Announcement of UTRGV Limited Submission Internal Competition  
All PI-eligible UTRGV faculty/staff interested in submitting a proposal to the Limited Submission opportunity must submit the internal pre-proposal via Submittable platform (using single PDF document) by the deadline. Please see OSP Handbook, page 8, for PI eligibility details. Internal pre-proposals must comply with all instructions and address the NIH review criteria referenced in this announcement.
Funding Opportunity Purpose: To foster understanding of human health effects of exposure to environmental agents in the hope that these studies will lead to: the identification of agents that pose a hazard and threat of disease, disorders and defects in humans; the development of effective public health or disease prevention strategies; the overall improvement of human health effects due to environmental agents; the development of products and technologies designed to better study or ameliorate the effects of environmental agents; and the successful training of research scientists in all areas of environmental health research. Supported grant programs focus on the following areas: (8) Providing support for broadly based multi-disciplinary research and training programs in environmental health. These programs include the Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers, which serve as national focal points and resources for research and manpower development. Through these programs, NIEHS expects to achieve the long-range goal of developing new clinical and public health applications to improve disease prevention, diagnosis, and therapy

Opportunity Overview: The NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers (EHSCC) Program uses a P30 grant mechanism to bring together investigators currently funded by NIH or other Federal or non-Federal sources to enhance the effectiveness of existing research and extend the focus of research for environmental health sciences. An EHSCC is expected to support innovation and be on the cutting edge of science. As such, research activities should cross a variety of disciplines to bring multiple perspectives and approaches to bear on significant environmental health research questions and health impacts. The interdisciplinary nature of an EHSCC should have a synergistic effect that results in greater depth, breadth, quality, innovation and productivity beyond what individual scientists would be likely to attain by working independently and as such lead to translational research opportunities. As intellectual hubs for environmental health research, the membership of EHSCC's is expected to include thought leaders from the field who are well-positioned to advance the goals of the 2025-2029 NIEHS Strategic Plan (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/about/strategicplan/.)

Maximum Number of Applications Allowed Per Organization: Only one application per institution (normally identified by having a unique identifier (UEI) number or NIH IPF number) is allowed.

FOA is available online at: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-25-002.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information

Internal Competition Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Internal Competition Results Announced: July 18, 2025                                                                                                                              
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: January 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Documents Needed for the Preproposals:
 Submitters will complete and submit a form providing the following:

• Draft project summary/abstract of up to 2 pages; References do not count toward the 2-page limit.    
• Biographical sketches for the PIs and Co-PIs (any format);       
•  List of collaborators and any other senior/key personnel, if any.

Change in application form: Since the limited submission process does not involve OSP assistance with budget development, we are now using a budget template in the Submittable form. This template is designed to capture a general overview of the budget. Additionally, we have included a budget justification section directly in the form, eliminating the need for applicants to upload separate budget documents with their pre-proposal materials.
 

*If assistance is needed, please contact Bernadette Perez at bernadette.perez01@utrgv.edu. 

Review Criteria: Internal review criteria shall mirror the NIH criteria in the FOA.
Internal Review Process: The Research Division in consultation with a review committee, will decide which pre-proposals will continue to the full proposal submission stage. Anonymized reviewer feedback will be provided in a timely fashion to all PIs whose pre-proposals were considered by the review committee, following the announcement of the finalist selection.

Announcement of UTRGV Limited Submission Internal Competition  
All PI-eligible UTRGV faculty/staff interested in submitting a proposal to the Limited Submission opportunity must submit the internal pre-proposal via Submittable platform (using single PDF document) by the deadline. Please see OSP Handbook, page 8, for PI eligibility details. Internal pre-proposals must comply with all instructions and address the NIH review criteria referenced in this announcement.
Funding Opportunity Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is designed to support highly integrated research teams of three to six Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PDs/PIs) to address ambitious and challenging research questions that are within the mission of NIGMS. Project goals should not be achievable with a collection of individual efforts or projects. Collaborative program teams are expected to accomplish goals that require considerable synergy and managed team interactions. Teams are encouraged to consider far-reaching objectives that will produce major advances in their fields.

