DOD Epilepsy, Leveraging Research Award | HT9425 23 ERP LRA

Opportunity Information: Apply for HT9425 23 ERP LRA

The DOD Epilepsy, Leveraging Research Award (FY23 ERP LRA) is a Department of Defense funding opportunity designed to accelerate progress in understanding post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) by building on research that is already underway or has recently been completed. Rather than funding entirely new projects from scratch, the program is aimed at "leveraging" existing datasets, study populations, specimens, protocols, or research infrastructure where epilepsy was not originally a central priority. The core idea is to provide targeted support so investigators can add a PTE-focused component that is scientifically well justified, such as new analyses, new measures, or expanded enrollment that directly increases what we know about PTE.

Projects supported under this award can span basic, translational, and clinical research, as long as the work is clearly tied to an ongoing or completed research effort. In practical terms, applicants are expected to show that they already have a strong foundation to build on, and that adding PTE-specific cohorts, outcomes, assessments, or analytic approaches is feasible and likely to yield meaningful insight. Examples of the kinds of expansions implied by the description include incorporating additional participants at risk for PTE into an existing study, adding epilepsy-relevant clinical outcomes or neurophysiological assessments to an ongoing protocol, or reanalyzing existing data to identify PTE predictors, mechanisms, or trajectories. A key requirement is that the parent study was not originally designed with PTE as the main focus; the award exists specifically to redirect or broaden prior work toward PTE in a way that makes scientific sense.

Administratively, the opportunity is offered by the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, through USAMRAA, and is listed under Funding Opportunity Number HT9425 23 ERP LRA. The opportunity is categorized as discretionary and supports awards through either a grant or a cooperative agreement mechanism, which generally signals that the government may have more substantial involvement in the project under certain awards (the specific level of involvement typically depends on the final terms). The activity category is Science and Technology and other Research and Development, and it is associated with CFDA number 12.420.

Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning it is broadly open to many kinds of applicant organizations, with the caveat that applicants should still check any additional eligibility clarifications in the full notice. The listing indicates an expected number of awards of 2. The award ceiling is shown as 0, which commonly indicates that a specific maximum was not stated in the summary fields and would need to be confirmed in the full announcement or associated program documents. The opportunity was created on February 3, 2023, with an original closing date of June 23, 2023.

Overall, this grant is best understood as a mechanism to extract more value and more PTE-relevant knowledge from studies that are already funded or completed, by supporting well-justified additions or analyses that would not otherwise be possible. The emphasis is on efficiency and scientific leverage: using existing momentum, cohorts, and data to quickly deepen the evidence base around post-traumatic epilepsy.

• The Department of Defense, Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "DOD Epilepsy, Leveraging Research Award" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 12.420.
• This funding opportunity was created on Feb 03, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 23, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: 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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