UAB Healthy Living Research Center releases the HEREP Call for Applications (2025–2026) NEW
Applications Due Date: December 3, 2025
The Health Excellence Research Education Program (HEREP) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a one-year individualized mentored research training program designed for early-stage investigators and junior faculty. Participants will strengthen their scientific research skills, gain mentorship, expand networking opportunities, and prepare competitive grant applications directed toward population and community-engaged health research.
Eligibility includes junior faculty, transitional faculty new to research, and medical or postdoctoral fellows with strong interest in community-engaged health research. Participants will receive methodological training, structured mentoring, manuscript development support, and guidance for preparing K- or R-series (or equivalent) grant applications. Scholars must maintain at least 80% attendance, prepare a manuscript, and submit a grant or pilot application during or shortly after program completion.
Download HEREP Application Details: HEREP – Call for Applications (PDF)
Apply online using the Qualtrics form: HEREP Application Form
The Morehouse School of Medicine, Tuskegee University and O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB’s Partnership releases a REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS (RFA)
Final proposal Due Date: March 15, 2024
The Morehouse School of Medicine/Tuskegee University/O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Partnership is funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities Partnership to Advance Cancer Health Equity (CPACHE) program with the overarching goal of addressing cancer disparities through research, education, and outreach. This Request for Applications (RFA) is for pilot projects addressing cancer health disparity research in the Deep South region (Alabama and Georgia). Proposed projects must demonstrate relevance to cancer in the areas of cancer prevention and control, cancer epidemiology, social and behavioral sciences, basic science, or clinical and translational science.
The purpose of this two-year pilot grant, in brief, is to enhance the integrated infrastructure at the partner institutions that enable us to conduct research leading to the elimination of cancer disparities. All submissions must be joint projects led by faculty members at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB and at one of the minority-serving institutions (MSI). This means that all projects will require Co-Project Leaders from either Morehouse School of Medicine and O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center or Tuskegee University and O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center.
For programmatic details, please refer to this link: PAR 23-308
(*No application will be accepted after the deadline of March 15th at 5 pm Central Standard Time).
Notification of Award to Grant Recipients : July 31, 2024
Award Effective Date: September 1, 2024
See application instructions here: 2023 MSM-TU-UAB RFA Pilot Project U54