Eligible Applicants

Organization: All organizations, including foreign organizations, foreign public entities, and international organizations, are eligible to apply.

Government Agencies Within the United States: Local, state, and federal government agencies are eligible to the extent that applications do not overlap with their fully funded internal programs. Such agencies are required to explain how their applications do not overlap with their internal programs.

As applications for this program announcement may be submitted by extramural and intramural organizations, these terms are defined below.

Extramural Organization: An eligible non-DOD organization. Examples of extramural organizations include academic institutions, biotechnology companies, foundations, federal government organizations other than the DOD, and research institutes.

Intramural DOD Organization: A DOD laboratory, DOD military treatment facility, and/or DOD activity embedded within a civilian medical center. Intramural Submission: An application submitted by a DOD organization for an intramural investigator working within a DOD laboratory or military treatment facility or in a DOD activity embedded within a civilian medical center.

The USAMRAA makes awards to eligible organizations, not to individuals.

Principal Investigator and Mentor

Funding Level I – Pathway to Independence Option:

Principal Investigator

• The named PI must be at or above the level of postdoctoral fellow (e.g., research associate, fellow, medical resident, or equivalent), or within 3 years of their first independent faculty position (or equivalent) at the time of the application submission deadline (excluding time spent in residence or on family medical leave). Lapses in research time or appointments as denoted in the biographical sketch should be explained in the application.
• The PI can be from any field or discipline, but must demonstrate suitable experience relevant to the proposed research.

Mentor

• The mentor must hold a position at or above the level of an associate professor (or equivalent).
• The mentor must be a PTE researcher possessing qualifications, background, and experience in BOTH TBI and epilepsy as well as a track record for mentoring earlycareer investigators in the field.

The PI and mentor DO NOT need to be located at the same organization. '

Funding Level II – Innovative New Direction Option:

Principal Investigator

• The named PI must be an independent investigator at or above the level of assistant professor (or equivalent) at the time of the application submission deadline.
• Applicants can be from any field or discipline but study teams are expected to demonstrate expertise in both TBI and epilepsy.

Both Funding Levels:

An eligible PI, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, or citizenship status, must be employed by, or affiliated with, an eligible organization.

The CDMRP strongly encourages all PIs to participate in a digital identifier initiative through Open Researcher and Contributor ID, Inc. (ORCID). Registration for a unique ORCID identifier can be done online at https://orcid.org/.

Cost Sharing

Cost sharing/matching is not an eligibility requirement.

Other

Organizations must be able to access .gov and .mil websites in order to fulfill the financial and technical deliverable requirements of the award and submit invoices for payment.

Eligible Countries:

Sponsor Institute/Organizations: Department of Defense(DOD)

Sponsor Type:

Address: 1400 Defense Pentagon; Washington, DC 20301-1400;United States

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