AHA Health Care by Food Accepting Applications for Trial Design, Testing and Funding of Food Is Medicine Interventions

The American Heart Association’s Health Care by Food™ initiative is accepting applications for a new planning grant to support the development of a trial protocol and proposal designed to test the health impact of Food Is Medicine (FIM) interventions.

The cost of nutritious food and the lack of access to it are of significant concern to U.S. consumers, according to a national poll released by Deloitte, the American Heart Association and Research!America. With more than 20 studies underway, Health Care by Food aims to provide large-scale clinical evidence for making healthy food access a covered medical benefit to help prevent, treat and manage cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions.

Investigators funded by the new planning grant will receive up to $100,000 over a 12-month period, including up to $25,000 for preliminary data collection. Their ultimate goal is to develop a competitive proposal for at least $3 million in grants from a government agency or other major funder to advance FIM.

Interested applicants are invited to submit their proposals by March 11 through the Association’s ProposalCentral site. Peer review gets underway on March 21 and ends on May 2. Grantees will be notified by May 19, and awards will be disbursed on July 1.

For more information, visit the Health Care by Food website.

NIA Funding Opportunities

This alert links to all of NIA's notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) and other related notices in the previous month, giving researchers and trainees a heads up about what’s new. See the latest opportunities:

RFAs

• RFA-AG-25-014: Coordinating Center to Support Consortium for Neuroscience Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

• RFA-AG-25-031: Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Researchers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) for Aging and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) Research (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

• RFA-AG-25-032: Consortium for Neuroscience AD/ADRD in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

• PAR-24-271: NIA Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Awards to Promote Diversity in Translational Research for AD/ADRD (K99/R00 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Notices

• NOT-AG-24-064: Notice of Change to Key Dates Listed in RFA-AG-25-025, Short Courses Promoting Cross-National Analyses Using Data from the International Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed

Seed Pilots for Aging Research Collaboration: RCCN Pilot Grants to Promote Inter-NIA Center Collaborative Research

The RCCN is seeking to fund pilot or developmental projects of up to $65,000 each that involve multiple NIA-sponsored research centers.

LOI: April 1 and October 1

The revised RFA for the RCCN Pilot Awards allows for a wider variety of topics, including those not previously covered by an RCCN Workshop, and has added a new letter of intent stage for applicants. Review the new RFA here. Please reach out to contact@rccn-aging.org with any questions.

Click here to view the RFA

This mechanism provides funding to catalyze enduring collaborations for at least two collaborative pilot, planning or meeting grants supporting interdisciplinary research in cross cutting theme areas per grant cycle. Each award will provide up to $65,000 in direct costs. The proposals must include investigators affiliated with at least two different NIA Centers Programs (AITCs, Shock, Roybal, Older American Independence Centers (Pepper), Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research, Centers for Demography and Economics of Aging, and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers). Investigators not affiliated with these NIA programs may also be included. Applications may seek support to collect or analyze data, convene experts to explore aspects of the theme area in detail, or develop multi- or interdisciplinary conceptual models to motivate further cross-center work. There must be clear evidence that all investigators will contribute meaningfully to the intellectual design and conduct of the research.

Applicants may propose to use the award over the course of one or two years as justified by the proposed activity. The RCCN will support 20% in indirect costs on each award.