and Human Services (HHS)
EXPIRED
Participating Organization(s) |
National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) |
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Funding Opportunity Title |
Stem Cells and Alcohol-induced Tissue Injuries (R21) |
Activity Code |
R21 Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award |
Announcement Type |
New |
Related Notices
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Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number |
PA-12-232 |
Companion Funding Opportunity |
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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s) |
93.273 |
Funding Opportunity Purpose |
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications to study human and non-human stem cells involved in alcohol-induced tissue injuries. Alcohol abuse is known to cause pathology in a number of organ systems. Disorders most commonly associated with chronic alcohol consumption include alcoholic liver disease (ALD), pancreatitis, cardiovascular disease, neural damage, endocrine dysfunction, osteoporosis, cancer, and immune dysfunction. The objective of this FOA is to understand the role of stem cells in alcohol-induced tissue damage and recovery, particularly how they are influenced by alcohol metabolism and their role in alcohol-related cancers. |
Posted Date |
July 10, 2012 |
Open Date (Earliest Submission Date) |
September 16, 2012 |
Letter of Intent Due Date |
Not Applicable. |
Application Due Date(s) |
Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. |
AIDS Application Due Date(s) |
Not Applicable. |
Scientific Merit Review |
Standard dates apply. |
Advisory Council Review |
Standard dates apply. |
Earliest Start Date(s) |
Standard dates apply. |
Expiration Date |
September 8, 2015 |
Due Dates for E.O. 12372 |
Not Applicable. |
Required Application Instructions
It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide, except where instructed to do otherwise (in this FOA or in a Notice from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts). Conformance to all requirements (both in the Application Guide and the FOA) is required and strictly enforced. Applicants must read and follow all application instructions in the Application Guide as well as any program-specific instructions noted in Section IV. When the program-specific instructions deviate from those in the Application Guide, follow the program-specific instructions. Applications that do not comply with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
Part 1. Overview Information
Part 2. Full Text of the Announcement
Section I. Funding Opportunity Description
Section II. Award Information
Section III. Eligibility Information
Section IV. Application and Submission
Information
Section V. Application Review Information
Section VI. Award Administration Information
Section VII. Agency Contacts
Section VIII. Other Information
Stem cells have the potential to develop into many different types of cells, tissues, and organs. Stem cells are characterized by their capacity of multi-potency of differentiation and self-renewal. They play a crucial role in many aspects of biology, from embryonic development to tissue repair and maintenance. While stem cells were first described more than a century ago, only in the 1970s were hematopoietic stem cells successfully used in clinic for bone marrow transplantation to treat leukemia. The development of a method to culture human embryonic stem (ES) cells by Thomson and colleagues in 1998 overcame a critical technical barrier. Since that time, many research interests have been focused on ES cells and adult stem cells from several tissues. Another breakthrough occurred in 2006 when Yamanaka’s laboratory reprogrammed mouse adult cells into pluripotent stem cells by introducing four key transcription factors (Oct3/4, Sox2, c-Myc, and Klf4), which had been known to play an important role in stem cell maintenance. A year later, the work was reproduced in human skin fibroblasts by Yamanaka’s laboratory using the same combination of genes, and also independently by Thomson’s laboratory by overexpressing OCT3/4, SOX2, NANOG, and LIN28. This new category of stem cells is called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. The success of reprogramming terminally differentiated human adult cells into iPS cells has offered great opportunities for stem cell research and personalized regenerative medicine.
Alcohol abuse can cause severe damage to the liver, pancreas and other tissues, and can even lead to cancer. Stem/progenitor cells in liver, central nervous system, cardiovascular system, gut, pancreas and maybe in oral/pharyngeal tissues actively participate in the repair and functional recovery process from damage caused by alcohol and its metabolites. Recent advances in stem cell studies provide new tools to further elucidate mechanisms of alcohol-related pathological conditions, such as alcoholic liver disease, brain degeneration, pancreatitis, and fetal alcohol syndrome. They may also provide us with new therapeutic strategies to treat these disorders.
Liver Injury
The liver is a central organ for homeostasis. Its numerous functions include metabolism, storage, biosynthesis of various biochemical components, and drug detoxification. Liver injury can be caused by viral infection, drugs, excessive alcohol consumption, in addition to many genetic, metabolic and immune disorders. Alcohol toxicity to liver is a function of the duration of alcohol usage, the amount and frequency of intake of alcohol. Other factors may also play a significant role in mitigating the response, such as a patient's nutrition and/or concomitant viral infection. For instance, drinking too much (more than 5 drinks for men and 4 drinks for women/day) and too often over a long period of time results in alcoholic liver disease (ALD), characterized by fatty liver, steatohepatitis, liver fibrosis, and cirrhosis, and may proceed to hepatocellular carcinoma. Stem cells participate in both tissue pathogenesis and the recovery process in ALD. In animal experiments of liver transplantation, hepatocytes can clonally expand, suggesting that hepatocytes are themselves functional stem cells. Certain types of severe liver injury, especially when the proliferative capacity of hepatocytes is impaired, can activate a potential stem cell compartment in the intrahepatic biliary tree. These cells are the bipotential oval cells (OC), which could differentiate into hepatocytes and biliary epithelial cells. Bone marrow cells can migrate to the damaged liver and differentiate into myofibroblasts. Myofibroblasts play a central role in the pathogenesis of liver fibrosis, and even in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. In alcohol-induced chronic hepatitis, a close correlation has been observed between the degree of progenitor/stem cell activation and the severity of inflammation and fibrosis. While hepatocytes carry out important tasks such as drug metabolism and maintenance of glucose and lipid levels, OC proliferate following certain types of liver injury.
