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Opportunity Summary:

The DoD Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Discovery Award is a Department of Defense funding opportunity designed to jump start bold, early stage medical research ideas that are still largely unproven. Its main purpose is to back projects that are genuinely innovative and exploratory, especially those that carry higher scientific risk but also have the potential for unusually high impact. The program is looking for research that can open up entirely new directions in a field by offering new insights, introducing new technologies or applications, proposing new scientific paradigms, or seriously challenging existing assumptions. In other words, this award is meant for work that could change how people think about a problem, not for work that simply extends what is already known.

A key expectation is that the proposed project is built around a clear, well formulated, and testable hypothesis, supported by sound scientific reasoning and a credible study design. Even though the research is meant to be untested and high risk, it still needs to be logically structured and capable of producing interpretable results. Reviewers are looking for novelty and creativity, such as approaching an existing medical challenge from a new angle, using a new methodology, or asking a question that has not been pursued in a serious way before. Projects that are mainly incremental improvements on previously published findings are specifically described as a poor fit for this mechanism.

One of the most defining features of this opportunity is its strong discouragement of preliminary data. The Discovery Award is intentionally positioned as an entry point for ideas that have not already been substantially developed. The DoD makes it clear that this is not meant to fund the next step of an already established research program or ongoing work. Small amounts of preliminary data may be acceptable if they reflect serendipitous observations or limited early findings, but a heavy reliance on preliminary results is treated as a sign that the project is beyond the exploratory stage and should instead be submitted under a different award type. The overall goal is that, by the end of the project, the work will have generated robust preliminary data that can serve as the foundation for later, larger studies. Those future studies may focus on understanding how a disease or condition begins or progresses and/or on improving patient care.

Administratively, this opportunity was issued by the Department of the Army through the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) under Funding Opportunity Number W81XWH-14-PRMRP-DA. The activity category is Science and Technology and other Research and Development, and awards may be made as cooperative agreements or grants. The estimated total funding was $12,000,000, with an expected 40 awards, and there is no cost sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning it is broadly open to many entity types, subject to any additional eligibility details in the full announcement. The posting date was April 30, 2014, with a closing date of July 30, 2014, and the opportunity was archived on August 29, 2014. The CFDA number associated with this program is 12.420 (Military Medical Research and Development). For technical issues accessing the full announcement, the contact listed is the CDMRP Help Desk (help@eBRAP.org, 301-682-5507).

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