Single Source: NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research: NeuroImaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory (R24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Funding Agency:

  • National Institutes of Health
RFP# and Website: 
RFA-EB-23-003
Description: 

The overall objective of this NOFO is to support continued maintenance, development, and expansion of NITRC to ensure that the research community has continued easy access to the resources resulting from neuroimaging informatics research. Specific objectives include:

  • Maintaining the NITRC-R resources and tools.
  • Maintaining the NITRC-IR image repository.
  • Maintaining the NITRC-CE computational environment.
  • Supporting the operation of core services such as the systems used to perform regular software updates for NITRC-CE, to curate data coming to NITRC-IR, and to streamline the tools and resources for NITRC-R.
  • Expanding the content of NITRC to stay up to date on the latest tools, datasets, and other resources, including those from large initiatives.
  • Providing community outreach, user training, documentation, and support for the use of NITRC.
  • Adding functionality to facilitate community-driven tool comparisons, including updating the tool comparison data with new software and new versions of existing software as they are released.
  • Creating and identifying tools/resources that facilitate the process of data sharing to assist researchers in better fulfilling the 2023 NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy.
  • Identifying and crowdsourcing tutorials from the NITRC community demonstrating how to leverage NITRC tools/resources for research innovations.

Innovation for this NOFO is based on a coherent plan to deliver new and existing NITRC capabilities to end users. Maintaining, developing, and expanding NITRC is expected to require innovation, but novelty in and of itself is not a requirement. For this NOFO, it is innovative to deliver a technology that will facilitate sharing and adoption of neuroimaging tools, datasets, and other resources, while promoting interaction and collaboration among the biomedical research community.

Awards: 

The application budget is limited to $700,000 total costs per year but should reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.

Letter of Intent: 
Not required
Full Proposal Submission Deadline: 

September 26, 2023

Contacts: 

Andrew Weitz, Ph.D.National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
Telephone: 301-451-7813
Email: andrew.weitz@nih.gov