PP Series — Programs & Centers

NIH P30 Grants — Center Core Grant

Reviewed by Dr. Meng ZhaoLast reviewed June 9, 2026Data refreshed June 9, 2026Editorial standards

Shared resource cores supporting NIH-funded investigators

Funding

Varies (typically $1M–$5M/year)

Duration

5 years

Eligibility

Institutions with critical mass of related research

Activity code

P30

What is the NIH P30 grant?

The P30 funds shared resource cores at institutions that have a critical mass of NIH-funded investigators in a research area (cancer centers, ADRCs, DRCs, etc.).

Recent P30 awards from NIH RePORTER

Examples of funded P30 projects across the last two fiscal years. The matching-award count comes from the full result set; funding totals, averages, rankings, and examples use the first 500 records returned by NIH RePORTER. Figures reflect a snapshot last refreshed on June 9, 2026.

Matching awards (last 2 FYs)
634
Full matching record count on RePORTER
Sampled funding
$951.9M
Sum of award amounts in the sample
Average award
$1.9M
Mean award amount in the sample

Example P30 projects from the sample

  • Northwell Roybal Center for Personalized Trials: Physical Activity Promotion for Persons Giving Care or Living with AD/ADRD

    5P30AG063786-07
    Karina Davidson · FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, NY · $1,241,971 · awarded Jun 5, 2026 · NIH

    PROJECT ABSTRACT The goal of this Northwell Roybal Center for Personalized Trials: Physical Activity Promotion for Persons Giving Care or Living with AD/ADRD is to generate behavioral intervention development research for enhancing physical activity (Roybal Theme: Spur the Initiation and Maintenance of Physical Activity Regimens that are Personalized to…

  • Center for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats

    5P30DA060810-03
    Abraham Palmer · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, CA · $1,387,498 · awarded Jun 4, 2026 · NIH

    Project Summary (Overall) The goal of this P30 application is to support the community of scientists who use outbred heterogeneous stock (HS) rats to understand the genetic basis of individual differences in vulnerability to substance use disorders (SUDs). Although this is a new grant, one of its main goals is to provide core services that have been offered…

  • New Mexico Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

    5P30AG086404-03
    Gary Rosenberg · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR, NM · $4,358,782 · awarded Jun 4, 2026 · NIH

    The New Mexico Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (NM ADRC) is strategically and geographically positioned in an area of the country with an extremely diverse and underserved population that has limited access to health and dementia care. With funding from the NIH for the prior P20 exploratory ADRC, we established an infrastructure and formed partnerships…

  • Cancer Center Support Grant

    3P30CA086862-25S2
    Mark Burkard · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, IA · $2,519,081 · awarded Jun 3, 2026 · NIH

    ABSTRACT Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center (HCCC) at the University of Iowa (UI) is the only NCI designated cancer center in the state of Iowa, a highly rural state that serves as the HCCC catchment area. The HCCC leverages its highly collaborative culture to advance transdisciplinary, cancer research that is particularly relevant to the people of Iowa.…

  • Stephenson Cancer Center - Cancer Center Support Grant

    5P30CA225520-09
    ROBERT MANNEL · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR, OK · $2,031,939 · awarded Jun 3, 2026 · NIH

    Since achieving NCI designation in 2018, the Stephenson Cancer Center (SCC) at the University of Oklahoma has continued to grow and mature as an organization. The SCC’s vision to eliminate cancer in Oklahoma and beyond is advanced through its mission to provide patient-centered, research-driven, multidisciplinary cancer care to all Oklahomans. As Oklahoma’s…

  • Regional Oncology Research Center

    5P30CA006973-63
    WILLIAM NELSON · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, MD · $7,841,630 · awarded Jun 3, 2026 · NIH

    The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (SKCCC) at Johns Hopkins is dedicated to cancer research, education and training, and patient care, with the overarching goal of creating and applying new knowledge to improve prevention, screening, detection, diagnosis and treatment of cancer in Maryland (the SKCCC catchment area) and throughout the nation and…

