Deadline: 04-Oct-2025
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a funding opportunity for Clinical Research Center Grants (P50) aimed at advancing clinical research in the mission areas of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language.
These P50 grants are designed to support integrated, multidisciplinary approaches to tackle critical clinical questions related to the prevention, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, management, or epidemiology of disorders within these fields.
The program seeks applications that bring together multidisciplinary teams to develop and execute a synergistic set of three to four research projects under a unifying theme. The goal is to foster collaboration between diverse experts to generate innovative, high-impact solutions to complex clinical challenges. Each center will be supported by an administrative core and may include one to two optional scientific cores to ensure efficient progress and scientific rigor. The structure is intended to create a cohesive center whose overall impact surpasses the sum of its individual components.
Applicants may submit new, resubmission, revision, or renewal applications. Budgets for new applications are capped at $1,500,000 in direct costs per year, while renewal applications may request up to 10% above the last year of the existing award or $2,000,000, whichever is less. The maximum project period is five years, offering long-term support for complex and collaborative clinical research efforts.
A broad range of U.S.-based organizations are eligible to apply, including public and private higher education institutions, nonprofits, for-profit organizations, state and local governments, tribal governments and organizations, school districts, public housing authorities, and community-based organizations. Foreign organizations and non-domestic components of U.S. organizations are not eligible. This initiative provides a major opportunity for multidisciplinary teams to accelerate breakthroughs in understanding and treating communication disorders, with the potential to significantly improve patient care and outcomes.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.