Office of Research
NIAMS Rheumatic Diseases Research Resource-based Centers (P30 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The NIAMS requests applications for the NIAMS Resource-based Centers Program (P30) to provide critical research infrastructure, shared facilities, services, and resources to groups of investigators conducting research on rheumatic diseases with the broad overall goal of accelerating, enriching, and enhancing the effectiveness of ongoing basic, translational, and clinical research and promoting new research on rheumatic diseases within the NIAMS mission.
The emphasis of the NIAMS Resource-based Centers Program is to improve access to critical research infrastructure, shared facilities, services, and resources. Each Center will contain one or more Resource Core(s) that serve a strong research community. For the purposes of this particular announcement, the research community is defined as those investigators (and their funded projects) who will use Center resources for research within the focus of the Center which should be within the NIAMS mission. Successful Resource-based Centers are expected to expand the chosen field(s), provide new research opportunities, and increase the efficiency and impact of research due to resource access.
The focus of the Center is determined by the Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) and may encompass basic, translational, and/or clinical research in rheumatic diseases. The focus of the Center may be very broad, e.g., mechanisms of autoimmunity underlying rheumatic disease, and serve a diverse group of investigators that share the need for critical shared core services. Alternatively, a Center may have a narrow disease or biology focus or theme. In some cases, the relevant research community may share a highly specialized resource such as a well-defined patient cohort with associated patient data and biospecimens and/or may share a need for highly specialized technologies and services (e.g., single cell analysis or computational biology and machine learning). Potential PDs/PIs are strongly encouraged to contact the Scientific/Research Contact listed in Section VII. Agency Contacts early in the application planning process to discuss the NIAMS mission relevance and FOA responsiveness.
It has become increasingly common and feasible for investigators at different institutions to collaborate to achieve common goals. Therefore, to facilitate collaborative and interdisciplinary research, resources and investigators may be distributed at different institutions and different geographic regions, particularly for resources that do not need to be duplicated at every research site. Similarly, the research community may be defined at the national or regional level, and may include foreign collaborators. Centers designed to serve a research community primarily at a single institution should include outreach plans to expand access to researchers from other institutions to maximize the value of the Center resources.
The NIAMS Resource-based Centers will provide support for:
- One or more Resource Cores
- An Administrative Core, that includes a Center Enrichment Program
Application Instructions
Please submit:
- A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach
- If the final application requires a diversity statement or statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
- Biosketch or CV of the PI
- A letter of support from the Dean or Chair that includes verification of the candidate’s start date. This letter of support signifies that the Dean or Chair have ensured that the nominee and application are likely to be of sufficient quality to be competitive nationally
to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Proposals are due to the sponsor 8/1/2022, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 7/21/2022 if given the go‐ahead by the review committee.
Inquiries and Contact Information
Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.
For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.