thirteen principal federal statistical agencies within the United States. It is responsible for the collection, acquisition, analysis, reporting and dissemination of objective, statistical data related to the science and engineering enterprise in the United States and other nations that is relevant and useful to practitioners, researchers, policymakers and the public. NCSES uses this information to prepare a number of statistical data reports as well as analytical reports including the National Science Board's biennial report, Science and Engineering (S&E) Indicators, and Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering. The Center would like to enhance its efforts to support analytic and methodological research in support of its surveys, and to engage in the education and training of researchers in the use of large-scale nationally representative datasets. NCSES welcomes efforts by the research community to use NCSES data for research on the science and technology enterprise, to develop improved survey methodologies for NCSES surveys, to create and improve indicators of S&T activities and resources, and strengthen methodologies to analyze and disseminate S&T statistical data. To that end, NCSES invites proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, workshops, experimental research, survey research and data collection and dissemination projects under its program for Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Statistics and Surveys. Deadline: January 17, 2022; January 15, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences (HEGS) Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, and/or consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects about a broad range of topics may be appropriate for support if they enhance fundamental geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application to societal problems and concerns. Recognizing the breadth of the field’s contributions to science, the HEGS Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, and methodologically sophisticated geographical research. National Science Foundation's mandate is to support basic scientific research. Support is provided for projects that are most effective in grounding research in relevant theoretical frameworks relevant to HEGS, that focus on questions that emanate from the theoretical discussions, and that use scientific methods to answer those questions. HEGS supported projects are expected to yield results that will enhance, expand, and transform fundamental geographical theory and methods, and that will have positive broader impacts that benefit society. The HEGS Program recognizes that geography is a broad discipline that includes the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities. However, HEGS does not fund research that is solely humanistic, non-science. A proposal to the HEGS Program must explain how the research will contribute to geographic and spatial scientific theory and/or methods development, and how the results are generalizable beyond the case study. It should be noted that HEGS is situated in the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at NSF. Therefore, it is critical that research projects submitted to the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program illustrate how the proposed research is relevant and important to people and societies. A proposal that fails to be responsive to these program expectations will be returned without review. Deadline: August 17, 2021; Third Tuesday in August, Annually Thereafter; January 18, 2022; Third Tuesday in January, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS) The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, doctoral dissertation research improvement grants (DDRIGs), and conferences are funded in the areas of judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational design. The program also supports small grants that are time-critical (Rapid Response Research - RAPID) and small grants that are high-risk and of a potentially transformative nature (EArly-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research - EAGER). For detailed information concerning these two types of grants, please review Chapter II.E of the NSF PAPPG. Funded research must be grounded in theory and generalizable. Purely algorithmic management science proposals should be submitted to the Operations Engineering (OE) Program rather than to DRMS. General Guidance concerning the DRMS Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DDRIGs) funding opportunity includes the following: - To assure that the proposal is appropriate for DRMS, the advisor of the doctoral student is strongly encouraged to contact one of the DRMS Program Directors by email prior to the preparation of the DDRIG proposal. - DRMS DDRIG awards have a recommended maximum duration of 12 months. - The proposal title should start with “Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS:”. - On the FastLane Cover Sheet, the advisor should be listed as the Principal Investigator (PI) and the doctoral dissertation student as the Co-PI. - DDRIG awards are designed to cover expenses such as travel to the research site, special equipment, and participation fees. - DRMS does not provide general stipends, tuition, or cost-of-living support for DDRIG awards. - Your DDRIG proposal's project description should be essentially a research design (statement of the research problem, literature review, hypotheses, research site, data to be collected, methods of analysis, and schedule). - The review process for DDRIG proposals may involve only mail reviews, or it may include both mail reviews and assessment by the DRMS advisory panel. - Outstanding DDRIG proposals specify how the knowledge to be created advances our theoretical understanding of the subject. Deadline: August 18, 2021, August 18, Annually Thereafter; January 17, 2022, January 17, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL) "Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL) supports potentially transformative research that develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning, and about augmented intelligence - how human cognitive function can be augmented through interactions with others, contextual variations, and technological advances. The program supports research addressing learning in individuals and in groups, across a wide range of domains at one or more levels of analysis including: molecular/cellular mechanisms; brain systems; cognitive, affective, and behavioral processes; and social/cultural influences. The program also supports research on augmented intelligence that clearly articulates principled ways in which human approaches to learning and related processes, such as in