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 APRIL 3, 2024 |
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| Funding Sponsor | Program Title | Max Amount of Award | Due Date | Notification Date |
| SNF Agora Institute | SNF Agora Faculty Grant | $20,000 | April 7, 2024 | TBD |
| The grant program encourages and supports work by JHU faculty that is complementary to SNF Agora’s mission—including scholarship, convenings, public engagement, policy briefings, and more. SNF Agora wants to support and amplify this work through its institute, and foster faculty collaboration across the university on ideas and efforts that could reinvigorate global democracy and the civic spaces that fuel it. The SNF Agora Faculty Grants Program typically provides smaller grants (less than $5,000) to support faculty work but may also provide one larger grant per year with up to $20,000 in funding. Applicants can propose new projects or seek funding to supplement ongoing projects that are closely connected to SNF Agora’s mission. Eligibility: Full-time faculty from across Johns Hopkins University are eligible to apply: Berman Institute of Bioethics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Carey Business School, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Peabody Institute, School of Education, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, Whiting School of Engineering. Priority will be given to faculty from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
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| Johns Hopkins Specialized Center of Research Excellence in Sex Differences and The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine |
Seed Grants for Research on Sex/Gender Differences | $50,000 (direct costs) | April 8, 2024 | May 2024 |
| The Johns Hopkins Specialized Center for Research Excellence (SCORE) in Sex and Age Differences in Immunity to Influenza (SADII), in collaboration with the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine, plans to fund a seed grant of $50,000 to enable junior faculty to conduct research using a variety of methods related to sex and gender differences and the intersection of sex and gender. Areas of research must broadly involve the immune system, inflammatory conditions and the microbiome and could include, but are not limited to aging, allergy, asthma, cancer, inflammatory diseases of diverse tissues and health conditions, autoimmunity, intersectionality, infectious diseases (including COVID-19), pregnancy, and vaccinology. These can be studies involving basic biomedical research, clinical research, epidemiological analyses (including secondary data analyses), health services, qualitative research, or social sciences research. The goals of the grants are 1) To promote research examining sex and gender and the intersection between sex and gender; 2) To facilitate the research careers of junior faculty across Johns Hopkins University and enable them to use these data to generate grant applications; 3) To Foster interdisciplinary research collaborations. Eligibility: PI must be an Instructor or Assistant Scientist/Assistant Professor (no more than 6 years post training) from any Johns Hopkins School. Collaborations involving collaborations between two or more schools will be favored. All proposals that involve human participants must be approved by or under review of an IRB to receive funding.
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| Johns Hopkins Gupta-Klinsky India Institute and Koita Centre for Digital Health, IIT-Bombay |
Breakthrough Research Grants Program | $60,000 | April 9, 2024 | May 15, 2024 |
| The Breakthrough Research Grants Program provides funding for pilot projects led by faculty members from Koita Center for Digital Health, IIT-Bombay (KCDH), and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) that involve interdisciplinary collaborations. Digital technologies are increasingly being used to drive improvements in health outcomes. This opportunity is focused on Digital Health, defined as the “use of information and communications technologies in medicine and public health to manage illnesses, health risks and promote wellness” (Ronquillo et al. 2022). The WHO, in its Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025 outlines the opportunities that the use of digital information and communication technologies present for the achievement of all 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Such technologies can include the following 7 areas (but are not limited to): large language models in healthcare; healthcare applications; healthcare data management; healthcare analytics and AI/ML; consumer health & telemedicine; computational biology & bioinformatics; population health & public health policy. Proposals in the thematic areas of Non-Communicable Diseases, Mental Health, Infectious Diseases, Maternal and Child Health, Health Systems Strengthening, and Climate Change & Environmental Security will be preferred. Eligibility: Co-principal investigators must include researchers from both funding partners, JHU and KCDH. JHU applicants must be full-time faculty at a Johns Hopkins-affiliated School (Research Associate, Assistant Scientist, or Associate scientist or Instructor or Assistant Professor or Associate Professor or Professor level) who are currently collaborating or planning to collaborate with a research team from KCDH. IIT-Bombay applicants must be associated faculty of the Koita Centre for Digital Health with the JHU breakthrough grant eligibility determined based on the following order of preference: Full-time faculty, Joint faculty and then PGC/DPC members.
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| Johns Hopkins Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center | Pilot / Exploratory Studies Core Award | $40,000 | LOI: April 12, 2024 Invited Full Proposals: May 24, 2024 |
Mid-April |
| Supports faculty conducting a frailty-related research project. These proposals should aim to elucidate the etiology of frailty, develop interventions/management strategies for frailty, or develop methodologies to better study physical frailty in older Americans. Proposals leveraging large databases to evaluate inflammatory etiological pathways as well as modern biomarkers for frailty, advancing translation of frailty concepts or measures for improved clinical care and management, technology focused on the treatment / management of frailty, or addressing health equity concerning frailty in older adults are particularly welcome. Applicants from historically underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. In addition to funds, awardees will have access to biostatistical/analytical, molecular measurement, clinical translational, and technological core support. Eligibility: Johns Hopkins faculty members (or persons who will be appointed as JHU faculty at by 7/1/2024).
