Notice of Need to Budget for Annual Meetings for RFA-DA-11-001, “Seek, Test, Treat, and Retain: Addressing HIV among Vulnerable Populations (R01)”

Notice Number:  NOT-DA-10-028

Release Date:   September 22, 2010

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

This Notice requests that investigators planning to submit an application in response to   RFA -DA-11-001, “Seek, Test, Treat and Retain: Addressing HIV among Vulnerable Populations” (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-11-001.html), modify their budget requests to include funds to attend an annual meeting in Washington, D.C.  The National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute of Mental Health encourage data harmonization to increase comparability, collaboration, and scientific yield of research funded under this FOA.  Awardees funded under RFA- DA-11-001, “Seek, Test, Treat and Retain: Addressing HIV among Vulnerable Populations”, will be expected to participate in collaborative activities, including annual meetings to determine how to best to harmonize data.

Please direct all inquiries to:

Sarah Q. Duffy, Ph.D.
Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research
National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH/DHHS
6001 Executive Blvd.
Room 5181, MSC 9589
Bethesda, MD 20892-9589
Telephone: (301) 451-4998
Fax:  (301) 443-6815
Email: duffys@nida.nih.gov