NJIT Research Newsletter includes recent awards, and announcements of research related seminars, webinars, national and federal research news related to research funding, and Grant Opportunity Alerts (with links to sections). The Newsletter is posted on the NJIT Research Website https://research.njit.edu/funding-opportunities.
Special Announcements
Advancing NIH’s Mission Through a Unified Strategy
NIH posted an announcement on Advancing NIH’s Mission Through a Unified Strategy on August 15, 2025.
As stewards of taxpayer funds, NIH must deliver results that matter to the public. Today, I’m pleased to announce that NIH is moving toward a unified strategy that aligns our priorities and funding approaches to fulfill this commitment. Through this strategy, we will better leverage the synergistic missions of each NIH Institute and Center to fund the most meritorious science, address urgent health needs, and sustain a robust biomedical research workforce.
NIH continues to support projects across the full spectrum of biomedical research topics. Through an executive order on Gold-Standard Science and the Make America Healthy Again Commission Report, the President has directed the NIH to close critical research gaps and guide efforts to better combat chronic disease in America and improve the health of all Americans through gold-standard science. To meet these requirements and fulfill our mission, NIH is prioritizing research in the following areas:
- Training future biomedical scientists
- Replication and reproducibility
- Real-World Data Platform
- Artificial intelligence
- Nutrition
- Furthering our understanding of autism
- Alternative testing models
- Promoting research focused on scientifically valid, measurable health outcomes
- Shifting to solution-oriented approaches in health disparities research
- Improving oversight of NIH funds going to foreign research institutions
- Ensuring evidence-based health care for children and teenagers identifying as transgender
- Implementing advances in HIV/AIDS research
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NIH Notice: NOT-OD-25-143
NIH Will Stop Posting Notices of Funding Opportunities in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts in FY2026 https://share.google/fSrFrJQVu4AYtN5qU
Since 2005, NIH has posted all grant and cooperative agreement notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) in both Grants.gov, a federal-wide portal for discretionary funding opportunities, and the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (NIH Guide). Both have served as official sources for NIH NOFOs.
This Notice informs the extramural community that, beginning in fiscal year 2026, NIH will no longer post NOFOs in the NIH Guide. Grants.gov will serve as NIH’s single official source for grant and cooperative agreement funding opportunities. The NIH Guide will continue to be used for policy and informational notices. This effort is part of a wider strategy across NIH to simplify and streamline the application and funding process and to reduce duplication across federal systems.
What to Expect in FY2026
- NIH NOFOs will no longer be accessible from the NIH Guide.
- All NIH NOFOs (expired and active) will remain searchable on Grants.gov using their Classic search or their new Simpler search.
- NOFOs will no longer be included in the weekly NIH Guide Table of Contents subscription emails. You can use Grants.gov subscription services to receive notifications of new NIH funding opportunities.
- NIH will continue to provide tools in the Funding section of NIH Grants & Funding to identify potential funding categories, topics, and opportunities you may be interested in. Any funding opportunity identified through our site will link to Grants.gov for the official opportunity posting.
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NJ ACTS Clinical Translational Science Research Award Program
2025 Request for Applications for new Element E projects
Element E is a new part of the Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (CTSA) programs and allows each CTSA awardee with funds to support innovative projects that:
- Focus on strategies and/or innovations to overcome truly significant challenges in clinical and translational research
- Improve dissemination and/or implementation of evidence-based interventions
- Address a translational research question in a particular disease or intervention context, but provide insights or innovations that are generalizable across different diseases and/or translational research projects
- Increase efficiency and/or effectiveness of research translation
Letter of Intent Deadline: September 15, 2025 (LOI Form Link)
Notification of Projects Selected for Full Proposals: Early October 2025
Full Proposal Deadline: November 21, 2025 by 5:00 PM EST
Questions? Please direct them to Emily Barrett, PhD (esb104@eohsi.rutgers.edu), who leads Element E.
