NIH Transformative Research Awards (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-14-003.html

Description:
The NIH Transformative Research Awards complement NIH’s traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies. Little or no preliminary data are expected. Projects must clearly demonstrate the potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of biomedical or behavioral research. 

AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-290.html

Description:

This FOA invites Large Research Demonstration and Dissemination (R18) Project applications. The Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grant (R18) is an award made by AHRQ to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified health services research project. The R18 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the mission and portfolio priority research interests of AHRQ. Although the PD/PI writes the grant application and is responsible for conducting and supervising the research, the actual applicant is the research institution/organization.

The AHRQ mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more ac­cessible, equitable and affordable, and to work with HHS and other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. Within the mission, AHRQ’s specific priority areas of focus are:

• Improve health care quality by accelerating implementation of Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR)
• Make health care safer
• Increase accessibility by evaluating expansions of insurance coverage
• Improve health care affordability, efficiency and cost transparency

These areas, relevant to Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grant (R18) applications submitted to AHRQ, are articulated at (http://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/foaguidance/index.html). Contacting an AHRQ staff member may help focus the research plan based on an understanding of the AHRQ mission and research priorities. AHRQ staff contacts can be found at http://www.ahrq.gov/fund/staffcon.htm.

As AHRQ is interested in funding research that will have an important impact on health care practice and policy, applicants to this FOA are encouraged to submit a structured abstract of the potential findings that might arise from the planned research proposed. If a structured abstract is included as part of the grant application, it should be submitted as an appendix.

Promoting Preventative Health Services for Women

Additional Information:
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=258077

Description:
This announcement solicits applications for the Promoting Preventive Health Services for Women initiative. The purpose of this initiative is to improve women¿s health across the lifecourse by increasing the use of clinical preventive services. This will be accomplished by: Increasing the number of women enrolled in health insurance; Raising consumer awareness of the importance of clinical preventive services; and Supporting providers in the delivery of quality preventive services. These objectives will be accomplished by a coalition of organizations representing women¿s health care providers who will: Develop and implement strategies to assist uninsured women in obtaining health insurance coverage; Develop and implement strategies to promote awareness among consumers about the importance of clinical preventive services; and Provide information and training to providers to support the quality provision of these services.

Children's Discovery Institute Call for Proposals

Additional Information:
http://www.childrensdiscovery.org/Grants/Forms,InstructionsPolicies.aspx

Description:

The Children’s Discovery Institute requests applications from all Washington University faculty and postdoctoral trainees for the funding mechanisms listed below.

 

Letters of Intent must be submitted by 5:00 pm CST on August 1, 2014.

 

Funding Mechanisms:

1. Interdisciplinary Research Initiatives: up to $150,000/yr for up to three years is available for faculty seeking to embark on novel projects in need of initial start-up funding to enable procurement of other independent support. Projects should strive to bring investigators from multiple disciplines together to identify targets for improved diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of a pediatric health problem relevant to the goals of the CDI.
2. Postdoctoral Fellowships: up to $30,000/yr for up to two years is available for especially promising postdoctoral trainees to complete a research project under the direction of a mentor on an issue relevant to the goals of the CDI.
3. Educational Initiatives: up to $50,000/yr for up to three years is available for educational activities on child health topics relevant to the goals of the CDI.
4. Faculty Recruitment/Scholar Awards: $300,000 over five years is available for exceptional new investigators to establish a laboratory and to embark on highly promising pediatric medical research relevant to the goals of the CDI. Nominations for Faculty Recruitment/Scholar Awards may be submitted by any Washington University Department Chair. Department Chairs wishing to submit nominations (i.e. Letters of Intent) for Faculty Scholar/Recruitment Awards must obtain the approval of the CDI Executive and Scientific Directors prior to submission.

 

Funding Objectives:

• Preference will be given to faculty members prior to achieving tenure, to teams of investigators from multiple disciplines, and to multi-investigator projects to develop interactive research groups.
• Translational impact, scientific excellence, and potential for acquisition of new knowledge. This includes the development and/or testing of novel approaches for diagnosis, therapy and/or prevention.
• Programs synergistic with Washington University and St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
• Immediate relevance to goals of one or more of the CDI’s Centers:
• McDonnell Pediatric Cancer Center focuses on the etiology and treatment of pediatric cancers.
• Center for Musculoskeletal and Metabolic Disease focuses on the genetic basis of musculoskeletal birth defects, childhood arthritis, metabolic diseases, and related disorders.
• Center for Pediatric Pulmonary Disease focuses on the biology of the pulmonary system and genetic and acquired causes of pediatric lung disease.
• Congenital Heart Disease Center focuses on the environmental and genetic etiology of congenital heart and vascular disease, related birth defects, and other heart disorders.