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Opportunity Summary:

The NIBIB Biomedical Technology Service Centers (P30) opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number PAR 14-145) is a National Institutes of Health grant program designed to build and support shared biomedical technology infrastructure that many NIH-funded researchers need but cannot easily access through typical institutional core facilities or commercial options. The basic idea is to fund centers that operate as service hubs, making specialized tools, platforms, and expertise broadly available to a diverse community of investigators. The emphasis is not on a single research project, but on creating and maintaining capabilities that enable multiple NIH-supported research teams to do better, faster, or otherwise impossible work because they can rely on a centralized, high-quality resource.

These P30 Centers are meant to provide infrastructure and resources that are not widely available, which can include a wide range of biomedical technologies. Examples mentioned in the announcement span from shared biomedical instrumentation (for instance, advanced imaging systems or custom measurement platforms) to open bioinformatics systems (such as shared data processing environments, software pipelines, or platforms that allow multiple groups to analyze and manage biomedical data). Because these centers serve a broader research base, the FOA highlights that dissemination should be part of the center's mission. In practical terms, dissemination can include making technologies, tools, methods, workflows, protocols, or datasets accessible to the broader scientific community, not just to local users. The FOA also notes that centers may engage in training activities, meaning training is allowed and can strengthen the overall impact of the center, but the core expectation is service and access to enabling infrastructure.

The program is categorized as discretionary funding and uses the grant funding instrument. The activity area is health, and it falls under CFDA 93.286, "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health." There is no cost sharing or matching requirement listed, which generally means applicants are not required to commit non-federal matching funds as a condition of the award, although applicants still typically need to present realistic budgets and plans for sustainability and operations.

The announcement lists an award ceiling of $600,000. That ceiling indicates the maximum award amount expected under the FOA, and applicants would generally need to shape their proposed service center scope, staffing, equipment, and operational plans to fit within that limit. Because P30 awards support shared resources, budgets commonly include personnel who operate and maintain the technology, user support and service delivery costs, quality control, maintenance contracts, and other infrastructure-related expenses tied directly to running a reliable service center.

Eligibility is broad across many U.S.-based organization types, including public and private institutions of higher education, state and local governments (state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments), independent school districts, and various nonprofit categories including 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) nonprofits (excluding institutions of higher education in those nonprofit categories, as specified). The FOA also allows small businesses and for-profit organizations other than small businesses, as well as public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities. It explicitly includes a number of mission-focused institution types and community-based categories as eligible, such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving Institutions, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), along with faith-based or community-based organizations and eligible federal government agencies. Regional organizations and U.S. territories or possessions are also listed among eligible applicants.

At the same time, the eligibility rules clearly exclude non-U.S. entities. Non-domestic (non-U.S.) institutions are not eligible to apply, and non-domestic components of U.S. organizations are also not eligible. The FOA further states that foreign components, as defined by the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are not allowed. In effect, the center and its supported activities must be U.S.-based without foreign components.

The posting and creation date for the opportunity is March 5, 2014. The original and current closing date listed is September 7, 2014, and the archive date is October 8, 2014, indicating that this specific posting is no longer active and has been archived, but it still provides a clear snapshot of the program intent and structure for that cycle. The administering agency is the National Institutes of Health, specifically tied to NIBIB (the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering) based on the title and description.

For applicants or interested parties seeking the full announcement details, the opportunity provides an additional information link to the NIH Grants Guide page (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-145.html). For access or technical issues with the announcement, the contact point provided is the NIH Office of Extramural Research webmaster at FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV, which is intended for troubleshooting access and linking problems rather than programmatic scientific questions.

Overall, this FOA is best understood as support for a shared technology service center model: a centralized, well-managed set of tools and staff expertise that can reliably deliver advanced biomedical technology capabilities to many NIH-funded researchers, paired with deliberate dissemination and optional training so the benefit extends beyond a single lab or project.

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