Food and nutrition grants

Open and upcoming food and nutrition grants, sorted by deadline, with award amounts and who can apply.

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Due in December 2026

NIH Research Software Engineer (RSE) Award (R50 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes Dec 4

Due in January 2027

Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes Jan 7, 2027
Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 AmeriCorps State and National Competitive Grants

AmeriCorps Nonprofits eligible

Closes Jan 13, 2027
HEAL Initiative: Studies to Enable Analgesic Discovery (R61/R33 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $350K Small businesses eligible

Closes Jan 15, 2027
Minor Use Minor Species Development of Drugs (R01)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $250K Small businesses eligible

Closes Jan 29, 2027

Due in April 2027

Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards Implementation Development and Maintenance, with Mutual Reliance Initiatives Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $300K State governments

Closes Apr 1, 2027
NARMS Cooperative Agreement Program to Strengthen Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance in Retail Food Specimens

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $200K Others (see eligibility details)

Closes Apr 1, 2027
Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies and Approaches in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R25 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $200K Small businesses eligible

Closes Apr 9, 2027

Due in May 2027

Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (Parent K23 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 7, 2027
Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award (Parent K25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 7, 2027
Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award (Parent K25 Independent Clinical Trial Required)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 7, 2027
Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (Parent K01 - Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 7, 2027
Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (Parent K01 - Independent Clinical Trial Required)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 7, 2027
NIH Pathway to Independence Award (Parent K99/R00 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 7, 2027
NIH Pathway to Independence Award (Parent K99/R00 Independent Clinical Trial Required)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 7, 2027
Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (Parent K08 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 8, 2027
Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (Parent K23 Independent Clinical Trial Required)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 8, 2027

Due in July 2027

Change of Recipient Organization (Type 7 Parent Clinical Trial Optional)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes Jul 12, 2027

Due in November 2027

Priority HIV/AIDS Research within the Mission of NIDDK (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes Nov 5, 2027
Pilot Studies of Biological, Behavioral and Social Mechanisms Contributing to HIV Pathogenesis Within the Mission of NIDDK (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes Nov 16, 2027

Due in January 2028

Stimulating Hematology Investigation: New Endeavors (SHINE) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes Jan 6, 2028
Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) for Undergraduate-Focused Institutions (R15 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $375K Others (see eligibility details)

Closes Jan 7, 2028
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes Jan 7, 2028
Limited Competition: Small Grant Program for NIDDK K01/K08/K23/K25 Recipients (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $75K Small businesses eligible

Closes Jan 7, 2028
NIH Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes Jan 7, 2028
NIH Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Clinical Trial Required)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes Jan 7, 2028
Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (LFFM)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $1.5M City or township governments

Closes Jan 11, 2028

Due in February 2028

Reissue of RFA-FD-22-001 - Efficient and Innovative Natural History Studies Addressing Unmet Needs in Rare Diseases (R01 Clinical Trials Optional)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $600K Others (see eligibility details)

Closes Feb 8, 2028

Due in May 2028

2026 Alaska Marine Education and Training Mini-Grant Program

Department of Commerce $15K to $75K Small businesses eligible

Closes May 1, 2028
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowship for Students at Institutions with NIH-Funded Institutional Predoctoral Dual-Degree Training Programs (Parent F30)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 7, 2028
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowship for Students at Institutions Without NIH-Funded Institutional Predoctoral Dual-Degree Training Programs (Parent F30)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 7, 2028
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent F32)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 7, 2028
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 7, 2028
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grant (Parent T35)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes May 7, 2028
Animal and Veterinary Innovation Centers (U18)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $1.3M Public and state-controlled colleges

Closes May 12, 2028
Reissue of RFA-FD-23-001- Clinical Studies of Orphan Products Addressing Unmet Needs of Rare Diseases (R01 Clinical Trials Required)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $900K Others (see eligibility details)

Closes May 16, 2028

Due in August 2028

Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Closes Aug 25, 2028

Due in September 2028

Vet-LIRN Capacity-Building Project and Equipment Grants (U18)

Department of Health and Human Services $225K to $2.5M Small businesses eligible

Closes Sep 4, 2028
Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award (R16 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $100K Private colleges and universities

Closes Sep 7, 2028
Support for Research Excellence First Independent Research (SuRE-First) Award (R16 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $125K Public and state-controlled colleges

Closes Sep 7, 2028

Coming up

Forecast by the funder but not open yet. Dates are estimates.

