New NIH/NIDDK Funding Opportunity for New and Early Investigators

The NIH and NIDDK are presenting a new funding opportunity for new and early investigators. The goal of this opportunity is to promote extramural basic and clinical biomedical research that improves the understanding of the mechanisms underlying disease and leads to improved preventions, diagnosis, and treatment of diabetes, digestive, and kidney diseases. Programmatic areas within the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases include diabetes, digestive, endocrine, hematologic, liver, metabolic, nephrologic, nutrition, obesity, and urologic diseases.

Any interested applicant will need to submit an ancillary proposal application to the DFC Ancillary committee by the following dates in order to qualify for the funding opportunity submission.

  • March 19th, 2025
  • April 23rd, 2025
  • February 6th, 2026

For more information, please refer to the linkRFA-DK-26-009: New Investigator Gateway Awards for Collaborative T1D Research (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Ancillary Studies

Ancillary studies proposals are defined as projects that involve the collection of new data or biological specimens directly from DFC participants or from DFC Investigators and/or the analyzation of existing DFC data or biological samples. For more information about ancillary projects, please contactDFC-Ancillary.Study-Committee@umich.edu.

If you are a researcher and would like to collaborate with the DFC on an ancillary project, please click hereto download a copy of the DFC Ancillary Application.

Ancillary Study Documents

Helpful links

NIDDK

DFC Study Information

  • DFC-001: CMYC: Predictive and Diagnostic Biomarkers for Diabetic Foot Ulcers – c-myc and phosphorylated glucocorticoid receptor
  • DFC-002: TEWL: Trans-Epidermal Water Loss (TEWL) as a Predictive Marker for Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) Recurrence
  • DFC-003: Biorepository: Adjunct collection of additional biorepository data from patients enrolled in DFC trials
  • DFC-004: Predictive and Diagnostic Biomarkers for Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Open Wound Master Study

Click here for more information on the DFC studies.

For any general DFC study inquiries, please contact DFC-DCC-PM@umich.edu.