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The Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program held a pre-application webinar for its 2024 X01, PAR-24-082. Participation in the pre-application webinar was encouraged, but not required.

Read more about the opportunity online: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-082.html

Slides will be made available on the Kids first website: https://www.commonfund.nih.gov/kidsfirst

For a non audio described version of the video, visit: https://youtu.be/uPiQLFHaBR0

The NIH Common Fund is conducting strategic planning for a potential Complement-ARIE program to catalyze the development, standardization, validation, and use of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) that will more accurately model human biology.  

As part of planning for this potential program, the NIH’s Office of Strategic Coordination (which oversees the Common Fund) has launched a prize competition to solicit entries for new methods and approaches that would complement, make more efficient, or in some cases, replace traditional models transforming the way biomedical science is conducted. Winning ideas could help to inform the goals of the Complement-ARIE program concept. 

On December 6, 2023, the Common Fund hosted a Q&A panel discussion webinar where solvers could learn more about the prize competition and submit questions to a panel of experts.

The challenge submission deadline is January 11, 2024.  

To view an non-audio described version of this video, please visit: https://youtu.be/Gfe8vX8L2bg

To learn more about the challenge, please visit: https://www.herox.com/Complement-ARIE

Information regarding ongoing Complement-ARIE concept planning activities can be found at: https://commonfund.nih.gov/complementarie/strategicplanning

For more information on the Somatic Cell Genome Editing program, visit our website at:
https://commonfund.nih.gov/editing

Follow this link to for a version of the video that does not include audio descriptions: https://youtu.be/LaOnvmL_CCM

Thousands of human diseases are caused by changes, or mutations, to the body's DNA. What if we could treat all these diseases by diving into our living cells to correct the mistakes? The Somatic Cell Genome Editing program aims to make that happen. Recently, researchers have made great progress in correcting DNA mutations using a technique called genome editing, and the first tests of genome editing for human diseases are starting. However, there are still some challenges to achieve safe and effective genome editing in patient cells. The Somatic Cell Genome Editing, or SCGE, program was launched by the NIH Common Fund to develop quality tools to perform safe and effective genome editing in human patients. The SCGE program will make more genome editing tools available to researchers to develop better packages to deliver the tools to the right cells, design new tests for the safety and efficacy of genome editing, and make all of the information available to the scientific community to drive future discoveries and cures for patients.

As part of the DS-I Africa Symposium, this session addressed emerging opportunities and challenges in the application of Data Science and Informatics technologies in various biomedical domains. It also highlighted some key challenges in the areas of data mining, data quality, standards for various types of data, in addition to addressing how cutting-edge data analytics, predictive modeling and Machine Learning, and methods for simulations can advance human health in Africa.

Moderator:

Darrell Hurt, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Geetha Senthil, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
Panelists:

Abdoulaye Banire Diallo, University of Quebec-Montreal (UQAM)
Elaine Nsoesie, Boston University
Geoffrey Siwo, University of Notre Dame
Dina Machuve, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology
Moustapha Cisse, Google AI

NIH program and review staff discuss funding opportunity RFA-RM-23-004 and answer questions about the application and review process during this pre-application interactive Q&A webinar. This recording has audio descriptions.

You can find a non audio-described version of the webinar here: https://youtu.be/qjTPAZSFLwQ

NIH program and review staff discuss funding opportunity RFA-RM-23-006 and answer questions about the application and review process during this pre-application interactive Q&A webinar. This recording has audio descriptions.

You can find a non audio-described version of the webinar here: https://youtu.be/pExOK168TF0

NIH program and review staff discuss funding opportunity RFA-RM-23-007 and answer questions about the application and review process during this pre-application interactive Q&A webinar. This recording has audio descriptions.

You can find a non audio-described version of the webinar here: https://youtu.be/APxnmjkkorI

On September 2, 2022, the NIH staff pre-recorded a technical assistance presentation to help applicants prepare your letter of intent (LOI) for the NIH Common Fund’s Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society ( ComPASS) Research Opportunity Announcement (ROA) OTA-22-007. NIH staff provided an overview of ComPASS program, the LOI requirements and review process, a brief overview of the OTA-22-007 full application process and Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Mechanism. The goals of ComPASS are to 1) develop, share, and evaluate community-led health equity structural interventions that leverage partnerships across multiple sectors to reduce health disparities and 2) develop a new health equity research model for community-led, multisectoral structural intervention research across NIH and other federal agencies. For more information about the ComPASS program visit: https://commonfund.nih.gov/compass.

A non-audio described version of this video is available here: https://youtu.be/DE2qIIt7Ids

The Office of Strategic Coordination (NIH Common Fund) has published a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit applications for a new initiative of the Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) program. This initiative called the Human Open Research Neural Engineering Technology (HORNET) Initiative (U41 Clinical Trial Optional) is intended to support HORNET Centers to develop and disseminate open-source implantable neuromodulation modules and systems to help facilitate translation of new peripheral neuromodulation therapies to humans. The FOA utilizes the cooperative agreement U41 activity code and applications are due January 12, 2022 by 5:00PM local time of applicant organization.

This video provides an overview of the HORNET initiative and application information. Please visit our website to find out more information on SPARC: https://commonfund.nih.gov/sparc

You can find a list of HORNET FAQs at the following link: https://commonfund.nih.gov/sparc/faqs2

The SPARC HORNET initiative funding opportunity announcement (RFA-RM-21-024) is available here: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-21-024.html
A non-audio described version of the video is available at the following link: https://youtu.be/qycNF9YRNWc

In this webinar, NIH staff explain the application process for the NIH Director's Early Independence Award and answer attendee questions. The Early Independence Award is part of the NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, and supports outstanding junior scientists with the intellect, scientific creativity, drive, and maturity to bypass the traditional postdoctoral training period and launch independent research careers. Learn more about the program and any current funding opportunities: https://commonfund.nih.gov/earlyindependence

A non-audio described verison of this video is available here: https://youtu.be/sFLnBzN22hk

In this webinar, NIH staff explain the application process for the NIH Director's Transformative Research Award and answer attendee questions.

