NEI Research Grant for Vision Related Secondary Data Analysis

Agency: NEI

Funding Opportunity Title: NEI Research Grant for Vision Related Secondary Data Analysis

Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-16-168

Due Date: Standard Due Dates, June 16, October 16 and February 16

Summary:

The goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to fund meritorious vision related research projects that involve secondary data analyses using existing database resources. The development of statistical methodology necessary for improving methods to analyze vision health data using existing vision data may also be proposed.

Research Objectives:

The NEI supports an extensive portfolio of clinical trials and large-scale epidemiologic research project wherein numerous data collection activities are required to meet each project's specific aims.  The resultant wealth of data generated by these studies often provides unique, cost-effective opportunities to pursue new questions. 

This FOA may be used to develop new statistical methodologies or to test new hypotheses using existing data.  This FOA actively encourages the use of existing database resources to conduct additional analyses secondary to a project's originally-intended primary purpose; it will not support the collection of new data. 

This FOA supports secondary data analysis on existing data sets. A typical project is expected to make substantial progress towards having vision related manuscript(s) submitted in peer reviewed journals within the first year.

Data sets are not limited to those collected under NEI support but these data sets are of the highest programmatic interest.  Applicants should consider the relevance of their proposed analyses to NEI programs and priorities as described in the National Plan for Eye and Vision Research, which is available on the NEI website. http://www.nei.nih.gov.

The full program announcement can be found at the NIH Guide.