Feasibility Clinical Trials of Mind and Body Interventions for NCCIH High Priority Research Topics (R34 Clinical Trial Required) — PAR-25-274
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), NIH
The planning-and-feasibility rung of NCCIH's mind and body portfolio: a three-year R34 to work out recruitment, retention, intervention fidelity, dose and outcome measurement before committing to a full trial. For a social work researcher who has a promising group or community-delivered practice and no trial-scale preliminary data, this is the step that makes a later R01 or R61/R33 credible — and it is one of the few NIH mechanisms that will pay for the unglamorous work of proving a protocol can actually run in a real service setting. Restricted to conditions NCCIH has designated as high-prior
- Indicative award
- up to $450k (total award)Up to $450,000 in direct costs over the entire project period, with no single year exceeding $225,000 in direct costs. Maximum duration 3 years.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Feb, Jun, OctNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The Key Dates table published on the NOFO runs through a February 20, 2026 receipt date, which has passed. The NOFO itself does not expire until November 18, 2026, and NCCIH has historically run February, June and October cycles, but no further dated cycle is published on the page — confirm with NCC
- Who can apply
- Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- U.S.-based organizations only: higher education institutions, nonprofits with and without 501(c)(3) status, for-profits, small businesses, state and local governments, tribal governments and faith-based organizations. Non-domestic (non-U.S.) entities are NOT eligible to apply, though foreign components of U.S. organizations and foreign collaborators are permitted. A clinical trial is required. A community agency can be the applicant if it meets NIH registration requirements, but the trial-design demands mean most applications are university-led with agency delivery partners.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- feasibility trials · pilot studies · mind-body interventions · intervention development
- Apply at
- https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-274.html
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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