NINDS Exploratory Grant Program in Parkinsons Disease Research (P20) | Apply Online

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The NINDS Exploratory Grant Program in Parkinsons Disease Research (P20) is a National Institutes of Health funding opportunity designed to help research groups form or strengthen multidisciplinary collaborations focused on Parkinsons disease (PD). PD is described in the announcement as a chronic, progressive movement disorder affecting at least half a million people in the United States, with a major ripple effect on caregivers and families. Because PD most commonly begins in a persons sixties, and because the U.S. population is aging, the overall burden of PD is expected to rise. Despite meaningful scientific progress, the FOA emphasizes that the underlying causes and full biological complexity of PD are still not completely understood, and current therapies mainly treat symptoms rather than slowing or stopping disease progression. Against that backdrop, the program is built around the idea that complex PD problems are often better tackled by teams that combine expertise across disciplines, but that building those teams, aligning strategy, and generating the early data needed to justify larger center-level work takes time and dedicated support.

This FOA (Funding Opportunity Announcement) solicits P20 exploratory grant applications that focus on planning and initiating synergistic research activities that can move PD research and treatment forward. The emphasis is on creating and formalizing collaborative structures, establishing shared approaches, and generating the foundation of research discovery needed to address new or emerging questions in PD. A key feature of the program is that it is meant to be a stepping stone: successful P20 projects are expected to position applicants for a later, more comprehensive application to the NINDS Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence program (P50), which supports larger collaborative, multidisciplinary PD research centers. In other words, the P20 is intended to help groups get organized and productive enough to compete for a full center award, rather than to serve as long-term support for already mature programs.

The announcement also makes clear what the program is not trying to do. It is intended to foster innovative collaborations and support new projects, not to fund the continuation of projects that are already underway. That focus signals that reviewers will likely be looking for proposals where the P20 funding fills a real gap: enabling a new partnership, launching coordinated pilot efforts, building shared resources or workflows, and collecting preliminary evidence that the team can work together effectively on a defined PD challenge.

Administratively, this is a discretionary grant opportunity (not a formula or entitlement program) in the health funding activity category, under CFDA 93.853 (Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders). The FOA number is RFA-NS-14-011, and it was posted May 30, 2014, with an application due date of September 29, 2014, and an archive date of October 30, 2014. The estimated total funding available was $1,000,000, with an award ceiling of $250,000, and there is no cost sharing or matching requirement indicated.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of U.S.-based organizations, such as public and state controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofits (including 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) entities), state, county, city or township governments, special district governments, independent school districts, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, small businesses, and for-profit organizations other than small businesses. The announcement also explicitly includes eligibility for several institution types such as HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, tribal colleges and universities, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions, as well as faith-based or community-based organizations and eligible federal agencies. At the same time, it specifies that non-U.S. (foreign) organizations and foreign institutions are not eligible to apply, and that non-U.S. components of U.S. organizations are not eligible to apply. However, foreign components as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement are allowed, which typically means certain internationally based elements may be included when justified, even though the applicant organization itself must be eligible and primarily U.S.-based.

Overall, the opportunity is best understood as seed funding for building a coordinated, team-based PD research effort with a clear trajectory: use the P20 period to organize the collaboration, define and test a shared strategy, generate early results, and become competitive for a subsequent Udall Center (P50) application that can sustain a larger, longer-term multidisciplinary program aimed at advancing understanding and treatment of Parkinsons disease.

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