LymeX Healthathon
Pays a $250,000 prize pool for stories and insights from people living with Lyme disease.
This is not a build-a-tool hackathon: a companion competition, the TOPx HHS Tech Sprint, is where HHS asks technologists to build AI-powered tools from open data, while the Healthathon specifically asks patients, caregivers and clinicians to contribute the lived-experience material that data alone can't capture. There are two lighter ways to take part beyond the CURE ID route: entrants without a f…
The healthathon is for patients, caregivers, and clinicians affected by Lyme and tickborne diseases in the US. It wants lived-experience stories, treatment experiences, and priority problems that can be turned into shared insights supporting peer-to-peer learning and better care navigation.
Sign up free to see the funding breakdown
Sign up free to see the industries in scope
Sign up free to see the full eligibility
Sign up free to see how to apply
Sign up free to see the timeline
Sign up free to see where teams trip up
Guides for this application
All guides →Grant Pitch Deck Example: Slides, Storyline, and Video Script
See a grant pitch deck example with slide outline, EIC-style pitch logic, demo-video script, and grant-vs-investor deck differences.
Submit & reportSAM.gov Registration and UEI Guide for Federal Grant Applicants
Learn how SAM.gov registration, UEI numbers, Grants.gov accounts, organization profiles, workspace roles, and renewal timing fit together.
BudgetIndirect Costs in Grants: Rates, MTDC, and Examples
Understand indirect costs in grants, including direct vs indirect costs, negotiated rates, de minimis rates, MTDC, funder caps, and budget narrative implications.
More from HHS
All grants from this funder →Title X Family Planning Services Grants
🇺🇸HHS · United States
Supports family planning service providers across United States jurisdictions with grants that strengthen sexual health prevention, testing, counseling, and care.
Making America Healthy Again — Dementia Disparities (OMH) — Seed
🇺🇸HHS · United States
Supports community-based teams reducing dementia and brain-health disparities in underserved groups through social-determinant-focused strategies.
Pregnancy and Postpartum Hypertension Control Initiative (OWH) — Seed
🇺🇸HHS · United States
Supports maternal health and blood pressure monitoring initiatives for underserved pregnant and postpartum populations through community-linked innovation.
LymeX Visible Voices Prize
🇺🇸HHS · United States
Pays up to $50,000 per prize from a $250,000 pool for Lyme disease education resources.
National Training Center for Teen Pregnancy Prevention
🇺🇸HHS · United States
Supports national-level teams delivering training and technical guidance to teen pregnancy prevention efforts across United States partners.
Title X Family Planning Research Grants
🇺🇸HHS · United States
Supports applied studies improving family planning service quality, with research focused on evidence, efficiency, and broader access in United States clinics.
Similar grants
Browse the directory →NOURISH: Autoimmunity Digital Health Challenge
🇺🇸OADR-ORWH · United States
Awards up to $650,000 across three phases for digital tools tracking autoimmune nutrition.
2026 NIA Mentorship Prize Competition
🇺🇸NIA · United States
Pays $100,000 to each of up to six faculty mentors recognized for outstanding aging-research mentorship.
Johnson & Johnson QuickFire Challenges (Active Series)
🇺🇸J&J Innovation · United States
Supports global health innovators through recurring Johnson and Johnson QuickFire themed challenges in medicine and life science domains.
TRDNT Challenge Phase II: Prototype Development and Use Case Demonstration
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Pays up to $120,000 per Interim Milestone winner and up to $320,000 per Final Submission winner to US-based researchers, startups and institutions that build a working prototype technology able to target endogenous RNA in human disease.
Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Data Innovation Challenge — Track 1
🇺🇸NCI · United States
Pays entities up to $566,665 across three milestones to add shovel-ready cancer data or tools to NCI's CCDI ecosystem.
One-Step, Rapid, Low-Cost Definitive Drug Testing at the Point of Need Challenge
🇺🇸NIDA · United States
Pays up to $600,000 in prizes to teams building rapid, low-cost drug-testing device prototypes.