Fostering the Development of Interdisciplinary Team Science for the Study of Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome (IC/PBS) (R24) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding opportunity RFA-DK-10-016, titled "Fostering the Development of Interdisciplinary Team Science for the Study of Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome (IC/PBS) (R24)," is designed to build and strengthen collaborative research teams focused on a single, high-impact scientific question related to urologic pelvic pain. The program targets the condition traditionally known as interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS) and supports team-based efforts that can move the field forward in meaningful ways, particularly in areas tied to improving understanding of the disease, preventing it, diagnosing it more accurately, or developing better treatments. A central idea behind the announcement is that a coordinated team, working together with shared goals, should be able to produce outcomes that are greater than what the same investigators could achieve if they worked separately.

This FOA emphasizes interdisciplinary "team science" and explicitly encourages new or unconventional approaches to IC/PBS research. Applications are expected to center on a critically important research question, and that question should be framed in a way that pushes beyond routine or incremental work. Rather than supporting a collection of unrelated projects, the mechanism is meant to unify investigators around one key problem, with each member contributing complementary expertise that strengthens the overall strategy. The intent is to create a tightly integrated effort where the collaboration itself is essential to answering the question, not just a loose network of individual studies.

In terms of who should be on the team, NIH signals a strong preference for established, independent investigators who already have their own research support and can bring proven scientific strengths to the collaboration. Teams are expected to combine expertise from diverse but complementary areas, which may include clinical research, basic laboratory science, and translational science. Traditional clinical urology expertise is specifically encouraged, reflecting the clinical roots of IC/PBS while still leaving room for contributors from other disciplines that could illuminate mechanisms of pain, inflammation, nerve function, epithelial biology, immunology, biomarker discovery, imaging, or other relevant domains. The larger goal is to assemble teams capable of tackling complex questions about urologic pelvic pain and its related conditions in ways that a single-discipline group would likely struggle to achieve.

The R24 mechanism in this context is positioned as a developmental platform for collaboration. NIH anticipates that teams formed and supported under this program will be well situated to compete for future, larger or longer-term awards that further advance knowledge about urologic pelvic pain syndromes and associated comorbidities. In other words, the award is not only about producing immediate research progress, but also about creating durable interdisciplinary partnerships and research infrastructure that can sustain a longer trajectory of discovery and clinical translation.

From an administrative and funding standpoint, the opportunity is categorized as a discretionary grant. The total estimated funding listed is $700,000, with an award ceiling of $350,000, suggesting an expectation of a limited number of awards at that scale. There is no cost-sharing or matching requirement, which generally lowers barriers for applicants by not requiring institutional financial contributions as a condition of funding. The opportunity was posted on February 7, 2011, with an original and current closing date of April 13, 2011, and it was later archived on May 14, 2011. The program is associated with CFDA number 93.847, which is tied to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) extramural research portfolio.

Eligibility is broad and includes many common applicant organization types across the public, private, nonprofit, academic, and governmental spectrum. Eligible applicants include nonprofits (both 501(c)(3) and other nonprofit structures), small businesses, for-profit entities (including those other than small businesses), city and county governments, state governments, special district governments, independent school districts, and public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities. Higher education institutions are eligible, including private institutions of higher education and public/state-controlled institutions of higher education. The FOA also lists a wide set of additional eligible entities such as federally recognized Native American tribal governments, tribal organizations that are not federally recognized, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions, tribally controlled colleges and universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, faith-based or community-based organizations, U.S. territories or possessions, regional organizations, eligible federal agencies, and non-U.S. entities (foreign organizations). This wide eligibility reflects NIH's interest in attracting strong interdisciplinary teams regardless of institutional setting, so long as the team can credibly execute the proposed work.

For applicants seeking the full details, NIH provided an announcement link through the NIH Grants Guide and contact points through the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster for technical access issues. The essence of the opportunity is straightforward: NIH wanted to catalyze serious, integrated, interdisciplinary team efforts aimed at answering one major, innovative research question in IC/PBS, with the expectation that successful teams would generate both near-term scientific advances and a strong foundation for subsequent funding and broader progress in urologic pelvic pain research.

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