The NIDDK Hematology Centers Program is providing a novel support mechanism for trainees, postdocs, and junior faculty who want to pursue new directions in non-malignant hematology. Center Directors welcome applicants from across the U.S. and will strive to provide equal access to the cutting-edge resources and expertise available in their center cores.

Type A Support:  $5,000 - $12,000 worth of core credits to be used to access services and expertise offered by all CCEH cores. Rolling deadlines, abbreviated application forms, and streamlined review all contribute to a rapid and equitable distribution of core credits. Type A is ideally suited for trainees who want to master a new expertise or acquire a new skill to enhance their competitiveness. Applicants must obtain signed approval from the directors of the cores they wish to access.

Type B Support: $75,000 total award including F&A. Applicants should negotiate with their home institution for as low an F&A rate as possible. Proposed use of Core resources is not required but encouraged. Applications are due Friday February 19, 2021.Type B grants will undergo a peer review coordinated by the NIDDK Hematology Central Coordinating Center (HCCC).  Rankings will be based on significance, innovation, approach and feasibility. Applications proposing the use of new technology to address a question in nonmalignant hematology, the facilitation of new inter-disciplinary collaboration, or generating key preliminary data for subsequent extramural funding will be prioritized. Applicants should specifically describe how this study will support a subsequent grant application.

For the February 19, 2021 submission date (CLOSED), Type B applications MUST also include a principal investigator from an institution not associated with any of the CCEH centers.

Please note: Proposed research that falls outside the NIDDK/Hematology mission will be considered nonresponsive and will not be reviewed. The following link describes the NIDDK mission, and NIDDK Hematology Program Directors are available to discuss the mission as well as relevant funding opportunities: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/research-funding/research-programs#hematologic-disease

Application Instructions

• For any application proposing to use CCEH Cores, applicants must contact specific Core Directors to discuss research needs and estimated costs (resources available through the CCEH Cores can be found here.
• Project periods are limited to 12 months, and a progress report must be submitted within 120 days of the budget end date.
• Applicants may be from any registered, domestic (U.S.), eligible organization.
• Applications for Type A projects do not require Institutional sign off by the applicant’s grant and contract office, unless required by the applicant institution’s policies.

Applications for Type A projects will be accepted on a rolling basis but will be collected and reviewed as a group three times a year, starting in February 2021.

Type A:

New applications, only, should be uploaded as a single PDF file (11-point Arial font size and 0.5” margins) that must include:

• Title, PI and any Key Personnel or Sponsor, Abstract (to be made public upon award), 1 page
• Project Description, Significance, Figures and Literature Cited, 1 page
• Core use, Budget, and Justification, (for trainees, signed by lab PI), 1 page
• NIH-style Biosketch (only one biosketch).

Type B:

New applications should be uploaded as a single PDF file (11-point Arial font size and 0.5” margins). Resubmissions are not permitted. Only complete applications received by the due date will be reviewed.

Use the PHS 398 form including face, abstract (to be made public upon award), detailed budget, biographical and other support pages, and research plan.

Research plan is limited to 3 pages and should include:

• Specific Aims & Background and Significance (address all review criteria detailed above, 1 page)
• Research Design and Methods (2 pages)

Pages not counted, but to be included are:

• Literature Cited
• Vertebrate Animals and/or Protection of Human Subjects (if applicable)
• Sharing Pla
• Budget (costs, 8% F&A, PHS 398 fp4 and fp5), justification to ensure direct dollars to the awardee are sufficient to achieve the proposed goals. Note: Budgets are limited to $75,000 total costs (inclusive of all F&A costs) and will be administered as a subaward to an active NIDDK Hematology Centers grant. If in-kind services from a CCEH are proposed, the total costs for the award should be reduced by the negotiated costs of the in-kind services.

Please upload a single PDF of your application using the “<strong>Submit Application Here</strong>”, at the end of the <strong>Funding Opportunities section (below).

For questions about application submission and receipt, please contact John Phillips: john.phillips@hsc.utah.edu.

For scientific questions, please contact Shilpa Hattangadi: shilpam.hattangadi@nih.gov​​​​​.​

No applications will be accepted after 5pm MST on the due date.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

If an award is made, the submitted Abstract will be made public on the cceh.io website, along with the Project Title, PI Name(s), Institution, and award type

Each publication, press release, or other document about research supported by an NIH award must include an acknowledgment of NIH award support and a disclaimer such as “Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number U24DK126127. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.” Awardees are also encouraged to refer to the “NIDDK Cooperative Centers of Excellence in Hematology Pilot &amp; Feasibility Award” on their Biosketch and Other Support documents.

Awardees are expected to submit a final progress report within 120 days of the budget end date. The U24-funded HCCC may include this report, in part or in full, with its Annual Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) to the NIH.

The HCCC may contact the PI of awards to review long-term outcomes.

Awardees will be invited to present results at the annual NIDDK Hematology Centers Program Steering Committee meeting.

If not used in publications or grant submissions, data should be represented in Synapse or another relevant data repository as negative results.
 

DIRECTIONS TO START THE APPLICATION PROCESS for Type A or Type B  P&F  Proposals

1.  Check guidelines for eligibility
                a. Priority will be given to Junior Investigators and Postdocs.
                b. Established Investigators starting a new line of Research in nonmalignant hematology - cannot be focused on currently funded project</p>

2.  Determine the type of grant you wish to apply for.
                a. Type A  - Core Usage Funds Only (C-UFO) up to $12,000 (no F&amp;A, funds made available only at Core proposed).
                Due on rolling basis until June 2021.
                b. Type B - New Pilot Proposal (HCCC-P&F) up to $75,000 including recommended F&A (Use PHS 398 forms as detailed).
                Due Feb 19, 2021 - CLOSED

3.  Contact core director(s) of the core you will be using to initiate guidance on feasibility and costs associated with core use.

4.  Write and submit proposals as a single PDF using the detailed guidelines on length and inclusions on the FUNDING link cceh.io/funding ("red" Submit box) prior to final due date and time.
                No applications will be accepted after 5pm MST on the due date.

To read the abstracts for these projects, please click here.

To review projects funded during 2017-2020, please click here.
 

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