Gulf War Illness Idea Award (DOD)

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31022
• Date: 16 April 2020
• Published date: 16 April 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

with GWI; or otherwise generate interest in becoming

and staying well-informed regarding GWI.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-GWIRP-

PPHCA

Gulf War Illness Idea Award (DOD)

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

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for the

Gulf War Illness (GWI) Idea Award announcement to

support innovative, high-risk/high-reward research in

the earliest stages of development that will contribute to

markers or treatments for GWI.

Deadline: Pre-applications, May 29, 2020; proposals,

Sept. 10, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $720,000 for three Idea Award

applications.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said the FY2020 Idea Award has a

special interest in the exploration of the topics listed

below: innovative treatments for GWI, identication of

the causes of and treatment targets for dysregulated

biological system function, identication of molecular

signatures’ (e.g., genomic, proteomic, metabolic and

epigenetic) underlying symptoms and the grouping

of symptom sets based on common underlying

pathobiology, and investigation of comorbidities,

mortality, sex or ethnic differences.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-GWIRP-IA

Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Impact Award

(DOD)

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

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for

the Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Impact Award

announcement to support hypothesis-driven, high-

impact research, encouraging applications with mature

research projects that specically focus on critical

scientic or clinical cancer issues, which, if successfully

addressed, have the potential to make a major impact

on at least one of the FY2020 Peer Reviewed Cancer

Research Program topic areas.

Deadline: Pre-applications, May 14, 2020; proposals,

Aug. 27, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $17.6 million for approximately 11

Impact Award applications.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said topic areas include bladder

cancer, blood cancers, brain cancer, colorectal

cancer, esophageal cancer, head and neck cancer,

immunotherapy and liver cancer, among many others.

See the announcement for a complete list.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-PRCRP-IPA

Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Translational

Team Science Award (DOD)

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

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for the

Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Translational Team

Science Award announcement to support hypothesis-

driven translational studies that will be associated with

clinical trials.

Deadline: Pre-applications, July 30, 2020; proposals,

Aug. 27, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $19.2 million for approximately

eight Translational Team Science award applications.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said areas of emphasis include interventions

to improve quality of life for cancer patients and/or

survivors and cancer prevention or early detection. Topic

areas include bladder cancer, blood cancers, brain

cancer, colorectal cancer, esophageal cancer, head and

neck cancer, immunotherapy and liver cancer, among

many others. See the announcement for a complete list.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-PRCRP-

TTSA

Energy Technology Deployment on Tribal Lands

(DOE)

Scope: The Energy Department’s Office of Indian

Energy seeks applications for the Energy Technology

Deployment on Tribal Lands announcement.

Deadline: July 1, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $15 million for up to 12 awards

ranging from $50,000 to $2 million.

Eligibility: Native American tribal governments and

organizations.

Areas: DOE said funding may be used to: install energy-

generating system(s) and energy-efficiency measure(s) for

tribal building(s) (Topic Area 1), deploy community-scale

energy-generating system(s) or energy storage on tribal

lands (Topic Area 2), install integrated energy system(s)

for autonomous operation (independent of the traditional

centralized electric power grid) to power a single or

multiple essential tribal facilities during emergency

situations or for tribal community resilience (Topic Area

3) or deploy energy infrastructure and integrated energy

system(s) to electrify tribal buildings (Topic Area 4).

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# DE-FOA-0002317

Technologies to keep thermoplastics

out of landlls, the environment (DOE)

Scope: The Energy Department seeks applications for

the FY2020 Bioenergy and Advanced Manufacturing

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