The purpose of this FOA issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), NIH is to announce the re-competition of the Reproductive Scientist Development Program (RSDP).
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/30/2022
Size of the Grant: $920,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
Purpose
The purpose of the Reproductive Scientist Development Program (RSDP) is to provide career development support for obstetricians and gynecologists who have completed their clinical training and are committed to a career conducting basic science research in an academic setting. This program constitutes a national network of mentors and scholars. In contrast to K12 programs that are based solely at a single applicant institution, the RSDP is located at academic institutions and laboratories of nationally recognized scientific leaders across the U.S., provides a mentored training experience, and fosters the transition of junior faculty into independent productive physician-scientists in scientific areas related to obstetrics and gynecology and its subspecialties. This program facilitates career development of the next generation of scientific leaders in obstetrics, gynecology and the reproductive sciences, and is designed to increase the pipeline of basic translational researchers who will contribute to the scientific mission of NICHD through discovery and application of scientific advances to clinical women’s health, gynecologic and obstetrical practice. Areas of interests covered by the program are broadly defined, with emphasis in cell and molecular biology as applied to problems in reproductive endocrinology, genetics, maternal-fetal medicine, gynecologic oncology, urogynecology, infectious disease, or other aspects of reproduction.
Scope of the Program
The RSDP provides four years of mentored research experiences. With funds from this award, the RSDP will provide annual support for up to eight scholars including up to two scholars for each of the first and second year of Phase I training, and for each of the first and second year of Phase II training. These scholars will train in laboratories located at premier research institutions throughout the country. After having been nominated to the RSDP by a Chairperson, each applicant to the RSDP will be chosen for entry into Phase I and progression to Phase II by an RSDP Selection Committee.
The scope of the research conducted by the scholar can include all areas of Ob-Gyn and related fields with a focus on career development leading to research independence. Emphasis of scientific projects should be on allowing the scholar to acquire state-of-the-art techniques in cellular/molecular biology, genetics, etc. that will allow them to answer questions important to reproductive science and medicine. In addition, the program will encourage leadership development and other training that fosters career development. The work should ultimately be relevant to general Ob-Gyn and/or its subspecialties such as maternal-fetal medicine, reproductive endocrinology and infertility, gynecologic oncology and urogynecology.
Topic Areas
RSDP scholars study a broad array of topics related to the reproductive sciences. Some examples of recent project topics include but are not limited to:
- Molecular mechanisms of preeclampsia
- The role of transposons and piwi-interacting RNA in gynecological health and disease
- Epigenetics mechanisms involved in the prenatal origins of age-related disease
- Molecular mechanisms of hormonal signaling
- Genetic regulation of gonad development and sexual differentiation
- Epigenetic regulation of innate immunity in pregnancy
- Hormonal prophylaxis of ovarian cancer.
Funding Information
- Application budgets are limited to $920,000 direct costs in all years of support, and must reflect actual needs of the proposed RSDP.
- The maximum project period is five years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
- The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
- Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
- U.S. Territory or Possession
- Other
- Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
- Federal Governments
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.