California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine External Funding Opportunities

This opportunity, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and in collaboration with the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) is designed to train leaders in implementing and raising awareness of diagnoses, diagnostic safety and quality, and equity in medicine. The program is a one-year, part-time, remote experience.

The All of Us Research Program, within the National Institutes of Health, has issued a research opportunity announcement to solicit white papers supporting the creation of a national resource to inform and raise awareness of their program.
Awards are geared toward community and health care provider organizations that will design and implement awareness of the program.

The National Cancer Institute recently released a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to support applications improving diet and/or physical activity assessment biomarker development for evaluating lifestyle-based cancer prevention and interception approaches across diverse settings.

This Research Specialist Award (R50) specifically for clinician scientists supporting NCI-funded clinical trials research, designed to encourage the development of stable research career opportunities for exceptional clinician scientists who want to continue to participate in the NCI clinical trials networks.

NIMH and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) issued a Notice of Special Interest on implementation science research to support the delivery of evidence-based practices in community-based mental or general medical healthcare settings.

DHHS issued a Notice of Funding Announcement (NOFO) to encourage research that addresses the link between social disconnection in late-life and late-life suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

The UCRI funds collaborative partnerships and critical research within the UC System aimed at solving issues that are important to California, including multicampus research collaborations, intramural cancer research, innovative ideas, and special initiatives.

Research applications that incorporate: (1) end-user/community-engaged approaches with systematic attention to challenges related to gaining access to schools, competing demands/workload issues, workforce shortages, and privacy concerns; (2) research-practice partnerships that leverage existing practice infrastructure (e.g., Project AWARE [Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education],Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics [CCBHCs]); (3) plans to quantify the resources necessary to implement the intervention, tool, or strategy (e.g., provider qualifications, training and supervision requirements, provider administration/delivery time and burden); and (4) strategies that promote health equity.

NIMH seeks applications for innovative research projects to test strategies to increase the reach, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of digital mental health interventions which may impact mental health outcomes, including suicide behaviors and serious mental illness. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to support the development of digital health test beds that leverage well-established digital mental health platforms and infrastructure to rapidly refine and optimize existing evidence-based digital health interventions and to conduct clinical research testing digital mental health interventions that are statistically powered to provide a definitive answer regarding the intervention's effectiveness particularly in populations who experience health disparities and vulnerable populations.

The National Institute on Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration are identifying researchers who partner with healthcare delivery organizations and/or organizations to deliver implementation research and support to healthcare delivery organizations.

Research is sought that is conducted in real-world settings, where a wide range of clinical presentations, psychosocial factors, age-related (e.g., youth; adult; older adult), geographic (rural/remote settings), cultural considerations, and health disparities influence the types of care that are provided.

The purpose of this initiative is to support investigator-initiated research in genomics and health equity, with the ultimate goal of developing approaches, generating and disseminating data, and implementing metrics or interventions that will advance the equitable use of genomics to improve health in U.S. populations. Awardees will conduct innovative and generalizable research in genomics and health equity spanning across genomic research areas and will incorporate a plan for enhancing diverse perspectives.

The purpose of the NIAID Physician-Scientist Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented independent physician-scientists. This program is designed to facilitate a timely transition of outstanding postdoctoral researchers with a clinical doctorate degree from mentored, postdoctoral research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions. The program will provide independent NIAID research support during this transition to help awardees launch competitive, independent research careers in biomedical fields and thereby help to address the national physician-scientist workforce shortage.

This Notice of Funding Opportunity is for exploratory/developmental research applications within the learning health care framework to support adoption, implementation, sustainability, and continuous improvement of evidence-based practices in outpatient mental health and substance use treatment systems.

NOFO to encourage research that addresses the link between social disconnection in late-life and late-life suicidal thoughts and behaviors.