Large-Scale Collaborative Project Award Renewals

The summary for the Large-Scale Collaborative Project Award Renewals 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.

Large-Scale Collaborative Project Award Renewals: The purpose of this solicitation is to invite the submission of renewal applications and to describe application, review, and award procedures for the renewal of large-scale collaborative project awards (commonly called glue grants, http://www.nigms.nih.gov/funding/gluegrants.html). This announcement applies to awards whose support from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for the Phase II application began in FY 2000, FY 2001, and FY 2003 (no awards were made in FY 2002). [New applications for large-scale collaborative project awards are not currently being accepted by NIGMS and are not part of this request for applications (RFA). NIGMS may consider re-opening this program for new awards at a future date.] NIGMS issued the first RFA for large-scale collaborative project awards in 1999, and the program was reannounced in each of the next three years. One award was made in FY 2000, three awards were made in FY 2001, and one award was made in FY 2003. Each of these awards was made for five years. Currently active large-scale collaborative project awards are eligible to compete for one renewal period of up to five additional years of support. Critical elements of these renewal applications will include evidence that a highly integrated and functioning team has been established; that good progress is being made; that the progress makes feasible accomplishment of the final goals in the next time period; that results have been achieved that could not have been accomplished by individual efforts alone; that plans for the next project period are compelling; and that plans have been made to accommodate the termination of NIGMS support at the end of that period. Overall, the applications should describe the proposed and unanticipated challenges that were met, how the project has evolved, where it stands currently, and how the final phase will be achieved.