Show Me the Money! Finding Funding to Study the Clinical Effects of Mind and Body InterventionsApril 19, 2017 Wendy Weber, N.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. At NCCIH, we are working hard to let the research community know about our new approach to funding research with human subjects that focuses on the clinical effects of complementary health approaches. We held a webinar yesterday to discuss why our Center will no longer accept most clinical trial applications through the Parent R01 and will, instead, encourage applicants to use a new series of funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) designed for investigator-initiated clinical trials (see NOT-AT-17-006). In this blog post, I’d like to share how our new FOAs provide pathways to support developmental steps for mind and body clinical trials. Each of the clinical trial FOAs is targeted to a specific stage of clinical research. We want to help investigators select the appropriate FOA based on the amount of preliminary data that is available on the intervention’s effect in the patient population of interest. There are FOAs for early phase trials, intermediate trials, and full-scale efficacy, effectiveness, or pragmatic trials. The new series of FOAs will support investigators working to establish “building blocks” that bridge the gap from basic research to high-impact clinical trials on complementary and integrative health interventions. |
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