NIAMS INITIATIVE TO SUPPORT RESEARCH AT INSTITUTIONS WITH SUBSTANTIAL 
MINORITY ENROLLMENT

Release Date:  June 29, 1999

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
 
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases is
committed to expanding research opportunities for investigators at
institutions with substantial minority enrollments who wish to develop
research programs relating to the many missions of the Institute. 

The Institute announces three programs to aid in this goal (see
http://www.nih.gov/niams/grants/ep11.htm)

1.  The Collaborative Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Sciences
Award (CAMSSA), is a new program (S11) now available for applicants from
institutions with substantial minority enrollment.  The applicant investigator
must be a full-time faculty member of a minority serving institution and must
document the potential for excellence in research.  The applicant submits an
investigator initiated project in which the applicant and a collaborating
scientist will work in a clearly defined area of mutual research interest. 
The collaborating investigator is a senior scientist at a research intensive
institution.  A modest subcontract to the collaborating investigator may be
included to offset costs of the collaboration.

Detailed guidelines for the CAMSSA program may be found at the following web
site:  http://www.nih.gov/niams/grants/camssa.htm

2.  The Minority Research Enhancement Award (MIREA) is an additional program
supported by NIAMS.  The MIREA is an administrative supplement to an NIAMS
R01, R37, P01, P30, P50, or P60 grant for the support of a faculty member of a
minority serving institution to collaborate with the principal investigator of
the active NIAMS grant.  The MIREA may be one mechanism for funding an initial
collaboration to produce preliminary data for the CAMSSA.  However, a MIREA is
not a prerequisite for a CAMSSA.

Detailed guidelines for the MIREA program may be found at the following web
site: http://www.nih.gov/niams/grants/mireagud.htm

3.  The NIAMS Small Grants Program (R03) gives special emphasis to
applications from institutions with substantial minority enrollment.  The
NIAMS Small Grants Program is described at the following web site: 
http://www.nih.gov/niams/grants/pa/par99-099.html

NIAMS contact for the special initiatives for institutions with substantial
minority enrollment:

Dr. Julia B. Freeman
45 Center Drive, Room 5AS 19F
Bethesda, MD  20892-6500
Phone:  301-594-5052
Fax:  301-480-4543
Email:  [email protected]

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