Funding Opportunities

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Current NIH Announcements (scroll down for non-NIH funding opportunities)

RFA-HL-08-007: Targeted Approaches to Weight Control for Young Adults (U01)

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) invites applications for cooperative agreements (U01) to conduct two-phase clinical research studies to develop, refine, and test innovative behavioral and/or environmental approaches for weight control in young adults at high risk for weight gain. Weight control interventions can address weight loss, prevention of weight gain, or prevention of excessive weight gain during pregnancy. The first phase will consist of formative research to refine the proposed intervention, recruitment, retention, and adherence strategies targeted to young adults. The second phase will consist of a randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of the intervention. For the purpose of this funding opportunity, young adults are defined as 18-35 years of age.

Key Dates

Release/Posted Date: April 8, 2008
Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): September 10, 2008
Application Due Date(s): October 10, 2008
Peer Review Date(s): February-March 2009
Council Review Date(s): May 2009
Earliest Anticipated Start Date(s): June 2009
Additional Information To Be Available Date (Activation Date): Not Applicable
Expiration Date: October 11, 2008

This funding opportunity is described in more detail at: RFA-HL-08-007: Targeted Approaches to Weight Control for Young Adults (U01)

For more information contact:

Catherine (Cay) Loria, Ph.D., M.S.
Division of Prevention and Population Sciences
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
6701 Rockledge Drive, Suite 10118, MSC 7936
Bethesda, MD 20892-7936
Telephone: (301) 435-0702
Fax: (301) 480-5158
Email: loriac@nhlbi.nih.gov

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Other Funding Sources

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages the formation of partnerships between academic institutions and school systems in order to develop and implement controlled, school-based intervention strategies designed to reduce the prevalence of obesity in childhood. This initiative also encourages evaluative comparisons of different intervention strategies, as well as the use of methods to detect synergistic interactions between different types of interventions.

Eligible organizations: For-profit or non-profit, organizations, public or private institutions, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, and laboratories, units of State and local governments, eligible agencies of the Federal government, domestic or foreign institutions/organizations, faith-based or community-based organizations, Indian/Native American Tribal Government (Federally Recognized); Indian/Native American Tribal Government (Other than Federally Recognized); and Indian/Native American Tribally Designated Organization.

Department of Health and Human Services School-Based Interventions to Prevent Obesity (R21) Grant: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=9614

Department of Health and Human Services School-based Interventions to Prevent Obesity (R01) Grant: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=9615

Department of Health and Human Services School-based Interventions to Prevent Obesity (R03) Grant: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=9616

Johns Hopkins General Internal Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: The Johns Hopkins University Division of General Internal Medicine is seeking applicants for its postdoctoral fellowship program. A diverse faculty base in the Division allows for a broad range of research options in obesity research. For additional details, please visit: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gim/fellowship/interest_area.html.

The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) “Exfoliated Cells, Bioactive Food Components, and Cancer” is designed to promote innovative preclinical and clinical research to critically evaluate the use of exfoliated cells to monitor variation in dietary intake and response to bioactive food components thought to be involved with cancer prevention. Emphasis should be on a comparison of the activity of bioactive food components in exfoliated cells, normal cells (such as the target tissue and blood cells), and, when available, tumor cells. Both R03 and R21 mechanisms are available within this FOA, PA-06-359 for R21 applications and PA-06-360 for R03 applications. Information about these two funding mechanisms is posted at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-359.html and http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-360.html, respectively.

The Nutritional Science Research Group, in the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute, has issued a new funding opportunity announcement titled "Exploratory/Developmental Clinical Research Grants in Obesity (R21)." Information about this Program Announcement (PA) can be found at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-256.html. The goal of this PA is to encourage exploratory/developmental clinical studies that will accelerate the development of effective interventions for prevention or treatment of overweight or obesity in either adults or children. Please direct any questions about scientific/research issues that relate to obesity and cancer to Dr. Sharon Ross by phone at 301-594-7547 or by e-mail at rosssha@mail.nih.gov.

The University of California, Davis, and the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have announced a small grants program to stimulate innovative research related to the impact of US food assistance programs on the nutrition of the target populations. For more information, contact the UCD-ERS Small Grants Program by phone at 530-754-9651 or e-mail at tjmcmurdo@ucdavis.edu.