The Fiscal Year 2008 (FY08) Defense Appropriations Act provides $50 million to the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) to support research that will make significant contributions in the following research areas:

Alcoholism Research, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Blood Cancer, Drug Abuse, Epilepsy Research, Eye and Vision Research, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Integrated Tissue Hypoxia Research, Interstitial Cystitis, Kidney Cancer, Leishmaniasis, Lupus, Mesothelioma, Multiple Sclerosis, Nutrition and Health Promotion, Paget's Disease, Polycystic Kidney Disease, Pulmonary Hypertension, Scleroderma, Social Work Research, and Tinnitus.

There is an additional $1M Congressional appropriation for bone marrow failure disorder research.

This program is administered by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command through the Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP). Detailed descriptions of each of the funding mechanisms, evaluation criteria, and submission requirements can be found at the link above.