resources for pursuing endocrine-related research opportunities
Endocrine researchers are at the core of solving many of the most pressing health problems of our time, from diabetes and obesity to infertility, bone health, thyroid conditions, and hormone-related cancers. Your work has led to incredible accomplishments and remarkable progress in the biological and biomedical sciences that have benefited the lives of millions of Americans.
NICHD Reissues FOA on Nutrition in Care and Development of Preterm Infants: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) announced the reissue of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) “Elucidating the Role of Nutrition in Care and Development of Preterm Infants.” Letters of Intent for grant applications in this area are due February 28, 2022.
NICHD Issues FOA on Reproductive Health for Persons With Disabilities (PWD): Recognizing that PWD experience disparate outcomes and health disparities, and that reproductive health was identified by NICHD as an area with significant research gaps for PWD, NICHD issued a new FOA “Promoting Reproductive Health for Adolescents and Adults with Disabilities.” The FOA will support research “on the underlying social and behavioral processes that can inform interventions (basic science), preliminary development and testing of interventions (translational science), or dissemination and implementation of interventions.” Letters of Intent for grant applications responsive to the notice are due February 28, 2022.
NIDDK Announces Medical Student Research Training NOSI: The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) issued a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) encouraging applications for administrative supplements to active institutional training grants to support medical students interested in taking a year off from their medical school studies to work in an academic research lab. The first available due date for applications is January 18, 2022. Learn more.
NIA Announces K22 Awards: The National Institute of Aging (NIA) announced the NIA Career Transition Award (CTA) to facilitate the transition of mentored researchers to tenure-track faculty positions conducting research that advances the mission of NIA. This award will provide three years of protected time through salary and research support to conduct biomedical research at an extramural sponsoring institution/organization to which the individual has been recruited, been offered, and has accepted a tenure-track full-time assistant professor position (or equivalent). Learn more.
NIH Issues MOSAIC FOAs: The Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) program is part of NIH’s efforts to enhance diversity within the academic biomedical research workforce, and is designed to facilitate the transition of promising postdoctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds, for example individuals from groups underrepresented in the biomedical research workforce at the faculty level, into independent, tenure-track or equivalent research-intensive faculty positions. The first due date for the K99/R00 MOSAIC application is October 27, 2021. Please see the relevant guide notices (clinical trial not allowed, independent clinical trial required, and independent basic experimental studies with humans required) for more information.
NIH NOSI Supports Returning Biomedical Researchers: NIH has announced a new supplements program for researchers returning to biomedical careers after a qualifying absence. Under this Notice of Special Interest, applicants can apply to participate in full- or part-time mentored research experiences through existing NIH research grants. Eligible for these reentry supplements are individuals whose research careers have been interrupted for at least 6 months because of family responsibilities or other qualifying circumstances. Click here for more information, including detailed eligibility requirements. The first available due date for submissions is August 26, 2021, and the supplements program is set to expire on October 7, 2023.
New NIDDK T1D FOA: The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) issued a new Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to support pilot and feasibility trials of interventions designed to improve technology adoption in individuals from underrepresented backgrounds with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D). Letters of intent are due February 3, 2022. Learn more.
NOSI on Atypical Femoral Fracture (AFF) and Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (ONJ): The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) also joined NIA and NIAMS to publish a Notice of Special Interest for research studies “on Mechanisms of Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology of Atypical Femoral Fracture (AFF) and Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (ONJ).” The Notice is active through July 18, 2023.
NOSI for Placental Research: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) issued a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) encouraging research on several “High Priority Areas in Placental Research for Healthy Pregnancies”. Topics of special emphasis in these areas include, but are not limited, to 1) Elucidating the gene-regulatory pathways and molecular mechanisms involved in trophoblast differentiation and function; 2) Understanding the role of the immune system in normal placentation and pregnancy rejection; and 3) Developing safe and effective therapeutics for the treatment of placental dysfunction/disorders. Research addressing themes of diversity and inclusion are also highly encouraged. The notice expires October 06, 2024.
