NIH Weekly Funding Opportunities and Policy Notices
Funding Opportunity PAR-17-217 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support observational or intervention research focused on reducing health disparities in tobacco use in the United States. Specifically, this FOA is intended to stimulate scientific inquiry focused on innovative tobacco control policies including, but not limited to, those addressing health economics (e.g. tax and pricing policies, insurance coverage for tobacco dependence treatment). Applicants may propose projects in which the primary outcome of interest is on reducing tobacco use health disparities in vulnerable populations by utilizing tobacco prevention and control strategies. The long-term goal of this FOA is to reduce health disparities in health outcomes thereby reducing the excess disease burden of tobacco use within these groups. This FOA provides funding for up to 2-years for research planning, intervention delivery, dissemination and implementation. Applicants submitting proposals related to health economics are encouraged to consult NOT-OD-16-025 to ensure that proposals align with NIH mission priorities in health economics research
Funding Opportunity PAR-17-218 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support observational or intervention research focused on reducing health disparities in tobacco use in the United States. Specifically, this FOA is intended to stimulate scientific inquiry focused on innovative tobacco control policies including, but not limited to, those addressing health economics (e.g. tax and pricing policies, insurance coverage for tobacco dependence treatment). Applicants may propose projects in which the primary outcome of interest is on reducing tobacco use health disparities in vulnerable populations by utilizing tobacco prevention and control strategies. The long-term goal of this FOA is to reduce health disparities in health outcomes thereby reducing the excess disease burden of tobacco use within these groups. This FOA provides funding for up to 2-years for research planning, intervention delivery, dissemination and implementation. Applicants submitting proposals related to health economics are encouraged to consult NOT-OD-16-025 to ensure that proposals align with NIH mission priorities in health economics research.
Funding Opportunity RFA-OD-17-002 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications for a Center for Coordination of Analytics, Science, Enhancement, and Logistics (CASEL) in Tobacco Regulatory Science. CASEL will support the scientific research programs funded by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), and will facilitate synthesis, coordination and communications of research and career enhancement within those programs. The overall objective of CASEL is to support research programs that can inform the FDA CTP in tobacco product regulatory activities and actions. Through leadership, coordination, and facilitation of collaborative efforts, CASEL can accelerate the advancement of science relevant to the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA). The NIH and the FDA have formed an interagency partnership to foster research relevant to FDA's tobacco regulatory authorities. The award under this FOA will be administered by the NIH using designated funds from the FDA CTP for tobacco regulatory science mandated by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA), Public Law 111-31.
Funding Opportunity RFA-OD-17-003 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications for Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS) to support biomedical and behavioral research that will provide scientific data to inform regulation of tobacco products to protect public health. Research Projects must address the research priorities related to the regulatory authority of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP). The awards under this FOA will be administered by NIH using funds that have been made available through FDA CTP and the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (P.L. 111-31). Research results from this FOA are expected to generate findings and data that are directly relevant in informing the FDA's regulation of the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products to protect public health.
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-17-022 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites revision applications from currently funded NCI P50 Specialized Centers. These revision applications are expected to focus on research related to one of the 12 of the NCI's Provocative Questions (PQs) published in RFA-CA-17-017 and RFA-CA-17-018 that are intended for new R01 and R21 applications, respectively. This FOA encourages research that directly addresses PQs, including research that helps validate PQ research outcomes or adopt and disseminate PQ research results that impact cancer research and clinical care. Studies proposed in the revision applications must correspond to a new research project expanding the scope, yet integrated into the overall theme, of the entire parent P50 award.
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-17-019 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites revision applications from investigators with active NCI R01 research grants. These revision applications are expected to focus on research related to one of the 12 of the NCI's Provocative Questions (PQs) published for new applications in RFA-CA-17-017 (R01) and RFA-CA-17-018 (R21). This FOA encourages research that directly addresses PQs, including research that helps validate PQ research outcomes or adopt and disseminate PQ research results that impact cancer research and clinical care. Studies proposed in the revision applications must correspond to additional specific aims, expanding the scope of individual, already funded projects of the parent R01 award.
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-17-021 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Projects. These revision applications are expected to focus on research related to one of the 12 of the NCI's Provocative Questions (PQs) published in RFA-CA-17-017 and RFA-CA-17-018 that are intended for new R01 and R21 applications, respectively. This FOA encourages research that directly addresses PQs, including research that helps validate PQ research outcomes or adopt and disseminate PQ research results that impact cancer research and clinical care. Studies proposed in the revision applications must correspond to a new research project expanding the scope, yet integrated into the overall theme, of the entire parent P01 award.
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-17-020 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites revision applications from investigators with active NCI U01 research project awards. These revision applications are expected to focus on research related to one of the 12 of the NCI's Provocative Questions (PQs) published for new applications in RFA-CA-17-017 (R01) and RFA-CA-17-018 (R21). This FOA encourages research that directly addresses PQs, including research that helps validate PQ research outcomes or adopt and disseminate PQ research results that impact cancer research and clinical care. Studies proposed in the revision applications must correspond to additional specific aims, expanding the scope of individual, already funded projects of the parent U01 award.
