Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of September 9, 2024

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Funding Landscape

ARPA-H announces PRECISE-AI, a new funding opportunity to make AI-enabled tools more reliable.

ARPA-H has launched the Performance and Reliability Evaluation for Continuous Modifications and Useability of Artificial Intelligence (PRECISE-AI) program to ensure AI-enabled medical tools stay accurate and reliable over time. PRECISE-AI will hold a hybrid Proposers’ Day for all interested performers this fall. Stay up to date by visiting the link above.

NIHCM announces the call for Foundation Health Care Journalism Grant proposals. 

NIHCM Foundation supports health reporting and education projects that inform public and policymaker awareness about health issues in ways that improve health and health care. The deadline to apply is October 25, 2024.

Limited Submission Opportunities

Brain Research Foundation Seed Grant Program 2025

Description: The purpose of the program is to provide start-up monies for new research projects in the field of neuroscience that will likely lead to extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other outside funding sources. The BRF Seed Grant Program is to support new and innovative projects, especially those of junior faculty, who are working in new research directions.
Eligibility: Assistant or Associate Professors
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Sponsor LOI Deadline: Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, March 27, 2025 (by invitation only)

NEH: Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence

Description: The purpose of this program is to support the establishment of new collaborative humanities research centers focused on the legal, ethical, or societal implications of developing AI technologies. 
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, November 4, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Reminder: NIH: Enhancing Science, Technology, EnginEering, and Math Educational Diversity (ESTEEMED) Research Education Experiences (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Description: The ESTEEMED program is designed to foster the development of undergraduate freshmen and sophomores from diverse backgrounds to pursue further studies and careers in bioengineering or STEM fields relevant to NIBIB’s scientific mission.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, December 16, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Friday, January 17, 2025

Reminder: NIH: Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Description: This FOA seeks to support programs that include innovative approaches to enhance biomedical engineering (BME) design education to ensure a future workforce that can meet the nation’s needs in biomedical research and healthcare technologies.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Wednesday, January 29, 2025