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 NOVEMBER 5, 2025 |
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| Funding Sponsor | Program Title | Max Amount of Award | Due Date | Notification Date |
| Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures | Hexcite: Excited for Healthcare | $10,000 | November 14, 2025 | November – December 2025 |
| Hexcite is a 16-week, AI and digital health venture lab, where Johns Hopkins innovators transform digital health ideas into fundable startups through customer discovery, AI-powered prototyping, and deliberate team building. We embrace the messy, early stages of entrepreneurship to help participants validate whether their ideas can become viable startups while building the skills and networks needed to pursue them. Joining Hexcite instantly connects you with Johns Hopkins’ leaders in AI and digital health. Participants will validate ideas through AI-based prototyping, customer discovery, and team building, guided by weekly JHTV-curated workshops that advance commercialization. Throughout Hexcite, mentors and teammates will help with your challenges. At the end of the program, a select project is awarded $10,000 to accelerate and solidify the and build early traction. Eligibility: (Idea Track) Faculty, clinicians, or staff from JHHS or JHU, Graduate students (may receive credit), or Postdocs with an idea or project in digital health. (Operator Track) Faculty, clinicians, or staff from JHHS or JHU, Graduate students (may receive credits), Postdocs, JHU Alumni, or Local entrepreneurs with experience in the digital health field. |
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| Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases | Discovery Award | $65,000 | November 21, 2025 | By March 6, 2025 |
| The Fisher Center Discovery Award (FCDA) aims to support research projects that focus on improving the understanding of human illness, patient outcomes, or public health in North America. The award is specifically designed for trainees, new investigators, and junior faculty looking to acquire pilot data and grant-writing experience. Eligibility: Full-time JH faculty or trainees (with a JH faculty mentor) from any school or department/division. |
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| Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases | Impact Award | $250,000 | November 21, 2025 | By March 6, 2025 |
| The Fisher Center Impact Award (FCIA) aims to support research projects that focus on improving the understanding of human illness, patient outcomes, or public health in North America. The award is open exclusively to full-time Johns Hopkins faculty and is designed for experienced investigators to expand on previous Fisher-funded projects or new proposals related to the Center’s dedicated topic areas. Past Fisher Center award funding is not required. Eligibility: Full-time JH faculty from any school or department/division. |
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| Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | Swim Across America (SAA) Translational Cancer Research Awards | $150,000 | November 20, 2025 | End of December |
| SAA Awards will fund translational cancer research projects. The expectation is that SAA Awards will spark synergistic interactions among investigators and catalyze scientific achievements of the highest quality and impact. Applications are sought focused on translational research that aims to translate findings in fundamental research into medical practice and meaningful health outcomes. Applications are similarly free to focus on specific organ sites or on issues that span multiple cancer types. Research projects that help address cancer healthcare disparities are encouraged. Applications will be evaluated by reviewers from the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (SKCCC) and review will be based on their potential to influence our scientific understanding of cancer and our clinical, operational, and financial management of the disease. Eligibility: Each proposal must include a SKCCC Member as principal investigator (PI) or co-principal investigator (Co-PI). A SKCCC Member may only participate in one application as PI or Co-PI. The proposal cannot be duplicative with other funding, at the time of the award. Overlap will be assessed by SKCCC staff on a Just-In-Time model. Applications including multiple researchers will be favorably received, as will applications that have the potential to bring new approaches and expertise to bear on important problems in cancer research. |
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| The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions | Early Stage Investigator Pilot Grant Awards | $25,000 | December 1, 2025 | TBD |
| The overarching goal of the Center’s Investigator Development Core (IDC) is to prepare the next generation of researchers from marginalized backgrounds to conduct research focused on place-based determinants of health disparities and minority health. This research is critically important and has potential to bridge research from discovery to implementation. The IDC of the HCHDS is soliciting proposals for pilot projects that have potential to advance the scientific understanding of place-based determinants as it relates to health disparities or minority health in one of the five focus issues of the Initiative (i.e., addiction and overdose, environmental challenges, food systems for health, risks to adolescent health, and violence). Place-based is defined broadly as the physical/built environment, sociocultural environment, policy/regulatory environment, and the healthcare system. The Pilot Grant Program will support Early Stage Investigators (ESI) who are interested in developing as place-based disparities researchers with a subject matter interest in one of the five focus issues of the