NINDS Neuroscience Funding Announcements

Investigations on Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (R01)

Funding Contact(s): Ursula Utz, Ph.D.
Funding Categories: Neural Environment

Brief Description:
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, will co-sponsor this FOA to support applications from institutions/organizations that propose innovative investigations in primary immunodeficiency diseases with a focus on ex vivo studies with human specimens and on studies with existing or new animal models. This FOA will also support novel clinical strategies, not including clinical trials, to detect primary immunodeficiency diseases, to identify the molecular basis of these diseases, and to develop innovative therapies for primary immunodeficiency diseases. Investigators who have no prior history of receiving independent NIH funding in this field are encouraged to apply.

Grant Mechanism: R01
NIH Guide: PAR-08-206
Release Date: 2008-07-18
Expiration Date: 2011-09-08