Office of Research

Emerging Infections Network - Research for Preventing, Detecting, and Managing Travel-associated Infectious Diseases

Limited Submissions

The focus of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to produce insights into disease detection and prevention strategies, burden, severity, diagnostics, treatment, and outcomes of infectious diseases in international travelers. Timely surveillance and sentinel detection are essential for collecting actionable data.

The research should:

  • Address public health questions that improve the speed of outbreak detection.
  • Help develop guidelines and recommendations to improve patient care.
  • Enhance understanding of the natural history of disease.
  • Optimize genomic surveillance as well as diagnostic and treatment strategies
  • Advance the global health security of the United States.

This NOFO will have two components:

  • Component A – Clinic-based sentinel network.
  • Component B – Sentinel detection in international transportation hubs.

You may apply for Component A, B, or both. If your application for both Component A and B is ranked top, Component B will be awarded.

 

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, September 9, 2026. Late pre-proposals will not be considered. Proposals are due to the sponsor 11/5/2026 so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 10/27/2026 if given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee.

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

RFA-CK-26-035

Deadlines
09/09/2026 UW Internal Deadline Open
10/27/2026 OSP Deadline
11/05/2026 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Funding amount

$6,000,000

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.