Pilot Centers for Precision Disease Modeling (U54)

The summary for the Pilot Centers for Precision Disease Modeling (U54) 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.

Pilot Centers for Precision Disease Modeling (U54): This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites U54 cooperative agreement applications for Pilot Centers for Precision Disease Modeling. The goal of the Centers is to support collaborative research projects that link current personalized medicine efforts in human subjects with advances in animal genomics and technologies for genetic manipulation and creation of interspecies somatic hybrids. Functionally linking these areas of research will produce programs to enhance the predictive value of pre-clinical studies based on the use of precision animal models. Centers will establish demonstration pipelines for pre-clinical scientific discovery, disease modeling, and development of interventions based on innovative animal models. These preclinical pipelines eventually will be an integral part of diagnostics, care and therapeutic treatment of patients. Each Center should have a set of required components: a Coordination Section to assure effective multidisciplinary leadership; a Pre-clinical/Co-clinical Section to collect and distribute patient information; a Bioinformatics Section to provide diverse computational abilities; and, as a major emphasis, a Disease Modeling Unit for the creation and testing of at least three precision animal projects. Even though the centers will work on a limited number of focused projects, it is expected that the program will maintain multifaceted research activities to build core model systems that can be adjusted as required to accommodate a broad spectrum of diseases.

Federal Grant Title:	Pilot Centers for Precision Disease Modeling (U54)
Federal Agency Name:	National Institutes of Health
Grant Categories:	Health
Type of Opportunity:	Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number:	PAR-14-280
Type of Funding:	Cooperative Agreement
CFDA Numbers:	93.351
CFDA Descriptions:	Research Infrastructure Programs
Current Application Deadline:	Oct 1, 2014
Original Application Deadline:	Oct 1, 2014
Posted Date:	Jul 15, 2014
Creation Date:	Jul 15, 2014
Archive Date:	Nov 1, 2014
Total Program Funding:	$4,000,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award:	$4,000,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award:	none
Expected Number of Awards:
Cost Sharing or Matching:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Independent school districts
Small businesses
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
City or township governments
State governments
Private institutions of higher education
County governments
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
For profit organizations other than small businesses
Special district governments
Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
Additional Information on Eligibility: Other Eligible Applicants include the following:
Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions; Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISISs); Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government; Faith-based or Community-based Organizations; Hispanic-serving Institutions; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized); Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations); Regional Organizations; Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs) ; U.S. Territory or Possession; 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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