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Opportunity Summary:

The DoD Peer Reviewed Medical Investigator Initiated Research Award (PRMRP IIRA) is a Department of Defense medical research funding opportunity designed to support investigator-driven studies that can meaningfully advance research and/or improve patient care for diseases or conditions that fall within at least one of the Congressionally directed FY14 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Topic Areas. In practical terms, this award is meant for projects where the core idea originates from the investigator rather than being narrowly prescribed by the funder, as long as the work clearly aligns with one or more of the specific topic areas identified in the official program announcement.

A central expectation of this opportunity is that proposed research should be grounded in a well-supported scientific or clinical rationale. The solicitation explicitly recognizes that strong, impactful research questions can come from many legitimate sources, including laboratory discoveries, population-based or epidemiologic observations, a clinician’s direct experience with patient needs, or even carefully considered anecdotal or real-world clinical observations. However, the application is not meant to be purely speculative. Applicants are required to include relevant supporting data that justify the research direction and demonstrate feasibility or a compelling basis for the study. Those supporting data can be unpublished (for example, preliminary results from the applicant’s lab or clinic) or drawn from the published scientific literature, as long as they credibly support the proposed approach.

From a funding and administrative standpoint, this opportunity was offered by the Department of the Army through the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) under Funding Opportunity Number W81XWH-14-PRMRP-IIRA. Awards could be made as either grants or cooperative agreements, indicating that projects might be supported through standard assistance mechanisms and, depending on the specific award, may involve varying degrees of programmatic involvement consistent with federal cooperative agreement practices. The activity category is science and technology and other research and development, reflecting its focus on biomedical and translational research that can have downstream patient-care relevance.

The program anticipated making about 40 awards, supported by an estimated total funding pool of $76.5 million. There was no cost sharing or matching requirement, which generally lowers barriers for applicants who may not have institutional or external funds available to contribute. Eligibility was listed as unrestricted, meaning it was broadly open to many types of applicant organizations, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications contained in the full announcement text. The assistance listing tied to the opportunity is CFDA 12.420 (Military Medical Research and Development), which is commonly associated with DoD-sponsored biomedical research funding.

Key timing details in the posted notice include an original and final application closing date of October 17, 2014, with the opportunity posted on April 30, 2014 and archived on November 16, 2014. For applicant support, the notice directs users who have trouble accessing the full announcement to contact the CDMRP Help Desk at 301-682-5507 or by email at help@eBRAP.org, which reflects the common CDMRP workflow where applicants use eBRAP for parts of the pre-application and submission process, depending on the year and the specific mechanism.

Overall, the PRMRP Investigator Initiated Research Award can be summarized as a relatively flexible, investigator-led DoD biomedical research mechanism aimed at producing a meaningful contribution to knowledge and/or clinical care in one of the specified FY14 PRMRP topic areas, with an emphasis on proposals that are strongly justified by existing evidence and supported by relevant preliminary or literature-based data.

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