The National Institutes of Health is seeking Technology Research and Development Center (TRDC) applications for the Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network (POCTRN).
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/07/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,200,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The POCTRN catalyzes innovation in diagnostic technologies through a network model that enhances complementary strengths and builds multidisciplinary partnerships across scientific/technological, clinical, regulatory, and commercialization domains. Each TRDC will accelerate the development, validation, and deployment of point-of-care, home-based and other innovative testing technologies in a specific area of health research. The POCTRN TRDCs will merge scientific and technological capabilities and expertise with clinical need and market demand to address unmet testing, monitoring, and treatment demands. This opportunity is open to all applicants, including the existing POCTRN grantees and new applicants.
Objectives
The overall objective of the Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network (POCTRN) is to support the rapid development, commercialization, and implementation of innovative point-of-care and home-based diagnostic technologies. As a national resource, the Network model creates a multidisciplinary coalition of knowledge and capabilities that can be leveraged to accelerate technology development, with the fundamental goal of broadly enhancing access to diagnostic technologies. The Network will consist of multiple Technology Research and Development Centers (TRDCs), each with expertise in specific technical and/or clinical areas and each covering multiple levels of technology readiness (See individual NIH Institute/Center Statements of Interest below), which will collaborate through a Coordination and Technology Support Center (CTSC). The TRDCs will engage government, industry, or other organizations, including various departments from academic institutions, that can partner to provide synergistic resources to support the development of new technologies and solutions.
The general scope of work covered within each TRDC and across the Network will include, but is not limited to:
- Conducting Needs Assessments to identify unmet clinical needs in point-of-care and home-based testing
- Developing solicitation topics to address the unmet clinical needs in point-of-care and home-based testing
- Awarding and managing sub-project awards to support point-of-care and home-based technology development activities led by investigators outside the TRDCs
- Collaborating with physical scientists, computational scientists, and engineers (as well as researchers from other relevant disciplines, as appropriate) on technology development projects
- Developing external partnerships (e.g., technology, clinical, industry, and regulatory) necessary to move enabling technologies toward clinical applications
- Conducting and/or providing access to validation and clinical testing of prototype point-of-care and home-based devices
- Creating training opportunities for technology developers and other stakeholders related to the development of point-of-care and home-based devices.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $1,200,000
- A project period of up to five years may be requested.
Eligibility Criteria
- Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
- The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
- Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- For-Profit Organizations
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
- Local Governments
- State Governments
- County Governments
- City or Township Governments
- Special District Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
- Federal Governments
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
