Funding Opportunities
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The Johns Hopkins University Catalyst Awards are for early-career faculty across the university who are undertaking exceptional research or creative endeavors. The awards of up to $100,000 will help these individuals launch their promising careers during the crucial years when startup funds are depleted, and external funding or other support may be elusive. They are available to faculty members appointed to a full-time tenure-track or tenure-track equivalent faculty position within no less than three years and no more than 10 years of service effective July 1, 2025.
The Johns Hopkins University Discovery Awards focus on cross-university, faculty-led research and discovery. We aim for these awards of up to $150,000 to spark new interactions among faculty from across the university. Faculty teams use these funds to get started while they seek an externally funded large-scale grant or cooperative agreement. When an opportunity is identified, the PIs can work with our Research Development Team to prepare the application.
*Hopkins Business of Health Initiative is a partner in the Discovery Award Program for the third year running!
HBHI have funded 2 projects in each of the past 2 years and will plan to do the same again this year. HBHI supported projects will be funded at $175,000! Please apply and mark HBHI if appropriate.
HBHI is looking for projects with collaborators across JHU Divisions on topics that cover HBHI strategic pillar. We will prioritize projects that leverage HBHI data resources: https://hbhi.jhu.edu/affiliate-resource/health-analytics-research-platform-harp.
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The 2025 U.S. NAM Catalyst Award Competition rewards bold, potentially transformative ideas to improve the physical, mental, or social well-being and health of people as they age. Up to 15 Catalyst Awards, each with a $50,000 prize, will be issued.
Ideas may focus on any stage of life, as long as they ultimately promote health, functioning, meaning, purpose and/or dignity as people age.
Applications may also originate from any field or combination of fields(e.g., biology, chemistry, medicine, engineering, behavioral and social sciences, technology, data science, and policy).
More Information can be found here.
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The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative (HBHI) has released a Request for Pilot Proposals (RFP) aimed at funding innovative research using Truveta, a national Electronic Health Record (EHR) data platform with person-level data from over 100 million patients across 30+ U.S. health systems. This RFP not only provides funding but aims to foster a user community to develop best practices for leveraging this powerful data resource.
The program will award up to six projects with up to $30,000 in pilot funds each, with an initial phase offering up to $5,000 to cover Truveta platform fees for cohort building and exploratory analyses. Selected projects will gain access to the Truveta Studio for advanced analysis and join a collaborative learning community. The initial proposals are due March 15, 2025, with potential additional funding of up to $25,000 for subsequent phases.
The full RFP can be found here.
For questions, please reach out to Maggie Li.
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Promoting Embedded Research in a Learning Health System (PERLHS) is an 11-month program designed to prepare embedded researchers to apply rigorous methods to generate new evidence from health system and patient data, design and test interventions, and implement changes across the Johns Hopkins Health System. It is funded by a P30 award and included access to an online curriculum, monthly laboratory sessions, mentorship, experiential learning, and $10,000 to apply to analytic support.
The program is accepting 10 faculty/staff Scholars and one post-doctoral trainee. Applications are due March 15, and the program starts July 2025.
All disciplines with health-system roles or clinical activity are invited to apply.
More information can be found here.
For questions, please reach out to Jodi Segal, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, JHU.
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The Vice Provost for Research office coordinates all limited submission activities on behalf of the University, and makes every effort to provide a current list of open opportunities to faculty. Please see list here.
Get e-mail alerts about funding opportunities at resapp@jhu.edu.
What's New?
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The Investigational Drug Service (IDS) Pharmacy has relocated from the Osler Building to the Blalock Building on The Johns Hopkins Hospital campus. The new pharmacy space is located on the first floor of Blalock in Suite 100, near the Blalock elevators.
After extensive renovations, the new IDS Pharmacy features enhanced space for efficient pharmacy operations, inventory storage, and regulatory compliant cleanrooms for the preparation of sterile compounded products and dedicated space for non-sterile compounding. This renovation project enhances pharmacy services to better support the research mission of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Pharmacy hours are 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.
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The Team Science Award aims to both recognize the great work Johns Hopkins researchers have been doing as multidisciplinary teams and to highlight best practices and share lessons learned in Team Science.
The award consists of:- a celebratory ‘Coffee Break’ package from The Bakery, our neighbor at the Northeast Market
- $2,000 to be used for team functions or for ICTR services
- a production of a promotional video highlighting your team
Teams must include at least three members, be led or co-led by a Johns Hopkins researcher, and have worked together on more than one research protocol.
