Open Opportunities

The Indiana Department of Health’s (IDOH’s) Division of Trauma and Injury Prevention has been provided funding to support quality improvement projects and the ongoing development of the statewide trauma system.  To aid in the implementation of trauma system projects, the Indiana Department of Health will fund the following strategies (per Senate Enrolled Act No. 4).  Applicants must implement projects that target at least one strategy but can address multiple strategies if appropriate.

Strategy 1: Trauma System Development
Strategy 2: Quality Improvement
Strategy 3: Trauma and Non-Trauma Center Engagement
Strategy 4: Injury Prevention Programming

This request for application (RFA) is designed for all interested entities wishing to submit proposals for trauma system development under the core strategies outlined above. Funding decisions for all proposals submitted under this program will be made following a review process by the respective Trauma Regional Advisory Council, Trauma Care Commission Subcommittee, and Indiana Trauma Care Commission (TCC).

Eligible applicants might include hospitals, hospital networks, first responder agencies, statewide organizations, and entities with previous experience leading quality improvement activities.  An entity may submit more than one proposal.  An entity may submit more than one proposal but should ensure coordination with their respective TRAC.  TRAC locations and contact information can be found using this link.

Applicants will be allocated a set dollar amount based on the project scope and potential impact to address outlined strategies and improve Indiana’s trauma system.

NOTE:  If your application is selected for funding, IDOH will work with you to create the ID numbers defined below that are requested in the application form. These numbers are necessary prior to the finalization of a contract with the State.  If you have these numbers already established, please include them in your application.

AOS (Auditor of State) Supplier ID: This number is created by the State Comptroller’s Office and is required for you to receive a contract, purchase order, or receive a payment from the State of Indiana.  It requires the following:
1. W-9 Form
2. Direct Deposit Form

Tax ID/EIN: An Employer Identification Number (EIN) is also known as a Federal Tax Identification Number and is used to identify a business entity. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issues this number.

IDOA Bidder ID: IDOA Supplier Portal, a ten-digit number assigned to companies when they register to bid on solicitations for new state contracts without having to detail certain corporation specifics on each submitted bid. You must have an IDOA Bidder ID.  Register here

The overall objective of this program is to foster and encourage activity-based therapy programs for the treatment of spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, including acute management, medical complications, rehabilitative techniques, and neuronal recovery.

The initiative for funding activity based therapy programs consists of two funding mechanisms:
1) an RFA for programs providing rehabilitative clinical care and employing “activity based” approaches for traumatic spinal cord injury persons, and
2) an RFA for programs providing rehabilitative clinical care and employing “activity based” approaches for traumatic brain injury persons.

Applications for each RFA may be submitted for up to a maximum requested amount of $150,000 for the total duration of the project. Programs must be conducted in compliance with all state and federal laws.

Research Project Development Teams (PDTs) are groups of experienced senior faculty located on each of the Indiana CTSI campuses who will connect you with resources, collaboration opportunities, and small (typically up to $15,000) awards for preliminary or additional data. Each PDT is designed around a common research theme.

There are biostatisticians and regulatory experts on each team, and other experts are added, as needed, to the team to when your application is discussed. You will have access to the expertise and knowledge you need all in one place.

The PDT application process is contingent on the stage of the project. You have selected the application process for pilot funding from the PDTs for a first time external submission. If you are seeking pilot funding prior to an external resubmission please use Research Project Development Teams (PDTs):  Project Revision

Research Project Development Teams (PDTs) are groups of experienced senior faculty located on each of the Indiana CTSI campuses who will connect you with resources, collaboration opportunities, and small amounts of pilot funding for preliminary or additional data.  Each PDT is designed around a common research theme.

There are biostatisticians and regulatory experts on each team, and other experts are added, as needed, to the team to when your application is discussed. You will have access to the expertise and knowledge you need all in one place.

Awards are typically up to $15,000.  The PDTs have the ability to approve funding within a $15 - $30K for IU projects only depending on the scientific merit and justification.

The PDT application process is contingent on the stage of the project. You have selected the application process for pilot funding from the PDTs for an external resubmission.  If you are seeking pilot funding prior a first time external submission please use Research Project Development Teams (PDTs):  Project Refinement.

Commercialization Project Development Teams (PDTs) are groups of experienced entrepreneurial faculty located on each of the Indiana CTSI campuses who will connect you with resources and collaboration opportunities to support commercialization of your technology.