Animal Food Regulatory Program Alliance

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $600K Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards Implementation Development and Maintenance, with Mutual Reliance Initiatives

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $10.6M Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Applied regulatory science research to evaluate and treat cardiotoxicity of oncology therapeutics

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Center for Research on Complex Generics (U18) Clinical Trials Optional

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $1.5M Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Clinical Studies of Orphan Products Addressing Unmet Needs of Rare Diseases (R01 Clinical Trials Required)

Department of Health and Human Services Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Clinical Trials Addressing Unmet Needs of Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases (R01) Clinical Trials Required

Department of Health and Human Services $650K to $900K Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Collaborations to Enhance Drug Development and Regulatory Science

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $5M Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Conformance with the Egg Regulatory Program Standards

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $47K Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Cooperative Agreement for Long Term Data Collection on Antimicrobial Use in Animals (U01) Clinical Trial Not Allowed

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $200K Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Cooperative Agreement to Support a Human Abuse Potential Study of Botanical Kratom (U01 Clinical Trial Required)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $2M Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Cooperative Agreement to Support Activities Related to Analgesics, Anesthetics, and Addiction (U01) Clinical Trials Allowed

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $2M Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Cooperative Agreement to Support Effective Dissemination of Clinical Practice Guidelines

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $1M Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Critical Path Public Private Partnerships Clinical Trials Optional

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $20M Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Developing PBPK Model-Based Mechanistic IVIVCs for Long Acting Injectable Suspensions and Implants (U01) Clinical Trial Optional

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $300K Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Development and Maintenance of Human and Animal Food Rapid Response Teams (U2F) Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Department of Health and Human Services $360K to $1.4M Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Educational Funding Opportunity: Expanding education on skin lightening products (U01) Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $250K Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Efficient and Innovative Natural History Studies Addressing Unmet Needs in Rare Diseases (R01 Clinical Trials Optional)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $400K Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Evaluating the Cutaneous Pharmacokinetics of Topical Drug Products Using Pharmacokinetic Tomography (U01 Clinical Trial Required)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $250K Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
FDA OMHHE Health Equity Innovation Award: Enhance Equity Funding Opportunity (U01) Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Department of Health and Human Services $250K to $1M Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
FDA's Integrated Food Safety System Training Delivery and Development

Department of Health and Human Services Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Federal and State Integration Activities to Advance Cooperation and Regulatory Standards Among Animal Food Safety Regulatory Programs

Department of Health and Human Services Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Flexible Funding Model-Infrastructure Development and Maintenance for State Manufactured Food Regulatory Programs (U2F) Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Department of Health and Human Services $340K to $1.3M Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Food Safety Capacity and Infrastructure Building (U2F)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $1M Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Health Equity Innovation Award: Enhance Equity Funding Opportunity (U01) Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $1M Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Identification and Evaluation of Possible Approaches to Addressing Nitrosamine Impurities in Drugs (U01)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $350K Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Identification of Drug-related and Formulation-Related Factors that Result in Alcohol Dose Dumping of Modified Release Oral Drug Products (U01) Clinical Trial Not Allowed

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $250K Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Improving Predictability of Food-Drug and Drug-Drug Interaction Risks by Utilizing In Vitro Simulated Gastrointestinal Dissolution Model for High-Risk Oral Drug Products (U01) Clinical Trial Optional

Department of Health and Human Services $250K to $500K Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Integrated Food Safety System Regulatory and Laboratory Training System National Coordination Center

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $1.5M Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Integrating Machine Learning with Computational Fluid Dynamics Models of Orally Inhaled Drug Products (U01) Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Manufactured Foods Flexible Funding Model (MF-FFM)

Department of Health and Human Services State governments

Expected, date not set
Minor Use Minor Species Development of Drugs (R01)

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $250K Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
NARMS Cooperative Agreement Program to Strengthen Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance in Retail Food Specimens

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $4.5M Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Novel approaches to support therapeutic development in ultra-rare cancers

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
OMHHE Educational Funding Opportunity: Expanding education on skin lightening products (U01) Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $250K Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
REACHing Communities (REACH) Consortium (U01) Clinical Trials Optional

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $3M Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Reducing Fraud and Lowering Barriers to the Production of Drugs in Shortage by Outsourcing Facilities

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $3M Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Retail Food Safety Regulatory Association Collaboration

Department of Health and Human Services Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Retail Food Safety Regulatory Association Collaboration CAP

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $4M Others (see eligibility details)

Expected, date not set
Studies Addressing Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases including ALS

Department of Health and Human Services Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Synthesis and Biological Activity Assessment of Different Diastereomers in siRNA Drug LEQVIO (Inclisiran) (U01) Clinical Trial Not Allowed

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $300K Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set
Utilizing Real-World Data and Algorithmic Analyses to Assess Post-Market Clinical Outcomes in Patients Switching Amongst Therapeutically Equivalent Complex Generic Drug Products and Reference Listed Drugs (U01) Clinical Trial Not Allowed

Department of Health and Human Services Up to $300K Small businesses eligible

Expected, date not set

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