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

Independent investigators at all academic levels (or equivalent) may be named by organizations as the PI on the application. Postdoctoral fellows are not considered independent investigators unless documentation is provided by the applicant’s organization.

Early-Career Investigator Partnering Option

The Early-Career Investigator must be an independent investigator within 10 years after completion of their terminal degree by the time of the application submission deadline (excluding time spent in residency or on family medical leave). Time spent as a postdoctoral fellow is not excluded. Postdoctoral fellows are not considered independent investigators unless documentation is provided by the applicant’s organization. Lapses in research time or appointments as denoted in the biographical sketch should be explained in the application. For Early-Career Investigator Partnering Option applications, at least one of the named PIs must be an Early-Career Investigator.

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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