NIH Weekly Funding Opportunities and Policy Notices
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-20-013 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage revision applications (formerly called "competing revisions") from currently funded NCI U24 resource-related research projects proposing to expand upon the original research question(s) or otherwise accelerate progress for the parent study by incorporating informatics methods, tools or resources developed through current or previous support from the NCI Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Program. Awards from this FOA are meant to spur novel collaborations and to incentivize the adoption, adaptation, and integration of these informatics technologies in support of the appropriate research communities. As a component of the NCI ITCR program, this FOA aims to promote interdisciplinary collaboration in the adoption and enhancement of innovative informatics methods, tools, and resources that enable cancer research and accelerate scientific discovery.
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-20-012 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage revision applications (formerly called "competing revisions") from currently funded NCI U01 research projects proposing to expand upon the original research question(s) or otherwise accelerate progress for the parent study by incorporating informatics methods, tools or resources developed through current or previous support from the NCI Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Program. Awards from this FOA are meant to spur novel collaborations and to incentivize the adoption, adaptation, and integration of these informatics technologies in support of the appropriate research communities. As a component of the NCI ITCR program, this FOA aims to promote interdisciplinary collaboration in the adoption and enhancement of innovative informatics methods, tools, and resources that enable cancer research and accelerate scientific discovery.
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-20-011 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage revision applications (formerly called "competing revisions") from currently funded NCI R01 research projects proposing to expand upon the original research question(s) or otherwise accelerate progress for the parent study by incorporating informatics methods, tools or resources developed through current or previous support from the NCI Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Program. Awards from this FOA are meant to spur novel collaborations and to incentivize the adoption, adaptation, and integration of these informatics technologies in support of the appropriate research communities. As a component of the NCI ITCR program, this FOA aims to promote interdisciplinary collaboration in the adoption and enhancement of innovative informatics methods, tools, and resources that enable cancer research and accelerate scientific discovery.
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-20-010 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite Cooperative Agreement (U24) applications for the continued development and sustainment of high value informatics research resources to improve the acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of data and knowledge across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. As a component of the NCI's Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Program, this FOA focuses on sustaining operations and improving the user experience and availability of existing, widely-adopted informatics tools and resources. This is in contrast to early-stage and advanced development efforts to generate these tools and resources that are supported by companion ITCR FOAs. The central mission of ITCR is to promote research-driven informatics technology across the development lifecycle to address priority needs in cancer research. In order to be successful, the proposed sustainment plan must provide clear justification for why the research resource should be maintained and how it has benefitted and will continue to benefit the cancer research field. In addition, mechanisms for assessing and maximizing the value of the resource to researchers and supporting collaboration and deep engagement between the resource and the targeted research community should be described.
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-20-009 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite Cooperative Agreement (U24) applications for advanced development and enhancement of emerging informatics technologies to improve the acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of data and knowledge across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. As a component of the NCI's Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Program, this FOA focuses on emerging informatics technology, defined as one that has passed the initial prototyping and pilot development stage, has demonstrated potential to have a significant and broader impact, has compelling reasons for further improvement and enhancement, and has not been widely adopted in the cancer research field. The central mission of ITCR is to promote research-driven informatics technology across the development lifecycle to address priority needs in cancer research. In order to be successful, proposed development plans must have a clear rationale on why the proposed technology is needed and how it will benefit the cancer research field. In addition, mechanisms to solicit feedback from users and collaborators throughout the development process must be included. Potential applicants who are interested in early-stage development or informatics resource sustainment should consult the companion FOAs listed above.
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-20-008 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite Cooperative Agreement (U01) applications for the development of enabling informatics technologies to improve the acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of data and knowledge across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. As a component of the NCI's Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Program, this FOA focuses on early-stage development from prototyping to hardening and adaptation. Early-stage development is defined for the purpose of this FOA as initial tool development or the significant modification of existing tools for new applications. The central mission of ITCR is to promote research-driven informatics technology across the development lifecycle to address priority needs in cancer research. In order to be successful, proposed development plans must have a clear rationale on why the proposed technology is needed and how it will benefit the cancer research field. In addition, mechanisms to solicit feedback from users and collaborators throughout the development process must be included.
