National Communication System for Runaway and Homeless Youth (ACF)

• Date: 02 April 2020
• Published date: 02 April 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31010

Federal Grants & Contracts ■ April 2, 2020 Page 7

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Grants alert (cont.)

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations, including small businesses; nonprot

organizations; and state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments; among others.

Areas: NIAID/NIA said examples of factors that may

require a project period of six or seven years include:

the nature of the disease under study, longer follow-up

required to achieve clinical and mechanistic outcomes,

the number and diversity of study sites, the number

of participants necessary for study completion, the

availability of a target pool for the study, the known

difficulty with participant recruitment and/or retention and

the complex regulatory requirements specic to the study.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# PAR-20-139

Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System

(CDC)

Scope: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

seeks applications for the Pregnancy Risk Assessment

Monitoring System announcement.

Deadline: July 7, 2020.

Funds: $41.2 million total for 57 awards ranging from

$75,000 to $175,000.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: CDC said applications are sought to: implement

standardized surveillance of postpartum women with

a recent live birth or stillbirth on selected maternal

behaviors and experiences that occur prior to, during

and shortly after pregnancy; implement surveillance on

emerging issues related to maternal and child health

that arise during the data-collection cycle, including

post-disaster or emergency surveillance; and ensure

collection of timely, high-quality data for ongoing

monitoring of maternal and infant health to inform

programs, research and system changes.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# RFA-DP-21-001

Core Infrastructure Support for Cancer

Epidemiology Cohorts (NCI)

Scope: The National Cancer Institute seeks (U01)

research project cooperative agreement applications

for the Core Infrastructure Support for Cancer

Epidemiology Cohorts (CEC) announcement to support

the maintenance of existing CEC infrastructure and

resource sharing with broader scientic communities.

Deadline: April 7, 2020; Nov. 9, 2020; and April 9, 2021.

Funds: Awards of up to $500,000 for a project period

with a maximum of ve years.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations, including small businesses; nonprot

organizations; and state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments; among others.

Areas: NCI said specic core functions that can be

supported for the existing cohorts may include but are

not limited to: follow-up (active and passive) of enrolled

participants, efforts to maintain high retention and

encourage study participant engagement, biospecimen

collection and management, support for staff related to

cohort maintenance and operation, additional queries

to participants to supplement existing information, and

preparation and distribution of data and specimens for

broad sharing with other investigators, among others.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# PAR-20-136

Aging Research Coordinating Center (NIA)

Scope: The National Institute on Aging seeks (R24)

resource-related research projects for the Articial

Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories for Aging

Research Coordinating Center (AITCC) announcement

to serve as a hub for the Articial Intelligence and

Technology Collaboratories for Aging (AITC) program

and facilitate and coordinate trans-AITC activities.

Deadline: Letters of Intent, Sept. 1, 2020; proposals,

Oct. 1, 2020.

Funds: $875,000 in FY2021 for one award.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations, including small businesses; nonprot

organizations; and state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments; among others.

Areas: NIA said the AITCC will also provide overarching

support and advice to AITCs in the following domains:

setting ethical research standards involving older

Americans and cognitively impaired older Americans

who will be exposed to technology and articial

intelligence methods; providing assistance through the

preparation of background instructions and submission

templates to ensure compliance with laws and Food and

Drug Administration regulations and facilitate approval

of technology and products associated with articial

intelligence; preparing background instructions and

submission templates to assist AITC pilot investigators

with reimbursement of technology through insurers;

assisting pilot recipients with scaling, dissemination

and commercialization of articial intelligence and

technology products derived from AITCs or other NIA-

funded grants; and disseminating AITC scientic and

product advances to the broader lay audience, scientic

community and commercial market.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# RFA-AG-21-018

National Communication System for Runaway

and Homeless Youth (ACF)

Scope: The Administration for Children and Families

seeks applications for the National Communication

System for Runaway and Homeless Youth

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