News for Researchers
NIH has begun requiring that grant applications be submitted via the Web portal Grants.gov using Form 424 (Research and Related, or R&R, application). To find out more, go to era.nih.gov/electronicreceipt.
Visit nccam.nih.gov/cgi-bin/grants/funding.pl for more information on these and other NCCAM-sponsored funding opportunities.
RFA-AT-07-001: New Technologies for Assessing Manual Therapies
Sponsor: NCCAM.
Acute and chronic neuromuscular conditions (such as back pain) are very common, affecting most Americans at some point in their lives. Over 10 percent of the public uses manual (hands-on) therapies to treat these conditions. However, there are many unanswered questions about the effects of these therapies and how best to use them. The announcement invites small business concerns to develop new, innovative tools and technologies, or to apply existing ones in new ways, to find out more about the biological effects of manual therapies and/or to prevent, diagnose, manage, or treat conditions that are treated by manual therapies.
PA-06-510: Exploratory/Developmental Grant for Clinical Studies of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Sponsors: NCCAM and the National Cancer Institute.
These grants are for preliminary clinical research studies on CAM.
PA-06-486, PA-06-487, and PA-06-488: Behavioral and Integrative Treatment Development Program
Sponsors: NCCAM, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Projects will integrate behavioral and CAM therapies with a goal of treating drug and alcohol abuse more effectively and doing so at the community level.
PA-06-418: Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants and PA-06-419: Bioengineering Research Grants
Sponsors: NCCAM and 17 other components of NIH.
Toward a better scientific understanding of CAM, awardees will use principles and techniques not only from biology and medicine but also from other fields such as engineering, physics, biostatistics, and computer science.
PA-06-542 and PA-06-544: Mechanisms, Models, Measurement, and Management in Pain Research
Sponsors: NCCAM, the National Institute of Nursing Research, and 10 other components of NIH.
Pain is a critical national health problem and costs the United States over $100 billion each year in health care and lost productivity. While research strides have been made in some areas of pain, many challenges remain in understanding the pain experience and in treating pain. These grants will support a wide range of studies on acute and chronic pain conditions, toward development of better approaches to treatment and management (including from CAM).
The annual Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) support academic health centers in building research programs that will help speed new discoveries from the laboratory to patient care. The upcoming deadline for 2007 awards is January 17, 2007. For more information, visit grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/rfa-rm-07-002.html.
