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
General Social Survey (GSS) Competition
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: June 1, 2020 Program Guidelines: NSF 20-550The General Social Survey (GSS) is a nationally representative interview survey of the United States adult population that collects data on a wide range of topics: behavioral items such as group membership and participation; personal psychological evaluations including measures of well-being, misanthropy, and life satisfaction; attitudinal questions on such public issues as crime and punishment, race relations, gender roles, and spending priorities; and demographic characteristics ...More at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_i...
Source: NSF Upcoming Due Dates - May 2, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: funding
Post-Acute Interventions for the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa (R34 Clinical Trial Required)
Funding Opportunity RFA-MH-20-500 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. NIMH seeks applications for pilot projects to evaluate the preliminary effectiveness of interventions targeting sustained and enhanced treatment response following acute treatment for anorexia nervosa (AN). An emphasis is placed on trials that go beyond seeking incremental gains in intervention effects, and instead take a theory-driven, empirical approach to developing and testing interventions that will have a significant impact on weight restoration and psychological symptoms associated with AN. Consistent with an effectiveness framework, s...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 15, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Utilizing Cohort Studies to Address Health Outcomes in Cancer Survivors (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-20-030 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the NCI invites applications to support research in new and innovative cohort studies that identify clinical, lifestyle, genomic, and other factors that affect health outcomes (e.g., morbidity, mortality, quality of life, physical, social, and psychological outcomes) in cancer survivors. This RFA supports research that requires the creation of a new prospective cohort study of cancer survivors that addresses a gap in knowledge pertaining to the health of cancer survivors. Proposals must ide...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 8, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Rural Experiences for Health Professions Students Summer Experience Program
A program that places clinical psychology, master of social work, physician, physician assistant, medical laboratory science, nurse practitioner, pharmacy, nursing, physical and occupational therapy students from South Dakota in a 4-week experience with preceptors established in rural or frontier areas of South Dakota. Geographic coverage: South Dakota -- Yankton Rural Area Health Education Center (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - March 2, 2020 Category: American Health 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
Central and Peripheral Control of Balance in Older Adults (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity RFA-AG-21-011 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invitesapplications that propose basic and/or clinical studies to investigate central and peripheral control of balance in older adults and/or in relevant animal models. This FOA is driven by the need to address a major gap in our understanding of how aging impacts the vestibular system, which when impaired contributes to balance problems and an increased risk of falls in older adults. Additionally, given that balance impairment can be attributed to a number of factors (e.g. sensory, motor, cognitiv...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - January 13, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: funding
NIA Behavioral and Social Research LEaders in Alzheimers Disease and Its Related Dementias (NIA BSR LEADR) (DP1 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-AG-20-033 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The NIA Behavioral and Social Research LEaders in Alzheimers Disease and Its Related Dementias (NIA BSR LEADR) program supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose to use behavioral and social science perspectives and approaches for highly innovative, impactful, and potentially transformative theoretical, empirical, and clinical research addressing the challenges raised by Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD) for individuals, their families, and society. Applications are welcome from ...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - October 17, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Research Education: Short Courses on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-AG-20-031 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The goal of this FOA is to support short courses geared to behavioral and social scientists who have existing expertise in aging research and can make research contributions in Alzheimers disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD) with additional knowledge about the diseaseand related research resources. Fields of behavioral and social science research relevant for this FOA are health economics, labor economics, health services research, healthcare policy, public policy, demography, sociology, social epidemiology, psychology,...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - August 14, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
American Indians Into Psychology
Grants to operate the Indians into Psychology Program, which will recruit and provide scholarships to individuals who will become clinical psychologists and provide service to American Indian/Alaskan Native populations. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - May 17, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Graduate Psychology Education Program
Grants to support doctoral-level psychology education and training programs to prepare psychologists to address the behavioral health needs, including opioid use and substance use, in high-need underserved and rural populations. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - March 12, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Update on NIH ’s Efforts to Address Sexual Harassment in Science
Discussions from both the NIH Anti-Harassment Committee and the ACD Working Group strongly endorsed an ethos of transparency and accountability to demonstrate the agency’s serious commitment to addressing harassment and deterring future inappropriate behavior. To bolster that transparency and accountability, we want to be clear that NIH has not and will not just look the other way when accusations come to our attention. In 2018, NIH followed up on sexual harassment-related concerns at more than two dozen institutions resulting in the replacement of 14 principal investigators named on NIH grant awards, disciplinary action...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 28, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: Open Mike Sexual Harassment Source Type: funding
Mechanisms Underlying the Contribution of Sleep Disturbances to Pain (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity PA-19-201 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this FOAs are to encourage mechanistic research to investigate the impact of sleep disturbances on chronic pain. The mechanisms and processes underlying the contribution of sleep disturbances to chronic pain development and maintenance may be very broad. This FOA encourages interdisciplinary collaborations by experts from multiple fieldsneuroscientists, psychologists,endocrinologists, immunologists, geneticists, pharmacologists, chemists, physicists, behavioral scientists, clinicians, caregivers, and others in relevant fields of in...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - February 28, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Mechanisms Underlying the Contribution of Sleep Disturbances to Pain (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity PA-19-200 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this FOA is to encourage mechanistic research to investigate the impact of sleep disturbances on pain. The mechanisms and processes underlying the contribution of sleep and sleep disturbances to pain perception and the development and maintenance of chronic pain may be very broad. This FOA encourages interdisciplinary research collaborations by experts from multiple fieldsneuroscientists, psychologists, endocrinologists, immunologists, geneticists, pharmacologists, chemists, physicists, behavioral scientists, clinicians, caregivers...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - February 28, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Botanical Dietary Supplements Research Centers (U19 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity RFA-OD-19-001 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the participating components invite applications to support Botanical Dietary Supplements Research Centers (BDSRC), which will constitute one component of the Consortium for Advancing Research on Botanicals and Other Natural Products (CARBON.2). The purpose of the BDSRC is to support collaborative, trans-disciplinary research that will contribute significantly to the optimal design of future clinical trials of the effects on human resilience of orally consumed, complex botanical products. T...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - January 22, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding
