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W81XWH-22-ALSRP-PCTA: DoD Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Pilot Clinical Trial Award

Closed Closed July 28, 2022 Opportunity W81XWH-22-ALSRP-PCTA ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: DoW Breast Cancer, Clinical Research Extension Award (HT942526BCRPCREA2). Status: Closes November 18, 2026 (11 days left). It is in our archive of Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA notices from 2022.

• Total funding$9.6 million
• Expected awards3
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement, Grant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to any type of organization.

• 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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Is this a realistic fit?

• Most of the program's money (59% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The FY22 ALSRP Pilot Clinical Trial Award supports the rapid implementation of clinical trials with the potential to have a significant impact on the treatment or management of ALS. Projects may range from phase 1 to small-scale phase 2 trials and should aim to de-risk and inform the design of more advanced trials by investigating safety, feasibility, biomarker application, and therapeutic efficacy in relevant patient populations. Clinical trials may be designed to evaluate promising drugs, biologics, or devices with anticipated therapeutic impact that is supported by strong scientific rationale and existing preclinical data. Potential impact is not whether a therapy is ready at the conclusion of the trial, but rather if the outcomes will improve and accelerate future larger trials. Applications submitted to this award can have outcomes that focus on specific subpopulations of ALS patients or potentially even individual patients. Applicants not investigating a therapeutic, but proposing a clinical trial to optimize established ALS clinical care, must submit under a lower total direct cost Clinical Care Tier. Types of efforts that will be supported under this tier include but are not limited to optimization of respiratory care strategies, improvements to approved devices and assistive technologies, and/or specific symptom management strategies. The capacity for near-term impact on patient care is an important component of the Clinical Care Tier. Funding from this award mechanism must support a clinical trial. A clinical trial is defined as a research study in which one or more human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions (which may include placebo or other control) to evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or behavioral health-related outcomes. For more information, a Human Subject Resource Document is provided at https://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/pdf/Human%20Subjects%20Resource%20Document.pdf. Principal Investigators (PIs) seeking funding for a preclinical research project should consider one of the other FY22 ALSRP program announcements being offered. For information about these award mechanisms, see https://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/alsrp The requested budget for the clinical trial must be justified and appropriate to the scope proposed. Refer to Section II.D.5, Funding Restrictions, for detailed funding information. Funding for therapeutics must include plans to generate compelling biomarker data.

Category: Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, HT942526BCRPCREA2, which is open now.

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