Funding in Womens Health

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Funding in Womens Health

• Presented by
• Linda Crumpler
• Research Funding Library
• Office of Research Education
• Thursday, February 6, 2003

Research Funding LibraryGail Borden, Rm
2.210Phone [phone]Email lcrumple_at_utmb.edu
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Pre-award specialists in each of these offices of
Research Services can assist you

• Office of Clinical Research x73793
• Human subjects research
• Technology Management Office x27960
• Protection of Intellectual Property, technology,
  inventions, small business research
• Office of Sponsored Programs - x21582
• Federal and non-federal basic research

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Research Funding Library

• Yellow Sheet
• Database searches for matching programs
• SPIN Funding Database
• FC Search (Foundation Center database on CD-ROM)
• Other web-based funding databases
• Targeted email alerts

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UTMB Research Listservhttp//research.utmb.edu/st
arline/listserv.htm

• Time-sensitive and Invited Funding alerts
• Regional and Intramural Funding announcements

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SPIN Plushttp//www.infoed.org

• SPIN web-based funding database
• SMARTS/GENIUS email alert matching service

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SMARTS/GENIUS
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NIH Funding Priorities Initiatives
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NIH

• Amount of funding earmarked for Womens Health is
  a big piece of the NIH Budget
• FY2001 2,923.1M
• FY2002 3,390.1M
• FY2003 4,120.4M

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Agenda for Research on Womens Health for the
21st Century (1999) made the following
recommendations

• More women as subjects in clinical trials
• More research on diversity and differences in
  specific populations of women, and how these
  affect health needs, outcomes, and behaviors
  across the life span.
• More multidisciplinary research and collaboration

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RESEARCH PRIORITIES - Office of Research on
Womens Health (ORWH)

• Sex/Gender differences in health and disease and
  therapeutic interventions at the genetic,
  molecular, cellular and functional levels
• Healthy living and prevention of chronic
  disorders, including the impact of diet, eating
  disorders, and impact of addictions

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ORWH continued

• Interdisciplinary approaches to chronic
  multi-systemic diseases with multi-factorial
  etiology
• Mental health and addictive disorders
• Reproductive health
• Infections, including STD
• Care-giving and health-related quality of life
  issues
• Cancers in women

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RESEARCH PRIORITIES Other NIH Institutes and
Centers

• NIEHS Reproductive Health, and the impact of
  environmental exposures on special populations
• NCCAM Health Disparities among women,
  minorities, children and other under-represented
  populations Botanical Interactions in Hormone
  therapy, CAM therapies for cancer
  Phytoestrogens for breast cancer Osteoarthritis
  prevention Traditional medicine in developing
  countries, including womens and childrens
  health research.

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Upcoming Funding Opportunitiesin Womens Health
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U.S. Army Breast Cancer Research Program Concept
Awards

• 17M available
• Electronic (pdf) submission
• No LOI. Deadline is 03-10-2003
• 75,000 for one year.
• Exploratory research

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U.S. Army Ovarian Cancer Research Program

• 8.5M available
• Electronic (pdf) submission
• LOI required by 03-06-2003, DD 04-23-2003
• New Investigator Award - 300,000 for 3 yrs for
  postdocoral training or faculty up to Assistant
  Professor
• Idea Development Award - 375,000 for 3 years for
  any academic level