Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs Neurofibromatosis Research Program Exploration – Hypothesis Development Award

Funding Opportunity Number: W81XWH-13-NFRP-EHDA
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 12.420
SUBMISSION AND REVIEW DATES AND TIMES
• Pre-Application Submission Deadline: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time (ET), June 27, 2013
• Application Submission Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET, July 11, 2013
• Peer Review: August 2013
• Programmatic Review: November 2013


FY13 NFRP Vision and Areas of Emphasis
The vision of the FY13 NFRP is to decrease the clinical impact of NF. Toward this end, the NFRP seeks to support innovative, high-impact research that will foster new directions for and address neglected issues in NF research; sponsor multidisciplinary and multi-institutional collaborations that will bring new perspectives to the field; foster the next generation of NF investigators; promote translational and clinical studies to move promising ideas from bench to bedside; develop a balanced portfolio of meritorious research related to all aspects of NF1, NF2, and schwannomatosis.
Areas of Emphasis: The FY13 NFRP strongly encourages research applications that specifically address the critical needs of the NF community in one or more of the following Areas of Emphasis:
• Cognitive and social dysfunction in the setting of NF;
• Drug discovery for the treatment of NF;
• Heterogeneity of neurofibromas and other NF-related tumors using genomics, epigenetics, systems biology, or other similar approaches;Manifestations of NF post-adolescence;
• Novel disease markers such as imaging and proteomics of NF;
• Pain in the setting of NF.