NIDDK Early Research Partnership Engagement Challenge
The NIDDK Early Research Partnership Engagement Challenge, in collaboration with the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), is designed to identify innovative, practical approaches that can strengthen engagement between researchers and relevant community partners before research plans are fully developed.The Challenge is designed to help advance research in NIDDK mission areas – such as diabetes, obesity, and kidney diseases – by strengthening meaningful partnerships from the earliest stages of research.
Funding Opportunity: National NIH K12 DiabDocs Career Development Program
The National NIH Physician Scientist DiabDocs-K12 Program is now open to scholars who can conduct research at any eligible US institution! Letter of Intent due date: NOVEMBER 17, 2026, AT 5PM (ET)
NIH Data Sharing and Reuse Seminar- Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury Risk and Outcomes: Insights from MIMIC-III and MIMIC-IV
NIH Office of Data Science Strategy will host a seminar "Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury Risk and Outcomes: Insights from MIMIC-III and MIMIC-IV" presented by Dr. Rui Feng on Friday, September 11, 2026, 12 pm - 1 pm ET.
Join NIH's “It's About Time: Temporal Reasoning in Biomedical Knowledge Graphs Challenge”
This two-phase Challenge, led by ODSS, invites innovators to develop methods, tools, and frameworks that help knowledge graphs represent how biomedical knowledge changes over time, including events, timelines, validity periods, and evolving evidence. The Challenge will award up to $1 million in total prizes. Submissions open October 5, 2026.
dkNET community events and announcements in September, 2026
dkNET provides updates on activities of interest to the NIDDK-supported community. You could keep up to date on these activities through our Twitter feed @dkNET_info, through our Community Calendar, or through dkNET e-mail list. If you have an event or funding opportunities you'd like to advertise, please contact us info_at_dknet.org. Here is the summary list of the dkNET updates, community events and funding opportunities in September, 2026.
dkNET community events and announcements in August, 2026
dkNET provides updates on activities of interest to the NIDDK-supported community. You could keep up to date on these activities through our Twitter feed @dkNET_info, through our Community Calendar, or through dkNET e-mail list. If you have an event or funding opportunities you'd like to advertise, please contact us info_at_dknet.org. Here is the summary list of the dkNET updates, community events and funding opportunities in August, 2026.
The Human Islet Research Network (HIRN) announces the HIRN SPARKS Award, a funding opportunity designed to capture and support outstanding, innovative research ideas that advance the mission of HIRN. HIRN was built to bring investigators together across disciplines, institutions, and consortia to accelerate progress in type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. Application Due Date: October 20, 2026.