Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers (U54)

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	Federal Grant Title:	Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers (U54)
	CFDA Number:	93.837
	CFDA Description:	Heart and Vascular Diseases Research
	Federal Agency Name:	National Institutes of Health
	Category of Funding Activity:	Health Income Security and Social Services
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	RFA-HD-09-027
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	May 13, 2009
	Creation Date:	May 13, 2009
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Nov 10, 2009
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Nov 10, 2009
	Archive Date:	Dec 11, 2009
	Expected Number of Awards:	3
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$3,000,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$1,000,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education - Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education - Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education - Private institutions of higher education - For profit organizations other than small businesses - Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Other Eligible Applicants include the following: Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions; Hispanic-serving Institutions; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Grant Description: Purpose. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits new (type 1) and competitive renewal (type 2) applications for the support of Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers (MDCRCs). Successful applicants will join a network of existing Centers to foster the translation of new scientific findings and technological developments into novel treatments for the muscular dystrophies. Each Center may contain a mixture of basic, translational, or clinical research, as long as efforts are directed toward the steps required for therapeutic development, including therapeutic target identification, characterization, and validation, development of diagnostics and biomarkers to characterize or stratify patient populations, in vitro assay development, animal model development and characterization, candidate therapeutic efficacy screening, preclinical therapeutic optimization and FDA-required activities leading to an investigational new drug (IND) application, clinical infrastructure and studies in support of a clinical trial, patient-oriented natural history studies, and early stage clinical trials for one or more types of muscular dystrophy. Applicants should propose multi-disciplinary and collaborative studies that address one or more gaps in the therapeutic development pipeline for muscular dystrophy. Research problems should require substantial collaborative efforts to solve, and thus are best carried out in a center setting. Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the U54 Specialized Centers Cooperative Agreement grant mechanism.
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