design, complex decision-making and problem-solving, can be improved through interactions with others, and/or the use of artificial intelligence in technology. These could include ways of using knowledge about human functioning to improve the design of collaborative technologies that have capabilities to learn to adapt to humans. For both aspects of the program, there is special interest in collaborative and collective models of learning and/or intelligence that are supported by the unprecedented speed and scale of technological connectivity. This includes emphasis on how people and technology working together in new ways and at scale can achieve more than either can attain alone. The program also seeks explanations for how the emergent intelligence of groups, organizations, and networks intersects with processes of learning, behavior and cognition in individuals. Projects that are convergent and/or interdisciplinary may be especially valuable in advancing basic understanding of these areas, but research within a single discipline or methodology is also appropriate. Connections between proposed research and specific technological, educational, and workforce applications will be considered as valuable broader impacts but are not necessarily central to the intellectual merit of proposed research. The program supports a variety of approaches including: experiments, field studies, surveys, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence/machine learning methods. Deadline: July 14, 2021, Second Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter; January 19, 2022, Third Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning (RETTL) The purpose of the Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning (RETTL) program is to fund exploratory and synergistic research in emerging technologies (to include, but not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and immersive or augmenting technologies) for teaching and learning in the future. The program accepts proposals that focus on learning, teaching, or a combination of both. The scope of the program is broad, with special interest in diverse learner/educator populations, contexts, and content, including teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and in foundational areas that enable STEM (e.g., self-regulation, literacy, communication, collaboration, creativity, and socio-emotional skills). Research in this program should be informed by the convergence (synthesis) of multiple disciplines: e.g., learning sciences; discipline-based education research; computer and information science and engineering; design; and cognitive, behavioral, and social sciences. Within this broad scope, the program also encourages projects that investigate teaching and learning related to futuristic and highly technological work environments. Deadline: October 18, 2021; October 17, 2022 Full Announcement |
| Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. As part of its larger portfolio, the MMS Program partners with a consortium of federal statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the production and use of official statistics. The MMS Program provides support through a number of different funding mechanisms. The following mechanisms are addressed in this solicitation: - Regular Research Awards - Awards for conferences and community-development activities - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grants - Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplements MMS also supports Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards. Please see the CAREER Program Web Site for more information about this activity. Deadline: August 26, 2021, Last Thursday in August, Annually Thereafter; January 27, 2022, Last Thursday in January, Annually Thereafter Full Announcement |
| Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS) Society is becoming highly dependent on software applications, systems, and platforms, as functionality in all aspects of business, government, and everyday life is increasingly implemented through software. At the same time, there has been an increase in the laws and regulations whose implementation and effectiveness depend on software. Whereas organizations and individuals throughout our history have been expected to comply with laws and regulations, now software systems also must be accountable and comply with them. Software systems need to be designed with legal and regulatory compliance in mind, and should be adaptable to changing laws and regulations, which themselves evolve with changing citizen expectations and social norms. The Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS) program solicits foundational research aimed towards a deeper understanding and formalization of the bi-directional relationship between software systems and the complex social and legal contexts within which software systems must be designed and operate. The DASS program aims to bring researchers in computer and information science and engineering together with researchers in law and social, behavioral, and economic sciences to jointly develop rigorous and reproducible methodologies for understanding the drivers of social goals for software and for designing, implementing, and validating accountable software systems. DASS will support well-conceived collaborations between these two groups of researchers. The first group consists of researchers in software design, which, for the purposes of this solicitation, is broadly defined as formal methods, programming languages, software engineering, requirements engineering and human-centered computing. The second group consists of researchers in law and the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, who study social systems and networks, culture, social norms and beliefs, rules, canons, precedents, legal code, and routine procedures that govern the conduct of people, organizations, and countries. Proposals for this program must create general advances in both (1) understanding the social, behavioral, economic and/or legal context of software design; and (2) improving the methodology for designing accountable software beyond specific use cases. Each proposal must have at least one Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI with expertise in software design and at least one PI with expertise in law or a social, behavioral, or economic science. All proposals must contain a detailed collaboration plan that leverages the complementary expertise of the PIs/co-PIs in the designated areas and describes the mechanisms for continuous bi-directional collaboration. Projects are limited to $750,000 in total budget, with durations of up to three years. Deadline: April 19, 2021 Full Announcement |
Covid-19 Related Funding
