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The NIH Common Fund has established the Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program (Kids First) to develop a pediatric research data resource populated by genome sequence and phenotypic data that will be of high value for the communities of investigators who study the genetics of childhood cancers and/or structural birth defects.
Kids First has established and continues to develop a Data Resource including a collection of curated genomic and phenotypic data from childhood cancer and structural birth defects cohorts and a central portal where these data and analysis tools are accessible to the research community. Access to these data will promote comprehensive and cross-cutting research and collaboration leading to more refined diagnostic capabilities and ultimately more targeted therapies. This FOA is intended to support meritorious small research projects focused on analyses of childhood cancer and/or structural birth defects genomic datasets generated by the Kids First program and/or associated phenotypic datasets. Development of approaches, tools, or algorithms appropriate for analyzing genomic, phenotypic, and/or clinical data relevant to Kids First may also be proposed
September 12, 2019
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Standard dates apply ,
The first standard application due date for this FOA is February 16, 2020..
All applications are due by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on the listed date(s).
Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.
Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.
The first AIDS application due date for this FOA is May 7, 2020..
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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.
Initiative Background
Pediatric conditions, such as birth defects and childhood cancers, if not fatal, have profound, lifelong effects on patients and their families with society ultimately bearing the socioeconomic costs. Annually, almost five percent of all live births in the United States (more than 180,000 babies) involve babies born with birth defects when broadly defined to include both structural and functional/metabolic abnormalities. Next to accidents, birth defects are the leading cause of death in children and account for half of all pediatric hospitalizations. In addition, cancer remains the leading cause of childhood disease-related mortality beyond the first year of life.
The genomics revolution holds promise for enabling the discovery of effective and targeted therapies based on the underlying genetic classification of conditions the ideal of precision medicine. Developmental biology is revealing the underlying genetic networks common to organ system development, In addition, the combined efforts of basic scientists studying these genetic networks and physician scientists sequencing patient cohorts together place the field of structural birth defects research on the verge of major advances. Likewise, major advances have been made in understanding the genetics and genomics of childhood cancers, particularly in the past decade through the work of large projects such as the NCI Childhood Cancer TARGET Initiative, the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, and other research efforts throughout the world. Within both research communities, understanding the etiology and mechanisms and ultimately formulating treatments and prevention strategies are more than ever a possibility for these pediatric conditions.
Heterogeneous genetic etiology is an issue for both the structural birth defects and the pediatric cancer fields. It is clear that recent advances in sequencing technology have led to greater insights. For example, our understanding of congenital heart defects has benefited with sequencing implicating de novo point mutations in several hundreds of genes that collectively contribute to approximately 10% of severe congenital heart disease cases. Importantly, a lesson from these and other studies is that large sample sizes are required to fully understand the heterogeneous genetic etiology. Studies have suggested that there may be genetic overlap between different, currently thought to be unrelated, birth defects. A lesson from these studies is that integrating genotype datasets from disparate diseases may increase the power for gene discovery and open up avenues of novel exploration. While these intellectual insights can be applied within the fields of structural birth defects research or childhood cancer research, it is equally true that genetic networks common to both conditions will continue to be revealed by efforts that integrate genomic data.
In response to The Gabriella Miller Kids First Act, NIH, through the Common Fund, has established the Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program (Kids First). The vision of the program is to alleviate suffering from childhood cancer and structural birth defects by fostering collaborative research to uncover the etiology of these diseases and supporting data sharing within the pediatric research community. The Kids First program has supported genome-wide sequencing of high value childhood cancer and structural birth defects cohorts through an X01 opportunity (e.g., PAR-19-104). The Gabriella Miller Kids First Data Resource Center (Kids First Data Resource Center) is charged with processing and harmonizing these data, and associated clinical and phenotypic data, and making them searchable and accessible through the Kids First Data Resource Portal. This public-facing, web-based portal enables researchers to search, access, aggregate, analyze, and share annotated genomic sequence, variant, and phenotypic datasets. All told, Kids First is expected to be a ten-year effort that will provide a foundation for data mining and analysis efforts to uncover the genetic etiology of and shared developmental networks among a diversity of pediatric conditions, leading to more refined diagnostic capabilities and ultimately more targeted therapies or interventions.
