At a glance
This funding opportunity supports fully remote clinical trials of complementary and integrative health interventions, including mind and body approaches, natural products, or combinations of these, using efficacy, effectiveness, or pragmatic designs. Eligible applicants are not stated in the text, but the trial must collect all data remotely, recruit geographically distributed participants, and not use a waitlist comparator. The announcement says trials must be designed with at least 90% power, but it does not give an award size, number of awards, or cost-share requirement. It highlights high-priority topics such as symptom management, mental health, pain, sleep, gut microbiome-brain interactions, disparities, and HIV-related outcomes, and notes that studies with natural products regulated by DEA as controlled substances will not be supported.
What it funds
Official description from grants.gov
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) encourages applications for investigator-initiated fully remotely delivered and conducted clinical trials to assess the efficacy or effectiveness of complementary and integrative health interventions in NCCIH- designated areas of high research priority. Applications submitted under this NOFO are expected to propose a remotely delivered and conducted fully powered clinical trial with no in-person contact between research staff and study participants and may utilize mHealth tools or technologies. Applicants must provide justification for the remotely delivered approach and provide preliminary data on the feasibility and safety of the approach, along with evidence that the intervention has promise of clinical benefit. Applicants are encouraged to contact the appropriate NCCIH Scientific/Research contact for the area of science for which they are planning to develop an application prior to submitting to this NOFO.
Who can apply
- City or township governments
- County governments
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
- Others
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities / Indian housing authorities
- Small businesses
- Special district governments
- State governments