Public Venue-Approved Concepts
Approved Concepts for Requests for Applications (RFAs), Program Announcements (PAs), and Requests for Proposals (RFPs)
Specific information on each initiative, including receipt date, will be available once the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) has been published. This page provides links to cleared concepts for solicitations and presents key information about the basic purpose, scope, and objectives of the concepts.
This listing of concepts is meant to provide the earliest possible alert to potential applicants in order to maximize application preparation time. While NIMH plans to proceed with these initiatives, their publication and timing is not certain and depends on sufficient funds being available. The resultant FOA may differ from the concepts.
For more information, see the NIH Guide’s list of published RFAs and PAs and NIMH Contracts.
Please send questions regarding specific concepts to the program contacts listed in the concept description. Please address other comments to Jean Noronha at jnoronha@mail.nih.gov.
Concepts
- Blueprint Undergraduate Neuroscience Research Training Initiative: Increasing Diversity
- July 31, 2009
The goal of this initiative is to support the development of collaborative undergraduate research education/training programs with the purpose of increasing the pool of students who are well-prepared and motivated to enter Ph.D. programs in the neurosciences. This initiative will target undergraduate students who are from diverse backgrounds (i.e., students from backgrounds historically underrepresented in the biomedical sciences). This initiative will be supported through the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, consisting of 16 NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices that collectively support neuroscience research. - Seeding National Mentoring Networks to Enhance Diversity of the Mental Health Research Workforce
- July 31, 2009
The goal of this initiative is to enable the conceptualization, planning, and piloting of prototypes for national infrastructures to mentor individuals from diverse backgrounds who are conducting research relevant to the mission of the NIMH. - Identifying Modifiable Risk Factors for Suicidality
- October 14, 2008
This initiative will evaluate selected samples of soldiers across all phases of United States Army Service, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally, to identify modifiable risk factors, mediators, and moderators of suicide-related behaviors, as well as protective factors. The goal of this research is to evaluate multiple determinants of suicide related-events, for the purpose of developing effective strategies for mitigating suicide risk and preventing suicide behaviors. - Development of Innovative Interventions for Adult Anorexia Nervosa
- March 12, 2007
This initiative would encourage pilot intervention studies to develop novel, innovative treatments for Anorexia Nervosa (AN) in older adolescents and adults.