Funding Opportunity RFA-CA-20-007 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite exploratory/developmental research grant applications (R21) for the development of innovative methods and algorithms in biomedical computing, informatics, and data science addressing priority needs across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. As a component of the NCI's Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Program, this FOA encourages applications focused on the development of novel computational, mathematical, and statistical algorithms and methods that can considerably improve acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of relevant data and/or knowledge. The central mission of ITCR is to promote research-driven informatics technology across the development lifecycle to address priority needs in cancer research. In order to be successful, there must be a clear rationale for how the proposed informatics method or algorithm is novel and how it will benefit the cancer research field. Potential applicants who are interested in downstream technology development, from prototyping to hardening and adaptation, should consult the other companion FOAs listed above.
Notice NOT-TR-20-005 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-DE-20-009 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-DE-20-010 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-OD-20-058 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Notice NOT-HL-19-747 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-20-028 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit cooperative agreement applications that propose clinical trials to test the comparative effectiveness of existing pharmacological therapies or devices for prevention or management of pain while reducing risk of addiction. The studies must evaluate methods to manage specific pain conditions that are within the mission and research interests of participating NIH Institutes and Centers, and evaluate interventions including medications, biologics, medical and assistive devices or delivery system strategies in controlled trials. This FOA does not include testing behavioral interventions for management of pain. The overall goal is to inform clinicians about the effectiveness of pharmacological or device interventions or management strategies concerning use of these interventions that reduce opioid use, improve functional outcomes and reduce pain for diseases or conditions of interest. Clinical trials will be conducted within the infrastructure of the HEAL Pain Effectiveness Research Network.
Funding Opportunity RFA-DK-19-034 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The George M. O'Brien Urology Research Centers (U54) and Exploratory Centers for Interdisciplinary Research in Benign Urology (P20) serve to advance the NIDDKs mission to support highly meritorious, innovative, interdisciplinary research in benign urologic diseases and disorders, and the training of the next generation of researchers. Critical to these broad goals is the ability to promote productive interactions between the U54 and P20 Centers, the institutional career development programs (K12), and the broader urology research and clinical communities. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications for a new Urology Centers Program Interactions Core (U24). The Interactions Core will serve as focal point for establishing productive collaborations within the Urology Centers Programs and between these Programs and other NIDDK urology training and scientific efforts and the broader research and clinical communities.
Notice NOT-DE-20-007 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity RFA-TR-20-002 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Limited Competition Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites an application from the currently funded Microphysiological Systems (MPS) Database Center (MPS DC) which supports the NIH Tissue Chip Consortium. The overall goal of the MPS DC is to integrate the efforts of all funded components of the Tissue Chip Consortium and serve as a community-wide resource for deposition of tissue chip data, standards, protocols, and analytical tools. The MPS DC is expected to continue to be the central clearinghouse for tissue chips data management, and to incorporate novel approaches and technologies for data management, data mining and meta-analyses, and data sharing across many organs and tissues, diseases, data types, and tissue chip platforms. The MPS DC is expected to provide different levels of public and tiered access to tissue chip information for basic and clinical researchers, academic and practicing physicians, the pharmaceutical industry, NIH, FDA and other government agencies, patients, and the lay public. The MPS DC will work with IQ Consortium members to develop and make available a secure, customizable coordinated data management system for collection, storage, and analyses of diverse data types from multiple tissue chip platforms being developed and used for drug screening, safety and efficacy testing. The application must include a clear and well laid out plan to be completely independent and self-sustaining before the end of the requested NIH support.
Notice NOT-OD-20-055 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Funding Opportunity PAR-20-097 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This funding opportunity announcement is designed to support biomedical knowledgebases. Biomedical knowledgebases under this announcement should have the primary function to extract, accumulate, organize, annotate, and link growing bodies of information related to core datasets. Support for data curation should include efficient and effective methods of curation that scale to the needs of community and include semi-automated methods. Support for software and tool development must be limited to that which provides essential functions or significantly increases the efficiency of operation of the knowledgebase. Applications that have a significant focus on software and tool development are not appropriate for this activity.
Funding Opportunity PAR-20-089 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This funding opportunity announcement is designed to support biomedical data repositories. Biomedical data repositories under this announcement should have the primary function to ingest, archive, preserve, manage, distribute, and make accessible the data related to a particular system or systems. Support for data curation must be limited to that which improves the efficiency and accessibility of data ingestion, management, and use and reuse by the user communities. Support for software and tool development must be limited to that which provides essential functions or significantly increases the efficiency of operation of the repository. Applications that have a significant focus on software and tool development are not appropriate for this activity.
Notice NOT-CA-20-024 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts