National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

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Mission Statement

The NIDDK Mission 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.

Interest Areas

General Topics

NIDDK supports basic, translational, and clinical research across diabetes, endocrine, metabolic, digestive, kidney, urologic, hematologic, and obesity-related diseases. The institute also supports training and career development for academic and clinical researchers within these general areas.

NIDDK has three extramural programmatic divisions and one office, each with its own scope.  While the divisions each have scientific boundaries, some topics are crosscutting and may fit within more than one division.

Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition (DDN)

  • Supports research on digestive diseases affecting the alimentary tract, liver, and pancreas, as well as nutrition and obesity.

Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases (DEM)

  • Supports research on type 1 and type 2 diabetes, metabolic disorders (including cystic fibrosis), endocrinology, obesity, neuroendocrinology, energy balance, and liver, fat, and endocrine tissue biology.

Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases (KUH)

  • Supports research on non-cancerous kidney, urinary tract conditions, and disorders of blood and blood-forming organs.

Office of Obesity Research (OOR)

  • Coordination of obesity-related research across NIDDK.

NIDDK also oversees the statutory Special Diabetes Program for Type 1 Diabetes on behalf of HHS, in collaboration with NIH Institutes and Centers, CDC, and the Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee.

At a very high level, NIDDK seeks to:

  • Sustain strong funding for investigator-initiated research.
  • Invest in cross-cutting science applicable to multiple diseases.
  • Advance understanding of biological pathways and environmental factors in health and disease.
  • Support key clinical studies and trials for prevention, treatment, and cures.
  • Promote stakeholder engagement, including patients as research partners.
  • Encourage and support new investigators entering biomedical research careers.

Assistance Listing

Assistance listings are detailed public descriptions of federal programs used across government agencies that provide grants, loans, scholarships, insurance, and other types of assistance awards. They are maintained in the System for Award Management (SAM) and can be used to search for opportunities in Grants.gov.

View NIDDK Assistance Listing Numbers

  • 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research

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Funding Opportunities and Notices

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Administrative Supplements
In addition to our Administrative Supplements overview, consider the following NIDDK-specific information.
Administrative Supplement Interest Areas:

NIDDK has prioritized funding investigator-initiated grants at the highest possible level. 

  • The institute has little flexibility to support administrative supplements.
  • Given this prioritization, the number of successful administrative supplement applications will be low.
Administrative Supplement Due Dates:

NIDDK will accept and consider administrative supplement requests at any time. Requests received late in the fiscal year may be considered the following fiscal year.

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