(FOA)-Limited Submission – NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs – Shared Instrumentation for Animal Research (SIFAR) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) – PAR-20-112; June 1, 2020

 

Purpose:  The purpose of the of the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) Shared Instrumentation for Animal Research (SIFAR) Grant Program is to encourage applications from groups of NIH-funded investigators to purchase or upgrade scientific instruments necessary to carry out animal experiments in all areas of biomedical research supported by the NIH. Applicants may request clusters of commercially available instruments configured as specialized integrated systems or as series of instruments to support a thematic well-defined area of research using animals or related materials. Priority will be given to uniquely configured systems to support innovative and potentially transformative investigations.

 

This funding opportunity announcement supports requests for state-of-the art commercially available technologies needed for NIH-funded research using any vertebrate and invertebrate animal species and does not support requests for single instruments. At least one item of the requested instrumentation must cost at least $50,000, after all applicable discounts. No instrument in a cluster can cost less than $20,000, after all applicable discounts.

 

Funding Amount:  up to $750,000

 

Link to Funding Opportunity Announcement

 

Institutional Limit:  1 SIFAR application per institution.

(There is no restriction on the number of applications an institution can submit to the companion SIG and/or HEI Programs each year, provided the applications request different types of equipment.)

 

Internal Competition:  To participate in the university’s selection process for a SIFAR grant, please upload the following,assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via this portal with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by March 31, 2020:

·         Names and departments or affiliations of the Project Director and other key personnel or partners;

·         Title of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number;

·         Brief project description (2 pages maximum) - name and costs of instruments in the cluster, description of NIH-funded user group, proposed location housing the instrument, and any request for VPR support. (Typically instruments that are housed in a centrally managed core fare better in review; thus, applicants are encouraged to contact any of UK’s core facility directors to discuss plans to submit for this program.)

 

A committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.

 

For questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or call 257-2861.

 

Agency Deadline:  June 1, 2020