NIH Weekly Funding Opportunities and Policy Notices
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-17-024 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by NINDS, is to invite currently awarded NeuroNEXT sites and potential new sites to participate as a Clinical Site in the Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials (NeuroNEXT). This clinical research network develops and conducts multiple, scientifically sound, possibly biomarker-informed exploratory clinical trials evaluating the most promising therapies for neurological disorders, whether from academic, foundation or industry discoveries. Examples include Phase 2 clinical trials and clinical research studies aimed at validating biomarkers and clinical outcomes in preparation for clinical trials.
Notice NOT-GM-17-010 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-EY-17-007 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-HL-17-523 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-HL-17-522 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-OD-17-086 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-MH-17-035 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-AG-18-012 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications to design and implement research infrastructure that will enable the monitoring of cognitive abilities and age, state, context, or health condition-related changes in cognitive abilities on mobile devices. This effort will include the development (or support for development) of apps on the Android and iOS platforms, the validation of tests and items to be used on the two leading smartphone platforms in age groups ranging from 20 to 85, and the norming of successfully validated measures to nationally representative U.S. population samples that will also receive gold standard measures, including the NIH Toolbox for Assessment of Behavioral and Neurological Function. A goal of this project is to also support data collection efforts from participants enrolled in projects awarded through this FOA as well as other NIH-funded studies though FY2022, and enable the widespread sharing of both the collected data and the test instruments.
Funding Opportunity RFA-AR-18-001 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to publicize a competition for Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Specialized Research Centers (MDSRCs). These Centers promote collaborative basic, translational and clinical research and provide important resources that can be used by the national muscular dystrophy research communities. The Centers also provide an outstanding environment for the training of new scientists electing to pursue careers conducting research in high priority areas of muscular dystrophy. Center investigators are expected to participate in important community outreach efforts to increase awareness and convey the importance and implications of their research activities to the patient and advocacy communities.
Notice NOT-AI-17-031 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-AA-17-007 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-OD-17-082 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-OD-17-084 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-FD-17-013 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of cooperative agreement funds for the support of a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled "Academic Development of a Training Program for Good Laboratory Practices in High Containment Environments (U24).' In this FOA, FDA announces its intention to accept and consider a single source application for an award to the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Galveston National Laboratory (GNL) for the development and implementation of a certified, academic training course for instruction in Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) in a Biosafety Level (BSL) 4 High Containment Environment. FDA seeks to support an effort to design a robust, collaborative, and educational program using problem-based learning techniques designed to bring researchers and regulators together to educate each other on the challenges related to these issues and to identify solutions that are acceptable from both scientific and regulatory perspectives.
Funding Opportunity RFA-FD-17-014 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The goals of this program are to support the development of the scientific infrastructure needed to plan and execute pediatric clinical trials through collaboration with stakeholders from academia, industry, parent/patient advocacy groups, and government agencies. The Global Pediatric Trial Network should be a coordinating resource for pediatric product development with sustainable global infrastructure to plan, start up, conduct, and close out pediatric clinical investigations. There should be an emphasis on operational efficiency and network sustainability with early, systematic, and integrative approaches to pediatric studies.
Funding Opportunity RFA-AT-17-003 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), seeks to solicit limited applications for continuation of an established research resource consisting of a database of primary reports of the full spectrum of complementary and integrative health controlled clinical trials. This resource will facilitate the conduct of high quality systematic reviews and when possible meta-analyses of published reports of clinical trials of complementary and integrative health treatments and interventions. The review of all published controlled clinical trials on a given topic and summary of the results in a systematic and unbiased manner provide a current best evidence for health care practitioners, patients, health care policy makers and research administration. In addition, the resource will ensure and promote access and availability to the broader scientific community and provide editorial, methodological and technical support to those utilizing the resource for systematic reviews. Applications must address the following: justification regarding why continued funding is needed from NIH; plans for maintenance of a research resource consisting of a complementary and integrative health controlled clinical trials database; plans to ensure access and availability of the resource to the scientific community; address updates of current reviews in the database; conduct of a minimum of one new and update two existing NCCIH strategic plan-related systematic reviews per year and when possible meta-analyses; and methods the investigators will use to identify new reviews and updates that align with NCCIH strategic priorities, particularly evaluating the effectiveness of mind and body complementary interventions for pain conditions.
Funding Opportunity RFA-HG-17-006 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is soliciting grant applications for the support of Centers of Excellence in Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research (CEERs). The CEER Program is designed to support the establishment of sustainable trans-disciplinary research teams with the expertise and flexibility to anticipate, conduct research on, and quickly address a range of cutting edge ethical, legal, and social issues related to genetics and genomics. The Program is intended to create new research opportunities that cross disciplinary boundaries among investigators in diverse fields, such as the genomic sciences, clinical research, clinical and health policy, ethics, law, the humanities, economics, political science, anthropology and other social sciences. In addition to conducting trans-disciplinary research, Centers will disseminate their research findings as well as facilitate the use of their findings to develop relevant research, health and public policies and practices. Finally, Centers will contribute to developing the next generation of ELSI researchers.
Funding Opportunity PAR-17-322 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The NEI Center Core Grant combines three or more Resource and/or Service Cores for a group of R01 investigators to enhance their research, consolidate resources, avoid duplication of efforts, and/or contribute to cost effectiveness by providing a service with lower costs or higher quality than could be attempted for independent projects by several individual Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PD(s)/PI(s)). Shared resources and facilities that are accessible to a group of independently funded investigators lead to greater productivity for the separate projects and can provide instrumentation and facilities that are too costly to be maintained by an individual investigator. The design and purpose of each Center Core may vary in how it serves its users. This program is designed to enhance an institution's environment and capability to conduct vision research and to facilitate collaborative studies of the visual system and its disorders.
Notice NOT-OD-17-077 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-OD-17-078 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts