The All of Us Research Program established the Extramural Program to Advance Research (EPAR) to increase the number of active researchers productively using data in the All of Us Researcher Workbench.
EPAR will achieve this goal through a variety of mechanisms (e.g., grants, cooperative agreements, and prizes) designed to stimulate and fund critical precision medicine research and career development in areas not supported by other National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutes, Centers, and Offices.
- Phase 1: Stimulate existing awards using administrative supplements, such as NOT-PM-22-002.
- 25 one-year awards were granted in September 2022 across 13 NIH Institutes and the Office of the NIH Director.
- Phase 2: Stimulate new grant applications rather than supplementing existing awards (e.g., create Requests for Application [RFAs]).
- R03 RFA: Two-year awards to analyze data in the Researcher Workbench using standard tools and methods (RFA-PM-23-002).
- R21 RFA: Two-year awards to develop new methods, models, and tools; use them to analyze data in the Researcher Workbench; and make them broadly available (RFA-PM-23-001).
