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Opportunity Summary:

The Metagenomic Analyses of the Oral Microbiome (R01) funding opportunity (PA-08-090) is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant announcement from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) focused on advancing what is known about how the oral microbial community influences human oral health and disease. The central idea is to move beyond studying a few well-known organisms and instead examine the entire oral microbiota using metagenomic methods that take advantage of newer capabilities in high-throughput DNA sequencing, genome assembly, and computational bioinformatics. The long-term aim is ambitious: to comprehensively characterize the microbes present in the oral environment and to catalog their genes, effectively defining the oral microbiome in both healthy and disease states.

Projects proposed under this announcement are expected to investigate the genomes of a wide range of organisms found in the mouth, including both cultivatable and uncultivable species. The scope is not limited to bacteria; it explicitly includes archaea, viruses, fungi, and parasites as well. This reflects the recognition that oral health and disease can be shaped by complex microbial ecosystems and interactions, including organisms that are difficult or impossible to grow in standard laboratory culture. A key expectation is that applicants will use metagenomic strategies to capture this full diversity and to generate genomic data that can clarify which microbes are present, what functional genes they carry, and how microbial community structure and function differ across conditions of health and disease.

The announcement emphasizes collaboration with advanced genomic sequencing centers and strong bioinformatics teams. In practice, that means applications should be designed with state-of-the-science sequencing and analytic pipelines in mind, including plans for sequence generation, assembly, annotation, and interpretation at a level appropriate for complex mixed-community samples. The intent is not simply to produce raw sequence reads, but to deliver well-annotated and interpretable genomic and functional information that can support meaningful biological insight into oral microbial communities.

This opportunity uses the NIH Research Project Grant (R01) mechanism, indicating support for substantial, hypothesis-driven or discovery-oriented research projects that are typically multi-year efforts. The number of awards and total funding are not fixed; awards are contingent on NIH funding availability and on receiving a sufficient number of high-quality, competitive applications. In other words, proposals would be evaluated through the usual NIH peer review process, and funding decisions would depend both on merit and on available resources.

Eligibility is broad across U.S.-based organizational types, including public and private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (including those with and without 501(c)(3) status), for-profit organizations other than small businesses, small businesses, and a range of government entities (state, county, city or township, special district, and independent school districts), as well as Native American tribal governments and tribal organizations. The announcement specifies that foreign institutions are not eligible to apply, while eligible federal agencies may apply. It also notes that faith-based and community-based organizations can apply. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement listed for this program.

Administratively, the opportunity falls under the health funding category and is associated with CFDA number 93.121 (Oral Diseases and Disorders Research). It was posted on February 5, 2008, with an original and current closing date of May 7, 2011, and an archive date of June 7, 2011, indicating it is no longer open but remains available as a historical funding announcement. The full details were provided through the NIH grants guide under the link associated with PA-08-090.

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