Opportunity Information: Apply for PAR 16 396
The NICHD Laboratory of Developmental Biology (R24) funding opportunity (PAR-16-396) is a National Institutes of Health discretionary grant designed to sustain and strengthen established community resources that provide conceptal tissue materials to researchers. The core purpose is to support organized, service-oriented programs that collect, identify, stage, and distribute conceptal tissues so scientists can study the developmental biology that underlies both normal and abnormal human development, as well as a range of human pathologies. In practice, this is less about funding a single hypothesis-driven research project and more about maintaining a high-quality, well-managed infrastructure that reliably supplies properly characterized biological materials to the broader research community.
The scientific emphasis centers on conceptal tissues, meaning tissues associated with early development that are essential for understanding how human development proceeds and how disruptions may contribute to congenital anomalies, developmental disorders, pregnancy-related complications, or later-life disease processes with developmental origins. By emphasizing collection, identification, staging, and distribution, the announcement highlights the full pipeline needed for a tissue resource to be genuinely useful: consistent acquisition; accurate labeling and characterization; standardized staging (so investigators can compare samples across studies); and a distribution system that enables access by qualified users. The underlying expectation is that funded resources will operate with rigorous procedures and quality controls so the materials are dependable for downstream experimental work.
This opportunity is categorized under the Health, Income Security and Social Services activity area and is associated with CFDA number 93.865. The funding instrument is an NIH grant using the R24 mechanism, which is commonly used to support resource-related projects that serve many investigators rather than a single lab. The objective language makes it clear that NICHD intends to bolster resources that are already established and actively serving the scientific community, rather than creating an entirely new, untested tissue program from scratch.
Eligibility is broad across U.S.-based organizational types, reflecting the resource-serving mission. Eligible applicants include various levels of government (state, county, city or township, and special district governments), independent school districts, and tribal governments (federally recognized). Higher education institutions are eligible across public/state-controlled and private categories. The FOA also allows nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3), as long as they are not institutions of higher education) and for-profit organizations (other than small businesses), as well as small businesses and other entities. In addition, the announcement explicitly calls out several categories of "other eligible applicants," including Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, AANAPISIs, Hispanic-serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities, eligible federal agencies, faith-based or community-based organizations, regional organizations, and U.S. territories or possessions, along with certain tribal governments that are not federally recognized.
At the same time, the FOA is strict about foreign involvement. Non-domestic (non-U.S.) entities and foreign institutions are not eligible to apply. Non-domestic components of U.S. organizations are also not eligible, and foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are not allowed. These restrictions signal that the supported resource and its operational footprint must remain within allowable domestic boundaries.
The source data lists the original posting timeframe and administrative details: the opportunity was created on 2016-08-11 and had an original closing date of 2017-11-28. The award ceiling and expected number of awards are not specified in the provided text, which is common in some NIH listings where final budgets depend on scope, availability of funds, and program priorities. Overall, the announcement is best read as a call for applications from organizations that already have the expertise, systems, and governance to run a high-demand tissue resource, with the goal of enabling many downstream studies that advance understanding of human developmental biology and disease.Apply for PAR 16 396
- The National Institutes of Health in the health, income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NICHD Laboratory of Developmental Biology (R24)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.865.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2016-08-11.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-11-28. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.
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