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The Johns Hopkins Editorial Assistance Services Initiative (EASI)offers editorial support forgrant proposals and journal articlesat no charge to faculty. Details of services by the Research and Development Team can be found here: EASI
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Due to increased investment in administrative infrastructure to support SOM-sponsored research, the off-campus rate for new commercial sponsored research awards will increase to 39% from the current 34%, effective July 1, 2024.
The on-campus rate of 72% remains unchanged.
The new off-campus rate applies to all new proposals for commercial sponsored research submitted on or after July 1, 2024. Existing awards will continue under the rate in effect as of the date of their original submission, as will any pending proposals submitted before July 1, 2024.
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The Office of Federal Strategy has developed the following resources to help faculty navigate through preparing for Congressional testimony, submitting effective comments to federal agencies, and best practices for moderating discussions with elected or appointed officials.
Tips for preparing Congressional testimony
Tips for submitting effective comments
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Data Trust office hours: Third Thursday of the month 8:30-9:30am via the Office Hours MS Teams channel. You can also find the library of recorded sessions.
The Research Data Subcouncil has several resources to guide study teams and answer questions about the Data Trust review process, the Risk Tiers Calculator, and access to and sharing of JHM data.
The Data Trust oversees the use and disclosure of JHM patient and plan member data stored in clinical enterprise systems. Visit the Data Trust site to learn more about data governance and best practices for JHM data.
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Do you need help navigating the IRB review process? The IRB is available to help study teams with protocol planning and answer questions about studies undergoing IRB review. Request a Consult to be matched to knowledgeable IRB staff members who can help address your specific needs.
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For those involved in clinical research hospital billing, please note that hospital billing statements generated after April 1, 2024 Hospital Billing (HB) charges from Johns Hopkins Health System facilities in Maryland will be discounted to 29.6% of the facility charge master for Government/Not for Profit organizations and to 44.4% for Pharmaceutical/For Profit sponsors. This is an increase from the previous research discount. Hospital Billing charges from Sibley Memorial Hospital and All Children’s Hospital will have an additional discount applied to maintain consistency across the Johns Hopkins Health System. See letter for more information.
For any questions, please contact the Clinical Research Support Services (CRSS) team at CRSS@jhmi.edu.
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Effective fiscal year 2024, we will be implementing the following fee structure for participating in the CCDA adjunct program. See letter for more information.
- Annual support fee: $5,000 per CCDA adjunct and $4,000 per registry data manager. CCDA adjuncts have access to pull data from various institutional data sources and thus typically require more CCDA staff support; registry data managers are limited to the data in their provisioned registry and need less support.
- One-time onboarding fee: $5,000 for new CCDA adjuncts and registry data managers. This fee covers interviewing candidates proposed by the sponsoring department, initial training, mentoring, and review. This fee is in addition to the annual support fee.
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We have implemented improvements to the registration process for Human Subjects Research (HSR) Compliance Training. Investigators and Study Team Members will be able to enroll in required training courses (initial training, ICH GCP and recertification) by selecting one “bundle” in myLearning. Once enrolled in myLearning, you will be directed to the CITI site where courses will be added to your plan by selecting the “bundle” you wish to complete. Please review this guide on how to get started. For additional questions, please contact the IRB Help Desk at jhmeirb@jhmi.edu.
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The OHSR and IRB staff have two new ways to communicate with you:
- Microsoft Teams. On the Contact page, you can find contact information for staff members, including new Microsoft Teams phone numbers, email addresses and newly added links to chat with a staff member.
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Request a Consult. If you want a comprehensive discussion about, e.g., protocol planning assistance, please request a consult, and the OHSR staff will connect you with an appropriate team member.
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Data protection attestation has been integrated into eIRB and public health institutional review system tracking (PHIRST) to enable sharing of limited data sets among Johns Hopkins University (JHU) researchers. This change eliminates the need for a data use agreement for most transfers of a limited data set to JHU collaborators. New guidance is now available to help JHU researchers?navigate the process?and requirements?for requesting use of Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) data.
- Review information on sharing Johns Hopkins Medicine data on the JHM Data Trust intranet site.?
- For more information on data protection attestation, see frequently asked questions.
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If you are interested in or are working with artificial intelligence (AI), please register to join a growing Johns Hopkins University community of AI scholars. Please contact Stuart Ray with questions or for more information.
