National Institutes of Health

Description

This Funding Opportunity Announcement solicits Planning Grant applications to convene new transdisciplinary research consortia and formalize the multi-institutional organizational structure necessary to resolve an essential challenge in Parkinson's disease (PD) through a subsequent, transformative Center without Walls (CWOW) approach. The most compelling applications will: (i) identify and justify a fundamental PD research priority; (ii) build an exemplary collaborative team; and (iii) demonstrate exceptional potential to pursue a targeted, thematically integrated strategy to remove a critical impediment blocking advancement of the understanding and treatment of PD. Consortia must include the optimal combination of specialized expertise required to address the stated challenge using a goal-driven approach; teams must be anchored by at least one PD researcher and include at least one investigator with primary expertise in another research area. The Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) must be eminently qualified to provide visionary scientific leadership and effective oversight of consortium administrative activities. The applicant site must demonstrate ability to lead and coordinate administrative activities of the consortium; all participating sites must demonstrate leadership in their area of scientific expertise, as well as propensity to leverage existing resources and technologies to meet stated goals. To foster dynamic collaborations, this FOA will provide support to convene and formalize the organizational structure of novel research consortia; planning activities for continuation of established projects and teams will not be supported. Research activities or the establishment of research resource infrastructure are also out of initiative scope, as are projects proposing questions that represent incremental advances for PD. Applications should highlight expected end products of planning activities as well as significance of a subsequent CWOW effort. Successful planning efforts will lead directly to an application for support of an NINDS Morris K. Udall Center without Walls for Parkinsons Disease Research (Udall PD-CWOW; U54).

Who can 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 / Indian housing authorities
• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized)
• Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
• Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
• Private institutions of higher education
• For-profit organizations other than small businesses
• Small businesses
• Others

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