Initiative. Proposals from ESI with no previous work in place-based determinants of health disparities or minority health will be considered if the projects are intended to establish the ESI credentials as potential place-based researchers. Pilot grants should conceptualize their research project using the NIMHD research framework. Successful projects will provide evidence that will inform policy and practice, and provide preliminary studies to support the recipients’ pursuits of federal and/or foundation funding to support a larger follow up project. Dissemination of the research findings is encouraged and plans to share the research results should be described. Eligibility: Applicants must be a post-doctoral fellow, junior faculty (Assistant Professor, Assistant Research Professor, Assistant Scientist, Research Associate or equivalent), or other ESI as defined by NIH. Applicants must be based at the Johns Hopkins University (Homewood campus, Carey School of Business, Applied Physics Laboratory) or JHMI campus (Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Nursing or School of Medicine). Applicants from all populations are encouraged to apply. |
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| Office of the Vice Provost for Research | Catalyst Awards | $100,000 | February 15, 2026 | Late Spring |
| These grant awards support the promising research and creative endeavors of our early career faculty with the goal of launching them on a path to a sustainable and rewarding academic career. The program encompasses funding, mentoring opportunities, and the chance to join a cohort of peers at a similar stage in their career. The funds are allocated on a competitive basis in response to an annual university-wide request for applications. Eligibility: Applications from early-career faculty in any academic or professional discipline at the university are encouraged to apply. The term “early-career” is defined as any full-time tenure-track faculty member who was first appointed to a full-time, tenure track faculty position at any institution within no less than three (3) years and no more than ten (10) years as of July 1 of the deadline year. Eligible 2026 applicants were appointed to their first full-time, tenure track faculty position between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2023. If your appointment started between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024, you will be eligible for the 2027 awards cycle. Non-tenure-track Research Associates and Research Scientists at the School of Medicine (SOM), Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH), the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE), and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS) are not eligible for the Catalyst Award but are encouraged to consider applying for the Discovery Award. Only one application per person, per year. Approximately 20 Catalyst Awards will be granted. Successful applicants will not be eligible for subsequent Catalyst Awards. |
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| Office of the Vice Provost for Research | Discovery Awards | $150,000 | February 15, 2026 | Late Spring |
| More than ever, the answers to the most challenging questions cannot be accomplished entirely within one academic discipline, or even one division. The Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards provide grant awards to cross divisional teams, comprised of faculty and/or non-faculty members from at least two schools or affiliates of the university, who are poised to arrive at important discoveries or creative works. The expectation is that these awards will spark new, synergistic interactions between investigators across the institution and lead to work of the highest quality and impact. These awards are not intended to support already established projects or minimal extensions of ongoing research or professional programs. Eligibility: Only one application per lead PI will be accepted. There is no limit to the number of proposals you can participate in as a co-PI. If you were the lead PI of a funded 2024 Discovery Award or 2025 Discovery Award, you are not eligible to apply as the lead PI of a 2026 award. Principal Investigators may submit new proposals as PI after a two-cycle waiting period following a funded grant. Applications from all academic and professional disciplines at the university are welcome, and may cover fundamental, applied, or clinical research in any field, as well as the development of applied creative projects in the arts and humanities. Applications must include at least two faculty members and/or APL staff members who hold primary appointments in two separate schools, divisions, or university affiliates. For example, Peabody and SOM co-PIs qualify as an eligible partnership, but two faculty members from different SOM departments would not qualify without a third co-PI from a different school or affiliate. This award is meant to spark collaboration between faculty/staff. Applications are open to tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure JHU faculty, including clinical, research, practice, and teaching faculty. Part-time and adjunct faculty, emeriti professors, and lecturers may apply as co-PIs. Visiting professors are ineligible. Students and postdoctoral fellows cannot serve as co-PI, however, they can be included in the budget. |
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| Merkin Peripheral Neuropathy and Nerve Regeneration Center | Micro Grants | $20,000 | Rolling basis through July 1, 2026 | 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. 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 Johns Hopkins University student founder. Ventures who have won Ignite Fund awards previously may apply again, but not in the same academic year. |
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