Elucidation and Validation of the role of Transporters in the Placenta, Lactating Mammary Gland, Developing Gut, and Blood Brain Barrier
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- Posted
- July 16, 2026
- Closes
- See announcement
- Program funding
- $3,000,000
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Grant
- Assistance listing
- 93.865
- Category
- Health
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 93.865 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.
- FY2025 obligated
- $1.3B
- FY2026 obligated
- $1.3B
- FY2027 (to date) obligated
- $0
- Awards in window
- 5,669
Top recipients: Regents of the University of Michigan, University of Washington, The Johns Hopkins University, Regents of the University of California, San Francisco, the, The Leland Stanford Junior University
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →
Synopsis
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development seeks to advance its mission of supporting maternal, fetal, and child health by continuing to enhance the understanding of maternal, fetal, and child exposure to nutrients, metabolites, medications, supplements, microbiome-derived products, and environmental chemicals. This will be done by supporting a second phase of the Transporter Elucidation Network (TEN). This phase of the TEN will establish perinatal multi-barrier transport network frameworks to clarify how transporters and local biotransformation regulate these processes. Building on prior organ-focused models, methods, and datasets, this initiative will develop standards, resources, models, and prototype multi-compartment approaches spanning maternal gut, placenta, lactating mammary epithelium, infant gut, and infant blood-brain barrier. The initiative is expected to support a mechanistic understanding of transporter function, polarity, kinetics, and transformation capacity relevant to pregnancy, lactation, infant nutrition, pediatric pharmacology, and neurodevelopment. By emphasizing multi-barrier perinatal transporter frameworks this phase of the TEN will provide community resources for future integrated studies of perinatal exposure, risk, and intervention across interlinked maternal, fetal, and infant systems. It will also strengthen coordination among investigators, accelerate dissemination of tools, and advance human-based, developmentally relevant transporter research and workforce development. The grant authority for this is 42 U.S.C. § 241
Who can apply
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- State governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Special district governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
Other Eligible ApplicantsIndian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized);Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government;U.S. Territory or Possession;Faith-based or Community-based Organizations;Regional Organizations;Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions).
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