Pre-Application Meeting for RFA-OD-08-001 and RFA-OD-08-002 Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network |
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| Air date: | Monday, March 17, 2008, 1:00:00 PM |
| Category: | Special |
| Description: | The Office of Rare Diseases, National Institutes of Health, announces a public pre-application meeting for investigators planning to submit applications in response to the Request for Applications (RFAs) for the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Consortia (RDCRC) and Data Management Coordinating Center (DMCC) for Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN), released February 8, 2008 as RFA-OD-08-001 http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-08-001.html and RFA-OD-08-002 http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-08-002.html respectively. The Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network program will facilitate identification of biomarkers for disease risk, disease severity/activity, and measures of clinical outcomes appropriate for applicability to clinical trials and encourage development of new approaches to diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of rare diseases.
The purpose of this meeting is to provide prospective applicants with an overview presentation on the above mentioned RDCRN RFAs followed by an exchange of questions and answers pertinent to preparing applications in response to these RFAs with representatives of the Office of Rare Diseases and participating NIH Institutes and Centers (IC). This opportunity is not intended to replace more detailed discussions that applicants may wish to have with the IC program staff. |
| Author: | Rashmi Gopal-Srivastava, David Eckstein and Stephen Groft |
| Runtime: | 133 minutes |
| CIT File ID: | 14373 |
| CIT Live ID: | 6642 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?14373 |