DoD Lupus Research, Transformative Vision Development Award

Background
The Lupus Research Program (LRP) is managed by the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC). The LRP's mission is to fund research to understand, prevent, and diagnose lupus and to improve treatments and quality of life for patients, including Service Members and their Families, Veterans, and the general public.

The LRP's vision is to cure lupus through partnership of scientists, clinicians, and consumers.

Grant Details
The DoD Lupus Research Program seeks to improve the quality of life of persons with lupus using an intervention at the individual and/or health care system level. This effort is supported through two related award mechanisms, the LRP TVDA and the LRP Transformative Vision Award (TVA).

The TVDA is intended to provide support to conduct pilot studies that will generate preliminary data and demonstrate feasibility for achieving the aims of a future TVA project. The TVA supports applications that will fulfill an extraordinary vision for dramatically improving the quality of life of persons with lupus in the near term using an intervention at the individual and/or health care system level. Applicants are not required to be awarded a TVDA to submit a TVA application.

Examples of suitable LRP TVDA preliminary studies would include development and optimization of an intervention, intervention safety studies, or refinement of trial design.

Eligibility Requirements
Extramural and Intramural organizations are eligible to apply, including foreign or domestic organizations, for-profit and non-profit organizations, and public entities.

An independent investigator at or above the level of Assistant Professor (or equivalent) is eligible to be named by the applicant organization as the Principal Investigator (PI). Each investigator may be named on only one FY24 LRP TVDA application as a PI.

Period of Performance
The anticipated total costs budgeted for the entire period of performance for an FY24 LRP TVDA should not exceed $250,000. Awards supported with FY24 funds will be made no later than September 30, 2025.

Grant Value
$0.5M is expected to be allotted to fund approximately two FY24 LRP TVDA applications.