Dual Purpose with Dual Benefit: Research in Biomedicine and Agriculture Using Agriculturally Important Domestic Animal Species (R01)
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Agency: NIH
Purpose: The purpose of this interagency FOA is to invite the submission of grant applications that utilize agriculturally important domestic animal species to improve human health through the advancement of basic and translational research deemed highly relevant to both agricultural and biomedical research. This initiative is designed to facilitate and encourage comparative medicine research studies through the careful selection and refinement of farm animal models that mimic human developmental, physiological and etiological processes to better understand the biology of fertility and infertility, normal and abnormal metabolism, developmental origin of diseases, and improve prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in both human and agriculturally important domestic animals...
Deadline: September 27, 2016; September 27, 2017; September 27, 2018, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization
Link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-16-366.html