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Identify and Evaluate Potential Risk Factors for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is soliciting investigator initiated research that will further the understanding of potential risk factors for ALS, while supporting the ATSDR National ALS Registry's mission.
The National ALS Registry's goals are to estimate
the number of new ALS cases each year, estimate the number of people who have ALS at a specific point in time, better understand who gets ALS, and identify what contributing factors, including environmental, may affect ALS.
ATSDR is seeking investigator-initiated research that will identify and evaluate risk factors contributing to ALS, with preferred focus in this Notice of Funding Opportunity on factors related to military service, contact sports, traumatic brain injury, neuroinflammation and infectious agents.
The National ALS Registry's goals are to estimate
the number of new ALS cases each year, estimate the number of people who have ALS at a specific point in time, better understand who gets ALS, and identify what contributing factors, including environmental, may affect ALS.
ATSDR is seeking investigator-initiated research that will identify and evaluate risk factors contributing to ALS, with preferred focus in this Notice of Funding Opportunity on factors related to military service, contact sports, traumatic brain injury, neuroinflammation and infectious agents.
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Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Office: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA
Estimated Funding: $7,500,000
Office: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA
Estimated Funding: $7,500,000
Who's Eligible
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-11-001.html
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Additional Eligibility Category:The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for CDC support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education: Hispanic-serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Faith-based or Community-based Organizations, Regional Organizations Bona Fide Agents: A Bona Fide Agent is an agency/organization identified by the state as eligible to submit an application under the state eligibility in lieu of a state application.
If applying as a bona fide agent of a state or local government, a legal, binding agreement from the state or local government as documentation of the status is required.
Attach with "Other Attachment Forms." Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs): FFRDCs are operated, managed, and/or administered by a university or consortium of universities, other not-for-profit or nonprofit organization, or an industrial firm, as an autonomous organization or as an identifiable separate operating unit of a parent organization.
A FFRDC meets some special long-term research or development need which cannot be met as effectively by an agency's existing in-house or contractor resources.
FFRDC's enable agencies to use private sectorresources to accomplish tasks that are integral to the mission and operation of the sponsoring agency.
For more information on FFRDCs, go to https://dap.dau.mil/acquipedia/Pages/ArticleDetails.aspx?aid=5e3079b8-44f2-43df-a0e7-9f379e8c48ed Foreign Organizations are eligible to apply.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-11-001.html
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Date Posted:
2019-12-10
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Archive Date:
2020-04-03
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