Internal Funding Sources

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• ONR--Science and Tech. Res. Program: Cognitive, Neural & Biomolecular
• OPP--Arctic Social Sciences Program
• Perception and Cognition
• Pilot / Preliminary Studies
• Population-Based Research in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Post-Doctoral Fellowships for Research on Family Violence and Sexual Abuse
• Project Supplement Grants
• Research on Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Research on Learning and Education (ROLE)
• Research Project Grant
• Risk Factors for Psychopathology Using Existing Data Sets - NIMH
• Robert Wood Johnson Fndn.--Grants Program
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation--Substance Abuse Policy Research Program
• Spencer Foundation Grants Program
• Wolinsky Family General Grants

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Sponsor:Office of Naval Research
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The mission of the Human and Bioengineered Systems Division is to direct, plan, foster, and encourage Science and Technology in cognitive science, computational neuroscience, bioscience and bio-mimetic technology, physiology and biophysics, immunology, social/organizational science, training, human factors, and decision making as related to Naval needs.

Goals

• Sustained and improved warfighter performance and enhanced decision making in all environments through training and biomedical technologies.
• Create options for future (perhaps unanticipated) naval decisions, based upon fundamental understanding gained from cognitive and neurosciences.
• Support integrated interdisciplinary research programs.
• Cultivate transition of findings to government and industry, advanced technology development, small business and acquisition projects.

Eligbility:
Eligible applicants are U.S. and foreign researchers, for-profit and non-profit institutions, university professors, colleges and universities, business organizations, government laboratories, and educational institutions. Funding amounts vary from project to project. Both direct and indirect costs are allowed. Applicants should consult the sponsor's website for more detailed information.

Sponsor:National Science Foundation
Deadline(s):October 15, annually

Objectives:
The sponsor supports arctic research within the social sciences. The program is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, encompassing anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, linguistics, political science, psychology, science studies, sociology, and related subjects. Although unsolicited proposals in any of the social sciences mentioned above are welcome, areas of particular interest include culture and environment, resources and economic change, development of social and political institutions, ethnic and regional identities, and knowledge systems. The sponsor especially encourages projects that are circumpolar and/or comparative; involve collaborations between researchers and those living in the Arctic; or form connections among disciplines, regions, researchers, communities, and/or students (K-12, undergraduate, or graduate). Dissertation research proposals will be accepted.

Eligibility:
Proposals for field work should be submitted well in advance. Eligible applicants are those normally supported by the sponsor, including universities and colleges; non-profit, non-academic organizations; for-profit organizations; state and local governments; and unaffiliated researchers. For all Arctic Research Opportunities, approximately one hundred thirty to one hundred sixty awards, totaling $20-25 million, per year, are expected to be made, with a combination of standard and continuing awards. Sizes will vary depending on the type of work proposed. Indirect costs are allowed based on agreed upon rates. Cost-sharing at a minimum of one percent is required. Application forms and guidelines are available. Proposals should be prepared and submitted in accordance with the Grant Proposal Guide (00-2), which may be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, 301-947-2722, pubs@nsf.gov. Preliminary inquiry is encouraged. FastLane use is required.

Sponsor:United States Department of Defense (DOD); Department of the Air Force (USAF); Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); Broad Agency Announcement (BAA); AFOSR Research Interests Brochure and Broad Agency Announcement 2000-1; Chemistry and Life Sciences
Deadline:Continuous. Those interested are strongly encouraged to contact the point of contact for additional information prior to submitting proposals. This announcement is open-ended until revised.

Objectives:
This program supports those who are interested in developing a basic research foundation for using computational and modeling approaches to study behavior of group and communities. This program seeks fundamental understanding of the interactions between demographic groups both to create understanding for technology developments for enhanced cooperation, such as operational decision making with coalition partners, and to explain and predict outcomes between competing factions within geographic regions.

