Internal Funding Opportunities
DMRC: Seed, Fellowship & Team Science Grants
Deadline: January 10, 2025
Synopsis: The Driving Out Diabetes Initiative (DODI), a Larry H. Miller Family Wellness Initiative, and the Diabetes and Metabolism Research Center (DMRC) are requesting proposals for FY25 to catalyze novel research projects in the areas of diabetes, obesity, and metabolism and to train the next generation of researchers. Research Scope: We invite applications from all diabetes and obesity-related areas including basic, translational, clinical, health services, community-based participatory research, research in school and community settings, and population health research. Funding Mechanisms: This grant program will fund 4 different types of awards. Please read the proposal guidelines and eligibility closely. Apply and find more details about each opportunity on InfoReady. Contact Emily Kay (emily.kay@hsc.utah.edu) with questions.
Community Based Research (CBR) Project Implementation
Award: Up to $30,000. Flexible project timeline.
Deadline: Thursday, February 13, 2025.
Synopsis: CBR Project Implementation Grants are designed to support research projects that are based in an established partnership with community partners and have been designed in collaboration with partners. Please see the opportunity above for more information about CBR projects.
Community Based Research (CBR) Planning & Partnership Formation
Award: Up to $10,000 over the one-year project period.
Deadline: Thursday, February 13, 2025.
Synopsis: Community-Based Research (CBR) Grants at the University of Utah seek to support research partnerships between academic researchers and community-based partners that inquire into and address real-world issues through an approach rooted in enhancing societal impact for our local, national, and global communities. CBR requires substantial up-front work from both academic and community partners. Partnership Formation Grants are designed to support this early stage of CBR. The goal of the Partnership Formation Grant Program is to build and foster new relationships between community-based and campus-based partners. Planning and Partnership Formation Grants are designed to support activities such as analyzing existing data to help inform collaborative research, conducting asset mapping or other processes for identifying community strengths and priorities, developing partnership infrastructure and collaborative operating procedures, co-designing research proposals, and building the capacity of partners to conduct the research.
DHI: Inspiring Digital Health Innovations Pilot Awards
Deadline: Monday, March 17, 2025.
Synopsis: The Digital Health Initiative is pleased to announce its third seed grant program aimed at catalyzing new collaborations and innovative research in digital health that will lead to federal extramural grant applications. Award: Pilot awards will be supported up to $75,000 with a potential additional $25,000 if there is work that will be done by the Software Development & Systems Design Core (SD2C). Applications that do not utilize the SD2C will be supported up to $75,000. They anticipate funding three awards. Apply and read additional details on InfoReady. Contact Chelsie Smith (chelsie.smith@hsc.utah.edu) with questions.
External Funding Opportunities
Coming Soon: Help Us Build Models on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative GPU Cluster
Timeline: Applications open January 2025
Award: 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.
Synopsis: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) invites proposals to build large-scale AI/ML models that cannot be created with conventional university resources. Through competitive allocation of computing power on CZI’s high-performance computing cluster, we will support inspired and cutting-edge model building that will power new approaches to biological discovery. Priority will be given to proposals that aim to create models that align with CZI’s work to build virtual cells, but all proposals relating to CZI’s mission to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of the century will be considered. Full details will be made available here in January 2025.
NIH AIM-AHEAD Program for Artificial Intelligence Readiness (PAIR) Call for Proposals
Deadline: January 15, 2025
Award: Up to $250K over two years
Synopsis: The AIM-AHEAD Program for Artificial Intelligence Readiness (PAIR) aims to leverage AIM-AHEAD resources to jump-start AI research for health equity in under-resourced institutions. The PAIR program is designed for these organizations to strengthen the foundations for sustainable success in AI/ML health equity research. Through a two-phase funding model, PAIR will connect institutions with AIM-AHEAD resources, AI/ML and health equity experts, and grant-writing coaches to help establish AI/ML Health Equity Research Labs that host cross-disciplinary teams for research projects and grant writing. They strongly encourage a multi-PI structure that promotes cross-disciplinary collaboration among public health researchers, healthcare professionals, data scientists, and behavioral scientists or ethicists. Learn more here.
