NIH ODS announces new funding opportunities for advancing research on botanicals and other natural products

• By: AHPA
• On: 04/16/2024 07:13:58
• In: AHPA News

April 16, 2024

In a bulletin distributed last week, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) Director Stefan M. Pasiakos, Ph.D., announced three new funding opportunities with the NIH Consortium for Advancing Research on Botanical and Other Natural Products (CARBON) Program in partnership with the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and the National Institute of Drug Abuse:

Botanical Dietary Supplements Translational Research Teams

A Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for a component of the 2025-2029 NIH CARBON Program to support trans-disciplinary, translational research on chemically complex botanical products or natural products traditionally used as dietary components, with a single receipt date of July 8, 2024.

• Technical Assistance Webinar for RFA-OD-24-014 - “Botanical Dietary Supplements Translational Research Teams on May 7, 2024.

Leveraging Data at Scale to Understand Natural Product Impacts on Whole Person Health

A Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for a component of the 2025-2029 NIH CARBON Program to support development of computational tools to analyze data sets related to natural products in relation to biological activity and role in the context of whole person health research, with a single receipt date of June 28, 2024.

• Technical Assistance Webinar for RFA-AT-24-008 “Leveraging Data at Scale to Understand Natural Product Impacts on Whole Person Health (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)”  on April 30, 2024.

Limited Competition: Research Resource for Natural Product Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data

A limited competition Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for a component of the 2025-2029 NIH CARBON Program to promote the sustainability, scaling and wider community inclusiveness of the established NMR research resource, with a single receipt date of July 8, 2024.

“These funding opportunities will continue to advance our understanding of the mechanisms of action, bioavailability, and optimal product chemistry of promising botanical dietary supplements,” stated Dr. Pasiakos in his Director's Message. “Most importantly, they will identify objective outcomes relevant to studying human health. They will also support the expansion of a nuclear magnetic resonance database for natural products and the development of computational tools to help scientists use the database and drive natural product research forward.”

Developed by NIH in partnership with NCCIH in 1999, CARBON supports numerous Botanical Dietary Supplement Research Centers and research projects at those centers with a focus on both characterizing botanical dietary supplements and evaluating their health effects.

To learn more about the CARBON Program and the recent funding opportunities, visit the CARBON Program webpage on the ODS website.