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Recent NJIT Patents Issued by US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Patent Title: In-Vitro Contractile Force Indicator
NJIT Ref No.: 21-024
Inventor(s): Grasman, Jonathan / Pridmore, Jessica / Martin, Cassandra / Coombs, Katherine / Sicherer, Sydnee
Patent Application Status: Issued Patent
Patent Issue Date: 8/12/2025
Patent No.: 12,385,898
Technology Licensing Status: Available
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Recent NJIT U.S. Provisional Patent Applications (Filed)
Patent Title: Self-Separating Multiplex Assay Sensing and Diagnostic Device
NJIT Ref No.: 24-034
Inventor(s): Lee, Eon Soo / Wang, Yudong / Nunna, Bharath Babu
Patent Application Status: Filed Provisional Patent Application
Patent Application Filing Date: 8/9/2025
Application Filing No.: 63/860,100
Technology Licensing Status: Available
Grant Opportunity Alerts
NSF: Computer and Information Science and Engineering: Future Computing Research (Future CoRe); Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH): National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP)
NIH: Forecast: NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards (DP5); Forecast: Advancing Bioinformatics, Translational Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research (R01)
Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Broad Agency Announcement; Air Force Fiscal Year 2026 Young Investigator Program (YIP)
Department of Energy: Request for Information: Energy Critical Materials Assessment
NASA: ROSES 2025: B.4 Space Weather Science Application Research-to-Operations-to-Research
National Endowment of Humanities: Public Humanities Projects
Recent Research Grant and Contract Awards
In the News
FAR Council releases changes to 6 sections of acquisition regulation: The Trump administration is pushing forward in its deregulatory effort to overhaul the primary rules for how the government purchases goods and services, known as the Federal Acquisition Regulation. The FAR Council released new text for six parts of the FAR on Thursday — parts 4, 8, 12, 38, 40 and 51 — including the section dealing with commercial acquisition. “We’re removing hundreds of unnecessary requirements,” a senior administration official told Nextgov/FCW about the changes, offering the removal of requirements for commercial contractors to report the names and compensation of the five most highly paid executives as an example. The goal is to reduce costs and time to deliver and increase competition, they said.
President Trump launched the endeavor in April with an executive order directing the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to strip the FAR to provisions “required by statute or essential to sound procurement.” The FAR Council has already been issuing model deviation text for various parts of the FAR. Eventually, the council will put the revised FAR through formal rulemaking, including a notice and comment process. More information is posted on the NextGov website.
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NVIDIA, NSF join forces with nonprofit to bring AI to scientific research: A new partnership between chipmaker NVIDIA, nonprofit research center the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and the National Science Foundation will pursue new development of multimodal AI models dedicated to scientific research. Announced on Thursday, the Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science is a joint effort to further the U.S. AI infrastructure for scientific domains. Multimodal large language models are AI models that can process multiple different types of data, a flexibility that allows them to generate advanced outputs. Trained on diverse data, a given multimodal AI model could generate advanced scientific outputs for researchers to further their work in arenas like biology, energy and materials sciences. The goal of the initiative is to ensure these models are designed to be open and available to the broader scientific community.
“Bringing AI into scientific research has been a game changer,” said NSF Chief of Staff and acting Director Brian Stone. “NSF is proud to partner with NVIDIA to equip America’s scientists with the tools to accelerate breakthroughs. These investments are not just about enabling innovation; they are about securing U.S. global leadership in science and technology and tackling challenges once thought impossible.” The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, or Ai2, will lend their expertise to create multimodal large language models trained on specific scientific data and literature. NVIDIA will provide hardware and software, namely its HGX B300 systems and AI Enterprise software platform, in addition to supplying $77 million to the project. More information is posted on the NextGov website.
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DARPA unveils winners of AI challenge to boost critical infrastructure cybersecurity: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on Friday announced the winners of its AI Cyber Challenge, or AIxCC, a two-year-long competition that evaluates AI models built to autonomously identify and patch vulnerabilities in open-source code used in critical infrastructure systems. Team Atlanta, which includes experts from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Samsung Research, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology and the Pohang University of Science and Technology, won first place, DARPA announced at the DEF CON hacker convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Trail of Bits, a New York City-based small business, won second place. And Theori, a team of AI researchers and security professionals in the U.S. and South Korea, won third place. Four of the models developed by the seven competing finalist teams have already been made available for use, while three others will become available in the coming weeks, DARPA director Stephen Winchell told a large audience at the convention, where the winners were announced. More information is posted on the NextGov website.
Webinars and Events
Research Grant Opportunities:
National Science Foundation
National Institutes of Health
Department of Defense
NASA
National Endowment for the Humanities
Proposal Submission and Streamlyne Information
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