Vision
NEWS RELEASE
Released: January 7, 2025
Department of Defense
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
Vision Research Program
Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25)
The FY25 Defense Appropriations Bill has not been signed into law. The CDMRP is unable to release new funding opportunities under the current Continuing Resolution. The CDMRP is providing pre-announcement information to allow investigators time to plan and develop ideas for submission to anticipated funding opportunities should the CDMRP receive FY25 appropriations. Pre-announcements should not be construed as an obligation or promise by the government. Once funding is available, CDMRP funding opportunities will be posted on the Grants.gov website. Pre-application and application deadlines will be available when opportunities are released, contingent upon future funding.
The FY25 Defense Appropriations Act is anticipated to provide funding for the Vision Research Program (VRP) to support impactful military-relevant vision research. The CDMRP at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) is the program office managing these anticipated FY25 funding opportunities.
The VRP hereby provides a pre-announcement for the Mentored Clinical Research Award mechanism. The VRP anticipates releasing a pre-announcement for additional award mechanisms after March 14, 2025.
Applications submitted to the FY25 VRP must address one or more of the following focus areas:
- Understand and treat eye injury or visual dysfunction as related to military exposure
- Restore visual function after military exposure-related vision loss or severe visual impairment
- Diagnose, stabilize, and treat eye injuries in austere environments and prolonged care settings
Award Mechanism* | Eligibility | Key Mechanism Elements | Funding |
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Mentored Clinical Research Award |
Principal Investigator (PI) must be an established clinician or Ph.D. clinical scientist.
Mentee must be a clinician in training (e.g., fellow, resident, junior clinician, clinician in a Ph.D. program) and, at the award start date, have sufficient time remaining in their training program to complete the research proposed. |
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A pre-application is required and must be submitted through the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) at https://eBRAP.org prior to the pre-application deadline. All applications must conform to the final funding opportunity announcements that will be available for downloading from the Grants.gov website. The application package containing the required forms for each award mechanism will also be found on Grants.gov. A listing of all CDMRP and other USAMRDC extramural funding opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search using CFDA Number 12.420.
Submission deadlines are not available until the funding opportunity announcements are released. For email notification when announcements are released, subscribe to program-specific news and updates under "Email Subscriptions" on the https://ebrap.org. For more information about the VRP or other CPMRP-administered programs, please visit the CDMRP website (https://cdmrp.health.mil).
Point of Contact:
CDMRP Public Affairs
301-619-9783
usarmy.detrick.medcom-cdmrp.mbx.cdmrp-public-affairs@health.mil
Last updated Tuesday, January 7, 2025