DoD Gulf War Illness Investigator-Initiated Research Award

Funding Opportunity Number: W81XWH-15-GWIRP-IIRA Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementGrantCategory of Funding Activity: Science and Technology and other Research and DevelopmentCFDA Number: 12.420Eligible Applicants Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"Agency Name: DOD-AMRAAClosing Date: Oct 29, 2015Award Ceiling: $0Expected Number of Awards: 5Creation Date: May 14, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: The GWIRP Investigator-Initiated Research Award mechanism was first offered in FY06. Since then, 208 Investigator-Initiated Research Award applications were received, and 57 were recommended for funding. New for FY15: The GWIRP Investigator-Initiated Research Award contains explicit prescriptive language (see below) to guide applicants proposing investigations of potential biomarkers of GWI. The Investigator-Initiated Research Award is designed to promote new ideas in GWI research and establish proof of principle for further development in future studies. Applications are not required to include preliminary data; however, preliminary data may be used to support the objectives of an application. These data are not required to have come from the GWI research field. Applications not supported by preliminary data should be based on sound scientific rationale and may reflect clinical obse...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Science and Technology and other Research and Development Source Type: funding