Announcements

NCCIH Director's Message: Navigating Challenging Times with Scientifically Sound Resources

March 23, 2020

The disruption to daily life brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is being felt all around the globe. As we navigate the challenges of today and of the days ahead, I hope you’ll use the resources developed by the CDC and NIH to help you, your loved ones, and your community manage these challenges and stay healthy.

Resources for Researchers

HEAL Initiative Funding Opportunity Related to the Druggable Genome

NCCIH is participating in a funding opportunity you may find of interest: Notice of Special Interest for HEAL Initiative: Request for Administrative Supplements to Existing Grants for Identification and Validation of New Pain and Opioid Use Disorder Targets Within the Understudied Druggable Genome (NOT-TR-20-008).

These administrative supplements expand existing awards to identify and validate new pain and opioid use disorder (OUD) targets from within the understudied proteins of the druggable genome. Application Due Date: March 17 to June 1, 2020.

NOTE: Applications must respond to the parent active administrative supplement PA-18-591: Administrative Supplements to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Parent Administrative Supplement Clinical Trial Optional). All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide and PA-18-591 must also be followed. Please read NOT-TR-20-008 for additional application requirements.

Notice of Special Interest: Administrative Supplements to Support Enhancement of Software Tools for Open Science

Apply by May 15, 2020

The National Institutes of Health recently announced the availability of administrative supplements to active grants that focus on biomedical software development or have a significant software development component. These supplements will invest in research software tools with recognized value in a scientific community to enhance their impact by leveraging best practices in software development and advances in cloud computing.

The supplements are intended to support collaborations between biomedical scientists and software engineers to enhance the design, implementation, and “cloud-readiness” of research software. Through these awards, the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy intends to help researchers who have developed scientifically valuable software to make tools sustainable, contribute to open science, and take advantage of new data science and computing paradigms. A trans-NIH team is engaged in helping to extend this opportunity to science funded by all NIH institutes and centers.

This initiative is part of a plan to implement the NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science, which describes actions aimed at modernizing the biomedical research data ecosystem and making data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable – or FAIR – with high impact for open science.

Learn more about this Notice of Special Interest (NOT-OD-20-073) and apply by May 15. All inquiries may be directed to Jessica Mazerik, Ph.D., at jessica.mazerik@nih.gov.

New Funding Opportunities

Upcoming Events

NCCIH In-Person Events Canceled

Currently, NIH is urging that all large meetings and symposia that are not mission critical and are scheduled to be held at NIH facilities or organized by NIH either be held virtually using tele/videoconferencing services, postponed, or canceled. We will let you know about rescheduled events and online viewing options as plans are made.

CANCELED: Integrative Medicine Research Lecture on March 24

In light of the coronavirus outbreak and in support of Office of Personnel Management guidance to strengthen our efforts to protect the federal workforce to ensure continuity of operations, NCCIH has cancelled the Integrative Medicine Research Lecture by Dr. Eric Garland of The University of Utah scheduled for Tuesday, March 24. We’ll reschedule as soon as possible