This program encourages collaboration between social, behavioral, cognitive, and biological scientists with computational researchers in disciplines such as mathematics, computer science, modeling, artificial intelligence, control theory, and adaptive systems. Example topics include: (1) Exploring the structure of cultural knowledge, beliefs, and social norms either broadly, in factor models, or more narrowly, within the framework of a computational cognitive architecture; (2) Reasoning and decision-making processes in cultural context, including reasoning with uncertain information; (3) Self-organization and adaptation of culturally defined entities or groups, including models of group competitive and cooperative interactions; (4) Game-theoretic modeling of interactive agents with imperfect and incomplete information regarding other agents; (5) New approaches to automated reasoning about belief, knowledge, obligation, time, and preference; and (6) Characterization of interacting dynamics at multiple scales, from individual to nation-state. We are also interested in exploring the fundamental constraints and limits of socio-cultural prediction and rigorous mathematical approaches that will help us assess this. What is the appropriate data upon which to base such models? What are the theoretical justifications for the models proposed? What can such models reasonably be expected to accomplish? How can the different ontologies and models of the various relevant disciplines best be integrated? To predict group behavior do we need to understand the effects of individual level cognition on group decision making and neuroscience correlates of socio cultural behavior? Are multi-level approaches required? How generalizable are socio cultural models to other sub populations? How should we validate such models?

Eligibility:
AFOSR will consider requests for support of basic research relevant to the Air Force from any organization. Grants are awarded to nonprofit institutions of higher education and to nonprofit organizations whose primary purpose is to conduct scientific research. Cooperative agreements or contracts may be awarded to these institutions, as well as to consortia, and commercial concerns.

Sponsor:Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation (ABMRF)
Deadline: February 1 and September 1, annually

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. Pilot or Preliminary Studies funds may be requested to conduct preliminary studies to determine the feasibility of conducting a study of interactions of biological and behavioral variables which would result in a larger and more expensive research project. Such a study may be designed to test a new method or approach to study biobehavioral events, or to collect data on a sample of subjects to document the practicality of an interdisciplinary project.

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.

Sponsor:National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities/CDC/DHHS
Deadline:Open

Objectives:
The purpose of this program is to support research in ADHD and the exploration of other health conditions and health risk behaviors to children and adolescents with the disorder.
This program consists of two types of research (Type I and Type II):

Type I--Research Targeting Children With ADHD Ages 4 to 10. The purpose of Type I funding is to determine the prevalence or treated prevalence of children with ADHD in a defined community, to identify rates of select comorbid or secondary conditions in children with ADHD in a defined community, to identify types and rates of health risk behaviors in children with ADHD, and to describe current and previous receipt of treatment in children with ADHD.

Type II--Research Targeting Adolescents With ADHD Ages 11 to 17. Similar to Type I, the purpose of Type II funding is to describe the prevalence or treated prevalence of ADHD in adolescents in a defined community, to identify rates of comorbidity and secondary conditions in adolescents with ADHD in the defined community, to identify rates of health risk behaviors in adolescents with ADHD, and to describe current and previous receipt of treatment in adolescents with ADHD.

Eligibility:
Applications may be submitted by public and private nonprofit organizations and by governments and their agencies; that is, universities, colleges, technical schools, research institutions, hospitals, other public and private nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, State and local governments or their bona fide agents, including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, Indian tribes, or Indial tribal organizations. Only one application from each organization may be submitted. The applicant can apply for only one Type (Type I or Type II). To be eligible for Type I or Type II awards, applicants must document a population of at least 5,000 youths either aged 4 to 10 or aged 11 to 17 from which screening for ADHD will be conducted.

Sponsor:University of New Hampshire Family Research Laboratory
Deadline:N/A

Objectives:
The sponser awards fellowships for research on family violence. Positions are open to new and experienced researchers with doctorates in the fields of psychology, sociology, social work, law, nursing, public health and medicine. The fellowships are intended for work in the area of child abuse, marital violence, elder abuse, sexual abuse, child victimization, rape, homicide and other family-violence related topics with special attention to mental health impact. Scholars use the one-year fellowships (with possible one-year extension) to collaborate with Family Research Laboratory (FRL) faculty on a current project, to work on one of the many data sets archived at the FRL, or, in the case of senior candidates, to work on their own projects.