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| The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB): Understanding the Impact of Environmental Exposures on Coronavirus Disease 2019 NIEHS is issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to address the urgent need for mission-relevant research to understand the impact of environmental exposures on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its causative agent, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2). NIEHS is particularly interested in applications that will provide insight into the role of environmental exposures in pathogenicity, transmission, individual susceptibility, or prevention and intervention strategies. Deadline: October 1, 2020; November 2, 2020; December 1, 2020; January 4, 2021; February 1, 2021; March 1, 2021; April 1, 2021; May 3, 2021, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization Amount: Not specified Full Announcement |
| The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB): Biomedical Technologies for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Stimulating Integrative Research in Computational Cognition The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) is issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to highlight the urgent need for accelerating the development, translation, and commercialization of technologies to address Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The NIBIB is seeking applications from current grantees to develop life-saving technologies that can be ready for commercialization within one to two years. Deadline: Rolling basis by 5:00 pm local time Amount: Application budgets are limited to no more than the amount of the current parent award and must reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. Full Announcement |
| National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: Research on Stress Management in Relation to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) NCCIH is issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to highlight the urgent need for research on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV, also known as COVID-19). Topics of specific interest for this NOSI include research on stress management strategies, including mind and body approaches, that individuals may engage in remotely to address stressors related to social distancing, as well as to address recovery and recurrence of symptoms during and after COVID-19 infections. Deadline: Rolling basis through October, 6, 2020 by 5:00pm local time Amount: The parent award must be active when the application is submitted. The project and budget periods must be within the currently approved project period for the existing parent award. Full Announcement |
| National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD): Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Minority Health and Health DisparitiesFuture of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research (FW-HTF) The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) is issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to highlight the urgent need for research on the impact of the novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic causing COVID-19 disease outbreaks and the resulting disruptions on individual and social wellbeing, health services use, and health outcomes for NIH-designated health disparity populations. Deadline: Rolling basis from May 1, 2020 - May 1, 2021 by 5:00pm local time Amount: No more than $125,000 Full Announcement |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH): Long-Term Effects of Disasters on Health Care Systems Serving Health Disparity Populations (R01- Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support investigative and collaborative research focused on understanding the long-term effects of natural and/or human-made disasters on health care systems serving health disparity populations in communities in the U.S., including the U.S. territories. NIH-designated health disparity populations include racial and ethnic minorities (Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asians, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders), sexual and gender minorities, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, and underserved rural populations. LOI Deadline: September 4, 2020 Deadline: October 5, 2020; February 5, 2021; June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021; February 5, 2022; June 5, 2022; October 5, 2022; February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023 Amount: Not limited Full Announcement |
| National Institutes of Health: Investigator Initiated Extended Clinical Trial (R01 Clinical Trial Required) This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for implementation of investigator-initiated clinical trials requiring an extended project period of 6 or 7 years. The trials can be any phase, must be hypothesis-driven, and related to the research mission of one of the participating ICs. Consultation with IC staff is strongly encouraged prior to the submission of the clinical trial implementation application. This FOA is not intended for support of clinical trials that do not require an extended project period of 6 or 7 years. LOI Deadline: 30 days prior to application due date Deadline: January 13, 2021; May 13, 2021; September 13, 2021; January 13, 2022; May 13, 2022; September 13, 2022; January 13, 2023 Amount: Not limited Full Announcement |
| National Institute of Mental Health: Mental Health Research on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus NIMH is issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to highlight interest in research to strengthen the mental health response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and to future public health emergencies, including pandemics. NIMH is especially interested in research to provide an evidence base for how a disrupted workforce may adequately respond/adapt to and maintain services or provide additional care for new or increasing mental health needs, as well as to learn about the effects of the virus and public health measures to prevent spread of COVID-19 that may have an impact on mental health. Research addressing the intersection of COVID-19, mental health, and HIV treatment and prevention are also of interest to NIMH. Deadline: Rolling basis through April 15, 2021 by 5:00pm local time Amount: Not specified Full Announcement |
| Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Addressing Health System Responsiveness to COVID-19 AHRQ intends to publish a new funding notice allowing requests for urgent revision supplements to existing AHRQ grants and cooperative agreements to address health system responsiveness to COVID-19. AHRQ intends to allow grantees with active AHRQ research grants to submit requests for competitive revision supplements to address timely health system and healthcare professional response to COVID-19. Grant activity codes to be included or excluded from the funding notice will specified in the announcement. Deadline: TBD Amount: Not specifed Full Announcement |
| Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Evaluating Health System and Healthcare Professional Responsiveness to COVID-19 AHRQ intends to publish a new funding opportunity announcement using the R01 mechanism to support novel, high-impact studies evaluating health system and healthcare professional responsiveness to COVID-19. This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop responsive applications. Deadline: TBD Amount: Not specified Full Announcement |
| National Science Foundation: RAPID Proposals NSF will provide funding for COVID-19 research through existing funding opportunities. Faculty should use the Rapid Response Research (RAPID) funding mechanism, which allows NSF to receive and review proposals having a severe urgency. RAPID proposals may request up to $200k and one-year in duration. Well-justified proposals that exceed these limits may be entertained. Deadline: Not specified Amount: Not specified Full Announcement |
| William T. Grant Foundation and Spencer Foundation: Preserving Summer Employment Opportunities for Inner-City Youth During the COVID-19 Pandemic) The city of Boston, which employs roughly 10,000 youth in summer jobs each year, seeks research evidence to inform their decision about whether and how to hold its summer youth employment program this year given the public health guidelines for social distancing during the pandemic. The Boston Mayor’s Office of Economic Development and intermediary organizations that place youth in jobs seek to understand the impact of summer job program participation on skill development and long-term outcomes for low-income youth; the current availability of youth job opportunities and the feasibility of offering virtual experiences; as well as the elements of traditional summer jobs that might be replicated or substituted in virtual work or learning experiences. The research review on these questions will synthesize the economics literature on the impacts of summer job programs on youth outcomes; workforce development literature related to year-round employment programs for youth; and the psychology and education literatures on youth skill development. The review will be accompanied by a survey of the over 500 businesses that typically employ youth in the summer jobs program. The Mayor’s office will draw upon this work to decide whether and in what form the city might proceed with a summer jobs program. They will also use the research in coordination with leaders from the Office of Workforce Development and the Boston Public Health Commission to ensure that the program provides meaningful summertime experiences that are safe for both youth and their families. The partnership will produce resources and materials that will offer Boston’s leadership insights about pathways for offering employment opportunities to youth, as well as guidance for implementation, which will be shared with cities across the country to assist them in their own summer youth employment decisions. Deadline: Continuous submission Amount: Not specified Full Announcement |
| William T. Grant Foundation and Spencer Foundation: Judicial Confinement and Release Decisions: Protecting Youth and Communities During the Pandemic and Beyond Correctional facilities have emerged as hotspots for the spread of COVID-19, and confined youth face an increased risk of COVID-19 infection. Given the overrepresentation of youth of color in correctional facilities, the disproportionate infection and mortality rate of COVID-19 among communities of color is compounded for these youth. While many jurisdictions have already released youth with low-level charges from these facilities, judges struggle with decisions about the release of youth charged with higher-level offenses or violent crimes. To respond to this challenge, Goldstein and her team will review research on the consequences of justice system decisions at the initial detention, disposition/sentencing, and transfer to criminal court stages on youth outcomes; the impact of these decisions on racial and ethnic inequality; and the resources needed to facilitate release from confinement, safely return youth to the community, and prevent both COVID-19 infections and subsequent violent offenses. The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges will use this synthesis to help judges and other decision makers understand when and under what conditions they can safely prevent youth from being confined or release already-confined youth. The partners will engage in the development of training materials and resources to provide guidance for justice system decision making and implement an advocacy plan involving messaging and technical assistance for organizations and individuals working in juvenile justice. Deadline: Continuous submission Amount: Not specified Full Announcement |
Other Funding Opportunities
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| AHRQ: Health Services Research Projects The Research Project Grant (R01) is an award made by AHRQ to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified health services research project. The R01 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the mission and portfolio priority research interests of AHRQ. Although the PD/PI writes the grant application and is responsible for conducting and supervising the research, the actual applicant is the research institution/organization. The AHRQ mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more ac-cessible, equitable and affordable, and to work with HHS and other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. Within the mission, AHRQ’s specific priority areas of focus are: (1) Improve health care quality by accelerating implementation of Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR); (2) Make health care safer; (3) Increase accessibility by evaluating expansions of insurance coverage; and (4) Improve health care affordability, efficiency and cost transparency. Deadline: June 5, 2021 Expires: July 6, 2021 Full Announcement |
| AHRQ: Improving Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes During Care Transitions The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, of higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications to produce health services research that will rigorously test promising interventions aimed at improving communication and coordination during care transitions. Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021; February 5, 2022; June 5, 2022; October 5, 2022 Expires: December 6, 2022 Full Announcement |
