Office of Research

Advancing Global Capacity to Detect and Respond to Fungal Diseases

Limited Submissions

This funding opportunity will help strengthen sustainable systems that countries use to identify and control fungal disease threats. Activities supported may include:

  • Strengthening laboratory and diagnostic capacity.
  • Enhancing surveillance systems. • Supporting workforce development.
  • Improving data collection, analysis, and use to guide public health action.

Projects are expected to:

  • Build on existing national and regional public health structures.
  • Promote practical approaches that countries can sustain and integrate into broader communicable disease and public health programs.

Ideally, this work will strengthen national and regional capacity to detect, characterize, and respond to fungal diseases and improve coordination across sectors and borders.

Strengthened systems will help countries better understand fungal disease patterns, identify emerging threats earlier, and carry out public health interventions quickly and effectively.

Over time, these efforts are intended to:

  • Improve how quickly countries detect and respond to fungal threats.
  • Reduce the global burden of fungal diseases.
  • Strengthen global health security.
  • Reduce the risk of spreading diseases internationally, including to the United States.

Application Instructions

Please submit as one combined pdf labeled with PI’s Lastname, Firstname:

  1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
  2. If the final application requires a statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
  3. CV (not biosketch) of the PI including past grant funding.

to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, August 19, 2026. Late pre-proposals will not be considered. Proposals are due to the sponsor 8/31/2026 so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 8/26/2026 (3-day deadline) if given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee.

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

CDC-RFA-CK-26-0230

Deadlines
08/19/2026 UW Internal Deadline Open
08/26/2026 OSP Deadline
08/31/2026 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Funding amount

$1,250,000

Maximum Number of Applications

1

Eligible groups
  • All campus

Inquiries and Contact Information

Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.