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American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Psychological Association
Anxiety Disorders Association of America
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Center for the Advancement of Health
International Research and Exchanges Board
National Academy of Sciences
National Institute of Mental Health
National Science Foundation, Overview of Social, Behavior, and Economic Sciences Division
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Tourette Syndrome Association
United States Department of Health and Human Services
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AFOSR--Chemistry and Life Sciences
Sponsor:Department of the Air Force
Deadline(s):Open
Objectives:
Support is provided for chemistry and life sciences research directly related to the needs of the sponsor. Research interests include:
CHRONOBIOLOGY AND NEURAL ADAPTATION--this program supports basic research on the circadian timing system--the biology underlying fatigue--including individual differences and performance prediction, the brain processes involved in regulating adaptation to changes in state, from sleep to waking to arousal. Current experimental approaches include primarily human behavioral studies. The focus of the chronobiology portion of the program is to elucidate biological mechanisms responsible for circadian rhythmicity and how these mechanisms influence behavior relevant to skilled human performance. Current efforts investigate circadian and sleep/wake dynamics, monitoring key aspects of waking neurobehavioral functions; basic researchers work with industry partners representing a range of potential solutions, based on delivery systems, that can be updated from new research findings.
PERCEPTION AND COGNITION--this program supports behavioral research on high-order aspects of human information processing that contribute to skilled human performance. The overall objective is quantitative modeling of ways that humans process information to learn, recognize, and assesses events in dynamic environments, and to make decisions. Specific objectives include, but are not limited to, quantitative models and new research methods that will enable progress in understanding:
- multisensory perceptual integration
- cognitive and perceptual factors in the acquisition of complex skills, including motor skills
- quantitative assessment and identification of individual attributes that determine or constrain human performance, especially in complex information-processing environments
- fundamental constraints of attention and memory on human performance.
The study of these topics in conditions that involve high workloads, sustained operations, stress, or fatigue are encouraged. Multidisciplinary approaches are also encouraged, especially if used in the development of quantitative models of these human performance issues. SENSORY SYSTEMS--this program is designed to develop a better understanding of dynamic input into human visual, auditory, and vestibular systems. One new area of interest is identifying biological materials that may enhance human visual, auditory, or vestibular system processes. In general, this program supports research on sensing systems of interest to the sponsor, with emphasis in two areas:
- research in visual, auditory, and vestibular senses coupled with multisensory and sensorimotor integrative mechanisms, which encourages theoretical and experimental approaches involving psychophysics and psychoacoustics
- identification of biological systems that act as detectors or sensors for the purpose of enhancing visual, auditory, recognition processes, which is designed to determine a biological material's fundamental physical properties and how those properties may be incorporated into existing detection devices or act alone.
Researchers from the fields of theoretical and experimental biophysics, bioengineering, biology, biochemistry, and physiology, integrated with classical materials science, are encouraged to work in concert with in-house scientists at the Air Force laboratories at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The goal of the Sensory Systems Program is improving the understanding of sensing mechanisms to help improve human performance as well as to develop machine sensors with the exquisite sensitivity and specificity of biological sensory systems. TOXIC BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS--the sponsor's operations utilize physical and chemical agents that can be potentially harmful to military and civilian personnel, to the surrounding populace, or to the environment, therefore to protect humans and maintain safe working environments the sponsor supports basic research to understand the biological effects of these agents, their mechanisms of toxicity, and the use of experimental and computational modeling in assessing their potential health risks. To accomplish these goals, the Bioenvironmental Science program supports toxicology-related research that investigates the interactions of biological systems with non-ionizing radiation and chemicals of interest.
Eligiblity
Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education and organizations whose primary purpose is the conduct of scientific research. Funding amounts vary depending on the individual proposal. Indirect costs are allowed. Application guidelines are available.
American Legion Child Welfare Foundation Grants
Sponsor:American Legion Child Welfare Foundation, Inc.
