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Fogarty HIV Research Training Program for Low-and Middle-Income Country Institutions (D43 Clinical Trial Optional)

The Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID) is pleased to announce to the University community that the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced the funding opportunity title: “ Fogarty HIV Research Training Program for Low-and Middle-Income Country Institutions (D43 Clinical Trial Optional)” with funding opportunity number, PAR-19-283.

This FOA can support training for conducting research in a broad range of HIV research areas across HIV prevention, treatment, care, and quality of life continuum. This includes basic, epidemiologic, clinical, behavioral and social sciences, community-based, implementation, operations, health services, and health systems research. Cross-disciplinary research as well as HIV associated comorbidities and coinfections affecting the HIV epidemic will be supported under this FOA. An application should focus the proposed training program to strengthen research capacity in a defined HIV scientific area at a specific LMIC institution and collaborating LMIC partner institutions.

Eligibility

  • Higher Education Institutions
  1. Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
  2. Private Institutions of Higher Education
  • All PD(s)/PI(s) must have an eRA Commons account.
  • Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research training program as the Training Program Director/Principal Investigator (Training PD/PI) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support.
  • The PD/PI should be an established investigator in the scientific area in which the application is targeted and capable of providing both administrative and scientific leadership to the development and implementation of the proposed program.
  • The PD/PI should have research and research training experience in the LMIC which is the focus of the application.
  • U.S. and LMIC applicants who meet the eligibility requirement are encouraged to apply as a Multiple PD/PI with either serving as the contact PI (see (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/multi_pi/) for more information).

Amount:

Application budgets are limited to $280,000 in direct costs per year exclusive of consortium indirect costs.

Deadlines:

Open Date – The Earliest Submission Date is July 20, 2020.
Letter of Intent Due Date(s) – July 20, 2020.
Application Due Date(s) – Only accepting applications for the AIDS Application, August 20, 2020 by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.

NB: Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.

For more details, kindly visit https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-19-283.html