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PA-23-231: PHS 2023-2 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH and CDC for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications (Parent SBIR [R43/R44] Clinical Trial Required)

Closed Closed April 5, 2024 Opportunity PA-23-231

This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of National Institutes of Health notices from 2023.

National Institutes of Health offered grants to small businesses. Applications closed on April 5, 2024.

From the official notice on Grants.gov, last changed July 12, 2023. Checked November 7, 2026.

About this NIH notice

The title gives no activity code; these are the codes of the projects NIH funded under it.

Projects funded under PA-23-231 were run by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD, 16 projects), National Cancer Institute (NCI, 14 projects), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH, 10 projects) and National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI, 7 projects), and 11 more. Contact the program officer at the institute that fits your project before you apply; the notice lists them.

Application due dates, page limits and budget limits are set in the notice. Read PA-23-231 in the NIH Guide.

Other notices with this title

National Institutes of Health has posted this title under other numbers: earlier or later rounds, or the same competition for another area. Each has its own dates and may change its rules.

NoticePostedDeadlineStatus
PA-24-246July 3, 2024Closed September 5, 2025Closed
PA-22-177June 2, 2022Closed April 5, 2023Closed
PA-21-260July 8, 2021Closed April 5, 2022Closed

Key dates

PostedJuly 12, 2023
DeadlineApril 5, 2024
Archived by Grants.govMay 11, 2024

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to small businesses.

Other Eligible Applicants include the following: Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are not eligible to apply. Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply. Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, may be allowed.

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Is this a realistic fit?

What the grant funds

This Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (NOFO), issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) invites eligible United States small businesses to submit Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications. United States small businesses that have the research capabilities and technological expertise to contribute to the R and D mission(s) of the NIH and CDC awarding components identified in this NOFO are encouraged to submit SBIR grant applications in response to identified topics (see PHS 2022-2 SBIR/STTR Program Descriptions and Research Topics for NIH, CDC, and FDA). This Parent Funding Opportunity Announcement requires that at least 1 clinical trial be proposed. The proposed project must be related to the programmatic interests of one or more of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) based on their scientific missions.

Category: Education, Health.

Funded under PA-23-231 so far

NIH funded 79 projects under PA-23-231 in fiscal 2024 to 2026, at 71 institutions. The median yearly award was $866,110.

Most projects: Oregon Res Behavioral Intervention Strat (Oregon), 4, 3-C Institute for Social Development (North Carolina), 3, Marker Therapeutics, Inc. (Texas), 2, Barron Associates, Inc. (Virginia), 2, Little Room Innovations, LLC (Michigan), 2.

From NIH RePORTER, which lists each project once per fiscal year it was funded. Amounts are the yearly award.

Who has won Cancer Treatment Research grants before

From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Cancer Treatment Research (93.395) awarded $5.6 billion across 3,622 grant awards, an average of $1.5 million per award.

Largest recipients, fiscal 2021 to 2025
RecipientStateAwardsAmount
The Univeristy of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer CenterTexas144$188 million
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.Massachusetts68$185 million
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York35$179 million
Public Health InstituteCalifornia4$168 million
Fred Hutchinson Cancer CenterWashington57$156 million

Top states: California ($843 million), New York ($604 million), Massachusetts ($568 million), Texas ($444 million), Pennsylvania ($417 million).

Who has won Vision Research grants before

From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Vision Research (93.867) awarded $3.4 billion across 3,275 grant awards, an average of $1.0 million per award.

Largest recipients, fiscal 2021 to 2025
RecipientStateAwardsAmount
The Johns Hopkins UniversityMaryland137$139 million
The Leland Stanford Junior UniversityCalifornia87$96.5 million
The Regents of the University of California, San FranciscoCalifornia78$89.9 million
Duke UniversityNorth Carolina79$75.5 million
The Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaPennsylvania57$73.9 million

Top states: California ($598 million), New York ($327 million), Massachusetts ($313 million), Texas ($221 million), Pennsylvania ($188 million).

Who has won Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research grants before

From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research (93.394) awarded $2.7 billion across 1,944 grant awards, an average of $1.4 million per award.

Largest recipients, fiscal 2021 to 2025
RecipientStateAwardsAmount
The Regents of the University of California, San FranciscoCalifornia56$114 million
Fred Hutchinson Cancer CenterWashington37$96.7 million
The Leland Stanford Junior UniversityCalifornia62$89.1 million
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer ResearchNew York52$88.7 million
The Johns Hopkins UniversityMaryland63$86.5 million

Top states: California ($490 million), New York ($238 million), Massachusetts ($234 million), Pennsylvania ($213 million), Texas ($186 million).

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Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Agencies often post the same opportunity again under a new number, so check the program's notices on Grants.gov and the similar open grants below.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.

Questions people ask

Is PA-23-231 still open?

No. It closed on April 5, 2024.

Who can apply for PHS 2023-2 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH and CDC for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications (Parent SBIR [R43/R44] Clinical Trial Required)?

National Institutes of Health accepted applications from small businesses. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

What is the deadline for PHS 2023-2 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH and CDC for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications (Parent SBIR [R43/R44] Clinical Trial Required)?

Closed April 5, 2024. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

Who has been funded under PA-23-231?

NIH RePORTER lists 79 projects funded under PA-23-231 in fiscal 2024 to 2026, at 71 institutions. The most were at Oregon Res Behavioral Intervention Strat, 3-C Institute for Social Development, Marker Therapeutics, Inc.

Who has won Nursing Research grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, The Johns Hopkins University, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The program made 786 awards worth $725 million in that time.

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