The Transformative Research Award is part of the NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, and supports individuals or teams proposing transformative projects that are inherently risky and untested but have the potential to create or overturn fundamental paradigms and may require very large budgets.

Learn more about the program and any current funding opportunities: https://commonfund.nih.gov/tra

A non-audio described version of this video is available here: https://youtu.be/I2fKgIG21Ac

In this webinar, NIH staff explain the application process for the NIH Director's New Innovator Award and answer attendee questions.

The New Innovator Award is part of the NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, and supports exceptionally creative early career investigators who propose innovative, high-impact projects in the biomedical, behavioral or social sciences within the NIH mission.

Learn more about the program and any current funding opportunities: https://commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator

A non-audio described version of this video is available here: https://youtu.be/jSZdEjE6U_s

On April 27, 2021, the NIH Common Fund hosted a pre-application webinar for the Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity initiative’s funding opportunities (RFA-RM-21-021 and RFA-RM-21-022). NIH program, grants management, and review staff discussed the overall scope and intent of these funding opportunities, the review process, and the use of the cooperative agreement (U01) mechanism. NIH staff also answered questions submitted by participants. The Common Fund’s Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity initiative is part of NIH’s UNITE, an effort aimed to address structural racism and promote racial equity and inclusion at NIH and within the larger biomedical research enterprise.

Please find more information on our website: https://commonfund.nih.gov/healthdisparitiestransformation/grants

Please find the non-audio described version of this video here: https://youtu.be/MVT3sVNbnmE

This session highlighted the emerging field of health metrics sciences and its role in measuring and monitoring summary measures of health in Africa to better develop and implement measures to reduce the burden of disease. It identified challenges and opportunities relevant to the DS-I Africa initiatives; addressed the increasing role that health metrics is playing in informing and prioritizing systems-level health interventions and broad public health-related decision making; discussed how health metrics and data science can inform and evaluate more effective integrated care efforts at the intersection of infectious diseases and the rapidly growing burden of chronic, non-communicable diseases.

Moderators:
- George A. Mensah, MD, FACC, Director, Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science, NHLBI, NIH
- Makeda Williams, PhD, MPH, Global Health Program Director, Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science, NHLBI, NIH 

Panelists:
- Mayowa Owolabi, MBBS, MSc, DrM, Professor of Neurology and Director, Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine; Dean, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, University of Ibadan
- Laura Dwyer-Lindgren, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, and Institute for Health Metrics, University of Washington
- Ana H Mocumbi, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Researcher and Head, Chronic & Non-Communicable Diseases Division, Ministry of Health, National Health Institute & Eduardo  Mondlane University 
- Ali H. Mokdad, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Chief Strategy Officer, Population Health, University of Washington

This webinar discussed the COVID-19 situation in Africa and presented application examples of Data Science for disease management. A panel of experts touched on topics such as disease surveillance, generating dashboards with the latest statistics, and mining of text or social media to discover trends. Other topics included data-interoperability, publication tracking, disease burden and mortality, and the effect of COVID-19 on diseases like HIV and malaria.

Moderators:
- Stefan Jaeger, Ph.D., National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
- Cecile Viboud, Ph.D., Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health

Panelists:
- Agnes Kiragga, Ph.D., Head of Statistics and Data Management Unit and Senior Research Scientist, Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University College of Health Sciences
- Nirmal Ravi, M.D., Ph.D., Director for Medical and Scientific Affairs, E-Health Africa, and Chief Innovation Officer, EHA Clinics
- Ali H. Mokdad, Ph.D., Professor of Health Metrics Sciences, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Chief Strategy Officer, Population Health at the University of Washington
- Elaine Nsoesie, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health
- Frank Kagoro, M.D., MSc, Research Physician, MORU Tropical Health Network and WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network; PhD Candidate, University of Cape Town

Maternal and child health outcomes in Africa still lag behind the rest of the world despite prioritization as a topic of focus within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Partners from country-level governments, research institutions, private sector program funding agencies and non-governmental organizations are involved in various capacities and across disciplines, implementing activities to reduce the enormous burden of high mortality and morbidity of women and children on the African continent. Nonetheless, millions of women and children experience death and severe morbidity each year despite these efforts. In this session we will 1) address the gap in availability of existing databases and collective data focused on pregnancy and the peripartum period; 2) explore emerging use of linked data such as electronic medical records as a tool for conducting research, analyzing data and creating tools for interventions; and 3) develop concrete recommendations for a strategy to utilize data science to improve maternal and child health outcomes from pre-pregnancy to pregnancy and delivery and throughout the mother and child’s life course.

Introductions:
- Vesna Kutlesic, Ph.D., Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Naveen Rao, M.D., Senior Vice President & Senior Advisor to the President, Health Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation
- Diana Bianchi, M.D., Director, NICHD, NIH

Moderators:
- Denise Russo, Ph.D., NICHD, NIH
- Marion koso-Thomas, M.D., MPH, NICHD, NIH

Panelists:
- Andre van der Kouwe, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Physics, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Lilla Zöllei, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
- Moses Alobo, M.D., Program Manager, Grand Challenges Africa Programme at African Academy of Sciences
- Alash’le Abimiku, Ph.D., Professor in Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Executive Director, International Research Center of Excellence at the Institute of Human Virology-Nigeria
- Amel Ghouila, Ph.D., Vice President, African Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB); Founder, Technovation Tunisia