NIH Weekly Funding Opportunities and Policy Notices
Funding Opportunity RFA-FD-19-009 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support research relevant to topical semisolid drug products that will help elucidate the relationship between a product's quality attributes and its functional properties. A specific purpose is to elucidate how characterizations of the arrangement of matter, including rheological characterizations (e.g., texture analysis, tribology) may correlate with and/or be predictive of sensorial differences perceived by human subjects (or patients). Upon the successful completion of this research, it should be possible to predict, based upon product quality characterizations, whether test and reference products that may be compositionally different are likely to have a comparable look and feel, including comparable perceptions of grittiness, silky-smoothness, and cooling sensation.
Funding Opportunity RFA-FD-19-008 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support the research and development necessary to elucidate specific considerations that may be uniquely relevant to evaluating the bioequivalence (BE) of ungual (nail), scalp, vaginal, or rectal topical drug products. A specific emphasis of this funding opportunity involves the development of in vitro or ex vivo, comparative product characterization-based BE approaches.
Notice NOT-OD-19-072 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-AI-19-035 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-19-022 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is aimed at discovering, determining the selectivity and sensitivity, and externally validating biological measures to be used for assessing, prognosing and monitoring recovery of youth who either clinically present with or are at risk for developing prolonged/persistent concussive symptoms following exposure to repetitive head impacts and/or concussion. Resultant biological measures should be incorporated into risk stratification algorithms to inform clinical care and patient stratification for future clinical trials. A critical feature of this FOA includes the broad sharing of clinical, neuroimaging, physiological, and biospecimen data to further advance research in the area of persistent concussive symptoms in children ages 9 - 14.
Notice NOT-AG-19-006 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-FD-19-014 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support research to develop and qualify a Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) for Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis (NCFB) under FDAs Drug Development Tools Qualification Program. This would include the qualitative phase of developing the instrument, quantitative phase of testing the instrument, and qualification of the instrument. It is expected that this qualified PRO would help improve upon the current design, conduct, and interpretation of anti-infective clinical trials in NCFB patients, for which optimal endpoints are currently lacking. This work directly aligns with FDAs research area of interest to stimulate innovation in clinical evaluations and personalized medicine to improve product performance and patient outcomes.
Funding Opportunity RFA-MH-20-110 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to encourage research to integrate/harmonize existing data sets from preventive intervention trials implemented early in life to: 1) examine risk and protective factors relevant to later mental health outcomes in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood; and 2) determine whether preventive interventions delivered earlier in life have long-term effects, and/or cross-over effects (e.g., unanticipated beneficial effects), on important mental health outcomes, including serious mental illness (e.g., depression, anxiety, suicide ideation and behaviors, psychosis behaviors).
Notice NOT-NS-19-031 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-NS-19-032 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-NS-19-030 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-NS-19-033 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-OD-19-016 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The NIH INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE (INCLUDE) Project is soliciting applications for this Request for Applications (RFA) for Transformative R01 to support individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original, and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies. Applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds and in any topic relevant to Down syndrome research are welcome. Little or no preliminary data are expected. Projects must clearly demonstrate the potential to produce a major impact in research related to Down syndrome.
Funding Opportunity RFA-OD-19-018 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages Exploratory/Developmental Phased Innovation (R61/R33) grant applications to support development of clinical trials to treat critical and co-occurring health conditions in individuals with Down syndrome. The proposed research aims should be milestone-driven. The total project period for an application submitted in response to this FOA may not exceed five years. This FOA provides support for up to two years (R61 phase) for preliminary/developmental/planning studies, followed by possible transition of up to four years of expanded clinical trial support (R33), although the total duration of the award may not exceed five years. This FOA requires measurable R61 milestones.
Funding Opportunity RFA-OD-19-015 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites researchers to submit applications for support of clinical projects that address critical needs for clinical trial readiness in Down syndrome. The initiative seeks applications that are intended to facilitate Down syndrome research by enabling efficient and effective movement of candidate therapeutics or diagnostics towards clinical trials for Down syndrome and its co-occurring conditions, and to increase their likelihood of success through development and testing of biomarkers and clinical outcome assessment measures, development and testing of novel trial methods and recruitment strategies, or by defining the presentation and course of the co-occurring conditions in individuals with Down syndrome to enable the design of future clinical trials.
Notice NOT-OD-19-071 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity PAR-19-184 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications investigating the biology and underlying mechanisms of bladder cancer. Bladder cancer is a significant health problem both in the United States and globally. Because of the high incidence and frequent tumor recurrence, bladder cancer exacts an outsized medical burden. While recent progress has been made in the molecular profiling of bladder cancers and identification of mutated genes, relatively little is known regarding the molecular mechanisms driving initiation, progression, and malignancy of bladder cancer. Furthermore, our understanding of biological processes of the normal bladder at the molecular, cell and organ levels is limited. Fundamental knowledge of how molecular and cellular functions of the bladder are altered in cancer will aid our understanding of bladder cancer biology and interventions. Applications that involve multidisciplinary teams and use clinical specimens or investigate both normal and cancer processes are encouraged.
Funding Opportunity PAR-19-183 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications investigating the biology and underlying mechanisms of bladder cancer. Bladder cancer is a significant health problem both in the United States and globally. Because of the high incidence and frequent tumor recurrence, bladder cancer exacts an outsized medical burden. While recent progress has been made in the molecular profiling of bladder cancers and identification of mutated genes, relatively little is known regarding the molecular mechanisms driving initiation, progression, and malignancy of bladder cancer. Furthermore, our understanding of biological processes of the normal bladder at the molecular, cell and organ levels is limited. Fundamental knowledge of how molecular and cellular functions of the bladder are altered in cancer will aid our understanding of bladder cancer biology and interventions. Applications that involve multidisciplinary teams and use clinical specimens or investigate both normal and cancer processes are encouraged.
Notice NOT-CA-19-022 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-MD-19-020 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts