Neurotoxin Exposure Treatment Parkinson's Depression Research Award

Funding Opportunity Number: W81XWH-15-NETPR-DRA Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory 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: Dec 16, 2015Award Ceiling: Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Oct 22, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: Applications to the Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Neurotoxin Exposure Treatment Parkinson’s Research (NETPR) program are being solicited by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA). The executing agent for this Program Announcement/Funding Opportunity is the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP). The NETPR was initiated in FY97 to provide support for research of exceptional scientific merit leading to an understanding of the cause, prevention, and treatment of the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the Substantia nigra that result in Parkinson’s disease (PD). The mission of the NETPR Program is to: · Identify surrogate markers of PD, · Correlate distinctive clinical features with specific clusters of these markers, and · Develop interventions in bio-molecular pathways that link markers and expressed clinical features in order to prevent or halt progression of the di...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Science and Technology and other Research and Development Source Type: funding