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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 22,1999 PSA#2393Director, USAMRAA, 820 Chandler St, Fort Detrick, MD 21702-5014 A -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RELEASES OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1999 SOL CBD-OVA-0720 DUE 102099 POC Craig D. Lebo,
Contracting Officer, (301) 619-2036 E-MAIL: ERROR --,
craig.lebo@amedd.army.mil. The Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 Defense
Appropriations Act provides funds to continue the DOD Ovarian Cancer
Research Program (OCRP) administered by the U.S. Army Medical Research
and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) through the Office of the
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP). Ten million
dollars were appropriated to fund ovarian cancer research. Detailed
information is available at the CDMRP website, http://cdmrp.army.mil.
The goal of the OCRP is to support peer-reviewed, innovative research
on the etiology, prevention, and diagnosis of ovarian cancer to enhance
the quality of life for persons with the disease. The USAMRMC is
challenging the scientific community to design innovative research that
will foster new directions for, address neglected issues in, and bring
new investigators into the field of ovarian cancer research. The
programmatic strategy for the FY99 OCRP is to fund proposals in two
research award categories, Idea Awards and New Investigator Awards.
These awards are for individual investigators. Preliminary data are
required for New Investigator Awards but are not required for Idea
Awards. The intent of Idea Awards is to stimulate and reward creative
research efforts that may be viewed as speculative but have the
potential for high payoff. The goal of the New Investigator Awards is
to prepare new scientists for careers in ovarian cancer research and
present an opportunity to move more senior investigators into ovarian
cancer research. Significant execution milestones for this year's
program are tentatively set as follows: Release of the OCRP
Announcement -- 21 July 1999; Proposal receipt -- 20 October 1999; Peer
Review -- December 1999; Programmatic Review -- January 2000;
Notification of awards -- beginning in February 2000; Award
negotiations completed by 30 September 2000. The OCRP Announcement can
be downloaded from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research
Programs' website, http://cdmrp.army.mil on its release date. The
announcement can also be requested by fax at 301-682-5521, or by phone,
at 301-682-5517, ext. 101. Posted 07/20/99 (W-SN356536). (0201) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0015 19990722\A-0015.SOL)
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