Opportunity Information: Apply for PAR 17 200
Development of Appropriate Pediatric Formulations and Pediatric Drug Delivery Systems (R41) (Funding Opportunity Number PAR-17-200) is an NIH small business grant opportunity focused on improving how medicines are formulated and delivered for children. Led by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) along with other participating NIH Institutes, the program is meant to push forward practical, age-appropriate drug products for pediatric patients, recognizing that children are not just "small adults" and often need different dosage forms, strengths, and delivery approaches to be treated safely and effectively.
The core purpose of the opportunity is to support research and development that results in pediatric formulations that work across different pediatric age groups, which can include infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents. Many existing medications are developed primarily for adults and later adapted for children in ways that can be inconvenient, inaccurate, or unsafe, such as crushing tablets, using unpalatable liquids, or relying on dosing that is hard to measure precisely. This FOA aims to complement and accelerate the pipeline for pediatric-ready products by encouraging projects that solve these real-world problems, including challenges around dose flexibility, swallowability, taste masking, stability, excipient safety for young children, and consistent drug exposure across developmental stages.
In addition to formulation work, the FOA explicitly encourages the creation and testing of novel pediatric drug delivery systems. That means applicants can propose new or improved ways to get a medicine into a childs body that are better suited to pediatric needs and constraints. Depending on the concept, this could involve technologies or devices that make dosing simpler and more accurate, reduce discomfort, enable controlled or sustained release in a child-appropriate way, improve adherence, or address clinical settings where standard delivery is difficult. The emphasis is on innovations that are designed with pediatric use in mind rather than simply miniaturizing adult approaches.
The award mechanism is an R41, which is the NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant mechanism. In practice, that generally signals an early-stage, feasibility-focused effort where a small business demonstrates the scientific and technical merit of a concept, generates proof-of-concept data, and positions the project for later-stage development. The opportunity sits in the Health and related social services activity category, and it is associated with CFDA numbers 93.173 and 93.865. The funding instrument type is a grant, and the opportunity category is discretionary.
Eligibility is limited to small businesses. Foreign entities (non-U.S. institutions) are not eligible to apply, and non-U.S. components of U.S. organizations are also not eligible. However, foreign components, as NIH defines them in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, may be allowed in some cases, which usually means certain discrete parts of the work might be performed outside the U.S. if they are well-justified and meet NIH policy requirements.
Key administrative details from the listing include an original creation date of March 29, 2017, and an original closing date of January 5, 2020. The posted summary does not provide an award ceiling amount or the expected number of awards, suggesting those specifics were either not included in the excerpted data or were defined elsewhere in the full announcement materials. Overall, the program is aimed at giving small businesses a clear on-ramp to develop pediatric-friendly medicines and delivery platforms that can move toward real clinical use, ultimately improving treatment safety, usability, and outcomes for children.Apply for PAR 17 200
- The National Institutes of Health in the health, income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Development of Appropriate Pediatric Formulations and Pediatric Drug Delivery Systems (R41)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.173, 93.865.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2017-03-29.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2020-01-05. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Eligible applicants include: Small businesses.
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