Funding, News and Announcements

The Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14) Defense Appropriations Act provides research funding for the peer reviewed programs managed by the Department of Defense (DOD) office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).  

This is to notify the research community of the recently released pre-announcements (http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/press.shtml) from the following programs:

Bone Marrow Failure Research Program (BMFRP)
Neurofibromatosis Research Program (NFRP)
Multiple Sclerosis Research Program (MSRP)
Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP)
Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP)
Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP)
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program (TSCRP)

Descriptions of each of the funding opportunities, eligibility, key mechanism elements, and funding can be found in the respective Program pre-announcement. FY14 pre-announcements can be found in the CDMRP home page features at http://cdmrp.army.mil.

BMFRP at http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/2014/14bmfrppreann.shtml
NFRP at http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/2014/14nfrppreann.shtml
MSRP at http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/2014/14msrppreann.shtml
OCRP at http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/2014/14ocrppreann.shtml
PRCRP at http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/2014/14prcrppreann.shtml
PRMRP at http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/2014/14prmrppreann.shtml
TSCRP at http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/2014/14tscrppreann.shtml

Subsequent notifications will be sent when the program announcements/funding opportunities are released.

New for 2014 - CDMRP’s New Application Receipt System (eBRAP)

For FY14, CDMRP has replaced eReceipt with the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP). As in the past, application submission is a two-step process requiring both (1) pre-application submission through the eBRAP (https://eBRAP.org/) and (2) application submission through Grants.gov (http://www.grants.gov/), with application status available on eBRAP.
 
A key feature of eBRAP is that organizational representatives and PIs will be able to view and modify the Grants.gov application submissions associated with them, but only if their organization, Business Officials, and PIs are registered and affiliated to their organization in eBRAP.

Submission of either the pre-application to eBRAP or the application to Grants.gov does not require registering an organization and affiliating its Business Officials and PIs in eBRAP; however, the ability to view and modify the Grants.gov application in eBRAP is contingent upon this registration and affiliation process.