NINDS Institutional Center Core Grants to Support Neuroscience Research (P30)
Please distribute this information to your faculty to determine if they have an interest in submitting a proposal to this program.
WHAT: Limited Submission Proposal for the NINDS Institutional Center Core Grants to Support Neuroscience Research (P30)
WHO: Texas A&M University faculty. Agriculture, Engineering and TTI personnel may wish to submit internal proposals through their own agency.
WHY: Applicants may request up to $500,000 per year in direct costs for a maximum of five years.
WHEN: Internal proposal deadline of March 2, 2009.
HOW: TAMU faculty should submit internal proposal via email for review by the internal selection committee.
THE FINE PRINT:
The funding agency, NIH, has limited the number of proposals to one per institution.
BRIEF PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The NINDS Institutional Center Core Grants to Support Neuroscience Research Program is designed to support centralized resources and facilities shared by investigators with existing NINDS-funded research projects. Each center will be composed of one or more research cores, each of which will enrich the effectiveness of ongoing research and promote new research directions. There should be no overlap between the requested core facilities and other pre-existing core facilities.
A center core grant will support individual neuroscience research projects by providing necessary resources and performing required services that would be difficult or impractical to provide in individual labs. The program is intended to support infrastructure cores. Center Core Grants will foster a cooperative and interactive research environment through which multidisciplinary approaches to neuroscience problems and joint research efforts will be stimulated. Further, the program will not provide support for cores that support clinical trials, provide patient services or conduct pilot projects.
To receive a Center Core Grant award, an institution must have at least five qualifying NINDS-funded research projects at the time of application submission. All of the qualifying projects must be significant users of the Center, and no more than 50% of total Center usage should be proposed for any single qualifying project. The qualifying projects are necessary, but must not be the only users of the Center. Any NINDS-funded research project at the institution, or at other institutions associated with the Center through consortium agreements, will be eligible to use the Center.
In addition, the applicant organization should propose a plan that explains how Center capacity will be allocated to PIs of qualifying grants and to PIs with other NINDS funding. The plan should permit some level of access to NINDS PIs who do not hold qualifying grants, even during busy periods of usage, so that the Center will serve as an institutional resource to further neuroscience research.
Examples of research cores may include: animal models (general, phenotyping, transgenic), animal surgery, assay development, cell culture, cell repository, computer/IT, DNA sequencing, drug screening, electrophysiology, flow cytommetry, gene vector development and production, histochemistry (immunocytochemistry, autoradiography, in situ hybridization), imaging (MRI, PET, MEG, NIRS), informatics, machine shop, mass spectrometry, microarrays, microscopy (light, electron, confocal, laser capture), molecular biology, monoclonal antibody production, neuropathology (animal and human), neurotoxicology, NMR, protein analysis (proteomics), protein crystallography/X-ray structure determination, radiochemistry (PET, tracers), and statistics/data analysis.
Applicants may request up to $500,000 per year in direct costs for a maximum of five years. Salary support for the PI may not exceed 5% effort. A maximum of 15% of the total direct costs in any year is allowed for PI salary and support for secretarial and administrative staff. In addition, requests for the following are not allowed: animal purchase and care (except in animal models core), travel, patient care and recruitment, seminars and workshops, as well as alteration and renovation costs.
More information can be found at here.
Internal Selection Procedures and Deadlines
February 27, 2009: Deadline for an email of intent, including the names of the PI and co-PIs, title of internal proposal and a 1-3 sentence description of the project. Send email of intent.
March 2, 2009: Deadline to obtain signatures of approval from your department head and college dean to submit an internal proposal to the Research Policy and Development Support Office for review by the internal selection committee. The internal proposal should include:
(1) An executive summary, up to three pages, based on the proposal description as outlined in the NINDS program announcement;
(2) Summary budget;
(3) Project and Management Plans (including team members);
The form for completing the internal proposal is here.
This completed form should be submitted electronically for review by the internal selection committee.
*Once your internal proposal has been received with all of the necessary signatures, you will receive an email indicating it will be reviewed by the internal selection committee. If you do not receive the confirmation email, please call 5-1812.*
Please read the RFP carefully for specific requirements of the program here.
Selection of a proposal will be based on NINDS guidelines. The needs of the university’s reinvestment plan will also be taken into account.
During the selection process, the internal selection committee may contact departments and colleges for their opinions and commitments. They may also request additional information from PIs.
March 13, 2009: The Internal Selection Committee will notify PIs of the result of the internal competition.
April 25, 2009: Deadline for optional, but recommended, letter of intent to NINDS.
May 25, 2009: Deadline for full proposal.
