Funding Categories

At any given time, NIH has over 1,000 active funding opportunities that use various funding instruments and announce a broad range of programs. Explore these categories for insight into the funding landscape and discover programs that may address your needs.

Research Training and Career Development

Training and career support for scientists, fellows, and trainees at the undergraduate, predoctoral, postdoctoral, early career, and mid-career levels.
Research and Development

NIH supports a wide variety of research and development programs, including capacity building, conferences and meetings, research projects (small, large, exploratory, pilots), and resource programs.
Construction and Modernization

NIH enhances biomedical research through support for construction, renovation, and modernization of new or existing physical infrastructure, e.g., buildings, facilities, laboratories, and fixed equipment.
Small Business

Support for U.S. small businesses (including minority-, women-, veteran-owned and HUBZone companies) to stimulate technological innovation, pursue research and development, and commercialize biomedical products in NIH areas of science.
Supplemental Funding

For currently funded NIH grants, supplemental funding may be available through competing revisions to expand a project's scope and administrative supplements to meet unanticipated costs or support career re-entry without a change of scope.
Loan Repayment Programs

To retain and recruit professionals in biomedical or biobehavioral careers, NIH repays educational debt in return for a commitment to engage in research relevant to our scientific mission.
Contracts

NIH uses legally binding contracts to acquire goods and services (e.g., research and development work) to support research and research-related activities.
Other Transactions

Though statutory authority, NIH may fund unique legal agreements for a specific function, initiative, program, project, or research. These transactions are not grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements.
Challenges and Prizes

To address special problems and challenges in biomedical research, NIH competitions and prizes solicit, showcase, and support participants’ transformative solutions and achievements.
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