The Funding Forecaster listings below are updated regularly over the course of the month and include internal (CHOP/Penn), federal, and foundation funding opportunities.  The listings are also distributed to faculty via email during the first week of every month.

 

On the immediate horizon:

• NEW THIS YEAR! Innovation Fund at the CHOP Research Institute for research on single ventricle disease etiology and cures. Letter of Intent (LOI) due January 29, 2020.
• Packard Foundation Fellowship Program for Science and Engineering . "For highly creative researchers early in their faculty careers." Limited application (max of 2 applications accepted from each school at Penn). Application package due February 7, 2020.
• Penn Center for  Precision Medicine (PCPM) Accelerator Fund "to accelerate the development of precision medicine efforts at Penn and help to implement precision medicine-based clinical care in the fabric of routine care." Letter of Intent (LOI) due February 18, 2020.
• Penn ITMAT CHPS JIPGP Junior Investigator Preliminary/Feasibility Grant Program  "To encourage junior investigators to develop clinical research projects that will ultimately lead to competitive extramural funding and a career in Clinical Translational Research Center-focused clinical investigation." Application due March 6, 2020 @ noon.

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Federal funding announcements:   

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of Note:

• AHRQ Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Awards (K01) program "provides support and 'protected time' to individuals with a research doctoral degree for an intensive, supervised research career development experience in health services research."  Application due February 12 (and June 12 and October 12) 2020.

Department of Defense (DOD)

• DoD funding opportunities now available

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Generally, letters of intent (LOIs) are due a month after release dates and applications are due two months after release dates. 

• NIH Weekly Funding Announcements
• NIH requests for applications (RFAs) in reverse chronology by release date
• NIH parent announcements (PAs and PARs) in reverse chronology by release date
• Upcoming (mostly) NIH grants in reverse chronology by due date

Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) of Note:

• Improving Methods for Conducting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research  Letter of Intent (LOI) due February 4, 2020.
• Addressing Disparities; Assessment of Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options; Communication and Dissemination Research, and Improving Health Systems.  Letter of Intent (LOI) due February 4, 2020.

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Foundation Grants

• Upcoming due dates for foundation funding applications (RFAs) HERE  New due dates added for February and March!
• Foundation funding opportunities for the entire year, by month typically due HERE
• List of foundation grants awarded to CHOP PIs HERE

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Cyclical pilot and limited application grants:

• CHOP/Penn Pilot Grants (List of all recurring opportunities, with month typically due)
• Limited Application Grants (Limited number accepted from invited institutions, with month typically due)

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Funding search tools:

• All Federal Agencies (grants.gov)
• Customize your search and receive individual email alerts from the NIH, and from several foundations 
• NIH Matchmaker can be used for keyword searches of a topic area to identify NIH Institutes or Centers (ICs) that have previously funded research in that area.
• NIH search by key word for "unsolicited or investigator-initiated" Parent  Announcements
• NSF Funding Search
• Proposal central/foundation grant opportunities