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Funding SourcesSocial Science Research
Council
International Research and Exchanges
Board
National Institute of Mental
Health
American Psychological
Association
Center for the Advancement of
Health
Anxiety Disorders Association of
America
American Association for the Advancement
of Science
United States Department of Health
and Human Services
American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry
National
Academy of Sciences
National Science Foundation,
Overview of Social, Behavior, and Economic Sciences Division
National Science
Foundation, deadlines for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Division
Society for the Psychological Study of
Social Issues
Tourette Syndrome
Association
Center for Advanced Study in
the Behavioral 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; and 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; and 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.
Restrictions:
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.
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health/NIH/DHHS
Deadlines: 2/15/2003, 6/1/2003, 6/15/2003, 10/1/2003,
10/15/2003
Objectives:
The sponser provides support for research designed to elucidite 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--ares of interest include, but need not be limited to, the
following:
Eligibility:
Foreign institutions are not eligible for program project
(P01) awards. Collecting clinically well-characterized samples of
sufficient size may in some instances require or be facilitated by the
establishment of international consortia. For example, sufficient power
with which to detect susceptibility loci for autism spectrum disorders may
be facilitated through international consortia. Thus, full collaborations
between U.S. scientists and scientists at foreign institutions are
encourages when scientifically appropriate.
Sponsor:Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); National
Institutes of
Health (NIH);
Deadline:2/1, 6/1, 10/1 annually until 2004
Deadline note:This program announcement expires on February 1,
2004, unless reissued.
Eligibility:
Applications may be submitted by domestic and foreign, 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.
Objectives:
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD) invite qualified researchers to submit grant applications for research
projects designed to examine age-related changes in reading and language comprehension
abilities and to develop interventions that prevent or compensate for declines. Late
adulthood is associated with changes, generally declining, in the communicative abilities
important for reading and language comprehension. Evidence suggests that factors associated
with the development of reading and oral language comprehension skills (e.g., the age of
acquisition, the proficiency attained in early life, diagnoses of learning disabilities and
subsequent interventions) and ongoing experiences (e.g., education, occupation, leisure
activities, social interaction) influence the skill levels attained during adulthood.
Declines in comprehension abilities can interfere with competence on instrumental activities
such as taking medications and managing finances; receiving accurate and appropriate
medical, financial, and other types of complex information; healthy social interactions;
and the establishment and maintenance of professional competence.
The following topics offer examples of studies that are encouraged. These examples are
neither comprehensive nor exclusive:
- the demographic factors and life experiences
associated with age-related changes in comprehension (including skill acquisition and
development, decline, maintenance, compensation, and improvement) as well as understanding
the epidemiology of age-related decline in comprehension;
- the relationship of relevant
aspects of cognitive processing including attention, memory components, and measures of
intellectual abilities to speech and reading comprehension;
- the neurobiological
mechanisms of age-related change in cognitive or sensory function that impact oral and
written language comprehension;
- the developmental trajectories of skill development,
maintenance, and decline associated with individual skill acquisition factors and with
various neural pathways of language comprehension;
- cognitive strategies that may be
employed to compensate for losses;
- the identification of cognitive strategies that may
interfere with the development of reading abilities in adults with low literacy, and the
development of effective interventions;
- identification of the underlying language
comprehension skills and component skills necessary to the reading process that may underlie
functional illiteracy or low literacy in adults, and the development of effective
interventions;
- how affect, motivation, and self-perception of abilities are
interrelated with sensory or cognitive processes;
- changes in encoding and sending
nonverbal cues, as well as changes in decoding and processing nonverbal cues;
- how
individual factors interact with the functional demands of the material presented;
- the
social skills necessary for obtaining accurate and relevant information;
- the effects
of attitudes and beliefs about aging on comprehension; and
- the influence of
self-perceived handicap, and of social or occupational demands, on the willingness to use
devices designed to assist performance.
