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 MARCH 5, 2025 |
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| Hopkins Business of Health Initiative | Data-Driven Research to Advance Health and Health Care: Leveraging Truveta, a National EHR Data Platform
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Up to $30,000 | March 15, 2025 (Initial RFP) September 15, 2025 (Final RFP) |
April 15, 2025 (Initial RFP) October 31, 2025 (Final RFP) |
| The proliferation of data platforms standardizing Electronic Health Record (EHR) data across health systems presents a major opportunity for exploring new innovative research ideas that could not previously be addressed. This RFP aims to capitalize on this opportunity for researchers at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) by funding promising research and by fostering a user community to develop best practices for research using these new data platforms. Eligibility: The PI must be a full-time faculty member of Johns Hopkins University.
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| JHU Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) | Pilot/Exploratory Studies Core Award | $40,000 | LOI: March 15, 2025 Full proposals: May 1, 2025 |
June 16, 2025 |
| The Pilot/Exploratory Studies Core Award supports research costs for faculty conducting a frailty-related research project. Proposals should aim to improve clinical care and management and/or extend healthy, independent life for older adults via the translation of frailty concepts or measures. Highly prioritized areas include developing or implementing interventions/management strategies to prevent frailty or ameliorate its adverse effects, evaluating etiological pathways for frailty, developing novel biomarkers for early detection of frailty risk, preventing falls and other adverse events to which frail older adults are vulnerable, and assuring equal access to the health benefits of frailty research for all older adults. We welcome research along the entire spectrum of targets and approaches for ameliorating frailty, including basic science/pharmaceutical development, disease management, lifestyle interventions, technological innovations, AI/machine learning/statistical approaches to accelerate discovery, and the influence of familial or community health factors. Eligibility: The proposed principal investigator must be from Johns Hopkins. Applicants from all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.
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| JHU Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) | Research Education Core (REC) Award | $50,000 | LOI: March 15, 2025 Full proposals: May 1, 2025 |
June 16, 2025 |
| The Research Education Core (REC) Award supports early career faculty (without prior NIH grant funding as PI) conducting a frailty-related research project and engaging in mentored career development activities. Proposals should aim to improve clinical care and management and/or extend healthy, independent life for older adults via the translation of frailty concepts or measures. Highly prioritized areas include developing or implementing interventions/management strategies to prevent frailty or ameliorate its adverse effects, evaluating etiological pathways for frailty, developing novel biomarkers for early detection of frailty risk, preventing falls and other adverse events to which frail older adults are vulnerable, and assuring equal access to the health benefits of frailty research for all older adults. We welcome research along the entire spectrum of targets and approaches for ameliorating frailty, including basic science/pharmaceutical development, disease management, lifestyle interventions, technological innovations, AI/machine learning/statistical approaches to accelerate discovery, and the influence of familial or community health factors. Eligibility: The proposed principal investigator must be from Johns Hopkins. Applicants from all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.
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| Office of the Provost | Dialogue Innovation Fund | Up to $25,000 | March 17, 2025 | June 1, 2025 |
| The Dialogue Innovation Fund is a new university-wide grant program that will support faculty endeavors to teach, model and incorporate into the classroom and campus life the values and norms of dialogue across difference. Eligibility: The program is open to any full-time Johns Hopkins faculty member. Proposals must be led by a faculty member, but applicants are encouraged to partner with staff members, students or non-affiliates as appropriate in developing and submitting their proposals.
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| 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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| 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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