Note: Deadlines for the 2006 Research Grant Review have closed. 2007 Review deadlines will be announced December 2006.
The CFIDS Association of America is the leading organization working to conquer chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS). The Association works toward this mission by: building recognition of CFIDS as a serious widespread medical disorder, securing a meaningful response to CFIDS from the federal government, stimulating high-quality CFIDS research, improving providers' abilities to detect, diagnose and manage CFIDS, and providing information to persons with CFIDS and enabling the CFIDS community to speak with a collective voice. Since 1987, the Association has provided $4.18 million in grants to CFIDS researchers.
The purpose of the Association's peer-review Research Grants Program is to provide financial support for the highest-quality pilot CFS research studies and enable investigators to collect sufficient data to expand their studies with support from government or private funding sources.
Research grants are generally made to cover the direct costs of such items as salaries for professional and technical personnel, patient costs, equipment, supplies, travel and other miscellaneous items. Institutional indirect costs should not exceed 10%.
Researchers interested in applying for a CFIDS Association Research Grant should submit a pre-application letter of intent briefly describing the research study, including hypotheses, objectives and goals; methods to be employed; preliminary studies; estimated budget; and qualifications of the principal investigator (and key collaborators, if applicable).
If the research project described in the letter of intent is determined to fall within the funding priorities of the Association's Research Grants Program, the principal investigator will be invited to submit a Research Grant Application.
