Internal Funding Opportunities
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.
External Funding Opportunities
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 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.
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.