The National Institute of Aging (NIA) is now accepting applications for the Research Education: Short Courses on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (RFA-AG-20-031) funding opportunity. The award aims to support short courses geared to behavioral and social scientists who have existing expertise in aging research. Optional letters of intent are due December 21, 2019 and applications are due January 21, 2020. 

Since the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease, and related dementias (AD/ADRD), touches so many points of the lifecycle, this R25 funding opportunity welcomes input from principal investigators (PI) within behavioral and social science research to contribute meaningful findings in areas such as healthcare policy, sociology, and labor economics, etc. Priority funding areas include dementia care; dementia caregiver research; cognitive and dementia epidemiology; prevention of AD/ADRD; behavioral and social pathways of AD/ADRD; role of social, contextual, environmental, and institutional factors in AD/ADRD, etc.

In FY 20, NIA will award $495,000 to support three projects lasting up to five years. Indirect costs are reimbursed at 8 percent of modified total direct costs (exclusive of tuition and fees and expenditures for equipment), rather than on the basis of a negotiated rate agreement. To learn more, contact Georgeanne Patmios, Program Officer, at (301) 496-3136 or Email: PatmiosG@mail.nih.gov.​​