FOA-Emergency Awards: RADx-rad Wastewater Detection of SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) (U01 - Clinical Trials Not Allowed); September 15, 2020

 

Agency

NIH

 

Description

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is issuing this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) in response to the declared public health emergency issued by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). This emergency FOA provides an expedited funding mechanism as part of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Radical (RADx-rad) initiative.

 

As one of the programs within the NIH Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Radical (RADx-rad) program the RADx-rad Wastewater Detection of SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) FOA will support wastewater-based testing (WBT) surveillance which can provide detailed mapping of the extent and spread of COVID-19. Wastewater testing has been shown to be orders of magnitude cheaper and faster than clinical screening, albeit serving as a complementary approach rather than substituting individual-level testing and screening. The purpose of this FOA is to solicit cooperative agreements both for field studies and for small business research and development projects in the field of WBT, to address topics such as: investigation and demonstration of specific approaches aiming to increase sensitivity and to inform and optimize sample collection; implementation and development of optimized approaches to extrapolate estimation of population-level data within the community; development of optimized intervention strategies, and incorporation of computational, statistical, and mathematical models.

 

Activity Code:

U01

 

Announcement Number:

RFA-OD-20-015

 

Closing Date:

September 15, 2020

 

Link to Full Announcement

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-20-015.html

 

Companion Funding Opportunity:

RFA-OD-20-019 - Emergency Awards: RADx-RAD Data Coordination Center (DCC) (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)