Opportunity to Comment on the Draft Guidance Framework for Federal Agency Exercise of March-In Rights
We would like to make you aware of an opportunity to provide feedback on a draft guidance framework designed to help federal agencies evaluate when it may be appropriate to exercise “march-in” rights under the Bayh-Dole Act. March-in refers to a federal agency’s right to march-in and require the contractor, an assignee, or exclusive licensee of a federally funded subject invention to grant a license to a responsible applicant or applicants, upon terms that are reasonable under the circumstances, and if the contractor, assignee, or exclusive licensee refuses such request, to grant a license itself. Currently, an ...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Top Stories Grants policy intellectual property Source Type: funding

Neural and Non-Neural Mechanisms Underlying Gait as a Preclinical Marker for Alzheimers Disease and Alzheimers Disease-Related Dementias (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity RFA-AG-24-041 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to invite applications that investigate the neural and/or non-neural mechanisms that underlie the association between gait and cognition in aging and Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD). Elucidating these mechanisms would help inform the potential use of changes gait as an early biomarker of AD/ADRD or inform the design of early interventions for AD/ADRD. To achieve these goals, it will be necessary to facilitate a team science approach by bringing...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - August 11, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Elucidating Variability of Physiologic and Functional Responses to Exercise Training in Older Adults (R01 Clinical Trial Required)
Funding Opportunity RFA-AG-24-045 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications to proposehuman studies to better understand thefactors underlying the response variability to exercise training in older adults. This NOFO encourages studies to identify systemic modulators, biomarkers, and other potential mechanisms underlying exercise variation in endpoints that are clinically relevant for older adults. This NOFO also encourages transdisciplinary studies utilizing innovative design methods and analytical approaches combined with clinical phenotyping to disentan...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - August 9, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction: Targeted Support for Alaska Native Tribes Special Initiative
This program provides grant support and technical assistance for Alaska Native tribal governments for planning, developing, and implementing changes in tribal criminal justice systems necessary to exercise Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction (STCJ) for covered crimes, which are assault of tribal justice personnel; child violence; dating violence; domestic violence; obstruction of justice; sexual violence; sex trafficking; stalking; and violation of a protection order. Geographic coverage: Alaska -- Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - February 22, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: funding

Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction Grant Program
Grant support and technical assistance for tribes for planning, developing, and implementing changes in tribal criminal justice systems necessary to exercise Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction (STCJ) for covered crimes, which are assault of Tribal justice personnel; child violence; dating violence; domestic violence; obstruction of justice; sexual violence; sex trafficking; stalking; and violation of a protection order. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - February 14, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: funding

Well-being for All: Power of She Grant
Grants to support entrepreneurs and organizations committed to making wellness and fitness more accessible and inclusive to female Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Athleta, Women's Sports Foundation (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - June 29, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: funding

Pragmatic Clinical Trials in Community Settings to Decrease or Prevent VCID Outcomes, Including in Populations that Experience Health Disparities (U01 Clinical Trial Required)
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-23-001 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications for pragmatic clinical trials to decrease or prevent negative clinical outcomes due to vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID), including locally representative NIH defined populations that experience health disparities in dementia. Examples of responsive projects and interventions that affect VCID outcomes include, but are not limited to, blood pressure control implementation; lifestyle modification using aerobic exercise; and ear...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - June 16, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Case Study in Research Integrity: Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Your comments on our peer review integrity case studies suggest that you found them informative, engaging, and thought-provoking. The Professional Grant Writer and Asking for Favorable Treatment examples were in the Top 10 read Open Mike posts of 2021 and 2020, respectively. The success of the series prompted us to expand them beyond solely peer review and address other areas of research integrity. Today we discuss what you and your institution should consider when submitting the same applications to multiple funders. As always, the goal is to raise awareness, encourage dialog and inspire creative problem solving to ensure...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - June 1, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike application policy overlap Research integrity Source Type: funding

Wellness for All Power of She Grant
Grants to support entrepreneurs and organizations committed to making wellness and fitness more accessible and inclusive to female Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Athleta, Women's Sports Foundation (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - June 29, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: funding

Notice of Pre-Application Webinar for RFA-CA-21-031, Exercise and Nutrition Interventions to Improve Cancer Treatment-Related Outcomes (ENICTO; U01 Clinical Trial Required) and RFA-CA-21-032, (ENICTO Coordinating Center; U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Notice NOT-CA-21-078 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 6, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Coordinating Center for Exercise and Nutrition Interventions to Improve Cancer Treatment-Related Outcomes (ENICTO) in Cancer Survivors Consortium (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-21-032 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute will support a Coordinating Center (CC) to facilitate coordination across the new Exercise and Medical nutrition Interventions to Improve Cancer Treatment-related Outcomes awardee sites (see U01 awards supported under companion RFA-CA-21-031). This CC will support three to five anticipated cooperative agreement (U01) project sites focused on the conduct of exercise and medical nutrition clinical trials to improve cancer treatment-related outcomes. The CCs prima...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 3, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Exercise and Nutrition Interventions to Improve Cancer Treatment-Related Outcomes (ENICTO) in Cancer Survivors Consortium (U01 Clinical Trial Required)
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-21-031 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) seeks to support exercise and/or medical nutrition intervention research designed to improve cancer treatment-related outcomes for therapies delivered with curative or life-extending intent to cancer survivors. Projects may include either pediatric or adult cancer patient populations and must identify a treatment-related outcome as a primary endpoint and specify a relevant patient-reported secondary outcome(s). Priority will be given to studies with direc...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 3, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: funding

MoTrPAc Phase 2 Animal Studies (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-RM-20-009 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this FOA is to invite additional applications for the Preclinical Animal Study Sites (PASS) as part of the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity in Humans Consortium (MoTrPAC) (http://commonfund.nih.gov/MolecularTransducers). Awards made through this FOA will support preclinical mechanistic studies on a range of molecular compounds identified in the initial PASS exercise protocol (RM 15-013) which was designed to complement and substantially expand the data from the human clinical study. This FOA is expected to support up ...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - January 10, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: funding

NCMRR Early Career Research Award (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity PAR-20-042 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) Early Career Research (ECR) Award (R03) is intended to support both basic and clinical research from rehabilitation scientists who are establishing independent research careers. The research must be focused on one or more of the areas within the biomedical and behavioral mission of NCMRR: pathophysiology and management of chronically injured nervous and musculoskeletal systems (including stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and orthopedic conditions); repair and recov...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - October 24, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Youth Engagement in Sports: Collaboration to Improve Adolescent Physical Activity and Nutrition (YES Initiative)
Grants to develop and implement sports fitness programs based on successful evidenced-based strategies of youth engagement for racial/ethnic minority and/or socioeconomically disadvantaged 6th, 7th, and/or 8th graders, particularly those who reside in communities where no or few youth sports programs exist. The YES Initiative intends to identify characteristics of effective collaborations that improve physical activity and nutrition through increased participation in sports. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Source: Funding opport...
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - April 2, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: funding