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

National Institutes of Health · Opportunity PAR-25-415

Deadline September 7, 2028 729 days left
Award range Up to $125k
Total program funding
PostedJune 13, 2025

Who can apply

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 through 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-First awards is to provide support for investigator-initiated research at resource-limited institutions by full-time faculty who have not had any prior independent, peer-reviewed, external research grants, 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 13 funded awards under PAR-25-415 across 13 organizations.

Awards by fiscal year 2026: 13
Award size (min / median / max) $148k / $188k / $205k

Total award obligations, not per-year amounts.

Recent awardees include: SUNY COLLEGE AT NEW PALTZ, NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NEW YORK INST OF TECHNOLOGY, ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY, ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MARSHALL UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIV SAN BERNARDINO, HOWARD 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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