Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2004 Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program (TSCRP) Natural History Development Award (NHDA)

The summary for the Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2004 Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program (TSCRP) Natural History Development Award (NHDA) 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 Fiscal Year 2004 Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program (TSCRP) Natural History Development Award (NHDA): The TSCRP Natural History Study Awards, anticipated for release in FY05, will be executed through two separate awards: the Natural History Development Award in FY04 and, pending receipt of funds, the Natural History Study Award in FY05. Proposals for the first award, the Natural History Development Award, are being requested in this program announcement. Recipients of the Natural History Development Award in FY04 will be required to submit proposals, clinical protocols, and consent/assent forms to compete for the Natural History Study Award in FY05. However, the FY05 Natural History Study Award will be open to all eligible applicants with proposals relevant to the natural history of TS. The Natural History Development Award has been instituted to provide support for the development of a multi-institutional natural history study that will ascertain and analyze sufficient numbers of patients with TS to yield a substantial normative data set and provide quantitative data on TS-related tumor growth and/or other manifestations of TS. The Natural History Development Award proposal should include plans for the establishment of the research team, the development of tools for data management and trial/research administration, the definition of recruitment strategies, and the development of the clinical protocol and other essential components of the study included in a Manual of Operations and Procedures. An additional goal of these awards is the formation of a consortium of investigators with the potential to carry out clinical trials and to expand cooperative research into the various clinical manifestations of this disease.