  • UCSF-UCB Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC)

    5P30AI168440-05
    PAYAM NAHID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, CA · $968,415 · awarded Jun 2, 2026 · NIH

    PROJECT SUMMARY The overall goal of the proposed UC San Francisco – UC Berkeley Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (UCSF-UCB TRAC) is to accelerate the pace of discoveries that improve our understanding of tuberculosis (TB) and lead directly to new tools for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of TB. Addressing the complex problems of the current…

  • Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (MADRC)

    5P30AG062421-08
    Teresa Gomez-Isla · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, MA · $4,825,067 · awarded Jun 1, 2026 · NIH

    Overall Abstract - REVISED Our patients, and the needs of the science, demand that we try to answer the difficult question, “what will happen to me?”. In this renewal application of MADRC, an interdisciplinary Center for the study of Alzheimer’s and related dementias at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, we will build on promising…

  • UT Southwestern NORC

    5P30DK127984-05
    JAY HORTON · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, TX · $1,230,000 · awarded Jun 1, 2026 · NIH

    The goal of the UTSW NORC is to enhance research efforts in nutrition and obesity by facilitating interdisciplinary interactions to speed the translation of basic scientific discoveries into clinically relevant interventions in humans that improve public health. We have assembled a highly interactive and collaborative interdisciplinary team of investigators…

  • JHU Center for the Advancement of HIV Neurotherapeutics (JHU CAHN)

    5P30MH075673-20
    Leah Rubin · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, MD · $1,440,573 · awarded Jun 1, 2026 · NIH

    The mission of the JHU NIMH NeuroHIV Center for the past 15 years has been to catalyze and support multidisciplinary high-impact science that addresses the NIH strategic plan for HIV research for addressing comorbidities and complications in people with HIV (PWH). The Center has focused on developing novel treatments to mitigate the impact of cognitive…

  • University of Washington Center of Excellence in Opioid Addiction Research

    5P30DA048736-08
    Charles Chavkin · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, WA · $1,599,819 · awarded May 29, 2026 · NIH

    The “University of Washington Center of Excellence in Opioid Addiction Research” is designed to provide shared resources that would continue to enhance efficiency and facilitate collaborative research for the study of the effects of opioids on neural circuits with the goal of understanding opioid addiction mechanisms and developing novel treatments for drug…

  • Digestive Health Center (DHC): Bench to Bedside Research in Pediatric Digestive Disease

    5P30DK078392-20
    LEE DENSON · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR, OH · $1,192,500 · awarded May 28, 2026 · NIH

    PROJECT SUMMARY The overall goal of our Digestive Health Center (DHC): Bench-to-Bedside Research in Pediatric Digestive Disease is to promote research that will yield insights into the fundamental processes and pathogenic mechanisms of digestive disease in children and generate innovative treatment to restore digestive health. The Cores aims are: 1) to…

Funding institutes in the sample

InstituteAwardsFunding
NIH486$938.2M
AHRQ14$13.7M

Most frequent institutions in the sample

  1. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 18 awards
  2. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR 16 awards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO 16 awards
  4. EMORY UNIVERSITY 15 awards
  5. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 13 awards
  6. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 12 awards
  7. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES 11 awards
  8. UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM 11 awards

Source: NIH RePORTER. Verify any award in the official record by searching its project number. See our data methodology for how this sample is built and its limitations.

Decision guide

Choose P30 when

P30 supports cores (imaging, biostatistics, genomics, animal models) that serve multiple R01-funded labs at one institution.

Choose another mechanism when

P30 does not directly fund research projects.

Who applies for P30

Institutions building or maintaining a thematic research center.

Compare nearby NIH grant mechanisms

Searchers often land on P30 while deciding between adjacent NIH activity codes. Compare scope, NIH staff involvement, budget scale, and applicant stage before choosing a funding opportunity.

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  • P30 award lists identify NIH-recognized institutional centers (NCI cancer centers, NIA ADRCs, NIDDK DRCs, etc.).

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