Call for Proposals
UPDATE: Submission Deadline Moved to May 29, 2009. See below for original announcement.
NIH "Grand Opportunities" $500,000+ over 2-years for Research and Research Infrastructure
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is inviting grant applications for projects that address large, specific biomedical and biobehavioral research endeavors that will benefit from significant two-year funds without the expectation of continued NIH funding.
All awards will be at minimum $500,000 per year for two years to support high impact ideas that lend themselves to short-term funding, and may lay the foundation for new fields of investigation.
Scope
The scope of the "GO" grants program includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Groundbreaking, innovative, high impact and cross-cutting research projects that can be readily deployed and that will improve and accelerate biomedical research.
- Basic, clinical and translational projects that could fundamentally enhance the research enterprise and that require the participation, interaction, coordination and integration of activities carried out in multiple research laboratories.
- Creation of large scale unique resources, accelerated application of high throughput, and other novel technologies.
- Deployment of critical infrastructure, resources, tools, and methodologies that substantially accelerate collaborative, multi and interdisciplinary basic, translational, and/or clinical research.
- Implementation of large scale research projects that are carried out using new and creative collaborative agreements and partnerships with industry and small businesses to accelerate the pre-clinical and clinical testing of new therapeutics.
- Creative approaches to overcome barriers to basic, translational, or clinical research using novel tools, technologies, and services.
Requirements
"GO" projects are expected to demonstrate the following:
- The work cannot be reasonably expected to be carried out successfully without support provided by "GO" grants.
- Specific outcomes of the proposed project promote and advance the mission of the NIH to improve health.
- The project is ready to be deployed immediately upon funding.
- A rapid infusion of significant funding will accelerate current and future research in the area of study and there are appropriate measurable outcomes to evaluate the short and long-term effects of the project.
- The proposed project is something that no other entity is likely or able to do, and is there a public health benefit to having the results of the research in the public domain.
- The project or generated results and resources can be expected to become integrated with other NIH and privately funded research within a reasonable timeframe.
- Projects that would require funding beyond this timeframe should provide a detailed plan for maintaining the research efforts without any expectation of further financial assistance from the sponsoring IC or other NIH components. Applicants are expected to provide a list of outcomes and include plans to obtain long-term support for research endeavors carried out with "GO" grant funding.
A detailed statement addressing the bullets above should be included as part of the application Research Plan and in summary form in the Letter of Intent.
There is no limit on the number of proposals that may be submitted from UCI. However, I am asking all interested applicants to notify my office in an email to OR@research.uci.edu of their intent to apply by the NIH deadline for the optional letter of intent, which is April 27, 2009 (full proposals are due May 27, 2009). This courtesy notification will allow Sponsored Projects Administration to better manage their workflow in this climate of increased proposal submissions.
For more information about this opportunity please visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-004.html.
Thank you.
Susan Bryant
Vice Chancellor for Research
