National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Funding history
Awards made under this listing across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.
- FY2025 obligated
- $599.3M
- FY2026 obligated
- $627.8M
- FY2027 (to date) obligated
- $0
- Awards in window
- 772
Top recipients: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Regents of the University of Michigan, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, the, The Johns Hopkins University
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026
Open opportunities under this listing
- Limited Competition: Small Grant Program for the NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)
- Competing Revisions to Existing NIH Single Project Research Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Clinical Trial Optional)
- NIH, CDC and FDA Small Business Innovation Research Grant (Parent SBIR [R43/R44] Clinical Trial Optional)
- NIH Small Business Technology Transfer Grant (Parent STTR [R41/R42] Clinical Trial Optional)
- Limited Competition: NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program Research Education Grants Programs (R25 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Preclinical Proof of Concept Studies for Rare Diseases (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Change of Recipient Organization (Type 7 Parent Clinical Trial Optional)
- Successor-in-Interest (Type 6 Parent Clinical Trial Optional)
- NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Clinical and Translational Science Award (UM1 Clinical Trial Optional)
- Limited Competition: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Research Training Grant for the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program (T32 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Limited Competition: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Research Training Grant for the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program (T32 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Limited Competition: Mentored Research Career Development Program Award in Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program (K12 Clinical Trial Optional)
- Limited Competition: Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program: Collaborative and Innovative Acceleration Award (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional)
- Pilot Projects Investigating Understudied Proteins Associated with Rare Diseases (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- NIH Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Project Grant (Parent R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Expanding the Target Landscape by Drugging the Undruggable (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- INCLUDE Project: Transformative Research Awards for Down syndrome (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- INCLUDE Project: Clinical Trials Phased Awards for Down syndrome Research (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Required)
- Clinical Trial Readiness for Rare Diseases, Disorders, and Syndromes (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Administrative Supplements to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Parent Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional)
- NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase IIB Strategic Breakthrough Award (Parent [R44] Clinical Trial Optional)
- SBIR/STTR Commercialization Readiness Pilot (CRP) Program (Parent SB1 Clinical Trial Optional)
Forecasted
- Limited Competition: Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program: Collaborative and Innovative Acceleration Award
- The Next Generation of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program Trial Innovation Network
- Limited Competition: High Impact Specialized Innovation Programs in Clinical and Translational Science
- Limited Competition: Research Education Program for the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program
- Limited Competition: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grant for the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program
- Limited Competition: Institutional Mentored Research Career Development Program for the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program
- Clinical and Translational Science Award
- Small Business Transition Grant for New Entrepreneurs (Parent R41/R42 Clinical Trial Optional)
- Small Business Transition Grant for New Entrepreneurs (Parent R43/R44 Clinical Trial Optional)
- Limited Competition: Small Grant Program for the NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program (Clinical Trial Optional)
- Limited Competition: HEAL Initiative Resource Centers for the Pain Management Effectiveness Network (ERN) (Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Intramural - Extramural Collaboration for Advanced 3-D Tissue Models for Drug Screening (Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Selective Precision Targeting (SPoT)
- Extracellular Vesicle Therapeutics for Regenerative Medicine (ExTReMe)
Recently closed
- Limited Competition: High Impact Specialized Innovation Programs in Clinical and Translational Science (RC2 Clinical Trials Optional)
- HEAL Initiative-Early-Stage Discovery of New Pain Targets Within the Understudied Druggable Proteome (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Awards Supporting Cutting-Edge Technologies for Translational Science (ASCETTS) (R21 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
- Rare Diseases Clinical Research Consortia (RDCRC) for the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) (U54 Clinical Trial Optional)
- Leveraging Extant Data to Understand Developmental Trajectories of Late Talking Children (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Information and Practice Needs Relevant to Late Talking Children (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Industrialization and Translation of Extracellular Vesicles for use in Regenerative Medicine (UT1/UT2) Clinical Trial Not Allowed
- Industrialization and Translation of Extracellular Vesicles for use in Regenerative Medicine (U43/U44 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
- Miniaturization and Automation of Tissue Chip Systems (MATChS) (UT1/UT2 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Miniaturization and Automation of Tissue Chip Systems (MATChS) (U43/U44 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Technologies for Improving Minority Health and Eliminating Health Disparities (R41/R42- Clinical Trial Optional)
- Innovations for Healthy Living - Improving Minority Health and Eliminating Health Disparities (R43/R44 - Clinical Trial Optional)
- NHLBI SBIR Phase IIB Small Market Awards to Accelerate the Commercialization of Technologies for Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Disorders and Diseases (R44 Clinical Trial Optional)
- Small Business Transition Grant for New Entrepreneurs (R41/R42 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Small Business Transition Grant for New Entrepreneurs (R43/R44 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Administrative Supplements to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Parent Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional)
- SBIR/STTR Commercialization Readiness Pilot (CRP) Program Technical Assistance and Late Stage Development (SB1, Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- HEAL Commercialization Readiness Pilot (CRP) Program: Embedded Entrepreneurs for Small Businesses in Pain Management (SB1 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- PHS 2024-2 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH for Small Business Technology Transfer Grant Applications (Parent STTR [R41/R42] Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- PHS 2024-2 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH, CDC and FDA for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications (Parent SBIR [R43/R44] Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- NIH Medical Scientist Partnership Program (FM1 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Instrumentation Grant Program for Resource-Limited Institutions (S10 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- ClinGen Genomic Curation Expert Panels (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- NICHD Research Education Programs (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- STrengthening Research Opportunities for NIH Grants (STRONG): Structured Institutional Needs Assessment and Action Plan Development for Resource Limited Institutions (RLIs) (UC2 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Diagnostic Centers of Excellence (X01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- HEAL Initiative: Development of Therapies and Technologies Directed at Enhanced Pain Management (R41/R42 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- HEAL INITIATIVE: Development of Therapies and Technologies Directed at Enhanced Pain Management (R43/R44 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Addressing Health Inequities in Clinical Diagnostics (R43/R44 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
- Addressing Health Inequities in Clinical Diagnostics (R41/R42 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
- Administrative Supplements to Promote Diversity in Research and Development Small Businesses SBIR/STTR (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Innovation Corps (I-Corps) at NIH Program for NIH and CDC Translational Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial NOT Allowed)
- HEAL Initiative-Early-Stage Discovery of New Pain Targets Within the Understudied Druggable Proteome (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Limited Competition: High Impact Specialized Innovation Programs in Clinical and Translational Science for UM1 CTSA Hub Awards (RC2 Clinical Trials Optional)
- Limited Competition: Small Grant Program for the NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)
- Awards Supporting Cutting-Edge Technologies for Translational Science (ASCETTS) (R21 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
- HEAL Initiative: Discovery and Validation of Novel Targets for Safe and Effective Pain Treatment (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Preclinical Proof of Concept Studies for Rare Diseases (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Leveraging Extant Data to Understand Developmental Trajectories of Late Talking Children (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Information and Practice Needs Relevant to Late Talking Children (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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