Deadline: April 1, annually
Objectives:
The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation was created to contribute to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual welfare of children and youth. The foundation makes grants that satisfy its basic purposes through the following mechanisms: (1) dissemination of knowledge about new and innovative organizations or their programs designed to benefit youth; and (2) dissemination of knowledge already possessed by well established organizations, so that this knowledge can be more adequately used by society. Grants are made for proposals that have the potential to directly benefit children in the United States in a large geographical area (more than one state). The duration is one year.
Eligibility:
Grants are awarded only to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations; Academic Institution or Government or Nonprofit
Career Development Awards: Child Abuse and Neglect Research - NIMH
Sponsor:Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Deadline: February 1, June 1, and October 1, annually
Eligibility:
Candidates must have a research or a health-professional doctorate or its equivalent, and, for career awards that focus on clinical or patient-oriented research training, a clinical doctoral degree. The candidate must have demonstrated the capacity or potential for highly productive research in the period after the doctorate, commensurate with the candidate's level of experience. Applications may be submitted, on behalf of candidates, by domestic, non-federal organizations, public or private, such as medical, dental, or nursing schools or other institutions of higher education.
At time of award, candidates must be citizens or noncitizen nationals of the United States, or have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence (i.e., in possession of a currently valid Alien Registration Receipt Card I-551, or other legal verification of such status). Noncitizen nationals are generally persons born in outlying possessions of the United States (i.e., American Samoa and Swains Island). Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible.
The general research areas of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) include:
- molecular and behavioral neuroscience
- psychopharmacology
- drug development
- cognitive, personality, emotional, and psychosocial processes
- factors influencing behavioral development and modification
- biological, psychological, and psychosocial aspects of stress and other psychological states
- behavioral medicine
- psychoneuroimmunology
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
The NIMH offices, divisions, and branches are the Office on AIDS; the Office of Rural Mental Health Research; the Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Science; the Behavioral, Cognitive, and Social Sciences Research Branch; the Behavioral and Integrative Neuroscience Research Branch; the Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience Research Branch; the Scientific Technology and Resources Program; the Epidemiology and Services Research; Violence and Traumatic Stress; the Division of Clinical and Treatment Research; the Child and Adolescent Disorders Research Branch; Clinical Treatment Research; Mental Disorders of the Aging; Mood, Anxiety, and Personality Disorders Research; and Schizophrenia Research. The five sponsoring institutes invite applications in response to this program announcement (PA) for the career development for investigators who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors on child abuse and neglect through research career enhancement in order to conduct high quality, multidisciplinary, clinically-relevant research on basic biological, behavioral, and social aspects of child and adolescent abuse and neglect. While the focus of the career development program is on child abuse and neglect in human populations, the award may include complementary, appropriate laboratory and animal research related to the child abuse and neglect research proposed in the application.
This PA is designed to encourage qualified applicants who are beginning their research careers and who have an interest in child abuse and neglect research, or are already involved in research on child and adolescent abuse and neglect and who wish to increase the sophistication of their research through research career development, or conduct research in related disciplines, such as adult and child psychiatry, developmental neurology, neurobiology, developmental psychology, social work, and nursing, and who wish to broaden their foci in order to be able to conduct research on child abuse and neglect.
The career development objectives of the Career Development Awards for Child Abuse and Neglect Research program are to encourage scientists to develop independent research skills and gain experience in advanced methods and experimental approaches that will allow them to conduct scientifically sophisticated child abuse and neglect-oriented research. All awards must include a substantial level of either mentoring or collaboration with experienced child abuse and neglect researchers. At the completion of the award, candidates should have both the knowledge and the skills necessary to compete for independent National Institutes of Health (NIH) research support for studies of child abuse and neglect through the regular research grant mechanism (R01).
