DOD Parkinson's Synergistic Idea Award | W81XWH 22 PRP SIA

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The DOD Parkinson's Synergistic Idea Award (Funding Opportunity Number W81XWH 22 PRP SIA) is a discretionary research funding opportunity administered by the Department of Defense through the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA). It supports science and technology research and development focused on Parkinson's disease, and it is offered through either a grant or a cooperative agreement mechanism, depending on the terms of the specific award.

The main purpose of this award is to push forward new Parkinson's disease research ideas that are strongest when tackled through a genuinely collaborative, team-based approach. The program is built around the concept of synergy: proposals are expected to bring together two to four Principal Investigators who each contribute distinct, complementary expertise, and who work together to address a shared central problem or question in Parkinson's research. Rather than funding parallel projects that merely sit next to each other, the intent is to support integrated efforts where the combined approach is more powerful than what any one investigator could accomplish alone.

Eligibility is broadly open (unrestricted by entity type), as long as applicants meet any additional requirements stated in the full announcement. The investigative team requirement is a defining feature: applications must include two to four PIs, and each PI must be at the Assistant Professor level (or equivalent) or higher. The opportunity is explicitly designed to accommodate both brand-new collaborations and partnerships that already exist, while also encouraging investigators from outside traditional Parkinson's research circles to participate. This emphasis on cross-disciplinary participation reflects the program's goal of introducing fresh perspectives and tools that could accelerate progress in the field.

The scope is intentionally wide, welcoming research from many disciplines as long as it connects meaningfully to Parkinson's disease and is structured around a synergistic team plan. Examples of encouraged areas include basic science, engineering, bioinformatics, population science, translational research, and clinical research. In practice, that means a team might pair mechanistic lab work with computational modeling, link engineering and device development to clinical testing, or combine population-level data with molecular or biomarker studies, as long as the collaboration is essential to answering the central question.

This opportunity was posted on May 31, 2022, with an original closing date of September 1, 2022. The announcement listed an expected number of about three awards. The published award ceiling is shown as 0, which typically indicates that the maximum funding amount is not specified in the summary field and would need to be confirmed in the full program announcement or related guidance. The CFDA/Assistance Listing number associated with this opportunity is 12.420.

• 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 Parkinson's Synergistic Idea 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 May 31, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 01, 2022. (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 3 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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