Exploratory/Developmental Translational Grants for Borderline Personality

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Exploratory/Developmental Translational Grants for Borderline Personality: This is a reissue of RFA MH-03-001. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) reaffirms its commitment to encouraging cutting-edge research and promoting the development of new investigators in the area of borderline personality disorder (BPD), which has not received research attention commensurate with its significance as a public health problem. In addition, based on the response to the previous Request for Applications (RFA), NIMH recognizes the potential of this extension of its translational research initiative to borderline personality for contributing to the desired research and correlated increase in research capacity. The purpose of this RFA is to invite new and amended exploratory/developmental (R21) applications that propose translations of basic science theories, methods and findings to clinical research concerning borderline personality disorder; examining BPD features and its relationship to putative causal factors and to other disorders, constructs, and variables. Applicants for exploratory/developmental R21 grants should be committed to pursuing the proposed line of research through subsequent research project grants (R01 or other appropriate grant mechanisms) using the outcome data obtained as a result of this RFA. Translations may involve basic theories, methods, and/or findings from modern psychometrics and measurement theory, basic behavioral science, social science, and neuroscience. The specific clinical research focus chosen by the applicant should reflect the potential for innovative, important, and scientifically sound translations to clinical research concerning borderline personality disorder.