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Expanding the Target Landscape by Drugging the Undruggable (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Federal funding opportunity PAR-25-442 from National Institutes of Health (Department of Health and Human Services).

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Posted
June 17, 2025
Closes
February 17, 2028
Cost sharing
No
Instrument
Grant
Assistance listing
93.350, 93.121, 93.867, 93.855, 93.865, 93.242
Category
Health
Archives
March 24, 2028

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 93.350 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.

FY2024 obligated
$588.2M
FY2025 obligated
$599.3M
FY2026 (to date) obligated
$281.4M
Awards in window
886

Top recipients: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Regents of the University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Johns Hopkins University

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed July 2026

Synopsis

The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to solicit applications for exploratory and early-stage projects that focus on undruggable target classes within intractable human disease. Applicants will identify a human disease relevant undruggable target class and develop a method or agent that is selective for one or more targets within that target class. This NOFO is intended to jumpstart research that demonstrates innovative strategies to modulate targets that cannot be addressed by established therapeutic types, furthering the development of methods and/or agents selective for undruggable target classes.

Who can apply

Other Eligible Applicants include the following: Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions; Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISISs); Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government; Faith-based or Community-based Organizations; Hispanic-serving Institutions; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized); Regional Organizations; Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs) ; U.S. Territory or Possession; Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations) 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, are not allowed.

How to apply

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Agency contact: National Institutes of Health · grantsinfo@nih.gov · 301-402-2541

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