Data Coordinating Center for the NICHD Cooperative Multicenter Neonatal Research Network (U10) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The grant opportunity RFA-HD-13-014 is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) cooperative agreement (U10) issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to support a Data Coordinating Center (DCC) for the NICHD Cooperative Multicenter Neonatal Research Network. The core purpose is to fund an organization that can serve as the central hub for data and trial coordination in an established, ongoing multicenter network that conducts both observational studies and interventional clinical trials in newborns. The overarching goal of the network, and therefore of the DCC, is to generate high-quality evidence using shared, common protocols across multiple sites in order to improve neonatal outcomes, particularly for high-risk infants typically cared for in neonatal intensive care settings.

Because this is a cooperative agreement rather than a standard research grant, the DCC is expected to work in close partnership with NICHD, with substantial involvement from the NIH program team in the planning and execution of network activities. In practical terms, the DCC role in this kind of network usually centers on ensuring that studies are designed and run in a consistent, rigorous way across participating hospitals and research centers. That commonly includes developing and maintaining data collection systems, coordinating protocol implementation and amendments, supporting randomization and trial operations for interventional studies, managing data quality control and monitoring, overseeing statistical design and analysis, producing interim and final reports, facilitating secure data management and sharing consistent with NIH expectations, and helping the network deliver publications and other dissemination products. The DCC also typically acts as the organizational backbone for multicenter collaboration by supporting communications, meetings, documentation, and timelines so that participating clinical sites can execute studies efficiently and comparably.

The FOA falls under the NIH activity category of Health and is listed under CFDA 93.865 (Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research). It does not require cost sharing or matching funds. The opportunity was posted and created on June 5, 2012, with an original and current closing date of August 9, 2012, and an archive date of September 9, 2012. While the dates indicate this specific announcement is historical, the description provides a clear snapshot of what NICHD sought at the time: an institution capable of acting as a long-term coordinating center supporting a national neonatal clinical research network conducting multiple studies under shared methods and governance.

Eligibility was broad across many U.S.-based organization types, reflecting the operational nature of a DCC and the need for strong infrastructure rather than a single academic profile. Eligible applicants included public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofits with and without 501(c)(3) status (including those other than universities), small businesses, for-profit organizations (other than small businesses), and a range of governmental entities such as state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, and independent school districts. Public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities were also listed. The announcement further clarifies additional eligible applicants, including Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Hispanic-serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), faith-based or community-based organizations, regional organizations, eligible agencies of the federal government, U.S. territories or possessions, and Indian/Native American tribal organizations and tribal governments (with distinctions between federally recognized and other-than-federally recognized entities noted in the eligibility text). At the same time, the FOA explicitly excluded non-U.S. (foreign) institutions and non-U.S. components of U.S. organizations, and it did not allow foreign components as defined by NIH policy, reinforcing that the coordinating infrastructure and funded activities were intended to be U.S.-based.

In short, this FOA supported a specialized, high-responsibility coordinating center function: an applicant organization was expected to provide the technical, statistical, operational, and organizational coordination needed for a multicenter neonatal research network to run harmonized observational studies and clinical trials. The DCC would be central to ensuring data integrity, consistent protocol execution, and timely analysis and reporting across sites, with NICHD actively engaged through the cooperative agreement structure. For full administrative and programmatic details, the announcement pointed applicants to the NIH posting at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-13-014.html and provided NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster contacts for access or linking issues (FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV).

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