The FY19 Defense Appropriation provides $3 million (M) to the Department of Defense Bone Marrow Failure Research Program (BMFRP)to support scientifically meritorious research focused on BMF diseases.  As directed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the Defense Health Agency J9, Research and Development Directorate manages the Defense Health Program (DHP) Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriation. The managing agent for the anticipated Program Announcements/Funding Opportunities is the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC).

FY19 BMFRP Program Announcement and General Application Instructions for the following award mechanism are posted on the Grants.gov website.

https://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/bmfrp

 

Idea Development Award – Preproposal due date June 6, 2019

Established Investigators: 

• Independent investigators at or above the level of Assistant Professor (or equivalent) and 10 years or more from first faculty appointment (or equivalent) at the time of the application submission deadline are eligible.

Early Career Investigators:

• Investigators at the level of Assistant Professor (or equivalent) and less than 10 years from his/her first faculty appointment (or equivalent) at the time of application submission deadline are eligible.

 

·         Pre-application is required; full application submission is by invitation only.

·         Supports innovative ideas and high-impact approaches based on scientifically sound evidence in order to move toward the vision to understand and cure bone marrow failure (BMF) diseases.

·         Strong BMF research team.

·         May include relevant preliminary data.

• Clinical trials will not be supported.

·         The maximum allowable funding for the entire period of performance is $325,000 in direct costs (plus indirect costs).

• The maximum period of performance is 2 years

A pre-application is required and must be submitted through the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) at https://eBRAP.org prior to the pre-application deadline. All applications must conform to the final Program Announcements and General Application Instructions available for electronic downloading from the Grants.gov website.  The application package containing the required forms for each award mechanism will also be found on Grants.gov.  A listing of all CDMRP and other USAMRMC extramural funding opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search using CFDA Number 12.420. 

 

For email notification when Program Announcements are released, subscribe to program-specific news and updates under “Email Subscriptions” on the eBRAP homepage at https://eBRAP.org.  For more information about the BMFRP or other CDMRP-administered programs, please visit the CDMRP website (https://cdmrp.army.mil).

Point of Contact:

CDMRP Help Desk
301-682-5507
help@eBrap.org