Request for Applications: Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research
The NIH Challenge Grant information is now live on the NIH website:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/challenge_award/
The RFA includes the following deadlines:
Release/Posted Date: March 4, 2009
Opening Date: March 27, 2009 (Earliest date an application may be submitted to Grants.gov)
Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): Not applicable
NOTE: On-time submission requires that applications be successfully submitted to Grants.gov no later than 5:00 pm local time (of the applicant institution/organization).
Application Due Date(s): April 27, 2009
Peer Review Date(s): June/July 2009
Council Review Date(s): August 2009
Earliest Anticipated Start Date(s): September 30, 2009
Additional Information to Be Available Date (Activation Date): Not Applicable
Expiration Date: April 28, 2009
Grant Funding Opportunities
Supported by the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)
http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/
Action Plan for Liver Disease Research
Liver disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States, affecting persons of all ages, but most frequently individuals in the productive years of life, between the ages of 40 and 60 years. Liver disease also disproportionately affects minority individuals and the economically disadvantaged. Medical research on liver disease is critically important and further progress in research promises to bring under control the major toll of liver disease on human health and well-being. Indeed, the last 25 years of medical research in liver disease has resulted in major improvements in the survival and quality-of-life of patients with liver disease. The next 25 years should bring even more profound and important changes.
To address the burden of liver diseases in the United States, the National Institutes of Health has developed an Action Plan for Liver Disease Research.
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