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March of Dimes Accepting LOIs for Child and Maternal Health Research

  • April 19, 2019


For more than eighty years, the March of Dimes has empowered families with programs, information, and tools to assist in healthy pregnancies. Today, the organization works to level the playing field for all moms and babies, regardless of age, socioeconomic background, or demographics.

To that end, MoD is accepting applications through its 2019 Research Program for research on pregnancy-related disorders; the prevention and treatment of diseases in either mom, dad, or baby that lead to premature birth; genetic and environmentally-induced birth defects; opioid exposure and dependency; and health disparities within all these areas.

Applicants are invited to submit LOIs in one of the following categories:

1) Innovative Challenge Grants — Six-month grants of $50,000 will be awarded to proposals with clear-cut deliverables defined within the application. If the deliverables are achieved, there’s a possibility of a second tranche in the amount of $100,000 to $500,000 over twelve months.

2) Novel Discovery Grants — Proposals anywhere on the translational spectrum will be considered, including translation to humans, translation to patients, translation to practice, and translation to population health. Grants of $50,000 to $100,000 will be awarded for the first twelve months, with the option of an additional twelve months of support if significant progress is made.

3) Clinical and Social Science Challenge Grants — MoD seeks research that explores health equity in order to reduce disparities; opioid dependency in mom, dad, and baby to mitigate the rise in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome; and premature birth and maternal/infant mortality. Sic-month grants of $50,000 to $100,000 will be awarded to proposals with clear-cut deliverables defined within the application. If the deliverables are achieved, there’s a possibility of a second tranche in the amount of $100,000 to $500,000 over twelve months.

Eligible candidates include health professionals, health researchers, epidemiologists, and social scientists with doctoral or masters-level academic degrees and either a faculty appointment or equivalent at an academic university, hospital, or research institution. Employees of small businesses, startup companies, nonprofits, or pharmaceutical companies committed to research in maternal and child health are also eligible.


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