{"id":356,"date":"2012-10-04T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T16:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/?p=356"},"modified":"2012-10-04T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T16:58:45","slug":"countermeasures-against-chemcial-threats-counteract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/2012\/10\/04\/countermeasures-against-chemcial-threats-counteract\/","title":{"rendered":"Countermeasures Against Chemcial Threats (CounterAct)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CounterAct program provides funding for therapeutics that reduce the mortality and morbidity caused by exposure to chemical threat agents. Proposals should include a description of the drug, how it will be used on humans and how it would be administered during a chemical emergency event. Specific areas of research interest include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Traditional chemical warfare agents such as sarin, VX and soman gases<\/li>\n<li>Toxic industrial chemicals such as cyanide, hydrogen sulfide and phosgene<\/li>\n<li>Toxic agricultural chemicals such as insecticides and rodenticides<\/li>\n<li>Research on people who are particularly vulnerable, such as the young and elderly (this point will be given special consideration)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Drugs that are only effective before chemical exposure or must be administered within a very short time after exposure (1-15 minutes) will be given low priority. Projects cannot exceed two years or $250,000 in direct costs per year. Letters of intent are due December 31, 2012. For more information, see the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/pa-files\/PAR-13-005.html\">http:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/pa-files\/PAR-13-005.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CounterAct program provides funding for therapeutics that reduce the mortality and morbidity caused by exposure to chemical threat agents. Proposals should include a description of the drug, how it will be used on humans and how it would be administered during a chemical emergency event. Specific areas of research interest include, but are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":997,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[142,143],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","category-stem","tag-health-and-human-services","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}