1st time: The Dept. of Defense's Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) includes CFS in its priority

Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program
Investigator-Initiated Research Award:

(FY11: Fiscal Year 2011)

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW DATES AND TIMES
• Pre-application Submission Deadline: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time (ET), June 14, 2011
• Application Submission Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET, July 5, 2011
• Scientific Peer Review: September 2011
• Programmatic Review: December 2011

The FY11 appropriation is $50M.
FY11 Objectives: The vision of the FY11 PRMRP is to improve the health and well-being of all military service members, veterans, and beneficiaries.

The FY11 PRMRP seeks applications in laboratory, clinical, behavioral, and epidemiologic research as well as public health and policy; environmental sciences; nursing; occupational health; alternative therapies; ethics; and economics.

The FY11 PRMRP topic areas are listed below.
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Chronic migraine and post-traumatic headache
Drug abuse
Epidermolysis bullosa
Epilepsy
Fragile X syndrome
Inflammatory bowel disease
Interstitial cystitis
Listeria vaccine for infectious disease
Lupus
Neuroblastoma
Osteoporosis and related bone disease
Paget’s disease
Pancreatitis
Pheochromocytoma
Polycystic kidney disease
Posttraumatic osteoarthritis
Scleroderma
Social work research
Tinnitus

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