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Please Note: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is converting to an all-electronic system for submitting applications (SF424). You may submit paper copies of applications until the transition date comes due for your program's mechanism. The mechanism for each program is listed next to the program name. For example, the FIRCA Program uses the R03 mechanism. Here are specific deadlines arranged by NIH grant mechanism. If the mechanism is not listed, then it has yet to be assigned a transition date and you may continue to submit paper copies of your application. All NIH Program Announcements and Request for Applications are being modified to reflect this transition. Here is more information on the transition process.
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Brain Disorders in the Developing World: Research Across the Lifespan (R01/R21)

This program supports collaborative research and capacity building projects on brain disorders throughout life, relevant to low- and middle-income nations. Funded projects focus on neurological disorders and function (including sensory, motor, cognitive and behavioral) and the impairment they lead to throughout life. R21 grants provide support to conduct pilot studies and to organize, plan for, prepare, and assemble an application for a more comprehensive R01 grants. R01 awards involve substantial collaboration between developed and developing country investigators and incorporate both research and capacity building.

Ecology of Infectious Diseases (R01)

This program funds interdisciplinary research programs that strive to elucidate the underlying ecological and biological mechanisms that govern the relationships between anthropogenic environmental changes and the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The focus of this program is on the development of predictive models for the emergence and transmission of diseases in humans and other animals, and ultimately the development of strategies to prevent or control them.

Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award (FIRCA) (R03)

This program funds international research partnerships between NIH-supported U.S. scientists and their collaborators in countries of the developing world. The FIRCA program aims to benefit the research interests of both the U.S. and foreign collaborators while increasing research capacity at the foreign site. U.S. scientists who have an eligible NIH grant may apply. All areas of biomedical and behavioral research supported by NIH are eligible FIRCA research topics.

Global Health Research Initiative Program for New Foreign Investigators (GRIP) (R01)

This initiative promotes productive re-entry of NIH-trained foreign investigators into their home countries as part of a program to enhance the scientific research infrastructure in developing countries, to stimulate research on high priority health-related issues in these countries, and to advance NIH efforts to address health issues of global import. The GRIP provides partial salaries to the foreign researcher returning home and support for research projects. To make the review of this program more robust, we divided the program into two components: Behavioral and Social Science; and Basic Science. Both programs have a September receipt date each year. Applicants should carefully choose which program to send their application.

International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (ICBG) (U01)

This program integrates drug discovery from natural products with conservation of biodiversity and economic development in source countries. The program is jointly funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Foreign Agriculture Service of the USDA. There are currently six active projects.

International Studies on Health and Economic Development (R01)

This program supports projects that examine the effects of health on microeconomic agents (individuals, households and enterprises) and aggregate growth (cross-country growth analysis), as well as explores how health finance and delivery systems are a source of variation in health outcomes. Studies will focus on issues relevant to populations in low- and middle-income nations.

International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Program (R01)

This program encourages transdisciplinary approaches to the international tobacco epidemic to reduce the global burden of tobacco related illness. The program is designed to promote international cooperation between investigators in the U.S. and other high-income nation(s) pursuing research programs on tobacco control, and scientists and institutions in low- and middle-income nation(s), where tobacco consumption is a current or anticipated public health urgency.

Stigma and Global Health Research Program (R01 and R21)

The purpose of this program is to stimulate interdisciplinary, investigator-initiated research on the role of stigma in health, and on how to intervene to prevent or mitigate its negative effects on the health and welfare of individuals, groups and societies world-wide.