# DoD Melanoma, Idea Award

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/w81xwh-22-mrp-ia-dod-melanoma-idea-award/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/340865

> Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA offered grants to any type of organization. It expected to make about 13 awards worth $10.4 million in total. Applications closed on October 5, 2022.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | W81XWH-22-MRP-IA |
| Agency | Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | October 5, 2022 |
| Award ceiling | not stated |
| Award floor | not stated |
| Expected awards | 13 |
| Total funding | $10.4 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 FY22 MRP Idea Award supports innovative, untested, exploratory, high-risk/potentially high-reward concepts, theories, paradigms, and/or methods that are responsive to the FY22 MRP Challenge Statement and address at least one of the FY22 MRP Focus Areas in Section II.A.1. The advancement of knowledge in melanoma research, patient care, and/or treatment options in the Military Health System is critical to active-duty Service Members, Veterans, other military beneficiaries, and the American public. The purpose of the Idea Award is to generate novel research avenues for investigation; therefore, novelty and innovation should be key aspects of the proposed research. Research supported by the Idea Award must introduce a new paradigm, challenge existing paradigms, look at existing problems from new perspectives, or exhibit other highly creative qualities. The proposed project can be exploratory, hypothesis-driven or hypothesis-generating research but must be based on a strong scientific rationale and a well-developed study design and plan of analysis. The Idea Award is not intended to expand or extend previously published findings or continue an established line of research. Incremental advances, the next logical step, or merely switching the object or method of inquiry from one cancer to another cancer is not considered innovative.

## Questions people ask

### Is W81XWH-22-MRP-IA still open?

No. It closed on October 5, 2022. A newer notice is open: HT942526BCRPCREA2, closes November 18, 2026 (11 days left).

### Who can apply for DoD Melanoma, Idea Award?

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

### What is the deadline for DoD Melanoma, Idea Award?

Closed October 5, 2022. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

About $10.4 million in total across about 13 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.