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Award-Winning Project Empowers Women to Make Health Care Decisions
Conference Grants are Available from the NHLBI
Spotlight on Our Web Site
- Two Tools to Help You Get Where You Need to Go
- Sleep Well, Do Well with the NHLBI Star Sleeper Campaign
New NHLBI Research Initiatives
- Ancillary Studies in Heart, Lung, and Blood Disease Trials
- Biobehavioral Research for Effective Sleep
- Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
- Comprehensive Sickle Cell Centers
- Functional Tissue Engineering for Heart, Vascular, Lung, Blood,
and Sleep Disorders and Diseases
- Pathogenesis and Treatment of Lymphedema
- Physical Activity and Obesity Across Chronic Diseases
- Response to the Presidential Vaccine Initiative - Overcoming
the Tuberculosis Latency Challenge
- SBIR/STTR Technologies for Monitoring and Performing Resuscitation
- SCOR: Molecular Medicine and Atherosclerosis
- Self-Management Strategies Across Chronic Diseases
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Award-Winning Project Empowers Women to Make Health Care Decisions
The ENDOW (Ethnicity, Needs, Decisions of Women) Project,
sponsored in part by the NHLBI through the Women's Health Initiative,
received an International CINDY (cinema in industry) award and a Telly
award for its video to educate women about communicating with health
care providers. Although the video's target audience is women facing
surgery, the film and accompanying pamphlets teach decision making skills
that women can apply to all aspects of medical care. The pamphlets,"The Wise Woman's Guide to Making Decisions" and
"The Decision is Yours - Talking to Your Doctor,"
can be viewed online at
www.dopm.uab.edu/endow/intervention.html.
Conference Grants are Available from the NHLBI
If you are interested in partnering with the NHLBI for conferences and
other meetings, consider applying for an "R13" conference grant. To
learn more about R13 funding opportunities, read
grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps/part_iii_5.htm,
grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/gps/app7.htm, and the surrounding pages.
Application forms and instructions are at
grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html.
Please read the instructions carefully, since they may
direct you to other relevant forms. For example, some applicants
will need to provide additional information regarding lobbying
activities before federal law will allow their applications to be
considered. After you've decided that a conference grant is right for
your organization, but before you apply, please contact the appropriate
NHLBI staff member listed at
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not97-006.html. We
look forward to learning
about additional opportunities to partner with your groups.
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Sleep Well, Do Well with the NHLBI Star Sleeper Campaign
The NHLBI named Garfield the cat as its "e;Star Sleeper"e; and enlisted the
aid of the famous kitty to teach children about the importance
of getting enough sleep. Through
starsleep.nhlbi.nih.gov, children
(and the young-at-heart) can play educational games and download the
new Garfield Star Sleeper Fun Pad, a book of games and puzzles with
embedded sleep messages. Adequate sleep (nine hours a night for most children)
is associated with good health and performance, as well as fewer accidents
(an even more critical issue when children reach adolescence and need to be
aware of the dangers of drowsy driving). The message of the campaign,
targeted to children ages 7 to 11 years old, is that sleep is important
to doing your best in whatever you do, including school activities,
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activities, and good family relationships and friendships.
From time to time, the NHLBI invites investigators to submit grant applications or contract proposals for specific research programs.
We are currently soliciting applications for the programs described below. For a full details of these and
other research initiatives, visit http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/funding/inits/index.htm or the Web page that are linked each initiative number.
Ancillary Studies in Heart, Lung, and Blood Disease Trials
- Initiative Number: RFA-HL-00-012
- Applications are accepted for the following deadlines:
March 9, June 11, September 10, December 10, 2001; and March 11, June 10, 2002.
- Objective: To conduct mechanistic studies by utilizing patients and patient materials
from clinical trials related to heart, lung, and blood diseases.
- Initiative Number: PA-00-046
- Applications are accepted for February 1, June 1, and October 1 deadlines each year.
- Objective: To support research on sleep-related problems found
in healthy and chronically ill individuals with acute and chronic sleep deprivation.
- Initiative Number: PA-00-043
- Applications are accepted for February 1, June 1, and October 1 deadlines each year.
- Objective: To promote research in primary pulmonary hypertension with an emphasis on
understanding the disease mechanisms.
Comprehensive Sickle Cell Centers
- Initiative Number: RFA-HL-01-015
- Applications are due on September 25, 2001.
- Objectives: To stimulate engineering of biological substitutes for damaged tissues
and organs and to promote development of novel tissue regeneration and
remodeling approaches.
Functional Tissue Engineering for Heart, Vascular, Lung, Blood,
and Sleep Disorders and Diseases
- Initiative Number: PAR-01-006
- Phase I and II applications applications are accepted for the following deadlines:
March 13, 2002 for Phase I and II applications.
March 13, 2003 and March 12, 2004 deadlines are for Phase II applications only.
- Objectives: To stimulate engineering of biological substitutes for damaged tissues and
organs and to promote the development of novel tissue regeneration and remodeling approaches.
Pathogenesis and Treatment of Lymphedema
- Initiative Number: PA-01-035.html
- Applications are accepted for February 1, June 1, and October 1 deadlines each year.
- Objective: To stimulate research on the biology of the lymphatic system, to
characterize the pathophysiologic mechanisms that cause the disease,
and to discover new therapeutic interventions.
Physical Activity and Obesity Across Chronic Diseases
- Initiative Number: PA-01-017
- Applications are accepted for February 1, June 1, and October 1 deadlines each year.
- Objectives: To examine relationships between physical activity and obesity,
to improve methodology of assessment of physical activity and energy balance, and to test
intervention approaches that incorporate physical activity for obesity prevention or treatment
related to chronic diseases.
Response to the Presidential Vaccine Initiative - Overcoming
the Tuberculosis Latency Challenge
- Initiative Number: RFA-AI-01-009
- Applications are due on July 16, 2001.
- Objective: To elucidate the mechanisms underlying
persistent, asymptomatic infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
SBIR/STTR Technologies for Monitoring and Performing Resuscitation
- Initiative Number: PA-01-054
- Applications are accepted for February 1, June 1, and October 1 deadlines each year.
- Objective: To foster better systems and methods for monitoring of genetic,
molecular, biochemical, physical or metabolic derangements associated with circulatory,
hypoxemic, or traumatic arrest and for elucidating the unique pathophysiology of
irreversible injury following multiple organ or whole-body ischemia and reperfusion.
SCOR: Molecular Medicine and Atherosclerosis
- Initiative Number: RFA-HL-00-015
- Applications are due on June 15, 2001.
- Objective: To support molecular research of the etiology and pathophysiology of
atherosclerosis.
Self-Management Strategies Across Chronic Diseases
- Initiative Number: PA-00-109
- Applications are accepted for February 1, June 1, and October 1 deadlines each year.
- Objectives: To expand research on established self-management interventions, such as those used in treating blood disorders, and understand their implications in treating other chronic diseases.
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