Funding Opportunity: Pharmacotherapy Clinical Trials Funding
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July 18, 2008
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) will award $3 million in grants to support pilot clinical trials of pharmacotherapies for addictive disorders. The grant is titled “Pilot Clinical Trials of Pharmacotherapies for Substance Related Disorders (R01).” The Request for Applications number is RFA-DA-09-005.
According to the grant announcement “NIDA expects to receive grant applications for clinical research on medications for which some theoretical or limited preclinical or clinical information exists for investigation as possible treatments of individual SRDs, combinations of them (i.e., cocaine and alcohol use, cocaine and cannabis use) or comorbid with other psychiatric disorders, but which are not ready to be tested in a large and expensive randomized clinical trial.”
However, the agency will not accept proposals that involve preclinical studies, or those focused on nicotine or alcohol-related disorders except when they are comorbid with illicit drug use.
“NIDA will not accept applications testing medications that have already demonstrated safety and efficacy for the target disorder,” the agency noted. “Therefore, there must be a strong rationale for the medications proposed for testing, but no preclinical or clinical data are required or expected.”
Public or state-controlled institutions of higher education, 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, nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) IRS status (other than institutions of higher education), and others are eligible to apply. Applications submitted in response to this funding opportunity announcement for federal assistance must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov. Submissions must be made between September 23, 2008, and October 23, 2008.
For more information, visit Grants.gov to read the full grant announcement.