This FOA is not intended for applications that are mainly focused on the creation, expansion, and/or maintenance of community resources, creation of new technologies, or infrastructure development.
Opportunity Overview: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages Collaborative Program Grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose projects addressing complex and challenging biomedical problems within the mission of NIGMS. Multidisciplinary research teams must have a highly integrated approach for each of their project goals. The Collaborative Program Grant is designed to support research in which funding a team of interdependent investigators to achieve a unified scientific goal offers significant advantages over supporting individual research project grants.
Maximum Number of Applications Allowed Per Organization: Two applications per institution (with a Unique Entity Identifier ) and a unique NIH eRA Institutional Profile File (IPF) number) are allowed per review round.

FOA is available online at: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-23-077.html#_Section_III._Eligibility 

Internal Competition Submission Deadline: July 1, 2025 @ 11:59 p.m. 
Internal Competition Results Announced: July 18, 2025                                                                                                                              
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: January 27, 2026, at 5:00 PM
Documents Needed for the Preproposals:
       Submitters will complete and submit a form providing the following:

• Draft project summary/abstract of up to 2 pages; References do not count toward the 2-page limit.    
• Biographical sketches for the PIs and Co-PIs (any format);       
•  List of collaborators and any other senior/key personnel, if any.

Change in application form: Since the limited submission process does not involve OSP assistance with budget development, we are now using a budget template in the Submittable form. This template is designed to capture a general overview of the budget. Additionally, we have included a budget justification section directly in the form, eliminating the need for applicants to upload separate budget documents with their pre-proposal materials.
 

*If assistance is needed, please contact Bernadette Perez at bernadette.perez01@utrgv.edu. 

Review Criteria: Internal review criteria shall mirror the NIH criteria in the FOA.
Internal Review Process: The Research Division in consultation with a review committee, will decide which pre-proposals will continue to the full proposal submission stage. Anonymized reviewer feedback will be provided in a timely fashion to all PIs whose pre-proposals were considered by the review committee, following the announcement of the finalist selection.

Announcement of UTRGV Limited Submission Internal Competition  
 All PI-eligible UTRGV faculty/staff interested in submitting a proposal to the Limited Submission opportunity must submit the internal pre-proposal via Submittable platform (using single PDF document) by the deadline. Please see OSP Handbook, page 8, for PI eligibility details. Internal pre-proposals must comply with all instructions and address the NIH review criteria referenced in this announcement.
Funding Opportunity Purpose: This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for a National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) whose purpose is to serve NIA and the Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD) field as: 

1) A national data resource, collecting data from the Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers (ADRCs), affiliated data, and sample repositories; 
2) A facilitator of current and future AD/ADRD research; and 
3) The central hub for organizing and enabling communication within and outside the ADRC program, including annual meetings and steering committees.

Opportunity Overview: To encourage biomedical, social, and behavioral research and research training directed toward greater understanding of the aging process and the diseases, special problems, and needs of people as they age. 
Maximum Number of Applications Allowed Per Organization: Only one application per institution (normally identified by having a unique UEI or NIH IPF number) is allowed.

FOA is available online at: RFA-AG-26-003: National Alzheimers Coordinating Center (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Internal Competition Submission Deadline: July 7, 2025 @ 11:59 p.m. 
Internal Competition Results Announced: July 23, 2025                                                                                                                              
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: October 17, 2025, at 5:00 PM
Documents Needed for the Preproposals:
        Submitters will complete and submit a form providing the following:

• Draft project summary/abstract of up to 2 pages; References do not count toward the 2-page limit.    
• Biographical sketches for the PIs and Co-PIs (any format);       
•  List of collaborators and any other senior/key personnel, if any.

Change in application form: Since the limited submission process does not involve OSP assistance with budget development, we are now using a budget template in the Submittable form. This template is designed to capture a general overview of the budget. Additionally, we have included a budget justification section directly in the form, eliminating the need for applicants to upload separate budget documents with their pre-proposal materials.
 

*If assistance is needed, please contact Bernadette Perez at bernadette.perez01@utrgv.edu. 

