Risk Factors For Psychopathology Using Existing Data Sets (R01) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The NIH funding opportunity "Risk Factors For Psychopathology Using Existing Data Sets (R01)" (Funding Opportunity Number PA-07-082) supports research that uses existing data to better understand how psychopathology develops over time, including the development of alcohol and drug abuse. The central idea is to encourage investigators to make extensive, creative, and coordinated use of already-collected mental health and substance use research data, with the goal of producing findings that can directly inform the design or improvement of prevention approaches and treatment interventions. Rather than funding new large-scale data collection as the primary activity, the FOA is designed to leverage the scientific value of existing datasets by applying new questions, improved analytic strategies, or integrated analyses that were not previously possible or not previously attempted.

This FOA is jointly issued by three NIH institutes: the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). That joint sponsorship signals that the program is meant to cover a broad range of psychiatric and substance-related outcomes and to encourage work that can connect mental health and substance use trajectories when appropriate. The research focus is on risk factors for psychopathology, meaning applicants are expected to examine predictors, correlates, pathways, or developmental processes that contribute to the onset, persistence, or escalation of mental disorders and/or substance use disorders. The emphasis on development points toward longitudinal thinking (even when using existing data), such as identifying early-life, social, behavioral, biological, or environmental factors that shape later outcomes, clarifying timing and sequencing of risks, and understanding how risk accumulates or interacts across the life course.

Projects funded under this announcement are expected to rely on datasets that are either in a public-use format or privately held by the project director/principal investigator. In practice, this opens the door to analyses of large epidemiologic surveys, cohort studies, clinical trial datasets, administrative or service-use records, archival studies, and other well-characterized resources, as long as the application makes clear that the data exist, are accessible to the research team, and are suitable for the proposed analyses. The phrase "focused and coordinated analyses" also points to work that is not just exploratory, but strategically designed, potentially including harmonization across studies, coordinated analytic plans across multiple datasets, or other approaches that strengthen inference by comparing patterns across samples and settings.

The primary award mechanism for this FOA is the NIH Research Project Grant (R01). That mechanism typically supports substantial, multi-year research projects, which aligns with the expectation of extensive analyses, potentially complex methods, and rigorous, publishable outputs that advance the field. The announcement also notes that applications with related or identical scientific scope may be submitted under the Small Research Grant (R03) mechanism through a separate FOA (PA-06-180), which is relevant for smaller, more targeted analytic efforts or feasibility-oriented work using existing data. In other words, investigators can scale their approach: an R01 for a larger analytic program, or an R03 for a more limited but still impactful study.

Funding levels and the number of awards are not fixed in the announcement. Instead, NIH indicates that award size and duration will vary depending on the nature and scope of the proposed research, and that the total dollars and number of funded projects will depend on the quality of applications received, the requested budgets, and program priorities across the participating institutes. The opportunity is listed as a discretionary grant, with activity categories tied to education and health, and it is associated with CFDA numbers covering mental health research (93.242), alcohol research programs (93.273), and drug abuse and addiction research programs (93.279). There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which lowers the barrier for applicants that may not have access to non-federal matching funds.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of domestic and international organizations. Eligible applicants include public and private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (including those with and without 501(c)(3) status), for-profit organizations (including small businesses and other for-profits), state and local governments (including counties, cities, townships, special district governments, and independent school districts), tribal governments and tribal organizations, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, and other organizations as described in the full announcement. The FOA explicitly states that foreign institutions are eligible to apply, that eligible federal agencies may apply, and that faith-based or community-based organizations may apply, reflecting NIH's generally inclusive approach to institutional eligibility when the scientific and administrative requirements can be met.

The opportunity was originally posted on November 22, 2006, and it used multiple receipt dates rather than a single deadline, meaning applications could be submitted on specified cycles referenced in the full announcement. The listing indicates an archive date of August 5, 2009, which matters for historical context, but the description remains a clear example of NIH priorities around maximizing the value of existing datasets to answer pressing questions about mental illness and substance use risk and development. The full announcement is linked at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-082.html, and NIH provides an Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster contact for access or technical issues with the posting.

Browse more opportunities from the same agency: National Institutes of Health

Browse more opportunities from the same category: Education Health

Next opportunity: Basic and Translational Research in Emotion (R01)

Previous opportunity: Women s Mental Health in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period (R01)

USGrants.org Applicant Portal:

Are you interested in learning about about how to apply for this government funding opportunity? You can create a free applicant account and receive instant access to our applicant portal that many business owners like you have benefited from.

Apply for PA 07 082

 

[Watch] how do funding administrators access proposals?

Applicants also applied for:

Applicants who have applied for this opportunity (PA 07 082) also looked into and applied for these:

 

Grant application guides and resources

It is always free to apply for government grants. However the process may be very complex depending on the funding opportunity you are applying for. Let us help you!

Apply for Grants

 

 

Premium leads for funding administrators, grant writers, and loan issuers

Thousands of people visit our website for their funding needs every day. When a user creates a grant proposal and files for submission, we pass the information on to funding administrators, grant writers, and government loan issuers.

If you manage government grant programs, provide grant writing services, or issue personal or government loans, we can help you reach your audience.

Subscribe to Leads

 

Request more information:

Would you like to learn more about this funding opportunity, similar opportunities to "PA 07 082", eligibility, application service, and/or application tips? Submit an inquiry below:

Don't forget to subscribe to our grant alerts mailing list to receive weekly alerts on new and updated grant funding opportunities like this one in your email.