American Heart Association's
Strategically Focused Obesity Research Network
This is a notice of Limited Submission internal competition to be held by the U-M Office of Research (UMOR) for solicitation from the American Hearth Association's Strategically Focused Obesity Network.
UMOR Internal Deadline: July 18, 2016 (by 5pm)
Sponsor LOI Deadline: August 25, 2016
Amount: The AHA is committed to an investment of $12-15 million to establish this Obesity Network which will provide almost $4 million per Center.
Institutional Limit: 1
Eligibility: Awards are limited to non-profit institutions in the United States, such as universities and colleges, public and voluntary hospitals, laboratories, research institutes, and other non-profit institutions that can demonstrate the ability to conduct projects and organize a center.
Purpose: The intent of this initiative is to support a collaboration of basic, clinical and population researchers from different disciplines whose collective efforts will lead to new approaches to study obesity.