Purpose
The purpose of this FOA is to support meritorious small research projects that involve analyses of genomic, phenotypic and/or clinical data from X01 datasets sequenced with support from the Kids First program, or projects that involve developing approaches, tools, or algorithms to support or enhance analyses of these data.
Scope
The data analyses proposed should utilize Kids First X01 datasets for which sequence and phenotypic data are or will be available through the Kids First Data Resource Portal (https://portal.kidsfirstdrc.org/) and the NIH's database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP). For a full list of Kids First X01 datasets visit: https://commonfund.nih.gov/kidsfirst/x01projects. Applicants proposing to co-analyze Kids First X01 data with other whole genome sequence data are eligible for this opportunity as long as the external data are currently accessible through a public controlled access database or can be shared through such a database. Studies proposed may combine data within cohorts or across phenotypically different cohorts to more powerfully address the research questions as long as this is allowable according to each dataset’s data use limitations as described in dbGaP and/or the original consent (for example, specific data use limitations may prohibit combining certain datasets). The intent is to catalyze the discovery of new variants underlying these pediatric conditions, to reveal unrealized predispositions or developmental networks including common genetic pathways shared by different conditions, and to provide a means to generate preliminary data supporting larger projects such as functional studies. Potential types of analyses that would be supported by this FOA could include, but are not limited to, variant annotation, de novo annotation, de novo structural variant and SNP detection, rare variant analyses through burden testing, or candidate gene analyses. Development of approaches, tools, or algorithms appropriate for analyzing genomic, phenotypic, and/or clinical data relevant to Kids First may also be proposed. It is expected that data, tools, pipelines, and workflows that are used or created under this FOA will be provided to the Data Resource Center for sharing with the research community in a manner that would enable other researchers to replicate and build on the analyses for future research efforts. Both primary and secondary analyses may be proposed in order to develop hypotheses or investigate research questions related to structural birth defects and/or pediatric cancers. However, applicants are encouraged to communicate with the Kids First Data Resource Center (support@kidsfirstdrc.org) to avoid redundancy and/or to collaborate on the analytical approach or tool development.
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A project duration of up to two years may be requested.
Higher Education Institutions
The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
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Applicant organizations must complete and maintain the following registrations as described in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide to be eligible to apply for or receive an award. All registrations must be completed prior to the application being submitted. Registration can take 6 weeks or more, so applicants should begin the registration process as soon as possible. The NIH Policy on Late Submission of Grant Applications states that failure to complete registrations in advance of a due date is not a valid reason for a late submission.
Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PD(s)/PI(s))
All PD(s)/PI(s) must have an eRA Commons account. PD(s)/PI(s) should work with their organizational officials to either create a new account or to affiliate their existing account with the applicant organization in eRA Commons. If the PD/PI is also the organizational Signing Official, they must have two distinct eRA Commons accounts, one for each role. Obtaining an eRA Commons account can take up to 2 weeks.
For institutions/organizations proposing multiple PDs/PIs, visit the Multiple Program Director/Principal Investigator Policy and submission details in the Senior/Key Person Profile (Expanded) Component of the SF424 (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.
The NIH will not accept duplicate or highly overlapping applications under review at the same time. This means that the NIH will not accept:
The application forms package specific to this opportunity must be accessed through ASSIST, Grants.gov Workspace or an institutional system-to-system solution. Links to apply using ASSIST or Grants.gov Workspace are available in Part 1 of this FOA. See your administrative office for instructions if you plan to use an institutional system-to-system solution.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
Research Strategy:
Describe which Kids First X01 datasets and/or external data will be used in your analyses and/or to develop the proposed approaches, tools, or algorithms. For genomic datasets that require dbGaP approval, include the dbGaP phs study accession number(s). For a full list of Kids First X01 datasets visit: https://commonfund.nih.gov/kidsfirst/x01projects. Please note that investigators may be asked to provide evidence of approval to access the proposed dataset(s) (e.g. approved dbGaP Data Access Requests) prior to award.
