NIH Weekly Funding Opportunities and Policy Notices
Notice NOT-DA-20-009 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-20-006 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. A central goal of the BRAIN Initiative is to develop new and improved technologies suitable for recording from as well as controlling specified cell types and circuits to modulate and understand function in the central nervous system. In order to accomplish these goals, further information is needed to understand the function of current technologies used for recording or stimulating the nervous system. This RFA accepts grant applications in two related but distinct areas. The first is to systematically characterize, model, and validate the membrane, cellular, circuit, and adaptive-biological responses of neuronal and non-neuronal cells to various types of stimulation technologies. The second is to understand the biological and bioinformatic content of signals recorded from neuronal and non-neuronal cells and circuits. Development of new technologies, therapies and disease models, are outside the scope of this FOA. Activities related to enabling the simultaneous use of multiple recording or stimulation technologies are allowed.
Notice NOT-MH-20-017 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-OD-20-047 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity PAR-20-079 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support investigative and collaborative research focused on understanding and addressing disparities in surgical care and outcomes, in minority and health disparity populations. While the goal is to better understand and explore effectiveness of clinical intervention approaches for addressing surgical disparities, this initiative will also seek to identify multi-level strategies at the institutional and systems level.
Notice NOT-MH-20-015 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-OD-20-038 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-LM-20-003 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-20-013 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Despite established associations between white matter lesions and cognitive impairment including dementia, the volume, anatomical location, and other key cellular and molecular characteristics of white matter lesions that are both necessary and sufficient are unknown, as are the comorbid clinical factors that may modify (including protect from) these effects. Therefore, this initiative will support one large prospective clinical research study in the U.S. studying individuals with white matter lesions at risk for cognitive decline to determine the magnitude and anatomical locations that are both necessary and sufficient to cause cognitive impairment and dementia. The study will include health disparities populations, and will examine additional clinical factors and comorbidities that may be effect modifiers of the relationship between white matter lesions and cognitive impairment, including dementia. Clinical trial-ready VCID biomarkers should be utilized, further developed, and/or subject to implementation research in this study. Secondary goals include: identifying clinical and mechanistic targets for future VCID interventional trials; determining interrelationships (cross-sectional and longitudinal) among white matter lesions, cerebro- and cardio-vascular disease and risk factors including dementia-relevant genes. Applicants are encouraged, when scientifically advantageous, to utilize existing resources for VCID and stroke research, e.g. MarkVCID, StrokeNet, Alzheimers Centers, and large NIH funded prospective cohort studies (e.g. Framingham, ARIC, CHS, NOMAS, etc.) as well as other dementia resources.
Notice NOT-HS-20-004 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-GM-20-010 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-GM-20-011 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-NS-20-020 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-MH-20-021 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-RM-20-008 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-NR-20-001 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-MD-20-005 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this initiative is to support projects to advance the measurement of constructs relevant to health research with sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations.
Notice NOT-OH-20-003 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-OH-20-004 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-OD-20-053 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts