Chronic Pain Management, Translational Research Award (DOD)

• Date: 16 July 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31189
• Published date: 16 July 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

Harnessing Enzymatic Activity for Lifesaving

Remedies (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s Biological

Technologies Office seeks applications for the

Harnessing Enzymatic Activity for Lifesaving Remedies

(HEALR) announcement to develop new therapeutics

against DOD-priority bacterial threats that leverage host-

driven protein degradation or deactivation pathways,

and a platform capability to rapidly develop, screen and

optimize therapeutics against emerging bacterial threats.

Deadline: Abstracts, Aug. 11, 2020; proposals, Sept. 17,

2020.

Funds: Award amounts will depend on the quality of the

proposals received and the availability of funds.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said HEALR seeks to establish an

orthogonal approach to treating microbial infections by

harnessing advancements in recruiting native cellular

host machinery to recognize and eliminate disease-

related targets. Specically, HEALR will develop new

medical countermeasures that result in host-driven

degradation or deactivation of bacterial targets. By

harnessing innate cellular processes, approaches such

as proteolysis targeting chimeras and similar methods

can achieve superior outcomes over existing therapies.

Technical areas are microbiological targeting, host

machinery management and platform integration.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# HR001120S0052

Chronic Pain Management, Translational

Research Award (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s U.S. Army Medical

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for

the Chronic Pain Management, Translational Research

Award announcement to support translational research

that will accelerate the movement of evidence-based

ideas in chronic pain management research into clinical

applications, such as health care products, technologies,

clinical practice guidelines and/or models of care.

Deadline: Pre-applications, Aug. 7, 2020; proposals,

Nov. 6, 2020.

Funds: $15 million total for two awards.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said research must address one of

the focus areas: implementation science, such as

unique barriers for delivery of complementary and

integrative health therapies and models of care in

military populations and environments, including at-risk

subpopulations, and self-management and service-

of-care models; or comparative effectiveness, such

as multimodal and combination therapies and chronic

pain and its bidirectional interactions with comorbidities

(e.g., polytrauma triad, suicidal thoughts and behaviors,

substance abuse, etc.).

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-CPMRP-TRA

Chronic Pain Management, Investigator-Initiated

Research Award (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s U.S. Army Medical

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for

the Chronic Pain Management, Investigator-Initiated

Research Award announcement.

Deadline: Pre-applications, Aug. 7, 2020; proposals,

Nov. 6, 2020.

Funds: $15 million total for up to six awards.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said research must address one of

the focus areas: chronication of pain, such as

understanding mechanisms of, and developing models

for studying, the transition from acute to chronic pain

following trauma either physical and/or psychological

or development of mechanistically justied therapies

to prevent and treat chronication; and development

of novel non-µ-opioid receptor-targeted therapies for

the treatment of chronic pain, such as novel nonopioid

pharmacological solutions or devices that treat chronic

pain directly or those that improve the administration of

nonopioid analgesics, among others.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-CPMRP-IIRA

Scholars for science, technology, engineering

and mathematics workforce development (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s Air Force Research

Laboratory (AFRL) seeks applications for the Future

Scholars for Science, Technology, Engineering, and

Mathematics (STEM) Workforce Development Programs

announcement.

Deadline: June 17, 2025.

Funds: $50 million for awards ranging from $25,000 to

$25 million.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprot

organizations; and state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments; among others.

Areas: DOD said AFRL’s workforce development

programs or projects include but are not limited to:

internships (high school through doctoral), fellowship

apprentice/residency programs, college or university

project-based learning programs, and formal or informal

workforce development programs or projects that align

with the federal STEM strategy and DOD STEM mission.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# FOA20AFRLRVKE0001

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