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Announcements

Lighting Up Our Lives: How Light Influences Our Mental and Physical Health June 30, 2020 from 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET; via Videocast This lecture will be presented by Helen Burgess, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychiatry and codirector of the Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Natural outdoor light and artificial indoor light can affect our mental and physical health. This is especially relevant in the current times when we are asked to stay home and spend less time outside. Dr. Burgess will examine how light reaches the brain and can alter brain centers that regulate circadian (body clock) timing, sleep, and mood.

Resources for Researchers

New Funding Opportunities

• Notice to Extend the Response Date for NOT-AT-20-013 "Request for Information: Soliciting Input for the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Healths New Strategic Plan"
• Mid-Career Enhancement Awards to Integrate Basic Behavioral, Biomedical, and/or Social Scientific Processes (K18 No Independent Clinical Trials)
• Mid-Career Enhancement Awards to Integrate Basic Behavioral, Biomedical, and/or Social Scientific Processes (K18 Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required)
• Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Digital healthcare interventions to address the secondary health effects related to social, behavioral, and economic impact of COVID-19 (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional)
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Digital Healthcare Interventions to Address the Secondary Health Effects Related to Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of COVID-19
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Competitive and Administrative Supplements for Community Interventions to Reduce the Impact of COVID-19 on Health Disparity and Other Vulnerable Populations
• Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Community Interventions to Address the Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Health Disparity and Vulnerable Populations (R01- Clinical Trial Optional)
• Pilot Projects Increasing the Impact of the NIH Centers for Advancing Research on Botanicals and Other Natural Products (PI2 CARBON) (R03 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
  
  

Highlighted Funding Opportunities

New SARS-CoV-2 Special NIH High Risk High Reward Funding Opportunities

Two time-sensitive and important SARS-CoV-2 specific funding opportunities have been issued by the High-Risk, High-Reward Research (HRHR) Program of the NIH Common Fund:

• NIH Director's Emergency Transformative Research Award (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-RM-20-020) -Application Deadlines: September 30, 2020
• NIH Director's Emergency Early Independence Award (DP5 Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-RM-20-021) -Application Deadlines: September 3, 2020

Research areas to be supported by these funding opportunities is of great interest to NCCIH, include groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original, and/or unconventional research related to natural products and/or mind-and-body interventions. Research desired with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish new and improved clinical approaches or develop transformative technologies to address the prevention of, preparation for, or response to coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

Mid-career Enhancement Awards to Integrate Basic Behavioral, Biomedical, and/or Social Scientific Processes (K18)

These career-development FOAs are designed for investigators who want to acquire expertise that is beyond and also enhances their current areas of scientific expertisespecifically, to expand their research trajectories through the acquisition of new knowledge and skills in the areas of basic psychological processes, sociological processes, and/or biomedical pathways. OppNet K18s can support a variety of career development experiences and projects that will lead awardees to conduct future independent research projects that more thoroughly integrate interrelationships among behavioral, biological, endocrine, epigenetic, immune, inflammatory, neurological, psychological, and/or social processes.

• PAR-20-226: Mid-career enhancement awards to integrate basic behavioral, biomedical, and/or social scientific processes (K18, Basic experimental studies with humans required, BESH)
• PAR-20-211: Mid-career enhancement awards to integrate basic behavioral, biomedical, and/or social scientific processes (K18, No independent clinical trials)

Upcoming Events

NCCIH Strategic Planning Town Hall: Public Comment Session July 1, 2020 from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. ET Save the date! More details coming soon - please check back on the NCCIH website, or through our social media and email updates.

In case you missed it...

Video of the 74th Meeting of the NCCIH Advisory Council

Did you miss the open session of our Council Meeting last Friday, June 5? If so, you can still access a video of the meeting.