Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Innovative Global Health Research Program 2008

APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 30, 2008

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is accepting grant proposals for the first round of Grand Challenges Explorations, a new $100 million initiative to help scientists across the globe pursue never before tested ideas for solving major health problems. Initial grants will be $100,000 each, and projects showing success may receive additional funding of $1 million or more. The initiative will use a simple, quick grant-making process--applications will be two pages, and preliminary data are not required.

Applicants must register intent to submit a proposal by May 15, 2008. Full descriptions of the initial topic areas, application instructions, and proposals will be accepted online at: www.gcgh.org/explorations.

The four topics for the first funding round:

• Creating new ways to protect against infectious diseases
  
• Creating drugs or delivery systems that limit the emergence of resistance
  
• Creating new ways to prevent or cure HIV infection
  
• Exploring the basis for latency in TB

Grand Challenges Explorations is an expansion of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, which was launched in 2003 to spur the discovery of new technologies to improve global health. The Explorations initiative focuses on research areas where creative, unorthodox thinking is most urgently needed.

For more information or to apply, contact:

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Phone: 206.709.3400
Email: media@gatesfoundation.org


Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP)

The Fiscal Year 2008 (FY08) Defense Appropriations Act provides $50 million to the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) to support research that will make significant contributions in the following research areas:

• Alcoholism Research
  
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
  
• Blood Cancer
  
• Drug Abuse
  
• Epilepsy Research
  
• Eye and Vision Research
  
• Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  
• Integrated Tissue Hypoxia Research
  
• Interstitial Cystitis
  
• Kidney Cancer
  
• Leishmaniasis
  
• Lupus
  
• Mesothelioma
  
• Multiple Sclerosis
  
• Nutrition and Health Promotion
  
• Paget's Disease
  
• Polycystic Kidney Disease
  
• Pulmonary Hypertension
  
• Scleroderma
  
• Social Work Research
  
• Tinnitus

There is an additional $1M Congressional appropriation for bone marrow failure disorder research.

This program is administered by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command through the Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP). PRMRP funding opportunities include:

• Investigator-Initiated Research Award
  
• Investigator-Initiated Research Award (Specific appropriation for bone marrow failure disorder research)
  
• Translational Research Award (Single PI)
  
• Translational Research Award (Partnering PI option)
  
• Advanced Technology/Therapeutic Development Award
  
• Clinical Trial Award

Submission Deadlines:
Pre-Application (Letter of Intent): June 4, 2008
Proposal: July 2, 2008

Detailed descriptions of each of the funding mechanisms, evaluation criteria, and submission requirements can be found in the FY08 PRMRP Program Announcements. Each Program Announcement is available electronically for downloading from the Grants.gov website (http://www.grants.gov), the CDMRP website (http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/prmrp.htm) and the CDMRP eReceipt Website (https://cdmrp.org).

Please visit http://cdmrp.army.mil for more information.

Proposals requesting funding from the CDMRP have been submitted through the Federal Government's single entry portal, Grants.gov, in compliance with Public Law 106-107. Individual program announcements and required forms can be found on the Grants.gov website. Pre-applications are required and must be submitted through the CDMRP eReceipt website, (https://cdmrp.org), prior to proposal submission to Grants.gov.

New for 2008 - In order to clarify the CDMRP Program Announcements and proposal submission process, CDMRP has divided these documents into the following:

1. Program Announcement - contains all program information, scientific proposal components, and peer review criteria.
   
2. Application Instructions - contains instructions and detailed information on all pre-application and proposal requirements, including directions for Grants.gov submissions. This document also contains Regulatory Requirements and Award Administration information.

Each Application Instruction document will only apply to the specific award mechanism listed; however this document is intended to be utilized in conjunction with the PA.

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