Applications submitted in response to this PA must address research and research training on any of the different types of child abuse and neglect. Examples of research areas responsive to this announcement include, but are not limited to, the following:
- basic and applied research on the causes of, risk factors for, and mechanisms that account for child abuse and neglect
- research on the neurobiology of abuse and neglect
- developmental, physical, mental health, and substance abuse consequences and course of outcomes of child abuse and neglect
- research on the relationships among substance abuse and child abuse and neglect
- research on intervention models to prevent child maltreatment and treat the effects of child maltreatment
- research on the effects of services administered to maltreated children and their families by service agencies
- assessment and research methodology applied to abused and neglected populations.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Science-Residential Postdoctoral Fellowships
Sponsor:Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences
Deadline: Open
Objectives:
The sponsor provides support for residential postdoctoral fellowships at The Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. The sponsor supports endeavors related to increasing knowledge of the principles that govern human behavior. These fields include, but are not limited to, anthropology, art history, biology, classics, economics, education, geography, history, law, linguistics, literature, mathematical and statistical specialties, medicine, musicology, philosophy, political science, psychiatry, psychology, and sociology.
Eligibility:
Eligible candidates are postdoctoral scientists and scholars from the United States and abroad who show exceptional accomplishments or promise in their respective fields. Self-nominations are accepted from post-doctoral scholars who have a record of publication.
Data Analysis Grants
Sponsor:Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation (ABMRF)
Deadline: February 15 and September 15, annually
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are researchers at academic and scientific institutions in the United States and Canada. The investigator should have completed formal training, and not yet have achieved independent research status. Applications may be submitted by public or private nonprofit organizations such as universities, colleges, hospitals, research institutes and organizations, governmental research agencies, and laboratories.
The proposed principal investigator of the research project must be a faculty or staff member of the applicant institution. This person must be qualified to direct the research and is responsible for its conduct. Persons on training status, such as undergraduate, graduate and medical students, postdoctoral fellows, interns, and residents, are not eligible to serve as principal investigators, unless they will be in independent faculty positions, or the equivalent, at the start of the grant period. Objectives:
The Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation supports innovative research on the use, and prevention of misuse, of alcoholic beverages. Funding is provided for interdisciplinary research in the biological, medical, epidemiological, behavioral, and social sciences in this field. The mission of the foundation is to support innovative research on the use of alcohol by awarding grants to acquire new knowledge in order to prevent alcohol-related problems for the benefit of society. Data Analysis grants are provided for the analysis of previously collected data.
They include such major data sets in the United States as the various National Health and Nutrition ExaminationSurveys (HANES), National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS), Multiple Causes of Death, Mortality Detail, and Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS); and in Canada, the Canada Health Survey, Canada Health Practices Survey, and Canada Social Survey. Requests may be submitted to analyze other national or regional data sets, if made available by the individual investigator. This type of grant is not intended to provide funds to analyze data previously collected by the applicant to complete a research project.
Developmental Psychopharmacology
Sponsor:National Institute of Mental Health/NIH/DHHS
Deadline:Open
Objectives:
The purpose of this announcement is to spur new clinical and basic research on the possible impact of psychotropic pharmacology on the developing brain. The main goal is to generate data that are relevant to the clinical use of psychotherapeutic medications in children and adolescents with respect to safety and/or efficacy within dose ranges, schedules, and routes of administration that are usually employed therapeutically. The ultimate purpose is to increase knowledge of the safety and effectiveness of psychopharmacological treatments administered to children and adolescents. The ultimate goal of this research is to determine the short and long-term consequences of chronic or acute psychotherapeutic drug administration.
As such, relevant studies in developing animals will examine behavioral, neurochemical, physiological, and molecular effects of early drug administration in both young and adult animals. Studies should focus on specific behaviors and their relationships to biochemical endpoints within defined brain regions. Research approaches to address these questions could include, but are not limited to the following:
Develop models of psychotherapeutic medication delivery in normal developing animals--Studies are needed to examine the long-term effects of chronic and acute administration of therapeutic doses of psychotherapeutic medications prescribed in children. Examples of relevant medications include, but are not limited to, stimulants (as used in the treatment of ADHD) and antidepressants.
Develop and apply behavioral models in animals to assess long-term effects of psychotherapeutic drug administration during development on cognitive and emotional measures.
Apply pharmacological and behavioral animal models to assess drug mechanisms and brain sites responsible for therapeutic and adverse drug effects in developing animals.
EHR--REC--Research on Learning and Education (ROLE)
Sponsor:National Science Foundation
Deadline(s): March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1, annually
Objectives:
The sponsor provides support to advance progress toward the EHR goals through the development and application of new scientific knowledge. Goals for the ROLE Program are:
- to discover and to describe neural, cognitive, affective, and conceptual learning processes required for life-long SMET learning
- to understand how prekindergarten through secondary teacher and post-secondary faculty content knowledge and pedagogy relate to the implementation that innovative and effective curricula, materials, and assessments require
- to develop research-based learning tools, pedagogical approaches, and materials that enhance SMET education at all levels
- to reevaluate the overall curriculum structure (including selection, ordering, and priorities of topics) to enhance SMET education at all levels
- to develop and to refine new education research and evaluation methods
- to increase the research capacity of the field, especially the development of new researchers and research-oriented education practitioners
- to collect and to analyze data and to use data to inform researchers, decision-makers and the general public
- to understand the factors that enhance the full participation of all Americans in the SMET enterprise and the approaches that can increase this participation
- to increase the knowledge of learning, teaching and organizational models that lead to substantial and large-scale improvement in the efficiency, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness of the United States educational system.
The goals of EHR are:
- making high quality science and mathematics education available to every child in the United States
- ensuring that the educational pipelines to careers in science, mathematics, engineering and technology yield a diverse, well-educated technical workforce adequate for the needs of the United States
- ensuring that the instructional workforce has the disciplinary and pedagogical skills necessary to provide an excellent education to every student in science and mathematics
- ensuring that those who select careers in science, mathematics or engineering have the best professional education at the undergraduate and graduate levels
- promoting scientific literacy and public interest in and awareness of scientific and technological developments through high quality informal science education and college courses for nonspecialists.
The ROLE Program will support research across a four-quadrant science of learning continuum that includes:
- brain research as a foundation for research on human learning
- fundamental research on behavioral, cognitive, affective and social aspects of human learning
- research on SMET learning in formal and informal educational settings
- research on SMET learning in complex educational systems. Each of these quadrants constitutes a broad research area, with its own distinct characteristics and historical foundations.
Brain Research as a Foundation for Research on Learning--will support a limited number of theoretical studies focused on human learning that help frame advances in areas that may include but are not limited to biological neural networks, computational neuroscience, functional imaging, neuroplasticity, and adaptive systems. The ROLE Program seeks proposals for workshops and similar activities that will inform and gather advice from relevant scientific communities in these areas.
Fundamental Research on Behavioral, Cognitive, Affective, and Social Aspects of Learning--to enhance the multidisciplinary understanding of the foundations of human learning. NSF seeks proposals that formulate compelling and innovative bridges from cognitive science either to brain research (Quadrant I) or to research on learning in educational settings (Quadrant III). A sample of areas of interest includes: modeling of cognitive processes and mapping of models to brain function in the context of human learning; sociological, ethnographic, anthropological, economic, and organizational studies that address the special characteristics of educational environments; and understanding the cognitive and pedagogical implications of new scientific and technological advances.
Research on SMET Learning in Educational Settings--to provide a stronger base to support sustained improvement in science and mathematics educational practice in settings such as classrooms, informal learning sites (including the home), and technological learning environments (e.g. non-academic technological education). Another expectation is to bridge research and educational practice. In particular, ROLE seeks proposals that bridge research on science and mathematics learning with areas of educational practice associated with programs in the EHR Divisions and that include collaborations with investigators funded under such programs.
Research on SMET Learning In Complex Educational Systems--welcomes proposals that study existing large-scale reform experiments, in which foundational research on human learning or research in components of SMET educational practice are embedded in a sustainable and scalable way in actual complex systems of practice. Eligible research includes studies that involve testable hypotheses, studies that challenge current systemic reform strategies, design experiments, and other research methods such as quasi-experiments, testbeds, longitudinal data, and national and international comparisons.