Eligibility:
Applications from scholars with backgrounds in developmental or cognitive psychology, or interests in family violence in minority families, or families of persons with disabilities are particularily encouraged. The individual to be trained must be a citizen or a non-citizen national of the United States, or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time of the award. A non-citizen national is a person who, although not a citizen of the United States, owes permanent alliegance to the United States. They are generally persons born in outlying possessions of the United States (e.g., American Samoa and Swains Island). Individuals who have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence must be in possession of a valid Alien Registration Receipt Card (I-551), or must be in possession of other legal verification of such status (e.g., proper validation on his/her passport, or a notarized photocopy of properly validated passport could suffice).

Sponsor:Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation (ABMRF)
Deadline:February 1 and September 1, annually

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. Project Supplement Grants are intended to enrich an ongoing research project by providing funds to expand it. Such studies may include, for instance, projects to follow up on new leads developed by the ongoing program that could not be supported by the funds already available. Funds may be requested to expand the project by adding expertise not currently available in the applicant's research team. The grant is not intended to provide funds as a general supplement to ongoing research.

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.

Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health/NIH/DHHS
Deadlines: February 5, June 5, and October 5, annually

Objectives:
The sponser provides support for research designed to elucidate the diagnosis, epidemiology, etiology, genetics, treatment, and optimal means of service delivery in relation to Autistic Disorder ("autism") and autism spectrum disorders (Rett's Disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Asberger's Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified, or "Atypical Autism"). Basic research into the pathophysiology of autism and autism spectrum disorders, including research on brain mechanisms and genetics, is of special interest. Also of interest are clinical and applied investigations that may lead to the development of diagnostic research instruments, treatments, and intervention strategies. Specific areas of interest thus include epidemiology, early identification and diagnosis, genetic studies, brain mechanisms, communication skills, cognitive neuroscience, psychosocial (behavioral) interventions, pharmacological and other medical interventions, and services.

EPIDEMIOLOGY--areas of interest include, but need not be limited to, the following:

• Development of new screening tools for use in a variety of settings
• Research on the expression of the full range of spectrum disorders
• Studies on their developmental course
• Studies that characterize the range of expression within families
• Research on co-occurring featuresStudies of risk assessment

EARLY IDENTIFICATION AND DIAGNOSIS--areas of investigation include, but need not be limited to, the following:

• Key diagnostic features associated with various stages of development
• Assessment of comorbid features including hyperactivity, attentional dysfunctions, and obsessive compulsive symptoms
• Assessment and further differentiation of subtypes of autistic spectrum disorders including Autistic Disorder, Asberger's Disorder, Rett's Disorder, and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
• Developmental factors relevant to reliable and valid diagnosis

GENETIC STUDIES--specific areas of needed investigation include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Large-scale linkage studies of affected relative pairs or extended pedigrees to identify chromosomal regions harboring disease susceptibility genes
• Family-based association analysis and other linkage disequilibrium approaches that aim to identify a specific susceptibility gene
• High-resolution mapping and positional cloning studiesResolution of locus heterogeneity
• Analysis of gene-environment interactions
• Identification of genes that influence comparable behaviors in mice, through the use of gene targeting and selectively bred, recombinant inbred and transgenic strains
• Regulation at different developmental stages of genes expressed in neural cells believed to be involved in the pathogenesis of autism or autism spectrum disorders
• Characterization of transcription elements (e.g., promotors, enhancers) that regulate genes showing tissue-specific expression patterns in brain regions implicated in autism or autism spectrum disorders