Resource Sharing Plan: Individuals are required to comply with the instructions for the Resource Sharing Plans as provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.The following modifications also apply:
If you answered Yes to the question Are Human Subjects Involved? on the R&R Other Project Information form, you must include at least one human subjects study record using the Study Record: PHS Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information form or Delayed Onset Study record.
Study Record: PHS Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
Delayed Onset StudyNote: Delayed onset does NOT apply to a study that can be described but will not start immediately (i.e., delayed start).All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
Foreign (non-U.S.) institutions must follow policies described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, and procedures for foreign institutions described throughout the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
See Part 1. Section III.1 for information regarding the requirement for obtaining a unique entity identifier and for completing and maintaining active registrations in System for Award Management (SAM), NATO Commercial and Government Entity (NCAGE) Code (if applicable), eRA Commons, and Grants.gov
Part I. Overview Information contains information about Key Dates and times. Applicants are encouraged to submit applications before the due date to ensure they have time to make any application corrections that might be necessary for successful submission. When a submission date falls on a weekend or Federal holiday , the application deadline is automatically extended to the next business day.
Organizations must submit applications to Grants.gov (the online portal to find and apply for grants across all Federal agencies). Applicants must then complete the submission process by tracking the status of the application in the eRA Commons, NIH’s electronic system for grants administration. NIH and Grants.gov systems check the application against many of the application instructions upon submission. Errors must be corrected and a changed/corrected application must be submitted to Grants.gov on or before the application due date and time. If a Changed/Corrected application is submitted after the deadline, the application will be considered late. Applications that miss the due date and time are subjected to the NIH Policy on Late Application Submission.
Applicants are responsible for viewing their application before the due date in the eRA Commons to ensure accurate and successful submission.
Information on the submission process and a definition of on-time submission are provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
This initiative is not subject to intergovernmental review.
All NIH awards are subject to the terms and conditions, cost principles, and other considerations described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement .
Pre-award costs are allowable only as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Applications must be submitted electronically following the instructions described in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide. Paper applications will not be accepted.
Applicants must complete all required registrations before the application due date. Section III. Eligibility Information contains information about registration.
For assistance with your electronic application or for more information on the electronic submission process, visit How to Apply Application Guide. If you encounter a system issue beyond your control that threatens your ability to complete the submission process on-time, you must follow the Dealing with System Issues guidance. For assistance with application submission, contact the Application Submission Contacts in Section VII.
Important reminders:
All PD(s)/PI(s) must include their eRA Commons ID in the Credential field of the Senior/Key Person Profile Component of the SF424(R&R) Application Package. Failure to register in the Commons and to include a valid PD/PI Commons ID in the credential field will prevent the successful submission of an electronic application to NIH. See Section III of this FOA for information on registration requirements.
The applicant organization must ensure that the DUNS number it provides on the application is the same number used in the organization’s profile in the eRA Commons and for the System for Award Management. Additional information may be found in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
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Upon receipt, applications will be evaluated for completeness and compliance with application instructions by the Center for Scientific Review, NIH. Applications that are incomplete or non-compliant will not be reviewed.
Only the review criteria described below will be considered in the review process. Applications submitted to the NIH in support of the NIH mission are evaluated for scientific and technical merit through the NIH peer review system.
For this particular announcement, note the following:The R03 small grant supports discrete, well-defined projects that realistically can be completed in two years and that require limited levels of funding. Because the research project usually is limited, an R03 grant application may not contain extensive detail or discussion. Accordingly, reviewers should evaluate the conceptual framework and general approach to the problem. Appropriate justification for the proposed work can be provided through literature citations, data from other sources, or from investigator-generated data. Preliminary data are not required, particularly in applications proposing pilot or feasibility studies.
