Limited Competition: National Biocontainment Laboratories (NBLs) Operations Support (UC7)

Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-AI-15-009 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.85593.856Eligible Applicants Public and State controlled institutions of higher educationPrivate institutions of higher educationAgency Name: HHS-NIH11Closing Date: May 29, 2015Award Ceiling: $11,500,000Expected Number of Awards: 2Creation Date: Mar 06, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to continue to provide operations support under the UC7 mechanism for Biosafety Level 4 (BSL4) facilities at the National Biocontainment Laboratories at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas and Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts.Operations support is provided in the following areas: facility maintenance and operations; biosecurity; environmental health and safety regulations and requirements; regulatory compliance; and specialized research support services.The NBLs will serve as a national resource for efforts in conducting clinical and laboratory (in vitro and in vivo) research and testing on hazardous biological agents in support of NIAIDs Biodefense Research Agenda (http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/BiodefenseRelated/Biodefense/about/strategicplan.htm) and other infectious diseases.
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding