Research Funding

DOD Lung Cancer Research Program Funding Opportunities Fiscal Year 2019

The FY19 Defense Appropriation provides $14 million (M) to the Department of Defense Lung Cancer Research Program (LCRP) to support innovative, high-impact lung cancer research.  As directed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the Defense Health Agency (DHA) J9, Research and Development Directorate, manages the Defense Health Program (DHP) Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriation.  The managing agent for the anticipated Program Announcements/Funding Opportunities is the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC).

FY19 LCRP Program Announcements and General Application Instructions for the following award mechanisms are posted on Grants.gov.

Applications submitted to the FY19 LCRP must address at least one of the nine Areas of Emphasis listed below:

  • Identify innovative strategies for the screening and early detection of lung cancer.
  • Understand the molecular mechanisms of initiation and progression to clinically significant lung cancer.
  • Identify innovative strategies for prevention of the occurrence of lung cancer.
  • Identify innovative strategies for the treatment of lung cancer.
  • Identify innovative strategies for the prevention of recurrence of or metastases from lung cancer.
  • Develop or optimize predictive markers to assist with therapeutic decision-making.
  • Understand mechanisms of resistance to treatment (primary and secondary).
  • Understand contributors to lung cancer development other than tobacco.
  • Identify innovative strategies for lung cancer care delivery (clinical management/ surveillance/symptom management).

Military Relevance:  The LCRP seeks to support research that is relevant to the healthcare needs of military Service members, Veterans, and their families.  Military relevance will be considered in determining relevance to the mission of the DHP and FY19 LCRP during programmatic reviewInvestigators are strongly encouraged to consider the following characteristics as examples of how a project may demonstrate military relevance:

  • Use of military or Veteran populations, biospecimens, data/databases, or programs in the proposed research
  • Collaboration with Department of Defense or Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) investigators
  • Involvement of military consultants (Army, Air Force) or specialty leaders (Navy, Marine Corps) to the Surgeons General in a relevant specialty area
  • Description of how the knowledge, information, products, or technologies gained from the proposed research could be implemented in a dual-use capacity to address a military need that also benefits the civilian population
  • Explanation of how the project addresses an aspect of lung cancer that has direct relevance to military Service members, Veterans, or other military health system beneficiaries, including environmental exposures other than tobacco

https://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/lcrp

Career Development Award – Letter of Intent due August 1, 2019

  • Principal Investigator: Independent investigators at the level of Assistant Professor, Instructor, or equivalent; must be within 5 years of first faculty appointment.
  • Must not have received a Career Development Award previously from any program within the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs.
  • Must not have received more than $300,000 in total direct costs for previously or concurrent lung cancer research as a PI of one or more federally or privately funded, non-mentored, peer-reviewed grants.
  • Mentor:
  • At or above the level of Associate Professor (or equivalent)
  • Must have a proven publication and funding record in lung cancer research.
  • Supports early-career, independent researchers to conduct research under mentorship of an experienced lung cancer researcher.
  • Clinical trials not allowed.
  • Preliminary data not required.
  • Relevance to Military Health strongly encouraged.
  • Maximum funding of $250,000 in direct costs (plus indirect costs).
  • Period of performance should not exceed years

 A pre-application is required and must be submitted through the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) at https://eBRAP.org prior to the pre-application deadline.  All applications must conform to the final Program Announcements and General Application Instructions available for electronic downloading from the Grants.gov website.  The application package containing the required forms for each award mechanism will also be found on Grants.gov.  A listing of all CDMRP and other USAMRMC extramural funding opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search using CFDA Number 12.420.

For email notification when Program Announcements are released, subscribe to program-specific news and updates under “Email Subscriptions” on the eBRAP homepage at https://eBRAP.org.  For more information about the LCRP or other CDMRP-administered programs, please visit the CDMRP website (https://cdmrp.army.mil).

Point of Contact:

CDMRP Help Desk
301-682-5507
help@eBrap.org

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