The Department of Defense (DOD) Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2011 Revised Topics List has been released

The DOD PRMRP was established in 1999 to provide support for military health-related research of exceptional scientific merit. Appropriations for the PRMRP from Fiscal Year 1999 (FY99) through FY10 (excluding FY07, in which no appropriation was made) totaled $494.5 million (M). The FY11 appropriation is $50M.

Congress added one more topic (dystonia) for the FY11 PRMRP.  The new final topics list for this year is below. 

For eligibility requirements, deadlines and additional details for each award mechanism, see:  http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/prmrp.shtml.

1) Chronic fatigue syndrome

2) Chronic migraine and post-traumatic headache

3) Drug abuse

4) Dystonia

5) Epidermolysis bullosa

6) Epilepsy

7) Fragile X syndrome

8) Inflammatory bowel disease

9) Interstitial cystitis

10) Listeria vaccine for infectious disease

11) Lupus

12) Neuroblastoma

13) Osteoporosis and related bone disease

14) Paget's disease

15) Pancreatitis

16) Pheochromocytoma

17) Polycystic kidney disease

18) Posttraumatic osteoarthritis

19) Scleroderma

20) Social work research

21) Tinnitus