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Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research (93.865)

Also known as Child Health and Human Development

Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research (Assistance Listing 93.865) is run by the National Institutes of Health, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. It awarded $6.0 billion in 6,026 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $1.0 million per award on average. 102 funding opportunities are open or forecast now.

The typical award was $490,471. Half of the 6,025 awards fell between $190,837 and $1.4 million, and they ranged from $0 to $45.0 million.

Key findings

What the program funds

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s mission is to lead research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all.

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Open opportunities

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

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Universities, colleges, medical, dental and nursing schools, schools of public health, laboratories, hospitals, State and local health departments, other public or private institutions, both nonprofit and for-profit, and individuals. National Research Service Award: Support is provided for academic and research training only, in health and health-related areas that are periodically specified by the National Institutes of Health. Individuals with a professional or scientific degree are eligible (M.D., Ph.D., D.D.S., D.O., D.V.M., Sc.D., D.Eng., or equivalent domestic or foreign degree). Predoctoral research training grants to institutions are also supported. Proposed study must result in biomedical or behavioral research training in a specified shortage area and which may offer opportunity to research health scientists, research clinicians, etc., to broaden their scientific background or to extend their potential for research in health-related areas. Applicants must be citizens of the United States or be admitted to the United States for permanent residency; they also must be nominated and sponsored by a public or private institution having staff and facilities suitable to the proposed research training. Domestic nonprofit organizations may apply for the institutional NRS grant.

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What the money can and cannot pay for

Grantee agrees to administer the grant in accordance with the regulations and policies governing the research grant programs of the Public Health Service as stated in the terms and conditions on the application for the grant. National Research Service Awards: Awarded to individuals for full-time research training in specified behavioral and biomedical shortage areas. Awardees may utilize some of their time in academic and clinical duties if such work is closely related to their research training. Awards may be made to institutions to enable them to make NRS awards to individuals selected by them. Each individual awardee is obligated upon termination of the award to comply with certain service and payback provisions. SBIR Phase I grants (of approximately 6-months' duration) are to establish the technical merit and feasibility of a proposed research effort that may lead to a commercial product or process. Phase II grants are for the continuation of the research initiated in Phase I and which are likely to result in commercial products or processes. STTR Phase I grants (normally of 1- year duration) are to determine the scientific, technical, and commercial merit and feasibility of the proposed cooperative effort that has potential for commercial application. Phase II funding is based on results of research initiated in Phase I and scientific and technical merit and commercial potential on Phase II application.

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.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

For research project grants, fiscal year 2024, range is $50,000 to $5,000,000; average is $534,606. Individual research fellowship awards: Basic stipend (first year beyond the doctoral degree) of approximately $45,000. The sponsoring institution will be provided, on application, with an allowance of up to approximately $8,000 per year to help defray the cost of training. No dependency allowances. SBIR: Average Phase I awards are for approximately $225,000 (grant activity R43 - for up to six months); Phase II awards may be made for amounts up to $1,500,000 (grant activity R44 - for up to two years).

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2025: The following is a tiny sample of fiscal year 2025 NICHD funded grants within the discretionary award class type. 1) Understanding the role of early life social determinants and sex-specific pubertal pathways in the development of adolescent chronic pain. 2) Improving In Vitro Fertilization Success through Multiplexed Optical Metabolic Imaging. 3) Genetic Studies of Large Palindromes. 4) A Safe, Fast, and Cost-Effective System for Tissue Removal in Laparoscopic Hysterectomy and Other Minimally Invasive Surgery. The following is a tiny sample of fiscal year 2025 NICHD funded grants within the cooperative agreement award class type. 1) Study of Treatment and Reproductive outcomes. 2) Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS): Research on Immune Aging, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Perinatal Acquisition: Elucidating Relationships in HIV (RISE). 3) Pelvic Floor Disorders Network Data Coordinating Center. 4) NICHD Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network: Data Coordinating Center.Fiscal Year2026: The following is a tiny sample of fiscal year 2026 NICHD funded grants within the discretionary award class type. 1) Placental Proteins and Prematurity. 2) In vivo imaging of mammalian fertilization. 3) Brainstem Arousal Network in Human Consciousness: Healthy development vs Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The following is a tiny sample of fiscal year 2026 NICHD funded grants within the cooperative agreement award class type.

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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, Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research (93.865) awarded$6.0 billion across 6,026 grant awards, an average of $1.0 million per award.

Largest recipients, fiscal 2021 to 2025
RecipientStateAwardsAmount
Regents of the University of MichiganMichigan167$178 million
The Johns Hopkins UniversityMaryland133$146 million
University of WashingtonWashington114$131 million
Baylor College of MedicineTexas116$124 million
The Leland Stanford Junior UniversityCalifornia104$116 million
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillNorth Carolina115$113 million
Duke UniversityNorth Carolina110$113 million
The Regents of the University of California, San FranciscoCalifornia105$111 million
The General Hospital CorporationMassachusetts76$100 million
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New YorkNew York80$97.5 million
University of California, San DiegoCalifornia95$94.4 million
The Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaPennsylvania109$94.2 million
Regents of the University of MinnesotaMinnesota81$91.8 million
The Washington UniversityMissouri99$90.0 million
President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeMassachusetts22$89.5 million
University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher EducationPennsylvania79$87.9 million
Yale UnivConnecticut95$86.3 million
The Regents of the University of ColoradoColorado95$85.6 million
The Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaPennsylvania78$84.1 million
University of UtahUtah72$79.5 million

Top states: California ($726 million), Massachusetts ($579 million), New York ($456 million), Pennsylvania ($419 million), North Carolina ($365 million), Texas ($303 million), Michigan ($265 million), Maryland ($263 million), Washington ($223 million), Ohio ($214 million).

Who usually wins

Colleges and universities received 73% of the money, nonprofits 19% and small businesses 4.3%.

Recipient typeAwardsAmountShare
Colleges and universities4,447$4.4 billion73%
Nonprofits1,049$1.1 billion19%
Small businesses263$257 million4.3%
Other258$230 million3.8%
Businesses1$32.2 million0.5%
State and local governments7$3.2 millionless than 0.1%
Individuals1$120,2870%

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
California740$726 million
Massachusetts503$579 million
New York435$456 million
Pennsylvania419$419 million
North Carolina326$365 million
Texas336$303 million
Michigan271$265 million
Maryland235$263 million
Washington194$223 million
Ohio203$214 million
Illinois228$202 million
Missouri168$143 million
Colorado151$133 million
Minnesota112$127 million
Florida94$122 million
Connecticut131$114 million
District of Columbia71$113 million
Georgia131$106 million
Oregon108$104 million
Wisconsin106$102 million
Utah79$88.2 million
New Jersey84$82.5 million
Indiana78$79.8 million
Virginia104$75.9 million
Tennessee73$71.8 million
Rhode Island98$68.3 million
Alabama65$62.3 million
Arizona52$51.0 million
South Carolina54$48.6 million
Louisiana34$44.5 million
Kansas53$42.6 million
Iowa28$28.7 million
Maine16$23.4 million
New Hampshire9$18.7 million
Nebraska29$17.0 million
Delaware19$16.4 million
Oklahoma20$15.5 million
Kentucky20$11.8 million
Arkansas10$10.3 million
Mississippi8$9.4 million
Vermont11$6.3 million
Hawaii13$6.3 million
Nevada13$5.4 million
South Dakota2$4.5 million
West Virginia6$2.9 million
Idaho5$2.9 million
New Mexico5$2.7 million
Montana6$2.4 million
Wyoming2$1.6 million
North Dakota3$1.1 million
Puerto Rico2$322,676

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