Key Dates

Related Announcements

• June 9, 2023 - HEAL Initiative: Toward Developing Quantitative Imaging and Other Relevant Biomarkers of Myofascial Tissues for Clinical Pain Management (R61/R33, Clinical Trial Required). See NOFO RFA-AT-24-003

Issued by

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

Purpose

Purpose

This Notice is to inform potential applicants that the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) will hold a technical assistance webinar and teaming/collaboration webinar for RFA-AT-24-003, “HEAL Initiative: Toward Developing Quantitative Imaging and Other Relevant Biomarkers of Myofascial Tissues for Clinical Pain Management (R61/R33, Clinical Trial Required)". Date and time for the webinars are listed below. This initiative is a partnership between the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), and 9 other NIH Institutes and Centers. The NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL ) Initiative bolsters research across NIH to (1) improve treatment for opioid misuse and addiction and (2) enhance pain management. This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) seeks research applications to develop quantitative measures of myofascial tissues and assess their abilities to detect changes to myofascial tissues across a variety of pain management interventions. The application deadline is October 18, 2023. 

Information about both webinars (technical assistance webinar 8/9 and the teaming/collaboration webinar 8/16), including how to register appears below:  

Technical Assistance Webinar 
Wednesday, August 9^th, 2023, from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET 
This technical assistance webinar will provide an overview of the initiative, guidance on application preparation process, and address applicant questions. This webinar is provided for potential applicants who want to learn details about this exciting and unique notice of funding opportunity focusing on myofascial tissues for clinical pain management. Highlights of this webinar include an overview of the scope and impact of this initiative from Dr. Helene M. Langevin, Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), as well as application considerations and review requirements from NCCIH program and review staff. A portion of the webinar is entirely devoted to answering applicant questions. An audience question and answer period will occur toward the end of the webinar.  

1. Registration is required to attend the webinar. The deadline for registration is Tuesday August 8, 2023. 
2. Register: Webinar Registration - Zoom (zoomgov.com)
3. Registrants are encouraged to submit questions in advance to: Myofascial_Pain_HEAL@mail.nih.gov  

Teaming/Collaboration Webinar
Wednesday, August 16^th, 2023, from 11:00 am – 12:15 p.m. ET
This webinar designed to promote interactive, team building experiences for webinar registrants to have facilitated conversations with HEAL program officials and topic experts related to technical requirements of the R33 phase of the RFA. Participants will join breakout rooms. Dr. Helene M. Langevin, Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) will be present to open the webinar and greet everyone. All webinar registrants will be asked to indicate their areas of expertise, what additional areas of expertise they are looking for their teams, and whether they are willing to share their email addresses along with their areas of expertise with other webinar registrants.  

1. Registration is required to attend the webinar. The deadline for registration is Tuesday August 15, 2023. 
2. Register: HEALmyofascialteamingwebinar2023.eventbrite.com
3. Registrants are encouraged to submit questions in advance to: Myofascial_Pain_HEAL@mail.nih.gov  

NOTE:

Both webinars are optional and not required for application submission to the NOFO. We hope you find these webinars helpful in the application process and look forward to your participation and questions.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Alex Tuttle, Ph.D.
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Phone: 301-814-6115
Email: alex.tuttle@nih.gov