Tobacco Regulatory Science Small Grant Program for New Investigators
Supports Small grants for early career investigators studying tobacco product regulation jointly funded by FDA CTP and NIH.
The Tobacco Regulatory Science Small Grant Program for New Investigators sits under FDA's Center for Tobacco Products and NIH within the trans-HHS Tobacco Regulatory Science Program. It is a small R03 route for early-stage researchers working on tobacco product regulation, with a clear emphasis on new investigators rather than industry applicants. The program supports pilot and feasibility studies, secondary data analysis, and methodology development around tobacco product manufacturing, distribution, and marketing. Applications go through NIH Grants.gov or ASSIST, and the current FOA, RFA-OD-25-008, sets two receipt dates: November 18, 2025 and July 14, 2026. The eligibility set in the record allows universities, research organizations, and individual investigators, while for-profit applicants are excluded. This is a strong fit for biomedical, behavioral, or social science researchers who need a modest first foothold in regulatory science and can frame a study around public-health regulation rather than product development. The most competitive proposals will be narrow, methodologically clean, and clearly tied to a tobacco-regulation question that can be handled within the R03 scale.
Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.