International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (Icbg)

The summary for the International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (Icbg) 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.

International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (Icbg): The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) (hereafter "the Government" or "the Participating Agencies") invite applications for the establishment of "International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups" (ICBG) to address the interdependent issues of biodiversity conservation, economic capacity, and human health through discovery and development of therapeutic agents for diseases of importance in developing countries, as well as those important to developed countries. Eligibility for this competition is limited to groups that are currently funded by ICBG R21 planning grant awards issued in 2003. Innovative and integrated approaches to access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing with host country stakeholders and participants is an important component of the overall program. Particularly relevant disease areas and health needs include HIV-AIDS and its opportunistic infections and associated malignancies, tuberculosis, malaria, other emerging diseases, mental disorders of adults and children, cancer, drug abuse and cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. Applicants are encouraged to consider marine coral reef organisms as well as new sources of previously unexplored or under explored microorganisms, including but not limited to those arising from symbiosis, extreme environments such as thermovents, and deep sea microbes. Applications that propose to work primarily with plants for pharmaceutical drug discovery are encouraged to propose research and training related to phytomedicine analysis. Research and capacity building toward the development of agricultural agents is permissible as a secondary activity where it complements work on human health agents.