Notice NOT-AI-17-015 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-DK-17-008 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects (R18) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage research applications to test approaches to improve kidney disease prevention and/or treatment in routine healthcare settings. Research applications should be designed to test practical and potentially sustainable strategies that target the prevention or improved care of kidney disease, or the prevention or delay of the complications of kidney disease. The goal of the research is to obtain results that will improve routine healthcare practice and inform healthcare policy for the prevention or management of these conditions.
Funding Opportunity PAR-17-216 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites cooperative agreement applications for investigator-initiated clinical trials of natural products to treat clinical symptoms such as those associated with sleep disturbance, pain conditions, or some mental health conditions (e.g., mild to moderate depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress), or examine the effects of probiotics and other natural products on gut-microbiome interactions with the brain and/or immune system. All applications submitted under this FOA must be supported by sufficient preliminary data of bioavailability and documentation that the natural product produces a replicable and measurable biological signature (i.e., measure of the mechanism of action), whenever it is possible or practical to measure and used by the patient population of interest.
Funding Opportunity PAR-17-174 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages cooperative agreement applications for investigator-initiated multi-site clinical trials (Phase III and beyond) to study the effects of natural products in NCCIH designated areas of high research priority. Applicants should describe plans for a Clinical Coordinating Center to develop and implement the proposed multi-site clinical trial. The objective of the Clinical Coordinating Center is to provide the design scientific rationale and a comprehensive scientific and operational plan for the clinical trial. The Clinical Coordinating Center is expected to be responsible for project management, participant recruitment and retention strategies, performance milestones, scientific conduct, and dissemination of results. Clinical Coordinating Center applications submitted under this FOA will utilize a two-phase, milestone-driven cooperative agreement (UG3/UH3) funding mechanism.
Funding Opportunity PAR-17-172 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), utilizing the U24 grant funding mechanism, encourages applications for a collaborating Data Coordinating Center (DCC) application that accompanies an investigator-initiated multi-site clinical trial (Phase III and beyond) application submitted under PAR-17-174. The DCC application must be specific to the collaborating Clinical Coordinating Center (CCC) application. The objective of the DCC application is to propose a comprehensive plan that provides overall project coordination, and administrative, data management, and biostatistical support for the proposed clinical trial. Both a DCC application and a corresponding CCC application need to be submitted simultaneously for consideration by NCCIH.
Funding Opportunity PAR-17-173 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), utilizing the U24 grant funding mechanism, encourages applications for a collaborating Data Coordinating Center (DCC) application that accompanies an investigator-initiated multi-site clinical trial (Phase III and beyond) application submitted under PAR-17-175. The DCC application must be specific to the collaborating Clinical Coordinating Center (CCC) application. The objective of the DCC application is to propose a comprehensive plan that provides overall project coordination, and administrative, data management, and biostatistical support for the proposed clinical trial. Both a DCC application and a corresponding CCC application need to be submitted simultaneously for consideration by NCCIH.
Funding Opportunity PAR-17-175 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications for investigator-initiated multi-site clinical trials (e.g. efficacy, effectiveness or pragmatic trials) to study the effects of mind and body interventions in NCCIH designated areas of high research priority. Clinical Coordinating Centers should develop and implement the proposed multi-site clinical trial. The objective of a Clinical Coordinating Center application is to present the scientific rationale and a comprehensive scientific and operational plan for the clinical trial. Clinical Coordinating Center applications are expected to describe plans for project management, participant recruitment and retention strategies, performance milestones, scientific conduct, and dissemination of results. Clinical Coordinating Center applications submitted under this FOA will utilize a two-phase, milestone-driven cooperative agreement (UG3/UH3) funding mechanism.
Funding Opportunity PAR-17-215 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites cooperative agreement applications for investigator-initiated clinical trials of mind and body interventions in NCCIH-designated areas of high research priority. Applications submitted under this FOA are expected to propose a clinical trial to develop and test adaptive interventions; optimize the intervention by evaluating which element of a complex intervention are critical for changes in outcome; assessing whether the intervention can be delivered with fidelity across sites in preparation for a future multi-site trial; or collect additional preliminary data such as determining the duration or frequency of the intervention to be used in a future multi-site trial. It is important, therefore, to already have sufficient preliminary data that includes: demonstration of feasibility of recruitment and accrual of participants; demonstration of participant adherence to the intervention as well as retention of participants throughout the study; completion of final data collection from any related studies; and evidence that the intervention has promise of clinical benefit. This FOA is not intended to support multi-site efficacy or effectiveness trials, nor will it support trials to test mind and body interventions for the treatment or prevention of cancer.
Notice NOT-AI-17-018 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity PAR-17-214 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The National Institute on Aging invites applications specific to the analysis of genome-wide association studies and whole-genome and related sequencing data generated under PAR-16-406.
Notice NOT-DA-17-009 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-GM-17-003 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts