NICHD Call for Administrative Supplements to PA-16-287 in High Priority MPID and HIV/AIDS OAR Areas

Notice Number: NOT-HD-17-002

Key Dates
Release Date: February 14, 2017

Related Announcements
PA-16-287

Issued by
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Purpose

This Notice is to announce the opportunity to request administrative supplements to existing NIH research grants, to support the high priority areas of the Maternal and Pediatric Infectious Disease Branch.

Eligible investigators with existing NICHD grants addressing key areas of interest and ones that focus on topics such as, but not limited to:

  • Mechanisms of adverse pregnancy and infant outcomes after antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy and postpartum, and methods to prevent them.
  • Increased uptake of and adherence to HIV prevention modalities in adolescents and young adults
  • Characterization of HIV reservoirs and persistence and potential biomedical strategies for HIV cure/remission in infants and children
  • Immune connection/communication between pregnant woman, placenta and fetus and the effects on infant immunity
  • Impact of infections affecting the pediatric central nervous system, and the development of tools for the neurodevelopmental assessment of infants and children living with HIV in resource-limited settings

The supplement request must stay within the original Council-approved scope of the parent award and must be completed within a year award period.

All applicants are strongly encouraged to discuss potential requests with one of the NIH contacts listed below, as well as their NICHD program officer.

Administrative supplement requests must conform to the requirements of, and be submitted under, PA-16-287.  Administrative supplement applications will be evaluated by NIH program staff, who will consider parent IC interest, the ability of the proposed supplement activities to increase the parent award’s overall impact within the original scope of award.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Nahida Chakhtoura, MD, MsGH
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Telephone: 301-435-6872
Email: nahida.chakhtoura@nih.gov

Rohan Hazra, MD
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Telephone: 301-435-6868
Email: hazrar@mail.nih.gov

Bill Kapogiannis, MD
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Telephone: 301-402-0698
Email: Kapogiannisb@mail.nih.gov

Sonia Lee, PhD
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Telephone: 301-594-4783
Email: sonia.Lee@nih.gov

Eric Lorenzo, PhD
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Telephone: 301-443-4993
Email: eric.lorenzo@nih.gov

Denise Russo, PhD
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Telephone: 301-435-6871
Email: drusso1@mail.nih.gov