Release
Date: August 30, 2012
Estimated
Publication Date of Announcement: September 2012
First
Estimated Application Due Date: December 2012
Earliest
Estimated Award Date: June 2013
Earliest
Estimated Start Date: July 2013
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Diseases and Kidney, intends to promote a new initiative by publishing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit applications for a Centers program that would provide a coordinated arena for multidisciplinary interactions between basic and clinical scientists in understanding the underlying etiology and the development, treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of specific clinically-oriented urologic disorders or diseases within NIDDK mission interests. The Centers program will also serve as a national resource for career development of young scientists electing to pursue research in benign urology. Finally, Center investigators are expected to participate in important community outreach and education efforts to increase awareness and convey the importance and implications of their research activities to the general public.
This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to
develop meaningful collaborations and responsive projects.
The FOA is expected to be published in September 2012 with an expected receipt
date in December 2012.
This FOA will utilize the U54 activity code. Details of the
planned Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) are provided below.
This Notice encourages investigators with expertise in
benign urological disease and expertise in managing cooperative programs to
begin to consider applying for this new FOA.
The proposed Centers program will consist of a minimal number of Research
Centers and a single Coordinating Unit that will function with the NIDDK under
a cooperative agreement as a multi-center cooperative research program. Within
this consortium Center Directors are expected to work with NIDDK staff to
promote and facilitate research collaborations and interactions within and
between Centers, and with the NIDDK Multidisciplinary K12 Urologic Research
(KURe) Career Development Program, and the research community to develop a national
network that accelerates bidirectional knowledge between the laboratory and the
clinic. The ultimate goal of the Centers program is to improve urological
health through the enhanced communication, innovation and research excellence.
Research Centers are charged with carrying out research to discover and develop
promising new leads for understanding etiology or the prevention, diagnosis,
treatment of benign urological disease or disorders. Research Centers shall
also provide the research infrastructure to support collaborative research
projects, support the development of young scientists, and recruit established
investigators not traditional involved in urological research. The Coordinating
Unit is expected to house and maintain websites and databases, carry out
administrative tasks and organize consortium meetings, and provide centralize
access to biomedical cores of the Research Centers. The Coordinating Unit will
distribute funds and provide financial management of the Collaborative Research
Project and Pilot & Feasibility programs.
APPLICATIONS ARE NOT BEING SOLICITED AT THIS TIME.
Please direct all inquiries to:
Deborah K. Hoshizaki, Ph.D.
Program Director
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Telephone: 301-594-7712
Email: hoshizakid@mail.nih.gov
and Human Services (HHS)
