Funding-Novel and Innovative Tools to Facilitate Identification, Tracking, Manipulation, and Analysis of Glycans and their Functions (U01); November 28, 2016

Agency

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is developed as a Common Fund initiative through the NIH Office of the NIH Director, Office of Strategic Coordination.  The FOA will be administered by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) on behalf of the NIH.

Description

The Common Fund Program - Accelerating Translation of Glycoscience: Integration and Accessibility - aims to develop accessible and affordable new tools and technologies for studying carbohydrates that will allow biomedical researchers to significantly advance our understanding of the roles of these complex molecules in health and disease. This program will enable investigators who might not otherwise conduct research in the glycosciences, to undertake the study of carbohydrate structure and function.

This FOA solicits development of new, more easily accessible tools, reagents, and technologies to facilitate identification, tracking, manipulation, and analysis of glycans with their biological binding partners and determine their functions. This initiative may build on efforts that interface with existing technologies and procedures to make them easier to access and use. As applicable, efforts must consider: factors for scale-up; efforts to make instrumentation broadly accessible and cost-effective for the end-user; and compatibility of data generated with integration into existing databases. While this FOA seeks development of new or more robust tools and technologies, the related FOA RFA-RM-16-023 solicits applications for adaptation of existing technologies for application to the glycosciences in a manner that is straight forward and accessible for non-specialists.

Activity Code: U01 Research Project – Cooperative Agreements

Announcement Number: RFA-RM-16-022

Closing Date: November 28, 2016

Link to Full Announcement

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-16-022.html