National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Annual due dates by application purpose:

• Support of mentored research training: 2/1, 4/1, 6/1, 9/1, 10/1 and 12/1
• Retention of investigators: 2/1, 4/1, 6/1, 9/1, 10/1 and 12/1
• All other areas: 4/1, 9/1, and 12/1

Note: 

• The earliest possible award date for all NIEHS administrative supplements is 3-4 months after the due date.

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The NIEHS Conference Grant Program supports investigator-initiated scientific meetings —such as conferences, workshops, symposia, and seminars— that directly advance the institute’s mission, particularly research on how environmental factors and gene–environment interactions influence disease or dysfunction. Relevant topics include environmental toxicology, chemical exposure, mechanistic toxicology, environmental epidemiology, exposure science, detection of hazardous substances, and scientific methods to reduce environmental hazards. Support is available for events of all sizes. For larger conferences, NIEHS prioritizes multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary events that foster collaboration among researchers. Applications are encouraged to include graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior investigators, and community members with funding allowed for their participation. 

The NIEHS Superfund Research Program also supports meetings relevant to their interest areas.

NIEHS limits conference grant awards to no more than $25,000 in direct costs per year for new (had no previous NIEHS support) and $50,000 in direct costs per year for returning (had previous NIEHS support) conferences. Typical support is less than the outlined limits. NIEHS will consider providing co-funding for conference applications administered by other ICOs (usually less than $10,000).

NIEHS considers applications submitted to all conference standard due dates.

It is highly suggested that applicants reach out to the NIEHS Conference Grant Coordinator no later than 6 weeks prior to the receipt date with any questions.

NIEHS considers requests for a single conference or a series up to 3 years.

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NIEHS SBIR/STTR grants help small businesses transform cutting-edge research into developing innovative and commercially viable products such as tools, technologies, assays, or services to translate and communicate environmental health research into improvements in human health. NIEHS SBIR/STTR program uses a combination of research & development, technology transfer, and communication strategies to aid the mission of NIEHS. 
The institute’s scientific areas of emphasis include, but are not limited to, the following: 
•    Tools/technologies such as sensors, computational methods, and exposomics approaches  for detecting and assessing human exposures to environmental hazards 
•    Innovative and/or alternative high-throughput or high-content assays/model systems,  computational toxicology approaches, and other related new approach methodologies (NAMs) for toxicity testing and understanding effects on human health and disease
•    Tools/methods/applications for evaluating environmental health and safety of engineered nanomaterials and micro/nanoplastics
•    Biomonitoring technologies   such as point-of-care approaches for personal exposure assessment and exposure mediated biological response biomarkers.
•    Intervention technologies and precision environmental health approaches to prevent or reduce human exposures or adverse health effects related to environmental stressors
•    Educational materials to promote or support understanding of environmental health science
The NIEHS Superfund Research Program (accepting SBIR applications only) focused on detection and remediation technologies for hazardous substances with relevance to Superfund and/or other contaminated sites

The NIEHS Worker Training Program (accepting SBIR applications only) also participates

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