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This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications to enhance the pool of of highly trained investigators from diverse backgrounds underrepresented in research. It is targeted toward individuals whose basic, clinical, and translational research interests are grounded in the advanced methods and experimental approaches needed to solve problems related to cardiovascular, pulmonary, and hematologic diseases and sleep disorders in the general and health disparities populations. This FOA invites applications from Institutions with eligible faculty members to undertake special study and supervised research under a mentor who is an accomplished investigator in the research area proposed and has experience in developing independent investigators. This FOA is designed specifically for applicants proposing research that does not involve leading an independent clinical trial, a clinical trial feasibility study, or an ancillary study to a clinical trial. Applicants to this FOA are permitted to propose research experience in a clinical trial led by a mentor or co-mentor. Applicants proposing a clinical trial or an ancillary study to an ongoing clinical trial as lead investigator, should apply to the companion FOA (see RFA-HL-19-025).

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support short-term exploratory, developmental, and transdisciplinary research to understand the immunologic events that occur during blood feeding by hematophagous arthropods. The scientific objectives of this initiative are (1) to understand the immunological events in the vertebrate host, which occur during and after blood feeding by hematophagous arthropods, at the bite site (skin) and systemically; (2) to identify and characterize the immune modulatory properties of arthropod salivary components; and (3) to understand the immunological events in the hematophagous arthropods following a blood meal.

The NIAMS Research Innovation for Scientific Knowledge (RISK) for  Skin and Rheumatic Diseases (R61/R33) initiative focuses on innovative research within the NIAMS mission by encouraging applicants to pursue unusual observations, test imaginative hypotheses, investigate creative concepts, and build ground-breaking paradigms, all of which deviate significantly from the current prevailing theories or practice.  This FOA is particularly designed to encourage the submission of projects that are considered too risky, premature, controversial, or unconventional for other NIH mechanisms.  This FOA intends to support disease-focused translational studies. We invite research studies aimed at understanding the mechanisms of diseases or conditions relevant to the NIAMS mission, as well as studies aimed at developing or testing diagnostics, therapeutic agents, or preventive interventions up to, but not including, first in human studies. The RISK R61/R33 FOAs are not intended to support clinical trials.

Grants of up to $200,000 over two years will be awarded to support research with the potential to lead to new diagnostics, treatments, and a cure for primary hyperoxaluria and related conditions.

Grants of up to $300,000 over two years will be awarded in support of projects focused on the development of biomarkers previously identified in samples from well-characterized human subjects. Validated methods should be used in quantifying and qualifying biomarkers, with less enthusiasm for the development of novel technologies. Priority biomarker areas include companion biomarkers, neuroimaging, CSF and blood-based biomarkers, and functional activity measures.

Through this limited competition Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) solicits a single application for the continuation of the AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR). The eligible applicant institutions (which are the two current NCI-supported ACSR lead institutions) are expected to maintain the cooperative group structure and the activities of the ACSR. The primary objective of the ACSR will be to acquire, store, and equitably distribute tumor tissues, biological fluids, and associated demographic data from patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated malignancies. In addition to serving acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and cancer researchers at large, the ACSR will specifically provide biorepository functions for another NCI supported initiative, the AIDS Malignancy Consortium (AMC). The AMC performs clinical trials research in the treatment and prevention of HIV-associated malignancies in the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa. As the AMC is currently expanding its agenda to include Latin America, it is expected that the ACSR will collaborate with the AMC to develop regional biorepository support for AMC activities in Latin American countries. The continuing ACSR must have appropriate strategies and capabilities to address several high priority areas of specimen acquisition including specific types of cancer (AIDS-defining as well as non-AIDS defining), types of biospecimens and accompanying clinical data, and biospecimens from geographic areas of interest.

Technology Research and Development (TR&D) is the central activity of a BTRR. Research teams create critical, often unique, technologies at the forefront of their respective fields. In support of that mission, the Resources are structured to foster two kinds of collaborations:  dynamic, short-term Technology Development Partnerships (Partnerships) with other technology developers, where appropriate, will enable the Resource to adopt and incorporate emerging capabilities in rapidly evolving fields. BTRR investigators must be able to recognize significant parallel contributions by other technology developers, determine whether collaboration is appropriate, and if so, establish mutually beneficial partnerships. While a BTRR is expected to operate at the leading edge of a technology area, it is important to recognize and exploit advances emerging from other academic research groups.

 The purpose of this project is to identify skin physiology characteristics that differ between healthy and skin disease population groups and incorporate them into dermal physiologically-based pharmacokinetic models to improve their predictability. The models developed will be utilized to perform virtual bioequivalence assessments between brand name and generic drug products to inform regulatory decisions relating to the development of generic topical dermatological drug products and transdermal delivery systems.       

These are three-year grants for small group interdisciplinary collaborations. At least one member of the collaboration should be a physician with active clinical engagement in an area relevant to the proposal. These grants are aimed to support innovative, bold, high risk/high impact projects at the interface of basic and disease biology. The scope of these collaborations should focus on foundational science (as opposed to translation and clinical application), aligned with clinical context.