Review Criteria: Internal review criteria shall mirror the NIH criteria in the FOA.
Internal Review Process: The Research Division in consultation with a review committee, will decide which pre-proposals will continue to the full proposal submission stage. Anonymized reviewer feedback will be provided in a timely fashion to all PIs whose pre-proposals were considered by the review committee, following the announcement of the finalist selection.

Announcement of UTRGV Limited Submission Internal Competition  
 All PI-eligible UTRGV faculty/staff interested in submitting a proposal to the Limited Submission opportunity must submit the internal pre-proposal via Submittable platform (using single PDF document) by the deadline. Please see OSP Handbook, page 8, for PI eligibility details. Internal pre-proposals must comply with all instructions and address the NIH review criteria referenced in this announcement.
Funding Opportunity Purpose: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a nationally representative, longitudinal cohort study of individuals primarily born from 1976 through 1982 who were first interviewed as adolescents in grades 7-12 (ages 12-19) in 1994-1995. Add Health respondents are now at midlife, offering a uniquely valuable timepoint to assess risk and resilience for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD). This NOFO invites a U01 application to continue core study aspects including the mixed-mode survey, in-home health visit, venous blood collection, and data dissemination activities while further developing Add Health as a population-representative data resource to understand life-course factors shaping disparities in outcomes related to aging and AD/ADRD.

Opportunity Overview: The NIA is announcing its intent to issue a single source cooperative agreement award to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to renew Add Health for a new five-year study period. Add Health originated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993 and has been hosted by this institution ever since. As a large and complex data infrastructure project, transitioning Add Health to a different institution would result in tremendous risk for this project that is valuable to NIH, in part, due to its continuity and longitudinally assessed panel. The competition is therefore limited to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the only entity with knowledge of and access to the Add Health sample frame, which are necessary to contact and collect new data from Add Health participants. The transfer of the Add Health sample frame and PII to another institution would require considerable additional time to establish appropriate processes and procedures, resulting in a delay in the continuation of the study. Potential negative impacts of a delay include compromised panel maintenance activities that could reduce respondent engagement and trust and thus participation, threatening the scientific impact of the project. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has robust and specialized infrastructure and personnel with study-specific knowledge and skills that would be difficult if not impossible to reproduce at another institution. NIH has longstanding and productive relationships with the intended recipient. In addition, the intended recipient has successfully competed for competitive funding for ancillary studies to enhance Add Health in recent years. The activity to be funded is a continuation of an ongoing activity and will continue with the intended recipient. As previously mentioned, the intended recipient has developed robust infrastructure to collect, document, and disseminate the data. Metrics of success include over 50,000 unique users and over 5,000 peer-reviewed journal articles. The overarching purpose of Add Health is to collect, develop, and disseminate high quality population-representative data that can be used by the research community to understand life course factors shaping disparities in outcomes related to aging and AD/ADRD

Maximum Number of Applications Allowed Per Organization: Applicant organizations may only submit one application.

FOA is available online at: RFA-AG-26-001: Single Source: National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult (Add) Health Wave VII (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Only Renewal/Resubmission/Revision (as allowed)
Internal Competition Submission Deadline: July 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Internal Competition Results Announced: July 25, 2025                                                                                                                              
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Documents Needed for the Preproposals:
  Submitters will complete and submit a form providing the following:

• Draft project summary/abstract of up to 2 pages; References do not count toward the 2-page limit.    
• Biographical sketches for the PIs and Co-PIs (any format);       
•  List of collaborators and any other senior/key personnel, if any.

Change in application form: Since the limited submission process does not involve OSP assistance with budget development, we are now using a budget template in the Submittable form. This template is designed to capture a general overview of the budget. Additionally, we have included a budget justification section directly in the form, eliminating the need for applicants to upload separate budget documents with their pre-proposal materials.
 

*If assistance is needed, please contact Bernadette Perez at bernadette.perez01@utrgv.edu. 

Review Criteria: Internal review criteria shall mirror the criteria in the FOA.
Internal Review Process: The Research Division in consultation with a review committee, will decide which pre-proposals will continue to the full proposal submission stage. Anonymized reviewer feedback will be provided in a timely fashion to all PIs whose pre-proposals were considered by the review committee, following the announcement of the finalist selection.