The American Heart Association is in the process of resetting its research award schedule because of disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Listed below are the programs to be offered and application deadlines that have been set for the 2020-21 fiscal year.

Other program offerings may be posted as submission deadlines are finalized. We encourage you to revisit the AHA Application Information page periodically for updates and appreciate your patience.

• Applications must be received no later than 3 p.m. Central Time on the deadline date. Early submission is encouraged. 
• Potential applicants should review the Features of All AHA Awards on the AHA Application Information page for answers to commonly asked questions about eligibility and award details.
• All proposals must be submitted electronically via ProposalCentral. The system will open eight weeks prior to the application deadline to complete your proposal and upload documents. You can begin to create your documents now; please refer to the AHA Application Instructions.
• Applicants must be AHA Professional Partners (members) at the time of application. This must be done online. Join or begin the partner process well before the deadline.
• ProposalCentral/Altum and AHA offices will be closed Thursday, Nov. 26 through Sunday, Nov. 29. Assistance will not be available during this time. Fellowship applicants are strongly encouraged to complete their submissions early.

Award Offerings and Application Deadlines

AHA Predoctoral Fellowship
Enhances the training of promising students in pre-doctoral or clinical health professional degree training programs and who intend careers as scientists, physician-scientists or other clinician-scientists, or related careers aimed at improving global health and wellbeing. One- and two-year fellowships are available.
Application Deadline: Tuesday, December 1, 2020

AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship
Enhances the training of postdoctoral applicants who are not yet independent. The applicant must be embedded in an appropriate research group with the mentorship, support, and relevant scientific guidance of a research supervisor. One-and two-year fellowships are available.
Application Deadline: Thursday, December 3, 2020

Institutional Award for Undergraduate Student Training
This award is made to qualified institutions that can offer a meaningful research experience that supports the AHA mission that encourages undergraduate college students from all disciplines to consider research careers.
Application Deadline: Thursday, January 14, 2021

Career Development Award
Supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist in the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular disease research.
Application Deadline: Tuesday, February 16, 2021

New Award Coming Soon:
Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Science
Open to currently funded AHA faculty awardees (e.g., TPA, EI, Merit, CDA, CSA, and SFRN Project PIs) with at least two years of funding remaining at the time of submission. These supplements will support research experiences for predoctoral students or postdoctoral fellows from under-represented ethnic and racial groups in science.

The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities.  Through this program NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

Applicants may apply to create institutes that are a single opportunity or are offered multiple times to different audiences.  Institutes may be as short as a few days or as long as six weeks and held at a single site or at multiples sites; virtual institutes are also permissible.  Training opportunities could be offered before or after regularly occurring scholarly meetings, during the summer months, or during appropriate times of the academic year.  The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic; it should also be appropriate for the intended audience.

These professional development programs may focus on a particular computational method, such as network or spatial analysis.  They may also target the needs of a particular humanities discipline or audience. 

What’s New for 2021:  

• Applicants must submit the Research and Related Budget Form and attach a budget justification.  The Research and Related Budget is available in the Grants.gov application package. Budgets in other formats will not be accepted. 
• The narrative includes new questions for applicants to address, such as describing more fully the publicity plans for recruiting participants and providing additional details for risk assessment and risk mitigation.  

Reminders:  

• Applications will be declared ineligible for review if they do not include all required sections and components (i.e., Research and Related Budget and budget justification).  
• Applications will be declared ineligible for review if they do not comply with all requirements indicated with a “must” outlined in the NOFO, including page limits.   

For more information about submitting applications, please visit the NEH page.

NSF is excited to announce the new INTERN NSF DCL 21-013, which provides funding for non-academic internships to all NSF-supported graduate students, including those supported by the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21013/nsf21013.jsp).

INTERN offers expanded benefits to students seeking internship experiences, including more funding and more flexibility:

1. Up to $55,000 of funding can be requested;
2. Besides travel support, funds can be requested for stipends (if the Fellow is on reserve), tuition, and health insurance;
3. Up to $2,500 of the funding may be used for materials and supplies;
4. Indirect costs are permitted;
5. Collaboration arrangements with the internship host are confirmed before the request for funding;
6. While it is expected that internships will be on-site, specific exceptions may be granted;
7. Funding requests may be submitted at any time.
   Because of the flexibility and benefits that INTERN now offers to Graduate Research Fellows and internship host organizations, NSF will suspend the next GRIP competition. Full information on INTERN funding for Graduate Research Fellows (GRFP) is available in the DCL (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21013/nsf21013.jsp). Additional information on specific terms and conditions for INTERN supplements to NSF GRFP awards can be requested by sending an email to GRFP INTERN: GRFPINTERN@nsf.gov.

For more information, please visit the NSF page.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Mid-scale Research Infrastructure (Mid-scale RI) Big Idea is intended to provide an agile, Foundation-wide process to fund experimental research capabilities in the mid-scale range ($6 million to $100 million), between the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) and Major Facilities thresholds. Recently, the solicitation (NSF 21-505) for the Mid-scale RI-1 program (total project cost of $6 million up to but not including $20 million), one of two funding opportunities that span the mid-scale range, was published with a deadline of January 7, 2021 for preliminary proposals.