BRAIN MECHANISMS--areas of needed investigation include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Studies of brain mechanisms and biological factors underlying autistic regression, or the loss of previously acquired skills
• Studies of the brain mechanisms involved in the development of abnormal electroencephalograms and epilepsy and studies to clarify the subtypes of seizures and seizure disorders in autism
• Studies to define the neurobiological basis of neurological abnormalities and neuropsychiatric symptoms, including motor stereotypies, gait abnormalities, akinesias, dyskinesias, obsessive/compulsive traits, and the exacerbation of these symptoms, including the role of neuroimmune/autoimmune factors
• Studies that seek to define basic processing deficits using neuropsychological and cognitive neuroscience techniques
• Studies designed to develop and test interventions directed toward specific processing deficits, thereby potentially providing further confirmation or disconfirmation concerning the nature of core processing deficits and their relationship to overall behavioral functioning and social adaptation
• Studies combining neuropsychological and cognitive neuroscience techniques with structural and functional imagingLongitudinal studies to identify structural and functional alterations in neural circuitry occurring with development

COMMUNICATION SKILLS--areas of research may include, but are not limited to:

• Longitudinal, developmental studies of behaviors that are precursors to later communication (e.g., imitation, joint attention, early vocalization) and their emergence in children with autism and autistic spectrum disorders
• Sensory, motor and social-cognitive impairments that impact upon interaction and communication
• Predictors of loss of or regression in expressive language abilities
• The nature of severe spoken-language deficits when other areas of function, such as written language skills, are relatively preservedInterventions designed to remediate communication and related deficits

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE--areas of investigation may include, but are not limited to:

• Developmental studies of relevant behaviors during infancy including attention to social and nonsocial stimuli, affective behavior, gaze, vocalization, imitation, initiative, reciprocity, attachment, play, compliance, and self-recognition and their emergence in children with autism and autistic spectrum disorders
• Research on the delays and deviations in social behavior and cognition during preschool and middle school, including empathy, receptive social cognitive deficits (i.e., difficulties in understanding others), and expressive difficulties
• Studies leading to more sophisticated tests of higher cognitive functioning, especially in social, communicative, reasoning, and problem-solving areas, as well as tests of basic attentional, emotional and cognitive deficits that may underlie these deficits or be precursors to them
• Studies of theory of mind, of unconventional verbal behaviors, and of the sensory-motor factors involved in relevant social cognition
• The development, validation and refinement of interventions designed to address deficits in complex social and cognitive abilities or their developmental precursors

PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS--needs include, but are not limited to:

• Studies developing new treatments (e.g., behavioral, cognitive-behavioral) and studies validating, refining and comparing approaches to the treatment of autism spectrum disorders, as well as studies that analyze and define the critical features of effective intervention
• Studies that relate characteristics of individuals (or diagnostic subtypes) to treatment outcomesResearch on relevant contextual factors including physical environments, parent-child and sibling-child relationship factors, and peer-child interactions
• Studies addressing generalization or the transfer of learning from one setting to another

PHARMACOLOGICAL/MEDICAL INTERVENTION--investigation may include, but need not be limited to, the following:

• Studies aimed at developing and testing the efficacy and safety of pharmacological agents that specifically target the core features of autism and autistic spectrum disorders
• Studies of the efficacy and safety of pharmacological and combined treatments for the most common and impairing psychopathology associated with autism (e.g., hyperactivity, impulsivity, aggression, self-injury, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms)
• New approaches to treatment that build on advances in neuroscience, genetics, immunology, and other neurobiologic fields
• Focused interventions that test specific theories or hypotheses regarding possible neuropathogenesis
• Studies that address the benefits of combined drug and psychosocial interventions

SERVICES--areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Studies of fiscal, policy, or organizational factors affecting access, availability, quality, use of outcomes of care
• Studies of the effectiveness of interventions delivered in naturalistic settings, especially integrated services that target two or more primary settings (e.g., school, home, community, work, etc.)
• Studies of the impact of family involvement in treatment planning and delivery
• Studies of the cost-effectiveness of various treatments and service delivery models