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JUST RELEASED!  FY22 DOD Funding Opportunities

The Department of Defense (DOD) Spinal Cord Injury Research Program (SCIRP) recently released three funding opportunities for fiscal year 2022 (FY22).  Submission is a two-step process requiring both pre-application (Deadline: May 23, 2022) and full application (Deadline: September 2, 2022). Independent investigators at all academic levels (or equivalent) may be named by the organization as Principal Investigator (PI) on an application, an Early-Career Partnering PI option is also available for all FY22 award mechanisms. International organizations are eligible to apply.

Applications submitted to the FY22 SCIRP must address one or more of the following focus areas:

• *UPDATED FY22* Developing, testing, and validating promising interventions to address bowel, genitourinary, neuropathic pain, cardiopulmonary, or autonomic dysfunction in people with SCI
• *UPDATED FY22* Investigating psychosocial issues relevant to people with SCI, their families, and/or their care-partners
  • To be responsive to this Focus Area, psychosocial issues MUST be the primary focus of the research.
  • Studies addressing social isolation, loneliness, and depression, as well as resilience, self-efficacy, sexuality and intimacy, and interactions between people living with SCI and their care-partners, are especially encouraged.
• Rehabilitation and regeneration—maximizing the function of the residual neural circuitry, including harnessing neuroplasticity and recovery to improve function after SCI
• Preserving and protecting spinal cord tissue at time of injury for improved neurologic outcomes
• Identifying and validating biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis, and for evaluation of treatment efficacies