Below are internal funding opportunities that have been submitted from centers and institutes across Johns Hopkins University. Please note that this may not be an all-inclusive list of internal opportunities. If you have an opportunity you would like us to publicize here and in the monthly digest email, please fill out this form by the last Wednesday of each month for inclusion in the following digest.
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INTERNAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR MAY 7, 2025 |
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Funding Sponsor | Program Title | Max Amount of Award | Due Date | Notification Date |
Merkin Peripheral Neuropathy and Nerve Regeneration Center | Micro Grants | $20,000 | Rolling basis through July 2, 2025 | Within 4 weeks |
We are requesting submissions for single-purpose projects to generate preliminary data or complete an ongoing research activity related to peripheral neuropathies and nerve regeneration. Types of projects that will be supported by this mechanism include generating omics datasets or transgenic mice, purchasing costly reagents for a specific experiment or small equipment. These applications will be reviewed in an expedited manner and a funding decision will be made within 4 weeks of the application. Eligibility: Junior faculty or senior post-doctoral fellow who finished two years of training at Johns Hopkins.
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Office of the Vice Provost for Research | JHU Pivot Grants | $150,000 | Rolling basis | TBD |
JHU Pivot Grants will provide short-term support to faculty members experiencing unexpected federal research funding disruptions. These funds are intended to support pivots of research program through targeted, flexible awards to be spent over the course of 12 months. Funding can be used to support research personnel (faculty, students, postdocs, staff) who had been supported by terminated federal research awards, as well as other necessary research needs including equipment, materials, or services. Eligibility: Faculty across all ranks and divisions who were PI/MPI/Co-PI on at least one terminated federal award are eligible. Those who received partial terminations are also eligible. Applications from pre-tenure faculty will receive particular consideration.
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Office of the Vice Provost for Research | JHU Bridge Grants | $100,000 | Rolling basis | TBD |
JHU Bridge Grants will provide short-term support to sustain research programs that have been financially affected by significant delays in federal grant awards. Departments/divisions or schools must apply on behalf of researchers facing a gap in support due to a delay in receipt of sponsored funding (e.g., delay of a notice of renewal, delayed payment after notice of award). Funding can be used to support research personnel (faculty, students, postdocs, staff), as well as other necessary research needs including equipment, materials, or services. These funds are intended to sustain research programs with a high likelihood of funding being released in the near future and where there is insufficient support from other grants, discretionary funds, or departmental/school sources in the interim. Eligibility: Department chair/vice deans of research may apply for University cost sharing of bridge funding for research programs for faculty across all ranks and divisions, provided that they were PI/MPI/Co-PI on at least one federal award that has experienced a major delay in receipt of sponsored funding (i.e., delay of a notice of renewal or non-competitive continuation, delay of payment after notice of award). Given limited availability of funds, pre-tenure faculty may be prioritized in the selection process. Awards are not intended to invest in new areas for research (see Pivot Grants).
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Office of the Vice Provost for Research | PhD Thesis and Postdoc Research Completion Program | One year of support; allowable costs are the same as federal training awards | Rolling basis | TBD |
The PhD Thesis and Postdoc Research Completion Program aims to provide financial support to PhD students who are completing their dissertations and postdoctoral fellows who had been expecting support from awarded federal research grants that were terminated. This includes terminated grants to students and postdocs themselves (such as F31s, F32s, R36s, or K awards) or institutional training awards (e.g. T32). Eligibility: Applicants must be a PhD student in good standing who has advanced to candidacy and is actively working on dissertation research, or a postdoc already employed at the university with a contract end date beyond May 1, 2025. Applicants must have had expected funding from a terminated federal research grant that was either awarded directly to the student (e.g., F31) or was awarded to a faculty PI with student/postdoc support explicitly budgeted. Applicants must have a recommendation from their program director and dissertation advisor, for PhD students, or their postdoc supervisor, for postdoctoral fellows, confirming the funding gap and lack of alternative sources of funding.
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Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute | Strategic Consultation Grants for Baltimore City | $10,000 | Rolling basis | TBD |
This Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute’s (UHI) funding opportunity is intended to advance health and health equity in Baltimore by supporting faculty working directly with the Baltimore City government. Funds will be awarded to proposals that respond to requests from the city government for specific assistance on significant projects that improve the health of the city. Examples of the types of activities that are eligible for funding include collaborating to draft a grant application on behalf of the city, conducting an evaluation of a city effort, a specific short-term research project to answer a question of interest to the city, a policy review and a memo with recommendations for a specific agency. Eligibility: Faculty from all schools of the Johns Hopkins University are eligible to apply (this includes scientists, research associates, assistant professors, associate professors, and full professors). All proposals require a collaborating Baltimore city (e.g., the Health Department) or quasi-city (e.g., The Family League) entity with an individual identified within that agency as the key partner on the project.
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Novo Nordisk, Evotec, and Johns Hopkins University | Novo Nordisk and Evotec LAB eN2 – Johns Hopkins University Collaboration | $4,000,000 | Rolling basis | About two months |
Johns Hopkins University has entered into a research collaboration with Novo Nordisk and Evotec called LAB eN2 to accelerate the translation of academic discoveries into IND-ready candidates with the potential to improve patient care in cardio-metabolic diseases and rare blood disorders. The goal of the collaboration is to fund research at Johns Hopkins University facilitating the identification of new targets, disease biology insights and novel research tools for the treatment of cardio-metabolic diseases. Ideas for a proposed project should be submitted in a Project Concept Form to be considered for a full proposal application. Research areas of interest: Diabetes, obesity, chronic diseases, rare diseases, technology platforms, modality agnostic. Eligibility: All JHU faulty (assistant, associate, and full professors) are eligible to submit a pre-proposal.
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The Ignite Fund | The Ignite Fund | Typically $1,000 | Rolling basis | TBD |
The Ignite Fund offers Hopkins student entrepreneurs access to funding throughout the academic year. The fund’s purpose is to support discrete tasks that will help move a venture forward. In focusing funding this way, we hope to provide student ventures access to capital at key moments. Applications must identify a single discrete task to be funded. Applicant(s) must clearly demonstrate how the task to be achieved by the funding will impact their venture’s next steps. All proposals will be considered, but, in light of limited funding, successful applications will emphasize how to make the most out of minor amounts. Eligibility: All ventures with at least one current JHU student founder. Ventures who have won Ignite Fund awards previously may apply again if they have completed the closing process (provision of final progress report and receipts) prior to their newest application.
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