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Funds Research Project - Cooperative Agreements, NIH's U01 mechanism.

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The National Institutes of Health uses the Research Project - Cooperative Agreements (U01) to support a discrete, specified, circumscribed project to be performed by the named investigator(s) in an area representing his or her specific interest and competencies.

NIH files the mechanism under Research and Development.

Each announcement under U01 sets its own deadline, budget and eligibility. NIH …

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

NIDA Animal Genomics Program
Open

Funds genomic work in animals on what makes addiction start, escalate, persist and relapse — any kind of genetic variant.

— pool·168 days
Limited Competition: Renewal of Existing NINDS-Supported Clinical Trial Cooperative Agreement Awards
Open

Funds the renewal of a neurology clinical trial the institute already supports, where finishing it needs more time and resources.

— pool·435 days
First in Human and Early Stage Clinical Trials of Novel Investigational Drugs or Neuromodulatory Device-based Interventions for Psychiatric Disorders
Open

Funds the first human trials of a novel-mechanism psychiatric drug or a novel neuromodulatory device, with milestones gating each step.

— pool·414 days
Utilizing the PLCO Biospecimens Resource to Bridge Gaps in Cancer Etiology and Early Detection Research
Open

Funds research using a screening trial's biorepository — serial blood samples collected before diagnosis, with decades of matched participant data.

— pool·407 days
Integrating Biospecimen Science Approaches into Clinical Assay Development
Open

Funds research into how preanalytical handling of biopsies and other biospecimens distorts biomarker results used in clinical assays.

— pool·379 days
Translational Efforts to Advance Gene-based Therapies for Ultra-Rare Neurological and Neuromuscular Disorders
Open

Funds IND-enabling studies and planning that take a gene-based therapy for an ultra-rare neurological or neuromuscular disorder toward its first human trial.

— pool·407 days
NIDCD Cooperative Agreement for Clinical Trials in Communication Disorders
Open

Funds a clinical trial for a communication disorder that NIH runs jointly with the investigator, when the trial meets a high-oversight or high-risk bar.

— pool·417 days
National Cooperative Drug/Device Discovery/Development Groups (NCDDG) for the Treatment of Mental Disorders (U01)
Open

Funds one investigator's discovery-to-proof-of-concept project on a new drug, ligand or neurostimulation device for a mental or substance use disorder.

— pool·424 days
Opportunities for Collaborative Research at the NIH Clinical Center
Open

Funds a translational research project run jointly with NIH's own intramural investigators at the Clinical Center, up to $500,000.

— pool·191 days
Expanding the Therapeutic Pipeline for Treating and Preventing Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Preclinical Validation and Drug Discovery for Novel Candidate Targets
Between cycles

Funds rigorous preclinical validation and early drug discovery against novel Alzheimer's and related-dementia targets, before human trials.

— pool
The Metastasis Research Network (MetNet): MetNet Research Projects
Open

Funds a research project that plugs into NCI's Metastasis Research Network of systems-level cancer centers, up to $500,000.

— pool·818 days
Causal Hypotheses on the Oral-Systemic Health Impacts of Human Behaviors among People with Chronic Conditions
Open

Funds research testing causal links between everyday human behaviors and oral-systemic health outcomes in people with chronic conditions.

— pool·1043 days
NIDCR Prospective Observational or Biomarker Validation Study Cooperative Agreement
Open

Funds prospective observational studies or biomarker-validation studies that need new data or biospecimen collection, through a cooperative agreement.

— pool·1043 days
NIAID Clinical Trial Implementation Cooperative Agreement
Open

Funds running an investigator-initiated, milestone-driven clinical trial that needs closer NIH oversight, including any mechanistic sub-studies.

— pool·1043 days
Research Opportunities in Cancer Epidemiology Cohort Studies
Open

Funds hypothesis-based research using cancer epidemiology cohorts, including cohort infrastructure, follow-up, and shared data and biospecimens.

