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NIH Center Core Grant (P30)

Funds Center Core Grants, NIH's P30 mechanism.

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The National Institutes of Health uses the Center Core Grants (P30) to support shared resources and facilities for categorical research by a number of investigators from different disciplines who provide a multidisciplinary approach to a joint research effort or from the same discipline who focus on a common research problem. The core grant is integrated with the center's component projects or pro…

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Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.

Cancer Center Support Grants (CCSGs) for NCI-designated Cancer Centers
Open

Funds the shared infrastructure behind an NCI-designated Comprehensive, Clinical or Basic Cancer Center, not individual research projects.

— pool·760 days
NEI Center Core Grant for Vision Research
Between cycles

Funds shared core facilities — at least three resource or service cores — that support a group of NEI-funded vision researchers at one institution.

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Cancer Center Support Grants (CCSGs) for NCI-designated Cancer Centers
Scheduled

Funds the shared infrastructure that lets an NCI-designated Cancer Center run as one research enterprise instead of separate labs.

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Limited Competition: Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence: Development Phase (COBRE-D)
Open

Funds an institution in a historically low-NIH-funding state to build a whole new biomedical research center in one area, from scratch.

— pool·1003 days
Limited Competition: Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence: Expansion/Sustainability Phases (COBRE-E/S)
Open

Funds expanding or sustaining an existing biomedical research center, capped by how many such centers an institution already holds.

— pool·1002 days
Limited Competition: Institutional Development Award (IDeA) for Clinical & Translational Research (CTR) (P30 - CT Optional)
Open

Funds building clinical and translational research capacity in a state that has historically gotten little NIH money, one hub or network per state.

— pool·1007 days
Limited Competition: NIGMS Mature Synchrotron Resources (MSR) for Structural Biology
Between cycles

Funds continuing an existing, NIGMS-backed synchrotron beamline that trains and hosts outside structural-biology researchers.

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AIDS Research Center on Mental Health and HIV/AIDS
Scheduled

Funds NIMH research centers that coordinate interdisciplinary HIV/AIDS research spanning basic, clinical and social science.

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NIAMS P30 Centers Program
Between cycles

Funds shared research infrastructure for skin, bone, muscle and rheumatic disease research — cores, methods expertise and workforce development.

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Diabetes Research Centers
Open

Funds shared lab cores and pilot studies that let diabetes researchers at one institution collaborate instead of duplicating infrastructure.

$18.2M pool·153 days
Silvio O. Conte Digestive Diseases Research Core Centers
Open

Funds shared lab cores and shared facilities that let a digestive or liver disease research group at one institution work as a coordinated center.

$4.8M pool·167 days
Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (NORCs)
Open

Funds shared research cores, pilot funding and a catalyst programme where a substantial nutrition or obesity research effort already exists.

$3.6M pool·54 days
NIDDK Disease Research and Translational Core Centers
Scheduled

Funds shared core facilities and small pilot grants at institutions with an established research base in a named NIDDK disease area.

$28M pool
KUH P30 Resource Core Center
Scheduled

Funds a shared resource center — data, reagents, models or tools — for kidney, urology or blood disease research, feeding a national network.

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Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers Program
Open

Funds shared facilities, services and resources for a group of environmental health researchers, plus community engagement and translation.

— pool·236 days
Last verified: 27 Aug 2026Source: grants.nih.gov