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Internal Proposal Deadline: NIH NIAMS Resource-based Centers for Bone, Muscle and Orthopaedic Research
May 15, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
National Institute of Health
NIAMS Resource-based Centers for Bone, Muscle and Orthopaedic Research
(P30 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
UNC Internal deadline: 11:59PM, Friday, May 15, 2020
*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Friday, May 15, 2020
NIH LOI Deadline: July 11, 2020
NIH Application Deadline: August 11, 2020
Important Information
- Number of Applications per Institution: Organizations may only submit one nomination.
Award Information
Award Budget: Application budgets are limited to $500,000 direct costs per year.
Award Project Period: The scope of the proposed project should determine the project period. The maximum project period is 5 years.
Cost Sharing: Not required.
To Apply
Submit the following (in ONE .pdf) to the Office of Research Development limited submissions inbox Limited_Submissions@unc.edu by 11:59PM, Friday, May 15, 2020.
- PI/Proposed team member’s CV/NIH formatted biosketch (five-page maximum)
- Project Summary (no more than 4 pages)
- List of potential/committed collaborators (internal and external to UNC)
- Names of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel.
- Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest.
- Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal packet to ORD.
Program Overview
The NIAMS uses a number of centers grant mechanisms to support research that require synergistic, integrated groups of investigators, significant infrastructure, and/or technological innovations. NIAMS convened a Centers Evaluation Working Group (CEWG) to advise the Institute as to how the Centers programs could be more responsive and supportive to current research needs and opportunities. The CEWG concluded that NIAMS should allow flexibility and dynamism in the design, structure, and conduct of its Centers, to accommodate the variable needs of NIAMS research areas that differ with respect to investigator community, resource availability, and knowledge depth and breadth (see NIAMS Centers Evaluation Working Group Report; https://www.niams.nih.gov/niams-centers-evaluation-working-group-report). The CEWG recommended that the “NIAMS Centers should prioritize improving access to resources, using as review criteria i) the importance of the resource and ii) the potential impact of providing access to that resource”.
NIAMS expects that the Resource-based Center Program will:
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- Efficiently provide critical research infrastructure to advance fields within the NIAMS mission
- Include Cores that offer resources and services in addition to equipment and other infrastructure
- Contribute and/or facilitate significant innovations in research and technology
- Facilitate expansion of research fields within the NIAMS mission
- Foster innovative exploratory projects and junior investigators
- Have flexibility to adopt and adapt to emerging needs and opportunities
NIAMS Resource-based Center Program Description
The emphasis of the NIAMS Resource-based Center Program is to improve access to critical research infrastructure, shared facilities, services, and resources. Each Center will contain one or more Resource Core(s) that serve a strong research community. For the purposes of this particular announcement, the research community is defined as those investigators (and their funded projects) who will use Center resources for research within the focus of the Center which should be within the NIAMS mission. Successful Resource-based Centers are expected to expand the chosen field(s), provide new research opportunities, and increase the efficiency and impact of research due to resource access.
The focus of the Center is determined by the Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) and may encompass basic, translational, and/or clinical research. For this particular announcement, the Center focus is restricted to bone, muscle, and orthopaedic research areas within the NIAMS mission. Applications that are not within the NIAMS mission or not focused on bone, muscle and orthopaedic research will be deemed not responsive to this FOA and will not be reviewed. The focus may be very broad, e.g., bone, muscle, and orthopaedic research in general, and serve a diverse group of investigators that share the need for critical shared core services. Alternatively, a Center may have a narrow disease or biology focus or theme. In some cases, the relevant research community may share a highly specialized resource such as a well-defined patient cohort with associated patient data and biospecimens and/or may share a need for highly specialized technologies and services (e.g., advanced imaging, single cell analysis, or computational biology and machine learning). However, in all cases the focus of the Center must be within the NIAMS mission. Applications solely focused on clinical methodology core(s) supporting outcomes, epidemiology, clinical trials, and/or health services research exclusively are not responsive to this FOA and will not be reviewed. Potential PDs/PIs are strongly encouraged to contact the Scientific/Research Contact listed in Section VII. Agency Contacts early in the application planning process to discuss the NIAMS mission relevance and FOA responsiveness.
It has become increasingly common and practical for investigators at different institutions to collaborate to achieve common goals. Therefore, to facilitate collaborative and interdisciplinary research, resources and investigators may be distributed at different institutions and different geographic regions, particularly for resources that do not need to be duplicated at every research site. Similarly, the research community may be defined at the national, regional, or local institutional level, and may include foreign collaborators.
The NIAMS Resource-based Centers will provide support for:
- One or more Resource Cores
- An Administrative Core, that includes a Center Enrichment Program
Please see the full solicitation for additional information pertaining to the Cores.
Additional Information
Full Solicitation: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AR-21-004.html
For additional information, please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submissions@unc.edu.
Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
308 Bynum Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(919) 962-7503