The Centers for Disease Control is soliciting applications for its Centers of Excellence to Enhance Disease Detection in Newborns.
Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/04/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 4 Years
Details:
This funding opportunity will establish a newborn screening (NBS) Center of Excellence that will work collaboratively with CDC’s Newborn Screening and Molecular Biology Branch (NSMBB), partner jurisdictions, and other relevant partners, to:
- Develop infrastructure to implement advanced technologies to expand NBS system capacity.
- Use advanced technologies as first and/or higher tier testing platforms to optimize screening performance.
- Incorporate bioinformatics to analyze complex biochemical and molecular NBS data.
The focus is on all liveborn newborns in your jurisdiction and will also include newborns in one or more collaborative partner jurisdictions.
As the funded Center, you will be expected to focus on both biochemical and molecular laboratory testing activities and collaborate with other jurisdictional public health laboratories and relevant partners to:
- Perform a landscape and gap analysis.
- Pilot and implement methods to enhance NBS practices.
- Evaluate the impact of advanced laboratory technologies (molecular and biochemical NBS platforms).
- Share findings with the NBS community
- Partner with CDC subject matter experts for the duration of the period of performance on all activities, including method development, data harmonization, and modernization efforts.
Key Activities
- Use innovative technologies.
- Gather and use data (data advancement).
- Translate innovations to public health.
- Demonstrate the impact of advanced technologies on NBS practices.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $4,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
- Award Floor: $750,000
Project Period
4 years
Eligibility Criteria
The following types of entities are eligible to apply:
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations, other than federally recognized tribal governments
- Territorial governments in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education
- State-controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
