Funding Opportunities

This is a new opportunity for drug abuse researchers to obtain federal funding for their scholarly work. CPDD and The Friends of NIDA convinced Congress to include drug abuse for the first time as a category for funding in the Department of the Army Congressionally Mandated Medical Peer Review Program. The deadline for grant submission is July 2, 2008. (For complete information...html)

The following are two recently released NIH funding opportunities, with a set aside of funds, targeted at human and animal research on women and sex/gender differences. See attachment and links below for more details. Receipt dates: October 16, 2007, 2008, 2009.

PAS-07-382 (R03) http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAS-07-382.html

PAS-07-381 (R21) http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAS-07-381.html

Cora Lee Wetherington, Ph.D.
Women & Sex/Gender Research Coordinator
National Institute on Drug Abuse
6001 Executive Blvd., Rm 4282, MSC 9555
Bethesda, MD 20892-9555 (For overnight mail: Rockville , MD 20857 )
Phone: (301) 435-1319
Fax: (301) 594-6043
E-mail: wetherington@nih.gov

The Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism: Stress Anxiety and Alcohol (aka INIA Stress) is soliciting pilot project applications to compliment and enhance the research ongoing in this consortium. The major goal of the INIA Stress is to more fully understand neural responses to stress and alcohol, and how they may influence excessive alcohol consumption in organisms ranging from mice to monkeys and humans. We have put together this research consortium to gain much needed information about the neural effects of stress, alcohol and stress/alcohol interactions on the level of expression and function of key neuronal molecules, neuronal activity and synaptic efficacy, the neurophysiology of key systems involved in stress and alcohol interactions, genetic factors that contribute to alcohol-stress interactions, as well as stress-related conditioning and other behaviors related to stress. [More...pdf]