Working With NCIBI

Individual investigators interested in collaborating with NCIBI should carefully consider the personnel, instrumentation, software tools, and driving Biological Projects available on this NCIBI portal . A letter of support from the NCIBI PI is required for your application. Since the National Centers are funded under cooperative agreements, the NIH Program Officer and the Lead Science Officer of the NCBC should be copied on communications to the NCIBI PI regarding a proposed collaborating project under this funding announcement. The review of collaborating R01 and R21 proposals and subsequent funding decisions are the responsibility of the NIH, not of NCIBI. These collaborations are intended to broaden both the biological and computational expertise of the NIH NCBCs and their impact.

The NCIBI Process

The NCIBI Executive Committee has designed a process for managing collaboration requests. Interested investigators should follow these steps to prepare a collaborative application.

RFP for Pilot Awards in NCIBI Driving Biological Project Domains

We are initiating a Pilot Project program to facilitate collaborative computational research by providing computational analysis and access to computational resources to investigators seeking preliminary data to support new NIH R01 grant funding in its three driving biological project (DBP) domains. Relevant projects will relate to the genetics of Bipolar Disorder and co-morbidities, especially substance abuse; end-organ complications of Diabetes, such as nephropathy, neuropathy, and retinopathy; or gene fusion events in Prostate Cancer progression. In each year, our pilot projects will focus on a different DBP, with the focus for 2008-2009 on projects relating to Bipolar Disorder and co-morbidities. Proposals relevant to the other DBP domains are also welcome. The deadline for proposals is July 25, 2008. More details are in the Request for Proposals.