2021 Funding Opportunities for the Department of Defense (DoD)

Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) funding opportunities for the Department of Defense (DoD) Lung Cancer Research Program (LCRP) and the Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) and the pre-announcement for the Tick-Borne Disease Research Program (TBDRP) managed by the office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs.

Lung Cancer Research Program (LCRP) at https://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/lcrp

  • Career Development Award
  • Concept Award

Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) at https://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/ocrp

  • Clinical Translational Research Award
  • Investigator-Initiated Research Award
  • Ovarian Cancer Academy Award – Early-Career Investigator
  • Pilot Award
  • Proteogenomics Research Award

FY21 Pre-Announcement Released:

Tick-Borne Disease Research Program (TBDRP) at https://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/2021/21tbdrppreann

  • Career Development Award
  • Idea Development Award

Contact OSRP with questions. Proposals must be submitted through the Office of Sponsored Research no later than five days prior to the sponsor deadline. osrp@iit.edu.

Descriptions of each of the anticipated funding opportunities, eligibility, key mechanism elements, and funding can be found in the Program pre-announcement. FY21 pre-announcements can be found in the CDMRP home page features at https://cdmrp.army.mil. Subsequent notifications will be sent when the program announcements/funding opportunities are released.

Detailed descriptions of funding opportunities, evaluation criteria, and submission requirements can be found in the specific Program Announcements. The Program Announcements are available electronically for downloading from the Grants.gov website (http://www.grants.gov), the CDMRP website (https://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/prgdefault) and the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) (https://eBRAP.org).

Additional information about applying to CDMRP programs, as well as tips for successfully preparing applications for different types of CDMRP award mechanisms, are available in the CDMRP Webinar Series (https://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/Webinars/webinar_series).

All CDMRP funding opportunities, both recently and previously released, are available on the CDMRP website (https://cdmrp.army.mil).

Subsequent notifications will be sent when additional funding opportunities are released. A listing of all open CDMRP funding opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search using CFDA Number 12.420.

Contact OSRP with questions. Proposals must be submitted through the Office of Sponsored Research no later than five days prior to the sponsor deadline. osrp@iit.edu.