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Funding Opportunities
NIGMS places great emphasis on the support of individual, investigator-initiated grants within its scientific mission areas. Most grants are for research projects (R01/R35), but NIGMS also funds small business (SBIR/STTR) grants as well as some research resources. The Institute encourages research in certain scientific areas through requests for applications, Notices of Special Interest, and program announcements.
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NIGMS also participates in the NIH Loan Repayment Program (LRP) to enhance the quality of the scientific community through incentives for biomedical and behavioral researchers and trainees. Eligibility criteria and other details can be found on our LRP page.
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This decision tree will help identify potential fit to one or more notices of funding opportunity (NOFOs) NIGMS generally uses to fund research project grants (RPGs), including R35, R16, R15, and R01.
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Funding Resources
Submitting an Application
- Research Programs and Contacts
- Research Grant Mechanisms
- Grant Application and Review Process
- Electronic Grant Submission
- Summary Statement and Just-In-Time Actions: Research Grants, Fellowships, and TWD
- Talking to NIH Staff About Your Application and Grant
- Considerations for Multiple Principal Investigator (MPI) Applications
- Data Management and Sharing Plan Expectations for NIGMS Grantees
Post-Award Information
- Message to NIGMS Investigators
- Attribution of NIH/NIGMS Support
- Budget and Administrative Issues
- Monitoring and Progress Reports
About NIGMS Research Grants
- NIGMS Funding Policies
- Research Using Human Subjects or Specimens
- Data Management and Sharing Plan Expectations for NIGMS Grantees
- NIGMS Funding Trends Analyses (including percentiles and success rates)
- NIGMS Capacity Building Programs - IDeA, SEPA, SCORE, NARCH
- NIGMS Programs in Specific Science Areas
- Research Organisms
- Search Funded Projects Using NIH RePORTER