Does the project address an important problem or a critical barrier to progress in the field? Is the prior research that serves as the key support for the proposed project rigorous? If the aims of the project are achieved, how will scientific knowledge, technical capability, and/or clinical practice be improved? How will successful completion of the aims change the concepts, methods, technologies, treatments, services, or preventative interventions that drive this field?
Is the project focused on analyses of childhood cancer and/or structural birth defects genomic, phenotypic, and/or clinical datasets that will catalyze the discovery of new variants underlying these pediatric conditions or reveal unrealized predispositions or developmental networks such as common genetic pathways shared by different conditions? Alternatively, if the development of any analytical approaches, tools, or algorithms is proposed, is there evidence that they will improve future analyses?
Are the PD(s)/PI(s), collaborators, and other researchers well suited to the project? If Early Stage Investigators or those in the early stages of independent careers, do they have appropriate experience and training? If established, have they demonstrated an ongoing record of accomplishments that have advanced their field(s)? If the project is collaborative or multi-PD/PI, do the investigators have complementary and integrated expertise; are their leadership approach, governance and organizational structure appropriate for the project?
Does the application challenge and seek to shift current research or clinical practice paradigms by utilizing novel theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions? Are the concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions novel to one field of research or novel in a broad sense? Is a refinement, improvement, or new application of theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions proposed?
Are the overall strategy, methodology, and analyses well-reasoned and appropriate to accomplish the specific aims of the project? Have the investigators included plans to address weaknesses in the rigor of prior research that serves as the key support for the proposed project ? Have the investigators presented strategies to ensure a robust and unbiased approach, as appropriate for the work proposed? Are potential problems, alternative strategies, and benchmarks for success presented? If the project is in the early stages of development, will the strategy establish feasibility and will particularly risky aspects be managed? Have the investigators presented adequate plans to address relevant biological variables, such as sex, for studies in vertebrate animals or human subjects?
Are the data in the dataset(s) sufficient to address the proposed specific aims of the study? Is the study timeline appropriate to accomplish the specific aims?
If the project involves human subjects and/or NIH-defined clinical research, are the plans to address 1) the protection of human subjects from research risks, and 2) inclusion (or exclusion) of individuals on the basis of sex/gender, race, and ethnicity, as well as the inclusion or exclusion of individuals of all ages (including children and older adults), justified in terms of the scientific goals and research strategy proposed?
Will the scientific environment in which the work will be done contribute to the probability of success? Are the institutional support, equipment and other physical resources available to the investigators adequate for the project proposed? Will the project benefit from unique features of the scientific environment, subject populations, or collaborative arrangements?
For research that involves human subjects but does not involve one of the categories of research that are exempt under 45 CFR Part 46, the committee will evaluate the justification for involvement of human subjects and the proposed protections from research risk relating to their participation according to the following five review criteria: 1) risk to subjects, 2) adequacy of protection against risks, 3) potential benefits to the subjects and others, 4) importance of the knowledge to be gained, and 5) data and safety monitoring for clinical trials.
For research that involves human subjects and meets the criteria for one or more of the categories of research that are exempt under 45 CFR Part 46, the committee will evaluate: 1) the justification for the exemption, 2) human subjects involvement and characteristics, and 3) sources of materials. For additional information on review of the Human Subjects section, please refer to the Guidelines for the Review of Human Subjects.
When the proposed project involves human subjects and/or NIH-defined clinical research, the committee will evaluate the proposed plans for the inclusion (or exclusion) of individuals on the basis of sex/gender, race, and ethnicity, as well as the inclusion (or exclusion) of individuals of all ages (including children and older adults) to determine if it is justified in terms of the scientific goals and research strategy proposed. For additional information on review of the Inclusion section, please refer to the Guidelines for the Review of Inclusion in Clinical Research.
