IN VIVO CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR IMAGING CENTERS (ICMICs)

The summary for the IN VIVO CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR IMAGING CENTERS (ICMICs) grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Institutes of Health, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

IN VIVO CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR IMAGING CENTERS (ICMICs): The Biomedical Imaging Program, Division of Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites applications for P50 Research Center Grants for the establishment of In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Centers (ICMICs). This initiative is designed to capitalize on the extraordinary opportunity for studying cancer non-invasively, and in many cases, quantitatively due to recent advances in molecular imaging modalities, as well as molecular and cellular biology. ICMICs will facilitate the interaction of scientists from a variety of fields such as, but not limited to: imaging sciences, chemistry, radiopharmaceutical chemistry, cellular and molecular biology, pharmacology, physics, computer science, biomedical engineering, immunology, pathology and neuroscience, and provide resources to conduct multidisciplinary research. The 5-year P50 grants described in this RFA will be appropriate for those Institutions in which investigator-initiated multidisciplinary research involving imaging and molecular technologies are currently ongoing. These efforts may be generating important preliminary data, but the teams may be loosely associated or not consistently supported and therefore lack the overall structure and resources necessary to take full advantage of emerging opportunities. The P50 Center grant will provide a formal framework through which scientific synergy can occur on a stable and continuing basis, and will provide 1) an organizational structure specifically designed to facilitate scientific cross-fertilization between seemingly disparate groups of investigators; 2) specialized resources to support research activities; 3) developmental funds for feasibility testing of new projects; and 4) career development opportunities for new and established investigators.