Coordinating Center for Organ Transplant Clinical Trials

The summary for the Coordinating Center for Organ Transplant Clinical Trials 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.

Coordinating Center for Organ Transplant Clinical Trials: This initiative will establish a Statistical and Clinical Coordinating Center (SACCC) to support clinical studies in organ transplantation to be conducted by two NIAID-sponsored clinical consortia, the Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation (CTOT) Consortium and the Cooperative Clinical Trials in Pediatric Transplantation (CCTPT) Consortium. NIAID intends to commit approximately $3 million in FY 2005 to fund one new grant in response to this RFA. This RFA will use the NIH cooperative agreement (U01) funding mechanism. Eligible organizations include for-profit or non-profit organizations; public or private institutions, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, and laboratories; units of State and local governments; and eligible agencies of the Federal government. Foreign institutions are not eligible to apply. The applicant organization must have special expertise in clinical trial design, including approaches to the study of small and/or heterogene! ous patient populations; organ or tissue transplantation; implementation of multi-center clinical trials; clinical research involving vulnerable populations; and established procedures for monitoring of clinical research sites. In addition, it must have the facilities necessary for electronic data submission and data management; tracking and distribution of study medications and samples; and secure storage of regulatory and clinical documents. Eligible principal investigators include any individual with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research. The Principal Investigator must have appropriate expertise and capability in biostatistics, data management, data analysis, and project management, and must possess a doctoral degree in an appropriate field. Submit one application per applicant. Application materials available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/forms.htm