ISLET/BETA CELL TRANSPLANT REGISTRY: RFP AVAILABLE Release Date: July 20, 2000 NOTICE: DK-00-005 National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is seeking an organization or an institution to establish a Islet/Beta Cell Transplant Registry and the provision of statistical, clinical coordination, technical, regulatory, and administrative support for the Registry to collect information on islet and beta cell transplants in patients within North America. To be included in this database will be patient demographics, patient and graft survival rates by era, surgical technique, type of immunosuppression, immunoisolation and/or tolerance induction protocol, donor source, tissue typing, assessment of viral and bacterial contamination in donor tissue, length of graft preservation, implantation site, islet/beta cell preparation procedure and islet/beta cell storage procedure. Metabolic data will also be collected and analyzed. In addition, the data and the results of analyses will be communicated to the scientific community. This Request for Proposal, RFP No. NIH-NIDDK-00-02, will be issued on or about July 25, 2000, with a closing date of September 25, 2000. To receive a copy of this RFP, please supply this office with two self-addressed mailing labels and cite the RFP number referenced above. Requests must be made in writing and addressed to: Danielle C. Sweeney (301-594-8838), Contract Specialist, Acquisition Management Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Rockledge One, 6705 Rockledge Drive, Suite 8048, MSC 7973, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7973. This advertisement does not commit the Government to make an award.
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