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Limited Competition for Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) Research Centers of Excellence (U54)
Release Date: October 5, 2007
Announcement Number: RFA-NS-08-004
Application Receipt Date:
December 10, 2007
Letter of Intent Date: November 9, 2007
Funding Contact: David Jett, Ph.D.
Program Area: Technology Development
Brief Description:
The NIH invites applications for Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) Research Centers of Excellence (U54s).
The overall mission of the CounterACT Research Network is to develop new and improved medical countermeasures against chemical
threats (see http://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/research/counterterrorism/index.htm). Chemical threats include pulmonary agents
such as chlorine, industrial chemicals such as cyanide, and nerve agents such as sarin. Unlike the previous CounterACT Funding
Opportunity Announcements (FOAs), research on sulfur mustard countermeasures will not be supported by this announcement.
Each new CounterACT Center of Excellence will be composed of an administrative core, three scientifically related research
and development sub-projects, and one scientific core if needed and justified. This RFA announces a limited competition:
Two of the three subprojects within the new Center must be Cooperative Agreement Research Projects (U01s) or SBIR Projects
(U44s) that are already funded by CounterACT. The third sub-project can also be another previously-funded CounterACT U01
or U44, or it can be a new project that is fully integrated into the other projects and Center objectives. Applicants must
demonstrate that the formation of a new Center will provide synergism to the overall goal of countermeasure development.
One or two new specific aims within the previously-funded projects may be supported to help meet this requirement.
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