Forecast to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) (U54 - Clinical Trial Optional)

In plain English

National Institutes of Health (Department of Health and Human Services) has announced this as a forecast: an opportunity it expects to post. It is not open for applications yet. Estimated posting date: Sep 24, 2025 (this estimate has passed and the agency has not posted it yet). Estimated application due date: Nov 26, 2025.

The agency expects to make 5 awards and estimated total program funding is $22,000,000.

Eligible applicant types include colleges & universities, plus others described in the listing.

The listing says cost sharing or matching is not required.

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• Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
• Private institutions of higher education
• Others (see the eligibility details in the listing)

Additional eligibility information (excerpt from the listing):

To be eligible for this NOFO, the applicant institution must be a domestic institution located in the United States and its territories which: Has received an average of less than $50 million per year or less than $25 million per year of R01 total costs of NIH support for the past three fiscal years; Awards doctorate degrees in the health professions, or the sciences related to health

Excerpt from the official forecast on Grants.gov (shortened; read the full text on the official listing):

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities intends to publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to solicit applications to expand the national capacity for research in the health sciences. NIH established the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) program in 1985 in response to Congressional interest to provide support to less research-intensive institutions that offer doctorate degrees in the health professions or in a health-related science. The primary goals of RCMI Specialized Center awards are to: (1) enhance institutional research capacity to conduct world-class basic biomedical, behavioral, population and/or clinical patient-centered or health services research; (2) enable all levels of investigators at the recipient institution to compete successfully for extramural support, especially from NIH, for research on diseases and conditions that …

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