The FY23 TBDRP Idea Development Award is intended to support research that could lead to impactful discoveries or significant advancements that will accelerate progress toward reducing the burden of Lyme disease and/or other tick-borne diseases and conditions and improve patient care, and/or the quality of life for military Service Members, Veterans, and their beneficiaries, as well as the American public.
This research should be conceptually innovative, introduce a new concept or question, challenge existing paradigms, approach issues from a new perspective, or exhibit other uniquely creative qualities and should not merely be a next logical step or an incremental advance on published data.
In addition, applications must describe the evidence-based burden of disease on public health and how the proposed research may alleviate that burden in the short- and long-term. This award mechanism promotes basic through translational research, including preclinical and clinical research, as well as correlative studies associated with an existing clinical trial to establish proofof-principle for further development in future studies.
Deadlines:
• Pre-Application Submission Deadline: May 25, 2023
• Invitation to Submit an Application: July 2023
• Application Submission Deadline: August 24, 2023