Purpose.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to examine associations between nutrition and alcohol-related

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health outcomes in humans and animal models.

The goal of this program announcement is to stimulate a broad range of research on the role of nutrition in the development, prevention, and treatment of a variety of alcohol-related health outcomes including alcohol dependence and psychiatric co-morbidities, chronic and acute diseases, and organ function and damage.

Study designs may include biomedical research, epidemiologic approaches, and intervention studies.The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.

The R03 is intended to support small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources.

Mechanism of Support.

This FOA will utilize the NIH Small Research Grant (R03) award mechanism and runs in parallel with an FOA of identical scientific scope, PA-10-239 and PA-10-241 that encourages applications under the R01 and R21 mechanisms, respectively.

Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards.

Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary.

The total amount awarded and the number of awards will depend upon the mechanism numbers, quality, duration, and costs of the applications received.