Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA RM 18 026
This funding opportunity is a limited competition announcement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the NIH Common Fund. It focuses on continuing support for the Extracellular RNA Communication Consortium (ERCC) Data Management and Resource Repository (DMRR) through a Stage 2 effort. In practical terms, it is not an open call for new teams to enter the program; it is designed to invite an application specifically from the group that is already funded to run the ERCC DMRR so they can carry the program forward into its next phase.
The core purpose of the DMRR in this announcement is to act as the central hub that ties together all other funded ERCC components. The DMRR is expected to integrate consortium activities and produce shared, community-facing resources related to extracellular RNA (exRNA). That includes serving as a repository and coordination center for exRNA standards, protocols, and data. The emphasis is on harmonizing and organizing outputs so that the broader research community can access consistent methods and comparable datasets, rather than having fragmented, incompatible resources spread across separate projects.
From an administrative and funding standpoint, this is a discretionary grant opportunity using a cooperative agreement mechanism (U54). A cooperative agreement typically means NIH expects to have substantial involvement during the project, with active collaboration, oversight, and coordination between the awardee and NIH program staff. The activity category is health, and the CFDA listing is 93.310. The announcement is labeled "Clinical Trial Not Allowed," which indicates the funded work is not intended to support clinical trial activities under this award; the work is centered on infrastructure, data management, repository functions, standards, and consortium integration rather than testing clinical interventions.
Eligibility is tightly constrained. The opportunity is limited competition, meaning the intended applicant is the currently funded ERCC DMRR awardee. While the listing notes eligible applicants such as public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, the key eligibility gate is that the application is invited from the existing NIH Common Fund-supported DMRR to continue into Stage 2. The FOA also makes clear that foreign participation is not permitted in the form of foreign institutions applying directly. Non-domestic (non-U.S.) entities are not eligible to apply, and non-domestic components of U.S. organizations are not eligible either. In addition, foreign components as defined by the NIH Grants Policy Statement are not allowed under this opportunity, which further restricts the work to allowable U.S.-based organizational structures.
The timeline information provided indicates the opportunity was created on 2018-08-06, with an original closing date of 2018-10-23. The award ceiling and expected number of awards are not specified in the provided excerpt, but the structure of a limited competition announcement like this generally implies a very small number of awards, often a single award, aligned with continuation of an existing consortium coordinating center rather than a broad multi-award competition.
In summary, this FOA (RFA-RM-18-026) is essentially a continuation and transition funding opportunity for the existing ERCC DMRR to carry out Stage 2 responsibilities. The work centers on consortium-wide integration and providing shared exRNA resources (standards, protocols, and datasets) for the research community, under a U54 cooperative agreement with NIH involvement, with explicit restrictions that exclude foreign applicants and foreign components, and with clinical trials prohibited under the award.Apply for RFA RM 18 026
- The National Institutes of Health in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Limited competition: Data Management and Resource Repository (DMRR) on Extracellular RNA (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.310.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2018-08-06.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-10-23. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
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