This joint effort between the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging provides funding for interdisciplinary and integrative research focused on the identification and preclinical validation of novel targets. The program strongly encourages 1) using network-based approaches to understand molecular & physiological context, 2) integrating clinical data with with animal, disease or cell based models and 3) identifying novel targets associated with disease processes.
The open date for applications is December 17, 2012 with a final due date of January 13, 2013. For more information, see the link below:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-13-013.html