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NIH Forecast: Coordinating Center Support for Small Cell Lung Cancer Consortium

The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is forecasting a funding opportunity to support the Coordinating Center (CC) for the Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) Consortium. - Five-year cooperative agreement to manage and sustain the SCLC Consortium Coordinating Center - Key responsibilities include: - Administrative management of the Consortium - Centralized database and data management - Tissue banking and virtual biospecimen resource operations - Biostatistics and bioinformatics support - Maintenance of in vivo and in vitro model repositories - Consortium communications and website management - No specific Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) or vendors are named, as this is a research support and coordination grant - No product part numbers or quantities are listed; the focus is on services and research infrastructure - Eligible applicants include government entities, nonprofits, businesses, and educational institutions - The current Coordinating Center is based at Sloan Kettering with collaborating institutions - Place of performance is the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Description

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) intends to continue supporting the Coordinating Center (CC) for the Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) Consortium. The CC coordinates research on prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and mechanisms of resistance in SCLC, managing administrative activities, databases, tissue banking, biostatistics, bioinformatics, model repositories, and communications. The current U24 CC organizes meetings, maintains resources, supports young investigators, and provides datasets and models to the research community. This funding opportunity supports a five-year cooperative agreement to sustain these shared resources and collaborations.

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