NINDS Issues Diversity NOSI: The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) issued a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to encourage R01 applications from diverse backgrounds. Relevant applicants include individuals from racial and ethnic groups that have been shown by the National Science Foundation to be underrepresented in health-related sciences on a national basis; individuals with disabilities as defined in the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act; and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, according to criteria in the notice. The NOSI also acknowledges the additional challenges faced by women from any of the aforementioned backgrounds. The Notice expires May 8, 2023.
Reminder of Changes to NIH Biosketch and Other Support Format: NIH issued a notice reminding grantees that NIH expects applicants and recipients to use the updated biosketch and other support format for applications, Just-in-Time (JIT) Reports, and Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPRs) described in NOT-OD-21-073 as of May 25, 2021. The updated format pages will be required by NIH on and after January 25, 2022.
NOSI on Physical Activity Interventions: The Office of Disease Prevention and participating NIH Institutes and Centers issued a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to highlight their interest in encouraging highly innovative and promising translational research to improve our understanding of how to increase and maintain health-enhancing physical activity using multi-level interventions in a wide range of population groups across the lifespan. The notice applies to a number of grant mechanisms, and expires on February 16, 2024. For more information, please see the full notice.
NICHD to Issues SBIR FOA for Reproductive Health and Infertility: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement to encourage the small business community to collaborate with scientists and clinicians in the fields of female and male reproductive medicine, infertility, andrology/urology, and gynecology to develop, adapt and validate discoveries in genomics, epigenomics, metabolomics and biomarkers to the clinical diagnosis and treatment of women and men with infertility, and diseases and disorders that affect fertility. Grants will be issued under the R43/44 activity code for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards. Applications are due July 29, 2021, with letters of intent due 30 days prior. Learn more at the NIH Grants Guide.
Women’s Health Research Administrative Supplements: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a Notice of Special Interest for the availability of administrative supplements to IDeA awards to expand research and research capacity in the IDeA states to address important issues of women’s health across the lifespan. The proposed research must address at least one of the strategic goals of the 2019-2023 Trans-NIH Strategic Plan for Women's Health Research "Advancing Science for the Health of Women." Research on maternal and infant morbidity and mortality is of particular interest.
Administrative Supplements for Childcare Costs: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the availability of administrative supplements to support childcare costs on NRSA-supported Fellowship awards. Fellows may request $2,500 per budget period for costs for childcare provided by a licensed childcare provider. For more information, please see the Notice of Special Interest and policy announcement.
NOSI for Biophysical and Biomechanical Aspects of Embryonic Development: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) issued a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to encourage innovative and high risk/impact research in the area of physics/mechanics of embryonic development explored in model organisms. The Notice expires on November 17, 2022. Learn more at the NIH Grants Guide.
NOSI for Secondary Analysis of Human Connectome Data: Several NIH institutes issued a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to encourage secondary analyses of data from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) including the multiple datasets in the Lifespan Human Connectome projects and the Human Connectomes Related to Human Disease. Applicants beyond the groups that originally collected the data are encouraged to apply. For more information, see the announcement in the grants guide or the website for the Connectome Coordination Facility.
NOSI For Adopting Techniques and Tools Developed from the BRAIN Initiative: The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) issued a NOSI expressing interest in leveraging these technologies developed as part of the BRAIN initiative to understand nervous system function in the service of cognition, social, or affective processing. Applicants are encouraged to propose research to understand functioning of brain circuits in healthy subjects as well as translational work. NIMH is particularly interested in BRAIN tools that allow large, population-scale in vivo recording, imaging, or circuit manipulation during cognitive, social, or affective behavior. Learn more at the NIH Grants Guide, or the BRAIN Initiative website.
NIH Launches New Early Investigator Grant: National Institutes of Health recently announced the Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant award. This new award will support early stage investigators (ESIs) for innovative projects in an area of science that represents a change in research direction for the investigator. Importantly, applications will not be allowed to submit preliminary data. For application deadlines and other information, see the NIH Notice.
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