GRANT SPONSORS: COVID-19 NOTICES AND UPDATES
SPA is actively receiving and seeking out current updates from our grant sponsors regarding grant activities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The information below will be updated throughout the day as new information is received.
Contact your SPA grant specialist, Carmen Martinez, or Kathleen Kreider with any questions you may have.
SPA staff members are working remotely with a skeleton crew on campus.
Office of Management and Budget: has authorized federal granting agencies the flexibility in several administrative areas of due to loss of operational capacity and increased costs due to COVID-19. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/M-20-17.pdf
COGR Matrix: Federal Agency Administrative flexibilities
Each federal agency will release it’s own implementation plan.
NIH: YouTube message from Mike Lauer, M.D. regarding administrative grant flexibilities
NIH Website updates and FAQs: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/natural_disasters/corona-virus.htm
NIH Proposal Submission: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-082.html
NIH Award Management/Reporting: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-086.html
CPRIT: Covid-19 webpage for grantees and applicants. https://www.cprit.texas.gov/about-us/novel-coronavirus-covid-19
DHHS-Administration for Children and Families (ACF): Released grant flexibilities statement. Read here
Howard Hughes Medical Institute suspends Medically Trained Scientists Program https://www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-opens-new-program-for-medically-trained-scientists
Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas: Read Here
NSF: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/covid19/covid19faqs_proposerandawardee.pdf
SAMHSA: https://www.samhsa.gov/coronavirus/discretionary-grant-recipients
TDSHS: Options for 90-day Administrative Relief: Read Here
TWC Governor’s Summer Merit Program: Cancelled for this year: Read Here
USAMRAA: https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/COVID-19_FAQs_USAMRAA_16_MARCH_2020.html
Center for Clinical And Translational Sciences (CCTS) at UTHealth: Letter from David McPherson, M.D. regarding ongoing support of clinical trials. Read Here.
Subrecipients/Subawards: Sponsored Projects Officers around the country have confirmed that they are operating remotely and will continue to issue subawards as scheduled.
Proposal Deadline Extensions and Other Opportunities
Harrington Discovery Institute: Deadline extended for Scholar Innovator Award (MD required, all disease areas, $100,000 - $700,000) and the Scholar Award (Partner with Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, PHD or MD, Alzheimer’s and dementias, other drug development programs, up to $600,000) https://www.uhhospitals.org/harrington-discovery-institute/funding-and-programs/alzheimers-drug-discovery-foundation-harrington-program
PCORI Phased Large Awards for Comparative Effectiveness: RFA will open 6/9/20, LOI due 9/29/20, application due 1/12/21. $2 million Feasibility phase and $20 million full-scale study phase for high-quality comparative effectiveness research (CER) projects that will examine a critical patient-centered research question that is also relevant to decision makers and other stakeholders. For this PFA, investigators should propose an individual-level or cluster randomized controlled trial of significant scale and scope, requiring funding in excess of $10 million in direct costs. The proposed trials should address important decisional dilemmas that require important new evidence about the comparative effectiveness of available interventions. Proposed studies should compare interventions that already have established evidence of efficacy or are in widespread use. Clinical interventions (such as medications, diagnostic tests, or procedures) and delivery system interventions are appropriate for study. https://www.pcori.org/funding-opportunities/announcement/phased-large-awards-comparative-effectiveness-research-cycle-3-2020?utm_source=placer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=030420
Requests for Proposals to Address COVID-19
Cornerstone – List of federal funding opportunities for Covid-19
4/9/20 - page 7 begins description of each opportunity by fed agency. Read Here
4/10/20 – New opportunities. Read Here
NOT-AI-20-034 |
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) |
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NOT-AI-20-040 |
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) |
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NOT-GM-20-025 |
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) |
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NOT-AI-20-030 |
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) |
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NOT-HL-20-757 |
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) |
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NOT-DA-20-047 |
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) |
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NIH: CTSA Notice of special Interest (2 RFAs for a supplement and limited competition under our UL1 award). If you wish to submit a proposal in response to one of these RFA’s, please contact David McPherson, MD, PI for the UTHealth CTSA.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-TR-20-011.html