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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 6, 2024

Funding Sponsor Program Title Max Amount of Award Due Date Notification Date
Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research CFAR Scholar Grants for Faculty Development $75,000 (direct costs) Letter of Intent: March 11, 2024
Full Application: April 29, 2024
June 15, 2024
The Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research provides pilot grants to enable and support HIV/AIDS research projects. The primary purpose of these awards is to strengthen the individual’s ability to secure independent NIH research funding with foci on R- and K-series awards.
Eligibility: Applicants must be appointed full-time Instructors; Research Associates; or Assistant Professors in the Schools of Public Health, Medicine, or Nursing; or Assistant Scientists or Assistant Lecturers in the School of Public Health at the time of application. Junior faculty at other JHU schools are eligible to apply. Postdoctoral fellows may only apply with a letter from their department chair confirming a pending faculty appointment. The award will not be granted until the faculty appointment is active. If a postdoc is on a T32, CFAR funds cannot pay for training and stipends that are already paid for by the T32. Associate Professors in the field of HIV are eligible to apply if there is no history of an R01 award or its equivalent and the criteria of an NIH New and Early Stage Investigator are met.

 

Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute Demonstration Projects $200,000 March 15, 2024 April 8, 2024
The Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute is proud to announce the launch of the Demonstration Projects funding program, aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of data science (DS) and artificial intelligence (AI) tools in critical applications. This program is oriented towards translational efforts rather than fundamental research. The funding program will support long-term Demonstration Projects on high-impact translational projects that bring researchers, engineers, and/or clinicians across the institution and potentially external partners together. The Demonstration Projects are expected to demonstrate the substantial gains that can be achieved by developing, implementing, and deploying DS or AI within a research program that is already externally funded. The program is expected to accelerate translation and lead to strong additional external funding, philanthropic support, and new partnerships.
Eligibility:  All Johns Hopkins faculty, clinicians, and APL professional staff. The proposing team must already have external support for their research project or program. A team that has already been working together to some degree will have a competitive advantage.

 

Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures Louis B. Thalheimer Fund for Translational Research $100,000 March 17, 2024 TBD
The Louis B. Thalheimer Fund for Translational Research awards grants to innovators that build on preliminary data to validate and de-risk Johns Hopkins technology on a path to commercial application. The Fund provides seed funding for vital proof-of-concept and validation studies of valuable technologies at Johns Hopkins. The fund aims to support technology commercialization across all industries.
Eligibility: At least one investigator must have a full, joint, or courtesy faculty appointment at Johns Hopkins University. Only one application per Lead Principal Investigator per application cycle. The proposed project cannot include a technology, defined by case number, that has received an internal JHU translational funding award during the current fiscal year. The invention must not be subject to any pre-existing exclusive licenses, non-exclusive licenses, or options.

 

Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism Undergraduate Summer Research Awards $2,000 March 31, 2024 April 22, 2024
The Chloe Center is seeking to support undergraduate research that falls into at least one of the four tracks of the proposed Critical Diaspora Studies major: Migration and Borders; Global Indigeneities; Empires, Wars, and Carceralities; Solidarities, Social Movements, and Citizenship. Research projects that consider the history and present of Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore in terms of racism, immigration, and colonialism are also welcome.
Eligibility: Undergraduate students.

 

Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism Graduate Research and Travel Grants $3,000 March 31, 2024 April 22, 2024
The Chloe Center is seeking to fund graduate research and travel during the summer or academic year that concerns racism, immigration, and colonialism, broadly construed. All disciplines and methodologies are welcome (if IRB approval is necessary, please note this in application). This grant should be used to explore field sites, research modalities, and theoretical questions in preparation for more extended dissertation research. Eligible expenses include travel and accommodation costs for research work, digitization and transcription costs, hiring of local researchers, or similar activities.
Eligibility: Graduate students who have not yet advanced to candidacy.

 

Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (ICTR) ICTR Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot (ATIP) Program $50,000 (direct costs) April 1, 2024 TBD
The milestone-driven ICTR Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot (ATIP) Program provides awards ranging in size from $25,000 to $50,000 in direct costs over twelve months for faculty conducting translational research projects. Overall, these projects are intended to: (1) explore possible innovative new leads or new directions for established investigators; (2) stimulate investigators from other areas to lend their expertise in research in clinical and translational science and (3) provide initial support to establish proof of concept. Proposals considered for funding must: (1) focus on secondary data analysis of existing datasets to explore new approaches in one of the following areas: integrating “omics” and clinical data, integrating imaging and clinical data, drug discovery and development; (2) Emphasize how the project can help other research teams better understand and more successfully manage the process of integration of data (not necessarily the analysis of the data).
Eligibility: JHU, Morgan State University, and University of Maryland faculty members with full-time appointments are eligible to apply.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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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