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Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment Research Consortium (U01)
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Submitted: 5/18/2009 12:00:00 AM
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment Research Consortium (U01)
The Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment Research Consortium funding opportunity aims to improve communication between childhood obesity prevention and treatment efforts and to identify effective intervention approaches. In particular, the Department of Health and Human Services is interested in prevention efforts in pre-schoolers and pre-adolescents and treatment efforts in pre-adolescents and adolescents. All research projects seeking funding should be a randomized trial design.
A total of $49.75 million will be awarded under this FOA over seven years. Maximum allowable direct costs for a Research Center are $700,000 in Year 1 and 2, $1,500,000 per year in years 3-6 and $700,000 in year 7. Eligible applicants include Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher education, Private Institutions of higher education, non-profits, for-profits, and governments.
Deadline: September 8, 2009
Please Note: The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS) does not administer this funding opportunity.
Please contact the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services directly for more specific grant information and to apply: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HL-10-004.html
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