OpportunityTitle: Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition: Enabling National Networking of Scientists and Resource Discovery (U24)
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Other Eligible Applicants include the following: Eligible institutions are limited to those who hold current NCRR Center and Center-like Programs, including:  Animal and Biologic Material Resources (ABMR) Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)  NCRR Biomedical Technology Research Centers (BTRC) Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) National Primate Research Centers (NPRC) Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) RCMI Translational Research Network (RTRN)  Foreign organizations/institutions are not permitted as the applicant organization.
Description: Purpose. This NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), supported by funds provided to the NIH under the American Recovery &amp; Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act or ARRA), Public Law 111-5, invites applications designed to develop, enhance, or extend infrastructure for connecting people and resources to facilitate national discovery of individuals and of scientific resources by scientists and students to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and scientific exchange. Implementation and evaluation at all participating institutions of a national prototype in research networking and implementation and evaluation at all participating institutions of a national prototype for resource discovery are the key deliverables at the end of the two-year project period. A diversity of institutions must be included to ensure broad applicability and national impact. These could include institutions of varying sizes and levels of existing infrastructure; urban, suburban, and rural settings; and racial, ethnic, and geographic diversity. Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the NIH Resource-Related Research Projects Cooperative Agreement (U24) grant mechanism.
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