NIH Weekly Funding Opportunities and Policy Notices
Funding Opportunity PAR-20-056 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) will award T90/R90 grants to eligible, domestic institutions to enhance predoctoral and postdoctoral research training (T90) and postdoctoral research education (R90) to ensure that a diverse and highly qualified workforce is available to address the Nations basic and clinical biomedical and behavioral or social sciences research agenda. Research training programs will incorporate didactic, research, and career development components to prepare individuals for careers as independent scientists that will have a significant impact on the dental, oral, and craniofacial health-related research needs of the Nation. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) does not allow appointed trainees to lead an independent clinical trial, but does allow them to obtain research experience in a clinical trial led by a mentor or co-mentor.
Notice NOT-ES-20-001 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-20-015 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of this NIH Blueprint R25 program is to encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research workforce, to pursue further studies or careers in research. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on Courses for Skills Development, Research Experiences, and Mentoring Activities. The fully integrated educational activities should prepare undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral sciences to enter Ph.D. degree programs in the neurosciences. To accomplish this goal, this initiative will provide institutional awards to develop neuroscience research education programs comprised of collaborative partnerships integrated across different educational institution types. Each partnership must include: a) one or more institutions that either: 1) have a historical and current mission to educate students from any of the populations that have been identified as underrepresented in biomedical research as defined by the National Science Foundation NSF, see http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/) (i.e., African Americans or Blacks, Hispanic or Latino Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, U.S. Pacific Islanders, and persons with disabilities) or 2) have a documented track record of recruiting, training and/or educating, and graduating underrepresented students as defined by NSF (see above), which has resulted in increasing the institution's contribution to the national pool of graduates from underrepresented backgrounds who pursue biomedical research careers; b) a research-intensive institution that has an established neuroscience or neuroscience-related program; c) integrated
Funding Opportunity PAR-20-060 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support, through the cooperative agreement mechanism, investigator-initiated observational studies or biomarker validation studies that require prospective collection of data/biospecimens or continued analysis of data/biospecimens collected as part of a previous NIDCR award.
Notice NOT-HL-19-734 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-ES-20-002 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-HL-19-733 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-MH-20-226 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to solicit research to develop, optimize and test mental health telehealth methods (i.e., without involving in-person interaction between a mental health clinician and the patient) to help evaluate and treat emergency department (ED) patients with suicide risk, compared to usual care of such patients in emergency departments without adequate on-site mental health specialty consultation. Primary research questions include if the use of telehealth methods affects the proportion of ED patients who are (1) considered at imminent risk for suicide, (2) boarded in the ED due to suicide risk, and (3) require hospitalization for suicide risk; (4) whether use of telehealth methods affects the rate of within-encounter provision of evidence-based suicide prevention interventions; and whether use of telehealth methods affects (5) the rates of suicide ideation, attempts and deaths, and (6) health care use and costs, in the year after an index ED visit in which a patient was identified with suicide risk. To inform future implementation of telehealth enabled suicide prevention practices in the ED, qualitative data on patient and provider views of telehealth provision of suicide prevention practices (feasibility and acceptability of clinical decision making; clinical workflows; ease of use of technology) are sought.
Notice NOT-OD-20-027 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-HL-21-011 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is specifically designed to address the gap in translation by expediting the delivery of evidence-based HLBS interventions by supporting research that employs implementation frameworks to develop and test implementation strategies for EBP that are sustainable beyond the period of external research funding and which are transferable to other end-use stakeholders. The FOA supports pragmatic milestone-driven, single-site, biphasic, late-stage (T4) translation and implementation research projects which propose to identify and test adaptable implementation strategies that will increase the scale-up and sustainable use of EBPs for preventing and/or managing HLBS disorders. For the purpose of this FOA, late-stage translation and implementation research is defined as research to identify strategies to achieve sustainable uptake of proven-effective interventions into routine clinical, or public health practice and/or community-based settings to improve health. The FOA also supports the development and dissemination of the implementation strategy plan which may include re-usable infrastructure, e.g., national standards for data extraction and interoperability, so that others may adapt the implementation strategy(ies) and replicate sustainable success.
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-20-015 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of the NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Outstanding Early Stage Postdoctoral Fellows (K99/R00) program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NCI-supported, independent investigators. This program is designed for postdoctoral fellows with research and/or clinical doctoral degrees who do not require an extended period of mentored research training beyond their doctoral degrees. The objective of this award is to facilitate a timely transition of these fellows from their mentored, postdoctoral research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions. The program will provide independent NCI research support during this transition to help awardees to launch competitive, independent research careers. Researchers in the scientific areas of data science and cancer control science are especially encouraged to apply. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is designed specifically for applicants proposing to serve as the lead investigator of an independent clinical trial, a clinical trial feasibility study, or an ancillary clinical trial, as part of their research and career development. Applicants not planning an independent clinical trial, or proposing to gain research experience in a clinical trial led by another investigator, must apply to companion FOA (RFA-CA-19-014).
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-20-014 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of the NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Outstanding Early Stage Postdoctoral Fellows (K99/R00) program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NCI-supported, independent investigators. This program is designed for postdoctoral fellows with research and/or clinical doctoral degrees who do not require an extended period of mentored research training beyond their doctoral degrees. The objective of this award is to facilitate a timely transition of these fellows from their mentored, postdoctoral research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions. The program will provide independent NCI research support during this transition to help awardees to launch competitive, independent research careers. Researchers in the scientific areas of data science and cancer control science are especially encouraged to apply. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is designed specifically for applicants proposing research that does not involve leading an independent clinical trial, a clinical trial feasibility study, or an ancillary clinical trial. Applicants to this FOA are permitted to propose research experience in a clinical trial led by a mentor or co-mentor. Applicants proposing a clinical trial or an ancillary clinical trial as lead investigator, should apply to the companion FOA (RFA-CA-20-015).
Notice NOT-HL-19-726 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-HL-19-727 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-GM-20-002 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity PAR-20-059 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage exploratory or developmental research to improve the oral health of adolescents in the United States, and to reduce observed oral health disparities and inequities in this population. This FOA defines adolescents as those individuals between the ages of 10 and 19.
Funding Opportunity PAR-20-058 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to stimulate research to improve the oral health of adolescents in the United States, and to reduce observed oral health disparities and inequities in this population. This FOA defines adolescents as those individuals between the ages of 10 and 19.
Notice NOT-GM-20-006 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-CA-20-011 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-MH-20-205 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for Early Psychosis Intervention Network (EPINET) regional scientific hubs to support practice-based research to improve early identification, diagnosis, clinical assessment, intervention effectiveness, service delivery, and health outcomes in clinics offering evidence-based specialty care to persons in the early stages of psychotic illness. For this FOA, early psychosis is defined as the period spanning the onset of an affective or non-affective psychotic disorder and up to 5 years following the first episode of psychosis (FEP).