Notice Number: NOT-HL-11-105

Key Dates
Release Date:  March 11, 2010

Issued by
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), (http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov)

Purpose

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) intends to promote a new initiative by publishing a Request for Applications (RFA) to solicit applications to improve our understanding of how cells respond to their environment and develop accurate assays and methods to understand how angiogenesis and organogenesis may instruct the creation of 3D engineered cellular aggregates.  This program is expected to develop new technologies by tissue engineers who effectively collaborate with scientists with relevant expertise in developmental and cell biology, systems biology, chemistry, physics and organ physiology.   The overall purpose of this program is to support highly integrated multidisciplinary scientific teams to advance the field beyond the more basic levels of structural and functional complexity and learn how to use the signals and microenvironments which direct normal angiogenesis and organogenesis in developing vertebrates.  These advances will be aimed towards addressing our knowledge gaps in tissue repair and regeneration.  Institutes expected to participate in the RFA include the NHLBI, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), and the National Institute for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS).

This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop meaningful collaborations and responsive projects. 

The RFA is expected to be published in May 2010 with an application receipt date in September 2010.   

This RFA will be published as two parallel funding opportunity announcements utilizing the R01 (NHLBI and NIBIB) and R21 (NHLBI and NIAMS) grant mechanisms.   

APPLICATIONS ARE NOT BEING SOLICITED AT THIS TIME.

Inquiries

Interested parties may contact:

Martha S. Lundberg, Ph.D.
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health
6701 Rockledge Drive
Room 8220, MSC 7940
Bethesda, MD 20892-7940

EXPRESS/COURIER:  Rockville, MD 20852
Phone: (301) 435-0513 Fax: (301) 480-1454
Email: lundberm@nhlbi.nih.gov  

Rosemarie Hunziker, Ph.D.
Division of Discovery Science and Technology
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institutes of Health
6707 Democracy Boulevard
Suite 200, MSC 5477
Bethesda, MD 20892-5477
Phone: (301) 451-1609
Email:  hunzikerr@mail.nih.gov

Fei Wang, Ph.D.
Division of Musculoskeletal Diseases
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
National Institutes of Health
6701 Democracy Boulevard
Suite 800
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 594-5055
Email: wangf@mail.nih.gov

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