NEI Research Grant for Vision-Related Secondary Data Analysis (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | PAR 19 260

Opportunity Information: Apply for PAR 19 260

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the National Eye Institute (NEI), offered the NEI Research Grant for Vision-Related Secondary Data Analysis under funding opportunity number PAR-19-260. This is a discretionary grant program in the health area (CFDA 93.867) that uses the R21 mechanism, which is typically intended for exploratory or developmental work. A key boundary of this opportunity is that clinical trials are not allowed, meaning applicants must focus on analyses and methods development that do not involve prospectively assigning interventions to human participants.

The central purpose of the announcement is to support strong, vision-related research projects that rely on secondary data analysis. In practical terms, this means the work should primarily use existing database resources rather than collecting new primary data. Examples of the kind of effort this FOA is aimed at include extracting new scientific findings from already available datasets, combining and harmonizing existing sources to answer new questions, or reanalyzing established datasets with improved approaches to generate additional insight about vision, eye disease, visual function, vision health services, or related outcomes.

In addition to straightforward secondary analyses, the FOA explicitly allows (and encourages, when justified) the development of statistical methodology needed to improve how vision health data are analyzed. That can include new or refined analytic techniques, better modeling strategies for vision outcomes, improved handling of complex or messy real-world data, approaches for missing data, measurement issues, longitudinal modeling, or other methodological contributions that make secondary analyses of vision datasets more valid, reproducible, or informative. The emphasis remains on methods that are motivated by, and applicable to, existing vision-related data resources.

Eligibility is broad and covers many common applicant types across government, academia, nonprofit, and industry. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; Native American tribal organizations other than federally recognized tribal governments; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status (outside of higher education); for-profit organizations other than small businesses; and small businesses. The FOA also highlights additional eligible applicant categories such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving Institutions, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs). It further notes that faith-based or community-based organizations, eligible federal agencies, U.S. territories or possessions, regional organizations, and even non-U.S. (foreign) organizations may apply, reflecting an intent to attract a wide range of institutions capable of conducting rigorous secondary data research.

From a funding standpoint, the listed award ceiling is $200,000. The source information also shows an original closing date of 2022-05-07 and a creation date of 2019-04-24, which situates the opportunity within a defined application window in that period (applicants would normally confirm current status and any reissued or related announcements if applying today). Overall, the program is best understood as NEI support for investigators who can produce meaningful advances in vision science or vision health knowledge by leveraging existing datasets and, where appropriate, by creating better analytic tools to get more accurate and useful answers from those data, without running a clinical trial.

• The National Institutes of Health in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NEI Research Grant for Vision-Related Secondary Data Analysis (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.867.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2019-04-24.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2022-05-07. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $200,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.

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