and Human Services (HHS)
EXPIRED
Participating Organization(s) |
National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) |
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Funding Opportunity Title |
The Placebo Effect: Mechanisms and Methodology (R01) |
Activity Code |
R01 Research Project Grant |
Announcement Type |
New |
Related Notices |
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Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number |
RFA-DA-12-003 |
Companion FOA |
RFA-DA-12-004 RFA-DA-12-004, R21 Exploratory/Developmental Grant |
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s) |
93.279, 93.213, 93.273 |
FOA Purpose |
This FOA will use the National Institutes of Health (NIH) research project grant (R01) award mechanism to stimulate basic research to elucidate the underlying biological pathways that lead to placebo effects and to better understand how to recognize and enhance the therapeutic benefits of placebo effects in clinical research and practice. The goal of this initiative is two-fold: [1] to stimulate cross-cutting, integrative research aimed at delineating the behavioral processes and neurobiological mechanisms by which a placebo leads to its ultimate physiological and psychological effects; and [2] to stimulate clinical research that can improve detection of placebo effects, as well as an understanding of how to manipulate(i.e., reduce or enhance) and control them. In the context of this initiative, integrative research is defined as the combined use of approaches from several scientific disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, physiology, genetics, and/or molecular biology to investigate the mechanisms underlying placebo effects. Further understanding of the placebo effect also has important implications for clinical trials. To determine the efficacy of pharmacological, procedural, or behavioral interventions, clinical trials methodology must be designed to account for placebo effects. In particular, it is important to distinguish placebo effects from the actual treatment being tested, as well as effects promoted by measurement and methodological factors. Thus, the current initiative is focused on using scientific advances within the field of placebo research to ultimately improve the ability to develop effective therapies. However, the assessment of therapeutic interventions is not the goal of this initiative. As such, applications submitted in response to the current FOA will be considered unresponsive if they propose a randomized clinical trial. |
Posted Date |
February 17, 2011 |
Open Date (Earliest Submission Date) |
April 24, 2011 |
Letter of Intent Due Date |
April 24, 2011 |
Application Due Date(s) |
May 24, 2011, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. |
AIDS Application Due Date(s) |
Not applicable. |
Scientific Merit Review |
October/November 2011 |
Advisory Council Review |
January 2012 |
Earliest Start Date(s) |
April 2012 |
Expiration Date |
May 25, 2011 |
Due Dates for E.O. 12372 |
Not Applicable |
Required Application Instructions
It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide except where instructed to do otherwise (in this FOA or in a Notice from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts). Conformance to all requirements (both in the Application Guide and the FOA) is required and strictly enforced. Applicants must read and follow all application instructions in the Application Guide as well as any program-specific instructions noted in Section IV. When the program-specific instructions deviate from those in the Application Guide, follow the program-specific instructions. Applications that do not comply with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
Part 1. Overview Information
Part 2. Full Text of the Announcement
Section I. Funding Opportunity Description
Section II. Award Information
Section III. Eligibility Information
Section IV. Application and Submission
Information
Section V. Application Review Information
Section VI. Award Administration Information
Section VII. Agency Contacts
Section VIII. Other Information
Placebo effects can be defined as the positive physiological or psychological changes associated with the use of inert medications, sham procedures, or therapeutic symbols within a healthcare encounter. Placebos also can be active substances or real procedures that produce unexpected beneficial effects. For example, antibiotics may be considered placebos when prescribed for viral respiratory illnesses that do not respond to antibiotic treatment. Control procedures used to assess the efficacy of various types of intervention often have unexpected beneficial (placebo) or adverse (nocebo) effects that can confound the experimental study of interventions. On the one hand, the benefits of therapeutic interventions in clinical practice are often enhanced by placebo effects. On the other hand, the difference between the efficacy of the intervention and the placebo/sham control is often reduced due to placebo effects, making assessments of treatment effects difficult.
This FOA follows FOAs issued in 2002 (RFA-AT-02-001 and RFA-AT-02-002) as well as a series of meetings on placebo. The most recent meeting was held in Jan, 2010: The Placebo Effect: Opportunities and Challenges. The purpose of this meeting was to review the state of placebo research and to develop a research agenda for the future on the science of placebo. Workshop participants recommended three major streams of research going forward: (1) further elucidate the behavioral and biological mechanisms of placebo effects, (2) investigate the use of placebo effects in clinical practice; and (3) study placebo effects as they relate to methodology and ethics of clinical trials. This FOA is informed by previous FOAs and previous NIH meetings. This FOA focuses on the identification and assessment of placebo effects, their role in clinical practice and the elucidation of their biological substrate.
Goals and Scope
One objective of this initiative is to elucidate the underlying biological pathways that lead to placebo effects. Recent progress in understanding acute pain has been made using brain imaging (i.e., fMRI and PET) and standardized placebo analgesia procedures, to identify brain circuitry, brain regions and neurotransmitter systems associated with the placebo response. Standardized behavioral assessment of desire, emotion and expectation have shown that the placebo effect is subject to manipulation. In addition, other contextual and conditioning factors also have been shown to contribute to the placebo effect. A number of key research needs are suggested:
Develop fMRI- or imaging-based and/or subjective signatures that are reproducibly associated with the placebo effect (e.g., anticipatory brain activity; brain activity associated with positive reward; visual analog scales) and identify differences in these measures or expression of these mechanisms between healthy research participants and patients.
