Active Funding Opportunities and Notices for NICHD

NICHD publishes and participates in various notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) and NIH Guide Notices (NOTs) to support research and training activities.

NOTs and Active NOFOs for NICHD

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Number Exp. Date Activity Code(s) Sort ascending Title
PAR-24-197 July 17, 2026 R03 HEAL Initiative-Early-Stage Discovery of New Pain Targets Within the Understudied Druggable Proteome (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
PAR-23-295 November 17, 2026 R03 Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Small Research Grant (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-OD-22-008 July 2, 2024 R03 Small Research Grants for Analysis, Curation, and/or Sharing of Down syndrome-related Research Data for the INCLUDE Project (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
PAR-23-160 October 18, 2024 R03 Clinical Trial Readiness for Rare Diseases, Disorders, and Syndromes (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
PA-20-200 January 8, 2025 R03 NIH Small Research Grant Program (Parent R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
PAR-21-354 November 17, 2024 R03 Innovative Screening Approaches and Therapies for Screenable Disorders in Newborns (R03 - Clinical Trial Optional)
PA-21-221 January 8, 2025 R03 NICHD Small Research Grant Program (R03 Clinical Trial Required)
PA-21-231 January 8, 2025 R03 NICHD Small Research Grant Program (R03 Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required)
PAR-23-029 March 29, 2025 R03 NCMRR Early Career Research Award (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)
PAR-22-100 October 18, 2024 R03 Clinical Trial Readiness for Rare Diseases, Disorders, and Syndromes (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
PAR-23-075 January 8, 2026 R03 Small Research Grants for Analyses of Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Data (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
PAR-22-261 November 17, 2025 R03 Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NOT-MH-21-330 September 8, 2024 R01,UG3/UH3 Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of COVID-19 in Underserved and Vulnerable Populations
NOT-OD-23-039 February 5, 2026 R01,R34,R21,U24,R61/R33,UG3/UH3 Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention Research
NOT-MH-23-115 July 15, 2026 R01,R24 Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): BRAIN Initiative: Developing Data Archive, Informatics Tools and Data Standards for Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization (BBQS)
NOT-EB-23-002 May 17, 2026 R01,R21,R35,R41/R42,R43/R44 Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Synthetic Biology for Biomedical Applications.
NOT-OD-21-100 June 8, 2024 R01,R21,R03,R41/R42,R43/R44,R21/R33,UG3/UH3,R34 Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Improving Patient Adherence to Treatment and Prevention Regimens to Promote Health
NOT-HD-21-040 October 6, 2024 R01,R21,R03 Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): High Priority Areas in Placental Research for Healthy Pregnancies
NOT-HD-22-026 January 1, 2027 R01,R21 Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Advancing Research on Early Pregnancy Loss
NOT-HL-22-004 September 8, 2025 R01,R21 Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) Pediatric COVID-19 and Respiratory Viral Co-infection
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