US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Health Services Outreach Program
Deadline: January 27, 2025
Award: Max of $300,000 per year for four years
Synopsis: This community-based grant program aims to support organizations to promote rural healthcare services outreach by improving and expanding the delivery of health care services to include new and enhanced services in rural areas, including digital health programs. To achieve this purpose, the program also aims to strengthen local resources and capacity in rural communities. Through collaborative consortiums that include three or more healthcare providers, each community can develop innovative approaches to solve their own unique challenges and factors underlying rural health disparities. See the program webpage for more information
2025 Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab and Seminar Series
Application Deadline: January 31, 2025
Award: Selection to participate in a national biomedical data science community of practice and working group
Event Dates: Virtual Microlab - May 2, May 16, and May 30; In-person Innovation Lab - June 16–20 in Nashville, TN.
Synopsis: This year’s theme is “Quantitative Approaches in Spatial Multi-Omics for Guiding Personalized Medicine.” The BDSIL will bring together quantitative and biomedical researchers with expertise spanning mathematical, statistical, basic science, and clinical biomedical fields to address critical topics in spatial multi-omics and its role in advancing our understanding of complex biological systems. Members of the NIH-NCATS community have often played an important role in discussions such as these and are strongly encouraged to apply. Any US-citizen junior faculty interested in finding multi-institutional partners working on computational methods in spatial multi-omics for personalized medicine is welcome to apply. See the program website for details!
NIH NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) - PAR-25-238
Deadline: February 5, 2025
Award: Max of $250,000 per year in direct costs, Max of 4-year award term
Synopsis: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) supports innovative research and development in biomedical informatics and data science. This funding opportunity focuses on biomedical discovery and data-powered health, integrating streams of complex and interconnected research outputs that can be translated into scientific insights, clinical care, public health practices, and personal wellness. The scope of NLM's interest in these research domains is broad, with emphasis on new and innovative methods and approaches to foster data-driven discovery in the biomedical and clinical health sciences as well as domain-independent, scalable, and reusable/reproducible approaches to discovery, curation, analysis, organization, and management of health-related digital objects.
NIH Personal Health Informatics for Delivering Actionable Insights to Individuals (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) PAR-25-235
Deadline: Feb 5, 2025 (new), March 5, 2025 (renewal)
Award: up to $250,000 per year in direct costs. Max 4 years
Synopsis: The purpose of this NOFO is to advance the development of novel informatics and data science approaches that can help individuals understand and improve their health through actionable insights. The NLM and participating institutes listed in this NOFO seek applications that further the science of personal health informatics by providing meaningful and actionable insights to individuals through innovative personal health data collection, integration, analysis, and personalized risk assessments and interpretation. Applications seeking to advance the understanding of how informatics tools, systems, and platforms can best present the results, interpretation, and limitations of personalized assessments for the benefit of individuals are encouraged. Applications should include end user engaged approaches and real-world evaluation to inform the design of generalizable, reusable, and scalable personal health informatics tools, systems, and platforms for the benefit of individuals in understanding and improving their health. Read the full RFA here.
National League for Nursing Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo Health Informatics and Innovation Collaborative Research Award
Deadline: February 7, 2025
Award: $2,500 award offered annually to support a PhD doctoral dissertation, DNP research or capstone, or a Master of Science in Nursing student focusing on health informatics and innovation in research in nursing education.
Synopsis: With a focus on health informatics and innovation in the use of data analysis and health information technology, the Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo grant opens a new avenue of research money to support the National League for Nursing and its members. Multiple real-world applications of research evidence focused on health informatics and innovation are urgently needed. Potential areas of focus include: exploring ways to increase integration of technology into academic learning environments, examining the implementation of novel roles envisioned for nurses and nurse educators as information technologists and specialists, developing and testing of evidence-based best practices for point-of-care applications for nursing students to access health data and resources, testing innovative approaches to health informatics integration across nursing curricula. Learn more and apply here.
NIH Artificial Intelligence in Pre-clinical Drug Development for AD/ADRD (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - RFA-AG-24-049
Deadline: February 13, 2025
Award: Application budgets are capped at $1 million in direct costs per year. The maximum project period is 5 years.
Synopsis: This NOFO invites applications that propose to apply existing or newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods to various aspects of drug discovery and preclinical drug development to accelerate the identification, optimization, and selection of preclinical drug candidates for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) and increase their likelihood of success during clinical drug development. Additionally, this NOFO aims to support the creation of advanced open-source analytical tools that will be made available to researchers in academia & biotech/pharma for more effective prosecution of AD/ADRD drug discovery campaigns for novel targets.