Category: NIDDK Funding

Institutional Mentored Career Development Award (Parent K12) (Clinical Trials Not Allowed)

To support institutional career development programs for later-stage postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty scholars for career advancement and transition to independence. [Expires 7/13/29.]

NIH Research Education Program – Research Experiences (Parent R25 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Supports educational activities that complement and/or enhance training of a workforce to meet the nation's biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs and recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences to foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications. [Exp. 5/26/29.]

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent F32)

For postdoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored research training from appropriate faculty sponsors while conducting biomedical research in scientific health-related fields. The proposed mentored research training must address the candidate’s identified research training and career goals and enhance the candidate's potential to successfully transition to the next phase of their biomedical research career. [Posted 6/13/25. Expires 5/8/28.]

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31)

For predoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored research training from appropriate faculty sponsors while conducting biomedical research in scientific health-related fields. The proposed mentored research training must address the candidate’s identified research training and career goals and enhance the candidate's potential to successfully transition to the next phase of their biomedical research career. [Posted 6/13/25. Expires 5/8/28.]

Institutional Network Award for Promoting Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Research Training (U2C – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Supports programs to recruit, train, and retain the next generation of researchers and provide them with the coordinated support, resources, and networks they need to succeed and lead. Institutions should submit a single, unified U2C-TL1 application. Representation across all kidney, urologic, and hematologic disciplines not expected or required. May include multiple departments within and across institutions. Each U2C-TL1 award will actively participate in the Kidney, Urology and Hematology Research-Training Network (KUHR-TN), a nationwide coalition of individual U2C-TL1 awards. [Posted 12/10/2025. Expires 5/26/2028.]

Diabetes Research Centers (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)

To bring together basic and clinical investigators to enhance communication, multidisciplinary collaboration, and effectiveness of ongoing research in Diabetes Research Centers topic areas. Shared access to specialized technical resources (research cores) and support for a Pilot and Feasibility Program (P&F) will provide the capability for accomplishments greater than those that would be possible by individual research project grant support alone. [Posted 12/5/2025. Expires 1/28/2027.]

Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Providers a new pathway for ESIs to propose research projects in a new direction for which preliminary data do not exist.  Open to a broad range of scientific research relevant to the mission of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers, including NIDDK, NIA, NICHD, & NIAD. [Posted 8/25/2025. Expires 8/26/2028.]

Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (Parent K23 – Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Supports the career development of individuals with a clinical doctoral degree who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors on patient-oriented research. [Posted 4/9/2024. Expires 5/8/2027]

Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award (Parent K25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

To attract to NIH-relevant research from investigators whose quantitative science and engineering research has thus far not been focused primarily on questions of health and disease. [Posted 4/23/2024. Expires 5/8/2027]

Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award (Parent K25 Independent Clinical Trial Required)

To attract to NIH-relevant research from investigators whose quantitative science and engineering research has thus far not been focused primarily on questions of health and disease. [Posted 4/23/2024. Expires 2/12/2027]