Building Translational Research in Integrative Behavioral Science (R01)

-Purpose. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to encourage the development of collaborative partnerships between scientists who study basic behavioral processes and those who study the etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and behavioral disorders (including drug abuse and addiction) and the delivery of services to those suffering from those disorders. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), are issuing this FOA as part of a major, long-term commitment to (a) encourage the systematic translation of basic behavioral theory, methods, and findings into research designed to reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders (including drug abuse and addiction) and (b) encourage basic behavioral scientists to seek a further understanding of behavioral processes through an exploration of how those processes are altered by mental and behavioral disorders. This FOA was developed in response to a report written by the National Advisory Mental Health Council's Behavioral Science Workgroup, entitled "Translating Behavioral Science into Action," http://www.nimh.nih.gov/tbsia/tbsiatoc.cfm. -Mechanism of Support. This FOA will use the NIH Research Project Grant (R01) award mechanism and runs in parallel with FOAs of identical scientific scope, PAR-06-355 and PAR-06-357, that solicit applications under the Exploratory/Developmental (R21) and the Resource-Related Research Projects (R24) grant mechanisms, respectively. Collaborative R01 grant applications are also solicited (See FOA PA-07-092, Collaborative R01s for Clinical and Services Studies of Mental Disorders, AIDS, and Alcohol Use Disorders (R01) for additional information on the Collaborative R01 grant mechanism.