Planning Centers for Interdisciplinary Research in Benign Urology (IR BU) (P20) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

Planning Centers for Interdisciplinary Research in Benign Urology (IR BU) (P20) is a National Institutes of Health funding opportunity issued by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) to help research teams form and organize around the problem of benign lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). The core idea is that LUTS like frequency, urgency, dysuria, and terminal dribbling describe what patients feel, but they do not clearly point to a single cause or even a single location in the body. Symptoms can arise from different urinary tract organs and tissues, their supporting structures, and potentially from peripheral or central nervous system involvement. Because this complexity has made it hard to map symptoms to specific etiologies, NIDDK is using this planning-center mechanism to push the field toward more integrated, cross-disciplinary approaches that can connect structure, function, and physiology with real-world in vivo biology.

These awards are meant to create or strengthen interdisciplinary teams, typically anchored by an urologist and a basic scientist, with additional collaborators brought in as needed from other scientific or clinical disciplines. The planning focus is on building a coherent research effort that links organ-specific development, anatomy, and function with physiology and pathophysiology, and then ties those insights to in vivo studies that can test how urologic and non-urologic systems interact to produce LUTS. In other words, the program is not just asking for isolated experiments; it is encouraging teams to design a unified, biologically grounded strategy for understanding how multiple organs and systems may contribute to the same symptom set.

Structurally, each IR BU Planning Center is limited to one Scientific Project, and it must also include two required components: an Administrative Core and an Educational Enrichment Program. The Administrative Core is there to coordinate the center, manage communication and operations, and keep the interdisciplinary work moving in a focused way. The Educational Enrichment Program is intended to build capacity and develop the team and pipeline, such as through training activities, seminars, workshops, or other educational efforts that strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration. The solicitation caps the Education Enrichment Program budget at $25,000.

The mechanism of support is the NIH P20 exploratory grant, and the overall project period is two years. Applicants may request up to $200,000 per year in direct costs for each of the two years. NIDDK anticipated committing up to $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2010 to this program and expected to make roughly 3 to 4 awards per year, depending on application quality and available funds. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of organizations: public and private institutions of higher education, state and local governments, tribal governments and tribal organizations, independent school districts, special district governments, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, nonprofits (including both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) organizations), and for-profit organizations other than small businesses, as well as small businesses themselves. The eligibility list also explicitly includes entities such as historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions, tribally controlled colleges and universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian serving institutions, faith-based or community-based organizations, regional organizations, eligible federal agencies, and U.S. territories or possessions. For project leadership, the opportunity encourages applications from any individuals with the expertise and resources to lead the work, and it specifically notes encouragement for individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups and individuals with disabilities.

Key administrative details from the announcement include the Funding Opportunity Number RFA-DK-10-001, posting date December 17, 2009, and an application due date of March 18, 2010 (with the opportunity later archived on April 18, 2010). The full announcement is hosted by NIH Grants (see the RFA link provided in the notice), and NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster contacts are listed for access or linking issues.

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