Funder: National Institutes of Health
Due Dates: February 16, 2025 (New) | March 16, 2025 (Renewal/Resubmission/Revision) | June 16, 2025 (New) | July 16, 2025 (Renewal/Resubmission/Revision) | October 16, 2025 (New) | November 16, 2025 (Renewal/Resubmission/Revision)
Funding Amounts: Up to $50,000 direct costs per year, max 2 years (R03 mechanism).
Summary: Supports archiving and documentation of existing child health and human development data sets to enable secondary analysis, with priority for NICHD-funded data.
Key Information: Clinical trials are not allowed; data must be within NICHD’s scientific mission; archiving of data not yet collected is not eligible.
Description
This opportunity from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) supports the archiving and documentation of existing data sets relevant to child health and human development. The goal is to make these data sets accessible for secondary analysis by the broader scientific community. Highest priority is given to archiving original data collected with NICHD funding, but other data sets within the NICHD mission are also eligible.
The program is intended to increase the value and impact of existing research by enabling new analyses, replication, and data reuse. Activities may include data cleaning, harmonization, creation of metadata, documentation, and dissemination through recognized repositories.
Due Dates
- New Applications: February 16, 2025 | June 16, 2025 | October 16, 2025
- Renewal/Resubmission/Revision: March 16, 2025 | July 16, 2025 | November 16, 2025
- All applications are due by 5:00 PM local time of the applicant organization.
- No letter of intent is required.
Funding Amount
- Budget: Up to $50,000 in direct costs per year.
- Project Period: Maximum of 2 years.
- Mechanism: R03 Small Grant Program.
- Number of Awards: Contingent on NIH appropriations and the number of meritorious applications.
Eligibility
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Eligible Organizations:
- Public/State and Private Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits (with or without 501(c)(3) status)
- For-profit organizations (including small businesses)
- State, county, city, township, and special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal governments and organizations
- Faith-based and community-based organizations
- Regional organizations
- U.S. territories and possessions
- Eligible agencies of the federal government
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Ineligible:
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) entities and non-domestic components of U.S. organizations may not apply.
- Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are allowed within U.S. applications.
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Individuals: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as PD/PI may apply.
Application Process
- Submission: Applications must be submitted electronically via Grants.gov, NIH ASSIST, or an institutional system-to-system solution.
- Required Registrations: SAM, eRA Commons, Grants.gov (allow at least 6 weeks for new registrations).
- Application Guide: Follow the NIH Research (R) Instructions and the specific instructions in the NOFO.
- Key Application Elements:
- Research Strategy describing the importance of the data resource, plans for data preparation, documentation, and sharing.
- Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Plan.
- Timeline and milestones for data preparation and deposit.
- Documentation of consent, if applicable.
- Resource Sharing Plan.
- Page Limits: As specified in the NIH Table of Page Limits.
- Review Criteria: Significance, innovation, approach, investigator(s), and environment, with special attention to the value and accessibility of the archived data.
Additional Information
- Scope: Archiving activities may include assembling, cleaning, harmonizing, documenting, creating metadata, and disseminating data via an appropriate repository.
- Types of Data: Administrative, survey, clinical trial, registry, imaging, and other data types relevant to NICHD’s mission.
- Data Dissemination: Grantees are required to deposit data in a recognized public archive, preferably NICHD DASH or DSDR.
- Non-Responsive Activities: Proposals to archive data not within NICHD’s mission, data not yet collected, or to support freestanding archives/specialty collections will not be reviewed.
- Clinical Trials: Not allowed under this opportunity.
- Data Sharing: Must comply with NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy.
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