Fund Research: Military & Veteran Substance Use Solutions

Purpose. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is issued by NIDA, NIAAA, and NCI for exploratory and pilot feasibility studies designed to enhance and accelerate research on the epidemiology/etiology, identification, and prevention and treatment of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and abuse (including illicit and prescription drugs) and associated mental health problems among active-duty or recently separated (e.g., Iraq and Afghanistan) military troops and their families. Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the R21 grant mechanism and runs in parallel with a FOA of identical scientific scope, DA-10-001 that solicits applications under the R01 mechanism.

Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. For this FOA combined with the parallel R01 FOA (RFA-DA-10-001), the participating organizations intend to commit approximately $7.0 million (total costs) in Fiscal Year 2010 with which it is expected that 11 to 21 new grants will be funded across the two FOAs. Specifically, in Fiscal Year 2010, NIDA intends to commit approximately $2.0 million (total costs), NIAAA intends to commit approximately $2.0 million (total costs), and NCI intends to commit approximately $1.0 million (total costs). In addition, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Clinical Science Research and Development Service (CSRD) estimates committing up to $2.0 million (total costs) for the R01 FOA (DA-10-001);VA encourages applications to the R21 FOA but will not participate in funding the R21 proposals.