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Opportunity Summary:

Building Translational Research in Integrative Behavioral Science (R24) (Funding Opportunity Number PAR-06-357) is an NIH grant opportunity designed to push basic behavioral science out of the lab and into research programs that directly address mental and behavioral health problems. The core idea is to build strong translational partnerships between two groups that do not always work closely together: researchers focused on fundamental behavioral processes (for example, learning, decision-making, emotion regulation, habit formation, stress responsivity, social behavior, motivation, or cognition), and researchers focused on the real-world clinical and public health dimensions of mental and behavioral disorders. Those applied areas include the etiology and course of disorders, diagnostic approaches, treatment development and optimization, prevention strategies, and the ways services are delivered to people living with these conditions. The announcement explicitly includes alcohol and drug use disorders within its scope.

The FOA is issued jointly by three NIH Institutes: the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). It reflects a long-term commitment by these Institutes to strengthen two-way translation. On one side, the goal is systematic translation of basic behavioral theory, tools, and findings into research that can reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders. On the other side, it also encourages basic behavioral scientists to deepen their theories by studying how core behavioral processes change when disrupted by mental health conditions or substance use disorders. In practical terms, this means the FOA values projects that do more than simply apply an existing basic concept; it emphasizes deliberate, well-structured collaborations where basic and clinical/service researchers jointly shape the questions, methods, measures, and interpretation so that findings can move across the basic-to-applied boundary and back again.

This opportunity uses the NIH R24 activity mechanism. In NIH terms, R24 awards are commonly used for resource-related research projects or other efforts that enable and accelerate a field, often through building infrastructure, organizing multi-project collaborations, supporting shared methods, or creating a sustained program that makes translation more feasible. The announcement notes that it is being run in parallel with a separate, scientifically identical FOA using the R21 Exploratory/Developmental mechanism (PAR-06-355). The practical takeaway is that applicants should think of the R24 as oriented toward building and supporting a more robust translational partnership or framework, while the parallel R21 is aimed at earlier-stage, higher-risk exploratory work under the same scientific umbrella.

Funding levels and the number of awards are not fixed in the notice and depend on application quality, proposed duration, requested costs, and the overall pool of submissions. NIH also emphasizes that final funding decisions will reflect the needs, priorities, and missions of the specific participating Institute or Center that ends up assigned to the application. The listed award ceiling is $225,000, and the FOA states there is no cost sharing or matching requirement.

Eligibility is broad and intentionally inclusive. Applicants may come from for-profit or nonprofit organizations, including universities and colleges, hospitals, research laboratories, and other public or private institutions. Government entities are eligible at multiple levels, including units of state and local government, counties, cities or townships, independent school districts, special district governments, and eligible federal agencies. The FOA also welcomes faith-based or community-based organizations, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, and Indian/Native American tribal governments (both federally recognized and other than federally recognized), as well as tribally designated organizations. Foreign (non-U.S.) institutions are explicitly eligible to apply. On the investigator side, any individual with the skills, knowledge, and resources needed to carry out the proposed work may serve as a project lead, working through their institution to submit an application. The announcement also allows an applicant organization to submit more than one application as long as each is scientifically distinct, which matters for institutions planning multiple translational lines of work.

Administrative and timing details reflect a standard NIH discretionary grant competition structure. The FOA was posted April 13, 2006, and lists multiple receipt dates (rather than a single deadline), directing applicants to the full announcement for the specific schedule. Peer review is handled through an initial merit review convened by the assigned Institute. For accessibility, the notice includes a TTY number for hearing-impaired telecommunications (301-451-0088). It also provides a link to the full NIH Guide announcement (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-357.html) and indicates that applicants with technical difficulties accessing the announcement can contact the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster (FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV).

Overall, PAR-06-357 is best understood as an NIH effort to deliberately knit together basic behavioral science and clinical/services research so that foundational behavioral mechanisms inform the development, improvement, and delivery of interventions for mental illness and substance use disorders, while clinical realities and disorder-related changes in behavior feed back to refine and test basic behavioral theories.

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