NIH Weekly Funding Opportunities and Policy Notices
Funding Opportunity PAR-18-898 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. NIDDK utilizes High Impact, Interdisciplinary Science (RC2) grants to support projects that will lay the foundation for new fields of investigation within the mission of NIDDK. The RC2 is envisioned to use an interdisciplinary approach to generate a research resource and/or foster discovery-based or hypothesis-generating science that can have a significant impact on the broader scientific community. This targeted FOA specifically seeks to generate scientific advancements addressing the role of the autonomic nervous system in the regulation of peripheral metabolism and its role in diabetes, obesity and related metabolic disease. Interdisciplinary teams may propose to develop resources in the form of novel tools or methodologies that when applied to the autonomic nervous system will contribute to elucidating its functional role in metabolism. Alternatively, teams may focus on novel approaches to address specific knowledge gaps or scientific questions that will significantly contribute to our understanding of role of the autonomic nervous system in metabolism with the goal of accelerating scientific progress in the treatment and prevention of metabolic disease.
Funding Opportunity RFA-MH-19-240 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits proposals for research projects that will apply computational approaches to develop parametrically detailed behavioral assays across mental-health relevant domains of function. These projects should focus on behavior in humans and test computational models in healthy subjects. For future applications, NIMH is particularly interested in behavioral measures, models, and parameters that have the potential for back-translation from humans to animals, especially for pre-clinical therapeutics development. NIMH is also interested in models that can be extended to clinical populations in the future.
Notice NOT-DK-18-022 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-18-012 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Through this limited competition Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) solicits a single application for the continuation of the AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR). The eligible applicant institutions (which are the two current NCI-supported ACSR lead institutions) are expected to maintain the cooperative group structure and the activities of the ACSR. The primary objective of the ACSR will be to acquire, store, and equitably distribute tumor tissues, biological fluids, and associated demographic data from patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated malignancies. In addition to serving acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and cancer researchers at large, the ACSR will specifically provide biorepository functions for another NCI supported initiative, the AIDS Malignancy Consortium (AMC). The AMC performs clinical trials research in the treatment and prevention of HIV-associated malignancies in the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa. As the AMC is currently expanding its agenda to include Latin America, it is expected that the ACSR will collaborate with the AMC to develop regional biorepository support for AMC activities in Latin American countries. The continuing ACSR must have appropriate strategies and capabilities to address several high priority areas of specimen acquisition including specific types of cancer (AIDS-defining as well as non-AIDS defining), types of biospecimens and accompanying clinical data, and biospecimens from geographic areas of interest.
Funding Opportunity PAR-18-895 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity is to support studies with a focus on developing drug delivery strategies that target the Central Nervous System (CNS) for better suppression of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and reservoir reduction. Applications are sought proposing multidisciplinary efforts to enhance delivery of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and biologics into CNS compartments, maintaining a good balance between therapeutic effect and toxicity. Collaborative research partnerships are strongly encouraged but not required.
Funding Opportunity PAR-18-894 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to enhance the diversity of the mental health research workforce by providing dissertation awards in all research areas within the strategic priorities of the NIMH to individuals from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences research. This award supports the completion of the doctoral research project.
Notice NOT-NS-18-082 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-EB-18-023 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-AG-18-024 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-HG-18-014 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-HD-18-006 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-GM-18-044 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-GM-18-043 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-MD-18-007 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) invites applications for the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Training (MHRT) awards. The Program supports research training activities in minority health and health disparities research for individuals who are from diverse groups underrepresented in biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences research, at domestic institutions and/or at specified foreign low and middle income (LMIC) locations. The awards support training experiences that enhance the diversity of the research workforce for eligible undergraduate, post-baccalaureate and graduate students, as well as for eligible residents, fellows and postdoctoral students.
Funding Opportunity PAR-18-896 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) supports innovative research and development in biomedical informatics and data science. The scope of NLM's interest in these research domains is broad, with emphasis on new methods and approaches to foster data driven discovery in the biomedical and clinical health sciences as well as domain-independent, reusable approaches to discovery, curation, analysis, organization and management of health-related digital objects. Biomedical informatics and data science draw upon many fields, including mathematics, statistics, information science, computer science and engineering, and social/behavioral sciences. Application domains include health care delivery, basic biomedical research, clinical and translational research, precision medicine, public health, biosurveillance, health information management in disasters, and similar areas. NLM defines biomedical informatics as the science of optimal representation, organization, management, integration and presentation of information relevant to human health and biology. NIH defines data science as the interdisciplinary field of inquiry in which quantitative and analytical approaches, processes, and systems are developed and used to extract knowledge and insights from increasingly large and/or complex sets of data.
Notice NOT-GM-18-045 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-AI-18-051 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-GM-18-042 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-AG-19-020 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. NIA and NHLBI invite applications for a seven-year pragmatic trial from a network or consortium of health care delivery systems (HCS) which together cover most of the geographic regions of the United States and a data coordinating center to assess the overall risks and benefits of stains in adults 75 years of age and older without clinical cardiovascular disease.
Notice NOT-NS-18-081 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts