NIH PAR-14-268 GRANT
(max $250,000, due 9/7/14)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for the purpose of fostering international collaborations between alcohol research investigators within the United States and investigators located at non-United States laboratories and performance sites for the mutual advancement of our understanding of alcohol problems and of clinical and public health approaches to their solutions. The program is intended to provide funds for research activities to be undertaken jointly between the U.S. and non-U.S. laboratory that expands the research direction of both the U.S. and non-U.S. laboratories in a collaborative manner.
It is expected that the U.S. and non-U.S. investigators will have pre-existing research programs at the time of application and that the funds to be provided through this award will be used to enhance, through an active collaboration, the ongoing research efforts in both laboratories. Thereby, funds provided under this announcement will not substitute or replace the support for the on-going research efforts in the respective laboratories, but will be limited to support of new activities within the application for collaboration. Resources contributed to the collaborative research effort by each investigator may include contributions of personnel, access to study populations, laboratory, and other research facilities, etc.
This announcement is intended to cover the entire domain of research activities supported by NIAAA. Applications are invited across the full spectrum of alcohol research from basic science to clinical, public health and health services research. Any of a large number of research questions may be addressed under this program, and may involve the use of human subjects, research animal models, statistical modeling, or in vitro approaches. Research priorities include but are not limited to: Alcohol genetics and epigenetics research; Developmental effects of alcohol exposure; Comparative epidemiology-population-based research that identifies sociodemographic factors associated with patterns of alcohol consumption in settings that may help elucidate risk factors in the U.S.; mechanisms of behavior change research; alcohol and safety research on causes of alcohol-associated accidents and injuries, and interventions to ameliorate the public health problems associated with drinking and activities such as driving; policies to reduce alcohol-related harms evaluations of policies enacted in other societies afford an otherwise unavailable opportunity to study the likely effects of policies that have not been enacted domestically, but might be under active consideration; research on prevention and intervention to reduce underage drinking and drinking in young adults.
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