Neural Damage
Excessive alcohol intake is associated with structural and functional changes in the adult and developing central nervous system (CNS), manifested by brain atrophy and progressive neurodegeneration, as well as neurodevelopmental disorders such as fetal alcohol syndrome. Recent research demonstrates that neural stem cells (NSCs) divide throughout life and give rise to new neurons. During neurogenesis-proliferation and differentiation of NSC's into neurons and other types of brain cells are heavily regulated by genetic and environmental factors, many of which are associated with excessive alcohol use. Although alcohol causes global changes in the CNS, some brain structures exhibit heightened sensitivity to alcohol effects and/or toxicity. For instance, hippocampal dysfunction and neurodegeneration commonly occur as a result of the neurotoxic effects of alcohol. NSCs in adult brains, essential for the normal process of neurogenesis, may also have functional significance in alcohol abusers leading to neural damage and alterations in the homeostasis of hippocampal structures. It is important to understand the contributions of neural stem cells to neurogenesis, including repair and regeneration during abstinence from alcohol and how these are altered in chronic alcohol users. Studying the roles of neural stem cells on hippocampal function may elucidate mechanisms underlying hippocampal dysfunctions, such as learning, memory, and mood disorders in chronic alcoholism.
Cancer
Chronic ethanol consumption may promote carcinogenesis through its metabolite acetaldehyde, through inflammation, increased oxidative stress, or induction of cytochrome P4502E1 (CYP2E1), which can convert pro-carcinogens to carcinogens. Alcohol can interact with other risk factors, such as viral infection, smoking, obesity and diabetes, in the initiation and progression of cancers. Furthermore, alcohol may affect the stem cell niche by perturbing many biochemical or signaling pathways known to be important for both stem cells and cancers. Examples of these pathways include Notch, Hedgehog, Wnt/β-catenin, EGF-like/EGFR/Neu, LIF, TGF-β, integrins, telomerase, SDF-1/CXCR4, prolactin/growth hormone (GH), the IGF-1, Estrogen Receptor (ER), and Stat3 pathways. Alcohol and its metabolites may interfere with the renewal or differentiation of stem cells or cancer stem cells by affecting one or more of these pathways.
Other systems
Stem cells also play an important role in both the pathological and recovery processes in pancreatitis, cardiovascular disease, endocrine dysfunction, osteoporosis, and immune dysfunction.
Research Objectives
Recent advances in the field of stem cells have provided great opportunities to understand the underlying mechanisms of alcohol-induced tissue injury and alcohol-related cancers, and to explore new therapeutic strategies for their diagnosis and treatment. The following examples illustrate areas of interest:
Disease Modeling:
There is a need to generate disease models that resemble diverse human polymorphism in alcohol metabolizing enzymes. These genetic variant models are of great value to more effectively study the effects of alcohol on stem cell populations and potential pharmacotherapy for alcohol-induced pathology. Most of the currently used human cell lines carry genetic and epigenetic artifacts as a result of accommodation to long term tissue culture. Primary human hepatocytes have a limited life span in vitro. Most liver cell lines used today are from malignant tissues or have been genetically modified to gain immortalization. One way might be to explore the phenotypic outcome by iPS cell technology, or other cell reprogramming technologies, to produce create a bank of genetically variable iPS cell lines from normal populations and from well-characterized alcohol-consuming human populations (although iPSCs may also retain epigenetic marks characteristic of the donor cell which could influence their differentiation propensity). These models can be used to study the interaction of alcohol with genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors in different genetic models involving Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH), Aldehyde Dehydrogenase (ALDH), CYP2E1, and Glutathione S transferase (GST) enzymes. In addition, creating a bank of iPS cell lines from genetically variant patients and normal populations can provide a source for testing new therapeutic drugs on alcohol induced tissue injury in a more effective manner.
It is important to find better approaches for isolating, expanding and reprograming specific populations of stem/progenitor cells in liver and other alcohol related organs. It is also necessary to find animal or chimeric animal models to study human stem cell (including iPS cells) biology, in order to better understand the damaging/recovery process in these specific diseases or disorders
Alcohol's effect on stem cells:
It is important to study alcohol’s effect on endogenous adult stem/progenitor cells, their self-renewal, proliferation, differentiation, transformation, and niche. A full description of the role of adult stem cells in tissue regeneration during alcohol consumption is important for understanding normal and disease-state physiological and pathological processes, and for designing therapeutic approaches. Interaction of exogenous stem cells and endogenous liver stem/progenitor cells in tissue regeneration/repairing of alcohol induced liver injuries, especially the mechanism by which transplanted stem cells integrate into hepatic tissue, are of great importance for clinical use of stem cells.
