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Support for Research Excellence First Independent Research (SuRE-First) Award (R16 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Award ceiling
up to $125,000
Closes
Sep 7, 2028
Last verified
2026-09-04

Awards up to $125,000 per recipient for private institutions of higher education, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, closing Sep 7, 2028.

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Support for Research Excellence First Independent Research (SuRE-First) Award (R16 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) awards up to $125,000 per recipient, open to private institutions of higher education, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, closing Sep 7, 2028.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
Not confirmed
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$125,000
Award floor
Not confirmed
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Sep 7, 2028
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Jun 13, 2025
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Private institutions of higher education · Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
investigator-initiated biomedical research in basic, social, clinical, behavioral, or translational science · provide support for investigator-initiated research at resource-limited institutions · furnish students with high-quality undergraduate and/or graduate research experiences · enhance the institutional scientific research culture
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
Not stated
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$125,000

Who can apply?

level
federal
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Source field: entity types
industry
use
enhance the institutional scientific research culture, furnish students with high-quality undergraduate and/or graduate research experiences, investigator-initiated biomedical research in basic, social, clinical, behavioral, or translational science, provide support for investigator-initiated research at resource-limited institutions
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Other Eligible Applicants include the following: Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations) are not eligible to apply. Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply. Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are not allowed.

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When does it close?

Sep 7, 2028730 daysDeadline type Fixed date
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What can the money be used for?

4 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
investigator-initiated biomedical research in basic, social, clinical, behavioral, or translational scienceprovide support for investigator-initiated research at resource-limited institutionsfurnish students with high-quality undergraduate and/or graduate research experiencesenhance the institutional scientific research culture

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

What comparable notices state

64 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Education, 64 of 184 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$131,496
  • Median$375,000
  • 75th percentile$625,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Who has won this programme before?

32234 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.

32234 federal awards on file under assistance listing 93.113, 93.121, 93.172, 93.173, 93.242, 93.273, 93.279, 93.286, 93.307, 93.361, 93.398, 93.846, 93.847, 93.853, 93.855, 93.859, 93.865, 93.866, 93.867, 93.879, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.

Every award under this programme

Common questions

4 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
Up to $125,000 per recipient.
When is the application deadline?
Sep 7, 2028.
Who is eligible to apply?
Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
What can the funding be used for?
investigator-initiated biomedical research in basic, social, clinical, behavioral, or translational science, provide support for investigator-initiated research at resource-limited institutions, furnish students with high-quality undergraduate and/or graduate research experiences, enhance the institutional scientific research culture, as classified by the source.

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What else is open

Also open under the same assistance listings

A listing names the programme; a notice names one round of it. These are other rounds open now, not other years of this one.

Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-04
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-03
Assistance listings93.113, 93.121, 93.172, 93.173, 93.242, 93.273, 93.279, 93.286, 93.307, 93.361, 93.398, 93.846, 93.847, 93.853, 93.855, 93.859, 93.865, 93.866, 93.867, 93.879

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