National Alzheimers Coordinating Center (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

1 day 22 hours ago
Funding Opportunity RFA-AG-26-003 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for a National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) whose purpose is to serve NIA and the Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD) field as: 1) A national data resource, collecting data from the Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers (ADRCs), affiliated data, and sample repositories; 2) A facilitator of current and future AD/ADRD research; and 3) The central hub for organizing and enabling communication within and outside the ADRC program, including annual meetings and steering committees.

NIDCR Dual Degree Dentist Scientist Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

1 day 22 hours ago
Funding Opportunity PAR-25-333 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of the NIDCR Dual Degree Dentist Scientist Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) program is to develop and maintain a strong cohort of independently funded dentist scientists dedicated to improving dental, oral and craniofacial health. This program is designed to facilitate a timely transition of outstanding dual degree dentist scientists from mentored, postdoctoral research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions by providing support for two years of mentored training and three to five years of independent research. An option for five years of independent (R00) support is available to accommodate clinical training in a dental specialty program at no more than 3 person-months effort (25% full-time professional effort) in any year of the R00 phase.

NIH Directors Transformative Research Awards (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

2 days 12 hours ago
Funding Opportunity RFA-RM-25-003 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The NIH Directors Transformative Research Award Program supports individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing bold, groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original, and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies. To support innovative and novel research across the vast NIH mission, individuals from diverse backgrounds (including those from underrepresented groups; see Notice of NIHs Interest in Diversity) and from the full spectrum of eligible institutions in all geographic locations are encouraged to apply to this Notice of Funding Opportunity. Applications in all topics relevant to the broad mission of NIH are welcome in all topic areas relevant to the broad mission of NIH, including, but not limited to, behavioral, social, biomedical, applied, and formal sciences and topics that may involve basic, translational, or clinical research. No preliminary data are required. Projects must clearly demonstrate, based on the strength of the logic, a compelling potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of relevance to the NIH. The NIH Directors Transformative Research Award is a component of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research (HRHR) Program of the NIH Common Fund. Towards the objective of funding the best possible science, the Office of Strategic Coordination and the Center for Scientific Review are piloting a process for initial peer review of applications received in response to this FOA in which the identity of the investigators and institutions are withheld until the last phase of review. Instructions for anonymizing components of the application are given in Section IV and must be carefully followed. A description of the review process is given in Section V.

Single Source: National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult (Add) Health Wave VII (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

2 days 12 hours ago
Funding Opportunity RFA-AG-26-001 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Add Health is a nationally representative, longitudinal cohort study of individuals primarily born from 1976 through 1982 who were first interviewed as adolescents in grades 7-12 (ages 12-19) in 1994-1995. Add Health respondents are now at midlife, offering a uniquely valuable timepoint to assess risk and resilience for Alzheimers disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). This NOFO will continue core study aspects including the mixed-mode survey, in-home health visit, venous blood collection, and data dissemination activities while further developing Add Health as a population-representative data resource to understand life course factors shaping inequities in outcomes related to aging and AD/ADRD.

DNA metabarcoding unveils niche overlapping and competition among Caribbean sea urchins

2 days 19 hours ago
Ruber Rodríguez-Barreras
Detailed information of trophic interactions among consumer-resources in food webs is usually limited due to the lack of accurate identification of eaten food resources. The use of DNA-metabarcoding has been proven useful for molecular identification of the numerous taxa present in stomach contents. Here, we characterize the diet and trophic behavior of four sea urchin species inhabiting shallow waters of Puerto Rico using this molecular technique. We extracted, sequenced, and analyzed DNA from...

Impact of HPV vaccination on the hospitalizations for anogenital warts and high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in Brazil: A national analysis

2 days 19 hours ago
Ana Luiza Bierrenbach
The HPV vaccination program in Brazil, introduced in 2014 for girls and 2017 for boys, aims to reduce HPV-related diseases, including anogenital warts (AGW) and high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). This descriptive ecological study evaluated the program's impact on hospitalizations for AGW and high-grade-CIN using interrupted time series analysis of data from the Brazilian Hospital Information System from 2011 to 2019. From 2011 to 2019, there were 4,312 AGW hospitalizations...