National Cooperative Drug Discovery Groups for the Treatment of Mental Disorders, Drug or Alcohol Addiction (U19)

The summary for the National Cooperative Drug Discovery Groups for the Treatment of Mental Disorders, Drug or Alcohol Addiction (U19) 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 National Institutes of Health, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

National Cooperative Drug Discovery Groups for the Treatment of Mental Disorders, Drug or Alcohol Addiction (U19): -The purpose of the National Cooperative Drug Discovery Group (NCDDG) Program is to create multidisciplinary research groups or partnerships for the discovery of pharmacological agents to treat and to study mental illness, drug or alcohol addiction. The objectives of this program are to accelerate innovative drug discovery, the development of pharmacologic tools for basic and clinical research on mental disorders, or drug or alcohol addiction, and the development and validation of models for evaluating novel therapeutics for mental disorders. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) invite applications to advance the discovery, preclinical development, and testing of new, rationally based candidate medications to treat mental disorders, drug or alcohol addiction, and the development of novel ligands as tools to further characterize existing or to validate new drug targets. Partnerships between academia and industry are strongly encouraged. -Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. The total amount awarded and the number of awards will depend upon the numbers, quality, duration, and costs of the applications received. -This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will use the multi-project Research Program Cooperative Agreement (U19) award mechanism. In addition, this FOA runs in parallel with FOAs of similar scientific intent for small businesses, PA-06-027, PA-06-079, PA-06-028, PA-06-017, and PA-06-018, that seek applications using the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR [R43/R44]) grant mechanisms and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR [R41/R42]) grant mechanisms.