Search Orphan Drug Products Grant Program

Instructions:

During searches individual fields are 'anded' together, e.g., searching 'interferon' as a product and 'Smith' as an investigator will return only matches where both criteria are met. If you wish each criteria individually (i.e., an 'or' search), the searches should be run separately. Running a default search with no criteria will return all grants.

Disease Indication, Product Name, or Grant Title

Entering a search term in the Disease Indication or Grant Title will find any occurrence of the term in either of these fields, i.e., both fields are searched automatically. The database does not use a standard terminology, and seraching both fields is to increase the possibility of finding the appropriate records: some records may have a disease name in the grant title that is listed differently in the indication. Product name searches the product field alone, but if a search does not return expected records, the search should be repeated with the product searched under the grant title field. Terms can be entered as any part of a string; for example searching 'penicil' as a product name would return 'penicillin', 'aminopenicillin','penicillinase', etc. Search terms are 'anded' together; booleans operators (i.e., 'and' or 'or') cannot be used with searches, and separate seraches should be performed for separate terms. Return to top

Principal Investigator

Grants can be serach by the last name of the prinicipal investigator, institution, or location; for location, enter a city, state, or country. States should be entered as the 2 letter abbreviations, e.g., 'MD'; entering only a location (e.g., 'ND') will return all grants for investigators in North Dakota. For 'country', only countries outside the US need to be entered. Return to top

Restrict Search Results

Searches can return all designations or be restricted to products that are FDA-approved for the Orphan Designation. The default is all designations. Return to top

Output Format:

Results can be displayed as a list or downloaded as an Excel file. If displayed as a list, the number of records specifies how many records are returned on each page displayed: the default is 100 records per page. Output can also be sorted by several options, e.g., investigator or date. Return to top