NEI Center Core Grant for Vision Research (P30 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Past Federal grant forecast Posted
- Opportunity number
- PAR-26-113
- Agency
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National Institutes of Health
Department of Health and Human Services
- Applications expected due
- Award size
- Not on record
Opportunity facts
- Expected posting
- Assistance listings
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- 93.867 Vision Research
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Health
- Eligible applicants
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- For Profit Organizations
- Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- Higher Education Inst. (Public)
- Higher Education Inst. (Private)
- Points of contact
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The National Institutes of Health National Eye Institute is forecasting Center Core Grants to build research infrastructure supporting groups of NEI R01-funded investigators, with no specific application deadline currently posted. Applicants must be for-profit organizations, non-501(c)(3) nonprofits, 501(c)(3) nonprofits, or public or private higher education institutions. Clinical trials are not permitted under this mechanism.
Grants must include a mandatory administrative core plus three or more resource and/or service cores, accessible to any researcher at the applicant institution. The program is designed to enhance institutional capacity for vision research, consolidate resources, avoid duplication, and improve cost-effectiveness by providing shared instrumentation and facilities too expensive for independent investigators to maintain separately.
Technical merit of the proposed project, availability of funds, and relevance to NEI program priorities determine funding decisions. Applications undergo initial scientific and technical review, followed by programmatic relevance assessment by the National Advisory Eye Council, with final approval by the NEI Director. Approximately nine months elapse from application to formal award notice.
Applicants planning to submit core grant applications are required to seek preapplication coordination with NEI staff at (301) 451-2020. This program falls under CFDA 93.867 (Vision Research). The NEI has awarded over 16,500 grants under this program historically, with recent annual award counts of 353 (2023), 361 (2024), and 300 (2025). No specific award ceiling, floor, or expected number of Center Core awards is stated in this forecast.
Forecast synopsis
The goal of these institutional Center Core Grants is to build research infrastructure within an institution for the purpose of providing technical support to groups of NEI R01-funded investigators. The NEI Center Core Grant combines three or more Resource and/or Service Cores for a group of R01 investigators to enhance their research, consolidate resources, avoid duplication of efforts, and/or contribute to cost effectiveness by providing a service with lower costs or higher quality than could be attempted for independent projects by several individual Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PD(s)/PI(s)). Shared resources and facilities that are accessible to a group of independently funded investigators lead to greater productivity for the separate projects and can provide instrumentation and facilities that are too costly to be maintained by an individual investigator. The design and purpose of each Center Core may vary in how it serves its users. This program is designed to enhance an institution's environment and capability to conduct vision research and to facilitate collaborative studies of the visual system and its disorders and promote new research within the NEI mission and Strategic Plan. Grants are required to have an administrative core and three or more resource and/or service cores. Any researcher at the institute can use the core facilities.
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