A sample of research areas of potential interest includes: studies of systemic reform strategies, including predictive modeling, frameworks for systemic change, and evaluations of costs and effectiveness; "Innovation flow" and organizational mechanisms conducive to policy changes and sustained, coherent improvements in systemwide practice; interactions among accountability reforms, curricular reforms, textbook adoptions, technologies, teacher professional development opportunities, revised graduation requirements, schedules, and other reforms; modeling of large educational systems and their evolution in terms of multilevel adaptive systems, with possible theoretical parallels to issues and research in the first three Quadrants. Restrictions:
The March 1 and September 1 deadline dates are for preliminary proposals. The June 1 and December 1 deadline dates are for formal proposals. Proposals may be submitted by any organization eligible for NSF support, including universities and colleges, nonprofit, non-academic organizations, for-profit organizations, state and local governments, unaffiliated individuals, foreign organizations, and other federal agencies. Synergistic collaboration among researchers and collaboration or partnerships with other educational institutions (including schools or school systems), scientific organizations, industry or government laboratories is encouraged when appropriate.
ROLE awards may be funded up to three years and will generally range from $100,000 to $1,800,000. Depending on the availability of funding, between twenty and thirty proposals may be selected for support per funding cycle. ROLE will consider planning, workshop and exploratory research grants for up to one year and up to $100,000 each. Twenty to thirty awards are anticipated. Proposals submitted in response to this program announcement should be prepared and submitted in accordance with the general guidelines contained in the Grant Proposal Guide (GPG), NSF 00-02. The complete text of the GPG (including electronic forms) is available on the NSF Web site at: http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/cpo/policy/grants.htm. FastLane use is required for both preliminary proposals and full proposals.
Founders Distinguished Senior Scholar Award
Sponsor: American Association of University Women (AAUW); Educational Foundation
Deadline: February 10, 2007
Objectives:
The Founders Distinguished Senior Scholar Award honors a tenured woman scholar at the pinnacle of her academic career for a lifetime of outstanding research, teaching, publication, and impact on women in her profession and community. The award is open to women in all disciplines.
Higher-Order Cognitive Functioning and Aging - NIA
Sponsor:Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Deadline: February 1, June 1 and October 1, annually
Objectives:
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites qualified researchers to submit new applications for research projects that focus on adulthood and aging-related changes in the higher-order processes and strategies required for judgment, decision-making, reasoning, problem-solving, and processing complex information. As in earlier periods of life, older adults continue to make decisions related to everyday life, but with advanced age, new, and sometimes even more complex, decision-making is required of them. Recent research indicates that age-related limitations in cognitive processing resources (e.g., speed and working memory) may impact decision-making.
Research also indicates that some older adults experience growth in specific areas of cognitive functioning (e.g., expertise, semantic knowledge, emotional regulation) and continue to use adaptive intelligence, demonstrating multi-directionality in adult cognitive change. It is generally recognized that research on higher-order processing is underdeveloped in the field of aging. Research proposals are needed that examine the actual processes that are engaged when older adults make important decisions, how these processes change with age and context, and what environmental supports, interventions, and training may be necessary for optimal functioning. Research may investigate either individual, collaborative, or social processes. Research applications that focus on facilitating optimal functioning and optimal use of intact abilities are sought. Examples of research topics are listed below, but applications are not limited to these topics:
1. Assessing individual abilities and differences
2. Providing environmental support
3. Assisting information acquisition
4. Training to improve underlying skills for complex decisions
5. Training family members and individuals working with aging adults to provide optimal decision-making support and structure
Research applications that focus on developing assistive products are sought. Examples of research topics are listed below, but applications are not limited to these topics:
1. Developing decision-making algorithms for computers
2. Developing tools for processing and maintaining access to relevant information
3. Developing tools that assist in implementing solutions
Research applications that focus on assisting individuals in specific areas of problem-solving are sought. Examples of research topics are listed below, but applications are not limited to these topics:
1. Maintaining a household or other self care problems
2. Medical, financial, retirement, career, and other important types of complex decision-making
3. Deciding the level of care necessary or the appropriate housing situation
4. Death and dying decisions
The mechanisms of support will be the investigator-initiated research project grant (R01), AREA grant, and program project grant (P01).
