Strategic Research Grant: Dissemination and Implementation Research

Strategic Research Grant: Dissemination and Implementation Research

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: American Academy Of Sleep Medicine Foundation
Amount: US $50,000 - US $250,000
Last Updated: August 28, 2025

Summary

The Strategic Research Grant: Dissemination and Implementation Research, offered by the AASM Foundation, aims to enhance patient-centered care for sleep disorders through innovative research. It supports projects that bridge the gap between biomedical research and clinical practice, ensuring that new therapies reach patients effectively. This grant emphasizes the importance of dissemination and implementation strategies to promote evidence-based practices in diverse healthcare settings, ultimately improving outcomes for individuals with sleep disorders.

Overview

NOTE: If resubmitting the applicant may bypass the LOI submission stage, however, must notify the AASM Foundation of their intent to resubmit an unfunded application by the LOI deadline. Strategic Research Grant The AASM Foundation is committed to improving patient-centered diagnosis and care for all people with sleep disorders. To ensure that there is a continued advancement in effective diagnosis and care of people with sleep disorders, the AASM Foundation provides research funding through the Strategic Research Grant. This grant is investigator-initiated and supports high-impact research projects aimed at addressing gaps in knowledge that impact the ability to provide optimal, patient-centered, cost-effective diagnosis and care for people with sleep disorders. Dissemination and Implementation Research This AASM Foundation research grant is supported by AASM Foundation general funds. This is a focused request for applications (RFA) open to dissemination and implementation sleep research projects. It’s well-known that there is a significant lag time for biomedical research to reach clinical practice, all while there is rapid development of therapies for sleep and circadian disorders that are not reaching the hands of patients. Dissemination and implementation research can help reduce this gap and increase the uptake of evidence-based research findings into real-world practice settings in order to provide optimal, patient-centered, cost-effective diagnosis and care for people with sleep disorders, which is the goal of the Strategic Research Grant. Dissemination and implementation are defined as: Dissemination is the intentional, active process of identifying target audiences and tailoring communication strategies to increase awareness and understanding of evidence, and to motivate its use in policy, practice, and individual choices. Implementation is the deliberate, iterative process of integrating evidence into policy and practice through adapting evidence to different contexts and facilitating behavior change and decision making based on evidence across individuals, communities, and healthcare systems. The AASM Foundation will support dissemination and implementation sleep research through the Strategic Research Grant focused on these research domains: Dissemination and Implementation of AASM Clinical Practice Standards:The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) publishes various evidence-based practice standards, such as clinical practice guidelines, clinical guidance statements, position statements, and consensus statements and papers. Research must focus on strategies that increase the accessibility, usefulness, and uptake of the AASM’s evidence and recommendations among targeted end-users, such as clinicians, patients, caregivers, decision makers and healthcare stakeholders.Dissemination and Implementation of Research Findings from Funded AASM Foundation Research Projects:The AASM Foundation is committed to moving evidence generated from AASM Foundation-funded projects into practice to improve the diagnosis and care for people with sleep disorders. Research must focus on strategies that facilitate the uptake of AASM Foundation-funded research project findings in real-world practice settings and targeted populations. The proposal can be submitted by the original AASM Foundation-funded research project investigator or by an individual investigator with support from the original investigator whose findings are being disseminated or implemented in the project proposal. Terms Period of Performance: Category I: 1-3 yearsCategory II: 1-2 yearsCategory III: Up to 1 yearAmount of Grant: Category I: Up to $250,000Category II: Up to $100,000Category III: Up to $50,000 The funds can be used for research expenses such as salary support (commensurate with current stipends or salaries), supplies, participant costs and institutional overhead. There are no restrictions on the distribution of expenses, however, indirect costs are capped at 8%. The grant is executed as a contract between the AASM Foundation and the grantee’s institution.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. The following individuals are eligible to apply:Sleep scientists with a master’s level degree or higher are eligible to apply. Individuals may apply for multiple AASM Foundation grants, however, the same proposal (i.e., projects with budgetary and scientific overlap) may not be submitted for multiple requests for applications in a given cycle. Additionally, if an individual submits more than one application in a given Career Development Grant cycle, the AASM Foundation will only approve funding one grant should multiple proposals submitted by the applicant receive a competitive score. Individuals who are the Principal Investigator on an open AASM Foundation research grant at the time of the application deadline are eligible to apply if they can demonstrate that there is no budgetary or scientific overlap between their open grant and the new project they are applying for funding. If there is budgetary and/or scientific overlap between projects, the applicant must indicate their plan to close their open grant in the event their new application is selected for funding (e.g., relinquish the current grant or complete the current grant to start the new grant). International individuals who meet all the eligibility criteria are eligible to apply; however, payment of grant funds must be accepted by the institution in US dollars.Past applicants of last year's Strategic Research Grant: Dissemination and Implementation Research RFA, who went unfunded, are allowed a single resubmission within 12 months of receipt of the original application notification, if the project is still relevant to the topics of interest in the current RFA and if invited by the AASM Foundation.

Ineligibility

Resubmission of an original application for one grant program across another grant program is not permitted.The following individuals are not eligible to apply:Individuals who have a financial conflict of interest or have the potential to incur significant financial benefit from the proposed work and beyond the work itself are not eligible to apply. Individuals who are seeking funding from AASM Foundation research grants to support ongoing projects that are currently funded by another granting body or supplement ongoing work (e.g., enrolling addiitonal subjects into an ongoing trial) are not eligible to apply.Current AASM and AASM Foundation Board of Directors members are not eligible to apply and cannot be listed as a PI, co-PI, key personnel, mentor (paid or unpaid) or paid consultant for one year after their term ends.