Concepts Under Consideration To Be Developed Into Requests for Applications or Program Announcements

A concept is an early planning stage in the development of a research initiative (a program announcement, request for applications, or request for proposals).

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January 2022

• Concept: High-Priority Pain Research

September 2021

• Concept: Fostering Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health Among Children in School Settings: Opportunities for Complementary and Integrative Health
• Concept: NIH-DOD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory

May 2021

• Concept: NIH HEAL Initiative: Optimizing Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease Pain Management

January 2021

• Concept: Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory 

September 2020

• Concept: Multilevel Physical Activity Interventions To Improve Health and Well-Being Initiative

June 2020

• Concept: Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Validation Studies of Analytical Methods for Dietary Supplement Constituents

February 2020

• Concept: Functional Neural Circuits in Interoception Science
• Concept: Mid-Career Enhancement Awards to Integrate Basic Behavioral, Biomedical, and Social Sciences
• Concept: Quantitative Evaluations of Myofascial Tissues: Potential Impact on Musculoskeletal Pain Research
• Concept: Underlying Mechanisms of Force-based Manipulations: High-Priority Research Networks

September 2019

• Concept: An Open-Access Repository or Database for Anatomical and Physiological Ontology of Acupoints
• Concept: NCCIH Clinical Trials Initiative for Intervention Development and Testing
• Concept: NCCIH High Program Priority Initiatives for Basic and Mechanistic Studies of Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches

June 2019

• Concept: Mechanisms Underlying Modulation of the Glymphatic and Lymphatic Systems by Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches
• Concept: mHealth and Remotely Delivered Complementary and Integrative Interventions
• Concept: Natural Products and Pain Concept Clearance

February 2019

• Concept: Interdisciplinary Training Programs for Complementary and Integrative Health

October 2018

• Concept: Emotional Well-Being: High-Priority Research Networks
• Concept: Mechanisms Underlying Analgesic Properties of Terpenes and Minor Cannabinoids  

June 2018

• Concept: Center of Excellence for Natural Product Drug Interaction Research
• Concept: Career Development for Clinician-Scientists with Complementary and Integrative Health Clinical Degrees
• Concept: The Science of Music Interventions – A Sound Health Initiative 

February 2018 

• Concept: Consortium for Advancing Research on Botanicals and Other Natural Products (CARBON.2)

October 2017

• Concept: Discovery and Biological Signatures of Diet-Derived Microbial Metabolites 

June 2017 

• Concept: Research Resource for Systematic Review of Complementary and Integrative Health

April 2017 

• Concept: Psychosocial Support as an Adjunct to Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders in the Context of the SAMHSA