Eligibility:
Applications may be submitted by foreign and domestic, for-profit and nonprofit, public and private organizations, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local governments, and eligible agencies of the federal government.
Human Brain Project (Neuroinformatics): Phase I & Phase II - NIDA
Sponsor:Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Deadline: September 2006, January 2007, May 2007 (anticipated)
Objectives:
The research programs of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) are devoted to increasing the understanding of the causes and consequences of drug abuse in order to reduce or eliminate drug use, abuse, and sequelae. Research focuses on
- the fundamental biological mechanisms of the actions of abused drugs
- behavioral or pharmacological treatment and health services delivery strategies
- community-based epidemiologic studies
- epidemiology and prevention of HIV among drug abusers
- biochemical strategies for identifying successful drug abuse treatment agents.
Priority areas include the neuroscience and behavioral science of addiction; medications development; behavioral and psychosocial treatment; HIV infection and AIDS prevention; health services research; women, children, and drug abuse; and minority populations. The purpose of this initiative is to encourage and support investigator-initiated, neuroinformatics research that will lead to new digital and electronic tools for all domains of neuroscience research reflecting normal and diseased states across the life span. Neuroinformatics combines neuroscience and informatics research to develop and apply advanced tools and approaches essential for a major advancement in understanding the structure and function of the brain. Research in informatics includes databases, graphical interfaces, querying approaches, information retrieval, data visualization and manipulation, data integration through the development of integrated analytical tools, synthesis, and tools for electronic collaboration.
In computational research, the focus is on development of structural, functional, integrative, and analytical models and simulations. The advanced information technologies resulting from this research will be put to wide use by the neuroscience community. Therefore, the approaches and technologies solicited under this announcement should be generalizable, scalable, extensible, interoperable, and use sophisticated powerful computational resources and integrated with significant neuroscience research at and across all levels of analysis of brain function. Phase I of the Human Brain Project supports feasibility research on advanced technologies and novel ways to acquire, store, retrieve, manage, analyze, visualize, manipulate, integrate, synthesize, disseminate, and share data about neuroscience research, including tools for electronic collaboration. The Human Brain Project supports investigator-initiated projects that require both an informatics research component and a neuroscience (brain or behavioral) research component, with these two components well integrated with one another. Projects that focus only upon archival data are not appropriate for the Human Brain Project, but projects are encouraged to include legacy data in their informatics component.
Phase II of the Human Brain Project extends and shares those products developed under Phase I with appropriate improvements, documentation, and testing at multiple sites to move towards the distribution of the advanced technologies or tools to the wider community that will occur in Phase III. Phase II applications should include the necessary research components to: build the elements necessary for the construction of maps and models (computational neuroscience); ensure that databases in this area of research will be interoperable with other database resources; incorporate the capability for the addition or linkage with legacy data; and present a plan for the continued support of these capabilities. This program will use the research project grant (R01), exploratory center grant (P20), and the program project (P01) mechanisms for supporting neuroinformatics research.
Eligibility:
Applications may be submitted by foreign and domestic, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, public and private, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local governments, and eligible agencies of the federal government. The citizenship of the PI is unrestricted. Foreign institutions are not eligible for exploratory center (P20) grants.
Klingenstein Foundation--Depression Grants
Sponsor:Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation
Deadline(s):Open
Objectives:
The sponsor provides support to improve the lives of families afflicted by clinical depression. The board expects that in addition to certain other areas, the sponsor may give special consideration to proposals which address childhood and adolescent depression.
