Center for Exposome Research Coordination to Accelerate Precision Environmental Health (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Background
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) solicits applications for establishing a Center for Exposome Research Coordination (CERC) that will serve the broad biomedical research community by coordinating and advancing exposome research to accelerate precision environmental health. The CERC will engage existing and ongoing exposome initiatives around the globe to promote methodological advancement and best practices, provide training and education, and foster national and international collaborations.

Grant Details
The Center for Exposome Research Coordination (CERC) will engage various groups and communities that are relevant to better operationalize exposomics and accelerate precision environmental health. The CERC is expected to work with the exposome research community and international partners in areas such as developing a commonly agreed upon framework for exposomics, creating a centralized online resource of methods and tools to support ongoing and future exposome initiatives, promoting standardization, harmonization, and best practices in exposome data collection, reporting, sharing, and analysis, identifying future needs in technology/methodology for data collection, analysis, and data interpretation, building a global exposome community supported by diverse perspectives, educating future scientists, fostering transdisciplinary collaborations.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include higher education institutions, nonprofits other than institutions of higher education, for-profit organizations, state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, Indian/Native American tribal governments (federally recognized), independent school districts, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments), faith-based or community-based organizations. Foreign institutions are not eligible to apply. The Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) are expected to be experienced in leading multi/transdisciplinary teams in the U.S. and globally.

Period of Performance
The period of performance is limited to 5 years.

Grant Value
NIH intends to commit $1,550,000 in FY2024 to fund one award. Applicants should request the funds needed to accomplish the proposed activities up to the total funding available.