Opportunities and Announcements

Talk to a Program Officer

• Contact Staff for Help. Talk to a program officer about how your area of science fits NIAID's mission and opportunities.

Choose an NIAID Funding Opportunity

Learn how to choose at Which Award Type Suits You Best?

• NIH Funding Opportunities Relevant to NIAID
  • Requests for Proposals List
• Learn more:
  • Five Steps to Finding NIAID's High-Priority Areas
  • Application Approach: What Are Your Choices?

Review NIAID Concepts

Learn how to benefit from potential program announcements, RFAs, and RFPs.

• Application Approach: What Are Your Choices? Get ideas for an investigator-initiated application or insight into future initiatives.
• Concepts: Potential Opportunities. Find our lists of concepts.
• Concepts May Turn Into Initiatives

Find All NIH Funding Opportunities

• NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
• Parent Announcements for Investigator-Initiated Applications

Find Funding Opportunities Outside NIH

• NIAID's List of Foundations
• proposalCENTRAL

Get More Details on Related Topics

• Standard Operating Procedures
  • Application section
    • Find Topics and Opportunities
  • Requests for Proposals, Initiative Development section
• Questions and Answers
  • Application section
    • Find Topics and Opportunities
  • Contracts section

More NIAID Grant Portals

For more information, pick the appropriate topic from NIAID's main list of Grants portals by stage, audience, and science area.

NIAID Announcements

• Special Announcements -- all NIAID-relevant NIH Guide announcements except funding opportunities.
• Top Policy Changes -- summary of major policy announcements for one year.
• NIAID Funding News
  • Subscribe to Email Alerts -- newsletter, funding opportunities, paylines, and other interest areas.
• Learn more:
  • Keep Up With Policy Changes in the NIH Grant Cycle

NIH Announcements

• NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
  • Listserv
• NIH Extramural Nexus
  • Listserv
• eRA Commons News
  • Listservs

Get More Details on Related Topics

• Standard Operating Procedures
  • NIH Policy Announcements
• Questions and Answers
  • Finding Help
  • Using the NIAID Research Funding Web Site

Look It Up

• concept
• funding opportunity announcement
• initiative
• institute-specific initiative
• investigator-initiated
• parent program announcement
• payline
• program announcement (PA)
• request for applications (RFA)
• request for proposals (RFP)

See the Glossary for more terms.