Funding-FUNCTIONAL
GENOMICS RESEARCH PROGRAM; September 21,
2011
Agency
Department of Health
and Human Services
Description
The National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of
Health (NIH), is seeking qualified contractors under this Broad Agency
Announcement (BAA) to provide the following:
The primary goals of
the activities to be carried out under contract(s) awarded under this BAA will
be to conduct large scale, state-of-the-art, high-throughput functional genomics
research to increase the infectious disease research community's understanding
of the biochemical and physiological role(s) of uncharacterized genomic regions,
including promoters, microRNA and other small RNA regions, and conserved
hypothetical and unknown open reading frames, in NIAID Category A-C and other
high priority infectious disease pathogens. Comparative genomics analyses have
repeatedly demonstrated there are many regions of genomic sequence with limited
or no known function(s) that are evolutionarily conserved in microbial
pathogens, implying these sequences may encode important and/or novel functions.
Critical high throughput state-of-the-art research is required to achieve
breakthroughs in characterizing the whole sequenced genome and understanding the
relationship between a pathogen's genes and gene products and their
disease-causing effects in humans. Increased understanding of this relationship
will improve the annotation of pathogen genomes and provide the foundation for
the development of medical diagnostics, therapeutics and
vaccines.
Announcement
Number:
BAA-NIAID-DMID-NIHAI2011123
Closing
Date: Sep 21, 2011 2:30
pm Eastern
Link to Full
Announcement
https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c82087247540583975886812e209f472&tab=core&_cview=0
Contact
Information
James D
Carder,
Contract Specialist
Phone: (301)
402-6289
Fax: (301)
480-2248
George
Kennedy,
Team
Lead
Phone:
301-451-2607
Fax: (301)
480-2248