NIDCD Research Opportunities for New Investigators to Promote Workforce Diversity

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) recognize a unique and compelling need to promote diversity in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences workforce. The NIH expects efforts to diversify the workforce to lead to the recruitment of the most talented researchers from all groups; improve the quality of the educational and training environment; balance and broaden the perspective in setting research priorities; to improve the ability to recruit subjects from minority and other health disparity populations into clinical research protocols, and to improve the Nation’s capacity to address and eliminate health disparities.

Donor Name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

State: All States

County: All Counties

U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 08/04/2023

Size of the Grant: $500,000

Grant Duration: 5 years

Details:

The objective of this program is consistent with the provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act and will support research from the Early Stage and New Investigators from diverse backgrounds, including investigators from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, in order to enhance the diversity of R01 funded investigators

NIDCD welcomes responsive applications that propose research in communication disorders including those affecting hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language. For applications involving human subjects, applications including individuals from across the lifespan are welcome with populations of interest including both pediatric and adults.

For this FOA, preliminary data are not required. However, the project should be supported by sufficient information to give confidence to the reviewers that the proposed work is feasible. Applicants who do not include preliminary data are encouraged to justify the conceptual and technical feasibility of the proposed work through previous experience, literature citations, compelling logic, published data, and publicly available databases. If preliminary data are available, it is recommended that the data be included, and the provided data will be evaluated in the peer-review process.

Investigator-initiated low-risk clinical trials addressing the mission and research interests of NIDCD are responsive to this FOA. Proposed low-risk clinical trials must meet ALL the following criteria: meet the budget limits of this FOA, not require FDA oversight, are not intended to formally establish efficacy, and have low risks of potentially causing physical or psychological harm. This FOA also supports low-risk trials determined to be Basic Science Experimental Studies involving Humans (BESH). These studies fall within the NIH definition of a clinical trial and also meet the definition of basic research.

Funding Information

• Application budgets are limited to less than $500,000 direct costs/year and need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.

Grant Period

• The maximum project period is 5 years.

Eligibility Criteria

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