— pool·1043 days
Opportunities for Collaborative Research with the NIH Intramural Research Program
Scheduled

Funds a research project run jointly with an investigator who already works inside NIH's own labs and clinics.

— pool
Alzheimer's Drug-Development Program
Scheduled

Funds early drug candidates for Alzheimer's disease, from lab bench through the first human safety trial.

— pool
Canine Cancer Immunotherapy Network (K9CIN)
Scheduled

Funds a five-award network running canine cancer immunotherapy trials whose results are meant to translate directly into human cancer treatment.

— pool
Early-Stage Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management
Open

Funds early-stage development of new cancer-research software tools, from first prototype to their first real users.

$2.4M pool·418 days
Cooperative Agreement for In Vivo High-Resolution Imaging for Inner Ear Visualization
Open

Funds high-risk clinical trials of new ways to see inside the living human inner ear. A trial is compulsory, and NIH stays in the room.

$500K pool·35 days
Community Engagement Evaluation and Data Coordination (CEED) Hub to Advance Data and Practice Transformation for Optimizing Oral Health for All
Open

Funds a single hub that coordinates data, evaluation and operations for a consortium of community-based oral health research projects.

$1M pool·53 days
Continuation of the Collaborative Islet Transplantation Registry
Between cycles

Funds continuing the national registry that tracks outcomes from clinical trials of islet transplants for diabetes.

$700K pool
Continuation of the Cardiovascular Repository for-Type 1 Diabetes (CARE-T1D) Consortium U01 (Open Competition)- Research
Open

Funds research into why cardiovascular disease develops in people with type 1 diabetes, through an open-competition consortium.

$6M pool·195 days
Optimal Treatment Strategies for use of Anti-Obesity Medications (AOMs) in Children and Adolescents Clinical Centers
Open

Funds a clinical centre inside a consortium testing how to use anti-obesity medication in children without harming their growth or mental health.

$3M pool·43 days
Multimodal AI to Accelerate Precision Medicine for Type 1 Diabetes
Scheduled

Funds a single milestone-driven project combining multiple existing Type 1 diabetes datasets with multimodal AI models.

$5M pool
GREGoRi Data Coordination and Outreach Center
Open

Funds the one centre that coordinates a rare-disease genomics programme and gets its protocols, data and tools out to everybody else.

$2M pool·64 days
GREGoRi Technology Integration Center
Open

Funds the centre that turns new molecular methods for rare-disease diagnosis into standards, best practices and a benchmarking dataset.

$3M pool·64 days
GREGoRi Innovation Projects
Open

Funds a genuinely new experimental or computational approach to finding the cause of a rare genetic disorder, where the current state of the art falls short.

$7.5M pool·64 days
ancient DNA for Modern Genomics (aDMG) Research Projects
Scheduled

Funds research using ancient human DNA data to understand the diseases and traits people carry today.

— pool
BRAIN Initiative: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization- Next Generation Sensor Technology Development
Open

Funds next-generation sensors and bioelectronic devices that record behaviour in step with brain recordings, to build models of how the two connect.

— pool·292 days
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Intermediate Patient Population Expanded Access
Open

Funds research using data from expanded access to investigational drugs for people with ALS who are not eligible for any ongoing trial.

$40M pool·75 days
Genomic and Biologic Therapies for ADRD
Between cycles

Funds moving a genomic or biologic therapy candidate for Alzheimer's-related dementias from lab optimisation through to first human testing.

$6M pool
BRAIN Initiative Connectivity across Scales (BRAIN CONNECTS): Specialized Projects for Scalable Technologies
Open

Funds technology anywhere in the connectomics pipeline — collection, reconstruction, analysis, dissemination — to make brain wiring diagrams faster and cheaper.

$10M pool·403 days
Development and Testing of a Multi-use Frameworks Playbook for Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data (PRIMED-AI)
Open

Funds the design and early validation of frameworks — guidelines, protocols and standard procedures — for building and deploying multimodal medical AI reliably.

$2M pool·43 days
Last verified: 27 Aug 2026Source: grants.nih.gov