Research is needed on how the characteristics of the text, the speaking voice, the medium
of the message, the context of the presentation, and sensory capacity influence ease of
comprehension. Studies are encouraged that examine relevant human factors and that apply
current knowledge toward improving comprehension. Among the many topics that need further
research are the following:
- the differences in processing requirements for expository,
narrative, and procedural texts, written and spoken questions, conversational engagement,
and comprehension of other forms of speech;
- the role of neurobiological auditory and
visual changes with age in influencing both language and reading comprehension;
- the
differences in comprehension due to content of the information, complexity of syntax,
structure and cues in the text, and style of presentation of the information;
- factors
specific to reading computer screens and monitors, understanding graphics and text embedded
in design, such as might occur on bottles and other containers;
- the types and number
of environmental distractions, the effects of lighting, the size and font of print, and the
color of paper and print;
- the effects of cadence, placement of pauses, volume, pitch,
and speed of presentation on comprehension of language; and
- facilitating older adults'
comprehension through the development and application of compensatory strategies and design
(e.g., cognitive strategies, human factors design, social support, and environmental
design).
Research is needed that examines the comprehension of written and spoken language as it relates to various domains, particularly the comprehension of medical information and other complex topics such as long-term care policies and insurance information.
Research is also needed on the age differences in the ability to comprehend written and
verbal survey questions. Other domains include the role of language comprehension in
establishing and maintaining professional competence. Some examples of relevant topics that
need further research are the following:
- the factors important to the comprehension of information important in decision-making
(e.g., probabilities, possible outcomes, and risks and benefits);
- how the attitudes
and beliefs of the service provider regarding older adults' hearing and speech comprehension
impact actual comprehension (e.g., elderspeak);
- the factors important for accurate
exchange of information, including conversational style and openness to questions;
- the
development of questionnaire, survey, and interview practices that obtain increased accuracy
in information from older adults via increased speech and reading comprehension; and
-
how the workplace and the aging worker are affected by changes in language comprehension.
The mechanisms of support will be the investigator-initiated research project grant
(R01) and program project grant (P01).
Sponsor:American Legion Child Welfare Foundation, Inc.
Deadline:4/01 annually
Deadline note:Anticipated deadline. The record will be updated when
new program
information becomes available. Applications are mailed to requesting organizations only from
May 1 through August 1. Requests received after August 1 will be held for the next grant
year. The deadline for the receipt of all applications is August 15.
Eligibility:
Grants are awarded only to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations.
Requirements:
Academic Institution or Government or Nonprofit
Abstract:
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.
Sponsor:Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); National
Institutes of
Health (NIH); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Deadline:2/01, 6/01, 10/01 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.
Abstract:
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; and 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; and
- assessment and research methodology applied to abused and neglected populations.
Sponsor:Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation
(ABMRF)
Deadline:2/15, 9/15 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.
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 pstchotheraputic medications in children and
adolescents with respect to safety and/or efficacy within dose ranges,
schedules, and routes of administration that are usually employed
theraputically. 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
psychotheraputic 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:
Sponsor:National Science Foundation
Deadline(s):3/01, 6/01, 9/01, 12/01 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; and 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; and 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; and 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.
Sponsor:American Association of University Women
(AAUW); Educational Foundation
Deadline:February 11, 2003
Deadline note:Anticipated deadline. The record will be updated when
new program
information becomes
available.
Abstract: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.
Sponsor:Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); National
Institutes of
Health (NIH); National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Deadline:2/01, 6/01, 10/01 annually
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.
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).
Sponsor:Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); National
Institutes of
Health (NIH); National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Deadline:January 11, 2003
Deadline note:Although a letter of intent is not required, is not
binding, and does
not enter into the review of subsequent applications, prospective applicants are asked to
submit a letter of intent by April 1 and October 1. Applications are due
by January 11.
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.
Abstract:
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; and 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.
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.
Restrictions:
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.
Sponsor:Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); National
Institutes of
Health (NIH); National Eye Institute (NEI)
Deadline:2/01, 6/01, 10/01 annually
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.
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.
Sponsor:Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); National
Institutes of
Health (NIH); National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Deadline:2/01, 6/01, 10/01 annually
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.
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; and 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; and 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 through 2003. 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
- 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.
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