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The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to invite applications for Phase II SBIR applications to test promising cerebrovascular interventions in the NINDS Stroke Preclinical Assessment Network (SPAN). SPAN will facilitate the testing of up to 8 promising cerebroprotective drugs or interventions to be given prior to or at the time of reperfusion in experimental models of ischemic stroke (e.g., transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAo)). The PIs of the awarded interventions will become part of the network and will collaborate with the SPAN Coordinating Center (RFA-NS-22-004), testing laboratories (RFA-NS-22-003), and other intervention contributors (RFA-NS-22-032) to facilitate the parallel testing of multiple cerebroprotective interventions in experimental models of ischemic stroke. Applicants must propose a research project involving a promising cerebroprotective intervention, supported by rigorous and extensive preliminary data, to be tested in SPAN. If successful, this network will accelerate the identification of the most promising cerebroprotective therapies for future pivotal clinical trials and span the gap between small businesses, preclinical testing laboratories, and a pipeline to clinical testing, in a cost-and time-effective fashion.

This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) encourages the translation of the novel neurotechnologies, funded through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative and overseen by the NIH Blueprint MedTech program. Academic and Small Business Concerns (SBCs) are encouraged to submit grant applications that propose non-clinical validation for subsequent clinical feasibility studies. Applications supporting the development and translation of groundbreaking neurotechnologies that fit within the mission of the BRAIN Initiative are encouraged.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites eligible United States small business concerns (SBCs) to submit Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications that propose to develop a technology or product, process, or service for commercialization to improve, reduce, and eliminate health disparities in one or more NIH-defined population groups. Appropriate technologies should be effective, affordable, and culturally acceptable.

This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is issued by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to outline NINDS priorities for applications in the field of headache and migraine research in Fiscal Year 2022. Recognizing the urgent need to increase the study of neurological conditions associated with pain such as headache and migraine, the Fiscal Year 2022 draft budgets from the President, House, and Senate each include proposals to increase funding for pain research within NINDS mission. With this NOSI, NINDS wishes to inform the science community of the headache and migraine research opportunities that will present themselves, if funds become available. To be considered for funding through this initiative in Fiscal Year 2022, applications will need to be submitted to corresponding due dates starting in January or February 2022 so they can undergo Scientific Merit and NINDS Advisory Council review for the September 2022 Council round. For funding consideration, applicants must include NOT-NS-22-051 (without quotation marks) in the Agency Routing Identifier field (box 4B) of the SF424 R&R form. Applications without this information in box 4B will not be considered for this initiative. Applications deemed nonresponsive to the terms of this notice will not be considered for this initiative.

The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to outline NINDS priorities for applications in the field of pain research in Fiscal Year 2022. Recognizing the urgent need to understand the basic science aspect of pathological pain to improve its management, Fiscal Year 2022 draft budgets from the President, House, and Senate each include proposals to increase funding for pain research within NINDS mission. With this NOSI, NINDS wishes to inform the science community of the pain research opportunities that will present themselves, if funds become available. To be considered for funding through this initiative in Fiscal Year 2022, applications will need to be submitted to corresponding due dates starting in January or February 2022 so they can undergo Scientific Merit and NINDS Advisory Council review for the September 2022 Council round. For funding consideration, applicants must include NOT-NS-22-050 (without quotation marks) in the Agency Routing Identifier field (box 4B) of the SF424 R&R form. Applications without this information in box 4B will not be considered for this initiative. Applications deemed nonresponsive to the terms of this notice will not be considered for this initiative.

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) invites applications to expand existing NINDS awards that are not currently focused on pain researchto allow the research to develop such a focus. Active awards with project end dates in FY 2023 or later are eligible. The award may not be in a terminal no-cost extension or going into a no-cost extension in FY 2022. As administrative supplements, the work proposed needs to be within the scope of the research or training that is already supported. Awardees are expected to follow-up on the supplement and seek competing support to continue promising leads from the research supported through the supplement. Awards that currently focus on pain research are not eligible for this program. If an investigator is uncertain whether the parent project does carry a pain focus as defined by NIH, then the investigator may contact the appropriate program officer who can check that status. All grant awards made by NINDS are eligible with the exception of the following: F30, F31, F32, T32, T35, K99, R13, and U13. Eligibility criteria can be found within PA-20-272 The goal of the supplement should be to add a pain component to the parent project, where a significant pain component doesnt exist. For the administrative supplements, the following examples of the parent project research areas will be considered, note this list is not exhaustive, any grant in NINDS portfolio is eligible, excluding the mechanisms listed above.

The NIH Office of Science Policy (OSP) within the Office of the Director (OD) announces the availability of administrative supplements to support 1) research on bioethical issues to develop or support the development of an evidence base that may inform future policy directions, and/or 2) certain efforts to develop or augment bioethics research capacity. Applicants may propose to supplement parent awards focused on bioethics or to add a component related to bioethics to a parent award in which bioethics was not the focus. Note that applications must be within the general scope of the parent award.

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nations biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs in research areas relevant to the BRAIN Initiative. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on Courses for Skills Development and Research Experiences. The purpose of this FOA is to encourage applications for the continuation and/or expansion of ongoing and new research education programs that will significantly advance the educational goals of the BRAIN Initiative as described in BRAIN 2025: A Scientific Vision including neuroethics and opportunities to increase the workforce diversity in BRAIN Initiative research areas. Proposed programs are expected to offer hands-on research experiences, an in-depth conceptual understanding of the techniques and tools employed, and the knowledge to apply appropriate analytic approaches to the resulting data. Participants are limited to undergraduate, graduate/medical students, medical residents, postdoctoral scholars, and/or early-career faculty with an emphasis on diversity as defined by NIH (NOT-OD-20-031). Proposed programs will facilitate the development of a sophisticated cadre of future investigators with the knowledge and skills to apply BRAIN Initiative techniques and approaches and data resources (BRAIN cell census data https://bicon.org/data) to research questions about brain function and behavior. Programs appropriate for this FOA must include participants from a regionally/nationally recruited cohort.

To further the goals of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative, the agency encourages applications for [administrative] supplements to current active NIH grants that address the urgent need to identify the pathobiological mechanisms that lead to the multiple symptoms that develop and/or persist long past the time that patients have recovered from the initial stages of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Often referred to as Long COVID, these symptoms, which can include fatigue, shortness of breath, brain fog, sleep disorders, fevers, gastrointestinal symptoms, anxiety, and depression, can persist for months and can range from mild to incapacitating. In some cases, new symptoms arise well after the time of infection or evolve over time (e.g., MIS-C). While still being defined, these effects can be collectively referred to as Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC). Investigators with expertise and insights germane to COVID-19 and PASC pathobiology are strongly encouraged to apply.

The goal of this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to provide support through administrative supplements to strengthen data sharing and data readiness efforts within the HEAL Initiative that further fosters collaboration among HEAL awardees and enables maximal data discoverability, interoperability, and reuse by aligning with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles. This NOSI focuses on data discoverability, and provides an opportunity for existing HEAL Initiative awardees to increase data FAIR-ness, participate in coordinated HEAL Initiative activities to build community around data sharing, and foster sustainability of HEAL Initiative digital assets. This NOSI is soliciting administrative supplements only from existing awards funded or supplemented by the HEAL Initiative. Applications from HEAL research teams that are already working with data coordinating centers as requirement of the award must provide justification for applying and will be given lower priority. Centers are not eligible to apply. Sharing HEAL-generated results and associated data as rapidly as possible will allow the broader community to ask and answer new research questions; conduct secondary analyses; and address fast-evolving challenges that surround pain management, opioid use and misuse, and overdose.