Workshop on the Use of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Data (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | RFA DA 19 006

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This funding opportunity is an NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Research Education Program award (R25) focused on helping researchers and trainees learn how to use data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. The central purpose is workforce development: building practical skills so participants can competently analyze, interpret, and apply ABCD data to address U.S. biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. It is explicitly a research education and training-style grant rather than a project grant for generating new clinical outcomes, and it is labeled "Clinical Trial Not Allowed," meaning applicants should not propose clinical trials as part of the supported activities.

The program is designed to fund educational activities that either complement existing research training or create new pathways for people to gain hands-on competence with ABCD data. The announcement highlights two main types of supported activities: (1) Courses for Skills Development and (2) Research Experiences. In practice, this points to workshops, short courses, training institutes, or structured curricula that teach the technical and conceptual skills needed to work with ABCD data, along with mentored or guided experiences where participants actively use the dataset in cooperative and competitive ways (for example, team-based analyses, data challenges, or mentored mini-projects). The emphasis is on "creative" education approaches, so proposals can be novel in format as long as they stay grounded in building real, usable analytic capability around ABCD.

Eligible applicants are broad and include many U.S.-based organization types: state, county, city, township, and special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments; tribal organizations that are not federally recognized; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; nonprofits with and without 501(c)(3) status (when not institutions of higher education); for-profit organizations other than small businesses; and small businesses. The opportunity also explicitly calls out additional eligible applicant categories often associated with broadening participation and community reach, such as Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISI), Hispanic-serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), faith-based or community-based organizations, eligible federal agencies, regional organizations, and U.S. territories or possessions. Despite that broad list, it clearly limits foreign involvement: non-U.S. (non-domestic) entities and foreign institutions are not eligible to apply; non-domestic components of U.S. organizations are not eligible; and foreign components, as NIH defines them in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are not allowed.

Administrative details from the source listing include the opportunity title "Workshop on the Use of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Data (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)," funding opportunity number RFA-DA-19-006, and the sponsoring agency as the National Institutes of Health. The activity falls under education and health, with CFDA numbers 93.242 and 93.279. The original closing date shown is July 25, 2018, and the record creation date is March 28, 2018. The listing does not provide an award ceiling or the expected number of awards in the provided fields, so applicants would typically need to consult the full FOA text or NIH notices for budget expectations, project period norms, and review considerations.

Overall, the opportunity is best read as support for building a training pipeline around the ABCD dataset by funding well-structured workshops and related educational experiences that teach participants how to access, manage, analyze, and responsibly interpret ABCD data, with the goal of strengthening the national research workforce in areas aligned with NIH and NIDA missions.

• The National Institutes of Health in the education, health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Workshop on the Use of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Data (R25 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): 93.242, 93.279.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2018-03-28.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-07-25. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• 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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