Study the placebo effect in relevant clinical populations with the goal of developing biomarkers or other predictive assessment tools of the placebo responder. For example, resting state connectivity has been proposed as a biomarker for placebo responders.
Study the correlation between activation of neurotransmission and the placebo response.
Study prior exposure to medications or drugs (e.g., tobacco smoking) in the context of conditioning and the placebo response.
Study the role of genetic polymorphisms in modulating the neurobiological or behavioral measures of the placebo response (extant data have been mixed in showing a genetic contribution). Study the role of epigenetic mechanisms and gene regulation involved in placebo response.
Study the psychosocial aspects (e.g., relationship between physicians/therapists and patients) in the development and maintenance of a placebo response.
Research is needed to elucidate a related question on how pharmacological or other medical treatments, complementary, alternative and conventional, interact with psychosocial effects to enhance placebo responses.
Cellular, molecular and/or immunological approaches may be needed to dissect biological components of placebo effect and to identify the signaling pathways between the endocrine, neurological and immune systems.
Additional research is needed to better characterize subjective, conditioned physiological, and neurobiological effects and cognitive expectancies associated with placebos in human drug abusers.
Research is needed to determine whether placebo effects modulate the effects of drugs of abuse, or whether placebo effects operate in the treatment of drug abuse.
Research is needed using a balanced placebo design to investigate the extent to which "social context" modulates the pharmacodynamics of a drug effect.
Develop novel design and analysis methods for the placebo effect, such as sequential parallel comparison designs, adaptive treatment strategies, multiple placebo or control groups.
Determine how and why psychosocial factors, and associated biological factors, in the patient/healthcare practitioner relationship or in the healthcare environment are causally related to eliciting placebo effects.
A second objective of the FOA is to better understand how to recognize and enhance the therapeutic benefits of placebo effects in clinical research and practice, and to elucidate the possible mechanisms by which the placebo exerts its effects. A number of key research needs are suggested:
Conduct secondary analyses that examine moderators and mediators of the placebo effect using anonymized datasets that are available to the research community. (See for example www.ctndatashare.org) Conduct natural history studies of baseline patient characteristics as related to outcome(s) in trial datasets.
Determine the usefulness of signal detection theory methodology to the study and manipulate the placebo response; explore translational use of this method in clinical populations and trials.
Develop methods for standardizing dependent and independent variables (behavioral and biological) used to assess the placebo effect alone and in conjunction with active treatments.
Explore the effects on defined outcome measures of control conditions that consider psychosocial interactions, expectation, relevance, attention, emotion, social anxiety, or other patient/environment characteristics.
Explore the utility for understanding, controlling, or enhancing the placebo effect with trial designs that include nocebo, no treatment, or retrieval of information from subjects routine care records.
Investigate how and why cultural beliefs and social economic systems may enhance or diminish the placebo effect in clinical settings.
Study barriers to eliciting placebo effects, including a focus on how and why these barriers impede the effects.
In addition to the above, NIAAA is interested especially in the following topics:
A considerable number of subjects, in alcohol clinical trials, display large pre-randomization reductions in drinking. Studies are needed to characterize these subjects, explore the extent of these reductions, and determine the relationship between pre-randomization reductions and response rates during treatment and observed treatment effects.
A critical design feature in alcohol medication trials involves the decision as to whether subjects should be required/allowed to drink up to randomization versus requiring a period of abstinence prior to randomization. Studies are needed that compare how placebo response rates and treatment effects vary as a result employing and varying key aspects of these design approaches.
Develop and apply advanced longitudinal statistical techniques to describe how the placebo response changes over the course of alcohol clinical trials and explore sources of heterogeneity in these response trajectories.
Determine the extent to which assessment types, frequency, duration, and intensity affect placebo response in alcohol clinical trials.
Similarly, NCCAM is interested especially in the following topics:
Determine the extent to which the schedule of placebo/treatment modifies the placebo response.
Determine the extent to which individual differences play a role in the effects of placebo in humans.
Develop novel animal models of placebo effects.
Determine the extent to which assessment types, frequency, duration, and intensity affect placebo response in clinical trials with natural products
Funding Instrument |
Grant |
Application Types Allowed |
New |
Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards |
The following NIH components intend to commit the following amounts in FY 2012: NIDA will commit $1,500,000 in total cost, NIAAA will commit $750,000 in total cost and NCCAM will commit $750,000 in total cost for this FOA and accompanying RFA- DA-12-004. |
Award Budget |
Application budgets are not limited, but need to reflect actual needs of the proposed project. |
Award Project Period |
The maximum period is 5 years. |
NIH grants policies as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement will apply to the applications submitted and awards made in response to this FOA.
Higher Education Institutions:
The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
For profit Organizations
Governments
Other
Foreign (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are allowed.
