Funding Opportunities at the National Institute on

Drug Abuse

Bethany Deeds, Ph.D., M.A.Deputy Branch Chief, Epidemiology Research Branch Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention

ResearchNational Institute on Drug Abuse

February 7, 2014

Understanding disease Genetics, epigenetics, neurobiology, environment, behavior

Treatment/ Services – Medications development– Screening & brief intervention– Behavioral therapy– Clinical trials– Effectiveness research– Policy research

• Medical (e.g., HIV)• Social• Legal

TransitionEtiology/ Risk

Treatment/Prevention/Services Addiction

Recovery/RelapseEtiology/Risk

Treatment/Prevention/Services

Etiology/ Risk Genetics, epigenetics, neurobiology, pharmacology, environment, prenatal exposure, development, co-morbidity

Prevention/Services– Development and testing of prevention interventions and their implementation– Policy research

Use

Consequences

Research Approaches Addressing the Substance Use Cycle

Across the Use Spectrum—Intoxication to Chronic Use

Priority Areas

Neural mechanismsBrain circuitry

Medications DevelopmentImplementation

GeneticsEnvironmentDevelopment

Neurobiology InterventionsPolicy

HIV/AIDSFetal Exposure

Prevention

Treatment

Consequences

Funding Opportunities -NIDA

For innovative methods or techniques that are novel to

drug abuse research, such as network analysis, agent-based modeling and system

dynamics modeling. 

PA-11-230, 231, 232 Epidemiology of Drug Abuse (R01, R21, R03) PAR-10-018 Accelerating the Pace of Drug Abuse Research Using Existing Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment Research Data (R01)

Funding Opportunities -CRAN

Applications are due on March 25, 2014 

 

RFA-CA-14-008, RFA-CA-14-009Using Social Media to Understand and

Address Substance Use and Addiction RFAs (R01) & (R21)

Summarizes your research plans concisely and facilitates productive

discussions with NIH Program Officials

Concept Paper

Study GoalsYou want support to do what?

Problem/SignificanceWhy does this topic need study?

Research QuestionWhat hypotheses will you test?

Design/Analysis What study design and statistical approach do you propose?

Team Who will be the key participants and collaborators?

Where to begin?NIH: http://www.nih.gov/

Office of Extramural Research: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm

Center for Scientific Review: http://cms.csr.nih.gov/

NIH RePORT: http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm

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