At a glance
The program funds clinical research or clinical trials on burn care for military Service Members in austere, resource-limited combat settings, including work on triage, treatment, complications, and early interventions. Eligible applicants include extramural and intramural U.S. Department of War organizations, including foreign and domestic, for-profit and nonprofit, and public or private entities; awards are made to organizations, not individuals. About $3.4 million is expected to support roughly two awards, with total costs capped at $1.6 million for a single-PI award or $1.8 million with the Mentorship Option, and the maximum period of performance is 4 years. Cost sharing is not required.
What it funds
Official description from grants.gov
Summary: Despite significant research investment in combat-relevant burn care, a disparity exists between newly discovered knowledge in burn care and its implementation into clinical practice across the distributed operational battlespace. The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Military Burn Research Program (MBRP) Patient-Centered Research Award (PCRA) seeks to bridge the gap between research, practice, and policy by developing a knowledge base that provides clinically useful findings about how interventions, clinical practices, guidelines, tools, and policies can be deployed to burn patients in an austere, resource-limited, military operational environment. Distinctive Features: · This award mechanism must support clinical research or clinical trials but cannot support preclinical or animal research . Applications may propose prospective or retrospective research involving human subjects or human subject data. · New for FY26: The FY26 PCRA offers a Mentorship Option at a higher funding level to support a synergistic relationship between an experienced researcher (Mentor) and one to two junior researchers (Mentees). The dual purpose of this award is to fund a primary research study addressing a critical gap in combat burn care while simultaneously fostering the development of the next generation of military burn research leaders.
Who can apply
- Unrestricted