Notice of Clarification of Studies Appropriate for PA-18-032 "Understanding Factors in Infancy and Early Childhood (Birth to 24 months) That Influence Obesity Development (R01)"

Notice Number: NOT-DK-17-015

Key Dates
Release Date: November 6, 2017

Related Announcements
None

Issued by
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Purpose

The purpose of this Notice is to clarify the type of studies that are not appropriate for PA-18-032: Understanding Factors in Infancy and Early Childhood (Birth to 24 months) That Influence Obesity Development (R01).

The second paragraph of Section I. Funding Opportunity Description, Proposed Approach has been amended to read as follows:

Currently

Proposed Approach
This initiative invites research applications that seek to fill methodological research gaps and/or characterize infant and early childhood phenotypes that may increase or mitigate risk for obesity. Studies should focus on topics relevant to research in children from birth to 24 months, although any proposed follow-up assessments, if applicable, may continue past this period.  Studies that focus on typically as well as atypically developing children (e.g., those with intellectual, developmental, or physical disabilities) are appropriate for this announcement. Applications should seek to fill research gaps and involve expertise across multiple disciplines as relevant to the proposed research question.

Applications proposing to conduct randomized interventional clinical trials to prevent or treat obesity are not appropriate for this funding opportunity. Applications proposing to conduct animal research are also inappropriate for this funding opportunity.  
Revised to read: 

Now reads:

Proposed Approach
This initiative invites research applications that seek to fill methodological research gaps and/or characterize infant and early childhood phenotypes that may increase or mitigate risk for obesity. Studies should focus on topics relevant to research in children from birth to 24 months, although any proposed follow-up assessments, if applicable, may continue past this period.  Studies that focus on typically as well as atypically developing children (e.g., those with intellectual, developmental, or physical disabilities) are appropriate for this announcement. Applications should seek to fill research gaps and involve expertise across multiple disciplines as relevant to the proposed research question.

Applications proposing to conduct efficacy or effectiveness clinical trials to prevent or treat obesity are not appropriate for this funding opportunity. Applications proposing to conduct animal research are also inappropriate for this funding opportunity.

All other aspects of this Funding Opportunity Announcement remain unchanged.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Voula Osganian, MD, ScD
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Telephone: 301-827-6939
Email: voula.osganian@nih.gov

Layla Esposito, Ph.D.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Telephone: 301-435-6888
Email: espositl@mail.nih.gov

Derrick Tabor, Ph.D.
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Telephone: 301-594-8950
Email: Derrick.Tabor@nih.gov

Deborah Young-Hyman, Ph.D.
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
Telephone: 301-451-0724
Email: younghyd@od.nih.gov

S. Sonia Arteaga, PhD
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Telephone: 301-435-6677
Email: arteagass@nhlbi.nih.gov