Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Please see the list of recently published funding opportunities:

• Urgent Award: COVID-19 Mental Health Research (R01 Clinical Trial Required)

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) aims to address urgent, time-sensitive mental health research questions related to COVID-19, including broader secondary impacts of the pandemic and research on the intersection of mental health, COVID-19, and HIV. Research supported will improve public health in the near term by informing responses to the current pandemic through rapid acceleration of research to address access, reach, delivery, effectiveness, scalability and sustainability of health assessments and interventions to respond to new and worsening mental illness and HIV-related outcomes among those who experience COVID-19 as well as the broader population impacted by the pandemic. All research is anticipated to focus on particularly vulnerable populations based on existing evidence of increased mental health symptoms and illness and preexisting health disparities.

Open Date (Earliest Submission Date): March 25, 2022

Letter of Intent Due Date(s): 30 days prior to the application due date(s)

For more information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-22-112.html 

• Urgent Award: COVID-19 Mental Health Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) aims to address urgent, time-sensitive mental health research questions related to COVID-19, including broader secondary impacts of the pandemic as well as research on the intersection of mental health, COVID-19, and HIV. Research supported will improve public health in the near term by informing responses to the current pandemic through 1) understanding mechanisms by which mental illness impacts SARS-CoV-2 morbidity and mortality, 2) exploring how COVID-19 contributes to incident mental illness or HIV-outcomes, 3) identifying modifiable targets uniquely or robustly implicated in the pandemic and are relevant to new and worsening mental illness, and 4) conducting mechanistic trials probing the biological or behavioral processes of those targets that may be pursued in future mental health therapeutic development. Research is anticipated to be informed by and directed towards vulnerable populations based on evidence of preexisting and worsened health disparities.

Open Date (Earliest Submission Date): March 25, 2022

Letter of Intent Due Date(s): 30 days prior to the application due date(s)

For more information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-22-113.html 

• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research on barriers to care and risk of HIV-associated comorbidities among vulnerable population groups

The purpose of this Notice is to inform potential applicants to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of an area of special interest in supporting analysis of barriers to care and risk of HIV-associated comorbidities among disproportionally vulnerable and affected population groups of people living with or at risk for HIV infection.

This notice applies to due dates on or after May 7, 2022 and subsequent receipt dates through May 8, 2025.  

Submit applications for this initiative using one of the following funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) or any reissues of these announcement through the expiration date of this notice.

• PA-20-185 NIH Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

For more information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HL-22-010.html

• Integrative Research in Gynecologic Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

The purpose of this FOA is to encourage integrated and synergistic research in the study of uterine fibroids, endometriosis, adenomyosis, gynecologic pain syndromes, and/or pelvic floor disorders.

Open Date (Earliest Submission Date): March 18, 2022

Letter of Intent Due Date(s): March 18, 2022

For more information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-23-006.html

• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Inclusion of Economic Factors and Outcomes in Infectious Disease Modeling Studies

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) is issuing this Notice to highlight interest in receiving grant applications focused on infectious disease modeling research that incorporates economic factors. The Institute is particularly interested in mathematical and computational modeling studies of infectious disease spread and evolution, and of the effects of possible intervention strategies, that include consideration of economic influences and feedback.

This Notice applies to due dates on or after March 7, 2022 and subsequent receipt dates through January 08, 2025. 

For more information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-GM-22-021.html

• Notice of Special Interest: Neuro-Glia Mechanisms Governing Complex Behaviors

This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) encourages projects to experimentally test mechanistic hypotheses on the role of neuro-glia activity coupling in modulating complex behaviors. The human brain regulates complex behavior by processing information across ~170 billion cells, including ~86 billion neurons and ~84 billion glial cells. The influence of glial cell types (i.e., astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia) on neural activity may explain behavioral processes across broad spatio-temporal scales and hierarchies. For example, astrocytes may regulate cognitive functions by releasing gliotransmitters that activate hundreds of neuronal synapses at once, regulating system-level short-/long-term plasticity. Activity changes in neuro-oligodendrocytes networks may dynamically regulate myelin axon-sheathing, which in turn may affect action potential conduction, neuronal spike timing, and oscillations linked to cognitive/social/affective processes. Finally, microglia activity-dependent synaptic pruning may alter behaviorally activated neural networks over long time scales. Discovering how mechanistic dysfunctions in neuro-glia interactions may alter behavioral phenotypes relevant to mental health is a challenge with potentially high translational impact.

This notice applies to due dates on or after June 5, 2022 and subsequent receipt dates through May 8, 2025. 

For more information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-MH-22-090.html

• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Addressing Accessibility Inequities with COVID Home-Based Testing for Individuals with Visual Impairment

The National Eye Institute (NEI) is issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to support research addressing the urgent need to provide accessible home-based COVID testing to people who are visually impaired. 

This notice applies to due dates on or after March 7, 2022, and subsequent receipt dates through March 9, 2024.   

For more information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-EY-22-010.html

 

For the full list of funding opportunity announcements (FOAs), please visit the website.