Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award (R16 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Institutes of Health · Opportunity PAR-25-414
Who can apply
- Public and State institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
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.
About this opportunity
The SuRE program supports research capacity building at eligible higher education institutions by funding investigator-initiated biomedical research inbasic, social, clinical, behavioral, or translational science that falls in the mission areas of the NIH. The purpose of SuRE awards is to provide support for investigator-initiated research at resource-limited institutions by full-time faculty who are not currently funded by any NIH Research Project Grants (RPGs) with the exception of SuRE or SuRE-First awards, to furnish students with high-quality undergraduate and/or graduate research experiences, and to enhance the institutional scientific research culture.
Award history — this exact opportunity
NIH RePORTER lists 33 funded awards under PAR-25-414 across 27 organizations.
Total award obligations, not per-year amounts.
Recent awardees include: MARSHALL UNIVERSITY, EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA KEARNEY, XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA, UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA, CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY.
Source: NIH RePORTER, matched on the exact opportunity number. NIH publishes success rates by institute and activity code — source.
Portfolio context — this listing covers more than this opportunity
This opportunity is funded under Assistance Listing 93.113 (“Environmental Health”), a broad federal program that made about 246 new awards per year over the last five fiscal years (median award $468k). Those figures describe that whole portfolio — not this specific solicitation, so we don't show them as if they were this opportunity's track record.
Applicant counts per solicitation are not published by any federal agency — no one can honestly sell you that number. NIH publishes success rates by institute and activity code — source.
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