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 FEBRUARY 5, 2025 |
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| Funding Sponsor | Program Title | Max Amount of Award | Due Date | Notification Date |
| Office of the Vice Provost for Research | Catalyst Awards | $100,000 | February 14, 2025 | 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 2025 applicants were appointed to their first full-time, tenure track faculty position between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2022. If your appointment started between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023, you will be eligible for the 2026 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 | $175,000 | February 14, 2025 | 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 2023 Discovery Award or 2024 Discovery Award, you are not eligible to apply as the lead PI of a 2025 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 representing at least two separate schools/divisions or affiliates of the university. Applications are open to tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure JHU faculty, including clinical, research, practice, and teaching faculty. 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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| Office of the Provost | Nexus Awards – Research | $300,000 | February 14, 2025 | TBD |
| The Nexus Awards are a universitywide initiative launched in 2023 to support convening, research, and teaching anchored at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center. Nexus Awards – Research will help bring together some of the greatest minds to tackle some of the world’s most difficult challenges in order to best serve our ever-changing world. Proposals may cover fundamental, clinical, or applied research, or projects within the arts and humanities. While not required, proposals may include an external, DC-based partner. Proposals must make significant use of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center. Eligibility: Applications from all academic and professional disciplines within Johns Hopkins University are invited. Applications must be led by a faculty member representing at least one school/division or affiliate of the university from the following list: APL; BI; BSPH; CBS; CTY; HLTCOE; Jhpiego; KSAS; Peabody Institute; SAIS; SOE; SOM; SON; Sheridan Libraries; and WSE. While applications from a single faculty member are welcome, the Nexus Awards–Research are especially interested in proposals from multiple faculty members that span more than one school/division of the university. Only one Nexus Award–Research proposal per lead PI will be accepted. There is no limit to the number of Nexus Award–Research proposals one may submit as co-PI. Students and postdoctoral fellows are not eligible to serve as lead or co-instructors on Nexus Award–Research applications.
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| Office of the Provost | Nexus Awards – Teaching | $25,000 | February 14, 2025 | TBD |
| The Nexus Awards are a universitywide initiative launched in 2023 to support convening, research, and teaching anchored at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center. Nexus Awards–Teaching seek to educate individuals dedicated to attaining holistic understandings of complicated problems in need of multi-pronged answers. Applicants may propose new undergraduate and/or graduate courses to be taught entirely in Washington, D.C., at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center; new undergraduate and/or graduate courses to be taught in Baltimore that will make significant use of the Hopkins Bloomberg Center; or the addition of new Hopkins Bloomberg Center-based components to existing undergraduate and/or graduate courses currently taught in Baltimore. Applicants may also propose co-curricular opportunities based at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center that span multiple departments or schools/divisions. Eligibility: Applications from all academic and professional disciplines within Johns Hopkins University are invited. Applications must be led by a faculty member representing at least one school/division or affiliate of the university from the following list: APL; BI; BSPH; CBS; CTY; HLTCOE; Jhpiego; KSAS; Peabody Institute; SAIS; SOE; SOM; SON; Sheridan Libraries; and WSE. While applications from a single faculty member are welcome, the Nexus Awards–Teaching are especially interested in proposals from multiple faculty members that span more than one school/division of the university. Only one Nexus Award–Teaching proposal per lead instructor will be accepted. Students and postdoctoral fellows are not eligible to serve as lead or co-instructors on Nexus Award–Teaching applications.
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| Office of the Provost | Nexus Awards – Convening | $100,000 | February 14, 2025 | TBD |
| The Nexus Awards are a universitywide initiative launched in 2023 to support convening, research, and teaching anchored at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center. Applications may propose a conference or convening on any topic. These may be one-time events or a series of related events. Conferences or convenings must occur at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center. Eligibility: Applications from all academic and professional disciplines within Johns Hopkins University are invited. Applications must be led by a faculty member representing at least one school/division or affiliate of the university from the following list: APL; BI; BSPH; CBS; CTY; HLTCOE; Jhpiego; KSAS; Peabody Institute; SAIS; SOE; SOM; SON; Sheridan Libraries; and WSE. While applications from a single faculty member are welcome, the Nexus Awards–Convening are especially interested in proposals from multiple faculty members that span more than one school/division of the university. Only one Nexus Award– Convening proposal per lead faculty member will be accepted. Students and postdoctoral fellows are not eligible to serve as lead or co-instructors on Nexus Award– Convening applications.
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| Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical & Translational Research | Team Science Awards | “Coffee break” package, either a $2,000 prize or gift in-kind of ICTR services, promo video | February 21, 2025 | April 11, 2025 |
| Team Science Awards are managed/supported by the Community and Collaboration Core. While many awards still go to individuals, advances in translational research are increasingly dependent on teams of individuals with different perspectives and skills working collaboratively towards a common goal. The concept of Team Science answers the question, “How do groups, particularly interdisciplinary groups, move through a process together?” Although seemingly simple, the field that studies the Science of Team Science has demonstrated that successfully conducting science in teams can be anything but. Thus, the goal of this award is to recognize the great work Johns Hopkins researchers have been doing as interdisciplinary teams and to highlight best practices and share lessons learned in Team Science. Eligibility: Any person within Johns Hopkins who is part of a Team Science biomedical research project is eligible to submit an application on behalf of a team. A Team Science project is defined as any group of interdisciplinary researchers working collaboratively toward a specific scientific goal. Interdisciplinary research teams can look like many things. It might be cross-school collaborations (e.g, Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, Engineering, Arts & Sciences, Education, or Business), collaborations across different department or fields of study, or collaborations with different types of organizations and institutions (e.g. community-academic partnerships). (See the National Cancer Institute’s Collaboration and Team Science Field Guide for more information on Team Science.) The team must include at least three members, be led or co-led by a Johns Hopkins researcher, and have worked together on more than one research protocol.
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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 | 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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| 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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