The Education Department is inviting required preapplications for cooperative agreements under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education's comprehensive program for projects focusing on better use of resources to increase learning productivity and supporting and disseminating information about reforms. The project period is 36 months. The National Cancer Institute is inviting applications for developmental research in chemoprevention development, biomarkers, early detection and nutrition science. Applicants may propose projects at all stages of drug discovery and development. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases is seeking cooperative agreement applications to design and implement a series of multicenter randomized controlled clinical trials to study drug therapies to reduce the failure and complication rate of arteriovenous grafts and fistulas among hemodialysis patients.
Funding is for five years.
Domestic for-profit and nonprofit organizations. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases is inviting application to address differences among ethnic populations in risk factors for diabetes complications. The National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences is seeking applications to participate in a comparative mouse genomics centers consortium. Domestic for-profit and nonprofit institutions. Domestic public and private nonprofit institutions engaged in health administration, education, research or clinical care.