Colleagues,
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Defense Health Program Medical Research and Development Office is soliciting proposals for the Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development Awards to be funded beginning in fiscal year 2010 (FY10)...The DMRDP Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development Award is being offered for the first time in FY10 ...and anticipates that approximately $97 million will be available to support both intramural and extramural applied research and advanced technology development.
The goal of the DMRDP is to advance the state of medical science in those areas of most pressing need and relevance to today’s battlefield experience ... The objectives of the DMRDP are to discover and explore innovative approaches to protect, support, and advance the health and welfare of military personnel, families, and communities; to accelerate the transition of medical technologies into deployed products; and to accelerate the translation of advances in knowledge into new standards of care for injury prevention, treatment of casualties, rehabilitation, and training systems that can be applied in theater or in the clinical facilities of the Military Health System (MHS) ... Awards under this announcement will consist solely of assistance agreements...
FY10 DMRDP Projects and Corresponding Tasks:
Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Injury
• Mechanisms of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
• Diagnosis and Treatment.
• Clinical Management.
Polytrauma and Blast Injury
• Hemorrhage Control.
• Maintain Tissue Viability.
• Diagnosis and Life Support.
• Maxillofacial Injury.
• Evacuation Applications.
• Evacuation Practices.
• Forward Surgical Applications.
• Blast Injury Models and Performance Standards for Protection Systems.
• Scar Contracture.
• Diagnosis, Treatment, Mitigation, Restoration, and Rehabilitation of Ocular/Visual System Injury.
• Rapid Screening of Fresh Whole Blood.
• Wound Infection Prevention and Management.
• Antimicrobial Countermeasures.
Operational Health and Performance
• Fundamental Mechanisms of Training and Operational Injury.
• Physiological Interactions of Nutrition and Dietary Supplements.
• Fundamental Mechanisms of Performance Sustainment in Extreme Environments (Heat, Cold, and Altitude).
• Post-Deployment Health Risks.
• Neuromusculoskeletal Injuries.
• Chronic Pain Management.
• Regenerative Medicine.
• Restoration and Rehabilitation of Sensory System Traumatic Injury (Vision, Hearing, and Balance).
• Suicide Prevention.
• Diagnosis and Treatment of PTSD.
• Diagnosis and Treatment of Deployment-Related Psychological Health Problems.
• Psychological Resilience.
• Military Family and Community Health and Resilience.
TIMELINE FOR SUBMISSION AND REVIEW
Pre-Application Submission Deadline: September 25, 2009, 5:00 p.m. Eastern time
Invitation to Submit an Application November 9, 2009
Application Submission Deadline: December 18, 2009, 11:59 p.m. Eastern time
Read on at: http://www.grants.gov/search/synopsis.do;jsessionid=S0M1KpHJj2vLWnVWZ4S7sJdQq2M2rZ0PPFJNX5P73Gh6DZgJ1ymm!361947375
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