Notice Number: NOT-HL-13-185

Key Dates
Release Date: August 9, 2013

Estimated Publication Date of Announcement: November 30, 2013
First Estimated Application Due Date: January 2014
Earliest Estimated Award Date: September 2014
Earliest Estimated Start Date: October 2014

Related Announcements
RFA-HL-10-019
RFA-HL-10-028

Issued by
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Purpose

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) intends to publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit Research Project (R01) grant applications from institutions/organizations to serve as the Coordination Core (CC) for the Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE II). The PRIDE CC FOA will run in parallel with a separate FOA that solicits applications from institutions/organizations with the capacity to conduct summer institute programs to enable faculty and scientists from diverse backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical research to further develop their research skills and knowledge, to enhance their career development as faculty members or scientists.

The forthcoming PRIDE II FOAs will be similar but not identical to two previous FOAs (RFA-HL-10-019 and RFA-HL-10-028) which funded the first PRIDE initiative. Interested applicants are encouraged to review the past FOAs for background information.

This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop meaningful collaborations and responsive projects. The PRIDE II - CC FOA is expected to be published in late fall of 2013 with an expected application due date in the winter of 2014.

Research Initiative Details

The PRIDE initiative consists of a set of summer institutes and a coordination core, working collaboratively with the NHLBI project office to coordinate research education activities to enable faculty and scientists from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical research to gain enhanced research skills, knowledge, and experience in advanced methods and experimental approaches in basic and applied sciences relevant to heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders. The ultimate goal of the initiative is that the enhanced research and grantsmanship skills attained by the program participants will lead to their successful attainment of external biomedical and behavioral science scientific research funding from NIH and other entities.

The coordination core to be solicited by the PRIDE II-CC FOA will serve to support candidate scholars selection, program-wide organization including the planning, arranging, and support of annual meetings and PD/PI meetings for the program, facilitation of the identification and training of mentors, coordination of educational activities for the scholars, coordination of activities between the summer institute awardees and the NHLBI, and facilitating the engagement of an external evaluation unit to assess the effectiveness of the program inputs and the participant outcomes.

This Notice encourages investigators with expertise and insights into the coordination of innovative and effective summer institute programs for individuals from backgrounds underrepresented in the biomedical sciences to consider applying.

APPLICATIONS ARE NOT BEING SOLICITED AT THIS TIME.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

NHLBI_PRIDE_RFA
National Heart Lung Blood Institute
Email: [email protected]