Improving Diabetes Management in Pre-teens, Adolescents and/or Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes (DP3) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The grant opportunity titled "Improving Diabetes Management in Pre-teens, Adolescents and/or Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes (DP3)" (Funding Opportunity Number RFA-DK-16-001) is a discretionary NIH grant from HHS (listed under HHS-NIH11) focused on developing better ways to help young people with type 1 diabetes manage their condition. The central purpose is not to fund a large, definitive clinical trial right away, but to support the creation and early testing of new, practical interventions that could later be evaluated in a full-scale efficacy study. It targets a challenging period for diabetes care, when developmental changes, school or work transitions, and shifting responsibility for self-care often make consistent management harder.

The FOA specifically invites institutions and organizations to design, refine, and pilot test innovative strategies aimed at improving diabetes management in three age bands: pre-teens ages 10 to 12, adolescents ages 13 to 18, and young adults ages 19 to 30. Applicants can focus on one group or potentially address more than one, as long as the intervention is clearly tailored to the needs and realities of the chosen population. The emphasis on these age ranges reflects well-known gaps in diabetes outcomes during adolescence and young adulthood, when adherence, engagement with care, and glycemic control often worsen and the risk of acute and longer-term complications can increase.

A key expectation is that by the end of the funding period, the project will produce an intervention that is "well-developed and well-characterized." In practical terms, that means the strategy should move beyond a simple concept and become something structured enough to replicate: clear intervention components, defined delivery methods, documented training requirements for staff (if relevant), and an implementation approach that can realistically be used in the intended settings. The FOA highlights several specific benchmarks for success: the intervention should be demonstrated to be safe, feasible to implement, and acceptable to the target population. Safety here includes not only medical safety (for example, avoiding increased risk of hypoglycemia) but also broader concerns such as burden, unintended effects on mental health, or negative impacts on family dynamics. Feasibility means the intervention can be delivered without unrealistic resources, time commitments, or specialized infrastructure that would make it impossible to scale. Acceptability means the intended users (youth/young adults and often families or caregivers) find it usable and worthwhile, which is especially important for interventions that rely on sustained engagement.

The program is structured so that, if early results are promising, the intervention should be ready to move into a larger efficacy trial after the grant ends. That readiness typically implies that the pilot work has generated enough preliminary data to justify a bigger study, clarified recruitment and retention strategies for the population, established workable outcome measures, and resolved major uncertainties in how the intervention should be delivered. In other words, NIH is paying for the risky but necessary early-stage work that often determines whether a novel idea can survive contact with real-world clinical care and day-to-day life.

From a funding and administrative standpoint, this opportunity uses the NIH grant funding instrument and falls under the Health and Food and Nutrition activity categories. It is associated with CFDA numbers 93.847 (Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research) and 93.847 is commonly tied to NIDDK-supported research. The award ceiling listed is $1,400,000, and the agency anticipated making about three awards. The FOA was posted on December 8, 2015, with a closing date of June 22, 2016 (both original and current closing dates match), which indicates it was a time-limited solicitation rather than an open-ended program announcement.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of applicants, reflecting an interest in pulling innovation from multiple sectors. Eligible applicants include state, county, city/township, and special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments and other tribal organizations; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; nonprofit organizations (including both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) entities) that are not institutions of higher education; for-profit organizations (other than small businesses); and small businesses. This range signals that NIH was open to interventions developed in clinical settings, community or school environments, academic research centers, digital health companies, or partnerships that combine these strengths.

Overall, the opportunity is best understood as support for the "build and prove it can work in the real world" phase of intervention development for type 1 diabetes management in youth and young adults. The deliverable NIH is trying to buy with this FOA is a credible, pilot-tested intervention package, backed by evidence that people will use it, settings can implement it, and it does not create new risks. If those boxes are checked and early signals suggest benefit, the project should be positioned to compete for subsequent funding to test efficacy at a larger scale.

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