Montana Telehealth Assistance Program
Funding to support the expansion and availability of telehealth services, including mental health and urgent care, within high-risk, underserved, and rural communities in Montana. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Montana Office of Rural Health (Source: Emergency services funding opportunities via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Emergency services funding opportunities via the Rural Assistance Center - April 20, 2022 Category: Rural Health Source Type: funding

Imaging, Biomarkers and Digital Pathomics for the Early Detection of Premetastatic Cancer and Precancerous Lesions Associated with Lethal Phenotypes (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity PAR-22-131 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support the development of state-of-the-art projects that integrate imaging, biomarkers, digital pathomics, glycomics, metabolomics, other omic information and/or meta data obtained from platforms including but not limited to lower resolution diagnostic acquisitions and systemic biomarker results to high resolution single-cell analytics / imaging applied to the characterization of heterogeneous cell populations within tumor for improving current approaches for: (1) the early detection of organ con...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 12, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Laboratories to Optimize Digital Health (R01 Clinical Trial Required)
Funding Opportunity PAR-22-154 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. NIMH seeks applications for innovative research projects to test strategies to increase the reach, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of digital mental health interventions. This FOA is intended to support the development of digital health test beds that leverage well-established digital mental health platforms,to rapidly refine and optimize existing evidence-based digital health interventions and conduct clinical trials testing digital mental health interventions that are statistically powered to provide a definitive answer regarding the in...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 5, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Leveraging Health Information Technology (Health IT) to Address and Reduce Health Care Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity PAR-22-145 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) seeks to support research that examines the impact of leveraging health information technology (health IT) to reduce health care disparities in access to care, patient-clinician communication, and health outcomes for populations that experience health disparities in the U.S. (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 30, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Development of Innovative Informatics Methods and Algorithms for Cancer Research and Management (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-22-021 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite exploratory/developmental research grant applications (R21) for innovative informatics methods and algorithms to improve the acquisition, analysis, visualization, or interpretation of data across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. As a component of the NCI's Informatics Technology for Cancer Researc...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 24, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Early-Stage Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-22-022 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The goal of this FOA is to advance cancer model systems that recapitulate human immunity in the tumor microenvironment to improve the predictivity of immuno-oncology studies. Proposed research projects must focus on recapitulation of the human immune system in their proposed cancer model using human cells or tissues to regenerate and/or recapitulate the human immune system in in vivo or in vitro immuno-oncology models in a manner that matches or exceeds representation of the human immune system achieved with murine models developed using HFT....
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 24, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Advanced Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management (U24 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-22-023 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite Cooperative Agreement (U24) applications for advanced development and enhancement of emerging informatics technologies to improve the acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of data and knowledge across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. As a component of the NCI's Informatics Technolog...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 24, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Sustained Support for Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management (U24 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-22-024 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite Cooperative Agreement (U24) applications for the continued development and sustainment of high-value informatics research resources to improve the acquisition, analysis, visualization, and interpretation of data across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. As a component of the NCI's Informatics Techno...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 24, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

BRAIN Initiative: Integration and Analysis of BRAIN Initiative Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-MH-22-220 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This is a reissue of RFA-MH-21-135. This FOA supports the development of software to visualize and analyze the data as part of programs of building the informatics infrastructure for the BRAIN Initiative. Other informatics programs include developing data standards that are needed to describe the new experiments that are being created by or used in the BRAIN Initiative ( RFA-MH-19-146 ), and creating the data infrastructures that will house the data from multiple experimental groups ( RFA-MH-19-145 ). Each of the programs is aimed at building...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 22, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Technology Development Research for Establishing Feasibility and Proof of Concept (R21 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity PAR-22-126 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This initiative will support exploratory research leading to the development of innovative technologies for biomedical research. The program will recognize and reward high risk approaches with potential for significant impact. Projects should entail a high degree of risk or novelty, which will be offset by a correspondingly high potential impact. However, the possible impact is likely to be far off. Application of the proposed technology to specific biomedical questions is considered beyond the scope of the program, should not be included, and w...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 21, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Enhancing Social Connectedness and Ameliorating Loneliness to Prevent and Treat SUD and Support Recovery (R21 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-DA-23-009 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. oThis initiative will fund exploratory or pilot research projects to test interventions that address social connectedness and/or loneliness in order to prevent or treat SUDs or enhance recovery for individuals with SUDs. Interventions funded through this initiative should build on foundational, epidemiologic research on social connectedness and loneliness, and help contribute to a more unified theory about the role of loneliness and social connectedness in substance use and SUDs. Interventions could be delivered at the individual, dyadic, fam...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 14, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Enhancing Social Connectedness and Ameliorating Loneliness to Prevent and Treat SUD and Support Recovery (R34 - Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity RFA-DA-23-010 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This initiative will fund exploratory or pilot research projects to test interventions that address social connectedness and/or loneliness in order to prevent or treat SUDs or enhance recovery for individuals with SUDs. Interventions funded through this initiative should build on foundational, epidemiologic research on social connectedness and loneliness, and help contribute to a more unified theory about the role of loneliness and social connectedness in substance use and SUDs. Interventions could be delivered at the individual, dyadic, fami...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 14, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Short-Term Research Education Experiences to Attract Talented Students to Biomedical Informatics/Data Science Careers and Enhance Diversity (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-LM-22-001 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this NLM R25 program is to support short-term educational activities that encourage undergraduates and masters students from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further training and careers in biomedical informatics and data science. (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 14, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Developing Digital Therapeutics for Substance Use Disorders
Notice NOT-DA-22-056 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - February 18, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Seeking Public Comment on CSR ’s 2022 – 2027 Strategic Plan
Noni Byrnes, Ph.D., Director of NIH Center for Scientific Review Guest post by Noni Byrnes, Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR), originally released on the Review Matters blog I am pleased to announce that CSR’s draft strategic plan is now open for public comment. This 5-year plan (for 2022–2027) will serve as our roadmap as CSR advances its mission of seeing that NIH grant applications receive fair, independent, expert, and timely scientific reviews—free from inappropriate influences—so NIH can fund the most promising research. Input from CSR’s stakeholders—the external scientific community...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 15, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Noni Byrnes Tags: blog Open Mike CSR Peer review Source Type: funding