This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites research projects to improve understanding of the causes of high priority diseases in the United States and reducing/eliminating health disparities.
Research is encouraged in the following high priority diseases within the scientific mission
areas of the NIDDK:
diabetes; obesity; nutrition-related disorders; hepatitis C; gallbladder disease; H.
Pylori infection; sickle cell disease, specifically, studies in complications of sickle cell disease within the NIDDK mission areas; kidney diseases; urologic diseases; hematologic diseases, including studies in abnormal hemoglobin synthesis; metabolic diseases; gastrointestinal, hepatic, and renal complications from infection with HIV.
Clinical trials are not permitted in response to this FOA.