Limited Competition: National Biocontainment Laboratories (NBLs) Operations Support (UC7)

The summary for the Limited Competition: National Biocontainment Laboratories (NBLs) Operations Support (UC7) 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.

Limited Competition: National Biocontainment Laboratories (NBLs) Operations Support (UC7): The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to continue to provide operations support under the UC7 mechanism for Biosafety Level 4 (BSL4) facilities at the National Biocontainment Laboratories at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas and Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts.Operations support is provided in the following areas: facility maintenance and operations; biosecurity; environmental health and safety regulations and requirements; regulatory compliance; and specialized research support services.The NBLs will serve as a national resource for efforts in conducting clinical and laboratory (in vitro and in vivo) research and testing on hazardous biological agents in support of NIAIDs Biodefense Research Agenda (http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/BiodefenseRelated/Biodefense/about/strategicplan.htm) and other infectious diseases.

Federal Grant Title:	Limited Competition: National Biocontainment Laboratories (NBLs) Operations Support (UC7)
Federal Agency Name:	National Institutes of Health
Grant Categories:	Health
Type of Opportunity:	Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number:	RFA-AI-15-009
Type of Funding:	Cooperative Agreement
CFDA Numbers:	93.855, 93.856
CFDA Descriptions:	Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation Research; Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Research
Current Application Deadline:	May 29, 2015
Original Application Deadline:	May 29, 2015
Posted Date:	Mar 6, 2015
Creation Date:	Mar 6, 2015
Archive Date:	Jun 29, 2015
Total Program Funding:	$23,000,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award:	$11,500,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award:	none
Expected Number of Awards:	2
Cost Sharing or Matching:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Private institutions of higher education
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility: Other Eligible Applicants include the following:
The following organizations/institutions are eligible to apply:

The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX

Boston University, Boston, MA
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are not eligible to apply.
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply.
Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are not allowed.
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