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| Johns Hopkins Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center | Clinical Translation Core Development Project Award | $35,000 | LOI: April 12, 2024 Invited Full Proposals: May 24, 2024 |
Mid-April |
| Supports methods-focused research on clinical translation related to frailty. These proposals should aim to elucidate the etiology of frailty, develop interventions/management strategies for frailty, or develop methodologies to better study physical frailty in older Americans. Proposals leveraging large databases to evaluate inflammatory etiological pathways as well as modern biomarkers for frailty, advancing translation of frailty concepts or measures for improved clinical care and management, technology focused on the treatment / management of frailty, or addressing health equity concerning frailty in older adults are particularly welcome. Applicants from historically underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. In addition to funds, awardees will have access to biostatistical/analytical, molecular measurement, clinical translational, and technological core support. Eligibility: Johns Hopkins faculty members (or persons who will be appointed as JHU faculty at by 7/1/2024).
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| Johns Hopkins Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center | Technological Assessment and Solutions Core Award | $35,000 | LOI: April 12, 2024 Invited Full Proposals: May 24, 2024 |
Mid-April |
| Supports methods-focused research on technological projects related to frailty. These proposals should aim to elucidate the etiology of frailty, develop interventions/management strategies for frailty, or develop methodologies to better study physical frailty in older Americans. Proposals leveraging large databases to evaluate inflammatory etiological pathways as well as modern biomarkers for frailty, advancing translation of frailty concepts or measures for improved clinical care and management, technology focused on the treatment / management of frailty, or addressing health equity concerning frailty in older adults are particularly welcome. Applicants from historically underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. In addition to funds, awardees will have access to biostatistical/analytical, molecular measurement, clinical translational, and technological core support. Eligibility: Johns Hopkins faculty members (or persons who will be appointed as JHU faculty at by 7/1/2024).
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| Johns Hopkins Mid-Atlantic Center for Cardiometabolic Health Equity (MACCHE) | Pilot Project Program | $50,000 | LOI: April 15, 2024 Full Application: May 3, 2024 |
Late Spring 2024 |
| The overall goal of the MACCHE Investigator Development Core (IDC) is to expand opportunities for investigators in Maryland and Washington, D.C. who are in the early stages of their research career. The MACCHE IDC is soliciting proposals for pilot projects that support mentored research focused on health disparities related to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of cardiometabolic disease. The IDC will equip pilot project awardees (“MACCHE Scholars”) with research project funds and mentoring support from a team of health equity experts. MACCHE Scholars will also participate in didactic training in social epidemiology, health services research, health policy, community-based participatory research (CBPR), biostatistics, bioethics, clinical and behavioral interventions, and implementation science among a cohort of their peers. The Pilot Project Program will support new and early-stage investigators (ESI) with projects related to cardiometabolic disease disparities. Proposals from ESI with no previous work in health disparities will be considered if the projects are intended to establish the ESI credentials as potential cardiometabolic health equity researchers. Pilot projects may be observational, interventional, and/or community-engaged research studies. Plans for dissemination of the research findings should be described. Proposals must explicitly describe how the proposed research aligns with the overall goals of MACCHE. Eligibility: Applicants must be a post-doctoral fellow, early career faculty (Instructor, Assistant Professor, Assistant Scientist, Research Associate or equivalent), or other ESI as defined by NIH, affiliated with an academic and/or research institution within Maryland or Washington, D.C. over the course of the award. Applicants from historically underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
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| Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute | Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | $120,000 | April 15, 2024 | Mid-May to Mid-June |
| The KavliNDI Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship enables postdoctoral fellows at Johns Hopkins University to pursue cross-disciplinary research, aligned with the mission of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute (Kavli NDI), in neuroscience, engineering, and data science. Eligibility: Full-time JHU postdoctoral fellows. Fellows must be co-mentored by full-time faculty members at JHU who are eligible to serve as Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI. At least one mentor must be an existing Kavli NDI member. The PI and Co-PI must be from distinct disciplines, such that together they bridge the fields of neuroscience to engineering and/or data science. The award cannot be held concurrently with a fellowship that supports salary (or stipend) and benefits. Investigators can be PI/Co-PI on multiple applications. However, there will be a limit of one award total per PI (in each of the two categories – Postdoctoral and Doctoral fellowship). Past awardees cannot be considered. However, PI of a past awardee can apply again as a PI/Co-PI.
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| Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute | Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship Program | $80,000 | April 15, 2024 | Mid-May to Mid-June |
| The KavliNDI Distinguished Graduate Fellowship enables mid- and advanced stage graduate student trainees at Johns Hopkins University to pursue cross-disciplinary research, aligned with the mission of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute (Kavli NDI), in neuroscience, engineering, and data science. Eligibility: Full-time JHU mid-and advanced stage graduate student trainees. Fellows must be co-mentored by full-time faculty members at JHU who are eligible to serve as Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI. At least one mentor must be an existing Kavli NDI member. The PI and Co-PI must be from distinct disciplines, such that together they bridge the fields of neuroscience to engineering and/or data science. The award cannot be held concurrently with a fellowship that supports salary (or stipend) and benefits. Investigators can be PI/Co-PI on multiple applications. However, there will be a limit of one award total per PI (in each of the two categories – Postdoctoral and Doctoral fellowship). Past awardees cannot be considered. However, PI of a past awardee can apply again as a PI/Co-PI.
