NINDS Institutional Center Core Grants to Support Neuroscience Research
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 National Institutes of Health
(NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
(NINDS) Institutional Center Core Grants to Support Neuroscience
Research
WHO: Texas A&M University faculty. Agriculture, Engineering and TTI
personnel may wish to submit internal proposals through their own agency. PIs must have existing NINDS-funded research projects.
WHY: The Institutional Center Core Grants to Support Neuroscience
Research Program has $500,000 in direct costs as the upper
amount of an award, with a maximum duration of five years.
WHEN: Internal proposal deadline of October 26, 2009.
HOW: TAMU faculty should submit an internal proposal to osppc@tamu.edu for review by the internal selection committee.
THE FINE PRINT:
Details available below and online at: http://researchpolicy.tamu.edu/limited-submission-proposals
The funding agency below has limited the number of solicitations to one per institution. If the number of faculty wishing to submit a proposal exceeds the number allowed by the agency, we will conduct an internal selection process. Below are due dates for the program, including the due date for the internal proposal for review by the internal selection committee, the date for the optional, but recommended, letter of intent, the date for announcement of the internal selection and the due date for submission to the agency.
AGENCY: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
AGENCY PROGRAM TITLE: Institutional Center Core Grants to Support Neuroscience Research
BRIEF PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The main purpose of the Institutional Center Core Grants to Support Neuroscience Research Program is to advance the NINDS mission to promote understanding and treatment of neurological disorders by providing core research facilities that are not otherwise available.
NINDS Center Core Grants will 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. Further, 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.
A steering committee composed of the PI of the Center Core Grant and the PIs of the qualifying projects will establish guidelines to determine the most appropriate methods for providing access to the core facilities and services, and for prioritizing work within the cores.
The NINDS Center Core Grants program is intended to support research infrastructure cores. The program will not provide support for cores that support clinical trials, provide patient services or conduct pilot projects. The applicant organization is encouraged to consider a plan to co-fund the Center, in order to maximize its utility and effectiveness.
Eligible institutions must have, on the date of the application submission, at least five qualifying research projects all of which will use the center. All applicants must include a plan for sharing research data in their application. All investigators responding to this funding opportunity should include a description of how final research data will be shared, or explain why data sharing is not possible.
Examples of appropriate individual research cores within a NINDS center include: animal models (general, phenotyping, transgenic), animal surgery, assay development, cell culture, cell repository, computer/IT, DNA sequencing, 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.
The full announcement can be found at the web page of the sponsor at:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-116.html
AGENCIES ELIGIBLE TO SUBMIT: The Institutional Center Core Grants to Support Neuroscience Research Program is open to for-profit and non-profit organizations, public or private institutions, such as universities, colleges, hospitals and laboratories, units of state and local governments, eligible agencies of the federal government, domestic institutions and faith-based or community-based organizations. Principal investigators must have existing NINDS-funded research projects.
AWARD INFORMATION: Each Institutional Center Core Grant to Support Neuroscience Research has an upper amount of $500,000 in direct costs for a maximum duration of five years.
ELIGIBLE PROJECTS COSTS: Indirect Costs (F&A): Up to 5% of the PI and co-PI’s salaries may be requested. Also, costs for PI salary and support for secretarial and administrative staff may not exceed 15% of the total direct costs for a Center in any year.
COST SHARING: None required. However, it is strongly recommended that applicant organizations make appropriate and needed commitments to the Center in order to maximize the effectiveness and utility of the shared resources.
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCEDURES AND DEADLINES
October 23, 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 to osppc@tamu.edu
October 26, 2009: Deadline to obtain approval from your department head and college dean and to submit an internal proposal to the Research Policy and Development Support Office. The internal proposal should include:
(1) An executive summary, up to three pages, based on the proposal description as outlined in the NIH Program Announcement;
(2) Project and Management Plans (including team members);
(3) Summary budget.
The form for completing the internal proposal is at: http://researchpolicy.tamu.edu/limited-submission-proposals/internalselectionlspform.pdf
This completed form should be submitted electronically to osppc@tamu.edu for review by the internal selection committee.
Please read the PAR carefully for specific requirements of the program at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-116.html. Selection of internal proposals will be based on National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines. Meeting 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 PI’s.
November 6, 2009: The Internal Selection Committee will notify PIs of the
result of the internal competition.
December 25, 2009: NIH Deadline for optional, but recommended, letter of
intent.
January 25, 2010: NIH Deadline: (required) Full Proposal Deadline.
