The FY16 Defense Appropriations Act provides $12
million (M) to the Department of Defense (DoD) Lung Cancer Research Program
(LCRP) to support innovative, high-impact
lung cancer research. As directed by the Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the Defense Health Agency, Research,
Development, and Acquisition Directorate manages the Defense Health Program
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation appropriation. The managing
agent for the anticipated Program Announcements/Funding Opportunities is the
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).
FY16 LCRP Program Announcements and General
Application Instructions for the following award mechanism is posted on the Grants.gov website.
Areas of Emphasis: The FY16 LCRP encourages research projects that
specifically address the critical needs of the lung cancer community in the
following Areas of Emphasis:
• Identify or develop noninvasive or minimally invasive
tools to improve the detection of the initial stages of lung cancer.
• Identify, develop, and/or build upon already existing
tools for screening or early detection of lung cancer. Screening may
include, but is not limited to, imaging modalities, biomarkers, genetics/genomics/proteomics/metabolomics/transcriptomics,
and assessment of risk factors.
•
Understand the molecular mechanisms of initiation and
progression to clinically significant lung cancer.
•
Identify innovative strategies for prevention and treatment of
early and/or localized lung cancer.
• Understand predictive and prognostic markers to
identify responders and nonresponders.
• Understand susceptibility or resistance to treatment.
• Understand contributors to lung cancer development
other than tobacco.
Military Relevance: The FY16 LCRP strongly encourages research projects
that are relevant to the health care needs of military Service members,
Veterans, and their families. Investigators are encouraged to consider
the following characteristics as examples of how a project may demonstrate
military relevance:
• Use of military or Veteran populations or data in the
proposed research.
• Collaboration with DoD or Department of Veterans
Affairs investigators.
• Involvement of military consultants (Army, Air Force)
or specialty leaders (Navy, Marine Corps) to the Surgeons General in a relevant
specialty area.
• Description of how the knowledge, information,
products, or technologies gained from the proposed research could be
implemented in a dual-use capacity to address a military need that also
benefits the civilian population.
• Explanation of how the project addresses an aspect of
lung cancer that has direct relevance to military Service members, Veterans, or
other military health system beneficiaries, including environmental exposures
other than tobacco.
Concept
Award
Investigators at all
academic levels
Supports highly
innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking concepts in lung cancer
Emphasis on
innovation
Clinical trials not
allowed
Preliminary data discouraged
Military relevance
strongly encouraged
Maximum funding of
$100,000 in direct costs (plus indirect costs)
Period of performance
should not exceed 1 year
A pre-application is
required and must be submitted through the electronic Biomedical Research Application
Portal (eBRAP) at https://eBRAP.org prior
to the pre-application deadline. All applications must conform to the
final Program Announcements and General Application Instructions that will be available
for electronic downloading from the Grants.gov
website. The application package containing the required forms for each
award mechanism will also be found on Grants.gov. A listing of all CDMRP funding
opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov
website by performing a basic search using CFDA Number 12.420.
Applications must be
submitted through the federal government’s single-entry portal, Grants.gov. For email notification when Program Announcements are
released, go to the CDMRP website (http://cdmrp.army.mil) and select Subscribe to Funding
Opportunities & Program Communications. For more information about the LCRP or other
CDMRP-administered programs, please visit the CDMRP website (http://cdmrp.army.mil).
For questions about the
research programs, please contact the MRO Research Grants & Contracts Team
(adm-researchgrants.contracts@monash.edu).
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