Applicant organizations must complete the following registrations
as described in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide to be eligible to apply
for or receive an award. Applicants must have a valid Dun and Bradstreet
Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number in order to begin each of the following
registrations.
All Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PD/PIs) must
also work with their institutional officials to register with the eRA Commons
or ensure their existing eRA Commons account is affiliated with the eRA Commons
account of the applicant organization.
All registrations must be completed by the application due date. Applicant
organizations are strongly encouraged to start the registration process at
least four (4) weeks prior to the application due date.
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources
necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director/Principal
Investigator (PD/PI) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an
application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic
groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply
for NIH support.
For institutions/organizations proposing multiple PDs/PIs, visit the Multiple
Program Director/Principal Investigator Policy and submission details in the Senior/Key
Person Profile (Expanded) Component of the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide.
This FOA does not require cost sharing as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Applicant organizations may submit more than one application, provided that each application is scientifically distinct.
NIH will not accept any application in response to this FOA that is essentially the same as one currently pending initial peer review unless the applicant withdraws the pending application. NIH will not accept any application that is essentially the same as one already reviewed.
Applicants must download the SF424 (R&R) application package associated with this funding opportunity using the Apply for Grant Electronically button in this FOA or following the directions provided at Grants.gov.
It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, except where instructed in this funding opportunity announcement to do otherwise. Conformance to the requirements in the Application Guide is required and strictly enforced. Applications that are out of compliance with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
Although a letter of intent is not required, is not binding, and does not enter into the review of a subsequent application, the information that it contains allows IC staff to estimate the potential review workload and plan the review.
By the date listed in Part 1. Overview Information, prospective applicants are asked to submit a letter of intent that includes the following information:
Descriptive title of proposed research
Name, address, and telephone number of the PD(s)/PI(s)
Names of other key personnel
Participating institutions
Number and title of this funding opportunity
The letter of intent should be sent to: [email protected]
Applicants are encouraged to send the letter of intent by email to the email address above but as an alternative the letter may also be sent to:
Director - DA-12-003
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All page limitations described in the SF424 Application Guide and the Table of Page Limits must be followed.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed, with the following additional instructions:
Resource Sharing Plan
Individuals are required to comply with the instructions for the Resource Sharing Plans (Data Sharing Plan, Sharing Model Organisms, and Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS)) as provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.,
Appendix
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Foreign (non-US) organizations must follow policies described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, and procedures for foreign organizations described throughout the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
Part I. Overview Information contains information about Key Dates. Applicants are encouraged to submit in advance of the deadline to ensure they have time to make any application corrections that might be necessary for successful submission.
Organizations must submit applications via Grants.gov, the online portal to find and apply for grants across all Federal agencies. Applicants must then complete the submission process by tracking the status of the application in the eRA Commons, NIH’s electronic system for grants administration.
Applicants are responsible for viewing their application in the eRA Commons to ensure accurate and successful submission.
Information on the submission process and a definition of on-time submission are provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
This initiative is not subject to intergovernmental review.
All NIH awards are subject to the terms and conditions, cost principles, and other considerations described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Pre-award costs are allowable only as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Applications must be submitted electronically following the instructions described in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide. Paper applications will not be accepted.
Applicants must complete all required registrations before the application due date. Section III. Eligibility Information contains information about registration.
For assistance with your electronic application or for more information on the electronic submission process, visit Applying Electronically.
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Commons ID in the credential field will prevent the successful submission of an
electronic application to NIH.
The applicant organization must ensure that the DUNS number it provides on the
application is the same number used in the organization’s profile in the eRA
Commons and for the Central Contractor Registration (CCR). Additional
information may be found in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
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Upon receipt, applications will be evaluated for completeness by the Center for Scientific Review and responsiveness by components of participating organizations, NIH. Applications that are incomplete and/or nonresponsive will not be reviewed.
Applicants are required to follow the instructions for post-submission materials, as described in NOT-OD-10-115..
Only the review criteria described below will be considered in the review process. As part of the NIH mission, all applications submitted to the NIH in support of biomedical and behavioral research are evaluated for scientific and technical merit through the NIH peer review system.
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Resubmissions
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Renewals
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Revisions
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Special Considerations
HIV/AIDS Counseling and Testing Policy for the National Institute on Drug Abuse: In light of recent significant advances in rapid testing for HIV and in effective treatments for HIV, NIDA has revised its 2001 policy on HIV counseling and testing. NIDA-funded researchers are strongly encouraged to provide and/or refer research subjects to HIV risk reduction education and education about the benefits of HIV treatment, counseling and testing, referral to treatment, and other appropriate interventions to prevent acquisition and transmission of HIV. This policy applies to all NIDA funded research conducted domestically or internationally. For more information see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-DA-07-013.html.
National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse Recommended Guidelines for the Administration of Drugs to Human Subjects: The National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse (NACDA) recognizes the importance of research involving the administration of drugs with abuse potential, and dependence or addiction liability, to human subjects. Potential applicants are encouraged to obtain and review these recommendations of Council before submitting an application that will administer compounds to human subjects. The guidelines are available on NIDA's Web site at http://www.nida.nih.gov/about/organization/nacda/CouncilStatement.html
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