Department of Defense (DoD) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Multidisciplinary Research Consortium Award

The summary for the Department of Defense (DoD) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Multidisciplinary Research Consortium Award grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Dept of the Army USAMRAA, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Department of Defense (DoD) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Multidisciplinary Research Consortium Award: The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Multidisciplinary Research Consortium Award is intended to optimize research and accelerate the solution of a major overarching problem in post-traumatic stress disorder research within an integrated consortium of the most highly qualified investigators. Each PTSD Multidisciplinary Research Consortium Award proposal must address a single, critical question relevant to the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and/or treatment of PTSD through a synergistic, multidisciplinary research program.The proposed PTSD Multidisciplinary Research Consortium should (1) address a major gap in basic, translational, population-based and/or clinical PTSD research; (2) develop critically needed resources (e.g., databases to address specific problems); and/or (3) create a unique, new approach or infrastructure to focus on a critical research problem. The PTSD Multidisciplinary Research Consortium may include Phase I or Phase II clinical studies, and partnerships with pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry scientists are welcome. It is expected that the PTSD Multidisciplinary Research Consortium will be multi-institutional and will include the best scientists and clinicians as members of a synergistic, multidisciplinary team. An exceptionally compelling justification must be provided if the proposed work involves a single institution. Collaborations between academia, Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions, industry, the military Services, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and other Federal Government agencies are particularly encouraged in order to bring a new perspective to PTSD research and/or facilitate progress in the field by combined effort. Within the Consortium, multiple investigators can be recognized as Principal Investigators (PIs) and each will receive a separate award. The Multidisciplinary Research Consortium Director must be identified as the Initiating PI, and will be ultimately responsible for the majority of the administrative tasks associated with the proposal. The other members will be referred to as the Partnering PIs. All the investigators must collaborate to submit a single proposal addressing a central problem or question in PTSD research. It should be clear that all investigators have an equal level of intellectual input and effort. Participating institutions must be willing to resolve potential intellectual property issues and to remove institutional barriers that might interfere with achieving high levels of cooperation to ensure the successful establishment and maintenance of the multidisciplinary, synergistic research consortium. All proposals submitted to the PTSD Multidisciplinary Research Consortium Award should: . Focus on the solution of a critical problem in PTSD research using strategies that optimize the PTSD Multidisciplinary Research Consortium Awards comprehensive array of personnel and resources. The project designed for the PTSD Multidisciplinary Research Consortium must be founded on solid scientific rationale and must be critical to the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and/or treatment of PTSD. The question should be broad enough to require a multidisciplinary approach. Applicants must include published or preliminary data that supports the feasibility of their hypotheses and/or approaches and a description of the proposed team of investigators and the anticipated research in both the pre-application and the invited proposal.. Integrate a team of preeminent investigators from appropriate disciplines and institutions. Emphasis must be placed on integrating the most highly qualified investigators to focus on the research problem, regardless of their location. This includes highly accomplished scientists and promising young investigators in the targeted areas of research who collectively represent the best team to solve the problem(s) identified. . Incorporate PTSD consumer, survivor, family member, and/or caregiver groups into the proposed consortium. Individuals from these groups should have active roles in the proposed PTSD Multidisciplinary Research Consortium including program conception and design, discussions, recruitment of research participants, program evaluation, and dissemination of information to the public.. Optimize, facilitate, and accelerate research progress through communication. Communication between and among PTSD Multidisciplinary Research Consortium team members is essential to the success of the Consortiums goals. Proposals should include a strategy for sharing data in real time and using information technologies to facilitate timely and effective communication and cooperation. The PTSD Multidisciplinary Research Consortium should take full advantage of current Internet and electronic communication tools, as well as formal and informal meetings. Collaborators also must plan to meet in person two to four times per year to assess research progress, address problems, and define future directions.. Provide an effective, coordinated administrative management plan that integrates and optimizes the research and collaborations. The PTSD Multidisciplinary Research Consortium Director, as the Initiating PI of the proposal, is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Consortium. Therefore, the Multidisciplinary Research Consortium Director is expected to commit an appropriate level of time and effort-at least 25%-to direct and manage an initiative of this magnitude. He or she must have the scientific ability to oversee large research programs and have a proven record of leadership, including experience in the effective use of communication tools and the management of multifaceted and multidisciplinary projects. The administrative management plan should explain how the Multidisciplinary Research Consortium will be organized and managed; it should specify the processes and tools to be used for regular and structured communication, data management, project prioritization, project meeting scheduling, reviews of research report findings, and other issues of common concern to the Consortium and its investigators. The administrative management plan also should describe procedures that maximize the use of resources and eliminate unnecessary duplication. The sharing of experimental techniques, databases, models (including animal models), and biologically active agents/therapies developed by the PTSD Multidisciplinary Research Consortium with other PTSD researchers is highly encouraged. The Consortium should include a named Research Coordinator who will coordinate the efforts of all Consortium participants. The Consortium Clinical Research Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating animal use approval(s), clinical protocol(s) approval (if applicable), and study activities across the Consortium.Select members of the PTSD/TBI Joint Program Integration Panel (JPIP) will assume the role of an external advisory committee to the funded Consortium. The Consortium Director, Research Project PIs, and Research Core Facility PIs will be required to attend a biannual 1 day meeting in the Baltimore, MD/Washington, DC area to present the progress of their DOD-sponsored research to the JPIP and USAMRMC staff.This award is not intended to replace, supplement, duplicate, or compete with other collaborative research efforts, nor should it represent a collection of related Program Project grants or subprojects.It is envisioned that access to Active Duty, National Guard, Reserve troops, and/or Military patient populations will be coordinated through a centralized DOD coordinating office, to be established prior to final recommendation of proposals for funding. Research proposal submissions that include Active duty, National Guard, Reserve troops, and/or Military patient populations must be accompanied by a Clinical Protocol (Appendix 7). Those proposals that score favorably during the scientific peer review and require access to Military patient populations will be forwarded to the centralized DOD coordinating office for consideration and review for availability and access to military patient populations prior to being recommended for funding. Please do not contact any Commander of Active duty, National Guard, Reserve troops and/or Military patient populations at this time or during preparation of your proposal submission. However we highly encourage you to collaborate with military researchers and clinicians. Access to Military populations will be handled by the coordinating center only. If selected for funding you will be provided guidance on how to obtain access to the appropriate population. Submissions that propose to recruit patients from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers or use information from VA data systems must include an investigator with a VA appointment. This individual may be the principal investigator for the entire proposal or a VA collaborator willing to assume the role of principal VA investigator for the VA component of the proposal.Currently, there is a very limited ability to conduct human research in the CENTCOM Area of Responsibility. At present, this capability exists solely within select elements of the Multi-National Corps Iraq (MNC-I). There is no ability to conduct human research in Afghanistan at present. All research conducted within MNC-I must be in collaboration with an in theatre military investigator, undergo an in theatre review, and be approved by the MNC-I Command and the MNC-I designated Institutional Review Board. Given the constraints of wartime operations, investigators without an ongoing collaboration with a military investigator should strongly consider alternatives to the conduct of research in the wartime theatre. Note: DOD-supported human subjects research can only be conducted by institutions (to include those in theatre) with approved Federal Assurances of Compliance from Human Research Protection. It is strongly suggested that PTSD and TBI research involve civilian and non-deployed military trauma populations.