Monday, August 8, 2011

Secondary Analyses and Archiving of Social and Behavioral Datasets in Aging (R03)

This R03 opportunity comes from the NIH/National Institute on Aging. Details at http://fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/131498 and at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-12-005.html

The purpose of this FOA is to solicit one-year R03 applications for secondary analysis of data on aging in the areas of psychology, behavioral genetics, economics, demography, or for archiving and dissemination of data sets to enable secondary analyses in order to further advance research.The NIA supports collection of data and biological samples including a broad array of measures that are relevant to: the dynamics of health and disability, cognition, psychosocial and sociodemographic factors, genetics and biomarkers, long-term care, caregiving, behavioral medicine, retirement, economic status and well-being over the lifecourse. Applicants are encouraged to archive data from studies with rich phenotypic, environmental or biomarkers data and make them available through the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) or another archive for public use. Archiving may pertain to any type of data useful for secondary analysis including results of assays conducted on biospecimens, and the addition of geo-coded and community level variables for database expansion.