In a recent interagency program solicitation, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced funding opportunities for the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) program. Related to the SCH program, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is soliciting applications directed at the treatment of pain.
Representing the collaboration of NSF, a partner in the BRAIN Initiative, and the NIH, the newly announced SCH: Connecting Data, People, and Systems program (NSF-18-541) aims to address the need for integration between the computing, informatics, and engineering disciplines within the biobehavioral medical research community. The SCH program will support fundamental research towards substantial transformations in public health, medicine, and healthcare. NSF expects that this fundamental research, and the development of new tools and methods across many dimensions, will effectively connect data, people, and systems, collectively and significantly benefiting the health of the country. Collaborations between academia, industry, and other organizations are strongly encouraged, to establish better linkages between fundamental science, medicine, healthcare, and technology development, deployment, and use. Proposed work must make fundamental contributions to two or more disciplines (e.g., computer or information sciences, engineering, social, behavioral, cognitive, and/or economic sciences), and address a key health problem.
NINDS has recently released a notice (NOT-NS-18-052) soliciting applications directed at the treatment of pain. NINDS would like to accelerate the development of devices for the treatment of pain. The notice refers to several notices of funding opportunities, including the NSF-NIH SCH program and the BRAIN Initiative: Next Generation Invasive Devices Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System (RFA-NS-18-021, RFA-NS-18-022, RFA-NS-18-023). For the SCH program, NINDS is interested in applications for next-generation multidisciplinary science that encourages research in pain in a variety of areas of value to health, such as networking, pervasive computing, advanced analytics, sensor integration, privacy and security, modeling of socio-behavioral and cognitive processes and system and process modeling.
Only integrative proposals involving well-coordinated, multi-disciplinary teams will be considered in response to the SCH program solicitation. Subject to the availability of funds, an estimated 8 to 16 projects per year will be funded. Projects awarded in fiscal year 2018 will be funded for up to a four-year period and for up to a total of $300,000 per year. Investigators interested in taking advantage of this opportunity, which has a proposal deadline of May 22, 2018 (and December 11, annually thereafter), are encouraged to contact a Program Officer listed on the program website. This program solicitation has a proposal deadline of May 22, 2018 (and December 11, annually thereafter).