School of Medicine Funding Search Tool

Below is a curated, searchable and filterable list of funding opportunities announced by NIH in their weekly NIH guide LISTSERV. This list reflects funding opportunities pertinent to many UCI researchers. Using filters may reduce your results, so use judiciously. Opportunities are added weekly.

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2025 Deadline 1: Feb 12, 2025

Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (Parent K23 Independent Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required) (PA-24-186)

The purpose of the NIH Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) is to support the career development of individuals with a clinical doctoral degree who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors on patient-oriented research.

2025 Deadline 1: Feb 13, 2025

BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-MH-23-331)

The purpose of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) program is to enhance diversity in the neuroscience workforce and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NIH-supported, independent investigators from diverse backgrounds, including those from underrepresented groups in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, in BRAIN Initiative research areas.

2025 Deadline 1: Feb 13, 2025

BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00 Independent Clinical Trial Required) (RFA-MH-23-330)

The purpose of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) program is to enhance diversity in the neuroscience workforce and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NIH-supported, independent investigators from diverse backgrounds, including those from underrepresented groups in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, in BRAIN Initiative research areas.

2025 Deadline 1: Feb 13, 2025

Advancing Research Careers (ARC) Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award to Promote Diversity (F99/K00 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-23-222)

The purpose of the Advancing Research Careers (ARC) Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award to Promote Diversity (F99/K00) program is to support promising, late-stage graduate students from diverse backgrounds, for example those from underrepresented groups (see Notice of NIH’s Interest in Diversity), to transition into and succeed in mentored postdoctoral research positions.

2025 Deadline 1: Feb 14, 2025

NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Early-Stage Postdoctoral Researchers (K99/R00 - Independent Clinical Trial Required) (PAR-23-287)

The purpose of the NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Early-Stage Postdoctoral Researchers (K99/R00) program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NCI-supported, independent investigators. This program is designed for postdoctoral fellows with research and/or clinical doctoral degrees who do not require an extended period of mentored research training beyond their doctoral degrees.

2025 Deadline 1: Feb 16, 2025

PAR-23-255: Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R21 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)

Through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) along with other participating Institutes encourages submission of applications proposing to conduct secondary data analysis and integration of existing datasets and database resources, with the ultimate aim to elucidate cancer risk and related outcomes (e.g., risk prediction or reduction, survival, or response to treatment, etc.).

2025 Deadline 1: Feb 16, 2025

New Approaches for Measuring Brain Changes Across Longer Timespans (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-24-161)

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to encourage multidisciplinary investigators to develop exploratory, highly novel new approaches, or innovative applications of existing approaches, to measure brain activity, connectivity, genomics, or other aspects across the age spectrum of neurodevelopment.

2025 Deadline 1: Feb 16, 2025

Impacts of climate change across the cancer control continuum (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-23-152)

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) aims to support innovative research relevant to advancing the understanding of the effects of climate change across the cancer control continuum, from cancer etiology and cancer risks through survivorship, and ways to prevent or mitigate negative health effects.