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Opportunity Summary:

The Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (NORC) (P30) funding opportunity, issued by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), supports institutions that want to build or strengthen a centralized, shared-resource research center focused on nutrition and/or obesity. The basic idea is to fund a “core center” structure that multiple investigators can use, rather than funding only individual stand-alone projects. By concentrating shared services, expertise, and infrastructure in one coordinated program, the NORC model is meant to raise the overall quality and efficiency of research, reduce duplication of expensive resources, and create an environment where collaboration and new research directions are more likely to develop.

A key feature of this program is the emphasis on shared cores that serve a broader community of funded investigators. These cores are intended to provide cost-effective resources that individual labs or projects would struggle to maintain on their own, such as specialized laboratory services, advanced analytical capabilities, clinical or community research support, biostatistics and data management, participant recruitment infrastructure, imaging or metabolic phenotyping support, nutritional assessment methods, or other specialized services relevant to nutrition and obesity science. The FOA highlights that productivity and synergy are central goals, meaning applicants are expected to design a center that actively connects researchers and helps them work together in ways that lead to stronger science than any single group could accomplish alone.

Each proposed center must be organized around central themes that reflect the scientific focus of its members in nutrition and/or obesity research. In practice, that means the applying institution should already have a critical mass of investigators working in related areas and should be able to describe a coherent set of research strengths that justify a formal center. The center themes help define what kinds of shared cores are needed, how investigators will interact, and how the program will prioritize services and pilot activities to stimulate new studies. While the announcement text provided here does not list specific required cores, the P30 center mechanism typically expects a structured administrative function and well-justified shared facilities that are clearly tied to the needs of participating researchers.

This is a discretionary grant opportunity using the NIH P30 center grant mechanism, categorized under Food and Nutrition and Health, and associated with CFDA 93.847 (Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research). The opportunity does not require cost sharing or matching funds. The total estimated funding amount listed is $3,400,000, with an award ceiling of $750,000, indicating that individual awards are capped at that level for the competition described.

Eligibility is broad across U.S.-based organizations and includes public and private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (including those with and without 501(c)(3) status), state and local governments (such as county and city/township governments), special district governments, independent school districts, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, tribal governments and tribal organizations, regional organizations, and certain business entities including small businesses. The eligibility list also explicitly includes Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Hispanic-serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), as well as faith-based or community-based organizations and eligible federal agencies. At the same time, non-U.S. entities are not eligible to apply, and foreign components of U.S. organizations are not allowed under this announcement.

Key dates for this specific FOA include a posted and created date of July 1, 2011, with an original and current closing date of November 16, 2011, and an archive date of December 17, 2011. The funding opportunity number is RFA-DK-11-012, and the official title is “Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (P30).” For full details, NIH provided an additional information link to the full announcement on the NIH grants site (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa files/RFA DK 11 012.html). For access or technical issues related to the posting, the notice points applicants to the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster contact (FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV).

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