The Michael J. Fox Foundation will award one-to-two-year grants to test non-pharmacological interventions for the treatment of gait and balance disturbances in people with Parkinson's disease (PD). We are particularly interested in proof-of-concept, validation and data-analysis projects. This program seeks proposals for research studying the therapeutic benefit of: Assistive devices (e.g., back or leg braces). Novel technologies (e.g., laser or wearable devices). Rehabilitative therapy programs (e.g., occupational or physical therapy)

FDA's CDER is seeking a computational modeling approach to study the effects of mucociliary clearance on localized drug absorption in the nasal cavity. The modeling approach would utilize computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of inhalation and droplet/particle transport to provide regional nasal spray deposition data, while the three-dimensional mucociliary clearance model would demonstrate localized drug absorption and indicate the efficacy of drug products that target specific nasal regions. The model should be adaptable to cases of interindividual variability, which may include variations in mucociliary clearance rates, changes in nasal geometry, and the presence of relevant disease states (e.g., nasal inflammation, changes in mucus properties, etc.).

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to develop advanced analytical models, tools and metrics to enhance the decision making and professional evaluation in life sciences management and administration. It is envisioned that the developed tools will be used by the NGOs/disease foundations, advocacy groups, publishing industry, research funders, policy makers and academic institutions.

 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to develop advanced analytical models, tools and metrics to enhance the decision making and professional evaluation in life sciences management and administration. It is envisioned that the developed tools will be used by the NGOs/disease foundations, advocacy groups, publishing industry, research funders, policy makers and academic institutions.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite cooperative agreement applications for research that advances promising compounds thorough the drug development pipeline for the treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). NIAAA is seeking applications for medications development research projects from both for-profit and not-for-profit entities, including academic institutions, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, private and public foundations, small businesses not eligible for the SBIR/STTR program and single entities able to demonstrate significant resource commitment to the proposed project. A resource commitment from a single entity could, for example, consist of salary support for key personnel or production and formulation of clinical trial material. The aim of this FOA is to move candidate compounds through Investigational New Drug (IND) requirements, Phase 1 human safety, tolerability, and dosing studies, and Phase 2 human laboratory and proof-of-concept trials. Within these phases of drug development, each proposed project should have a defined entry and exit point. Finally, this FOA will not support animal studies to prove efficacy of the candidate compound unless required by the Food and Drug Administration or peer review. Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the NIAAA Division of Medications Development Staff prior to submitting to this FOA.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications that propose transformative engineering solutions to technical challenges associated with new development, substantial optimization of existing technologies and clinical translation of intraoral biodevices. Proposed technologies are expected to advance development of oral biodevices for clinical use, including but not limited to: precision medicine-based detection, diagnosis and treatment of oral and overall health conditions, and measurement of patient functional status and clinical outcome assessment. Areas of interest in this FOA include engineering approaches that allow integration of electronic, physical, and biological systems into functional biodevices that are safe and effective for detection, diagnosis and treatment of oral and systemic disease. Products of this research will be functional biodevices and integrated approaches thoroughly characterized to demonstrate preclinical safety and effective performance in support of specific intended clinical applications. To streamline the development of oral biodevices that advance precision medicine-based approaches in clinical practice, this FOA encourages interdisciplinary collaborations across engineering, multifunctional sensors, pharmacology, chemistry, medicine, and dentistry, as well as between academia and industry.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications that propose Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and/or Deep Learning (DL) approaches, collectively referred to here as "cognitive systems," that lead to the identification of gene mutations/variants that cause or contribute to the risk of or protection against the development of Alzheimers disease (AD) and Alzheimer's disease related dementias (ADRD) via analysis of a variety of genetic, genomic, and biomarker data that are currently available to the research community.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to create rodent reporter models for testing in vivo genome editing technologies, and to use these animal models to test genome editing delivery technologies and new genome editors developed under RFA-RM-18-016 and RFA-RM-18-017. The deliverables from the initiative will be a set of animal models (mice and rat), containing one or more reporter genes expressed in all cell types, that will allow facile and quantitative evaluation of genome editing in any cell type of interest. The Testing Centers will use these models to validate new delivery systems and genome editing tools developed by other investigators in the Somatic Cell Genome Editing program.  The creation and testing of these rodent models will accelerate the translation of genome editing technologies into treatments for human diseases. 

The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and participating Institutes and Centers (ICs) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announce the continuation of the program for administrative supplements to research grants to support individuals with high potential to re-enter an active research career after an interruption for family responsibilities or other qualifying circumstances. The purpose of these supplements is to encourage such individuals to re-enter research careers within the missions of all the program areas of NIH. This program will provide administrative supplements to existing NIH research grants for the purpose of supporting full-time or part-time research by these individuals to update their existing research skills and knowledge.

Applications will be accepted from academic investigators and small companies with lead candidate therapeutic agents that require early stage testing prior to Proof of Concept (POC) Phase 2 or 3 efficacy studies, or with lead therapeutic agents that have already established human safety data and require a small-scale pilot Proof of Mechanism (POM) study in humans to begin proving the scientific concept in humans. This award will support Phase 1 studies or pilot small- scale Phase 2a studies for repurposed drugs in normal individuals or individuals with preclinical or symptomatic Alzheimer's disease (i.e. early human studies to set the stage for efficacy studies), including single and multiple dose studies to establish safety, brain penetration and/or target engagement and POM in preparation for larger proof of concept trials. In addition, proposals may be considered that are POC to validate biological marker(s) of disease progression in a clinical trial environment. Any proposal must have a clear focus on Alzheimer's disease and related disorder and be translational in nature. All proposals should clearly and explicitly outline the measure to be investigated, the methods for study, and outcomes. Researchers from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks to bring together investigators with complementary expertise in HIV and in gastrointestinal mucosal pathobiology to dissect fundamental processes within the gastrointestinal tract that impact HIV infection, persistence, and comorbidities. This multidisciplinary approach should lead to comprehensive, in-depth mechanistic analyses and advance progress toward alleviating comorbidities that afflict people living with HIV and toward developing a cure.