The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit transformative technologies that will significantly expand throughput, multiplexing and discrimination of biomolecules in human tissues for comprehensive mapping of individual cells and their context in human tissues. This FOA supports the accelerated proof-of-principle demonstration and validation of promising tools, techniques and systems that can be integrated, scaled and applied to multiple human tissues, particularly for characterizing functional modifications, lipids and the extracellular environment. The initial two-year UG3 phase will support accelerated development and demonstration of feasibility of these emerging, high impact technologies. The subsequent two-year UH3 phase will support validation in human tissues, optimization, scale-up, and generation of data. Funded projects will be expected to work closely as part of the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program to catalyze development of a framework for 3D mapping the human body with high resolution.
Companion FOA: RFA-RM-20-002, U54 Specialized Center -- Cooperative Agreements
Deadlines:
RFA-RM-20-001 Expiration Date: March 4, 2020
Applications must not exceed $250,000 in direct costs per year during the UG3 phase and $400,000 in direct costs per year during the UH3 phase.
