Nonhuman Primate Transplantation Tolerance (U19)
Funding Opportunity RFA-AI-16-008 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) solicits applications from single institutions and consortia of institutions to participate in the Nonhuman Primate Transplantation Tolerance Cooperative Study Group (NHPCSG) program. The NHPCSG is a multi-center, cooperative program for research on nonhuman primate (NHP) models of kidney, pancreatic islet, heart, and lung transplantation. The goals of the NHPCSG are to evaluate the preclinical safety and efficacy of existing and newly developed immune tolerance induction re...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 19, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Request for Proposals (RFP): Nonhuman Primate Core Cellular Immunology Laboratory for Aids Vaccine Research And Development, NIAID-DAIDS-NIHAI2016060
Notice NOT-AI-16-049 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 5, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Indo-U.S. Vaccine Action Program (VAP) Small Research Grant Program (R03)
Funding Opportunity Number: PA-16-163 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.85593.856Eligible Applicants State governmentsCounty governmentsCity or township governmentsSpecial district governmentsIndependent school districtsPublic and State controlled institutions of higher educationNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Public housing authorities/Indian housing authoritiesNative American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the...
Source: Grants.gov - April 5, 2016 Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding

Indo-U.S. Vaccine Action Program (VAP) Small Research Grant Program (R03)
Funding Opportunity PA-16-163 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The goal of the Vaccine Action Program (VAP) is to support collaborative vaccine-related research projects that ultimately reduce the burden of infectious diseases of importance in India, the U.S., the South Asian region and globally. Applications are encouraged from organizations/institutions that propose to conduct vaccine-related research through U.S.-Indo collaborations on a variety of infectious diseases, including immunologic characterization. (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 4, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Notice of a Change in the Eligibility Information in RFA-AI-15-051 "Consortium for Food Allergy Research: Clinical Research Units (UM1)"
Notice NOT-AI-16-035 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 18, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Publication Impact of NIH-funded Research – A First Look
In a recent PNAS commentary, Daniel Shapiro and Kent Vrana of Pennsylvania State University, argue that “Celebrating R and D expenditures badly misses the point.” Instead of focusing on how much money is spent, the research enterprise should instead focus on its outcomes – its discoveries that advance knowledge and lead to improvements in health. Of course, as we’ve noted before, measuring research impact is hard, and there is no gold standard. But for now, let’s take a look at one measure of productivity, namely the publication of highly-cited papers. Some in the research community suggest that a research paper ...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 2, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike bibliometrics citations Funding data impact publications Source Type: funding

Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria (CARB) Biopharmaceutical Accelerator
Funding Opportunity Number: EP-PMC-16-001 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Science and Technology and other Research and DevelopmentCFDA Number: 93.360Eligible Applicants Public and State controlled institutions of higher educationNonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher educationPrivate institutions of higher educationFor profit organizations other than small businessesSmall businessesOthers (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarificat...
Source: Grants.gov - February 18, 2016 Category: Research Tags: Science and Technology and other Research and Development Source Type: funding

Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria (CARB) Biopharmaceutical Accelerator
Funding Opportunity Number: EP-IDS-16-001 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Science and Technology and other Research and DevelopmentCFDA Number: 93.360Eligible Applicants Public and State controlled institutions of higher educationNonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher educationPrivate institutions of higher educationFor profit organizations other than small businessesSmall businessesOthers (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarificat...
Source: Grants.gov - February 18, 2016 Category: Research Tags: Science and Technology and other Research and Development Source Type: funding

Consortium for Food Allergy Research: Leadership Center (UM2)
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-AI-15-050 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.85593.856Eligible Applicants State governmentsCounty governmentsCity or township governmentsSpecial district governmentsIndependent school districtsPublic and State controlled institutions of higher educationNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Public housing authorities/Indian housing authoritiesNative American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)Nonprofits having a 501(c...
Source: Grants.gov - February 5, 2016 Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding

Consortium for Food Allergy Research: Clinical Research Units (UM1)
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-AI-15-051 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.85593.856Eligible Applicants State governmentsCounty governmentsCity or township governmentsSpecial district governmentsIndependent school districtsPublic and State controlled institutions of higher educationNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Public housing authorities/Indian housing authoritiesNative American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)Nonprofits having a 501(c...
Source: Grants.gov - February 5, 2016 Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding

Consortium for Food Allergy Research: Clinical Research Units (UM1)
Funding Opportunity RFA-AI-15-051 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications for the Clinical Research Units (CRUs) for the NIAID Consortium for Food Allergy Research (CoFAR). The CoFAR CRUs are responsible for implementation of clinical trials and studies for the Consortium. In addition the CoFAR CRUs will propose multi-center cutting edge clinical trials in the areas of prevention and treatment of food allergy. To achieve Consortium objectives, the CoFAR CRUs will work closely and in collaboration with the CoFAR Leadership Cente...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - February 3, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Consortium for Food Allergy Research: Leadership Center (UM2)
Funding Opportunity RFA-AI-15-050 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications for the Leadership Center for the NIAID Consortium for Food Allergy Research (CoFAR). The CoFAR Leadership Center (LC) will define the initial overall research strategy of the CoFAR including design and oversight of cutting-edge clinical trials and clinical studies to advance prevention and management strategies and to improve knowledge on the origins and the pathophysiology of IgE-mediated food allergy. To achieve its objectives, the CoFAR LC will work c...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - February 3, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: funding

NIAID Clinical Trial Planning Grant (R34)
Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-13-150 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.85593.856Eligible Applicants State governmentsCounty governmentsCity or township governmentsSpecial district governmentsIndependent school districtsPublic and State controlled institutions of higher educationNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Public housing authorities/Indian housing authoritiesNative American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with th...
Source: Grants.gov - December 11, 2015 Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding

NIAID Clinical Trial Implementation Grant (R01)
Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-13-149 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.85593.856Eligible Applicants State governmentsCounty governmentsCity or township governmentsSpecial district governmentsIndependent school districtsPublic and State controlled institutions of higher educationNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Public housing authorities/Indian housing authoritiesNative American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with th...
Source: Grants.gov - December 11, 2015 Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding

NIAID Clinical Trial Implementation Cooperative Agreement (U01)
Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-13-151 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.85593.856Eligible Applicants State governmentsCounty governmentsCity or township governmentsSpecial district governmentsIndependent school districtsPublic and State controlled institutions of higher educationNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Public housing authorities/Indian housing authoritiesNative American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3...
Source: Grants.gov - December 11, 2015 Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding