NIH Global Health Funding News - Week of March 5, 2018

Funding Opportunities

NIH funding opportunities for which foreign organizations, foreign components of U.S. organizations and/or other foreign components may apply.

• BRAIN Initiative: New Concepts and Early - Stage Research for Large - Scale Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (R21) (Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-EY-18-001)
  Application Receipt Date(s): May 1, 2018, October 29, 2018, and more
• Innovative Therapies and Tools for Screenable Disorders in Newborns (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-18-689), (R03 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-18-690) and (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-18-691)
  Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Standard dates apply
• Developmental Pharmacodynamics and Models of Drug Effects in Pediatrics (R03 Clinical Trial Optional) (PA-18-687) and (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) (PA-18-688)
  Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Standard dates apply
• Center without Walls for PET Ligand Development for Alzheimer's disease related dementias (ADRDs) (U19 Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-NS-18-025)
  Application Receipt Date(s): May 8, 2018
• NHLBI Early Phase Clinical Trials for Therapeutics and/or Diagnostics (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Required) (PAR-18-683) and (R33 Clinical Trial Required) (PAR-18-684)
  Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): June 4, 2018; October 2, 2018; and more
• Short-term Mentored Career Enhancement Awards for Mid-Career Investigators to Integrate Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences (K18 Clinical Trial Required) (PAR-18-692)
  Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): May 1, 2018 and April 13, 2019

NIH funding opportunities for which United States small business concerns (SBCs) may collaborate with a foreign business entity.

• Methods Development in Natural Products Chemistry (R41/R42 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PA-18-682)
  Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Standard dates apply

Information related to opportunities from other organizations focusing on global health and foreign collaboration.

• TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, requests proposals from contractors to develop a framework of core competencies on implementation research with a focus on infectious diseases of poverty in low- and middle-income countries.
  Proposal deadline: March 30, 2018.

Funding News

NIH funding news that may be relevant to global health researchers.

• Request for Information (RFI): Soliciting Input for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Strategic Plan for Data Science (NOT-OD-18-134)
• Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for SPARC Clinical Studies of Peripheral and Spinal Neuromodulation Devices to Support New Indications and Human Functional Mapping (OT2 Clinical Trial Required) (NOT-RM-18-012)

Upcoming Deadlines

• International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA)
  Application deadline: March 7, 2018
• Korean Visiting Scientist Training Award (KVSTA) for Korean scientists
  Application deadline: March 7, 2018
• Chronic, Noncommunicable Diseases and Disorders Research Training
  Application deadline: March 14, 2018
• Health-Professional Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI)
  Application deadline: March 28, 2018
• African Association for Health Professions Education and Research
  Application deadline: March 28, 2018
• International Bioethics Training
  Application deadline: May 17, 2018
• Global Infectious Disease Research Training
  Application deadline: July 26, 2018
• Fogarty HIV Research Training
  Application deadline: August 23, 2018
• Mobile Health: Technology and Outcomes in Low and Middle Income Countries
  Application deadline: August 31, 2018