Funding Opportunity: HTORR Pilot Award Program

Here is the information from NDRI(National Disease Research Interchange):

"Dear Investigator,

We are excited to let you know about a new opportunity available to you as a grantee of NIDDK.

NIDDK supports the Human Tissues and Organs for Research Resource (HTORR) U42 program, which is now offering a new Pilot Award Program.

This Pilot Award Program is intended to facilitate the generation of preliminary data necessary for an investigator to obtain subsequent funding, and will support individuals that meet at least one of the following three high priority areas:

1.      Individuals from underrepresented populations in the U.S. biomedical workforce, including women, minorities, persons with disabilities and persons from disadvantaged backgrounds.

2.      Early-stage investigators that are within 10 years of a terminal degree or completion of clinical residency.

3.      Established investigators that are transitioning to use human biospecimens.

The 2-year awards provided through our Pilot Award Program will include up to ~10 biological samples per awarded investigator, covering all costs associated with obtaining the biospecimens, including tissue preservation reagents and shipping costs. Beyond the service period and experimental analysis phase, the awardee will also receive supplementary support to develop grant applications to the NIH Institute that supported their award, and only applications that fall into the fields covered by these institutes will be reviewed. The institutes currently included are the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Eye Institute (NEI), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), and the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP).

Key dates for the first round of applications are:

Request for Applications Open: June 1, 2024

Application Deadline: October 1, 2024, 5 p.m. US EST

Anticipated Award Decision: December 2024

Anticipated Earliest Start Date: January 2025

For more information, please visit https://ndriresource.org/pilot-award-program/ or reach out to Grants@ndriresource.org."

Source and more information:

1. NDRI (National Disease Research Interchange) email

2. https://ndriresource.org/pilot-award-program/