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Opportunity Summary:

The DoD Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (PH/TBI) Research Program TBI Endpoints Development (TED) Award (Funding Opportunity Number W81XWH-13-PHTBI-TED) is a Department of the Army/USAMRAA cooperative agreement opportunity focused on one specific gap in the traumatic brain injury field: the lack of validated, qualified endpoints that can be reliably used to judge whether a diagnostic approach or a treatment is truly effective for mild to moderate TBI (mTBI to modTBI). In practical terms, an "endpoint" is the kind of measurable outcome a clinical study uses to determine success or failure, such as a clinical scale, cognitive performance measure, biomarker, imaging readout, functional assessment, or other standardized metric. The program is built around the idea that many candidate endpoints already exist, but too many have not been rigorously validated and positioned for broad adoption in research studies and clinical trials, especially in ways that can stand up to regulatory expectations.

The core purpose of the TED Award is to stand up a collaborative, multidisciplinary research team tasked with advancing clinically relevant endpoints for trials involving diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation in mTBI to modTBI. Rather than funding isolated projects, the mechanism emphasizes a team structure that can integrate expertise across disciplines such as neurology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation medicine, imaging, biomarker science, biostatistics, clinical trial methodology, and regulatory science. The expectation is that this kind of coordinated approach will produce endpoints that are not only scientifically credible, but also practical to implement in real-world research settings and eventually useful for supporting regulatory approvals. That regulatory angle is a key feature of the opportunity: the endpoints developed should be able to function as reference measures of diagnostic or therapeutic effectiveness, meaning they should be robust enough to help decision-makers evaluate whether an intervention works.

The announcement also clearly draws a boundary around what it will and will not fund. This award is not intended to directly support the creation of new TBI drugs, therapies, diagnostics, or medical devices. Instead, it supports the development and advancement of the measurement tools and outcome markers that trials rely on. The logic is that without dependable endpoints, even promising diagnostics and treatments can be harder to evaluate, compare, or move through the evidence pipeline. By improving endpoints, the program aims to improve the entire downstream ecosystem for TBI research, including study design quality, comparability across trials, and the credibility of results used to guide clinical practice and policy.

From an administrative standpoint, this was a discretionary funding opportunity using a cooperative agreement instrument, which typically implies substantial programmatic involvement by the funding agency during performance (more interaction and coordination than a standard grant). The opportunity fell under the Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity category, with CFDA number 12.420 (Military Medical Research and Development). It anticipated a single award (Expected Awards: 1) with an estimated total funding amount of $17,000,000 and no cost-sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility was listed as unrestricted, meaning open to a wide range of applicant organizations, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications in the full announcement.

Key dates show it was posted and created on November 6, 2013, with an original and current closing date of February 13, 2014, and it was archived on March 15, 2014. For access issues or questions about the full announcement, applicants were directed to the CDMRP Help Desk (301-682-5507, help@cdmrp.org).

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