The U of A College of Medicine – Phoenix Research Office will help you find funding, provide resources and guidance for submitting your proposals, and provide the interface with the Tucson campus Sponsored Projects Services Office. Please contact us with any questions you have about the research proposal application process.
To find help with developing and submitting a proposal, please visit Proposal Development. For additional resources please access the Researcher Toolkit, a collection of resources for finding funding, proposal planning, study setup, compliance, publishing, trainings and more.
Already planning to apply for a specific grant?
Complete the Intent to Submit a Grant Intake Form to maximize your resources and connect with those who will be helping you submit your proposal.
Search for Funding
- PIVOT – Identifies and connects funding opportunities to researchers through the funding database. Curated funding searches are provided for Department of Defense, fellowships, foundations and postdoctoral opportunities.
- Clinical Trial Funding Opportunities - NIH guidance for searching for clinical trial-specific funding opportunities. More information can be found at clinicaltrials.gov.
- External Funding Search Engines and Databases – A guide to search engines, public federal databases and distribution lists for finding external funding.
- Internal Funding Opportunities – View a list of current internal funding opportunities organized by research category and funding type.
- Student Funding Opportunities - Searchable database for various types of funding available to medical students.
- NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices – NIH Guide announcements (PAs, RFAs and Notices) are published daily. Every Friday, NIH sends a Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices e-mail to subscribers that includes links to announcements published during the week.
- U of A Limited Submissions and The Current Newsletters – Subscribe to The Current and Limited Submissions newsletters. These weekly digests contain funding opportunities and news from UA Research Development Services.
- The University of Arizona Foundation – The UA Foundation offers resources for those seeking funding from charitable foundations, individuals, corporations, and crowdfunding.
- Request for Support – Submit a request for monetary support for workshops or other research related activities. Personnel costs are excluded, contact PBC-TReO@arizona.edu for any inclusion criteria.
Search for Literature and Data
- My NCBI – The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.
- PubMed – Comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books.
- Web of Science - Platform consisting of several literature search databases designed to support scientific and scholarly research.