The committee will evaluate the involvement of live vertebrate animals as part of the scientific assessment according to the following criteria: (1) description of proposed procedures involving animals, including species, strains, ages, sex, and total number to be used; (2) justifications for the use of animals versus alternative models and for the appropriateness of the species proposed; (3) interventions to minimize discomfort, distress, pain and injury; and (4) justification for euthanasia method if NOT consistent with the AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals. Reviewers will assess the use of chimpanzees as they would any other application proposing the use of vertebrate animals. For additional information on review of the Vertebrate Animals section, please refer to the Worksheet for Review of the Vertebrate Animal Section.
Reviewers will assess whether materials or procedures proposed are potentially hazardous to research personnel and/or the environment, and if needed, determine whether adequate protection is proposed.
For Resubmissions, the committee will evaluate the application as now presented, taking into consideration the responses to comments from the previous scientific review group and changes made to the project.
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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.
Reviewers will assess the information provided in this section of the application, including 1) the Select Agent(s) to be used in the proposed research, 2) the registration status of all entities where Select Agent(s) will be used, 3) the procedures that will be used to monitor possession use and transfer of Select Agent(s), and 4) plans for appropriate biosafety, biocontainment, and security of the Select Agent(s).
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) Genomic Data Sharing Plan (GDS).
For this particular announcement, reviewers will also comment on whether the Resource Sharing Plan includes a plan to provide data, tools, workflows, and/or pipelines that will be used or created as part of this opportunity to the Kids First Data Resource Center for sharing with the wider scientific community, if not already part of the Data Resource, in a manner that would enable other researchers to replicate and build on the analyses for future research efforts. Reviewers will comment on whether the applicant has provided a Data and Resource Sharing Plan that adequately describes the timeline, formats, and methods of providing these data and products to the Data Resource Center.
For applications that aim to co-analyze Kids First X01 data with non-Kids First genomic datasets that are currently accessible through an NIH-approved repository (e.g., dbGaP) or some other public controlled access database (e.g., European Genome-phenome Archive), reviewers will comment on whether the applicant has described the database through which the proposed data are accessible to the research community and the details of the dataset including any data use limitations based on the associated consent form.
For applications that aim to co-analyze Kids First X01 data with non-Kids First genomic datasets that are not currently accessible through an NIH-approved repository (e.g., dbGaP) or some other public controlled access database (e.g., European Genome-phenome Archive), reviewers will comment on whether applicants have described a plan to submit the individual-level sequence data to an NIH-approved repository (e.g., dbGaP) and whether they have provided an associated Institutional Certification or Provisional Certification, including a description of the anticipated data use limitations.
For projects involving key biological and/or chemical resources, reviewers will comment on the brief plans proposed for identifying and ensuring the validity of those resources.
Reviewers will consider whether the budget and the requested period of support are fully justified and reasonable in relation to the proposed research.
Applications will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by (an) appropriate Scientific Review Group(s), convened by the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), in accordance with NIH peer review policy and procedures, using the stated review criteria. Assignment to a Scientific Review Group will be shown in the eRA Commons.
As part of the scientific peer review, all applications:Information regarding the disposition of applications is available in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
A formal notification in the form of a Notice of Award (NoA) will be provided to the applicant organization for successful applications. The NoA signed by the grants management officer is the authorizing document and will be sent via email to the grantee’s business official.
Awardees must comply with any funding restrictions described in Section IV.5. Funding Restrictions. Selection of an application for award is not an authorization to begin performance. Any costs incurred before receipt of the NoA are at the recipient's risk. These costs may be reimbursed only to the extent considered allowable pre-award costs.
Any application awarded in response to this FOA will be subject to terms and conditions found on the Award Conditions and Information for NIH Grants website. This includes any recent legislation and policy applicable to awards that is highlighted on this website.
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