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Catalyst Award for ESIs Pursuing Research on HIV Comorbidities, Coinfections, and Complications

Deadline: May 1, 2025 5 pm
Amount: $350,000 per year in direct costs

Summary: BackgroundHIV-related comorbidities, coinfections, and complications (CCCs) cause significant pathology and suffering in people with HIV (PWH). These conditions include cardiovascular disease, lung disease, HIV-related cancers,, hepatobiliary disease, metabolic perturbations, obesity, enteritis, and renal disease. Some infections are more common in people with HIV than in the general population, including tuberculosis...

Center for Childhood Infections and Vaccines (CCIV)

2025 Catalyzing Pediatric Innovation (CPI) Grant Competition

Deadline: May 2, 2025 4 pm
Amount: Up to $50,000 for one year, funds to be spent in first 6 months

Summary: Eligibility CriteriaMust be a novel pediatric medical device or technology.Medical devices must meet the FDA definition of a medical device.Development of novel drugs and chemical therapies will not be funded. Process improvement and innovations are also not eligible for funding. In addition, fetal devices / technologies (without other pediatric applications)...

Pediatric Technology Center (PTC)

MISP Investigator Studies Program Areas of Interest

Deadline: May 9, 2025 3 pm
Amount: Variable

Summary: The company Investigator Studies Program (MISP) aims to advance science and improve patient care by supporting, through the provision of drug/vaccine and/or total/partial funding, high-quality research that is initiated, designed, implemented, and sponsored by external investigators. Results will be generated and properly disseminated in peer-reviewed publications....

ClinGen Genomic Curation Expert Panels (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Deadline: May 25, 2025 5 pm
Amount: Application budgets are limited to $220,000 per year in direct costs and need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.

Summary: BackgroundClinical genetic testing is becoming increasingly routine in clinical practice, and genome-scale sequencing is leading to the identification of many genomic variants with vastly differing clinical relevance. Many of these tests reveal a large number of variants of unknown significance (VUS) due to a variant’s rarity or to differences in...

Children's Center for Immunity and Applied Genomics (CIAG)

Cannonball Kids' Cancer Young Investigator Grant

Deadline: June 1, 2025 12 pm
Amount: $100,000 over 3 years

Summary: EligibilityPI must hold an academic appointment at the instructor level or higher Research must be within 5 years of completing a training fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology or a closely related discipline that has direct clinical contact with pediatric cancer patients Research must be within 2-3 years to translation to a clinical trial...

Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center (Aflac), Children's Center for Neurosciences Research (CCNR)

Cannonball Kids' Cancer Clinical Trial Grant

Deadline: June 1, 2025 1 pm
Amount: $200,000 over 3 years

Summary: EligibilityPI must hold an academic appointment at the Assistant Professor level or higherPreclinical studies must be completeIf an FDA Investigational New Drug (IND) application is necessary for the proposed clinical study, the IND application should already have passed FDA initial review and be active If the PI has recruited additional patient...

Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center (Aflac), Children's Center for Neurosciences Research (CCNR)

American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grants (IRG)

Deadline: June 1, 2025 1 pm
Amount: New IRGs will be $120K per year for 4 years (for a total of $480K). For new applications, applicants may request up to $120,000 per year for 4 years. The funds may be distributed at the discretion of the IRG review committee with respect to the number of pilot grants awarded each year – a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 6 pilot awards, with a minimum of $20,000 and a maximum of $60,000. The number and amounts of pilot grants do not have to remain the same year-over-year during the 4-year grant. Renewal IRGs will be $100K per year for 4 years(for a total of $400K). For renewals, supplementation by the institution of at least $80,000 over the 4-year funding period is required, but there are no restrictions related to the source of the institutional resources (e.g., philanthropy, other grants, etc.).

Summary: Grant OverviewInstitutional Research Grants are awarded to institutions as block grants, providing seed money for newly independent investigators to initiate cancer research projects.The intent is to support these junior faculty in initiating cancer research projects so they can obtain preliminary results that will enable them to compete successfully for national...

Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center (Aflac), Children's Center for Neurosciences Research (CCNR)

Chan Zuckerberg Foundation Accelerating and Scaling Biological Sciences With AI

Deadline: June 18, 2025 1 pm
Amount: This grant is for an allocation of CZI’s GPU resource (minimum request of 96 GPU). This is an in-kind award; there are no cash funds, financial contributions, or fees of any kind associated with the award.

Summary: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) invites proposals to build large-scale AI/ML models that cannot be created with conventional university resources. CZI is the only philanthropic organization to fund and build one of the largest computing systems dedicated to nonprofit life sciences research in the world. CZI’s cluster is optimized for...

North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Young Investigator Development Awards

Deadline: July 1, 2025 2 pm
Amount: Duration: 2 years Amount: $150,000 ($75,000 per year)

Summary: George Ferry Young Investigator Development AwardThis grant is awarded to support a meritorious clinical, quality improvement, translational or basic science research project related to diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas, or nutritional disorders of children.Eligibility:Applicants must:Be a NASPGHAN member in good standing for at least two years.No more than...

Center for Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, & Nutrition Innovation (GENI)

The Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award

Deadline: July 1, 2025 3 pm
Amount: The Stage 1 award will be for two years, $200,000 per year ($400,000 total) with the opportunity for up to two additional years of funding (up to four years total for $800,000). Stage 2 support for years three and four will be granted to those awardees who demonstrate progress on their proposed research during years one and two of the award. The Award cannot be used for indirect costs or institutional overhead.

Summary: The Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with “high-risk/high-reward” ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cancer.The Innovation Award is specifically designed to provide funding to...

Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center (Aflac), Children's Center for Neurosciences Research (CCNR), Pediatric Technology Center (PTC)
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