Data Science Funding

The funding opportunities listed below are coordinated by the Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies (ODSET). Funding opportunities  from across NIAID will be added on an ongoing basis. For more NIH funding opportunities, visit the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts.

NIAID Funding Opportunity Announcements

NIAID has multiple funding opportunities currently open to support new data science research, training, and technology development to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases.

RFA-AI-23-077: Center of Excellence for Systems Modeling of Infection and Immunity across Biological Scales (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed 

The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to support the establishment of one (1) Center of Excellence (CoE) to coordinate the research community of infectious and immune-mediated disease (IID) computational modelers and advance IID modeling research across biological scales. The CoE must include three (3) Coordinating Cores and two (2) Research Projects to advance and integrate bridge models across scales in the context of IID, including HIV/AIDS. The CoE will accelerate multi-scale model development, sharing and re-use, and support collaboration to benefit the entire IID research community.

This NOFO requires a Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDP), which will be assessed as part of the scientific and technical peer review evaluation.  Applications that fail to include a PEDP will be considered incomplete and will be withdrawn. Applicants are strongly encouraged to read the NOFO instructions carefully and view the available PEDP guidance material.

Read more about this NOFO, including application instructions and contacts.

NOT-AI-23-009: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI)–Administrative Supplements to Prepare Data Assets for Infectious and Immune-mediated Diseases for Inclusion into the NIAID Data Ecosystem

The purpose of this NOSI is to highlight interest in supporting supplemental funding applications for award recipients currently funded by participating NIH Institutes and Centers to prepare data assets relevant for infectious- and immune-mediated disease research for inclusion in the NIAID Data Ecosystem. Research may include studies that strive to generate a better understanding of mechanisms for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious- and immune mediated diseases.

Read more about this NOSI, including Frequently Asked Questions.

NOT-AI-21-011: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI)–Secondary Analysis of Existing Datasets for Advancing Immune-mediated and Infectious Disease Research

This NOSI invites applications proposing innovative informatics/data science projects that seek to answer novel scientific questions and address knowledge gaps in basic, translational and clinical, immune-mediated and infectious diseases by using data in repositories and knowledgebases. Applications must utilize at least one existing dataset generated by NIAID funded research projects/programs and/or existing data available in repositories or knowledgebases funded by NIAID at the time the application is submitted; propose a mechanism to, and share results generated from analysis of existing data, tools associated with the analysis, and other digital assets adhering to FAIR principles; and credit all contributors including the data generators.

NOT-OD-23-165: Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science

This interagency funding opportunity between the NIH and the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports innovative, high-risk/high-reward research with the promise of disruptive transformations in biomedical research. Proposals submitted must make fundamental contributions to two or more disciplines, such as computer or information sciences, engineering, social, behavioral, biomedical, cognitive and/or economic sciences, to improve the fundamental understanding of biomedical and health related processes and address a key health problem. Information about the opportunity, including proposal guidelines, can be found at the link above or from NSF announcement NSF 23-614.

NIAID Research Career Development Awards

NIAID supports several individual career development (K) awards which strengthen biomedical research careers for scientists from diverse backgrounds. These follow standard due dates and review cycles. Two awards (K01, K25) focus on data science and epidemiology research areas:

K01: Mentored Research Scientist Development Award

Qualified applicants must have a research or health-professional doctoral degree and research must focus on epidemiology and/or data science. Per K01 guidelines in the 2019 Guide notice (NOT-AI-19-061), “This includes but is not limited to computational modeling, bioinformatics, big data and advanced statistical analyses in the prevention, treatment, discovery, prediction or forecasting of infectious, immunologic and/or allergic diseases.” Search for NIAID K01 Funding Opportunities to get a current list.

K25, PA-20-199: Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award

Qualified applicants must have an advanced doctoral degree in a quantitative science field and must be at a postdoctoral to senior faculty level. Additionally, they must demonstrate productivity in their field and must demonstrate intentions to expand their research such that their contributions to behavioral, biomedical, bioimaging, or bioengineering research will increase. Note that there may be restrictions based on past NIH funding –details can be found in the parent funding opportunity announcement (PA-20-199).

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