Approved? (Admin-only)
  • Approved
Opportunity TypePre-Release
Funding Opportunity Posted ByDOW
ComponentDHA - CDMRP
Funding Opportunity TitleParkinson’s Research Program
Link to Funding Opportunityhealth.mil
Funding Opportunity Short DescriptionTo support innovative, high-impact research with clinical relevance that will decrease risk, slow progression, or ease symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
Funding Opportunity CategoryHealth and Biomedical Technologies
Important Dates
Funding Details
Required Registrations
  • SAM
  • GRANTS
  • eBRAP
Funding Opportunity Full Description

Two Award Mechanisms (1) Early Investigator Research Award (2) Investigator-Initiated Research Award

The FY26 Defense Appropriations Act provides funding for the PRP to support innovative, high-impact research with clinical relevance that will decrease risk, slow progression, or ease symptoms of Parkinson's disease. As part of the DHA R&D-MRDC, the CDMRP is the program office managing these anticipated FY26 funding opportunities.

The PRP provides the information in this pre-announcement to allow investigators time to plan and develop ideas for submission to the anticipated FY26 funding opportunities. Investigators should not construe this pre-announcement as an obligation or promise by the government. The CDMRP will post FY26 PRP funding opportunity announcements on the Grants.gov website. Once released, the funding opportunity announcements will include pre-application and application deadlines.

Applications submitted to the FY26 PRP must address one or more of the following focus areas:

Understanding how Parkinson's disease biological and clinical heterogeneity impacts disease presentation, clinical course and therapeutic outcomes, from prodromal to late-stage Parkinson's disease
Development and characterization of in vitro model systems that approximate in vivo cellular and system complexity
Biological mechanisms or biomarkers, such as clinical, fluid, imaging, tissue, and devices, of unmet medical needs that could lead to the development of treatments for Parkinson's disease. Applications can utilize laboratory models through to human participants. Examples of unmet medical needs of interest include, but are not limited to:
Non-motor symptoms:
Autonomic
Cognitive
Fatigue
Olfaction
Pain
Psychiatric
Sensory
Sleep and circadian rhythm disruptions
Motor symptoms:
Dyskinesia
Dystonia
Gait and balance
Tremor
Interventions that address unmet medical needs of Parkinson's disease that include both clinical and preclinical models. Examples of interventions of interest include, but are not limited to:
Biologicals
Pharmacological
Non-pharmacological
Surgical
Non-surgical devices
Non-invasive central nervous system stimulation

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