Posted: Apr 17 2008

HHMI Offers $300 Million
to New Investigators 

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) will provide $300 million in competitive funding to as many as 70 early career scientists who are struggling to get their first independent federal research grant.

One-time, six-year appointments will average about $700,000 a year for research, salary, and institutional support. Click here for more details.

Learn about other opportunities at NIAID Funding News .

Posted: March 28 2008

CDMR Opportunities Ending June 2008

The following Congressionally Directed Medical Research funding opportunity information may interest bio-life scientists and clinicians considering funding for specific disease research that will make significant contributions in the following topic areas:

For more information, click the hyper link in the above paragraph.

DoD Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
$4M Funding Opportunities
(Rec'd 03/03/08)

The Fiscal Year 2008 (FY08) Defense Appropriations Act provides $4 million to the Department of Defense Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program (TSCRP) to promote innovative research focused on lessening the impact of tuberous sclerosis complex. This program is administered by the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command through the Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).

Information for each of the funding mechanisms, evaluation criteria, and submission requirements can be found in the FY08 TSCRP Program Announcements located at the following web site:

http://cdmrp.army.mil/tscrp/default.htm

DoD Prostate Cancer
$80M Funding Opportunities
(Rec'd 2/19/08)

The following funding opportunity information may interest bio-life, basic, clinical, epidemiology, and public health scientists considering focusing on prostate cancer research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.

The Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) has received $80 million for fiscal year 2008.  On February 15, 2008 the PCRP released the remaining six of eleven Program Announcements describing funding mechanisms.

All details for application are available in the Program Announcement for each funding mechanism located on the CDMRP website:

http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/pcrp.htm; and

on the Grants.Gov web site http://www.grants.gov.

DoD Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP):  The overall goal of the FY08 PCRP is to find and fund innovative, high-impact research relevant to the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and/or treatment of human prostate cancer.               

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DoD/CDMRP Ovarian Cancer
$10M Funding Opportunities
(modified 03/24/2008)

The Fiscal Year 2008 (FY08) Defense Appropriations Act provides $10 million to the Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) to support innovative research to eradicate Ovarian Cancer. This program is administered by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command through the Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP). 

A summary of OCRP funding opportunities is provided at this link.  Detailed descriptions of each of the funding mechanisms, evaluation criteria, and submission requirements can be found in the FY08 OCRP Program Announcements. Each Program Announcement is available electronically for downloading from the Grants.gov website ; the CDMRP website  and the CDMRP eReceipt Website .

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Announced Apr 29, 2008: State Grants Team: HHS, ED 081029

Announced Apr 25, 2008: Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities & Notices TOC 081025

Announced April 21, 2008: State Grants Team: HHS 081021

Announced Apr 18, 2008: Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities & Notices TOC 081018

Announced Apr 16, 2008: NIAID Funding Opportunities 080725

Announced Apr 11, 2008: Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities & Notices TOC 080911
NOTE: See K Award Policy Change

Announced Apr 07, 2008: Autism Speaks RFAs 080602

Announced Apr 04, 2008: Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities & Notices TOC 080904

Announced Mar. 28, 2008: Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities & Notices TOC 080828

Announced Mar. 27, 2008: Lupus Foundation request for research applications 0800927

Announced Mar. 26, 2008: Nat'l Rosacea Society request for research applications 080928

Announced Mar. 21, 2008: Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities & Notices TOC 080821

Announced Mar. 19, 2008: NIH Control of Malaria and other Tropical Diseases 080730

Announced Mar. 19, 2008: NIH Rejuvenating the Aged Immune System 080630

Announced Mar. 18, 2008: DOD, HHS, USDA 080530

Announced Mar. 14, 2008: various HHS opportunities thru 2011

Announced Mar. 14, 2008: Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities & Notices TOC

Announced Mar. 11, 2008: NASA, DOS, DOE, DOI, USAID

Announced Mar 8, 2008: Nat'l Headache Foundation. Deadline Dec 1 2008

Announced Mar 7, 2008: Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities & Notices TOC

Announced Feb. 29, 2008: Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities & Notices TOC

Announced Feb. 22, 2008: Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities & Notices TOC

Announced Feb. 22, 2008: HHS, ED, DOI, DOL, DOE