NIDDK Consortium Interconnectivity Network Coordinating Unit (dkCOIN CU) U24 | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The NIDDK Consortium Interconnectivity Network Coordinating Unit (dkCOIN CU) U24 opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number RFA-DK-11-005) is a National Institutes of Health cooperative agreement aimed at building and sustaining a central hub that helps multiple NIDDK-supported research consortia share information in a more connected, usable way. The core idea is to fund a Coordinating Unit that can provide overall vision, scientific leadership, and day-to-day management for dkCOIN, while also supplying the technical and organizational infrastructure needed to keep the network functioning and to support future growth. Rather than funding a single research project, this mechanism supports a coordinating and enabling function: bringing together resources, datasets, and tools from different groups and making them easier for the broader NIDDK research community to find, access, and use.

dkCOIN itself was originally formed to explore and address the practical requirements for information sharing across four established NIDDK-supported consortia: the Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas (NURSA), the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC), the Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Centers (MMPC), and the Animal Models of Diabetic Complications Consortium (AMDCC). These programs each generate valuable data, experimental resources, protocols, and community knowledge, but historically those assets can live in separate systems with different formats, vocabularies, and access pathways. This FOA centers on reducing that fragmentation by supporting a Coordinating Unit that can knit together those distributed holdings into an integrated, user-friendly web interface. The intent is that investigators working in diabetes, metabolism, digestive diseases, and kidney disease can move more seamlessly across related resources, discover relevant data and materials faster, and use shared standards or linkages to make cross-consortium comparisons more feasible.

A key feature of the announcement is its emphasis on both scientific direction and administrative management. In practice, that means the funded Coordinating Unit would be expected to do more than just build a website. It would guide how dkCOIN evolves, set priorities for integration and expansion, coordinate among participating consortia and stakeholders, and maintain the operational backbone that keeps the network responsive to user needs. The FOA highlights continued development and expansion, signaling that the Coordinating Unit should be positioned to incorporate additional NIDDK-related research groups over time, not simply connect the original four consortia. The overarching outcome NIH is aiming for is a uniquely valuable and powerful resource for NIDDK investigators: a central, well-managed platform that makes it easier to locate and reuse data and resources across multiple communities.

Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity using the cooperative agreement mechanism (U24). A cooperative agreement typically indicates that NIH expects to have substantial programmatic involvement compared with a standard research grant, which fits the coordinating, network-oriented nature of dkCOIN. The activity category is listed under Food and Nutrition/Health, and the CFDA number is 93.847 (Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research), aligning it with NIDDKs mission areas. The FOA did not require cost sharing or matching.

In terms of scale and timing, the opportunity listed an estimated total funding amount of $600,000. The announcement was posted and created on February 15, 2011, with an original and current closing date of April 15, 2011, and an archive date of May 16, 2011. While those dates indicate the opportunity is historical/archived, the description clearly lays out the model NIH sought to support: a coordinating unit designed to provide leadership, governance, integration strategy, and a robust web-based interface for interconnected consortium resources.

Eligibility was broad and included many organization types across academia, government, nonprofit, and industry. Eligible applicants included public and private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (with and without 501(c)(3) status), for-profit organizations (including small businesses), state and local governments (such as counties, cities, townships, special districts), public housing authorities, and tribal governments and organizations. The eligibility language also explicitly included a range of mission-serving institutions and community-based entities, such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving Institutions, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), and faith-based or community-based organizations, as well as eligible federal agencies and U.S. territories or possessions. This breadth suggests NIH was open to whichever capable entity could credibly deliver the leadership, coordination, and informatics infrastructure required to run a network-wide integration effort.

For reference, the full announcement was linked through the NIH Grants Guide (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-11-005.html). The provided contact pathway for access or linking issues was the NIH Office of Extramural Research webmaster (FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV).

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