| AHRQ: Small Research Grant Program This FOA encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications, and expresses AHRQ priority areas of interest for ongoing small research projects. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of health services research projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. Deadline: June 16, 2021 Expires: July 6, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): Implementation and Evaluation of New Health Information Technology (IT) Strategies for Collecting and Using Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Measures (U18) This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites U18 cooperative agreement applications to stimulate innovative and collaborative research by utilizing new health information technology (IT) strategies for collecting and using patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures in primary care and other ambulatory care settings. Full Announcement |
| USDA: Rural Health and Safety Education Competitive Grants Program (RHSE) Part of the overall purpose of the Rural Health and Safety Education Program is to foster quality of life in rural communities by providing the essential knowledge necessary for successful programs of rural development, improving coordination among Federal agencies, other levels of government, and institutions and private organizations in rural areas, and developing and disseminating information about rural conditions. The RHSE program supports quality of life in rural communities across the United States by addressing the relationship between rural prosperity and rural health and safety in the context of food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences. In doing so, the program aligns with and specifically addresses USDA Strategic Goals for FY 2018-2022, Goal 4: Facilitate rural prosperity and economic development, Objective 1: To expand rural business opportunity and rural quality of life with access to capital; improve infrastructure, broadband access and connectivity; and support workforce availability. Deadline: April 29, 2021 Full Announcement |
| USDA: Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (FASLP) The FASLP, Assistance Listing 10.522, purpose is to increase knowledge of agriculture and improve the nutritional health of children. The primary goals of the FASLP are to: 1. Increase capacity for food, garden, and nutrition education within host organizations or entities and school cafeterias and in the classroom; 2. Complement and build on the efforts of the farm to school programs implemented under section 18(g) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act [(42 U.S.C. 1769(g)] 3. Complement efforts by the Department and school food authorities to implement the school lunch programs established under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq,) and the school breakfast program established by section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773); 4. Carry out activities that advance the nutritional health of children and nutrition education in elementary schools and secondary schools (as those terms are defined in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C 7801); and 5. Foster higher levels of community engagement and support the expansion of national service and volunteer opportunities. Deadline: May 3, 2021 Full Announcement |
| USDA: Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (FASLP) The FASLP, Assistance Listing 10.522, purpose is to increase knowledge of agriculture and improve the nutritional health of children. The primary goals of the FASLP are to: 1. Increase capacity for food, garden, and nutrition education within host organizations or entities and school cafeterias and in the classroom; 2. Complement and build on the efforts of the farm to school programs implemented under section 18(g) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act [(42 U.S.C. 1769(g)] 3. Complement efforts by the Department and school food authorities to implement the school lunch programs established under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq,) and the school breakfast program established by section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773); 4. Carry out activities that advance the nutritional health of children and nutrition education in elementary schools and secondary schools (as those terms are defined in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C 7801); and 5. Foster higher levels of community engagement and support the expansion of national service and volunteer opportunities. Deadline: May 3, 2021 Full Announcement |
| WTGF: Research Grants on Reducing Inequality Our focus on reducing inequality grew out of our view that research can do more than help us understand the problem of inequality—it can generate effective responses. We believe that it is time to build stronger bodies of knowledge on how to reduce inequality in the United States and to move beyond the mounting research evidence about the scope, causes, and consequences of inequality. Toward this end, we seek studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people. We prioritize studies about reducing inequality on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins. LOI Deadline: May 5, 2021 (3PM EST); August 4, 2021 (3PM EST) Full Announcement |
| WTGF: Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence Over the past decade, a growing body of research has illuminated the conditions that facilitate the use of research evidence in policy and practice. For example, studies find that when research is relevant to decision-makers, deliberated over thoughtfully, and embedded in policymaking processes, routines, and tools, the findings are more likely to be used. Still, there remain many unanswered questions that are critical to understanding how to improve the production and use of research evidence. What’s more, there is a scarcity of evidence supporting the notion that research use in policy and practice will necessarily improve youth outcomes. Serious scientific inquiry is needed. We need to know the conditions under which using research evidence improves decision making, policy implementation, service delivery, and, ultimately, youth outcomes. In short, we need research on the use of research. Toward this end, we seek studies that identify, build, and test strategies to enhance the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth. We are particularly interested in research on improving the use of research evidence by state and local decision-makers, mid-level managers, and intermediaries. Some investigators will focus on the strategies, relationships, and other supports needed for policy and practice organizations to use research more routinely and constructively. Others may investigate structures and incentives within the research community to encourage deep engagement with decision-makers. Still, other researchers may examine activities that help findings inform policy ideas, shape practice responses, and improve systems. LOI Deadline: May 5, 2021 (3PM EST); August 4, 2021 (3PM EST) Full Announcement |
| Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health Information Technology Through the proliferation of new methods and advanced solution that are scalable across the health care industry, this funding opportunity will address well-documented and fast emerging challenges which inhibit the development, use, and/or advancement of well-designed, interoperable health IT. New approaches are expected to further a new generation of health IT development and inform the implementation and refinement of standards, methods, and techniques for overcoming major barriers and challenges in an innovative fashion as they are identified. It is critical that the field of health care innovate and leverage the latest technological advancements and breakthroughs far quicker than it currently does to optimize real-time solutions, especially in areas that are ripe for acceleration. This funding opportunity is specifically interested in innovative solutions and breakthrough advances in the following areas of interest: 1) Standardization and Implementation of Scalable HL7® FHIR® Consent Resource; 2) Design, Develop, and Demonstrate Enhanced Patient Engagement Technologies for Care and Research Deadline: May 10, 2021 Expires: September 30, 2021 Full Announcement |
| CDC: Occupational Safety and Health Research (R01) The purpose of the R01 grant program is (1) to develop an understanding of the risks and conditions associated with occupational diseases and injuries, (2) to explore methods for reducing risks and preventing or minimizing exposure to hazardous conditions in the workplace, and (3) to translate significant scientific findings into prevention practices and products that will effectively reduce work-related illnesses and injuries. The Research Project Grant (R01) supports a discrete, specified, circumscribed project in scientific areas that represent the investigators’ specific interests and competencies and that fall within the mission of NIOSH. Applicants must concisely describe the occupational health burden addressed in their proposal and must link the need for the proposed research activities to planned outputs that will help alleviate this burden. Applicants should clearly articulate the anticipated impacts of the proposed research, both during the project period and beyond. Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021; February 5, 2022; June 5, 2022; October 5, 2022; February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023; October 5, 2023 Expires: November 18, 2023 Full Announcement |
| AHRQ: Improving Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes During Care Transitions (R01) The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, of higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications to produce health services research that will rigorously test promising interventions aimed at improving communication and coordination during care transitions. Deadline: June 5, 2021; October 5, 2021; February 5, 2022; June 5, 2022; October 5, 2022 Expires: December 6, 2022 Full Announcement |
| AHRQ: Health Information Technology (IT) to Improve Health Care Quality and Outcomes (R21) This FOA issued by AHRQ invites grant applications for funding to conduct exploratory and developmental research grants (R21) for projects in the early and conceptual stages of development that will contribute to the evidence base of how health information technology (IT) improves health care quality and outcomes. Deadline: June 16, 2021 Expires: July 17, 2021 Full Announcement |
| AHRQ: Small Research Grant Program (R03) This FOA encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications, and expresses AHRQ priority areas of interest for ongoing small research projects. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of health services research projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. Deadline: June 16, 2021 Expires: July 6, 2021 Full Announcement |
| AHRQ: Health Services Research Projects (R01) The Research Project Grant (R01) is an award made by AHRQ to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified health services research project. The project will be performed by the named investigator and study team. The R01 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the mission and priority research interests of AHRQ.ghk Deadline: June 16, 2021 Expires: July 6, 2021 Full Announcement |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF): Evidence for Action: Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health Evidence for Action (E4A), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), funds research that expands the evidence needed to build a Culture of Health. A Culture of Health is broadly defined as one in which good health and well-being flourish across geographic, demographic, and social sectors; public and private decision-making is guided by the goal of fostering equitable communities; and everyone has the opportunity to make choices that lead to healthy lifestyles. RWJF’s Culture of Health Action Framework, which was developed to catalyze a national movement toward improved health, well-being, and equity, guides E4A’s program strategy. Full Announcement |
| RWJF: Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. We are interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, we welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health. We want to hear from scientists, anthropologists, artists, urban planners, community leaders—anyone, anywhere who has a new or unconventional idea that could alter the trajectory of health, and improve health equity and well-being for generations to come. The changes we seek require diverse perspectives and cannot be accomplished by any one person, organization or sector. Please note: While this call for proposals is focused on broader and longer-term societal trends and shifts that were evolving prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, we recognize the unique circumstances and learning created by the COVID-19 pandemic may inform your response. It is at your discretion whether you propose a project related to the pandemic directly or indirectly. Full Announcement |