DoD Gulf War Illness Clinical Partnership Award

Funding Opportunity Number: W81XWH-16-GWIRP-CPA 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 20, 2016Award Ceiling: $0Expected Number of Awards: 2Creation Date: May 13, 2016Funding Opportunity Description: The GWIRP Clinical Partnership Award mechanism is being offered for the first time in FY16. The Clinical Partnership Award supports research into the diagnosis and treatment of GWI that will accelerate the movement of promising ideas in GWI research into clinical applications to benefit Veterans with GWI in a manner that would be less readily achievable through independent efforts. The intent of this award is to inform and advance clinical practice, not just from testing/evaluating treatments in a translational model, but also by individualizing treatment plans, experimenting with potential treatments, or informing biomarker or pathophysiology research from a clinical case series and/or other research-informing clinical modalities. The award is designed to encourage multi-institutional, multidisciplinary research partnerships among two or three investigators, referred to as the Initia...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Science and Technology and other Research and Development Source Type: funding