DOD, Parkinson's Synergistic Idea Award | HT9425 23 PRP SIA

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The Department of Defense Parkinson's Research Program (PRP) Synergistic Idea Award (SIA) is a research funding opportunity intended to push forward new, collaborative ideas in Parkinson's disease (PD) research. It is built around the idea that certain PD problems are best solved when multiple investigators bring different strengths to the same central question. Rather than funding a single-lab project, this award emphasizes a team approach where the combined expertise of the investigators creates a result that would be difficult to achieve through separate, parallel efforts.

This opportunity specifically supports projects led by a group of two to four Principal Investigators who are at the Assistant Professor level (or equivalent) or higher. The investigators are expected to contribute complementary perspectives and skills and to work in a genuinely integrated way to address one clearly defined problem or question in Parkinson's research. The program allows for both newly formed collaborations and established partnerships, and it explicitly encourages teams that include investigators from outside traditional Parkinson's research circles, as long as their expertise strengthens the overall approach.

The scope of research disciplines invited is broad. Applications may come from basic science as well as engineering, bioinformatics, population science, translational research, and clinical research, among other areas. In practice, this means teams could combine, for example, mechanistic laboratory work with computational modeling, device development, human data analysis, or clinical validation, as long as the project remains centered on Parkinson's disease and the synergy between investigators is clear and essential to the plan.

Administratively, the award is offered by the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, through the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA). The funding opportunity number is HT9425-23-PRP-SIA. It is listed as a discretionary opportunity under CFDA 12.420 and may be awarded as either a grant or a cooperative agreement. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning it is broadly open to applicants of any entity type, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications included in the full announcement. The posting date was April 27, 2023, with an original closing date of August 17, 2023. The listing indicated an expectation of two awards, and the award ceiling was shown as 0 in the source data, which typically signals that the maximum funding level is defined elsewhere in the full solicitation or budget guidance rather than in the summary field.

• The Department of Defense, Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "DOD, Parkinson's Synergistic Idea Award" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 12.420.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 27, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 17, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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