NIH Cardiovascular Research Network (CVRN) in Community-Based Care (U19)

WHAT: Limited Submission Proposal for the NIH Cardiovascular Research Network (CVRN) in Community-Based Care (U19)

WHO: Texas A&M University faculty, including TAES, TEES and TTI personnel

WHY: NIH anticipates making one award with total costs of $7.5 million dollars, including direct and indirect costs, for a project period of five years.

WHEN: Internal proposal deadline of January 12, 2007.

HOW: Faculty should submit internal proposal to osppc@tamu.edu for review by the internal selection committee.

THE FINE PRINT:

Details available below and online at http://osp.tamu.edu/limited-submission-proposals

The funding agency, NIH, has limited the number of proposals to one per institution.

BRIEF PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The NIH Cardiovascular Research Network (CVRN) in Community-Based Care (U19) Program is designed to increase scientific knowledge of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), including their epidemiology, risk and risk factors, prevention, detection and diagnosis, treatment and prognosis, in the context of community-based healthcare delivery, the environment in which most clinical and preventive care is delivered. Research funded by this program should be designed to be conducted in healthcare delivery organizations, take advantage of existing integrated data systems and use complementary resources for collaborative activities relevant to the goal. In addition, the proposed healthcare organizations should provide care in diverse patient care settings (inpatient, outpatient), provide longitudinal care (including prevention, diagnosis and treatment) of the major CVDs and have access to large, diverse and geographically dispersed patient populations with low turnover rates.

Areas of research may include: surveillance; clinical epidemiology, prevention and outcomes research; evaluation and methodological studies related to clinical trials; and clinical informatics studies. Each application must consist of two or more separate but related research projects, as well as associated cores that support the research projects.

The following approaches are anticipated for meeting the program’s objectives: developing and applying innovative methods to efficiently collect and interpret data from existing electronic data systems including electronic health records and web-based medical communication systems; assembling large samples of patient and provider data for patients with CVDs or CVD risk factors; documenting patient demographic and chronic disease risk characteristics, including traditional as well as novel risk factors; obtaining data on hypothesized prognostic factors associated with healthcare delivery as well as with patient outcomes; documenting longitudinal patterns of healthcare delivery, resource utilization and costs; collecting and integrating complex data from patients, providers and organizations to examine issues in healthcare delivery from multiple perspectives; and creating de-identified research datasets containing health information from the network’s member organizations for use by both network and outside researchers.

NIH anticipates making one award with total costs of $7.5 million dollars, including direct and indirect costs, for a project period of five years. Approximately 55-65% of the five-year budget should be allocated to the two proposed research projects. No more than 30% of the budget should be allocated for infrastructure activities, including 5% or less of total costs for evaluation functions of the evaluation core. Further, no more than 10% of the budget should be allocated for emerging research issues.

More information can be found at:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HL-07-011.html

Internal Selection Procedures and Deadlines

January 10, 2007: Deadline for an email of intent, including the names of the PI and co-PIs, title of internal proposal and a 1-3 sentence description of the project. Send email of intent to osppc@tamu.edu

January 12, 2007: Deadline to obtain signatures of approval from your department head and college dean to submit an internal proposal to the Office of Sponsored Projects for review by the internal selection committee. The internal proposal should include:

An executive summary, up to three pages, based on the proposal description as outlined in the NIH program announcement;
Summary budget;
Project and Management Plans (including team members)

The form for completing the internal proposal is here.

This completed form should be submitted electronically to osppc@tamu.edu for review by the internal selection committee.

Please read the RFP carefully for specific requirements of the program at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HL-07-011.html

Selection of a proposal will be based on NIH guidelines. The needs of the university’s reinvestment plan will also be taken into account.

During the selection process, the internal selection committee may contact departments and colleges for their opinions and commitments. They may also request additional information from PIs.

January 19, 2007: The Internal Selection Committee will notify PIs of the result of the internal competition.

January 22, 2007: Deadline for optional, but recommended, letter of intent to NIH.

February 21, 2007: Deadline for full proposal.