There are commercialization office representatives and regulatory experts on each team, and other experts are added to the team as needed when your application is discussed. You will have access to the expertise and knowledge you need all in one place. Full-time faculty (i.e., tenure-track, research, and clinical faculty) at any campus of Indiana University, the University of Notre Dame, or Purdue University who have submitted all relevant invention disclosures to their university’s commercialization office are eligible for funding.

Awards are typically up to $15,000 although the commercialization PDTs have the ability to approve funding within a $15 - $30K range for IU projects only, depending on scientific merit.

The IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center is providing an opportunity to fund cancer focused PI-directed applications to the National Institutes of Health that have been reviewed once and missed the NIH pay line and have a high potential for obtaining external funding. The goal is to increase the cancer focused NIH funding base. Non-NCI targeted applications should have significant cancer relevance.

Investigators wishing to apply to this funding mechanism must first submit their project to the IU External Resubmission Grant opportunity for funding consideration. If the project is not funded at the University level, an investigator can submit the project to the Cancer Center’s Near-Miss initiative for funding consideration.

Investigators wishing to apply to this funding mechanism must first submit a draft cover letter (letter of intent) for approval by the Cancer Center’s Executive Committee before working with a Coordinator to submit a full application. Once approved, the link for submitting the online application will be sent.

Maximum allowable amount for R01, R42 and R44 grants is $50K with P01 and SPORE funding amounts evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

The IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center is pleased to announce the availability of funds for new pilot projects to assist new IU investigators who hold the rank of Assistant Professor, Research Assistant Professor, or Assistant Scientist who is within six years of their first independent research or faculty appointment but without an active (i.e., NIH, NSF, ACS) national competitive research grant, regardless of the topic. These funds are from the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (ACS-IRG). This grant provides support for beginning investigators to enable them to initiate their independent research program.

The purpose of the ACS-IRG program is to attract new investigators from Indiana University into cancer research and to provide support for new pilot studies that will produce preliminary data for the investigator to develop into studies that will compete successfully for external, national funds from both federal and private sources.

Funding can be requested up to $50,000.   

IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, Office of Community Outreach and Engagement is inviting collaborative proposals for implementing evidence-based cancer related programs within the community. Proposals should address the cancer burden in Indiana. The program should include an evaluation component and priority will be given to projects targeting one of the major cancer burdens in Indiana, including lung, breast, colon, pancreas, prostate and cervical. We are particularly interested in initiatives that promote healthier behaviors linking to reducing cancer incidence and morbidity. Of particular interest are community-led programs that expand our reach and deepen our understanding of populations across Indiana. The project must be co-led by an Cancer Center faculty member and a community advocate or partner.

The duration of this funding is one year, and the budget should not exceed $15,000.

Indiana CTSI Community Health Partnerships (CHeP) is soliciting proposals for the development of community-university partnerships to improve the health of Indiana residents, to result in future collaborative research proposals. The award can be used to establish new partnerships or to strengthen/expand existing community-university partnerships to solve critical health problems affecting Indiana residents. This award will not fund research pilot projects; instead, it will fund activities to help develop partnerships between individuals and organizations that have potential to later engage in joint research projects to improve the health of Indiana communities. The expected outcome of this award is the development of a future research proposal for opportunities such as the Community Health Partnerships Trailblazer Award. This RFA accepts applications which propose to serve residents in any of the counties of Indiana.

The Trailblazer Planning Grant is intended to fund partnership development through conferences, travel, collaborative meetings, interviews, and other activities that will culminate in a community-engaged collaborative research proposal application to the Trailblazer Award (or other funding mechanism). This award is not designed to fund research studies, pilot studies, or supplies for existing partnership work.

There must be at least one university-based partner and one community-based partner. All partners must currently be employed in Indiana-based institutions or organizations.

Awards will be up to $5,000 for two years to allow for partnership growth and collaborative grant proposal development.

The NIAAA-supported Indiana Alcohol Research Center (IARC) is soliciting proposals for pilot projects from investigators who want to develop research on alcohol use disorders. Applications pertinent to basic mechanisms of alcohol misuse, neurophysiological and behavioral phenotypes of drinking, and genetic underpinnings of alcohol preference are welcome. The purpose of an IARC pilot grant is to allow an investigator to obtain preliminary data leading to extramural funding. Previous experience in research on alcohol use and/or alcohol use disorder is not required.

Pilot projects are limited to $50,000 (direct costs) per year for two years.

