Contact Information

Office of Research: Funding Sources


Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
(301) 295-3303
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USU Intramural Funding

Eligibility for USU Intramural funding is open only to civilian and active-duty military members billeted full-time at USU with a USU faculty appointment.

Key dates for FY14 Intramural funding:

  • Release Date: Friday Feb 1, 2013
  • Due Date: Friday June 14, 2013
  • Materials to Reviewers: July 8, 2013
  • Review Date: September 9, 2013

Funding Start: On or about October 1, 2013 dependent upon Congressional funding.


Program Project Grant

Eligibility requirements for the USU Program Project require that at least 2 PIs must be billeted tenure-track faculty at USU and one of the projects much be in a clinical department.

Key dates for FY13 Program Project funding:

  • Solicitation Release Date: October 26, 2012
  • Pre-Proposal Receipt Date (Required): Friday December 7, 2012 by 5PM EST
  • Selection made for full proposal: late January 2013
  • Full Application Receipt Date: Friday May 31, 2013 by 5PM EST
  • Earliest Anticipated Start Date: September 1, 2013

Purpose: This is a program at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences that is designed to encourage interdisciplinary translational research. The goal is to provide the USU faculty the opportunity to build a starter "Program Project" which should place them into a position to apply for a National Institutes of Health Program Project (P01) or similar award. This should not be seen as a substitute for extramural funding but rather as a stepping stone to a large multi-investigator grant.

Eligible Individuals: At least two (2) of the projects must be directed by USU billeted faculty and one of these individuals must take on the leadership role as the lead principal investigator who is responsible administratively for the application.

One of the three projects may be at one of the DOD medical treatment or research facilities under the direction of an investigator with a USU faculty appointment, with preference for the national capital area. At least one of the projects must be from the USU clinical departments.

Non-DOD researchers are not permitted to apply. Previous USU Program Project award recipients cannot apply. Sub-awards are not permissible.


Extramural Funding

NIH Extramural Funding

  • National Institutes of Health
  • NIH Office of Extramural Research
    Information about NIH extramural research and research training programs, funding opportunities, grants policy, and award data.
  • Division of Research Grants (DRG)
    The Division of Research Grants provides staff support to the Office of the Director, NIH, in the formulation of grant application review policies and procedures. In addition, DRG provides central receipt of all PHS applications for research and research training support, and makes initial referral to PHS components. DRG also assigns NIH applications to supporting institutes and centers and to DRG initial review groups, and provides for scientific review of most NIH research grants and Individual National Research Service Awards (Fellowships). This also provides access to study section rosters.
  • Edison (extramural invention reporting)
  • Entrez and NCBI
    Includes databases on nucleotides, proteins, genomes, taxonomy and PubMed. PubMed is a project developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers.
  • NIH Forms (Via NIH)
    The following are documents that may help investigators prepare research proposals to the NIH. Please note that if you use the link to the NIH forms at Baylor and Rice you should not use the face-page contained in these forms. Rather, you should use an original, printed version of the form obtained from a forms packet from the Grants Office. NIH has informed us that grants submitted using computer versions of the form risk administrative rejection. Please contact the Office of Research for a forms kit.
  • NIH Institute, Center and Division (ICD) Pages
    Information about the NIH Institutes, Centers, and Divisions (ICDs), including IC-specific grant and contract funding opportunities and policies, may be found on the web Pages each ICD has established. A linked list of ICD sites is on the NIH Home Page.
  • NIH Policy and Guidelines on Inclusion of Children as participants in Research Involving Human Subjects
    Any NIH grant using humans as subjects must explain whether they are using children or not - see policy statement.
  • NIH Publication List

DoD Extramural Funding

  • Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
  • NIH Office of Extramural Research
    Information about NIH extramural research and research training programs, funding opportunities, grants policy, and award data.
  • Division of Research Grants (DRG)
    The Division of Research Grants provides staff support to the Office of the Director, NIH, in the formulation of grant application review policies and procedures. In addition, DRG provides central receipt of all PHS applications for research and research training support, and makes initial referral to PHS components. DRG also assigns NIH applications to supporting institutes and centers and to DRG initial review groups, and provides for scientific review of most NIH research grants and Individual National Research Service Awards (Fellowships). This also provides access to study section rosters.
  • Edison (extramural invention reporting)
  • ONR - Office of Naval Research
    The Office of Naval Research coordinates, executes, and promotes the science and technology programs of the United States Navy and Marine Corps through universities, government laboratories, and nonprofit organizations.
  • ONR Grants and Contracts

NSF Extramural Funding


(Other) Federal Agencies Extramural Funding


Private Funding Sources


Searchable Funding Databases


Scientific Databases

  • American Type Cell Culture
    The ATCC is a global bioscience organization that provides biological products, technical services, and educational programs to private industry, government, and academic organizations around the world.
  • Entrez
  • The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
    This is a not-for-profit research institute with interests in structural, functional, and comparative analysis of genomes and gene products in viruses, eubacteria, pathogenic bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes, both plant and animal, including humans.
  • The National Library of Medicine Databases
    This system includes over 40 online databases containing about 18 million records. Many of the databases contain bibliographic citations to biomedical journals including abstracts when possible.
  • National Center for Biotechnical Information
    This site has automated systems for storing and analyzing knowledge about molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics; computer-based information processing for analyzing the structure and function of biologically important molecules; databases and software for biotechnology researchers and medical personnel.

Clinical Funding Sources