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Current Funding Opportunities

NIH Welcomes Proposals for Transformative Research Projects Program

The National Institutes of Health's Transformative Research Projects Program was created under the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. The program's objective is to enhance submission and support of exceptionally innovative, high risk, original and/or unconventional research that has the potential to have a profound impact in clinical, basic, and or behavioral/social science arenas. NIH Roadmap Transformative Research Awards provide up to $25 million per year for a single project. Scientists and interdisciplinary teams representing all disciplines relevant to the NIH mission, including the biological, behavioral, clinical, social, physical, chemical, computational, engineering, and mathematical sciences, are encouraged to apply. The deadline is January 22, 2010 with Letters of Intent due by December 22, 2009.

To visit the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research's web page, go to:
http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/T-R01/

 

NICHD Grants on Human-Animal Interactions

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development is funding studies on the impact of human-animal interaction (HAI) on children's health and development and to test the efficacy of therapeutic uses of HAI with children. This program encourages both basic and applied studies that focus on the interaction between humans and animals and the impact of HAI in three major areas: (1) foundational studies of the interaction itself and its impact on typical development and health, including basic research on biobehavioral markers of suitable behavioral traits for HAI and for using domesticated companion animals as models for identifying gene-behavior associations in humans; (2) applied studies (to include but not limited to clinical trials of the therapeutic use of animals); and (3) population level studies of the impact of animals on public health (prevalence/incidence studies, etc.), social capital, and the cost-effectiveness of using pets/animals in reducing/preventing disease and disorders. For more information: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-09-031.html, and http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-09-030.htm. Deadline is November 19, 2009.