Translational Research Centers in Behavioral Science (Trcbs)

The summary for the Translational Research Centers in Behavioral Science (Trcbs) 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.

Translational Research Centers in Behavioral Science (Trcbs): This PAR replaces PAR-01-027. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites research grant applications for Translational Research Centers in Behavioral Science (TRCBS). The purpose of these centers is to support the translation of work from basic behavioral science research, and relevant integrative neuroscience research, to pressing issues regarding all aspects of mental disorders. Such clinical issues include an understanding of the etiology and assessment of disorders; the assessment of functioning; development of innovative and culturally appropriate preventive, treatment, and rehabilitation interventions; and improvement of methods for the effective delivery of mental health services. The centers are also intended to encourage basic behavioral scientists to seek a further understanding of behavioral processes through an exploration of how those processes are altered by mental and behavioral disorders. These Centers are intended to support integrated research teams drawn from the fields of basic behavioral and social sciences, neuroscience, epidemiology, prevention, academic mental health, and mental health services delivery. Centers are to develop hypothesis-driven approaches to an important research question, or a focused set of research questions, using innovative designs and cutting-edge approaches to methodological and statistical issues. An important goal of the centers is to transcend the barriers of disciplines, research settings, and institutions in order to harness the full range of modern behavioral science to the service of the nations critical mental health needs. (See the Institute of Medicine report, Bridging Disciplines in the Brain, Behavioral, and Clinical Sciences, available at http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9942.html.) This Program Announcement (PA) is one of two announcements developed in response to a report written by the National Advisory Mental Health Councils Behavioral Science Workgroup, entitled Translating Behavioral Science into Action (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/nimhtranslating.pdf). The other announcement describes a range of collaborative arrangements designed to foster smaller-scale and developmental activities in translational research in the behavioral sciences (see RFA-MH-01-005 at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-01-005.html).