The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) requests grant applications for countermeasures against chemical threats (CounterACT) research centers of excellence. This announcement is made together with 5 other components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).*
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Examples of research areas of interest include, but are not limited to: therapies based on acute toxicity of the chemical threat agent; alternate routes of administration for new or approved therapies that are safe, effective, and easy to administer during a mass casualty scenario; improved rapid diagnostic techniques/technologies used for differential diagnosis, triage, detection of subclinical exposures, prognosis, and prediction of tissue damage; identification of biomarkers (genomic, proteomic, metabonomic) of exposure and disease progression for individual chemicals or classes of chemicals with similar signatures; identification of segments of the general population that are more sensitive to chemical threats; safe and effective therapies and diagnostic techniques for pediatric and elderly segments of the civilian population or for those individuals with pre-existing medical conditions; and short- and long-term pathophysiology from acute exposures to threat agents for developing medical countermeasures.
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For more information, potential applicants should contact Dr. David Jett, Program Director, Technology Development Group,
NINDS, Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 2177, Bethesda, MD 20892; telephone:
301-496-6035; fax: 301-402-1501; e-mail: email@example.com.
*For a full list of supporting NIH components and a more detailed description of this request for applications, please visit the NIH web site at: http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-06-005.html.