Organ Transplant Infection Detection and Prevention Program (U01) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The Organ Transplant Infection Detection and Prevention Program (U01) is a CDC cooperative agreement funding opportunity (FOA number RFA CK-09-003) designed to strengthen infection surveillance, prevention, and applied public health research focused on people receiving solid organ transplants and stem cell transplants. The central idea is to support transplant centers that are already embedded in established surveillance or research networks and use that foundation to build a coordinated consortium of centers of excellence. Through this consortium approach, CDC is aiming to improve how infections are detected, tracked, and prevented in highly vulnerable transplant populations, where immunosuppression and complex care pathways can make infections more frequent, harder to diagnose, and more dangerous.

This opportunity was released by the CDC Procurement and Grants Office and uses the cooperative agreement mechanism (U01), which typically indicates substantial federal involvement compared with a standard grant. In practice, that means awardees should expect active collaboration with CDC on program direction, surveillance methods, data quality, and the translation of findings into public health practice. The activity category is Health, and the CFDA listing associated with the opportunity is 93.283 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Investigations and Technical Assistance). No cost sharing or matching is required, which reduces the financial barrier for the limited pool of eligible applicants.

Funding and award structure were modest but targeted. CDC anticipated making two awards, with roughly $600,000 available in fiscal year 2009 to support them. The award ceiling was listed at $300,000, aligning with the expectation of two awards at that level in that fiscal year. The broader estimated total funding is stated as $3,000,000, suggesting a multi-year program horizon or the expectation of continued support across budget periods, even though the single-year FY2009 amount was around $600,000. The award floor is listed as $0, which is a standard listing element and does not imply that awards of zero dollars would be made; rather, it indicates no minimum award amount was specified in the summary fields.

Eligibility was highly restricted. Competition was limited to transplant centers already participating in OTIP, specifically naming the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Pittsburgh. In other words, this was not an open national competition; it was structured to build on existing participation and infrastructure within a defined transplant infection program network. The FOA also lists the eligible applicant type as "Others" with additional eligibility clarification in the full announcement, but the summary makes clear that only the currently participating OTIP transplant centers were allowed to apply.

The timeline indicates this was a time-limited, archived opportunity from 2009. The posting date was February 11, 2009. The original application closing date was April 13, 2009, with a noted updated closing date of April 17, 2009, and applications were due by 5:00 PM Eastern Time on the closing date. The archive date was May 13, 2009. The record also includes a creation date of April 14, 2009, which reflects when the listing was created or updated in the system and does not change the practical submission deadlines stated.

For applicants or interested parties who could not access the full announcement electronically at the time, the CDC provided a point of contact through PGO TIMS by phone (770-488-2700) and referenced a general email contact. Overall, the opportunity was meant to formalize and expand a focused transplant infection detection and prevention effort by supporting a small, pre-identified set of expert transplant centers to operate as a coordinated consortium, generating surveillance insight and applied research that could directly improve infection prevention practices for transplant recipients.

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