The Department of Defense (DOD) – Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) recently released funding opportunities and program pre-announcements for FY2018.
A current CDMRP funding opportunity is the Military Performance Optimization Research Award, with a pre-application deadline of 4/11/18. This program will support research addressing physical performance optimization, cognitive performance optimization, injury prevention and reduction, and deployment health protection.
Although funds have not been appropriated for the below CDMRP programs, anticipated funding opportunities for FY2018 include:
- DOD Prostate Cancer Research Program
- DOD Autism Research Program
- DOD Neurofibromatosis Research Program
- DOD Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program
- DOD Gulf War Illness Research Program
- DOD Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Research Program
- DOD Bone Marrow Failure Research Program
- DOD Lung Cancer Research Program
- DOD Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research Program
- DOD Ovarian Cancer Research Program
- DOD Parkinson’s Research Program
- DOD Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (topic areas yet to be finalized)
- DOD Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program
- DOD Tick-Borne Disease Research Program
CDMRP provides the information about anticipated funding opportunities in pre-announcements so that investigators have adequate time to plan and develop proposals for submission. Further information on the CDMRP, current opportunities and anticipated opportunities can be found on their webpage.