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are organizations. Federal law places strict limitation on a foundation's ability to make grants to individuals. The sponsor's grants tend to fall in the $5,000 to $35,000 range. The sponsor has not foreclosed any particular type of grant. For example, the sponsor will consider making capital grants, challenge grants, start-up grants, and grants given over more than a one year period. The sponsor is prohibited from making grants to political action groups and from lobbying the government. Application guidelines are available. There is no formal application or form. Potential applicants may send their letters of inquiry by email, but the sponsor will not accept full proposals through the Internet.
Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08) - NEI
Sponsor:Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Eye Institute (NEI)
Deadline: February 1, June 1 and October 1, annually
Objectives:
The mission of the National Eye Institute (NEI) is to conduct and support research, research training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to blinding eye diseases, visual disorders, mechanisms of visual function, preservation of sight, and the special health problems and needs of individuals who are partially-sighted or blind. Specific areas of interest include retinal diseases, corneal diseases, lens and cataract, glaucoma, strabismus, amblyopia, and visual processing, as well as low vision and its rehabilitation. The purpose of the Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08) is to support the development of outstanding clinician research scientists. This mechanism provides specialized study for individuals with a health professional doctoral degree committed to a career in laboratory or field-based research.
Candidates must have the potential to develop into independent investigators. The K08 supports a three-, four-, or five-year period of supervised research experience that may integrate didactic studies with laboratory or clinically-based research. The proposed research must have intrinsic research importance as well as serve as a suitable vehicle for learning the methodology, theories, and conceptualizations necessary for a well-trained independent researcher. Awards in response to this program announcement will use the K08 mechanism.
Eligibility:
The candidate must have a clinical doctoral degree or its equivalent. Illustrative examples include, but are not limited to: M.D., D.D.S., D.M.D., D.O., D.C., O.D., N.D. (Doctor of Naturopathy), D.V.M., or Pharm.D. Individuals with the Ph.D. or other doctoral degrees in clinical disciplines such as clinical psychology, nursing, clinical genetics, speech-language pathology, audiology, and rehabilitation are also eligible. Individuals holding the Ph.D. in a non-clinical discipline but are certified to perform clinical duties should contact the appropriate institute concerning their eligibility for a K08 award. The candidate must be able to identify a mentor with extensive research experience. The candidate must be willing to spend a minimum of 75 percent of full-time professional effort conducting research and research career development.
Some of the participating NIH institutes and centers require completion of postgraduate clinical training by the time of award. Potential candidates should identify and contact that appropriate NIH awarding component to discuss this issue prior to preparing an application. Applications may be submitted, on behalf of candidates, by domestic, non-federal organizations, public or private, such as medical, dental, or nursing schools or other institutions of higher education. Candidates must be U.S. citizens or noncitizen nationals, or must have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence by the time of award.
Individuals admitted for permanent residence must be able to produce documentation of their immigration status such as an Alien Registration Receipt Card (I-151 or I-551) or some other verification of legal admission as a permanent resident. Noncitizen nationals, although not U.S. citizens, owe permanent allegiance to the United States. They are usually born in lands that are not states but are under U.S. sovereignty, jurisdiction, or administration. Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible for this award.
Ineligible individuals include current and former principal investigators on NIH research project (R01), FIRST Awards (R29), comparable career development awards (K01, K07, K23), sub-projects of program project (P01) or center grants (P50), and the equivalent. Former principal investigators of NIH small grants (R03) or exploratory/developmental grants (R21) remain eligible. Current and former recipients of Clinical Associate Physicians (CAP) award support may apply for the K08 provided they have had no more than three years of CAP support by the time of the K08 award. The combined total of CAP plus K08 support must not exceed six years. A candidate for the K08 may not concurrently apply for or have an award pending for a CAP award or any other NIH career development award. K08 recipients are encouraged to apply for independent research grant support during the period of this award.
Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) - NIDA
Sponsor:Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Deadline: February 1, June 1 and October 1, annually
Objectives:
The research programs of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) are devoted to increasing the understanding of the causes and consequences of drug abuse in order to reduce or eliminate drug use, abuse, and sequelae. Research focuses on
the fundamental biological mechanisms of the actions of abused drugs
- behavioral or pharmacological treatment and health services delivery strategies
- community-based epidemiologic studies
- epidemiology and prevention of HIV among drug abusers
- biochemical strategies for identifying successful drug abuse treatment agents.
Priority areas include the neuroscience and behavioral science of addiction, medications development, behavioral and psychosocial treatment, HIV infection and AIDS prevention, health services research; women, children, and drug abuse; and minority populations. The purpose of the Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) is to support the career development of investigators who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors on patient-oriented research. This mechanism provides support for three to five years of supervised study and research for clinically trained professionals who have the potential to develop into productive, clinical investigators focusing on patient-oriented research.
For the purposes of this award, patient-oriented research is defined as research conducted with human subjects (or on material of human origin such as tissues, specimens, and cognitive phenomena) for which an investigator directly interacts with human subjects. This area of research includes:
- mechanisms of human disease
- therapeutic interventions
- clinical trials
- the development of new technologies.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is especially interested in increasing the number of clinicians trained to conduct high-quality, patient-oriented clinical research. Accordingly, this award forms an important part of the NIH initiative to attract talented individuals to the challenges of clinical research. NIH intends to target a significant increase in funds for these entry-level career development awards. The K23 provides the awardee, through multidisciplinary didactic training, the opportunity to obtain both the knowledge and the research skills necessary to compete for independent support in patient-oriented research.
The objectives of the Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) are to encourage research-oriented clinicians to develop independent research skills and gain experience in advanced methods and experimental approaches needed to conduct patient-oriented research and to increase the pool of clinical researchers who can conduct patient-oriented studies, capitalizing on the discoveries of biomedical research and translating them to clinical settings.
Eligibility:
The candidate must have a clinical doctoral degree or its equivalent. Illustrative examples include, but are not limited to, M.D., D.D.S., D.M.D., D.O., D.C., O.D., N.D. (Doctor of Naturopathy), D.V.M., Pharm.D., or a Ph.D. or other doctoral degree in disciplines such as clinical psychology, nursing, clinical genetics, speech-language pathology, audiology, and rehabilitation. Individuals holding a Ph.D. in a nonclinical discipline, but who are certified to perform clinical duties, should contact the appropriate institute concerning their eligibility for a K23 award.
Candidates also must have completed their clinical training, including specialty and, if applicable, subspecialty training prior to receiving an award. However, candidates may submit an application prior to the completion of clinical training. Candidates must identify a mentor with extensive research experience, and must be willing to spend a minimum of 75 percent of full-time professional effort conducting research career development and clinical research.
Applications may be submitted, on behalf of candidates, by domestic, nonfederal organizations, public or private, such as medical, dental, or nursing schools or other institutions of higher education. At time of award, candidates must be citizens or noncitizen nationals of the United States, or have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence (i.e., in possession of a currently valid Alien Registration Receipt Card I-551, or other legal verification of such status). Noncitizen nationals are generally persons born in outlying possessions of the United States (i.e., American Samoa and Swains Island). Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible.
Ineligible individuals include current and former principal investigators on NIH research project (R01), FIRST awards (R29), comparable career development awards (K01, K07, or K08), sub-projects of program project (P01) or center grants (P50), and the equivalent. Former principal investigators of NIH small grants (R03) or exploratory/developmental grants (R21) remain eligible. Current and former recipients of Clinical Associate Physicians (CAP) Award support may apply for the K23 provided they've had no more than three years of CAP support by the time of the K23 award. The combined total of CAP plus K23 support must not exceed six years. A candidate for the K23 award may not have pending nor concurrently apply for a CAP award or any other career development award. K23 recipients are encouraged to apply for independent research grant support during the period of this award.
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Sources cited above were derived from the SPIN and COS Funding Databases with some editing of the results.
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