Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA HL 18 025
This funding opportunity (RFA-HL-18-025) is a limited-competition small grant program from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health. It uses the NIH R03 mechanism, which is designed for short, focused projects that can be completed with relatively modest support. The overall aim is to help investigators who are already on an NHLBI career development pathway take a concrete next step toward full research independence by generating the kind of early data, proof-of-concept results, or methodological advances that can later underpin a larger application such as an R01 or an equivalent research grant.
The program is specifically targeted to people who are current or recently completed NHLBI K award recipients in the K01, K08, or K23 categories. The intent is to provide a bridge between mentored career development support and the expectations of running an independent research program. Applicants can use this R03 to either expand the scope of research they have been pursuing under their K award or to pursue a new, closely connected line of inquiry that emerged from the K-funded work. For recently completed K awardees, eligibility hinges on timing: they can apply as long as the earliest possible start date for the R03 would fall within two years of the end of their prior NHLBI K project period. In practical terms, this is meant to keep momentum going right after the K award ends, when investigators often need resources to solidify a direction and produce fundable preliminary evidence.
Because it is an R03, the types of activities it supports are intentionally flexible but bounded in scale. The FOA highlights several common R03-appropriate project types: pilot studies and feasibility studies, secondary analyses of existing datasets, small and self-contained research projects with narrow aims, development or refinement of research methods, and development of new research technologies. The emphasis is on projects that are realistically achievable in a short timeframe and with limited resources, rather than large multi-year efforts. For investigators with K23 backgrounds, the FOA explicitly notes that the R03 project may include patient-oriented research, but it does not have to. That detail matters because it gives former or current K23 awardees room to pivot toward mechanistic, translational, data-driven, or methods-focused work if that is what best positions them for their next major grant.
The opportunity is categorized as discretionary funding and uses the standard NIH grant instrument. The funding activity category is health, and it is associated with multiple CFDA numbers (93.233, 93.837, 93.838, 93.839, 93.840), reflecting NIH/NHLBI program authorities. The award ceiling is listed at $50,000, and the FOA anticipated around 15 awards, which signals a relatively small, competitive program intended for a defined pool of eligible applicants rather than the broader research community. The title indicates that clinical trials are optional, meaning an applicant may propose a study that includes a clinical trial component if it fits the project goals and remains appropriate for the R03 scope, but a clinical trial is not required.
Eligibility for applicant organizations is broad and includes many common NIH-eligible institution types, such as public and private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (including both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) entities), for-profit organizations (excluding small businesses in one category but including small businesses separately), and multiple levels of government entities (state, county, city/township, special districts), as well as eligible tribal governments and tribal organizations, and public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities. While organizations apply as the official applicant, this FOA is functionally limited by the investigator-level requirement that the proposed project leader be a current or appropriately recent NHLBI K01/K08/K23 awardee.
Key administrative details in the source information include a creation date of October 6, 2017, and an original closing date of September 7, 2018. Taken together, the FOA’s core value proposition is straightforward: it gives a defined group of NHLBI mentored career award recipients a modest, targeted pot of funding to complete a high-yield, bounded project that strengthens their scientific position, helps establish independence, and produces preliminary results that can credibly launch a subsequent larger-scale grant application.Apply for RFA HL 18 025
- The Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Limited Competition: Small Grant Program for NHLBI K01/K08/K23 Recipients (R03) - (Clinical Trial Optional)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.233, 93.837, 93.838, 93.839, 93.840.
- This funding opportunity was created on Oct 06, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 07, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $50,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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