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Cardiovascular Diseases Research (93.837)

Cardiovascular Diseases Research (Assistance Listing 93.837) is run by the National Institutes of Health, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. It awarded $15 billion in 11,797 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $1.2 million per award on average. 82 funding opportunities are open or forecast now.

The typical award was $783,601. Half of the 11,796 awards fell between $321,849 and $1.9 million, and they ranged from $0 to $39.1 million.

Key findings

What the program funds

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) provides global leadership for a research, training, and education program to promote the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases and enhance the health of all individuals so that they can live longer and more fulfilling lives. To foster heart and vascular research in the basic, translational, clinical and population sciences, and to foster training to build talented young investigators in these areas, funded through competitive research training grants. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program: To stimulate technological innovation; use small business to meet Federal research and development needs; foster and encourage participation in innovation and entrepreneurship by socially and economically disadvantaged persons; and increase private-sector commercialization of innovations derived from Federal research and development funding. Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program: To stimulate technological innovation; foster technology transfer through cooperative R&D between small businesses and research institutions, and increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from federal R&D.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

57 more opportunities are listed with all open grants from Department of Health and Human Services.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes; excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals), Public nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals), Individual/Family, Small business (less than 500 employees), Private nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals) . Any nonprofit organization engaged in biomedical research and institutions or companies organized for profit may apply for almost any kind of grant. Only domestic, non-profit, private or public institutions may apply for NRSA Institutional Research Training Grants. An individual may apply for an NRSA or, in some cases, for a research grant if adequate facilities to perform the research are available. SBIR grants can be awarded only to United States small business concerns (entities that are independently owned and operated for profit or owned by another small business that itself is independently owned and operated for profit, or owned by multiple venture capital operating companies, hedge funds, private equity firms, or any combination of these and have no more than 500 employees including affiliates). Primary employment (more than one-half time) of the principal investigator must be with the small business at the time of award and during the conduct of the proposed project. In both Phase I and Phase II, the research must be performed in the U.S.

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What the money can and cannot pay for

Grants may support stipends, research expenses, supplies, travel, childcare costs, and research training tuition as required to perform the research effort. Restrictions or limitations are imposed against the use of funds for entertainment, foreign travel, general-purpose equipment, alterations and renovations, and other items not regularly required for the performance of research. Individual predoctoral and postdoctoral national research service awards (NRSAs) are made directly to individuals through their universities for research training in heart and vascular diseases. NRSA awards may be made to eligible institutions to enable them to appoint individuals selected by the institution for research training. Certain service and payback provisions may apply to postdoctoral individuals upon termination of the award or termination of the appointment. SBIR Phase I awards (of approximately 6 to 24 months in duration) are to establish the scientific and technical merit of the proposed research effort, and feasibility of ideas that appear to have commercial potential. Direct to Phase II SBIR awards are for projects that have been developed beyond the feasibility phase using resources other than NIH Phase I awards that meet program needs and exhibit potential for commercial application. SBIR Phase IIB awards are for promising projects that require additional time and funding to advance to commercialization as well as ultimate approval or clearance by a Federal regulatory agency.

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Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

Contact the headquarters or regional location, as appropriate for application deadlines

Award range and average, in the agency's words

Grants: $1 to $30,000,000; $582,909. SBIR Phase I - $332,305; Phase II - up to $822,021; STTR Phase I - $247,844; Phase II - $268,497.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Funding history and past recipients

From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Cardiovascular Diseases Research (93.837) awarded$15 billion across 11,797 grant awards, an average of $1.2 million per award.

Largest recipients, fiscal 2021 to 2025
RecipientStateAwardsAmount
The Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaPennsylvania313$380 million
Brigham & Womens Hospital IncMassachusetts273$373 million
Regents of the University of MichiganMichigan279$356 million
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New YorkNew York207$335 million
University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher EducationPennsylvania295$320 million
The Johns Hopkins UniversityMaryland278$317 million
The Leland Stanford Junior UniversityCalifornia269$310 million
The Regents of the University of California, San FranciscoCalifornia251$304 million
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterTennessee182$290 million
Northwestern UniversityIllinois181$283 million
The General Hospital CorporationMassachusetts191$275 million
The Washington UniversityMissouri204$260 million
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillNorth Carolina203$259 million
University of California, San DiegoCalifornia193$249 million
University of WashingtonWashington185$241 million
Yale UnivConnecticut205$238 million
Duke UniversityNorth Carolina178$229 million
The Regents of the University of ColoradoColorado203$225 million
University of California, Los AngelesCalifornia160$221 million
Emory UniversityGeorgia194$211 million

Top states: California ($1.8 billion), Massachusetts ($1.5 billion), New York ($1.4 billion), Pennsylvania ($1.1 billion), Ohio ($752 million), Illinois ($677 million), Texas ($635 million), North Carolina ($628 million), Maryland ($466 million), Michigan ($460 million).

Who usually wins

Colleges and universities received 70% of the money, nonprofits 23% and small businesses 4.1%.

Recipient typeAwardsAmountShare
Colleges and universities8,294$10 billion70%
Nonprofits2,363$3.3 billion23%
Small businesses637$602 million4.1%
Other486$515 million3.5%
Businesses8$26.7 million0.2%
State and local governments8$10.7 millionless than 0.1%
Tribal governments and organizations1$1.9 millionless than 0.1%

By state

50 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.

Grants by recipient's state, fiscal 2021 to 2025
StateAwardsAmount
California1,464$1.8 billion
Massachusetts1,118$1.5 billion
New York895$1.4 billion
Pennsylvania943$1.1 billion
Ohio581$752 million
Illinois484$677 million
Texas546$635 million
North Carolina487$628 million
Maryland415$466 million
Michigan364$460 million
Washington280$401 million
Georgia338$383 million
Tennessee281$379 million
Missouri292$365 million
Wisconsin251$335 million
Colorado320$334 million
Minnesota265$309 million
Florida241$293 million
Connecticut250$279 million
Virginia240$278 million
Alabama185$235 million
Indiana135$197 million
Arizona136$179 million
Utah141$140 million
Iowa112$137 million
Oregon116$129 million
New Jersey85$105 million
Louisiana85$93.7 million
Rhode Island114$93.3 million
Kentucky89$85.8 million
South Carolina95$81.4 million
District of Columbia57$66.4 million
Nebraska47$55.7 million
Oklahoma37$45.2 million
Vermont34$36.6 million
Kansas32$29.7 million
Delaware24$27.7 million
Mississippi36$26.8 million
New Hampshire19$19.6 million
Arkansas19$19.0 million
Maine12$15.3 million
New Mexico13$14.3 million
West Virginia15$11.7 million
Hawaii11$6.7 million
Nevada10$5.3 million
Montana4$4.8 million
North Dakota4$4.6 million
South Dakota4$4.0 million
Alaska2$2.9 million
Idaho3$1.1 million
Wyoming2$821,275

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.