Key Dates: Applications Due: April 27, 2009
Anticipated Award Announcement: September 2009

Program Information: The Recovery Act will fund grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support research on topic areas which address specific scientific and health research challenges in biomedical and behavioral research that would benefit from significant 2-year jumpstart funds. The research in NIH-proscribed Challenge Areas should have a high impact in biomedical or behavioral science and/or public health.

Grant Information: NIH will award grants to eligible institutions to support research on "challenge topics" - 15 defined research areas focused on specific scientific knowledge gaps, scientific opportunities, new technologies, data generation, or research methods that would benefit from an influx of funds to quickly and significantly advance that area. The challenge topics include:

* behavior, behavioral change, and prevention;
* bioethics; biomarker discovery and validation;
* clinical research;
* comparative effectiveness research;
* enabling technologies;
* enhancing clinical trials;
* genomics;
* health disparities;
* information technology for processing health care data;
* regenerative medicine;
* science, technology, engineering and mathematics education;
* smart biomaterials-theranostics; stem cells;
* translational science.

Awards will be for 2-year projects. Individual awards will not exceed $1 million ($500,000 per year.)

For More Information: View the full  Funding Opportunity Announcement  for program and application information.