# DOD Rare Cancers Idea Development Award

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/w81xwh-21-rcrp-ida-dod-rare-cancers-idea-development-award/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/333654

> Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA offered grants to any type of organization. It expected to make about 15 awards worth $8.4 million in total. Applications closed on October 15, 2021.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | W81XWH-21-RCRP-IDA |
| Agency | Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | October 15, 2021 |
| Award ceiling | not stated |
| Award floor | not stated |
| Expected awards | 15 |
| Total funding | $8.4 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

The FY21 RCRP Idea Development Award mechanism promotes new ideas that are still in the early stages of development and have the potential to yield impactful data and new avenues of investigation. This award supports conceptually innovative, high-risk/high-reward research that could lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate progress toward eradicating deaths and suffering from rare cancers. Applications should include a well-formulated, testable hypothesis based on strong scientific rationale. Preliminary data with disease-specific rationale (may include correlatives in existing trials) to support the feasibility of the research hypotheses and research approaches are required; however, these data do not necessarily need to be derived from studies of the proposed rare cancer type(s)/subtype(s) under study.

## Questions people ask

### Is W81XWH-21-RCRP-IDA still open?

No. It closed on October 15, 2021. A newer notice is open: HT942526BCRPCREA2, closes November 18, 2026 (11 days left).

### Who can apply for DOD Rare Cancers Idea Development Award?

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

### What is the deadline for DOD Rare Cancers Idea Development Award?

Closed October 15, 2021. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

About $8.4 million in total across about 15 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.