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| Johns Hopkins Office of the President | Johns Hopkins Campus as a Living Lab | $50,000 | Rolling basis through May 31, 2024 | Late Summer |
| The Johns Hopkins Campus as a Living Lab Program provides grants to students, researchers, and course instructors up to 50k, to conduct research and courses which test innovative campus sustainability solutions to advance the JHU Climate Action & Sustainability Plan. The program’s mission is to facilitate collaborations for campus sustainability innovations explored through research and teaching. All grant applicants must have a JHU administrative partner to provide input and access for projects utilizing campuses. Grant applicants must submit an Expression of Interest form by April 10, 2024, to ensure alignment between university stakeholders for mutually beneficial projects. Program staff can assist in matchmaking for university partnerships if applicable and early submissions are encouraged as proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Proposals may research, test or inform innovative sustainability strategies at JHU such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions, addressing climate resilience, establishing new zero waste approaches, or influencing consumer purchasing and transportation practices. Eligibility: Student grants up to $10,000 are open to undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in any school at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to conduct campus sustainability research projects. For student grants a faculty mentor is also required. Instructor grants up to $12,000 are available to faculty, staff, or doctoral instructors teaching undergraduate or graduate courses in any JHU school to incorporate applied sustainability projects into new or existing courses. Researcher grants up to $50,000 are eligible for tenured, tenure track, non-tenure track, or similar faculty- including assistant and associate professors, research scientists, instructors, and post-doctoral fellows. Applicants can apply individually or in teams and can be based on any JHU campus including Homewood, East Baltimore, Peabody, APL, and DC.
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| Johns Hopkins University Office of the Provost | Digital Education & Learning Technology Acceleration (DELTA) Grants | $75,000 | May 31, 2024 | July 2024 |
| The Provost’s Office is pleased to announce a request for proposals for Digital Education & Learning Technology Acceleration (DELTA) grants to support Johns Hopkins faculty, staff, and students who require additional funding to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative digital education initiatives with potential to enhance the Johns Hopkins online and on-campus teaching and learning enterprise. In keeping with the university’s stated priorities, the Provost’s Office is particularly interested in encouraging work that advances cross-disciplinary and cross-divisional collaboration, pursues individual and collective excellence, translates knowledge into meaningful impact, and promotes economic opportunity in Baltimore and other communities of which we are a part. The review committee will prioritize proposals that combine innovative digital education initiatives with one or more of these goals. Innovation in education can take many forms. This program is intended to surface a wide variety of ideas and fund those deemed the most promising. Potential domains include but are not necessarily limited to: pedagogy, media production, instructional design, assessment, learner engagement, project-based learning. Eligibility: Principal Investigators (PIs) may be either full-time faculty or senior staff. Projects for which a senior staff member serves as PI must be accompanied by a letter of endorsement from their school’s dean’s office. Part-time faculty, support staff, and students may participate on teams under the supervision of the PI.
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| Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute | Strategic Consultation Grants for Baltimore City | $10,000 | Rolling basis through June 30, 2024 | 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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| Johns Hopkins Merkin Peripheral Neuropathy and Nerve Regeneration (PNNR) Center | Micro-grants | $20,000 | Rolling basis through July 2, 2024 | Within four weeks of the application |
| The Johns Hopkins Merkin Peripheral Neuropathy and Nerve Regeneration (PNNR) Center has been established to advance peripheral neuropathy (PN) and nerve regeneration research, deepen the understanding of the conditions and their causes, and develop viable therapies. As part of the JHU Merkin PNNR Center’s mission to provide support to research, we offer research grants to qualified applicants. Our goal is to help researchers explore novel ideas and answer questions related to peripheral neuropathy and nerve regeneration. 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. Eligibility: Junior faculty or senior post-doctoral fellows who finished two years of training at Johns Hopkins and are committed to enhancing the science behind peripheral neuropathy and nerve regeneration.
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| Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | Tilghman Traveling Fellowship | $15,000 | Rolling basis | Rolling basis |
| Established in 1976 by Dr. and Mrs. R. Carmichael Tilghman, this traveling fellowship is to be awarded annually to young members of the Medical Faculty to assist them during a sabbatical leave of up to one year to travel outside the Baltimore area to pursue new theories, methods and techniques in their chosen discipline. The funds are to be used toward travel, living expenses, and tuition costs for up to a one year period. No salary or research costs may be paid by these funds. Applications can be submitted at any time, but should be submitted at least 60 days prior to the proposed travel. Eligibility: Both full and part time members of the Medical Faculty are eligible for consideration. The recipient must be a native-born citizen of the United States and those applicants proposing studies which have a clinical application will be given the strongest consideration.
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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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