Opportunity Information: Apply for W81XWH 20 LRP IA
The DoD Lupus, Idea Award (FY20 Lupus Research Program) is designed to fund bold, early-stage lupus research that is intentionally high-risk and high-reward. The main goal is to support innovative ideas that could lead to a critical discovery or a major advance in how lupus is understood, studied, prevented, diagnosed, or treated. Projects funded under this mechanism are expected to open entirely new directions for investigation rather than extend an existing line of work in a small, incremental way. Because the intent is to spark new concepts, preliminary data are not required, and the work can be exploratory as long as it is well-justified and grounded in a clear understanding of lupus biology and current knowledge gaps.
A strong application needs to make three things very clear: innovation, impact, and a sound research strategy. On innovation, investigators are expected to explain exactly what makes the idea genuinely new, such as proposing a fresh scientific paradigm, applying an unconventional approach, or re-framing a long-standing problem from a different perspective. On impact, the proposal has to show why the question matters in a big way for lupus and how success would meaningfully affect people living with lupus, rather than producing only a modest step forward. On research strategy, the scientific rationale and experimental plan should demonstrate deep familiarity with lupus and should be analytically strong, whether the methods are novel or adapted from existing approaches. In addition, the proposed work must align with at least one of the FY20 Lupus Research Program Focus Areas (the applicant must explicitly connect the project to a qualifying focus area).
There are also important boundaries and relevance requirements. Clinical trials are not permitted under this announcement, so the work must stay on the non-clinical-trial side of the research spectrum (for example, mechanistic studies, preclinical investigations, discovery science, or other non-trial human or laboratory research, as allowable under the program rules). The research must be relevant to active duty Service members, Veterans, military beneficiaries, and/or the broader American public, reflecting the Department of Defense public-purpose mission for this funding.
Funding is provided through assistance agreements, meaning awards will be issued as either grants or cooperative agreements depending on how much involvement the DoD anticipates having during the project. If the agency expects no substantial involvement, the award is typically a grant; if substantial involvement is expected (such as collaboration, participation, or intervention by the funding agency), the award is structured as a cooperative agreement, and the specific nature of that involvement is described in the award. The maximum anticipated total cost for an Idea Award project is capped at $300,000 for the entire period of performance. Program-wide, CDMRP planned to allocate about $1.80 million total to fund roughly six awards, with final selections depending on federal funding availability and the volume, quality, and merit of applications as judged through scientific and programmatic review.
Administrative details from the opportunity listing include the funding opportunity number W81XWH-20-LRP-IA, the sponsoring agency being the Department of Defense (Department of the Army, USAMRAA), and the CFDA number 12.420. Eligibility is described as unrestricted (open to any type of entity, subject to any clarifications in the full announcement). The original closing date was September 23, 2020, and awards were expected to be made no later than September 30, 2021. Funds were anticipated to come from FY20 appropriations, with an expected expiration for use on September 30, 2026, reflecting the limited period during which those federal funds can be obligated and spent.Apply for W81XWH 20 LRP IA
- The Department of Defense, Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "DoD Lupus, Idea Award" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 12.420.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 29, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 23, 2020. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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