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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health

Research and Training in Complementary and Integrative Health

Federal program · program number 93.213 (the federal Assistance Listing number) · also called “National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health”

Key facts

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Type of help
Project grant, training
Typical award
For Fiscal Years 2022 - 2023 (as of 7/20/2023), the total costs (which is the sum of the direct costs plus the facilities & administration costs) for competing grants ranged from a low of $28,500 to a high of...

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What it pays for

NCCIH is the lead Federal agency for scientific research on the fundamental science, usefulness, and safety of complementary and integrative treatments and practices. NCCIH seeks to build knowledge across disciplines, focusing on the whole person, and taking a transdisciplinary approach that integrates the natural, social, and health sciences and transcends traditional boundaries. To address the need for objective evidence on the fundamental science, safety and efficacy of complementary and integrative health approaches, NCCIH supports rigorous scientific investigation to better understand how these interventions impact health, for whom, and the optimal methods of practice and delivery. By deepening our scientific understanding of the connections that exist across domains of human health, we can better understand how conditions interrelate, define multicomponent interventions that address these problems, and expand how we support patients through the full continuum of their health experience, including the return to health. To evaluate complementary and integrative health approaches. The following objectives support this goal: (1) coordinate and facilitate the investigation of complementary and integrative health approaches through peer-reviewed grant solicitations; (2) interface with the NCCIH National Advisory Council; (3) conduct technology assessment conferences for the purpose of establishing areas of Clinical and Pre-clinical research that need to be further developed within complementary health approaches; and (4) maintain a comprehensive bibliographic data base...

Who can apply

Universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, and other public or private nonprofit domestic institutions, including State and local units of government, and individuals are eligible to make application for grant support of research by a named principal investigator or a research career development candidate. For-profit organizations are also eligible, with the exception of NRSA. Individual NRSA awardees must be nominated and sponsored by a public or nonprofit private institution having staff and facilities appropriate to the proposed research training program. All NRSA awardees must be citizens or have been admitted to the United States for permanent residence. To be eligible, predoctoral candidates must have completed the baccalaureate degree, and postdoctoral awardees must have a professional or scientific degree (e.g., M.D., Ph.D., D.D.S., D.O., N.D., D.C., D.V.M., Sc.D., D.Eng., or equivalent domestic or foreign degree). SBIR grants can be awarded only to domestic small businesses (entities that are independently owned and operated for profit, are not dominant in the field in which research is being proposed and have no more than 500 employees). Primary employment (more than one-half time) of the principal investigator must be with the small business at the time of award and during the conduct of the proposed project. In both Phase I and Phase II, the research must...

How applications are judged

The major elements in evaluating proposals include assessments of: (1) the scientific merit innovation and general significance of the proposed study and its objectives; (2) the technical adequacy of the experimental design and approach; (3) the competency of the proposed investigator or group to successfully pursue the project; (4) the adequacy of the available and proposed facilities and resources; (5) the necessity of the budget components requested in relation to the proposed project; (6) the relevance and importance to the announced program objectives and when applicable,and (7) the adequacy of assurances detailing the proposed means for safeguarding human or animal subjects. The following criteria will be used in considering the scientific and technical merit of SBIR/STTR Phase I grant applications: (1) The soundness and technical merit of the proposed approach; (2) the qualifications of the proposed principal investigator, supporting staff, and consultants; (3) the technological innovation of the proposed research; (4) the potential of the proposed research for commercial application; (5) the appropriateness of the budget requested; (6) the adequacy and suitability of the facilities and research environment; and (7) where applicable, the adequacy of assurances detailing the proposed means for (a) safeguarding human or animal subjects, and/or (b) protecting against or minimizing any adverse effect on the environment. Phase II grant applications will be reviewed...

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None required (federal program listing).

Who in Tennessee has won this program

8 awards to Tennessee groups since 2019 · 0 in Blount County. Largest shown:

Past Tennessee winners
Past winnerWhereAmountFiscal year
University of MemphisMemphis, Shelby County$1.9M2023
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson County$1.7M2019
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson County$1.2M2019
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson County$1.1M2021
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson County$631K2021
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson County$625K2026
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, Davidson County$430K2022
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, Davidson County$74K2019

Source: USAspending.gov.

Tennessee groups that got this money through a state agency or another organization

This federal money also reaches local groups as pass-through grants. 20 pass-through grants on file · 0 in Blount County. Largest shown:

Tennessee pass-through grant winners
Past winnerWhereThroughAmountFiscal year
University of TennesseeMemphis, Shelby CountyUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham$299K2023
University of TennesseeMemphis, Shelby CountyUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham$268K2024
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyNorthern California Institute for Research and Education, Inc.$195K2023
University of TennesseeMemphis, Shelby CountyThe University of Mississippi$161K2023
University of TennesseeMemphis, Shelby CountyThe University of Mississippi$161K2024
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyNorthern California Institute for Research and Education, Inc.$160K2023
University of TennesseeMemphis, Shelby CountyThe University of Mississippi$158K2024
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyOregon Health & Science University$82K2023
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyOregon Health & Science University$82K2023
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, Davidson CountyNorthern California Institute for Research and Education, Inc.$69K2024
University of TennesseeMemphis, Shelby CountyThe University of Mississippi$62K2025
University of MemphisMemphis, Shelby CountyUniversity of Texas at Austin$60K2024

Source: USAspending.gov pass-through reports (the first recipient reports each one of $30,000 or more).

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