Mid-Career Enhancement Awards to Integrate Basic Behavioral, Biomedical, and/or Social Scientific Processes (K18 Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required)
Funding Opportunity PAR-20-226 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The OppNet Research Career Enhancement Award (K18) program invites applications from investigators who strive to expand their research trajectories through the acquisition of new knowledge and skills in the areas of basic psychological processes, sociological processes, and/or biomedical pathwaysexpertise that is beyond and enhances their current areas of expertise. The program will support research training and career development experiences and a small-scale research project that will provide experienced investigators with the scientific compe...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - June 3, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Advancing HIV/AIDS Research through Computational Neuroscience FOA (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity RFA-DA-21-013 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This funding opportunity announcement invites computational HIV/AIDS research as it relates to NIDAs mission through collaborative research between investigators with experimental expertise related to HIV/AIDS and those with computational proficiency, including scientists from statistics, physics, mathematics, engineering, and computer science. An R01 research project should build on well-established computational strategies (theory, models, and methods) to investigate HIV-related neurocognitive deficits and neuropathogenesis in the context o...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - June 2, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Seeking Your Input on Simplifying Review Criteria
Bruce Reed, Ph.D., Deputy Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review
Guest post by Bruce Reed, Deputy Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review, originally released on the Review Matters blog
Over the past several years we have heard consistent concerns about the complexity of review criteria and administrative load of peer review. CSR shares the concern that the current set of standards has the unintended consequence of dividing reviewer attention among too many questions, thus reducing focus on scientific merit and increasing reviewer burden. Each element was intended make review better, but we w...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 27, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Bruce Reed Tags: blog Open Mike CSR Peer review Source Type: funding
Silvio O. Conte Centers for Basic Neuroscience or Translational Mental Health Research (P50 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity PAR-20-093 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications for Silvio O. Conte Centers for Basic Neuroscience or Translational Mental Health Research. The NIMH seeks teams of researchers working at different levels of analysis and employing integrative, novel, and creative experimental approaches to address high-risk, high-impact questions with the primary objectives of: (a) advancing the state of the science in basic brain and behavior research that will uncover and dissect the underlying mechanisms that will ultimately provide the fou...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - January 16, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: funding
NIH Blueprint Program for Enhancing Neuroscience Diversity through Undergraduate Research Education Experiences (BP-ENDURE) (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-20-015 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of this NIH Blueprint R25 program is to encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research workforce, to pursue further studies or careers in research. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on Courses for Skills Development, Research ...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - November 19, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Data Harmonization, Curation and Secondary Analysis of Existing Clinical Datasets (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-20-007 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This FOA invites applications from multidisciplinary teams to perform secondary data analysis, using existing datasets from two or more multi-site clinical research projects, to address scientific and clinical hypotheses relevant to neurological disorders and conditions within the NINDS mission. In this phased funding mechanism, applications are required to systematically and comprehensively perform cross-project data harmonization and curation, assessed using Go/No-go data-quality metrics, prior to funding of the second phase of data analyse...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - October 30, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Fundamental Mechanisms of Affective and Decisional Processes in Cancer Control (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity PAR-20-034 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage projects to generate fundamental knowledge of affective processes. Basic affective science projects should have key consequences for single (e.g., cancer screening) and multiple (e.g., adherence to oral chemotherapy regimen) event decisions and behaviors across the cancer prevention and control continuum. The FOA is expected to encourage collaboration among cancer control researchers and those from scientific disciplines not traditionally connected to cancer control appli...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - October 18, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Integrative Research on Polysubstance Abuse and Disorder (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity PAR-20-035 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is supported by Collaborative Research on Addiction (CRAN) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a trans-NIH partnership composed of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The intent of this FOA is two-fold: (1) characterize how the neurobiological alterations, associated behaviors, and public health consequences arising from polysubstance use differ from, or are similar to, those observ...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - October 18, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Delving Further into the Funding Gap Between White and Black Researchers
As is now well known, black scientists are less successful than their white counterparts in obtaining support from NIH R01 awards as designated Principal Investigators (PIs) (see here and here). Though recent NIH efforts are showing promise to enhance diversity in the biomedical workforce (see this post), much work is still needed to address the funding gap.
In a paper recently published in Science Advances, we delved into the underlying factors associated with this funding gap. We identified three decision points where disparate outcomes arose between white and black researchers: 1) the decision to bring applications t...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - October 10, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike application Diversity Funding data topic selection Source Type: funding
Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Clinical Researchers in AD/ADRD Research: Area of Focus Archiving and Leveraging Existing Data Sets for Analyses (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity PAS-19-391 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Small Research Grant (R03) will support important and innovative projects to provide needed scientific insight to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD). Specifically, this FOA will support archiving and leveraging existing data sets for analyses of projects covering a wide array of topics relating to AD/ADRD. The overall goal of this FOA is (i) to encourage the next generation of U.S. researchers to pursue research and academic care...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - October 7, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Clinical Researchers in AD/ADRD Research: Area of Focus Basic Science (R03 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity PAS-19-392 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Small Research Grant (R03) will support important and innovative projects focused on basic science approaches to elucidate neurodegenerative mechanisms/pathways of Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD). Proposed projects should ultimately aim to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and/or care for individuals with AD/ADRD. The program seeks (i) to facilitate the next generation of researchers in the United States to pursue research and academic careers in neuroscience, AD/ADRD, and healthy brain ag...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - October 7, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Clinical Researchers in AD/ADRD Research: Area of Focus Systems Biology (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity PAS-19-393 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Small Research Grant Program (R03) will support important and innovative system biology projects in which more scientific insight is needed to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD). The overall goal of this R03 program is (i) to facilitate the next generation of researchers in the United States to pursue research and academic careers in neuroscience, AD/ADRD, and healthy brain aging and (ii) to stimulate established researchers who ...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - October 7, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Consortium on the Neurobiology of Adolescent Drinking in Adulthood (NADIA) Research Resource (Collaborative U24 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The objective of the NADIA consortium is to investigate persistent changes in complex brain function-behavior relationships following adolescent alcohol exposure. (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - September 23, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Targeting Inflammasomes in Substance Abuse and HIV (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-DA-20-026 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The scientific objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to encourage research to delineate the role of inflammasomes in the neuropathology produced by acute or chronic drug exposure and HIV infection. Understanding the involvement of inflammasomes in virus and drug-induced immune activation may help identify molecular markers and CNS immune cells associated with HIV-1 infection or disease progression among substance abuse populations, as well as identify novel therapies to target inflammasome activation or suppression to treat ne...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - September 17, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Accelerating the Pace of Drug Abuse Research Using Existing Data (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity PAR-19-368 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications proposing the innovative analysis of existing social science, behavioral, administrative, and neuroimaging data to study the etiology and epidemiology of drug using behaviors (defined as alcohol, tobacco, prescription and other drug) and related disorders, prevention of drug use and HIV, and health service utilization. This FOA encourages the analyses of public use and other extant community-based or clinical datasets to their full potential in order to increase...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - September 9, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
