A -- FISCAL YEAR 2001 (FY01) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD)PEER REVIEWED MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM (PRMRP)

Notice Date

March 6, 2001

Contracting Office

Director, USAMRAA, 820 Chandler St, Fort Detrick, MD 21702-5014

ZIP Code

21702-5014

Solicitation Number

CBD-PRM-0305

Point of Contact

Kathryn M. Dunn, Contracting Officer, 301-619-7354, email: kathy.dunn@amedd.army.mil

Description

The Defense Appropriations Act of 2001 (Public Law 106-295) provides $50 million to fund peer-reviewed research pertinent to the health of our military forces in 31 topic areas. As the executive agent for this program, the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) requests intramural and extramural research proposals relevant to military health on the following topics: Acute Lung Injury Research; Arthropod-Transmitted Infectious Diseases; Biological Hazard Detection System/Bio-sensor Microchip; CAT Scan Technology for Lung Cancer; Childhood Asthma; Dengue Fever Vaccine; Digital Mammography Imaging; Freeze-Dried Platelets; Fungi Free; Gulf War Illnesses Research; Health System Information Technology; Health Care Informatics; Human Imaging Institute/Magnetoencephalography Laboratory; Medical Surgery Technology; Medical Records Management; Microsurgery and Robotic Surgery Research; Molecular Biology for Cancer Research; Neural Mechanisms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Obesity-Related Disease Prevention Especially for Minorities; Paget's Disease; Quantum Optics; Remote Emergency Medicine Ultrasound; Smoking Cessation; Social Work Research; Tissue Regeneration for Combat Casualty Care; Venus 3-D Technology Program; Vitamin D Research; Military-Relevant Disease Management; Laser Eye Injury; Alcohol Abuse Prevention Research; and Sleep Management. Submission, evaluation, and selection criteria and guidelines are described in the USAMRMC BAA 99-1 and the FY01 PRMRP supplement to the USAMRMC BAA 99-1. Both documents are available at http://www-usamraa.army.mil. Proposals are being requested from agencies of local, state, and federal governments; educational institutions; nonprofit organizations; and private industry. Applicants are encouraged to collaborate with federal agencies (military treatment facilities and research laboratories, Department of Veterans Affairs, Centers for Disease Control, etc). Proposals will be assessed for complementing existing DOD research. Letters of Intent are due by April 25, 2001. Complete proposals are due no later than 4:00 p.m. on May 16, 2001.

Record

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