The following research-related grants were recently announced by federal agencies, including the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism:

Neuroscience Research on Drug Abuse (R21)

Amount: up to $200,000

Application deadline: various

Eligible: Nonprofits, schools, government, for-profits, others

Focus: Research relevant to the understanding of the process(es) and mechanisms underlying drug abuse and addiction, including use, dependence, addiction, withdrawal, and treatment.

Link to Summary:
www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=12688

Link to Full Announcement:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-227.html

Neuroscience Research on Drug Abuse (R03)

Amount: up to $50,000

Application deadline: various

Eligible: Nonprofits, schools, government, for-profits, others

Focus: Research relevant to the understanding of the process(es) and mechanisms underlying drug abuse and addiction, including use, dependence, addiction, withdrawal, and treatment.

Link to Summary:
www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=12694

Link to Full Announcement:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-226.html 

Collaborative Clinical Trials in Drug Abuse (R01)

Amount: none specified

Application deadline: various

Eligible: Nonprofits, schools, government, for-profits, others

Focus: To increase the collaboration of investigators at different sites in order to address critical issues in the treatment of substance-related disorders that require sample sizes greater than a single site can reasonably attain. The expectation for the collaborative effort is that there will be implementation of common clinical trials across different sites in order to study patient outcomes, patient factors, provider factors, setting characteristics, interactions of these, or other effects where pooled samples are appropriate and necessary for the hypotheses under consideration.

Link to Summary:
www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=12723

Link to Full Announcement:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-232.html

NIDA Research Education Grants in Drug Abuse and Addiction (R25)

Amount: none specified

Application deadline: various

Eligible: nonprofits, governments, schools, other

Focus: To foster the development of clinical and health services researchers.

Link to Summary:
www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=12635

Link to Full Announcement:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-221.html