Official funding announcement — preliminary draft
Funder: National Institutes of Health
Opportunity number: RFA-AT-25-003
Official listed status: posted
Closing information: 2026-11-23 (official deadline clock time and time zone must be checked in NOFO)
Award disclosure: Official federal synopsis lists an award ceiling of 375,000; applicant-level applicability requires full-NOFO review.
Applicant categories in federal synopsis: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education; Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification); Private institutions of higher education
Federal synopsis
The purpose of this initiative is to: (1) support the efforts by R15-eligible Principal Investigators (PIs) to conduct rigorous basic and/or mechanistic pain research projects; (2) promote integrated, interdisciplinary research partnerships between R15-eligible PIs and additional investigators from U.S. domestic institutions, and (3) enhance the pain research environment at the R15-eligible institution for health professional trainees or undergraduate and/or graduate students by actively engaging them in the proposed pain research projects.
Draft intake record. Eligibility, program terms, current amendments and applicant ceiling must be independently verified before publishing.