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Recovery Act Limited Competition: Supporting New Faculty Recruitment to Enhance Research Resources through Biomedical Research Core Centers (P30) RFA-OD-09-005

Program Summary

This NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement invites applications to support the hiring of newly-recruited faculty to develop research projects within the context of Biomedical Core Centers. For this announcement, a Biomedical Core Center is defined as a community of multidisciplinary researchers focusing on areas of biomedical research relevant to NIH, such as centers, departments, programs, and/or trans-departmental collaborations or consortia. The NIH invites applications that include plans to recruit and hire investigators to conduct biomedical research in all scientific disciplines, including the field of bioethics.

These awards are designed to enhance innovative programs of excellence by providing scientific and programmatic support for promising research faculty and their areas of research. These Core Center Grants are institutional awards that provide funding to hire, provide appropriate start-up packages, and develop pilot research projects for newly-independent investigators, with the goal of augmenting and expanding the institution’s community of multidisciplinary researchers focusing on areas of biomedical research relevant to NIH. Core Center Grants are institutional awards that provide support for shared resources for categorical research by faculty from different disciplines who provide a multidisciplinary approach to a joint research effort, or from the same discipline who focus on a common research problem.

• should be appointed to an independent tenure-track (or equivalent) research position at the Assistant Professor level;
• should be new to the faculty, e.g., a postdoctoral fellow or junior investigator hired from outside
  the institution, or an individual who is transitioning to independent faculty status within the current institution;
• is expected to not have previously had a tenure-track research appointment at a former, or
  current, institution;
• should have a track record of research training and career development in a research area
  relevant to the primary mission of both the proposed Core Center and the awarding NIH IC;
• should be given an appointment within the Core Center which provides at least 75% protected research time. (NIH funds may be used to support salary and fringe benefits only for the
  proportion of the new faculty member’s time that is devoted to research activities; clinical and teaching duties may not be supported by NIH funds);
• should receive joint appointment(s) with other academic unit(s) at the applicant institution,
  allowing new faculty to access University-wide research resources and core facilities, and to
  serve as mentors for graduate programs affiliated with other academic unit(s);
• should receive a start-up package, which can include supplies, equipment and support for technical personnel whose role is critical to the pilot research projects that integrate with the scientific mission of the Core Center; and
• should complement and expand the breadth of existing institutional strengths, and should contribute to building a community of multidisciplinary researchers focusing on areas of
  biomedical research that are relevant to one of the participating NIH ICs.

Newly-recruited research faculty receiving support under this award will be expected to develop and/or participate in research projects within the Core Center. Participation should be appropriate for a newly-independent investigator and should foster the development of preliminary data which can be used to prepare applications for future independent research project grants to further both the investigator’s research career and the scientific mission of the Core Center.

The institution will be expected to work with each newly-recruited research faculty member to develop a faculty career development plan consistent with the Core Center’s emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach to biomedical research.

Each NIH Institute/Center participating in this funding opportunity has different guidelines for funding amount, budget/project period, and number of application per institution:

National Cancer Institute
Budget and Project Period: Direct costs of up to $500,000/year for two years
Number of Application: One application per institution
Principal Investigator Selected:

• William T. Beck, Professor and Head, Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Budget and Project Period: Direct costs of up to $500,000/year for two years
Number of Application: One application per institution
Principal Investigator Selected:

• Asrar Malik, Distinguished Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine

National Institute on Aging
Budget and Project Period: Direct costs of up to $500,000/year for two years
Number of Application: One application per Center or School per institution

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Budget and Project Period: Direct costs of up to $300,000/year for two years
Number of Application: One application per academic department

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Budget and Project Period: Direct costs of up to $500,000/year for two years
Number of Application: Two applications per institution

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Budget and Project Period: $250,000-$500,000/year for two years
Number of Application: One application per institution

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Budget and Project Period: Total costs of $500,000/year for two years
Number of Application: One application from each separate organizational component of a University (e.g. one application each from the medical school, dental school, or school of public health)

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Budget and Project Period: Direct costs of $500,000/year for two years
Number of Application: One application per institution
Principal Investigator Selected:

• Phillip Marucha, Associate Dean for Research, College of Dentistry

National Institute on Drug Abuse
Budget and Project Period: Direct costs of $500,000/year for two years
Number of Application: One application per institution

National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Budget and Project Period: Direct costs of $250,000/year for two years

National Institute of Mental Health
Budget and Project Period: Direct costs of $500,000/year for two years
Number of Application: No more than one application targeted to hiring clinician-scientists (including MD/PhD physician-scientists) as tenure-track (or equivalent) faculty and no more than one application targeted to hiring non-clinical tenure-track (or equivalent) faculty.

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Budget and Project Period: Direct costs of $500,000/year for two years
Number of Application: Two applications per institution

National Institute of Nursing Research
Budget and Project Period: Direct costs of $500,000/year for two years
Number of Application: One application per institution

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Budget and Project Period: Direct costs of $500,000/year for two years
Number of Application: One application per institution

For further details from each Institute/Center, please visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/contacts/RFA-OD-09-005_contacts.htm

Additional Program Announcement Information 
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-005.html

Deadlines

Letter of Intent Instructions

• By submitting this form, applicant attests that s/he has read and meets the sponsor's eligibility criteria for this program. The LOI can be emailed to RDS@uic.edu, Attn: Chang Lee.
• LOI SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Please include which NIH Institute/Center you will be applying to.
• OVCR may reserve submission slots for previously submitted but unfunded proposals that
  received highly competitive ratings from the external sponsor. These will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis by the Vice Chancellor. For consideration, scanned copies of your complete reviews (not just summary) must be included with LOI.

LOI form: http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/funding/forms/0600.doc

Depending upon the number of LOIs submitted, OVCR might be required to facilitate an internal peer review process to select UIC’s submission(s) to this program. White paper instructions will be issued to those submitting LOIs, if necessary.    

Please contact Chang Lee at clee10@uic.edu or 6-1961 with any questions.

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