Opportunities and Announcements

Talk to a program officer—start with Contact Staff for Help in the Strategy for NIH Funding.

Learn about grant types and opportunities; get advice about whether your area of science fits NIAID's mission.

Learn about funding opportunities and our future plans.

• For information and advice, read our Strategy for NIH Funding.
  • Choose the Grant to learn about grant types and caveats for choosing one.
  • Choose Approach and Find FOAs to decide whether to submit an investigator-initiated application or respond to an initiative.
• Also see how to benefit from concepts:
  • Concepts: Potential Opportunities. Find our lists of concepts.
  • See how Concepts May Turn Into Initiatives.
• Learn more at Five Steps to Finding NIAID's High-Priority Areas.

Choose a funding opportunity at NIH, NIAID, or elsewhere.

• NIAID opportunities
  • Grants: NIAID Funding Opportunities List
  • Contracts: NIAID Solicitations
• NIH opportunities
  • Solicited research—NIH Guide
  • Investigator-initiated applications—NIH's Parent Announcements
• Other opportunities
  • NIAID's List of Foundations and Other Funding Sources
  • NHC’s Health Research Funding—for applications that were reviewed but not funded
  • proposalCENTRAL

Find more NIAID grant portals. Go to our other Grants portals by stage, audience, and science area.

Watch for policy changes and other news.

• NIAID Funding Newsletter and Funding Blog—biweekly newsletter.
• Subscribe to Email Alerts—newsletter, funding opportunities, paylines, and other interest areas.
• Special Announcements—all NIAID-relevant NIH Guide announcements except funding opportunities.
• Top Policy Changes—summary of major policy announcements for one year.

Subscribe to NIH announcements.

• NIH Guide
  • Listserv
• NIH Extramural Nexus
  • Listserv
• eRA Commons News
  • Listservs

Find more information from NIAID and NIH.

• Standard Operating Procedures
  • Application section
    • Find Topics and Opportunities
  • Requests for Proposals, Initiative Development section
• Questions and Answers
  • Application section
    • Find Topics and Opportunities
  • Contracts section
  • Finding Help
  • Using the NIAID Research Funding Web Site

Find more links on NIH grants.

• Grants Policy Notices—NIH Guide list; Special Announcements—NIAID's list
• NIH Grants Policy Statement
• Standard NIH Submission Dates