On Wednesday, November 4, 2020 and Thursday, November 5, 2020, NSF will host outreach webinars with information about the Mid-Scale RI-1 funding opportunity. Each session will begin at 1:00 p.m. EST and have two parts: a general Mid-scale RI-1 information session (1:00 p.m. -1:40 p.m. EST) with Q&A followed by Directorate-specific breakouts (1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. EST) where more technical questions will be addressed. Information on Day 1 will be repeated on Day 2.

To access the main webinars and follow-on directorate-specific breakouts:

Webinar 1
Event: Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure (Mid-scale RI-1): NSF 21-505 Q&A – Main meeting
Date/Time: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Eastern Time
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• You will enter through a waiting room and be let in by an NSF staff member.
• Questions: Please submit questions via Chat during the webinar. There will be no participant audio-enabled questions or screen sharing.

Directorate Breakouts: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 from 1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time

•  You will enter through a waiting room and be let in to the breakout by an NSF staff member.
• Please follow instructions provided during the breakouts for Q&A.

Mid-scale RI-1 BIO breakout
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Webinar 2
Event: Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure (Mid-scale RI-1): NSF 21-505 Q&A – Main meeting
Date/Time: Thursday, November 5, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Eastern Time
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• You will enter through a waiting room and be let in by an NSF staff member.
• Questions: Please submit questions via Chat during the webinar. There will be no participant audio-enabled questions or screen sharing.

Directorate Breakouts: Thursday, November 5, 2020 from 1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time

•  You will enter through a waiting room and be let in to the breakout by an NSF staff member.
• Please follow instructions provided during the breakouts for Q&A.

Mid-scale RI-1 BIO breakout
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Meeting ID: 160 581 5851Mid-scale RI-1: CISE breakout
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Mid-scale RI-1: EHR breakoutJoin ZoomGov Meeting
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Mid-scale RI-1 ENG breakout
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Mid-scale RI-1 GEO breakoutJoin ZoomGov Meeting
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Mid-scale RI-1 MPS breakoutJoin ZoomGov Meeting
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Mid-scale RI-1: SBE breakoutJoin ZoomGov Meeting
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For more information about NSF, please visit the NSF page.

Today, nearly twenty years after the publication of the Final NIH Statement on Sharing Research Data in 2003, we have released a Final NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing. This represents the agency’s continued commitment to share and make broadly available the results of publicly funded biomedical research. We hope it will be a critical step in moving towards a culture change, in which data management and sharing is seen as integral to the conduct of research. Responsible data management and sharing is good for science; it maximizes availability of data to the best and brightest minds, underlies reproducibility, honors the participation of human participants by ensuring their data is both protected and fully utilized, and provides an element of transparency to ensure public trust and accountability.

This policy has been years in the making and has benefited enormously from feedback and input from stakeholders throughout the process. We are grateful to all those who took the time to comment on Request for Information, the Draft policy, or to participate in workshops or Tribal consultations. That thoughtful feedback has helped shape the Final policy, which we believe strikes a balance between reasonable expectations for data sharing and flexibility to allow for a diversity of data types and circumstances. How we incorporated public comments and decision points that led to the Final policy are detailed in the Preamble to the DMS policy.

The Final policy applies to all research funded or conducted by NIH that results in the generation of scientific data. The Final Policy has two main requirements (1) the submission of a Data Management and Sharing Plan (Plan); and (2) compliance with the approved Plan. We are asking for Plans at the time of submission of the application, because we believe planning and budgeting for data management and sharing needs to occur hand in hand with planning the research itself. NIH recognizes that science evolves throughout the research process, which is why we have built in the ability to update DMS Plans, but at the end of the day, we are expecting investigators and institutions to be accountable to the Plans they have laid out for themselves.

I strongly suspect we will hear both from those who think we should have gone farther and required that all data resulting from NIH-funded research be shared, regardless of extenuating factors, and those who think we have gone too far in requiring all applicants to develop a Plan. Which perhaps means we’ve gotten it just right! For some investigators and disciplines, who have been at the forefront of data sharing, this will be very familiar; for others, this will be new territory. Anticipating that variation in readiness, and in recognition of the cultural change we are trying to seed, there is a two-year implementation period. This time will be spent developing the information, support, and tools that the biomedical enterprise will need to comply with this new policy. NIH has already provided additional supplementary information – on (1) elements of a data management and sharing plan; (2) allowable costs; and (3) selecting a data repository – in concert with the policy release.

As NIH Director Francis Collins notes in his Director’s Statement today, the novel coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the importance of making research data broadly accessible. But even as the world struggles with this acute global crisis, it is important to note that we are at an extraordinary time in biomedical science, where new technologies, data science, and understanding of fundamental biology are converging to accelerate the pace of discovery and medical advancement. The Final NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing builds on those exciting opportunities, and we look forward to working with our stakeholders to fulfill its vision.

For more Information, Please visit the NIH page.