NIH Institutes’ Funding Strategies
The following NIH institutes, centers, and offices provide funding for grant awards. To strategize for upcoming funding opportunities, it’s essential to review each of the mission, funding website, areas of special interest, funding strategies, and current funding opportunities. Strategies are potential research areas that individual institutes are considering for future funding. Identifying these strategies in your field is a great way to prepare ahead of the release of RFAs (Request for Applications) and PAs (Program Announcements)
Advancing Translational Sciences, National Center (NCATS)
The NCATS
mission is to turn research observations into health solutions through translational science—the field that generates scientific and operational innovations to overcome long-standing challenges along the translational research pipeline.
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Aging, National Institute on (NIA)
The NIA
mission is to lead the federal government in conducting and supporting research on aging and the health and well-being of older people.
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Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on (NIAAA)
The NIAAA mission is to generate and disseminate fundamental knowledge about the adverse effects of alcohol on health and well-being, and apply that knowledge to improve diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of alcohol-related problems, including alcohol use disorder, across the lifespan.
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Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of (NIAID)
The NIAID
mission is to conduct and support basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases.
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Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institute of (NIAMS)
The NIAMS
mission is to support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases; the training of basic and clinical scientists to carry out this research; and the dissemination of information on research progress in these diseases.
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Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institute of (NIBIB)
The NIBIB
mission is to transform, through technology development, our understanding of disease and its prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment.
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Cancer Institute, National (NCI)
The NCI
mission is to lead, conduct, and support cancer research across the nation to advance scientific knowledge and help all people live longer, healthier lives.
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Child Health and Human Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of (NICHD)
The NICHD mission is to lead research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all.
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Complementary and Integrative Health, National Center for (NCCIH)
The NCCIH
mission is to determine, through rigorous scientific investigation, the fundamental science, usefulness, and safety of complementary and integrative health approaches and their roles in improving health and health care.
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Deafness and other Communication Disorders, National Institute on (NIDCD)
The NIDCD
mission is to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language.
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Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute of (NIDCR)
The NIDCR
mission is to advance fundamental knowledge about dental, oral, and craniofacial health and disease and translate these findings into prevention, early detection, and treatment strategies that improve overall health for all individuals and communities across the lifespan.
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Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute of (NIDDK)
The NIDDK
mission is to is to conduct and support medical research and research training and to disseminate science-based information on diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, nutritional disorders, and obesity; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases, to improve people’s health and quality of life.
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Drug Abuse, National Institute on (NIDA)
The NIDA
mission is to advance science on drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health.
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Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of (NIEHS)
The NIEHS
mission is to discover how the environment affects people in order to promote healthier lives.
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Eye Institute, National (NEI)
The NEI
mission is to eliminate vision loss and improve quality of life through vision research.
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Fogarty International Center (FIC) - Global Health
The FIC
mission is to support and facilitate global health research conducted by U.S. and international investigators, building partnerships between health research institutions in the U.S. and abroad, and training the next generation of scientists to address global health needs.
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General Medical Sciences, National Institute of (NIGMS)
The NIGMS
mission is to support basic research that increases our understanding of biological processes and lays the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. NIGMS also supports research in specific clinical areas that affect multiple organ systems: anesthesiology and peri-operative pain; clinical pharmacology common to multiple drugs and treatments; and injury, critical illness, sepsis, and wound healing.
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Genome Research Institute, National Human (NHGRI)
The NHGRI
mission is to accelerate scientific and medical breakthroughs in the field of genomics that improve human health. NHGRI does this by driving cutting-edge research, developing new technologies, and studying the impact of genomics on society.
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Health-Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of (DPCPSI)
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National (NHLBI)
The NHLBI
mission is to provide global leadership for a research, training, and education program to promote the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases and enhance the health of all individuals so that they can live longer and more fulfilling lives.
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Library of Medicine, National (NLM)
The NLM
mission is to conduct and support research in biomedical communications; create information resources for molecular biology, biotechnology, toxicology, and environmental health; and provide grant and contract support for training, medical library resources, and biomedical informatics and communications research.
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Mental Health, National Institute of (NIMH)
The NIMH
mission is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure.
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Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institute on (NIMHD)
The NIMHD
mission is to lead scientific research to improve minority health and reduce health disparities.
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Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of (NINDS)
The NINDS
mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the brain and nervous system and to use that knowledge to reduce the burden of neurological disease for all people.
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Nursing Research, National Institute of (NINR)
The NINR
mission is to lead nursing research to solve pressing health challenges and inform practice and policy—optimizing health and advancing health equity into the future.
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NIH Office of the Director (OD)
The Office of the Director (OD) is the central office at NIH, responsible for setting policy for NIH and for planning, managing, and coordinating the programs and activities of all the NIH components. NIH OD includes multiple offices and programs that directly support research. Find details and opportunities for direct funding at:
All of Us research program mission is to accelerate health research and medical breakthroughs, enabling individualized prevention, treatment, and care for all of us.
The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program mission is to enhance the health of children for generations to come. ECHO investigates how exposure to a range of environmental factors in early development influences the health of children and adolescents.
The INCLUDE (INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE) Project supports scientific research, clinical trials and cohort studies to better understand critical health and quality-of-life needs for individuals with Down syndrome.
Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) provides leadership and coordination on a broad range of NIH-wide data science activities to realize the Agency’s vision for a modernized and integrated biomedical data ecosystem.
Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) advances the NIH mission by supporting infrastructure for innovation. This support is focused on research resources, including animal models for human diseases, cutting-edge scientific instrumentation, construction and modernization of research facilities, and research training opportunities for veterinary scientists.
Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) leads, develops and supports a diverse range of programs, initiatives, and policies to improve the health of all women at all stages of their life course and to support women in biomedical fields at all stages of their careers.
Office of Strategic Coordination – The NIH Common Fund supports bold scientific programs that catalyze discovery across all biomedical and behavioral research. Some of these programs include yearly funding opportunities for a variety of career stages.
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