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Publication Date - 12/3/1999
10. NIH/NCCAM/NCI &NHLBI - Centers for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) invite applications for Centers for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). It is expected that research conducted at these Centers will examine the potential efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and validity of CAM practices, as well as the physiological or psychological mechanisms underlying or contributing to the effects of these practices.
Specific objectives for the current Center applications include the following:
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performing research related to CAM treatments in one of the listed research theme areas: asthma or cancer;
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investigating basic mechanisms of CAM therapeutic and diagnostic interventions;
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conducting feasibility studies or Phase I and II trials of sufficiently developed CAM interventions to facilitate the design and eventual conduct of randomized, masked, controlled trials;
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acting as an institutional focus for training in research methodology, bioethics, biostatistics, clinical trial design, epidemiology, health services studies, and basic laboratory methods that relate to CAM;
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provide plans for establishing an advisory committee to provide program direction and advice to the Principal Investigator at the Center;
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developing a mechanism for scientific/technical merit review of developmental or feasibility studies from investigators;
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establishing a system to identify and support basic and clinical investigators in their career development, including promotions and tenure.
Applications must be submitted from one institution, but they may include subcontracted collaborative scientific and clinical arrangements with scientists from other institutions, including foreign institutions. However, foreign organizations are not eligible to apply. Additionally, the applicant organizations must have a minimum of three independent investigators who together represent experience in both basic and clinical research; access to a patient care and service facility; the capacity to design, conduct, and evaluate three to four research projects that include at least one basic (mechanistic) study and one clinical study.
The support mechanism will be the NIH Specialized Center Grant P50. The NIH anticipates making up to three awards with an estimated commitment from the NCCAM of $4.5 million total costs for the initial year's funding. Applicants may request three to five years of support. Applications submitted in response to this RFA are limited to $1.5 million total costs (direct and Facilities and Administration) in the first year of the award. Future increases are limited to three percent per year.
A Letter of Intent to Apply is requested at the NCCAM on or before JANUARY 7, 2000. An Application Information Meeting will be held JANUARY 21, 2000. Applications are due at the NIH Center for Scientific Review on or before MARCH 14, 2000.
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