Please make note of DOD funding opportunities amounting to $50 million as described below and at http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/prgdefault.htm.

I encourage you and PIs at your facility who may be interested in such program announcements to sign up to receive CDMRP notices directly.

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From: CDMRP eReceipt Help Desk [mailto:grantannouncements@constellagroup.com]

Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:52 PM

To: Barbara West

Subject: FY09 DOD Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Releases Funding Opportunities

The Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09) Defense Appropriations Act provides $50 million to the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) to support scientifically meritorious proposals that may impact the field of research and/or patient care across a diverse range of diseases and disorders.  Specifically, the FY09 PRMRP is soliciting research applications across the following 19 congressionally-directed topic areas: alcoholism research; autoimmune diseases; blood cancer; childhood asthma; drug abuse; epilepsy; kidney cancer; listeria vaccine for infectious diseases and cancer; lupus; mesothelioma; molecular signatures in tumors; neuroblastoma; osteoporosis and related bone disease; Paget's disease; pediatric cancer; polycystic kidney disease; social work research; tinnitus; and West Nile virus vaccine.  Applications submitted to the FY09 PRMRP must address one of the topic areas listed above.

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 FY09 PRMRP funding opportunities is provided below.  Detailed descriptions of each of the FY09 PRMRP funding mechanisms, evaluation criteria, and submission requirements can be found in the corresponding Program Announcement and Application Instructions & General Information. Each Program Announcement is available electronically for downloading from the Grants.gov website (<http://www.grants.gov>), the CDMRP website (<http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/prmrp.htm>) and the CDMRP eReceipt Website (https://cdmrp.org).

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Submission Deadlines:

Investigator-Initiated Research Award

Pre-Application Letter of Intent:  March 19, 2009

Application:  April 16, 2009

Technology/Therapeutic Development Award Pre-Application Letter of Intent:  March 19, 2009

Application:  April 16, 2009

Clinical Trial Award

Pre-Application Letter of Intent:  March 19, 2009

Application:  April 16, 2009

Pre-application submission is required and must be completed through the CDMRP eReceipt website, <https://cdmrp.org>, prior to application submission.  As of 2007, all applications requesting funding from the CDMRP must be submitted through the Federal Government's single entry portal, www.Grants.gov, in compliance with Public Law 106-107. Each individual Program Announcement, Application Instructions & General Information, and required forms can be found on the Grants.gov website.

 Please visit http://cdmrp.army.mil for more information.