The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is pleased to announce the availability of funds for projects that involve collaboration with multiple CF Data Coordinating Centers (DCCs) to combine discovery and/or translational approaches with work that will enhance reusability of Common Fund data and contribute knowledge to the Common Fund Data Ecosystem.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territory: American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/04/2023
Size of the Grant: $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The NIH Office of Strategic Coordination has generated many valuable and widely available datasets. The Common Fund Data Ecosystem is helping to ensure that all Common Fund (CF) data are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). Clinical trials will not be accepted through this NOFO. A clinical trial planning component is allowable, provided it is appropriate and rigorously developed.
The NIH Common Fund (CF) supports bold scientific programs that catalyze discovery across all biomedical and behavioral research. CF programs create a space where investigators and multiple NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) collaborate on innovative research addressing high-priority challenges for the NIH as a whole and make a broader impact in the scientific community.
CFDE’s driving focus is to foster scientific discovery through the (re)use of data generated by CF programs. This will be achieved through three aims:
- Enable users to query across and use multiple CF data sets;
- Provide training and outreach to bring people to CF data and train them to work in the cloud; and
- Coordinate and integrate infrastructure and activities into a cohesive ecosystem. Unlocking the full potential of CF resources through reuse will require expertise from multiple scientific domains, including biomedicine, data science, data management, and cloud workspace training.
The scientific use case should include the following:
- A detailed description of the motivating scientific/clinical questions and their significance/impact.
- The datasets involved, including systems in which they reside and dataset level identifiers (if feasible).
- The interoperability/integration activities required to enable the proposed analysis, and how the CFDE datasets will be substantially leveraged. “Substantial leverage” is defined as the use and citation of the relevant datasets in the envisioned research products of the proposed work (e.g., manuscripts, presentations, book chapters, portals, etc.).
- A detailed experimental plan that allows for adequate assessment of feasibility and interpretability of the proposed work. Preliminary data are not required but may be included.
The CFDE demonstration project should include the following:
- A detailed description of the new capabilities (e.g., tools, workflows, APIs, harmonized datasets, etc.) that will be developed to support the scientific use case.
- Plans for adoption of the new capabilities by the systems involved, including the CFDE DRC/KC and other centers (if relevant).
- Plans for soliciting and incorporating feedback from the end user community throughout the product development lifecycle, from conception through to deployment and maintenance
- A detailed implementation plan, including a proposed timeline of agile development milestones, plans for product documentation and recruitment of beta-testers, and parameters for a minimum viable product (MVP).
- A sustainability/community engagement plan, which describes and quantifies the user community that will benefit from the successful implementation of the demonstration project, how these users will be engaged, how their feedback will be used to improve the MVP (if relevant), and how usage metrics will be tracked.
Funding Information
- The NIH Common Fund intends to commit approximately $4,000,000.
- Applicants planning to submit a proposal requesting $500,000 or more in direct costs in any one budget year (excluding consortium F&A costs) are required.
Project Period
The maximum project period is three years.
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:
- Hispanic-serving Institutions
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
- Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
- Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
- Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs)
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 Government
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession
Other
- Independent School Districts
- Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities
- Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
- Regional Organizations
Foreign Institutions
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are not eligible to apply.
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply.
- Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are allowed.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
