Opportunity Information: Apply for W81XWH 20 TSCRP IDA
The Department of Defense, through the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA), offered the DoD Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) Research Program (TSCRP) Idea Development Award (Funding Opportunity Number W81XWH 20 TSCRP IDA). This opportunity was designed to push the field forward by supporting conceptually innovative research ideas that could open up new directions for investigation in tuberous sclerosis complex and, over time, translate into meaningful advances in understanding the disease and improving patient care. The central theme of the award is high-impact potential: projects are expected to be more than incremental extensions of existing work and instead propose fresh approaches, novel concepts, or new ways of looking at persistent problems in TSC.
A key expectation of the program is scientific readiness paired with innovation. Applicants are not being asked to submit purely speculative concepts; proposed studies should be anchored by strong preliminary data and a clear scientific rationale. The project must be framed around a well-formulated, testable hypothesis, meaning the research plan should lay out specific questions that can be answered with the proposed methods and that will produce interpretable outcomes. In other words, the award aims to fund bold ideas, but only when they are supported by evidence that the idea is plausible and the team can credibly execute the work.
Administratively, the award was listed as a discretionary funding opportunity and could be made as either a grant or a cooperative agreement, indicating that in some cases there may be substantial involvement by the funding agency in the project during performance (a hallmark of cooperative agreements), depending on the specific award structure. The activity category is science and technology and other research and development, and it is associated with CFDA number 12.420, which corresponds to Department of Defense research and development assistance.
Eligibility was broadly open ("unrestricted"), meaning the competition was not limited to a narrow class of institutions by default, although applicants were instructed to review the full announcement for any clarifying eligibility conditions in the section labeled "Additional Information on Eligibility." The opportunity was posted on April 1, 2020, with an original application deadline of July 9, 2020. The announcement anticipated making approximately three awards. The listing shows an award ceiling of 0, which typically indicates that a specific maximum dollar amount was not provided in the summarized field and would need to be confirmed in the full funding announcement or associated program documents.
Overall, this funding mechanism was built for researchers aiming to take a well-supported, hypothesis-driven idea and use it to generate results that could substantially change how TSC is studied or managed clinically. The emphasis on preliminary data, a strong rationale, and testability signals that the DoD intended to fund projects that are both imaginative and positioned to deliver credible, actionable findings.Apply for W81XWH 20 TSCRP IDA
- The Department of Defense, Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "DoD Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, Idea Development Award" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 12.420.
- This funding opportunity was created on Apr 01, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 09, 2020. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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