Funder: Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA
Due Dates: June 23, 2025 (Pre-Application) | September 8, 2025 (Full Application)
Funding Amounts: Up to $200,000 total costs per award for up to 2 years; ~4 awards anticipated; total program funding ~$800,000.
Summary: Supports innovative, early-stage research to generate preliminary data for future advances in combat-relevant burn care.
Key Information: Pre-application is required; clinical trials are not allowed; open to domestic and international organizations.
Description
This opportunity, offered by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) under the Military Burn Research Program (MBRP), supports innovative, untested, and groundbreaking research in combat-relevant burn care. The goal is to generate robust preliminary data that will lay the foundation for future translational or clinical research, ultimately improving outcomes for military service members with burn injuries sustained in austere, resource-limited environments.
The award is intended for novel, high-risk/high-reward projects that introduce new paradigms, challenge current approaches, or address previously unexplored problems in military burn care. Projects may be exploratory, hypothesis-driven, or hypothesis-generating, but must be based on strong scientific rationale and a well-developed study design.
Due Dates
- Pre-Application (Preproposal) Deadline: June 23, 2025, 5:00 p.m. ET
- Invitation to Submit Full Application: July 18, 2025
- Full Application Deadline: September 8, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET
- End of Application Verification Period: September 15, 2025, 5:00 p.m. ET
- Peer Review: October 2025
- Programmatic Review: January 2026
Funding Amount
- Award Ceiling: $200,000 total costs (direct + indirect) per award
- Project Duration: Up to 2 years
- Expected Number of Awards: Approximately 4
- Total Program Funding: ~$800,000
Direct costs may include travel for one investigator to a scientific/technical meeting in year two (for dissemination of results). Tuition and additional travel are not allowed.
Eligibility
- Eligible Organizations:
- Extramural (non-DoD) and intramural (DoD) organizations
- Domestic and international entities
- For-profit, non-profit, public, and private organizations
- Academic institutions, research institutes, biotechnology companies, foundations, and federal agencies (excluding DoD for extramural)
- Eligible Individuals:
- Principal Investigators (PIs) at any academic level or industry equivalent
- No citizenship or nationality restrictions
- No limit on the number of applications per PI
- Other:
- Awards are made to organizations, not individuals
- No cost sharing required
Application Process
Step 1: Pre-Application (Required)
- Submit via eBRAP
- Includes a two-page narrative addressing innovation, research strategy, focus area, impact, and military relevance
- Supporting documentation: list of abbreviations/acronyms
Step 2: Full Application (By Invitation Only)
- Invited applicants submit via Grants.gov (extramural) or eBRAP (intramural DoD)
- Required components:
- Project Narrative (4 pages)
- Supporting documentation (references, facilities, letters of support, etc.)
- Technical and lay abstracts
- Statement of Work
- Impact and Military Relevance statements
- Animal Research Plan (if applicable)
- Budget and justification
- Biographical sketches and current/pending support for key personnel
- Additional forms as specified in the program announcement
Note: Registration in SAM.gov, eBRAP, and Grants.gov is required and may take several weeks.
Additional Information
- Focus Areas: Projects must address at least one of the following:
- Prevention, triage, or treatment of cold injury
- Innovation in acute burn care in combat settings
- Methods for preventing, assessing, or treating burn complications (e.g., fluid resuscitation, sepsis, inhalation injuries)
- Interventions to mitigate long-term pain, neuropathy, or temperature dysregulation after burn injury
- Clinical Trials: Not allowed under this mechanism; noninterventional clinical research is permitted
- Collaboration: Multidisciplinary collaborations, especially with DoD or VA, are encouraged
- Review Criteria: Innovation, impact, research strategy/feasibility, military relevance, and appropriateness of budget and environment
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