Deadline: 8 July 2016
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is seeking applications from eligible organisations to address nascent or understudied research topics and highly innovative and high risk research topics and approaches related to learning disabilities impacting reading, writing, and mathematics, with a special focus on the study of under-studied and under-represented populations.
It will address high public health impact topics where there is limited data or where progress is limited and novel solutions are needed to improve outcomes and to enhance data collection reflective of the diversity of learners in the U.S. NICHD expressly encourages research applications that necessitate a high tolerance for risk with the potential promise of innovative solutions to meaningful public health problems.
Priority Areas
- Primary focus on historically under-studied and under-represented populations who are at risk for, or diagnosed with, one or more learning disabilities impacting reading, writing, or mathematics.
- Nascent, understudied, and highly innovative and/or high risk research topics, involving LDs impacting mathematics, reading and/or writing, which may or may not be wholly focused on at-risk or understudied populations with LDs.
- Historically challenging, yet established, research topics involving populations at risk for or diagnosed with one or more of these LDs where progress has been limited despite high public health need.
Funding Information: NICHD intends to fund an estimate of 3-4 awards, corresponding to a total of up to $1,890,000, for fiscal year 2017.
Eligibility Criteria
- Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- For-Profit Organizations
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
- Governments
- State Governments
- County Governments
- City or Township Governments
- Special District Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
- U.S. Territory or Possession
- Other
- Independent School Districts
- Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities
- Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
- Regional Organizations
- Foreign Institutions
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are not eligible to apply.
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply.
- Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are allowed.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must submit application packages electronically via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit Learning Disabilities Innovation Hubs.