Change as of June 3, 2026:  The release of NIH funding opportunities is currently undergoing reform and it is possible that the deadline for submission of Alcohol Research Center mechanisms may be as early as September 15, 2026.  For this reason, we need to move our final proposal deadline to AUGUST 15, 2026.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

The overall objective of the Indiana Traumatic Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research program is to foster and encourage research for the prevention, treatment and cure of spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, including acute management, medical complications, rehabilitative techniques, and neuronal recovery.  Collaborations are encouraged between Indiana-based researchers as well as with researchers located outside the state of Indiana.   Salary support for collaborators outside of Indiana will be limited, however.

Maximum requested amount:

• Basic science proposals may request up to $80,000 per year for two years
• Clinical research proposals (i.e. involving human subjects, human biological samples, or data from human subjects) may request up to $100,000 per year for two years
• Early commercialization proposals targeting new technologies (i.e. diagnostic or therapeutic drugs / devices) may request up to $100,000 for one year

Priority will be given to:

• Researchers who are submitting revised applications from the 2021 RFA
• Junior investigators (within 5 years of their last training period at the time of submission)
• Researchers embarking on a new research direction
• Returning investigators whose prior awards have resulted in demonstrable movement along the translational spectrum (e.g. from in vitro to in vivo) and/or led to extramural research support
• Early commercialization research that is reasonably expected to lead to future funding (SBIR/STTR, private investment)

The mission of the Grants Linking University–wide Expertise (GLUE) awards is to support “the planning and team building across campuses to develop of large multi-investigator and/or multi-project, milestone-driven, translational research teams who are planning to eventually submit a multi-year extramural grant applications with annual budgets of $300K or higher in direct costs per year”.   Examples of such grants include (but are not limited to) PPGs, U series, multi PI R01s, STTRs and SPORE grants.

Applications for GLUE grants are accepted for review at any stage of their development.  It is expected that these planning/seed grants will increase multidisciplinary collaborations, institutional competitiveness, opportunities for extramurally funded training grants and overall institutional funding.

The GLUE funding is available to collaborative teams where the lead PI of the research team is from IUB, and the other members of the team are from Indiana CTSI affiliate campuses.

Applications are expected to have a maximum requested amount $100,000 per year for up to two years.

Indiana University Health’s strength in providing excellent patient care is partially based on involvement in the continuous development of new, pre-eminent health care professionals throughout the entire workforce and innovative care delivery models.  The Indiana University Health is seeking applicants for the IUH Pilot and Feasibility Education Program.

Areas of interest for 2026 round of Values Fund for Education grants are:

1) rural health
2) behavioral health
3) point of care ultrasound

Applications should be designed to primarily benefit healthcare providers and should not focus on a community audience.

Funding is limited to a maximum of $50,000 per year for two years.

The IU Health Values Fund Clinical Trialist Incubator is a competitive professional development scholarship designed to support early-career clinicians in acquiring the competencies, experience, and institutional integration necessary to become PI-ready clinical trialists, particularly for industry-sponsored clinical research aligned with IU Health priorities.

This program is not a traditional research grant. Awards are made to support clinical release time and structured experiential learning, rather than to fund investigator-initiated research projects.

Applications to this program are limited to $150,000 over a three (3) year duration, with a $50,000 per year maximum.

This Executive Associate Dean for Research (EADR) sponsored program is intended to support large, collaborative, interdisciplinary grants including, but not limited to, program project grants (P01s), center grants (P30s, P50s, P60s), and cooperative agreements (U54s). The goal of this initiative is to bring together faculty of Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) to collaborate and develop novel concepts that advance the mission and research goals of IUSM. These funds must be used for experiments to generate data to support the grant application. Support for this program is dependent on the availability of funds from the EADR.

Please see RFA linked below for details.

The Department of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine is pleased to announce the availability of grants to support research projects conducted by pediatric clinical fellows in accredited fellowship programs within the sections of the Department of Pediatrics.

Fellow research projects can request funding up to $10,000.  Research projects must be feasibly completed within the fellowship period. It is anticipated that five to seven awards will be made.

Since 1975, IUSM has received research funding through gifts made possible from the Ralph W. and Grace M. Showalter Research Trust Fund. The areas of appropriate biomedical research, eligible for funding, are broad and described by the benefactors as “the type of medical research that is most likely to permanently benefit mankind.” Donor intent prohibits the use of Showalter Trust funds for research in psychiatry, sociology, or social studies.

Applications for funding from the Ralph W. and Grace M. Showalter Research Trust will be reviewed in two stages. An initial review by the IUSM Biomedical Research Committee (BRC) will select the most meritorious proposals for further discussion and ranking. The BRC will then provide a recommended ranking to the Showalter Trustees who conduct a second review. Final funding decisions are made by the Showalter Trustees.

Applications should have a maximum requested amount of $75,000.