DoD Tick-Borne Disease Research Program

Amount of funding: Direct costs budgeted for the entire period of performance will not exceed $825,000. Direct costs budgeted for the entire period of performance for the Therapeutic/Diagnostic Idea Award – Career Development Option will not exceed $495,000.
Purpose: The FY23 TBDRP Therapeutic/Diagnostic Research Award is intended to support hypothesisdriven therapeutic and diagnostic development research. Projects submitted under a Treatment Focus Area should be therapeutic evaluation studies designed to promote new ideas aimed at drug or treatment discovery that are still in the early/preclinical stages of development. Projects submitted under a Diagnosis Focus Area should propose diagnostic approaches that will be readily integrated into clinical settings.
Eligibility for Idea Development Award: Independent investigators - Faculty with PI eligibility and CE faculty (with an approved CE faculty PI waiver obtained through their RPM in RMG prior to the pre-application/letter of intent) may be the PI or a Partnering PI.
Eligibility for Idea Development Award – Career Development Option: The PI must be an early-career research scientist, physician scientist, or other qualified clinical scientist, within 10 years of completion of their terminal degree at the time of application submission deadline (excluding time spent in residency or on family medical leave) and exhibit a strong desire to pursue a career in tick-borne diseases research. PIs without PI eligibility will need an approved Career Development PI waiver obtained through their RPM in RMG prior to the pre-application deadline. See guidelines for Mentor Eligibility.
Timeline:
REQUIRED Pre-Application (Pre-Proposal) Deadline: May 25, 2023 via eBrap
Please include your RPM’s name as business official in the pre-application.
Institutional representative (RPM/RMG or CGO/OSR) Deadline:  August 17, 2023
Application Submission Deadline: August 24, 2023 via grants.gov
Guidelines: https://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/tbdrp

Amount of funding: Direct costs budgeted for the entire period of performance will not exceed $500,000. Direct costs budgeted for the entire period of performance for the Idea Development Award – Career Development Option will not exceed $300,000.
Purpose: The FY23 TBDRP Idea Development Award is intended to support research that could lead to impactful discoveries or significant advancements that will accelerate progress toward reducing the burden of Lyme disease and/or other tick-borne diseases and conditions and improve patient care, and/or the quality of life for military Service Members, Veterans, and their beneficiaries, as well as the American public.
Eligibility for Idea Development Award: Independent investigators - Faculty with PI eligibility and CE faculty (with an approved CE faculty PI waiver obtained through their RPM in RMG prior to the pre-application/letter of intent) may be the PI.
Eligibility for Idea Development Award – Career Development Option: The PI must be an early-career research scientist, physician scientist, or other qualified clinical scientist, within 10 years of completion of their terminal degree at the time of application submission deadline (excluding time spent in residency or on family medical leave) and exhibit a strong desire to pursue a career in tick-borne diseases research. PIs without PI eligibility will need an approved Career Development PI waiver obtained through their RPM in RMG prior to the pre-application deadline. See guidelines for Mentor Eligibility.
Timeline:
REQUIRED Pre-Application (Pre-Proposal) Deadline: May 25, 2023 via eBrap
Please include your RPM’s name as business official in the pre-application.
Institutional representative (RPM/RMG or CGO/OSR) Deadline:  August 17, 2023
Application Submission Deadline: August 24, 2023 via grants.gov
Guidelines: https://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/tbdrp

Please include your institutional official's name (RPM/RMG or CGO/OSR) as business official in the pre-application/LOI.

eBRAP Funding Opportunities and Forms (including the General Application Instructions).