Characterization of cancer stem cells in alcohol-related cancers:
Investigation of the mechanisms underlying alcohol’s effect on liver stem cells and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) including genetic and epigenetic changes is of great importance. Investigation of the roles of polymorphisms of alcohol-related metabolic genes (e.g., ADH, ALDH, CYP2E1, and MTHFR) in liver stem cell and alcohol-related liver cancers along with the interactions of alcohol and its metabolites (especially acetaldehyde) with other risk factors, such as viral infection, smoking and nutritional disorders, in alcohol-related liver cancers are also critical for a full understanding of the constellation of disease presentations seen in chronic alcohol used disorders.
Understand intrinsic and extrinsic signals and signaling pathways regulating stem cell renewal, proliferation, differentiation, and niche.
Investigation of the ability of different types of stem cells (e.g., liver stem/progenitor cells, bone marrow derived stem/progenitor cells, embryonic stem cells and iPS cells) to self-renew, proliferate and differentiate as a function of alcohol use and abuse are encouraged as is the examination of changes in genes and proteins, and signaling pathways regulating these changes, and the development of markers and assays that permit accurate and reliable characterization of alcohol induced specific effect on stem cells.
Funding Instrument |
Grant |
Application Types Allowed |
New The OER Glossary and the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide provide details on these application types. |
Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards |
The number of awards is contingent upon NIH appropriations, and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. |
Award Budget |
The combined budget for direct costs for the two year project period may not exceed $275,000. No more than $200,000 may be requested in any single year. Applicants may request direct costs in $25,000 modules, up to the total direct costs limitation of $275,000 for the combined two-year award period. |
Award Project Period |
Scope of the proposed project should determine the project period. The maximum period is 2 years. |
NIH grants policies as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement will apply to the applications submitted and awards made in response to this FOA.
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Applicant organizations must complete the following registrations
as described in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide to be eligible to apply
for or receive an award. Applicants must have a valid Dun and Bradstreet
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All registrations must be completed by the application due date. Applicant
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Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources
necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal
Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to
develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial
and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always
encouraged to apply for NIH support.
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the Senior/Key Person Profile (Expanded) Component of the SF 424 (R&R)
Application Guide.
This FOA does not require cost sharing as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Applicant organizations may submit more than one application, provided that each application is scientifically distinct.
NIH will not accept any application in response to this FOA that is essentially the same as one currently pending initial peer review unless the applicant withdraws the pending application. NIH will not accept any application that is essentially the same as one already reviewed. Resubmission applications may be submitted, according to the NIH Policy on Resubmission Applications from the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide.
Applicants must download the SF424 (R&R) application package associated with this funding opportunity using the Apply for Grant Electronically button in this FOA or following the directions provided at Grants.gov.
It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, except where instructed in this funding opportunity announcement to do otherwise. Conformance to the requirements in the Application Guide is required and strictly enforced. Applications that are out of compliance with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
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The forms package associated with this FOA includes all applicable components, mandatory and optional. Please note that some components marked optional in the application package are required for submission of applications for this FOA. Follow all instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide to ensure you complete all appropriate optional components.
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Resource Sharing Plan
Individuals are required to comply with the instructions for the Resource Sharing Plans (Data Sharing Plan, Sharing Model Organisms, and Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS)) as provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
Appendix
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Applications must be submitted electronically following the instructions described in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide. Paper applications will not be accepted.
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Renewals
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For Revisions, the committee will consider the appropriateness of the proposed expansion of the scope of the project. If the Revision application relates to a specific line of investigation presented in the original application that was not recommended for approval by the committee, then the committee will consider whether the responses to comments from the previous scientific review group are adequate and whether substantial changes are clearly evident.
As applicable for the project proposed, reviewers will consider each of the following items, but will not give scores for these items, and should not consider them in providing an overall impact/priority score.
Applications from Foreign Organizations
Reviewers will assess whether the project presents special opportunities for furthering research programs through the use of unusual talent, resources, populations, or environmental conditions that exist in other countries and either are not readily available in the United States or augment existing U.S. resources.
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Reviewers will comment on whether the following Resource Sharing Plans, or the rationale for not sharing the following types of resources, are reasonable: 1) Data Sharing Plan; 2) Sharing Model Organisms; and 3) Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS).
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Applications will be assigned on the basis of established PHS referral guidelines to the appropriate NIH Institute or Center. Applications will compete for available funds with all other recommended applications . Following initial peer review, recommended applications will receive a second level of review by the national Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The following will be considered in making funding decisions:
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