Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network: Technology Research and Development Centers (TRDC) (U54 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Agency:
- National Institutes of Health
The overall objective of the Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network (POCTRN) is to support the rapid development, commercialization, and implementation of innovative point-of-care and home-based diagnostic technologies. As a national resource, the Network model creates a multidisciplinary coalition of knowledge and capabilities that can be leveraged to accelerate technology development, with the fundamental goal of broadly enhancing access to diagnostic technologies. The Network will consist of multiple Technology Research and Development Centers (TRDCs), each with expertise in specific technical and/or clinical areas and each covering multiple levels of technology readiness (See individual NIH Institute/Center Statements of Interest below), which will collaborate through a Coordination and Technology Support Center (CTSC). The TRDCs will engage government, industry, or other organizations, including various departments from academic institutions, that can partner to provide synergistic resources to support the development of new technologies and solutions.
The general scope of work covered within each TRDC and across the Network will include, but is not limited to:
- Conducting Needs Assessments to identify unmet clinical needs in point-of-care and home-based testing
- Developing solicitation topics to address the unmet clinical needs in point-of-care and home-based testing
- Awarding and managing sub-project awards to support point-of-care and home-based technology development activities led by investigators outside the TRDCs
- Collaborating with physical scientists, computational scientists, and engineers (as well as researchers from other relevant disciplines, as appropriate) on technology development projects
- Developing external partnerships (e.g., technology, clinical, industry, and regulatory) necessary to move enabling technologies toward clinical applications
- Conducting and/or providing access to validation and clinical testing of prototype point-of-care and home-based devices
Creating training opportunities for technology developers and other stakeholders related to the development of point-of-care and home-based devices.
Application budgets are not limited but it is strongly recommended that applicants not request a budget of more than $1.2M in direct costs per year.
September 27, 2022
Tiffani Bailey Lash, Ph.D., National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), Telephone: 301-451-4778, Email:baileylasht@mail.nih.gov