# DoW Peer Reviewed Medical, Discovery Award

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/ht942526prmrpda-dow-peer-reviewed-medical-discovery-award/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/362322

> Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA offered grants to any type of organization. It expected to make about 29 awards worth $11.2 million in total. Applications closed on July 30, 2026.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | HT942526PRMRPDA |
| Agency | Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | July 30, 2026 |
| Award ceiling | not stated |
| Award floor | not stated |
| Expected awards | 29 |
| Total funding | $11.2 million |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 12.420 |

## Who can apply

- Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

## What the grant funds

Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Discovery Award supports novel, untested, high-risk, high-reward research projects with the potential to provide new insights, paradigms, technologies, or applications and with a potential to generate preliminary data that will lay the foundation for future projects. The application must address a critical problem or question in the field of research and/or patient care in a congressionally directed FY26 PRMRP topic area and one of the FY26 PRMRP portfolio-specific strategic goals. Distinctive Features: Applications must not include preliminary data. The focus of this award mechanism is innovation. Research proposed to this mechanism should be pioneering and revolutionary, and the outcomes generated by the award are expected to generate robust preliminary data that will lay the groundwork for future avenues of scientific investigation or product development. Funding Details: The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) expects to allot roughly $11.165M to fund approximately 29 Discovery Award applications with total cost caps of $385,000 per award. The maximum period of performance is 2 years. It is anticipated that awards made from this FY26 funding opportunity will be funded with FY26 funds, which will expire for use on September 30, 2032. Awards supported with FY26 funds will be made no later than September 30, 2027.

## Questions people ask

### Is HT942526PRMRPDA still open?

No. It closed on July 30, 2026. A newer notice is open: HT942526BCRPCREA2, closes November 18, 2026 (11 days left).

### Who can apply for DoW Peer Reviewed Medical, Discovery Award?

Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA accepted applications from any type of organization.

### What is the deadline for DoW Peer Reviewed Medical, Discovery Award?

Closed July 30, 2026. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

About $11.2 million in total across about 29 awards.

### Who has won Military Medical Research and Development grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., The Univeristy of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University. The program made 5,470 awards worth $6.9 billion in that time.