Assistance program
Food and Drug Administration Research
$1.8 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Food and Drug Administration, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants);Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 93.103
- What it does
- To assist institutions and organizations, to establish, expand, and improve research, demonstration, education and information dissemination activities; acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), biologics, blood and blood products, therapeutics, vaccines and allergenic projects; drug hazards, human and veterinary drugs, clinical trials on drugs and devices for orphan products development; nutrition, sanitation and microbiological hazards; medical devices and diagnostic products, radiation emitting devices and materials; food safety and food additives. These programs are supported directly or indirectly by the following Centers and Offices: Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER); Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER); Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH); Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), the Office of Orphan Products Development (OPD), the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), and Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA), and the Office of the Commissioner (OC). Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Programs: to stimulate technological innovation; to encourage the role of small business to meet Federal research and development needs; to increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from Federal research and development; and to foster and encourage participation by minority and disadvantaged persons in technological innovation. Funding support for scientific conferences that are relevant to the FDA scientific mission and public health are also available.
- Who benefits
- Applicants should review the individual funding opportunity announcement issued under this CFDA program to see which applicant organizations are eligible to apply.
- Who applies
- Applicants should review the individual funding opportunity announcement issued under this CFDA program to see which applicant organizations are eligible to apply.
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments