Funding and Grants

The AUA is always exploring potential research funding mechanisms, including travel awards to key urologic meetings. As these opportunities arise, additional information will be posted here and published in EUREKA and posted on the AUA Foundation site.

Department of Defense

• Web site: http://cdmrp.army.mil/
• Look for annual program announcement(s) as well as for current funding for postdoctoral candidates, idea grants and clinical trials.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the principal health research agency of the Federal Government. It is a component of the Department of Health and Human Services and provides funds to organizations outside the NIH to accomplish program goals—grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts. The NIH awards research grants for terms ranging from one to five years and make up the largest category of funding provided by the NIH.

Find out more about the NIH and the different types of NIH grants.

• NIH Smart guide: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/listserv.htm
• www.nih.gov
  • funding opportunities; NIH Guide
  • directory for employee phone and e-mail
• National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases: http://www.niddk.nih.gov/

Department of Veterans Affairs
The Office of Research and Development aspires to lead the Veterans Health Administration in providing unequaled health care value to veterans. That endeavor is made ever greater—and challenged by—the changing dynamics of health care, which is always evolving as consumers demand quality for their dollar, and medical technology leaps ahead of our capacity to manage it.

• VA Merit Award: Must have 5/8ths VA appointment—awards three to five years
• Research Career Development Award: 5/8ths appointment not required, provides support for biomedical, clinical, rehabilitation, and health services research. Goal is to attract new investigators to VA system. 
• Details available at www.research.va.gov

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

• NCI site on other funding agencies for cancer: http://www.nci.nih.gov/research_funding/organizations/
• NCI contact persons:
  http://www.nci.nih.gov/research_funding/scientific_programs/

Foundations

• AUA Foundation
• American Cancer Society
• Prostate Cancer Foundation (formerly CapCURE)
  
• National Kidney Foundation
• American Diabetes Association
• Lance Armstrong Foundation

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
To help achieve its mission of promoting health and quality of life, the CDC provides postgraduate training and service programs for health scientists of diverse educational backgrounds and other funding through its Procurement and Grants Office (PGO).

• Main web site: www.cdc.gov
• PGO site: www.cdc.gov/about/funding.htm

Grants.gov
A policy directive from the Office of Federal Financial Management required that all Federal agencies post grant opportunities on line as of November 7, 2003. Grants.gov allows users to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. The "Resources" section also provides access to useful grants-related information and links.